Filmmakers Ed Pincus (Black Natchez, Diaries) and Lucia Small (My Father, the Genius) debuted their deeply moving documentary,The Axe in the Attic, at this year's New York Film Festival. On Saturday, February 23 at 6:30 p.m., there will be a special screening at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. Lucia will be there for an audience Q&A. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, these two white northerners journey down to New Orleans with cameras in tow to experience first-hand the damage and devastation that played out on their television screens. No longer able to stand by passively, they end up making an extremely personal (at times, excruciatingly so) documentary where their own personal struggles and demons act as counterpoint to the testimonies of the displaced residents of the region, the majority of whom are still trying to put their lives back together--still homeless, still lost, still angry. But, in many cases, far from hopeless.
Ty Burr of the Boston Globe says that the film is about "rediscovering our common humanity--pushing through the flat screen of TV footage to connect with the Katrina victims as individuals." In this film, some of those connections are more like collisions. It's fascinating to watch.
Click here for museum and ticket information. Don't miss this vital, searing contribution to the growing Katrina film archive.
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