Electric screen 2
Sunday 15th 02:00am
£6  Book tickets

Dir. Jeremiah Zagar

Turn the corner of certain streets in Philadelphia and you may have to pinch yourself. Plastered (literally) across thousands of feet of wall is the life-work of Isaiah Zagar, a series of mosaics using scattered words, images, shards of glass and dazzling colours. Beginning with the murals, In A Dream slowly widens its focus to build a raw, moving account of the love, turmoil and mental illness which helped to produce them, a family saga which is sketched out by the artist’s son through frank interviews with his parents and brother. Carefully avoiding the cliches of ‘my screwed-up life’ self-portraits, this exceptional documentary was shortlisted for an Oscar and features music by the Books, Explosions in the Sky and Efterklang.

Showing with Tacit (dir: Matt Watkins) a lovely time-lapse record of Lucy McLauchlan’s recent exhibition at the New Art Gallery Walsall.

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