Filmmaker and performance artist Nao Bustamante returns to Sundance with a deliciously outrageous and ambitious new work; her short film
Untitled #1 (from the series Earth People 2507), starring her toy poodle as a herd of buffalo, appeared at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
Silver & Gold combines film, live performance, and original costumes into a self-proclaimed “filmformance” that evokes the muse of legendary filmmaker Jack Smith and his tribute to 1940s’ Dominican movie starlet Maria Montez in a magical and joyfully twisted exploration of race, glamour, sexuality, and the silver screen.
Sunday, January 24 at 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, January 26 at 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 28 at 6:30 p.m.
Commissioned by LIVE FILM! Jack Smith! Festival, coorganized by Arsenal—Institute for Film and Video Art and Hebbel-am-Ufer Theater (HAU) in Berlin. Produced at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute iEAR Studios with assistance from EMPAC.
Film Contact
Nao Bustamante, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Phone: (646) 232-3104
Email:
nao@naobustamante.com