The rest I make up.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Memran, Michelle, film director.

Fox, Jennifer, film producer.

Neidich, Melissa, editor of moving image work.

Lichtenstein, Max Avery, composer (expression).

Fornés, María Irene, on-screen participant.

Kanopy (Firm)

Piece by Piece Productions, production company.

Women Make Movies (Firm), publisher, film distributor.

Kanopy (Firm), distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fornés, María Irene.

Memran, Michelle--Friends and associates.

Memran, Michelle.

Women dramatists--United States--Biography.

Women dramatists.

United States.

Friendship.

Genre:

Biographies.

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (streaming video file) (79 minutes) : .flv file, sound

Other Title:

Maria Irene Fornes

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Women Make Movies, 2018.

[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

digital

video file MPEG-4 Flash

Summary:

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 Film 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***

Participant:

Cast: Maria Irene Fornes, Michelle Memran ; additional interviews: Edward Albee, Brooke Berman, Constance Congdon, Migdalia Cruz, Oskar Eustis, Carlos Fornés, Rafael "Cuco" Fornés, Joseph Goodrich, John Guare, Lee Guilliatt, Morgan Jenness, Eduardo Machado, Jana Napoli, Carmen Nute, Ozzie Rodriguez, David Shenk, Harriet Sohmers-Zwerling, Ellen Stewart, Kelly Stuart, Paula Vogel, Lanford Wilson.

Credits:

Editor, Melissa Neidich ; music, Max Avery Lichtenstein.

Notes:

Film.

Originally produced by Women Make Movies in 2018.

Title from title screen.

OCLC:

1121385468

Publisher Number:

6760903 Kanopy

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.