On Screen/In Person: What We Need is the Impossible! April 24, 2013

Academy-Award nominated filmmaker Sam Green has been making award-winning short documentaries since the late 1990s. What We Need is the Impossible! gathers together for the first time an evening length program of Green's short films, ranging from a portrait of the world's largest shopping mall in Southern China, which is actually completely empty (Utopia Part 3), to an elegy for Meredith Hunter, the young man who was killed by Hells Angels at the notorious 1969 Altamont concert (lot 63, grave c). Other films from the program include: The Fabulous Statins: Behind the Movie, the remarkable story of the cult film directed by Lou Adler in 1982. And Green's new film The Universal Language is a portrait of Esperanto, an artificial language that was created in the late 1800s with the hope of creating world peace, and the worldwide movement of people who still speak it. Running through Green's films is a celebration of idealism and the search for meaning tied to the often-humorous realities of life. (80 mins., documentary shorts)

The Modlin Center for the Arts, in collaboration with the Firehouse Theatre Project, presents On Screen/In Person for the 2012-2013 season. The program, organized by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, tours new independent American films and their respective filmmakers within communities across the Mid-Atlantic. Visiting filmmakers work with host sites to develop programming that provides context and greater appreciation for their work and the art of film.

Official Website: http://modlin.richmond.edu/education/on-screen-in-person/index.html