| YO (LOVE IS A REBELLIOUS BIRD) (78 min) US |
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Directors/Producers: Anna Fitch, Banker White
Description:
After losing an older and beloved friend, filmmaker Anna Fitch spends a decade obsessively building a detailed, scale version of her friend Yo’s house in her studio. It's just big enough for Anna to squeeze through the doors and inside lives a twenty-inch puppet of Yo. The film juxtaposes intimate vérité of Yo's last year with Anna's creative interpretations of her stories. In this magical place their relationship continues. Yo tells Anna tales spanning eight decades and three continents with uncommon, fearless honesty. Born in Switzerland in 1924, Yo lived life on her own terms, defying expectations around sexuality, mothering, aging and even death. The film blurs memory, time and invention, revealing creation as an outlet for grief and love.Biography:
Anna Fitch is a multidisciplinary artist and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker. Her films have aired on PBS, BBC, the National Geographic Channel, Al Jazeera and Channel 4 UK, among others. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sundance Documentary Fund, the Tribeca Film Institute, the MacArthur Foundation, SFFILM, the Center for Cultural Innovation, the Creative Work Fund, Pacific Pioneer Fund, Doc Society, the Catapult Film Fund, The Fledgling Fund, the Bertha Foundation and the Headlands Center for the Arts.
Banker White is an interdisciplinary artist, award-winning filmmaker and the executive director of Mirabel Pictures. From war and disease to the complex dimensions that surround aging and death, his work is unified by a compassionate humanism. His projects have been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Sundance Documentary Fund, Creative Capital, MacArthur Foundation, the Tribeca Film Institute, Impact Partners, ITVS, DocSociety, the Catapult Film Fund, The Fledgling Fund, LEF, the California Council for the Humanities and Center for Cultural Innovation. Banker also co-founded the WeOwnTV Freetown Media Center, a collaborative media project in Sierra Leone, which has been supported by Creative Capital and The Bertha Foundation, among others.
Contact Information:
e: info@mirabelpictures.org
w: www.theyofilm.org/
