Documentarians + Silver Spring = Silverdocs @ AFI
Another event I didn’t realize it was time for already is Silverdocs. If you’re not familiar, it’s a film festival hosted by the American Film Insitute focusing on documentary films.
Dry material you say? Last year I saw Air Guitar Nation about the International Air Guitar Championship that is held in Finland every year. And the year before I saw the Aristocrats - the dirtiest and dumbest joke in the world told 150 times (it’s the singer not the song and Bob Saget is a bad, bad man).
This year’s special honoree is Jonathan Demme, so they will be featuring several of his films including Stop Making Sense - the Talking Heads concert movie that taught us all what a concert movie really could be, and the Neal Young film Heart of Gold. He will also be debuting his new movie - New Home Movies From the Lower Ninth Ward.
I also want to see First Saturday in May about horses preparing for the Kentucky Derby, and Note by Note (The Making of Steinway L1037). And the AFI is a beautiful theater to see a movie and you’ll be surrounded by people who love movies too.
Discounts are available on passes for ITVA-DC members as well as Women in Film & Video members (alas, not for DC Film Society), and I won’t be able to go enough to make it worth it to buy a pass (curse that day job that pays my bills), so I’ll be looking over the schedule this weekend and buying individual tickets (that don’t conflict with Romeo and Juliet at Millennium Stage of course).