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This Ain't California *US Premiere*
Maysles Cinema
New York, NY
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This Ain't California *US Premiere*
Curated by Sylvia Savadjian
This Ain't California
*U.S. Theatrical Premiere  *
Curated by Sylvia Savadjian
This Ain't California
Marten Persiel, 2012, 90 min.

A hymn to the subversive power of vitality, this fast-paced documentary takes us on a trip through the strange unknown world of the 'Rollbrettfahrer' as skateboarders were known in the GDR (East Germany), a country where besides those loyal to the regime, there was also an avowed political resistance. Apart from this, there was also a movement of young rebels whose only raison d'ĂȘtre was the illusion of staying young, immortal and non-committal. In This Ain't California three kids discover their love of skateboarding on the cracked asphalt of the GDR  a madcap, even unacceptable sport that was perhaps so incredibly exciting because of its nuttiness. This punk fairytale created by a bunch of kids who luckily possessed sufficiently manic levels of energy to record their lives on Super-8mm film, shows us life in the GDR life as it has never been seen before. The film follows its three main protagonists from their childhood in the seventies, through their turbulent teens in the eighties right up to that autumn of 1989 when they were twenty and suddenly, everything they had known up to that point was about to change forever. Winner of the Dialogue en perspective prize at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival.

Following the 4:00pm screening on April 13th there will be a Skype Q&A with director Marten Persiel.

Location

Maysles Cinema (View)
343 Lenox Ave.
New York, NY 10027
United States

Categories

Film > Movies
Film > Premiers

Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

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Owner: Maysles Cinema
On BPT Since: Oct 23, 2009
 
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