Park City, Sundance 2020
Thursday 1/30
Possessor (Cronenberg, 2019) was the most thought-provoking film of the festival for me this year, and I wrote a bit about it yesterday—please check it out (link here) on my blog if you get the chance. Miss Juneteenth (Peoples, 2020) was fine and the Documentary Shorts Program 1 included an important doc on the 2019 Hong Kong protests: “Do Not Split” by Anderson Hammer.
Friday 1/31
Us Kids (Snyder, 2020) powerfully documents the aftermath of the Parkland’s Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Finished up the festival with a bit of levity—the Animation Spotlight was filled with humor and insanity, a nice reminder to stop trying to figure everything out. Loved “Sh_t Happens,” “Daytime Noir,” and “Eli.”
