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AMERICAN MIRROR: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY

ColliganTheater
Santa Cruz, CA

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AMERICAN MIRROR: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY

Experimental Documentary

Synopsis:
American Mirror - Intimations of Immortality is a cinematically beautiful and fascinating look into the artistic process of world renowned portrait painter Tigran Tsitoghdzyan as Susan Sarandon sits for him. An exploration of identity, beauty, and finding happiness in life transpires.

American Mirror - Intimations of Immortality was the most awarded film at its premiere on October 21, 2018, at the 5th DOC LA Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival, garnering Best Innovative Film, Best Composer, Best Cinematography and Parajanov-Vartanov Award. A jury presided over by two-time Academy award-winner Paul Haggis for Fabrique Du Cinema Awards (presented by Fabrique Du Cinema, the leading film magazine of Italy, bestowed on the film the Best International Documentary award in Rome, December 15th, 2018. Besides some others wins, the film has been a Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2019 Official Selection and Finalist to the Supreme Jury Award, among other twenty official selections around the world in 2020. It has received the Audience Award of the 6th Ierapetra Documentary Film Festival, biggest documentary-only festival in Greece, as also the Michel Foucre Award for Best Directing.

"Arthur Balder is an artist at the same time creative and meticulous. Indicative of it are the stylistic rigor and the aesthetic acumen with which he directed American Mirror. Susan Sarandon is more charismatic than ever in American Mirror."

--Chiara Carna. Pub. Fabrique Du Cinema Nr 24, Rome, Italy, March 2019

Run time: 62 mins
United States
Directed by: Arthur Balder

Screening with:
Gloria's Call. Directed by: Cheri Gaulke
United States
Run time: 17 mins

From the cafés of Paris to the mountaintops of Samiland, a scholar's life is forever changed through her friendships with the women artists of Surrealism.