This week our friends at Rooftop Films are celebrating international documentaries. For Friday's schedule, they'll be featuring a pre-screening of a documentary about the working class culture in China entitled: Last Train Home. The film focuses on the struggles of one family. It attempts to capture the micro versus the macro of the biggest yearly migration in the world every new year--where about 130 million Chinese industrial workers go back to their suburban towns. (Check out the trailer below).
Last Train Home
LAST TRAIN HOME
$10 AT THE DOOR OR ONLINE
| 8:00 | Doors Open |
| 8:30 | Live Music by Mountain Man |
| 9:00 | Film Begins |
| 11:00 | Filmmaker Q & A |
| 11:30 | After-party in the courtyard |
| *** | Restrictions: No refunds ~ Seating is first come, first served. Physical seats are limited. This means you may not get a chair. You are welcome to bring a blanket and sit picnic-style, but no alcohol is permitted. |
Saturday's movie will be hailing from the other side of the globe in South America, Brazil. The movie is Waste Land. The focus of the film is on New York based, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz. Muniz dedicated his works on capturing profiles of the garbage pickers in the world's largest landfill in his homeland of Brazil. His goal was to take the proceeds from what became a massive art installation, and giving back the money to his subjects by selling it at the prominent Phillips de Pury auction house. (See trailer below).
Waste Land Trailer
WASTE LAND
$10 ONLINE OR AT THE DOOR
| 8:00 | Doors Open |
| 8:30 | Live Music |
| 9:00 | Film Begins |
| 10:30 | After Party with FREE Radeberger Pilsner |
