Field of Vision is debuting their new film, A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN by Marshall Curry.
A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN (Dir. Marshall Curry)
In 1939, twenty-thousand Americans rallied in New York’s Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism – an event largely forgotten from American history. A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN uses striking archival fragments recorded that night to transport modern audiences into this disturbing gathering. With chilling resonance in light of events in Charlottesville and around the country, the film is a reminder about the power that far-right ideology once had in America and a wakeup call about the importance of to addressing it today.
From Field of Vision Co-Founders:
Laura Poitras: "When Marshall approached us with the film two days after Charlottesville, my first thought was, 'we need to put this film in cinemas,' and release it like a newsreel."
Charlotte Cook: “When Marshall first showed us this footage we were stunned. We felt that due to this political climate it was essential to get this film out fast, but also that to do so we needed to try a different style of distribution. By playing in theatres across the country first we hope this the film will be able to reach beyond our usual audience, and into a range of communities and cities around the US. Creating a conversation around the film from the ground up. It’s extremely exciting to be able to do this with Marshall, a filmmaker we’ve been wanting to work with for a long time. And this film is so incredibly well, and thoughtfully, made. We can’t wait for people to see it.”
On Sunday September 24, the film will be shown across the country at 22 screens in Alamo theaters in:
Kansas City
https://drafthouse.com/kansas-city/show/american-assassin
https://drafthouse.com/kansas-city/show/it-2017
https://drafthouse.com/kansas-city/show/kingsman-the-golden-circle
https://drafthouse.com/kansas-city/show/mother
Yonkers
https://drafthouse.com/yonkers/show/3-d-rarities
https://drafthouse.com/yonkers/show/solaris-4k-restoration
San Francisco
https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/ingrid-goes-west
https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/beach-rats
https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/infinity-baby
Brooklyn
https://drafthouse.com/nyc/show/zardoz
https://drafthouse.com/nyc/show/dunkirk
https://drafthouse.com/nyc/show/good-time
https://drafthouse.com/nyc/show/mother
Austin Lakeline
Austin Mueller
Austin Ritz
Austin Slaughter
https://drafthouse.com/austin/show/mother
https://drafthouse.com/austin/show/grindhouse
https://drafthouse.com/austin/show/stronger
https://drafthouse.com/austin/show/the-big-sick
https://drafthouse.com/austin/show/brads-status
https://drafthouse.com/austin/show/tough-guy-cinema-repo-man
The film is also playing at the IFC Center in New York until Friday playing before the 12:30pm showing of “The Unknown Girl."
The film will be part of a special event at the NYFF, and more festivals to come, along with an online release.
About Marshall Curry: MARSHALL CURRY is a two-time Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker. His film, “Street Fight,” follows Cory Booker’s first run for mayor of Newark, NJ and was nominated for an Oscar and an Emmy. His follow up documentary, “Racing Dreams” tells the story of two boys and a girl who live in rural America and dream of one day racing in NASCAR. It won numerous awards, including Best Documentary Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival, and aired on PBS and the BBC. His third film, “If a Tree Falls, a Story of the Earth Liberation Front” peels back the layers of a radical environmental group that the FBI called the number one domestic terrorist group in the United States. That film won the award for Best Documentary Editing at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to be nominated for an Oscar. Marshall was Executive Producer and an additional editor of “Mistaken For Strangers,” a comedy rock-doc about indie band, The National. Most recently Marshall directed and edited “Point and Shoot,” a documentary about a young Baltimore native who set out on a 30,000-mile motorcycle trip through Northern Africa and the Middle East and wound up joining the rebels in Libya fighting Gaddafi. It won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival and was released in theaters and aired on PBS and the BBC. Marshall is a graduate of Swarthmore College where he studied Comparative Religion and has been a guest lecturer at Harvard, Duke, Columbia, NYU, and other colleges. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and children.
