Tickets $10, $8 Students, Seniors, Brattle Members | No Brattle Passes | The DocYard Summer 2012 Season Pass is now available – visit TheDocYard.com for details.
80 min, USA, 2012 Tchoupitoulas is a story of the New Orleans night. It is a visually exhilarating and aurally immersive record of one night in the many lives of a thriving nocturnal populace. Three young boys act as our wide-eyed conduits to a parade of entertainers and revelers as they dance through the lamp lit streets and doorways of the Crescent City. From dusk to dawn, from Rampart to the river, we explore the lives and locales of one of the world’s most unique cities. In moments, vignettes, performances, and exchanges, Tchoupitoulas is a kaleidoscopic odyssey into another side of New Orleans.
“It is bracing to encounter such a vibrant commitment to color, noise and improvisation, to the communication not of points of view but rather of visions.”
—A. O. Scott, The New York Times
“Bill and Turner Ross’ Tchoupitoulas could be considered the documentary counterpart to Benh Zeitlin’s highly touted, dreamlike fiction Beasts of the Southern Wild.” —Peter Keough, The Boston Phoenix
The screening of Tchoupitoulas will be preceded by an episode from Alex Jablonski’s SPARROW SONGS, a project in which the filmmaker Alex Jablonski and cinematographer Michael Totten made and exhibited one short documentary per month, every month for one year.
For decades, Boston has been a center for documentary filmmaking. It is a place where students come to learn and experiment, where some of documentary’s giants are teaching and creating new work, and where the craft is continuously nurtured and expanded. Today’s filmmakers are breaking new ground that has its foundation, more often than not, in Boston’s rich documentary legacy.
Celebrating what is innovative, interesting, and inspiring in documentary, The DocYard is a bi-weekly film and discussion series that takes place every other Monday. Their goal is to grow a vibrant, creative community for Boston’s filmmakers, film students and film lovers through each of these special events.
Tchoupitoulas
New England Premiere!
Filmmakers Bill and Turner Ross in Attendance!
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Tickets $10, $8 Students, Seniors, Brattle Members | No Brattle Passes | The DocYard Summer 2012 Season Pass is now available – visit TheDocYard.com for details.
80 min, USA, 2012
Tchoupitoulas is a story of the New Orleans night. It is a visually exhilarating and aurally immersive record of one night in the many lives of a thriving nocturnal populace. Three young boys act as our wide-eyed conduits to a parade of entertainers and revelers as they dance through the lamp lit streets and doorways of the Crescent City. From dusk to dawn, from Rampart to the river, we explore the lives and locales of one of the world’s most unique cities. In moments, vignettes, performances, and exchanges, Tchoupitoulas is a kaleidoscopic odyssey into another side of New Orleans.
The screening of Tchoupitoulas will be preceded by an episode from Alex Jablonski’s SPARROW SONGS, a project in which the filmmaker Alex Jablonski and cinematographer Michael Totten made and exhibited one short documentary per month, every month for one year.
About The DocYard:
Celebrating what is innovative, interesting, and inspiring in documentary, The DocYard is a bi-weekly film and discussion series that takes place every other Monday. Their goal is to grow a vibrant, creative community for Boston’s filmmakers, film students and film lovers through each of these special events.
Visit The DocYard website for more information.