Saturday, April 4 at Union Docs: An Evening with Matthew Porterfield
UnionDocs will be screening a 16mm print of Matthew Porterfield’s debut narrative feature Hamilton Saturday at 8PM. Richard Brody, editor and writer at the New Yorker and author of Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, will be present to moderate a post-screening discussion with Porterfield. Following this Porterfield will provide a preview of his forthcoming feature Metal Gods, which won the Panasonic Digital Filmmaking Grand Prize Grant at this year’s Independent Film Week and is scheduled to begin shooting this July. Producer Jordan Mintzer and cinematographer Jeremy Saulnier will also be present. This evening is curated by Steve Holmgren.
“HAMILTON recalls the films of Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien, particularly Dust in the Wind. Eschewing cuts, dialogue, and plot in general, it teeters between minimal storytelling and pure Warholian observation, and such deliberate reticence is easy to admire.”-Ben Kenigsberg, TIME OUT CHICAGO
