Movies: Gary Popovich

  • 1990
    Antigone

    Antigone (1990)

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    “Shot in an abandoned warehouse, documenting a contemporary adaptation of the Oedipus story by a group of Toronto experimental filmmakers, Antigone is both a documentary about searching for meaning and validity in the old story, and a fiction about t...

    Antigone
  • 2016
    Random Acts of Legacy

    Random Acts of Legacy (2016)

    Random Acts of Legacy

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    Silas Fung, a Chinese-American, was a sign designer and painter for Sears in Chicago in the 1930’s. Born into a creative family, he was also an avid painter, musician, church-goer, documentarian and father. After he was married (to Edythe) and had ch...

    Random Acts of Legacy
  • 2005
    Forever

    Forever (2005)

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    “Child’s play in the universe of evolution. Another lost-in-a-box piece, a video, portions of which have been uncovered and are being assembled; Forever may soon make an appearance.” — Gary Popovich...

    Forever
  • 2013
    Somewhere

    Somewhere (2013)

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    A series of dreams, nightmares and overlapping narratives take place on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. The central portion of the film draws a portrait of Haiti’s difficult history, the democratic election of Father Aristide, the coups that removed ...

    Somewhere
  • 1989
    Elegy

    Elegy (1989)

    Elegy

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    Amidst the ghosts of his cultural roots, Popovich creates a lyrical and loving light monument dealing with separation, change and death....

    Elegy
  • 1989
    Caress

    Caress (1989)

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    A short study of the impossible relationship between a camera and a tree....

    Caress
  • 1998
    Faultlines

    Faultlines (1998)

    Faultlines

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    “In a tapestry of migratory luck, artifacts and shells, a mixed choir of images and sounds engages the paradox of a journey that loses all meaning once it reaches its end. The film’s westward inclination to the American shores of the Pacific, bound i...

    Faultlines