Feb 7 - MISSING ALLEN and THE GRANDFATHER TRILOGY at UnionDocs
Double feature at UnionDocs this week curated by Lorenzo Gattorna. First is Missing Allen (2001), a private detective documentary in which the director, Christian Bauer, combs the country in search of Allen Ross, a friend and collaborator who disappeared shortly after he and Bauer completed a film together. Years go by as the search goes on, and the possibility for a grim conclusion grows stronger every day. Following Bauer’s film is a special presentation of one of Ross’ own The Grandfather Trilogy (1978-81, 16mm), a series of three short films about his grandfather. “The films abound with images which suggest stasis, absence, silence, horizontality, oneness with the earth: a catalog of the conditions of death from the point of view of the living,” wrote Nosowitz in Millennium Film Journal.
