Guest: M.A. Littler and Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright on 20 years of Slowboat Films

FRANZ WRIGHT – LAST WORDS

Germany/USA 2019. Director: M.A. Littler
Filmic Essay. 122 mins. DCP. English OV.

For two decades now, M.A. Littler and his production company Slowboat Films have been dedicated to an idiosyncratic, personal cinema beyond the mainstream. Littler talks about the origins of his films and looks to the future. After the film talk, we will show Littler’s film essay FRANZ WRIGHT- LAST WORDS about the life, writing and death of Pulitzer Prize winner Franz Wright.

Film screening:
FRANZ WRIGHT – LAST WORDS

“LAST WORDS is a document that began as an abstract, experimental radio play and has evolved organically into a film. It witnesses how one’s own perception loses itself in dream-like images – and listens to a man say goodbye.”