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IN TRANSIT (2015) ★★★★½

Like a psychopomp, the conductor welcomes passengers onto Amtrak’s Empire Builder, the last great American railway route. Stretching across desolate prairies, mountains, and snowy wastes, the train carries nearly half a million passengers annually from Chicago in the east to Seattle and Portland in the northwest. There is much silence and time for contemplation during the train’s trek across the great American Nothingness. During its three day journey friendships, acquaintances, and even makeshift families spring up among the passengers.

It is on these people that the documentary IN TRANSIT is focused. The final feature by Albert Maysles, one of the only documentarians who can be accurately described as “legendary,” it utilizes the unobtrusive techniques he helped pioneer—the exclusive use of hand-held cameras, the strict reliance on natural lighting, inconspicuous sound equipment—to capture a stirring cross-section of humanity locked in a temporary purgatory.

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Published on ScreenComment.com

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August 15th to the 21st-- Screening "Summer Pasture" + the world premiere of "Dreams of the Divine: A Trilogy".

* Program starts at 7:30pm each night. 

* $10.00 suggested donation, but give what you can-- no one will be turned away if they ain't got that dough (are we still saying "dough"?). 

* Thursday, August 18: Skype discussion with "Summer Pasture" directors Lynn True and Nelson Walker. * Friday, August 19: Discussion with "Dreams of the Divine: A Trilogy" director Olivia Wyatt. 

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"Summer Pasture": Dir. Lynn True, Nelson Walker, and Tsering Perlo, 2010, 85 min.  Local New York City filmmakers True and Walker achieved unprecedented access to a community of Tibetan nomads, working closely with their subjects and co-director Tsering Perlo to create the remarkable cinematic meditation Summer Pasture. It is increasingly difficult for many Tibetan nomads to maintain their way of life. Rigid government policies, rangeland degradation, and the allure of modern convenience and culture have prompted many once nomadic families to settle permanently in towns and cities. Summer Pasture chronicles one young family during a season of change and uncertainty as they face these decisions. Husband Locho, wife Yama, and their infant daughter, Jiatomah, spend the summer in eastern Tibet's Zachukha grasslands. It's an area known as Wu-Zui or "5-Most," the highest, coldest, poorest, largest, and most remote county in Sichuan Province, China. In this gentle film, which involved the subjects in their own cinematic portrait, traditional life confronts rapid modernization onscreen.

preceded by: "Dreams of the Divine: A Trilogy"  Dir. Olivia Wyatt, 2011, 27 min. - World Premiere This powerful short work documents a religious ceremony of the Celestial Church of Christ on Rockaway Beach; a hipster drum performance by the all-girl drum corps Chica Vas in Manhattan; and a Haitian vodou ritual honoring the Ghede family of spirits in Brooklyn. Wyatt’s fluid, mobile camerawork and dexterous editing offers an insider’s view of three New York City communities pulsing with life and conviction.  

Maysles Cinema 343 Lenox Ave (Malcolm X Blvd)  New York, NY 10027

[mayslesdocumentarycenter-blog]

August 15th to the 21st-- Screening "Summer Pasture" + the world premiere of "Dreams of the Divine: A Trilogy".

* Program starts at 7:30pm each night. 

* $10.00 suggested donation, but give what you can-- no one will be turned away if they ain't got that dough (are we still saying "dough"?). 

* Thursday, August 18: Skype discussion with "Summer Pasture" directors Lynn True and Nelson Walker. * Friday, August 19: Discussion with "Dreams of the Divine: A Trilogy" director Olivia Wyatt. 

***

"Summer Pasture": Dir. Lynn True, Nelson Walker, and Tsering Perlo, 2010, 85 min.  Local New York City filmmakers True and Walker achieved unprecedented access to a community of Tibetan nomads, working closely with their subjects and co-director Tsering Perlo to create the remarkable cinematic meditation Summer Pasture. It is increasingly difficult for many Tibetan nomads to maintain their way of life. Rigid government policies, rangeland degradation, and the allure of modern convenience and culture have prompted many once nomadic families to settle permanently in towns and cities. Summer Pasture chronicles one young family during a season of change and uncertainty as they face these decisions. Husband Locho, wife Yama, and their infant daughter, Jiatomah, spend the summer in eastern Tibet's Zachukha grasslands. It's an area known as Wu-Zui or "5-Most," the highest, coldest, poorest, largest, and most remote county in Sichuan Province, China. In this gentle film, which involved the subjects in their own cinematic portrait, traditional life confronts rapid modernization onscreen.

preceded by: "Dreams of the Divine: A Trilogy"  Dir. Olivia Wyatt, 2011, 27 min. - World Premiere This powerful short work documents a religious ceremony of the Celestial Church of Christ on Rockaway Beach; a hipster drum performance by the all-girl drum corps Chica Vas in Manhattan; and a Haitian vodou ritual honoring the Ghede family of spirits in Brooklyn. Wyatt’s fluid, mobile camerawork and dexterous editing offers an insider’s view of three New York City communities pulsing with life and conviction.  

Maysles Cinema 343 Lenox Ave (Malcolm X Blvd)  New York, NY 10027