Two Girls
Reporting on contemporary American cinema may seem an easy task, given its abundance and accessibility. Yet the notion of independent cinema has probably never been more appropriate than in the context of American production. Filmmakers with singular voices need the support of arthouse cinemas to exist. This month, in dialogue with our David Lynch retrospective, we have chosen to present John Carroll Lynch's only film, in which Harry Dean Stanton plays his last great and unforgettable role, and in which David Lynch himself gives the line to him, who has been one of his favourite actors.
Two young sisters are left to fend for themselves when their mother becomes increasingly unstable and their father is fighting in the Civil War.
James Fotopoulos
James Fotopoulos is a filmmaker who began production on his first feature film, ZERO (1997), in 1995. In 1998, he founded Fantasma for the production of his second feature, Migrating Forms (1999), and would continue to create a prolific body of feature-length and short films. Some of these films include Back Against the Wall (2000), Christabel (2001), Families (2002), The Nest (2003), Esophagus (2004), Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Dignity (2013). Fotopoulos’ films received a retrospective at the Anthology Film Archives; premiered at the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, Festival del Film Locarno and the Museum of Arts and Design; and have screened widely including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Sundance Film Festival, London Film Festival, Whitney Biennial, Walker Art Center, Museum of the Moving Image and the Andy Warhol Museum, among many others.