New to VOD this week: ALL THE WAY THROUGH EVENING
Rohan Spong’s made its debut in NYC on World AIDS Day in December 2011. Other screenings have included Dublin Gaze and Birmingham Shout!, and special events in Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, and throughout Australia, as well as a theatrical run in NYC this past December. FilmBuff made the doc available via iTunes and Amazon Instant Video earlier this week.
Since the early 1990s, quintessential downtown New Yorker Mimi Stern-Wolfe has organized annual music concerts celebrating the work of composers lost to AIDS. Featuring often unknown, unrecorded, and forgotten pieces, these tributes serve as one of the only ways for audiences to connect with a whole generation of creative, talented men often cut down in their prime. Spong profiles Stern-Wolfe as she rehearses for her latest concert, but gives ample time to performances both past and present, weaving in remembrances of some of the late musicians through family, friends, and partners. While the film has a modest look, it conveys an appropriate intimacy and heartfulness as it demonstrates one woman’s quiet, elegaic mission of remembrance.
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