WED, JUL 2 / 7 pm
THU & FRI, JUL 3 & 4 / 9 pm
SAT, JUL 5 / 7 & 9 pm
WED, JUL 9 / 7 pm
Directed by John Maloof & Charlie Siskel
2013, USA, 83 min
Back by popular demand, this remarkable character portrait of photographer Vivian Maier sold out almost every show at its recent screening. When Vivian Maier died in 2009 at age 83, she left behind more than 100,000 negatives of her street photography — images that she scarcely shared with anyone. She had spent most of her adult life as a nanny with no spouse, no children of her own, and no close ties. Her photographs and belongings were hidden in storage, until the rent came overdue and the facility auctioned them off. They might have vanished into obscurity were it not for the intervention of John Maloof, a 26-year-old amateur historian in Chicago, who purchased a box of her unidentified photographs and became obsessed by what he discovered.
