Événement

Acropolis Cinema presents: Drift

Drift (Dir. Helena Wittmann, 2017)

Date: March 22, 2019
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Echo Park Film Center
Address: 1200 N. Alvarado St., Los Angeles, 90026

Los Angeles premiere!

Filmmaker-artist Helena Wittmanns subtly audacious first feature follows friends Theresa, a German, and Josefina, an Argentinian, as they spend a weekend together on the North Sea, taking long walks on the beach and stopping at snack stands. Eventually they separate Josefina eventually returns to her family in Argentina and Theresa crosses the Atlantic for the Caribbeanand the film gives way to a transfixing and delicate meditation on the poetics of space. Self-consciously evoking the work of Michael Snow and masterfully lensed by Wittmann herself, Drift is by turns cosmic and intimate. 96 mins.

Preceded by: Ada Kaleh (Dir. Helena Wittmann, 2018)
This precisely calibrated domestic diorama alights upon the imagined futures of a group of anonymous young adults. In Helena Wittmanns warmly rendered feat of formalist filmmaking, questions of time and the realities of space convene in languid interior pans, incremental shifts in light, and the private reflections of her subjects. 14 mins.