Free Talk: Valeria Sarmiento/Galut Alarcón & Filip Jan Rymsza/Bob Murawski
58th New York Film Festival
September 17 - October 11, 2020
The filmmakers behind the posthumously completed works of Raúl Ruiz (The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror) and Orson Welles (Hopper/Welles) will chat about the unique artistic and logistical process of fashioning a film out of the fragments left behind by an iconic auteur.
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NYFF58 Spotlight selection Hopper/Welles and Currents selection The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror share a spectral connection: they’re both dispatches from beyond the graves of legendary auteurs, respectively, Orson Welles and Raúl Ruiz. In this detailed discussion, the resurrectors of both films—director Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski in the case of Hopper/Welles; filmmaker (and Ruiz’s widow) Valeria Sarmiento and editor Galut Alarcón in the case of The Tango of the Widower—will chat about the unique artistic and logistical process of fashioning a completed film out of the fragments left behind by an iconic filmmaker. Moderated by Dan Sullivan.
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