The Rest I Make Up
Streaming video - 2018
Maria Irene Fornes was one of America's greatest playwrights and most influential teachers, but many know her only as the ex-lover of writer and social critic Susan Sontag. The visionary Cuban-American dramatist constructed astonishing worlds on-stage, writing over 40 plays and winning nine Obie Awards. At the vanguard of the nascent Off-Off Broadway experimental theater movement in NYC, Fornes is often referred to as American theater's "Mother Avant-Garde." When she gradually stops writing due to dementia, an unexpected friendship with filmmaker Michelle Memran reignites her spontaneous creative spirit and triggers a decade-long collaboration that picks up where the pen left off. Official Selection at the **Frameline Fi...lm Festival**, **Miami Film Festival**, and **MoMA Doc Fortnight**. Named one of “The Best Movies of 2018” by The New Yorker. Nominated for an **AARP Movies for Grownups Award** for Best Documentary. *“Intimate and exhilarating...Fornes exerts a hypnotic force of stardom, while her offhanded yet urgent remarks resound with life-tested literary authority." - Richard Brody, **The New Yorker***
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- Documentary films
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Women Make Movies
2018.
2019. - Language
- English
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- Online Access
- A Kanopy streaming video
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- Title from title frames.
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In Process Record. - Physical Description
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (79 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).