THE LONG TAKE FILM CLUB | A Dan Sallitt Evening

THE LONG TAKE FILM CLUB

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We screen standout cinema you won’t find elsewhere, then discuss it properly over beer and pizza. Curated by film curator and critic Deniz Sertkol and François Smit—who’ve spent their careers finding films that matter.

Not film theory. Just films that deserve your full attention, and conversations with people who give them exactly that. Monthly screenings for members and friends at The Bioscope.

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A Dan Sallitt Evening

Fourteen (2019, 94 min) + Caterina (2019, 17 min)

Dir. Dan Sallitt

Two films made in the same year by the same director — and together they form something close to a complete portrait of how we fail each other, and how we keep showing up anyway.

Fourteen tracks the friendship of Mara and Jo across a decade. Sallitt shows us the relationship entirely from Mara’s point of view, as Jo whirls into and out of her life at erratic intervals — an increasingly unknowable presence in both the viewer’s and protagonist’s eyes. The film captures both the elasticity and the relentlessness of time passing, dragging people along, and then apart, in its current.

Caterina, Sallitt’s short companion piece, probes the complexities of desire rather than the trials of friendship. An Argentinian living in New York, Caterina’s willingness to make close emotional connections proves as much a burden as it is a gift.

Quiet, precise, and surprisingly devastating. Sallitt is one of American independent cinema’s best-kept secrets — not for much longer, if we have anything to do with it.

First film starts at 19:00.

Courtyard discussion over pizza and beers to follow.

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