This Is Not A Fiction Film Festival

Schedule of Events:

7:00 PM: NOT A PRETTY PICTURE
$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Los Feliz 3 | Q&A with filmmaker Martha Coolidge

New restoration courtesy of Janus Films

‘This Is Not A Fiction’

In 1976, trailblazing director Martha Coolidge (VALLEY GIRL, RAMBLING ROSE) made her feature debut with the startling NOT A PRETTY PICTURE, a documentary-fiction hybrid that continues to raise provocative questions about sexual violence and the ethics of its on-screen representation. Coolidge based the film’s fictional sections on her rape at the age of sixteen; in the role of her younger self, she cast Michele Manenti, also a rape victim. As they interpret Coolidge’s script, cast members reflect on their encounters with assault; their feelings about acting out these scenes of intense aggression; their attitudes concerning consent, trauma, and self-blame; and, in the case of Coolidge’s best friend, Anne Mundstuk, their ability to play themselves.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: USA

10:00 PM: MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON
$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Los Feliz 3 | ‘This Is Not A Fiction’

Apichatpong Weerasethakul brought an appetite for experimen­tation to Thai cinema with his debut feature, an uncategorizable work that refracts documentary impressions of his homeland through the surrealist concept of the exquisite corpse game. Enlisting locals to contribute improvised narration to a simple tale, Apichatpong charts the collective construction of the fiction as each new encounter imbues it with unpredictable shades of fantasy and pathos. Shot over the course of two years in 16 mm black and white, MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON established the director’s fascination with the porous boundaries between the real and the imagined.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Thailand