Thursday August 17 * 7pm

We are pleased to welcome Philip Józef Brubaker for an in-person screening followed by discussion with the audience.

In this soul-baring essay film, a manic experimental filmmaker summons a manifestation of Stanley Kubrick into his apartment to confront him on the negative depiction of mental illness in his filmography. The two directors go on a feverish journey through Kubrick's films, as the master director is confronted for his negative portrayal of the burden of insanity. Characters from Dr. Strangelove, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket are re-evaluated, as the experimental filmmaker demands the recalcitrant Kubrick admit to his bias against the mentally ill.

Bio:
Philip Józef Brubaker was born in Rockville, Maryland in 1980. He attended Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School seminar where he learned about lockpicking and the merits of going wild as a filmmaker. Philip is a graduate of the first class of students in the MFA program in Experimental and Documentary Arts at Duke University in 2013. He has made documentaries that garnered critical acclaim, such as Brushes With Life: Art, Artists and Mental Illness, although since 2016 he has focused primarily on the essay filmmaking genre. Philip has a long and fruitful partnership making video essays about cinema for Fandor, MUBI and [in] Transition. His video essays have screened around the world and placed him on the Sight & Sound Poll for Best Video Essays of the Year for four years. He currently lives in Gainesville, Florida.