Death at Sundance
JANUARY 27, 2010 TAGS:
Park City, Utah is abuzz with the sound of Sundance. The annual film festival brings directors, writers, film buyers and executives, who are normally swathed in the balmy climes of Southern Cafifornia, to the chilly foothills of the Rockies. Bundled in fur-lined parkas, they troll the small town’s many theaters watching this year’s best in independent film.
Of the 272 features, shorts, pieces of performance art and musical programs that comprise the week-long festival, death inserts itself as a surprisingly current theme. Here’s a look at a few films that examine mortality, the afterlife and passing on in novel and interesting ways.
Bhutto: Documentary exploring the life and death of Benazir Bhutto, the first woman to lead a modern Islamnic Nation. According to filmmakers Jessica Hernandex and Johnny O’Hara, Bhutto’s is a “tale of Shakespearean Dimensions,” “from pampered princess to polarizing politician.” Bhutto was assassinated in December of 2007 after returning to Pakistan and seeking election to the position she once held.
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The Art of Drowning: Pondering the Possibilities that Await Us at the End of the Line
Short animated film Based on the poem by Billy Collins… directed by Diego MacLean
Let’s Harvest the Organs of Death Row Inmates: Another animated short that ponders the possibility of making some good from the flawed system of capital punishment. The rub: execution, either by hanging, electrocution or lethal injection, ruins internal organs.
Sins of my Father: Juan Pablo Escobar, a 32-year old architect and industrial designer from Argentina had an infamous father, Columbian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. The younger Escobar, in this film, traces the murderous violence that supported his father’s cocaine cartel to the victims’ families.
http://www.sinsofmyfather.tv/
The Tillman Story: The NFL star-turned Army Ranger, Pat Tillman, died in 2002 from friendly fire while serving in Afghanistan. The Tillman Story documents the scuttled investigation into his death and the Department of Defense’s cover up.
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Sundance Film Festival
Of the 272 features, shorts, pieces of performance art and musical programs that comprise the week-long festival, death inserts itself as a surprisingly current theme. Here’s a look at a few films that examine mortality, the afterlife and passing on in novel and interesting ways.
Bhutto: Documentary exploring the life and death of Benazir Bhutto, the first woman to lead a modern Islamnic Nation. According to filmmakers Jessica Hernandex and Johnny O’Hara, Bhutto’s is a “tale of Shakespearean Dimensions,” “from pampered princess to polarizing politician.” Bhutto was assassinated in December of 2007 after returning to Pakistan and seeking election to the position she once held.
The Art of Drowning: Pondering the Possibilities that Await Us at the End of the LineShort animated film Based on the poem by Billy Collins… directed by Diego MacLean
Let’s Harvest the Organs of Death Row Inmates: Another animated short that ponders the possibility of making some good from the flawed system of capital punishment. The rub: execution, either by hanging, electrocution or lethal injection, ruins internal organs.
Sins of my Father: Juan Pablo Escobar, a 32-year old architect and industrial designer from Argentina had an infamous father, Columbian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. The younger Escobar, in this film, traces the murderous violence that supported his father’s cocaine cartel to the victims’ families.
http://www.sinsofmyfather.tv/
The Tillman Story: The NFL star-turned Army Ranger, Pat Tillman, died in 2002 from friendly fire while serving in Afghanistan. The Tillman Story documents the scuttled investigation into his death and the Department of Defense’s cover up.
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Sundance Film Festival
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