Coney Island (last summer) (Sunday, April 18th 7pm)

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Coney Island (last summer)
A screening of a film by Marion Naccache
Organized by Sarah Wang
Sunday April 18th, 7pm

Synopsis :

48 hours in Coney Island, a few days before the final closing of the famous amusement park. Between beach scenes, rides, wanderings, the film shows both past and present of the place: as a place for experimental, technological and cultural architecture, producer of futuristic mythologies, Coney Island was also one of the last places for collective and popular gatherings (in the heart of a market-oriented society) : the mermaid parade, the hot-dog contest, the fireworks, etc. But the topic allows also the filmmaker to propose a new form of documentary, with very specific ethical and aesthetic options, which refers to the tradition of the great American photography and goes further in the « cinéma-vérité »
with anthropological finality (from Jean Rouch to Frederick Wiseman).

Marion Naccache was born in 1979 in Paris. Co-director of the Paris Underground Film Festival and founder of the Strip Film Festival (2003-2007), which screened creative documentaries, artist films, poetry and dance films, she has both studied and taught contemporary poetry at the Ecole Normale Supérieure lettres et sciences humaines. Before Coney Island (last summer), her first feature length film, she made several short films, some of them in collaboration with Tom Jarmusch, such as the (the dead fish story), which screened at Miami-Basel Fair in 2007, and at the Chelsea Hôtel, in 2008.