September 7-10, 8:00 pm
Every evening from September 7th until the 10th, New Holland will turn into a movie theatre under the open sky. Especially for the island, the Documentary Film Center and the Beat Film Festival have prepared a series of screenings featuring the best documentary and music films of the past few years.
The island's big screen will come alive with footage of legendary concerts by the great musicians David Byrne and David Bowie, the tragic fate of soul singer Amy Winehouse, and a rediscovery of Vivian Meier, the enigmatic nanny from New York, whose talent as a photographer remained unknown even to her closest friends.
September 7: Contemporary Color (2016)
Double Russian Premiere (Simultaneously in Moscow and St Petersburg)
In the summer of 2015, legendary musician David Byrne staged an event at Brooklyn's Barclays Center to celebrate the art of Color Guard. Co-commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music and Toronto’s Luminato Festival, the event featured ten teams from across US and Canada as they execute synchronized dance routines involving complicated acrobatic elements, as well as flags, rifles, and sabers, all to live music by performers like Saint Vincent, Nelly Furtado, Ad-Rock + Money Mark, Devonte Hynes and Byrne himself.
This film is from the collection of the Documentary Film Center.
September 8: Finding Vivian Maier (2014)
This intriguing documentary shuttles from New York to France to Chicago as it traces the life story of the late Vivian Maier, a career nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs has earned her a posthumous reputation as one of America’s most accomplished and insightful street photographers.
This film is from the collection of the Documentary Film Center.
September 9: Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1973)
Beat Film Festival presents the cult documentary by D.A. Pennebaker, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1974.) This video documentation captures the last performance of the legendary David Bowie in the guise of his alter ego, Ziggy Stardust, on stage at London’s Hammersmith Odeon.
This film is from the collection of the Beat Film Festival.
September 10: Amy (2015)
This documentary follows the legendary British soul singer, Amy Winehouse, who tragically joined Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix, by dying at just 27 years of age. BAFTA-winning director Asif Kapadia pieces together a mosaic of interviews with friends and colleagues of the singer, alongside rare recordings of her performances and home videos, creating an intimate portrait that was universally hailed by critics. This film is not recommended for children under 18 years of age.
This film is from the collection of the Documentary Film Center.
Entrance to the film screenings is free of charge. All films are shown in their original language with subtitles.
