FRIDA

FRIDA

Celebrating Womens History Month
co-presented with the Parrish Art Museum & Cinema Tropical

FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2024 at 6:30pm

Director: Carla Gutiérrez, 2024, Spanish, 88 min.

Recently premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, FRIDA, Directed by Carla Gutiérrez, is an intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo. Told through her own words for the very first time — drawn from her diary, revealing letters, essays, and print interviews — and brought vividly to life by lyrical animation inspired by her unforgettable artwork.

Through a cacophony of rich archival sights, music, and journal entries joyfully brought to life, we become immersed in Frida’s interior world, fears, arduous relationships, and events that drove her indelible artistic creations. Gutiérrez vibrantly guides us through Frida’s complex relationship to her own work, navigating the tension between art as commerce and painting for pleasure and self-knowledge. With reverence, thoughtfulness, and the color of pure emotion, FRIDA invites us to get to know one of the greatest artists of the 20th century in a completely new way.

Gutiérrez, renowned for her masterful editing of films including Sundance Film Festival projects RBG (2018), When Two Worlds Collide (2016), and Cesar’s Last Fast (2014), brings artistry and a deep understanding of her subject to an astonishing directorial debut.

MAX ROACH: THE DRUM ALSO WALTZES

MAX ROACH: THE DRUM ALSO WALTZES

Celebrating Black History Month
co-presented with the Parrish Art Museum

FRIDAY, FEB 16, 2024 at 6pm

Q/A with Co-Director Ben Shapiro via zoom

Directors: Sam Pollard & Ben Shapiro

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes explores the life and music of legendary drummer, activist Max Roach, his creative peaks, personal struggles and re-inventions from the Jim Crow to Civil Rights eras, from heady days of post-war jazz to hip ho and beyond.
This is the story of a musician whose far-reaching ambitions were inspired and challenged by the inequities of the society around him. His stunningly diverse seven-decade career marked him as one of the great musical artists of the 20th century and a pioneering cultural activist at times when the nation was steeped in racism. The film follows Roach across a rich and complicated life, years of now-legendary achievement, deep personal struggle, and the price he paid for his outspoken views.