End of Life | Trailer | NYFF56

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Channel: Film at Lincoln Center · 2018 · Film & Animation

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John Bruce and Pawel Wojtasik's End of Life will screen as part of the Spotlight on Documentary section of the 56th New York Film Festival (September 28 – October 14). See schedule and ticket information: http://filmlinc.org/NYFF

John Bruce and Paweł Wojtasik’s radiant film takes a respectful and serenely composed look at the very activity, the actual work, of dying for five individuals: Sarah Grossman, the spiritual teacher Ram Dass, Carol Verostek, Doris Johnson, and the artist, writer, and performer Matt Freedman. This is not a film of rhetoric but of concentrated and sustained attention to an area of experience at which we all arrive but from which the living flinch. Bruce and Wojtasik are tuned to a very special and extraordinarily delicate wavelength as artists, and they create a rare form from the silences, the incantatory repetitions, the mysterious repeated gestures, and the communions with the mystery of being enacted by the dying. A Grasshopper Film release.

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