The Windmill Movie
WHAT IF SOMEONE WROTE YOUR AUTOBIOGRAPHY?
200 hours of footage, dusty boxes of film, a broken editing computer: these were the pieces of filmmaker Richard P. Rogers’ daring attempt to make his own autobiography. He died in 2001, leaving behind a lifetime of filmed memories, until his student and protégé, Alexander Olch began making a movie out of the pieces.
Writing in his teacher’s voice, working with with Wallace Shawn, Bob Balaban, and Richard’s wife – acclaimed photographer Susan Meiselas – Olch steps into his mentor’s shoes and his past – to make a film that was impossible to make. An autobiography, that isn’t. A documentary which is fiction. A lifetime of questions, finally answered.
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The Windmill Movie
Sunday, May 15, 2011, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
FIlmmaker Alexander Olch will be in attendance for a post-screening Q & A. Writing in his teacher’s voice, working with with Wallace Shawn, Bob Balaban, and Richard’s wife Susan Meiselas – Olch steps into his mentor’s shoes and his past – to make a film that was impossible to make.
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The Fifth Estate
506 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Directions R or F train to 4th Avenue/9th Street
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