TUX & FANNY
dir. Albert Birney, 2019
81 mins. United States.
In English.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 - 10 PM
ONE NIGHT ONLY w/filmmaker Albert Birney in person for Q&A!
(This event is $10.)

Tux and Fanny are two friends living together in the forest and these are their adventures!

“...Inventive, warm-hearted, speculative, and sweetly exquisite. Its monochrome protagonists are essentially humanoid gingerbread cookies, who move with a stark and jittery simplicity that conveys a similarly stark and frank emotionalism. The pink Tux speaks in a resonant bass voice; Fanny, who’s purple, speaks in higher, reedier tones; and both of them speak Russian throughout. (The movie is subtitled in English.) The feature is episodic, following Tux and Fanny, who share a small house and sleep in separate beds in one bedroom, through adventures that quickly veer toward the surreal and the whimsically macabre. Its tone brings to mind Arnold Lobel’s ‘Frog and Toad’ series of children’s books, though it’s not a children’s movie.” - Richard Brody, The New Yorker

In collaboration with filmmakers Christopher Jason Bell (who we feted with a near-complete retrospective in 2018) and Brandon Colvin (A DIM VALLEY), Spectacle is proud to host Hidden Visions: Snapshots of Contemporary Independent Cinema. It’s the first of its kind - a weekend-long festival celebrating long-and-short form works outside the increasingly mainstream festival food chain. In keeping with our screenings of GO DOWN DEATH, VIDEOFILIA and A BREAD FACTORY, these are uncompromising slices of low-to-no-budget cinema from over a dozen filmmakers (NYC-based or otherwise) guaranteed to shake the dust off your resting notions of “indie film”.