The Bend in the River

  • Tuesday, Aug 11

Showtimes updated on Tuesday evenings
Legend
OCOpen Captioned
Special Content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly
Cinema Studies

The Bend in the River

Q&A with filmmaker Robb Moss

The third installment of what the filmmaker calls an “accidental trilogy” catches up with a cohort of friends confronting the challenges of their 70s while reflecting upon the winding pathways of their lives. The film interpolates and interrogates footage from two previous installments—Riverdogs (1978), a 16mm accounting of Moss and friends’ outdoor, rent-free life on the Colorado River, and The Same River Twice (2003), in which the friends reckoned with their move from being young and naked to clothed and middle-aged—offering an elegant and profoundly emotional journey of experiences accumulated, selves lost and found, and perspectives endured and achieved. Though Moss mostly remains off-screen, his evident closeness with the on-screen subjects is defining of an open and unendingly inquisitive cinematic practice, culminating—for now—with this magisterial construction from nearly 50 years of conversations, candid moments, and trips down the river. 

This film is part of the Docs Without Borders series.



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