Doc Series presents Dolores, Leaning Into the Wind
The Bozeman Doc Series continues Thursday, January 18th, with a special event at the Rialto Theater will feature a reception and the Montana premiere of the critically-acclaimed new documentary, Dolores.
Hosted by the organizers of the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (BSDFF) in the Rialto’s Light Box room, the evening will begin at 6pm with a reception featuring food, drink and music. The largest cinema event in Montana and the premier venue for non-fiction film in the American West, the BSDFF draws an audience of 20,000 viewers yearly, and receives over 1800 film entries from every corner of the globe. Recently listed among MovieMaker Magazine’s “50 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee,” the festival continues to rise in prestige in the worldwide documentary community. This year’s festival will take place February 16th–25th in Missoula.
Join the Big Sky Doc Fest and Bozeman Doc Series teams at the reception before the film. Meet the festival’s Executive Director, Rachel Gregg, as well as programmers and other members of the BSDFF team, and learn more about one of Montana’s most vibrant cultural events. Starting at 7pm, the award winning short documentary So Damn Glad by Montana filmmaker Justin Lubke, featured at the 2017 festival, will be screened before the feature presentation of Dolores.
Dolores chronicles the life of Dolores Huerta, one of the most important, yet least known, activists in American history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers union with Cesar Chavez, her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized. Dolores tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice alongside Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century — and she continues the fight to this day, at 87. With intimate and unprecedented access to this intensely private mother to eleven, the film reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one’s life to social change.
“Exuberantly inspiring… makes you want to march and dance.” – David Talbot, San Francisco Chronicle
“Huerta has been jailed, seriously beaten, mocked by commentator Glenn Beck and given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama. Yet she doesn’t have the name recognition of her close collaborator, Cesar Chavez, something director Peter Bratt is determined to change with this vivid, informative and heartening documentary. The unexpected thing about Dolores, finally, is that if its political story makes it important, its human story makes it involving. ‘You can’t make change,’ Huerta says, ‘unless you’re willing to give something up,’ and this fine documentary shows the truth of that from both sides of the coin.” – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Please note: regular Doc Series tickets, good for any regular screening at the Emerson, will not be accepted for this event. A specific ticket to the Dolores screening at the Rialto is required. There are a limited number of tickets available. There will also be a limited number of tickets for sale at the door, as well as a limited number of seats held for season pass and punch card holders, so arrive early if you plan to use one!
Following Thursday, February 1st, at the Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture, the Doc Series presents the Montana premiere of the critically acclaimed new documentary, Leaning Into the Wind, beginning at 7pm.
Andy Goldsworthy is an extraordinary, innovative British artist whose collaborations with nature produce uniquely personal and intense artworks. Using a seemingly endless range of natural materials — snow, ice, leaves, bark, rock, clay, stones, feathers petals, twigs — he creates outdoor sculpture that manifests, however fleeting, a sympathetic contact with the natural world. Before they disappear, or as they disappear, Goldsworthy, records his work in superb colour photographs.
Leaning Into the Wind is director Thomas Riedelsheimer’s second documentary on Goldsworthy and his work, following 2002’s highly acclaimed Rivers and Tides. The film is a vibrant journey through the diverse layers of Goldsworthy’s world. From urban Edinburgh and London to the South of France and New England, each environment he encounters becomes a fresh kaleidoscopic canvas for his art. A lushly-visualized travelogue, Leaning Into the Wind is a fascinating portrait of an artist at work.
As they did to such great effect in Rivers and Tides, Goldsworthy’s art and Riedelsheimer’s exquisite cinematography redefine landscape and inextricably tie human life to the natural world.
“Meditative… visually seductive… Rivers and Tides clicked with viewers not just because of its beauty and novelty, but because it had a sort of blood-pressure-lowering effect — it was like a relaxation exercise in which you actually learned something. Seeing no reason to mess with a good thing, Riedelsheimer’s very handsome package (including his own cinematography, this time in HD) makes few significant alterations, maintaining the same alert yet tranquil pacing and tenor.” – Variety
“Four Stars… Riedelsheimer has an artist’s eye and approach… The film conveys plenty of information about Goldsworthy at work but also leaves room for more abstract contemplation by the viewer, a welcome, peaceful place from which to consider our place in the wider world.” – Eye For Film
“A worthy sequel… Leaning Into the Wind is another soothing, vérité portrait of the artist at work… will inspire anyone who sees it to look for the beauty in every gust, to admire how nature constantly rearranges itself, and us along with it… a fascinating reminder that some art wasn’t made to be owned.” – Indiewire
Dolores tickets are $12, or $10 for students. Single admission to Leaning Into the Wind is $10, or $8 for students. Tickets are available at the door or in advance at Cactus Records and Movie Lovers, as well as www.bozemandocseries.org where you can purchase season passes and 7-film punch cards, learn more about the series, and view trailers for upcoming films. The series will continue every other Thursday through April. •