Electro-Pythagoras and Vivian’s Garden
55th New York Film Festival
September 29 - October 15, 2017
A lovingly constructed biographical essay about the life and work of a highly influential, yet little-known, Canadian composer and microcomputer pioneer, paired with a portrait of Swiss-Austrian artists Vivian Suter and Elisabeth Wild, who live in a garden villa deep in the Guatemalan Highlands. Preceded by a new film by Rosalind Nashashibi.
Q&A with Rosalind Nashashibi
The life and work of highly influential, yet little known, Canadian composer and microcomputer pioneer Martin Bartlett is resurrected in this lovingly constructed biographical essay. Archival footage finds Bartlett at home, at work, and onstage, while voiceover readings of the proudly out artist’s reflections on his place in the era’s gay community convey a sense of intimate, holistic personal history.
Preceded by:
Vivian’s Garden
Rosalind Nashashibi, U.K., 2017, 30m
North American Premiere
Deep in the Guatemalan Highlands, Swiss-Austrian artists Vivian Suter and Elisabeth Wild live in a garden villa. Nashashibi captures the complexity of their unorthodox microcosm, which is dominated by the curiously intimate mother-daughter dynamic as well as the keen sense of dependency seen in their relationship with the Mayan domestic workers.
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