Oscar Shorts 2018: Doc Program A

Showings

Mary D. Fisher Theatre Fri, Feb 16, 2018 4:00 PM
Mary D. Fisher Theatre Sat, Feb 17, 2018 4:00 PM
Mary D. Fisher Theatre Wed, Feb 21, 2018 4:00 PM
Film Info
Event Type:Oscar Shorts - Documentary Program A
Run Time:102 minutes

Description

OSCAR DOCUMENTARY SHORTS PROGRAM A

• Traffic Stop - Featuring footage caught on a dashcam, “Traffic Stop” tells the story of Breaion King, a 26-year-old African-American school teacher from Austin, Texas whose routine traffic violation quickly escalated into a dramatic arrest at the hands of a white police officer.

• Edith & Eddie – Edith and Eddie, ages 96 and 95, are America's oldest interracial newlyweds. Their love story is disrupted by a family feud that threatens to tear the couple apart.

• Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 - This is a portrait of a brilliant 56-year-old artist who is represented by one of Los Angeles’ top galleries. Her body of raw, emotional work reveals a lifetime of depression and mental disorder. Mindy Alper has suffered through electro shock therapy, multiple commitments to mental institutions and a 10-year period without speech. Her only consistent means of communicating has been to channel her hyper self-awareness into drawings and sculpture of powerful psychological clarity that eloquently express her emotional state. Through an examination of her work, interviews, reenactments, the building of an eight and a half foot papier-maché bust of her beloved psychiatrist, we learn how she has emerged from a life of darkness and isolation to a life that includes love, trust and support.