Glimmerglass Film Days 2025

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FILM DAYS revolutions

NOVEMBER 13 – 17, 2025 CO OPER S TOWN, NY

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Been Here Stay Here, David Usui

CONTENTS 3–7

Schedule

8/9

Venues & Cooperstown Attractions Map

10/11

Sponsors, Partners, and Film Days Crew

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Welcome from Peggy Parsons & Xander Moffat

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The Films

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About Otsego 2000

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Food & Festivities

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Companion Art Exhibition

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In & Around Town

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Filmmakers & Guests

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Film Days Reader

THURSDAY I NOVEMBER 13 5:30pm

OPENING FILM: APPLE CIDER VINEGAR National Baseball Hall of Fame, Grandstand Theater | page 13

7:00pm

REVOLUTIONS, CONSIDERED OPENING PARTY AND EXHIBITION The Smithy | pages 46, 48/49

9:00pm

LOCAL HERO Cooperstown Coworks | page 14

FRIDAY I NOVEMBER 14 10:00am

CALICO REBELLION Fenimore Farm & Country Village, Louis C. Jones Center | page 15

12:30pm

UNDERLAND Fenimore Farm & Country Village, Louis C. Jones Center | page 16

12:30pm

FREE FILM: JETTY Fenimore Art Museum, Auditorium | page 17

2:15pm

THEATER OF THOUGHT Fenimore Farm & Country Village, Louis C. Jones Center | page 18

2:30pm

GRAINS OF SAND Fenimore Art Museum, Auditorium | page 19

4:15pm

COFFEE BREAK: MEET THE ARTIST The Smithy | page 46, 48/49

5:30pm

TEENAGE WASTELAND National Baseball Hall of Fame, Grandstand Theater | page 20

8:30pm

THOMAS EDISON FILM FESTIVAL SELECTIONS Templeton Hall | pages 21/22 3

SATURDAY I NOVEMBER 15 8:30am

DELAWARE-OTSEGO AUDUBON BIRD WALK Meet at Fenimore Art Museum | page 50

10:00am

BEEN HERE STAY HERE Fenimore Farm & Country Village, Louis C. Jones Center | page 23

10:00am

RIVER OF GRASS Fenimore Art Museum, Auditorium | page 24

1 1:45am

VALENTINA AND THE MUOSTERS Fenimore Farm & Country Village, Louis C. Jones Center | page 25

12:00pm

AMERICA’S STAIRWAY Fenimore Art Museum, Auditorium | page 26

1:00pm

INTO THE WONDERWOODS FREE FAMILY FILM Village Hall Ballroom | page 27

1:45pm

A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY Fenimore Farm & Country Village, Louis C. Jones Center | page 28

2:00pm

AIN’T NO BACK TO A MERRY-GO-ROUND Fenimore Art Museum, Auditorium | page 29

3:30pm

TREE WALK: REVOLUTIONS IN THE VILLAGE Meet at Village Hall | page 51

3:45pm

EVIDENCE Fenimore Farm & Country Village, Louis C. Jones Center | page 30

5:30pm

OBSERVER National Baseball Hall of Fame, Grandstand Theater | page 31

7:00pm

MID-FESTIVAL FALL SUPPER Templeton Hall | page 46

7:00pm

FILM DAYS TRIVIA The Local Bird | page 47

9:00pm

SHELF LIFE Templeton Hall | page 32

SUNDAY I NOVEMBER 16 10:00am

RUTKOFF BRUNCH: BEFORE THE MOVEMENT Templeton Hall | page 33

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12:00pm

OTSEGO 2000 HISTORIC PRESERVATION WALKING TOUR Meet at Village Hall | page 51

12:15pm

MONK IN PIECES Fenimore Art Museum, Auditorium | page 34

12:30pm

RIDE THE LINE Fenimore Farm & Country Village, Louis C. Jones Center | page 35

2:15pm

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE: THE BRIGHTNESS OF LIGHT Fenimore Art Museum, Auditorium | page 36

2:15pm

HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE Fenimore Farm & Country Village, Louis C. Jones Center | page 37

3:30pm

BEAVER WALK WITH OTSEGO LAND TRUST Lordsland Preserve, Roseboom | page 51

4:15pm

COFFEE BREAK: MEET THE ARTIST The Smithy | page 46, 48/49

5:30pm

THE GOLDEN SPURTLE National Baseball Hall of Fame, Grandstand Theater | page 38

8:00pm

THE LAST CLASS Templeton Hall | page 39

MONDAY I NOVEMBER 17 10:00am

TURTLE WALKER Fenimore Farm & Country Village, Louis C. Jones Center | page 40

12:00pm

KEEPER Fenimore Farm & Country Village, Louis C. Jones Center | page 41

1:15pm

RULE OF STONE Fenimore Farm & Country Village, Louis C. Jones Center | page 42

3:15pm

SHORTS + CAKE Fenimore Farm & Country Village, Louis C. Jones Center | page 43

5:30pm

CLOSING FILM: COVER-UP National Baseball Hall of Fame, Grandstand Theater | page 44

7:30pm

THAT’S A WRAP! CLOSING PARTY The Smithy | page 47

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THU I NOV 13

FRI I NOV 14

SAT I NOV 15 [AUDUBON BIRD WALK Fenimore Art Museum, 8:30am ]

9:30 10:00

BEEN HERE STAY HERE 10:00–11:30

CALICO REBELLION 10:00–12:00

10:30 11:00

RIVER OF GRASS 10:00–11:30

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11:30

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12:00

VALENTINA & THE MOUSTERS 11:45–1:15

12:30 JETTY 12:30–2:00

UNDERLAND 12:30–1:45

1:00 1:30

AMERICA’S STAIRWAY 12:00–1:30

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2:00 2:30

THEATER OF THOUGHT 2:15–4:00

3:00

A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY 1:45–3:15

GRAINS OF SAND 2:30–4:30

3:30

AIN’T NO BACK TO A MERRYGO-ROUND 2:00–4:00

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4:00 4:30

Meet the Artist Coffee Break 4:15–5:15

5:00

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INTO THE WONDERWOODS 1:00–2:30

EVIDENCE 3:45–5:00

OCCA Walk Village Hall 3:30–4:30

5:30 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00

Opening film: APPLE CIDER VINEGAR 5:30–7:00

OBSERVER 5:30–7:00

TEENAGE WASTELAND 5:30–7:30

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Opening Party & Exhibition 7:00–8:30

Mid-Festival Fall Supper 7:00–8:45

Film Days Trivia 7:00–8:45

8:30 9:00 9:30

LOCAL HERO 9:00–11:00

10:00

SELECTIONS FROM TEFF 8:30–10:00

SHELF LIFE 9:00–10:15

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10:30 11:00 Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum 25 Main St. 6

Fenimore Farm & Country Village 5775 NY-80

Fenimore Art Museum 5798 NY-80

The Smithy 55 Pioneer St.

Cooperstown Coworks 6 Doubleday Ct.

SUN I NOV 16

MON I NOV 17

9:30 10:00 RUTKOFF BRUNCH 10:00–12:00

TURTLE WALKER 10:00–11:15

10:30 11:00 11:30

★ History Walk Village Hall 12:00–1:00

12:00 RIDE THE LINE 12:30–1:45

KEEPER 12:00–1:00

MONK IN PIECES 12:15–2:0O

12:30 1:00 1:30

RULE OF STONE 1:15–2:45

HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE 2:15–4:00 Beaver Walk (Roseboom) 3:30–4:30

2:30

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE: BRIGHTNESS OF LIGHT 2:15–4:45

Meet the Artist Coffee Break 4:15–5:15

2:00 3:00 3:30

SHORTS+CAKE 3:15–4:45

4:00 4:30

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5:00 5:30

THE GOLDEN SPURTLE 5:30–7:30

6:00

Closing film: COVER-UP 5:30–7:30

6:30 7:00 7:30

Wrap Party 7:30–9:00

THE LAST CLASS 8:00–9:15

8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00

The Local Bird 139 Main St.

Templeton Hall 63 Pioneer St.

Village Hall 22 Main St.

Outdoor Walks Various Locations

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With Guest Speaker 7

FILM DAYS VENUES & COOPERSTOWN ATTRACTIONS 8

FILM DAYS VENUES 11

FENIMORE ART MUSEUM 5798 State Hwy 80

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FENIMORE FARM & COUNTRY VILLAGE 5775 State Hwy 80

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DOUBLEDAY CAFÉ

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SILVER FOX GIFT SHOP

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ELLSWORTH & SILL

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COOLEY’S TAVERN

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VILLAGE HALL 22 Main Street

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MAGIC MOUNTAIN MARKET

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GOLDEN SWAN CAFÉ AND IMPORTS

BASEBALL HALL OF FAME 25 Main Street

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SYBIL’S YARN SHOP

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THE SMITHY 55 Pioneer Street

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RIGBY HANDCRAFT

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TEMPLETON HALL 63 Pioneer Street

COOPERSTOWN BEVERAGE EXCHANGE / COOPERSTOWN ESCAPE ROOMS

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THE LOCAL BIRD 139 Main Street

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COOPERSTOWN ART ASSOCIATION / VILLAGE LIBRARY

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COOPERSTOWN COWORKS 6 Doubleday Court

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J. GORMAN FINE JEWELRY

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KATE’S UPSTATE

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TOSCANA RESTAURANT

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STAGECOACH COFFEE

OTHER ATTRACTIONS 9

THE RAILROAD INN

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CHARLIE & COOPER

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BLUEBIRD HAUS

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NICOLETTA’S RESTAURANT

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COOPERSTOWN DISTILLERY

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THE RABBIT HOLE

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SPURBECK’S GROCERY

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SAL’S PIZZERIA

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MOHICAN FLOWERS

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TIN BIN ALLEY

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L J’S SASSY BOUTIQUE

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BRIDGETTE & MAIN

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MEL’S AT 22

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MT. FUJI SUSHI & HIBACHI

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SCHNEIDER’S BAKERY

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COOPERSTOWN DINER

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NORBU RESTAURANT

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INN AT COOPERSTOWN

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RUDY’S WINE & LIQUOR

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WHITE HOUSE INN

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WILLIS MONIE BOOKS

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LANDMARK INN

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COOPER COUNTRY CRAFTS

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NEW YORK PIZZERIA

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COOPERSTOWN FARMERS’ MARKET / OTSEGO 2000

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L A KEF RON T PA RK

THANK YOU FOR THE OUTPOURING OF SUPPORT AND COLLABORATION GRANT S

PLAT I N U M

New York State Council on the Arts Scriven Foundation

Ashley-Connor Realty Simon Carr-Ellison and Joan Desens Cooperstown Natural Foods Jeff and Karen Katz Anne and Lang Keith Elmer Luke and Robert Seward Leatherstocking Federal Credit Union Springbrook

BENEFAC TORS Anonymous Doreen DeNicola / DeNicola Design LLC Alison and Tim Lord Five Star Subaru S. Tier French

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE Carol Beechy and Katie Boardman blackstanleystudios Blue Mingo Grill Jay Bosley and Hudi Podolsky Eva Davy The Emery C. Jr. and Nancy F. Herman Fund Raymond Han and Paul Kellogg Foundation Patricia and Robert Hanft Allison and Keyes Hill-Edgar Faith Gay and Francesca Zambello Robert Nelson and Van Broughton Ramsey Peter Regan and Aviva Schneider The White House Inn

GOL D Lou Allstadt and Melinda Hardin Arkell Museum at Canajoharie Cooperstown Oneonta Indivisible Joseph and Luann Conlon Glimmerglass Move Managers Green Toad Bookstore NYCM Otsego County Conservation Association Otesaga Resort Hotel Otsego Land Trust Serena Black Martin Stack-Page Properties Stewart’s Shops Visions Federal Credit Union Wayne Bank Martha Yager

Glimmerglass Film Days is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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S I LVER Amanda Savage Mahoney Peter Severud Sunflower Cafe Todd and Laura Wetzel

C O M MUNIT Y PA RTNERS Catskill Symphony Orchestra Cooperstown Art Association Cooperstown Concerts Cooperstown Coworks Cooperstown Graduate Program, SUNY Oneonta Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society Fenimore Farm & Country Village Fenimore Art Museum Glimmerglass Festival National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Otsego County Conservation Association Otsego Land Trust The Smithy Templeton Hall Village of Cooperstown

FILM DAYS STEERIN G C O M M I T T EE Margaret “Peggy” Parsons Founder and Artistic Director Xander Moffat Technical Director and Programming Coordinator Jennifer Armstrong JoAnn Gardner Joey Katz Jim LaCava Peg Odell Ellen Pope Van Broughton Ramsey Peter Rutkoff Erik Stengler Sydney L. Waller Madeleine Zenir

FILM DAYS INTERNS Cristal De La Cruz Cooperstown Graduate Program ’26 Camden Breckenridge Cooperstown Graduate Program ’27

S P EC IAL T HANKS Thank you to William Jay Miller for the use of his photo of Kingfisher Tower and Otsego Lake as our Film Days revolutions poster image.

Become a Film Days sponsor: www.glimmerglassfilmdays.org I 607.547.8881

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WELCOME TO GLIMMERGLASS FILM DAYS PEGGY PARSONS I XANDER MOFFAT

From recurring rotations to personal makeovers to major moments in world history, “revolutions” is a word that implies deep change. But a revolution can also mean an individual journey of self-discovery in which a person, anyone, undergoes a shift in values or a fresh start on life, a new perspective or a different way of interacting with the world.

Film Days this year touches this topic in ways that, thankfully, are never straightforward—and, as we know from previous years, it’s always more fun to play with a puzzle. Topics like aging, art and architecture, food and subsistence, civil rights, and even the history of the earth itself are all present this year. What’s important is seeing new angles and taking deeper dives into history to widen our frame of reference. In Apple Cider Vinegar, for example, the filmmaker tells a very personal tale about her own revolutionary journey after discovering the composition of a kidney stone. In Grains of Sand, an annual visit to an old farmhouse becomes a time for two artists to reflect on aging and shifting lives—a “coming-of-age” story created through conversation and art.

Theater of Thought, on the other hand, journeys inside the landscape of the brain to probe philosophical questions like how music affects us or the true meaning of Artificial Intelligence, while Underland travels down into ancient caves and melting glaciers to explore a covert laboratory that tries to reveal mysteries of the universe.

This year’s festival will close with Cover-Up, a film that takes us into the work of Seymour Hersh, a revolutionary journalist who unflinchingly reported the grim realities of war and challenged official narratives. As we will see, there are many fertile approaches this year to “revolutions.” All the films together are a reminder that nothing is permanent. They also show us that if we look closely and carefully, we can appreciate the endless possibility that comes out of this constant change and even play a part in shaping what comes next.

Artistic director Peggy Parsons is film curator emerita of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and an alumna of the Cooperstown Graduate Program. She and technical director and programming coordinator Xander Moffat, an independent film producer, curated this year’s film selections.

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OPENING FILM

APPLE CIDER VINEGAR Thursday I November 13 I 5:30pm National Baseball Hall of Fame I Grandstand Theater Sofie Benoot I 2024 I Belgium I 80 minutes From Antarctica to islands in the Atlantic, from space rocks to the stones of Palestine, Apple Cider Vinegar is in amused awe of the ways in which nature is inseparable from our routine lives. This charmingly personal tale begins when filmmaker Sofie Benoot has her kidney stone analyzed. The results reveal a rare mineral found only in the sea mud of the Antarctic Ocean. This odd discovery leads her to explore the links between minerals in the soil and flesh-and-blood humans—in some ways, an obvious connection but still a surprise. The results of her exploration turn into this playful and moving essay, named after the old traditional remedy for kidney stones. Guiding us through this journey is the narrator Siân Phillips, who delivers a sense of soul with her mellow and lyrical voice.

“A unique and almost unquantifiable film, but also an engaging and intriguing one.”

— Business Doc Europe

C0-SPONSORED BY

Otsego Land Trust A N D DeNicola Design

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LOCAL HERO Thursday I November 13 I 9:00pm Cooperstown Coworks Bill Forsyth I 1983 I UK I 111 minutes Mac, a young oil executive living in Houston, spends his days acquiring land around the world without ever leaving the office. Conquest via telex. It’s all to help his employer, Knox Industries, refine more oil. When his corporate higher-ups identify a bay in Scotland as the perfect location for a refinery, Mac is sent there to handle the delicate negotiations. “We are not in a third world situation here,” explains one executive. “We’re dealing with people like ourselves.”

Mac is met with the usual skepticism and resistance from a community with deep roots to their village. At least, that’s what the residents want him to think.

Little does Mac know, the villagers are desperate to leave small-town life behind, only stringing Mac along to up his offer. Yet, miles away from his city life, Mac finds himself taken with the beauty of nature and the warmth of the community.

Mixing dry humor with touching humanity, Local Hero is a cutting satire with a big heart.

Cash bar and complimentary snacks

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SPONSORED BY

The Raymond Han and Paul Kellogg Foundation

CALICO REBELLION Friday I November 14 I 10:00am Fenimore Farm & Country Village I Louis C. Jones Center Victoria Kupchinetsky I 2024 I USA I 70 minutes Two hundred years ago, immigrant farmers in the Catskills, fed up with oppression and exploitation by absentee landlords, staged a rebellion known as the Anti-Rent War. The uprising changed the course of history, paving the way to land rights across America and to the formation of a new political group—Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party. Today, although largely forgotten, the historic uprising lives on through direct descendants of those rebellious farmers. Calico Rebellion explores a pivotal moment in American history, and a community’s unique and enduring connection to the past through the songs, stories, and costumes preserved from the 1840s. Part historical “true crime” story and part meditation on land and belonging in America, Calico Rebellion is a deep dive into small town America, its identity, idealism, and the violence that percolates beneath the surface.

Post-screening Q&A with filmmakers Victoria Kupchinetsky and Peter Hutchison This film and discussion, open to the public, also serve as the annual Film Days Professional Seminar for the Cooperstown Graduate Program, SUNY Oneonta.

SPONSORED BY

Faith Gay and Francesca Zambello

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UNDERLAND Friday I November 14 I 12:30pm Fenimore Farm & Country Village I Louis C. Jones Center Robert Petit I 2025 I USA/UK I 70 minutes Adapted from the bestselling book by Robert Macfarlane, Underland is a cinematic documentary that voyages into worlds rarely glimpsed by human eyes. Beginning in the shallow soils beneath an old ash tree, we travel alongside three intrepid “astronauts of the underworld” into ancient sacred caves, flooded storm drains, melting glaciers, underwater burial chambers, and a deep underground laboratory built to solve the mysteries of the Universe.

Director Robert Petit said he was halfway through the first chapter of Macfarlane’s book when he realized he needed to make a film, “one that shows (perhaps counterintuitively) that the best way of grappling with the darkness that seems to have surfaced in the world is to look to the myriad of realms beneath our feet and to draw deep lessons from visiting these strange and illuminating places.”

Narrated by Sandra Hüller, and with a uniquely poetic approach, Underland is a deep dive into the earth that ultimately presents a groundbreaking vision for rethinking our lives on this fragile surface.

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SPONSORED BY

Otsego County Conservation Association

FREE FILM

JETTY Friday I November 14 I 12:30pm Fenimore Art Museum I Auditorium Sam Fleischner I 2024 I USA I 55 minutes Jetty patiently documents two years of the decades-long federal project of installing granite jetties to protect the Rockaways—a coastal neighborhood of Queens— from the effects of eroding beaches. Interspersing footage of the people and machines at work with observations from local residents about living where the city meets the water, the film is shot on Super 16mm, accentuating the tactility of all the elements at play: rocks, sand, metal, water, and celluloid. With subtle sound design featuring a pensive, sometimes playful score by Animal Collective, Jetty looks with equanimity at human attempts to out-engineer nature as it reflects on the way that a sense of place informs our lives.

Jetty brings “an aesthetic eye to the work of securing a shoreline devastated by Hurricane Sandy. [The] film highlights the beauty of social responsibility and civic trust … Fleischner conveys the power and the scope of the environmental project … with an intimate, hands-on aesthetic, yielding an immersively contemplative experience.” — The New Yorker Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Sam Fleischner

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THEATER OF THOUGHT Friday I November 14 I 2:15pm Fenimore Farm & Country Village I Louis C. Jones Center Werner Herzog I 2022 I USA I 108 minutes Werner Herzog’s films are as much about the telling of a story as they are about the tale itself, poking around in intriguing anomalies and traveling back and forth in time. In Theater of Thought, he teams up with Richard Axel (Nobel Prize winner for decoding the sense of smell) and other scientists, including Rafael Yuste, Director of the NeuroTechnology Center at Columbia University. Together they explore the landscape of the brain, probing such questions as: How is it that all the senses emerge from a single tissue inside the skull? How does music affect us? How do tightrope walkers conquer anxiety? Do fish have souls? The film also considers high-tech advances that have been helping people overcome illness and debates the politics of mind control and the impinging sphere of Artificial Intelligence. In the end, all these rambles meld into a kind of wondrous and witty sightseeing tour inside the head, and asks if we are living in some sort of theater of thought, an imaginary world that only exists in our brain.

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DeNicola Design

PREMIERE

GRAINS OF SAND Friday I November 14 I 2:30pm Fenimore Art Museum I Auditorium Sarah Gross I 2025 I Germany/USA I 85 minutes North American Premiere I German and English with English subtitles Margot and Barbara, close friends and artists—and the director’s mother and mother-in-law—meet for a work retreat in a stone farmhouse in the German countryside. They are each on the cusp of their ninth decade. As they begin to work on the large stones they have brought to sculpt, they embark on a conversation about creativity and aging, exploring what it means for them to arrive at this stage of their lives. Their wrinkled hands become dusty as they scrape and chisel the stones.

The farmhouse trip is a yearly ritual where the women share their pasts, discuss their artistic processes, and reflect on their changing roles as artists, women, and mothers. This positive, different kind of “coming-of-age” story is created through conversation, memories, and artwork, along with reflections by the filmmaker herself. Margot and Barbara aren’t looking back on their lives. They are living them. Grains of Sand is a testament to the power of art and friendship and a personal exploration of what it means to age and to continue becoming oneself.

Post-screening Q&A discussion with filmmaker Sarah Gross

SPONSORED BY

Five Star Subaru

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TEENAGE WASTELAND Friday I November 14 I 5:30pm National Baseball Hall of Fame I Grandstand Theater Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine I 2025 I USA I 100 minutes 1991. Upstate New York. A group of teenage misfits, inspired by a renegade English teacher, embark on a student film project and uncover a vast conspiracy that is poisoning the ground beneath their feet. Banding together to confront indifferent adults, corrupt politicians, and a violent criminal organization threatening their small town, they produce an investigative documentary that causes shockwaves in their community. The students traipsed across landfill sites, covered town hall meetings, interviewed experts, grilled local politicians in their TV studio, and uncovered documents through FOIA requests. In exposing the long history of illegal dumping in Middletown, the students drew attention from local and national news outlets, including 60 Minutes, ABC News, The New York Times, and The Village Voice. Teenage Wasteland is a coming-of-age story based on exclusive access to hundreds of hours of candid, humorous, and nostalgic video outtakes, and the cooperation of teacher Fred Isseks and his intrepid students as they reckon—30 years later—with a defining event in their lives and a remarkable story of civic courage.

Post-screening Q&A with film subject and retired Middletown teacher Fred Isseks

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SPONSORED BY

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THOMAS EDISON FILM FESTIVAL SELECTIONS Friday I November 14 I 8:30pm I Templeton Hall Presented by Jane Steuerwald, Executive Director, Thomas Edison Media Arts Consortium

HUNKY DORY

Steven Vander Meer I 2024 I USA I 6 minutes This meticulously hand-drawn animation juxtaposes scenes of animal life with images of human existence, observing the quirky and unexpected ways in which we are similar. This visual smörgasbord moves and morphs in perfect time to the banjo music of Béla Fleck.

A IS FOR ANT

Jack Davison I 2024 I UK I 10 minutes A is for Ant is an immersive film by British photographer Jack Davison that explores the alphabet through a captivating blend of live action and animation.

This charming and engaging film celebrates concepts of creativity, play, the natural world, beauty, and silliness.

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ENTITY

George Steffens I 2024 I Germany I 8 minutes Entity is a striking exploration of the human experience. Against the backdrop of Iceland’s landscapes, the film invites the audience to witness the evocative journey of two isolated souls, as they discover the boundless energy within and ultimately evolve into a unified, expressive whole.

DAWN EVERY DAY

Amir Youssef I 2024 I Egypt/USA I 20 minutes Set in 1956, 8-year-old Nabil navigates through new social norms he cannot fathom that impact his next-door best friend in post-nationalized Egypt. The story takes place during a complicated and difficult moment in Egypt’s history and is told from the point of view of Nabil, who is determined not to lose his friend. This sensitive film illuminates how today’s political events and social movements tend to separate us rather than connect us.

ASSEMBLAGES

Martin Mulcahy I 2024 I USA I 9 minutes An experimental animation exploring core memories through the objects that trigger them, including digital stop motion, found footage, found objects, collage, image composites, visual effects, and sound effects.

how i roll

Brianne Berkson and Miguel Gluckstern I 2023 I USA I 13 minutes Facing unthinkable hardships, including murder, loss, and battling multiple sclerosis for 24 years, Robin Cohen impressively defies the odds, finding light in spite of darkness.

serious and lively Jieying Song I 2022 I China I 5 minutes

Evoking the Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain, this delightful film contrasts the lives of two young Chinese boys. The masterful intercutting of the boys’ lives is comical, heartbreaking, and profound.

Complimentary popcorn and movie candy, cash bar

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BEEN HERE STAY HERE Saturday I November 15 I 10:00am Fenimore Farm & Country Village I Louis C. Jones Center David Usui I 2024 I USA I 90 minutes One of the last remaining land masses in the Chesapeake Bay is Tangier Island, populated by watermen descended from 17th-century settlers (their Cornish accents are still noticeable). Local lifestyles, in every sense, have been shaped by the water. Now there are clear signs that the population of just over 400 is shrinking. And the island itself is shrinking too, with sea water lapping at doors.

But the surprising part of this film is the enormous sensitivity and skill with which filmmaker David Usui has captured the island’s residents and their way of life, painting a rounded insider view of tradition and change. Between portraits of people who call the island home are bits of voiceover featuring poetry that links the memory of the past with the elusiveness of what’s to come. Usui became a member of the Tangier community, making monthly trips over two years. His perspective is uniquely comfortable and well-informed—creating a conversation grounded in relationship, not rhetoric. In the end, it’s less about rising seas than what rises within us when we choose to listen.

SPONSORED BY

N. F. H. in honor of Gary Goodwin

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RIVER OF GRASS Saturday I November 15 I 10:00am Fenimore Art Museum I Auditorium Sasha Wortzel I 2025 I USA I 83 minutes River of Grass is an ode to the Florida Everglades and those who call the region home. The film is a present-day reimagining of environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s celebrated 1947 book, The Everglades: River of Grass, which forever changed the public’s understanding of the area from worthless swamps to an essential source of freshwater, enabling the ecosystem to endure, just barely, today. In the wake of a hurricane, Douglas visits filmmaker Sasha Wortzel in a dream, catalyzing a prismatic journey across the Everglades with Miccosukee educator and activist Betty Osceola. Interweaving Douglas’s writing, personal narration, present-day verité, and archival footage, River of Grass reveals how this country’s origin story haunts and inextricably shapes contemporary American life, while asking how we might weather coming storms better together. “A rare environmental film to succeed both in expressing collective grief about climate change and inspiring activism to adapt and resist further degradations.”

— Filmmaker Magazine Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Sasha Wortzel

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VALENTINA AND THE MOUSTERS Saturday I November 15 I 11:45am Fenimore Farm & Country Village I Louis C. Jones Center Francesca Scalisi I 2024 I Italy I 80 minutes Italian with English subtitles Niscemi, Sicily is a landscape shaped by intensive farming, wildfires, and MUOS: imposing military antennae that disfigure the territory. At almost 30 years old, Valentina still lives with her parents. When her father’s health deteriorates, she is forced to take her fate into her own hands. This film is a delicate tale of emancipation rooted in a ravaged yet beloved land.

Director Francesca Scalisi says this film “was born from the question of how it is possible to live in a place destroyed by arson, open-air dumps, intensive cultivation, foreign armies and what they inevitably bring with them.”

“This sensitive documentary zeroes in on one Sicilian woman under threat from American expansionism. Finely threading the needle between critique and poetry, realism and lyricism, Scalisi’s nuanced documentary feature counts the human cost of life under the shadow of military might.” — Journey into Cinema

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AMERICA’S STAIRWAY Saturday I November 15 I 12:00pm Fenimore Art Museum I Auditorium Paul Lamont I 2025 I USA I 57 minutes America’s Stairway is the epic story of how one of America’s first successful public works emboldened a nation to move westward. The film places the historic Flight of Five locks, on the Erie Canal in Lockport, New York, squarely in the American narrative as a symbol of a young and developing nation. The Lockport Locks were regarded as a modern engineering marvel at the time that the Erie Canal opened in 1825. They enabled water-borne commerce and passengers to travel from New York City to the Great Lakes via the Hudson River and the man-made inland waterway system, opening up the Midwest to development.

The film draws a direct line between the Erie Canal, the Flight of Five, and the birth of American tourism to today’s heritage tourism industry, which is inextricably linked to community-based, grassroots preservation efforts and a community’s sense of place. It is a profound reminder that great moments in our nation’s narrative can be found in small towns and communities across the American landscape.

Post-screening Q&A with filmmakers Paul Lamont and Robert Borgatti

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Patricia and Robert Hanft

FREE FAMILY FILM

INTO THE WONDERWOODS Saturday I November 15 I 1:00pm Village Hall I Ballroom Vincent Paronnaud and Alexis Ducord I 2024 I France I 82 minutes Ten-year-old Angelo dreams of becoming an explorer and a zoologist. When he hits the road with his family to visit his beloved granny, his distracted parents leave him behind at a rest stop. Left to his own devices, Angelo decides to cut through the forest in search of his family. He enters a dark and mysterious world inhabited by strange creatures, some friendlier than others.

Based on a comic book by celebrated artist and filmmaker Vincent Paronnaud (a.k.a. Winshluss), the fantastical tale of Angelo leaps from page to the screen.

Into the Wonderwoods was screened as part of the official selection of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and in competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival to enthusiastic audiences.

Common Sense Media recommends this film for ages 10 and up. Originally in French, this film will be presented in English at Film Days.

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A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY Saturday I November 15 I 1:45pm Fenimore Farm & Country Village I Louis C. Jones Center Rachel Elizabeth Seed I 2024 I USA I 85 minutes In the early 1970s, the International Center of Photography in Manhattan opened a groundbreaking show called Images of Man featuring works by influential photographers—Henri Cartier-Bresson, W. Eugene Smith, Bruce Davidson, Cornell Capa, Gordon Parks, Lisette Model, and Roman Vishniac, among others.

Interestingly, the show also included oral history interviews in which these artists talked about their works. The person who had the idea and conducted the interviews was Sheila Turner Seed—herself a photojournalist and photographer.

Sadly, at age 42, Sheila died from a brain aneurysm. Her daughter Rachel—now also a photographer—was just a baby when she lost her mom. Consequently, Rachel never knew her, and she made it her mission to locate the vast oral archive her mom produced, including hours of interviews with all those iconic artists.

Rachel’s project was energizing and heart-rending—setting up a posthumous relationship with her mother through voice recordings and pictures. A Photographic Memory is a mother-daughter dialogue out of time, touching on themes of memory, maternity, loss, and legacy.

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AIN’T NO BACK TO A MERRY-GO-ROUND Saturday I November 15 I 2:00pm Fenimore Art Museum I Auditorium Ilana Trachtman I 2024 I USA I 89 minutes Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round brings to life a revolutionary moment in American history. In 1960, five black students from Howard University in Washington, DC mounted the merry-go-round in Maryland’s then-segregated Glen Echo Amusement Park. When asked to leave, the students refused. Soon, white neighbors—including Jewish labor organizers—joined the Black students in picketing Glen Echo, forming an extraordinary collaboration that attracted national attention. Taking its title from a poem by Langston Hughes, Ilana Trachtman’s riveting documentary recalls an overlooked incident from the past, reminding us of the power of modest gestures and strategic partnerships. The laser focus on one protest allows for deep understanding of the individuals whose efforts, sacrifices, and personal awakenings fueled the Civil Rights Movement. “I have become convinced that change will not come from the top,” says Trachtman. “It will come from people who are humble before their differences, who learn to know each other.”

This film will be the subject of discussion at Rutkoff Brunch, Sunday, November 16.

Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Ilana Trachtman SPONSORED BY

Jay Bosley and Hudi Podolsky

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EVIDENCE Saturday I November 15 I 3:45pm Fenimore Farm & Country Village I Louis C. Jones Center Lee Anne Schmitt I 2025 I USA I 76 minutes Evidence did not start as a film about the John M. Olin Foundation. It started with a box the film’s director, Lee Ann Schmitt, received after the sale of their family home. Inside were dolls her father brought home for her from his travels as the "head of international" for the Olin Corporation, a global petrochemical and ammunition manufacturer. Schmitt saw these objects as an archive of her childhood and began filming. Evidence grew into a film about the encroachment of politics on our personal spaces. The Olin Foundation becomes a frame for looking at the impact of corporate spending and dark money on US politics and our ideas of family. While the film is unsparing in its criticism of the forces Schmitt finds to be degrading our society, she is quick to remind audiences that she in no way feels outside these problems. Evidence offers time and space for us to gather, not necessarily to agree, but to contemplate and make connections.

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WICKED DELICATE FILMS

OBSERVER Saturday I November 15 I 5:30pm National Baseball Hall of Fame I Grandstand Theater Ian Cheney I 2025 I USA I 94 minutes Filmmaker Ian Cheney embarks on an experiment in which he brings a series of keen-eyed observers—scientists, artists, a hunter—to locations around the world and asks them to describe what they see. What unfolds is a deep exploration of the power of observation: what happens when you find new ways to perceive the world around you? With customary whimsy and a small painted red square that Cheney brings on every journey, the film is an invitation to find beauty and meaning in even the most quotidian of locales. After seeing the film, Cheney hopes you “leave the theater a little more entranced by the world around us.” Cheney presents us with a film he hopes can “be a small portal to all that holds us in wonder.”

Cheney came to Film Days in 2023 with his film The Arc of Oblivion. This year we feature two of his films, Observer and Shelf Life.

SPONSORED BY

Eva Davy

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SHELF LIFE Saturday I November 15 I 9:00pm Templeton Hall Ian Cheney I 2024 I USA I 77 minutes Cheese connoisseurs, cheese mongers, cheese librarians, and cheese technicians alike all become authorities when it’s time to discuss their favorite food. There are nearly 2,000 types of cheese in the world, all based on different milk types, flavors, ages, and origins. Ian Cheney’s quirky global pilgrimage takes this focus one step further—he has decided to draw parallels between the aging process for cheese and the aging process for humans. All in all, the film becomes “an immersive culinary and temporal experience, interspersed with odd visual meditations meant to spark new questions and curiosities.”—Penobscot Bay Pilot.

Ian Cheney came to Film Days in 2023 with his film The Arc of Oblivion. This year we feature two of his films, Shelf Life and Observer.

Cash bar and a complimentary selection of cheeses

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SPONSORED BY

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RUTKOFF BRUNCH

WA SHI NGT O N S TAR CO L L E CT I ON

BEFORE THE MOVEMENT Sunday I November 16 I 10:00am I Templeton Hall Drawing on the Saturday screening of Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round as well as his own experience coming of age with the Civil Rights Movement, Peter Rutkoff will lead an interactive discussion over brunch of the elements and people that forged a transformative movement to bring equal civil rights to Blacks.

Peter has been leading intriguing discussions on film, art, and civil rights over Sunday brunch since Glimmerglass Film Days’ first festival. Peter is founder and Chair Emeritus of the Department of American Studies at Kenyon College in Ohio. He is the author of recent non-fiction works that examine African-American art and culture, as well as two novels, most recently Irish Eyes. He has been a regular summer visitor to Cooperstown, which is also the setting of his book of short stories, Cooperstown Chronicles.

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10TH STREET FILMS

MONK IN PIECES Sunday I November 16 I 12:15pm Fenimore Art Museum I Auditorium Billy Shebar I 2025 I USA I 94 minutes Meredith Monk, who turns 83 on November 20, is “an old master” in the world of performing arts. In this captivating new film, she concedes that her struggles growing up as a cross-eyed kid, then later as an early player in the game-changing downtown art scene of 1960s New York, were tough and never-ending. But she took big chances anyway, because she was discovering a new art form she loved— manipulating the sounds of her own voice. Her good friend Philip Glass admits, “Among all of us, Meredith was the uniquely gifted one,” and her work arose in a combative creative environment. But the most poignant scenes in the film are simply Monk alone at home, listening to ordinary domestic sounds like coffee pots or playing with her pet turtle Newton. Surprisingly, Meredith Monk has never been treated in cinema until now. (As it happens, film director Billy Shebar’s wife sings in Monk’s ensemble).

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Carol Beechy and Katie Boardman

PREMIERE

RIDE THE LINE Sunday I November 16 I 12:30pm Fenimore Farm & Country Village I Louis C. Jones Center Ihor Volochii I 2024 I Ukraine I 70 minutes Upstate New York Premiere I Ukrainian with English subtitles In Ukraine, during dark times and while self-describing as “being in the worst shape of their lives,” two despairing friends decided to cycle the entire 1,500 km front line in Ukraine, through liberated villages and towns, to meet the people and find out what’s happening in their daily lives. The riders have a charitable purpose, to raise money for Ukrainian soldiers. Their footage, which appears to be captured mainly from the fronts of their bikes, has a candor and a stark intensity that documentaries (more often than not made from a distance) seldom can capture.

The film is impressive not only for the wonderful stories of courage and resiliency and melancholy that it turns up, but also as a portrait of two amazing men who put their lives on the line to complete this project. With its near home-movie feel, it ranks as one of the best films ever about the consequences of war, and what ordinary people do to rise above it. Ride the Line is an unforgettable experience.

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G EORG IA O’ K EEFFE MUSEUM

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE: THE BRIGHTNESS OF LIGHT Sunday I November 16 I 2:15pm Fenimore Art Museum I Auditorium Paul Wagner I 2024 I USA I 119 minutes “In school I was taught to paint things as I saw them, but that seemed so stupid. If one only reproduced nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why bother to paint at all?” Free-thinker Georgia O’Keeffe—the “Mother of American Modernism” and one of the great painters of the 20th century—became famous for her depictions of natural forms such as flowers and bone shards. Though her work was never naive, she denied rumors that her shapes were obliquely sexual. At the same time, she shocked a conservative public by posing nude in the works of her lover, noted photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Academy Award-winner Paul Wagner’s film is the first major work about the artist since 1977. Before she became wellknown, O’Keeffe spent many summers taking art classes at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville where Paul Wagner has been teaching screenwriting and directing for nearly a decade.

Post-screening Q&A with filmmakers Paul Wagner and Ellen Casey Wagner

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blackstanleystudios

HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE Sunday I November 16 I 2:15pm Fenimore Farm & Country Village I Louis C. Jones Center Eleanor Mortimer I 2024 I UK I 97 minutes The deep seabed (at five kilometers down) is perhaps the last frontier of human research. It’s been said we know more about the moon’s surface than about the ocean’s floor, where sunlight never penetrates and where most life forms—mostly tiny creatures that qualify as our eldest ancestors—have not been identified or recorded. In the film, a group of young biologists and taxonomists live on a boat for months at a time exploring and cataloging these mesmerizing sea creatures. Their own interpersonal dramas play out of course, but they face a common threat: the likely prospect of deep-sea mining and other interventions in the vast underwater wilderness. The film blends pure wonder with a sense of urgency and challenges us to weigh a predictable human drive for natural resources against the value of a beautiful and intact ecosystem. As we journey through this underwater realm, the film asks us—how deep is our love?

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THE GOLDEN SPURTLE Sunday I November 16 I 5:30pm National Baseball Hall of Fame I Grandstand Theater Constantine Costi I 2024 I UK and Australia I 75 minutes Welcome to the Oatmeal World Cup—and if that sounds gray and boring, think again! This warm and genuinely funny film is about finding the greatest meaning in the smallest things. A spurtle is a Scottish kitchen tool, cylindrical and made of wood. The shape itself dates from the 1400s and has been used traditionally to stir oatmeal porridge clockwise round and round in a pot. As any user will tell you, it works much better than a spoon. The Golden Spurtle is a delightfully eccentric account of the annual World Porridge Making Championship held in the sleepy but picturesque Scottish Highland village of Carrbridge. This unlikely contest attracts many local competitors but also chefs from around the globe who believe that their own recipes for oatmeal porridge are worthy of the grand prize. Amid the unbelievably intense rivalries, the steaming bowls of porridge, the tales of how recipes evolved, and the daily lives of the charming and eccentric locals, we witness an unexpected legacy unfold.

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SPONSORED BY

Robert Nelson and Van Broughton Ramsey

THE LAST CLASS Sunday I November 16 I 8:00pm Templeton Hall Elliot Kirschner I 2025 I USA I 71 minutes By anyone’s account, Robert Reich has had a brilliant career—economist, teacher, writer, public intellectual, and presidential advisor (secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton and mentor to Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama). He’s taught at Harvard and Brandeis and, until retiring two years ago, was a professor at Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. The Last Class, documenting his final semester at Berkeley, is both moving and inspirational, in part because Reich now seems a rare breed—authentic, unselfconscious, and able to appreciate both sides of the political divide. He’s excited simply to teach and inspire students, and conveys the idea he could go on forever, helping students understand imbalances in society. One thousand students fill the biggest lecture hall on the UC Berkeley campus—the last class to receive Reich’s wisdom and exhortations not to accept that society has to stay the way it is. His final assignment: Who will be the teachers of tomorrow?

SPONSORED BY

The White House Inn

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TURTLE WALKER Monday I November 17 I 10:00am Fenimore Farm & Country Village I Louis C. Jones Center Taira Malaney I 2024 I India/ USA I 75 minutes Satish Bhaskar is a name known to turtle lovers all over the world. Not only did he help to pioneer sea turtle biology, but he also led conservation movements and started the first sea turtle surveys along the coast of India. His writings and lectures are landmarks in a highly specialized world. One of the events he’s best remembered for is an epic journey on foot along India's coast and the islands in the Bay of Bengal, where he unearthed scores of mysteries. Filmmaker Taira Malaney was eager to learn Bhaskar’s story. “Everything he did was done in a very humble way,” she said. “It was purely for the joy of discovering and being in these places and learning about these creatures. There was no fame aspect to it, and there was no trying to discover something that no one had before. It was purely for the experience. And that really attracted me to him on a personal level, as a character, because it felt very authentic.”

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KEEPER Monday I November 17 I 12:00pm Fenimore Farm & Country Village I Louis C. Jones Center Hannah Rafkin I 2024 I USA I 40 minutes Sean Flynn is the owner of Boogie Down Bronx Honey, a beekeeping and honeymaking small business in the Riverdale section of The Bronx. A one-time military police officer and single dad, Sean acquired two hives and kept them in a spare room (in spite of the fact that he’s allergic to bee stings). A few months into making her documentary about Sean and his business, filmmaker Hannah Rafkin learned that he had been diagnosed with throat cancer. Sean’s young daughter Alaura Flynn then found herself often working alone with the bees while managing her father’s treatment. But maintaining a positive attitude is natural for Sean—“What’s up, my brother, I’m feeling groovy.” Hannah Rafkin says the impetus to make her movie began as an assignment for a master’s thesis at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. “It’s been a really wild ride and Sean and I now have matching tattoos … so we’re bonded for life.”

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PREMIERE

RULE OF STONE Monday I November 17 I 1:15pm Fenimore Farm & Country Village I Louis C. Jones Center Danae Elon I 2024 I Canada/Israel I 85 minutes English, Hebrew, and Arabic with English subtitles I New York State Premiere Jerusalem stone is an ancient limestone building material quarried for centuries in the mountains around the city. The stone resonates with symbolic meanings and its history and significance have inspired this multifaceted work by filmmaker and cinematographer Danae Elon. Though based in Montreal, Danae was born in Jerusalem, the only child of the well-known critic and author Amos Elon. In her film she brings together not only extensive archival footage but also many contemporary architects who have varying views on what the stones of Jerusalem signify in terms of geopolitics, memory, and veiled demographic control. This abundant stone building material was once decreed by law to provide Jerusalem with a certain look and thus may have contributed to tensions in the region.

“Architecture with a message,” says one Israeli urban planner. “It’s almost impossible to recognize cruelty when it hides behind so much beauty.”

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shorts+cake Monday I November 17 I 3:15pm Fenimore Farm & Country Village I Louis C. Jones Center

KANENON:WE - ORIGINAL SEEDS

Katsitsionni Fox I 2024 I USA I 25 minutes Today, Indigenous seed keepers are vigilantly protecting the biodiversity of seeds under threat from agrochemical giants that currently control over 60% of seeds worldwide. As these Haudenosaunee women step back into their sacred responsibility as seed keepers, they offer a powerful view of what is possible in Indigenous communities working towards food sovereignty.

OTHERWORLD

Lokotah Sanborn I 2025 I USA I 10 minutes A poetic documentary exploring Abenaki ancestral memory and connection to Allen Island, the site of first contact with the English in 1605, which was bought and curated by the wife of American painter Andrew Wyeth three centuries later in hopes of enticing her husband’s inspiration.

ROBERT AND JUNE (AND ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD)

Jem Cohen I 2024 I USA I 20 minutes A reflective study of two artists—filmmaker Robert Frank and painter/sculptor June Leaf—who lived together for many years on the west coast of Cape Breton Island and in New York City. Jem Cohen, who knew them both, assembles a variety of footage shot over the years, and at times the film slyly resembles Frank’s own footage. The effect is thoughtful and a bit playful, not unlike the artists’ lives.

(In Film Days 2024, we featured several of Robert Frank’s movies, including Pull My Daisy).

WE WERE THE SCENERY

Christopher Radcliff I 2025 I USA I 15 minutes In 1975, soon after the end of the Vietnam War, Hoa Thi Le and Hue Nguyen Che fled the country on a small boat. After nine days at sea, they docked in the Philippines, where they were utilized as background extras for Apocalypse Now.

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CLOSING FILM

MARK MAHAN EY

COVER-UP Monday I November 17 I 5:30pm National Baseball Hall of Fame I Grandstand Theater Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus I 2025 I USA / USA I 117 minutes Cover-Up is a political thriller that traces the explosive career of Pulitzer Prizewinning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. Urgent and deeply reported, Cover-Up is both a portrait of a relentless journalist and an indictment of institutional violence and the cycles of impunity in the US military and intelligence agencies.

Hersh’s work serves as an answer to one of the questions that emerge again and again during times of upheaval: “What can I do?” While Hersh is the primary subject here, the film, and Hersh, never lose sight of the role sources have played in breaking these stories. Every big “scoop” starts with a source. Another citizen, no longer able to stand idly by. Appealing instead to a voice that says, “people need to know about this.” Drawing on exclusive access to Hersh’s notes, and interweaving primary documents and archival footage, Cover-Up captures the power and process of investigative journalism.

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SPONSORED BY

S. Tier French

OTSEGO 2000 IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATION FOUNDED IN 1981 TO ENSURE THE OTSEGO L AKE REGION REMAINS A MASTERPIECE OF NATURE

BY PROTECTING AND SUPPORTING ITS ENVIRONMENTAL, HISTORIC, AND AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES AS WELL AS ITS ECONOMIC WELL-BEING.

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FOOD & FESTIVITIES OPENING PARTY & EXHIBITION Thursday I November 13 I 7:00pm I The Smithy Chat with filmmakers, artists, and filmgoers as Film Days kicks off another engaging long weekend. As you enjoy a globally inspired buffet crafted by Anthony Leberto of Brimstone Bakery & Café, view the Film Days companion art exhibition, Revolutions, Considered (see pages 48/49).

Cash bar. Advance purchase recommended.

COFFEE BREAK: MEET THE ARTIST Friday & Sunday I November 14 & 16 I 4:15–5:15pm I The Smithy Drop into The Smithy between films for a complimentary cup of coffee or tea and chat with Revolutions, Considered artist James Herman.

MID-FESTIVAL FALL SUPPER Saturday I November 15 I 7:00pm I Templeton Hall Gather at the Festival’s halfway point with fellow film buffs to share a warming supper catered by Brian Wrubleski, chef/owner of Mel’s at 22.

Cash bar. Advanced purchase required.

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FILM DAYS TRIVIA Saturday I November 15 I 7:00pm I The Local Bird Test your wits on all things Glimmerglass Film Days among other topical trivia categories in a round emcee'd by Film Days sponsor and trivia buff Jeff Katz.

Featuring our newest venue, The Local Bird, which will have pour over coffee and loose leaf teas as well as non-alcoholic beverages and baked goods on offer.

RUTKOFF BRUNCH: BEFORE THE MOVEMENT Sunday I November 16 I 10:00am I Templeton Hall Drawing on the Saturday screening of Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round as well as his own experience coming of age with the Civil Rights Movement, Peter Rutkoff will lead an interactive discussion of the elements and people that forged a transformative movement to bring equal civil rights to Blacks. (See page 33.)

Includes brunch buffet. Advanced purchase recommended.

THAT’S A WRAP! CLOSING PARTY

Monday I November 17 I 7:30pm I The Smithy Join the Glimmerglass Film Days crew, artists, and sponsors as we toast the finale of our 13th Glimmerglass Film Days with flavors of Barcelona by Anthony Leberto of Brimstone Bakery & Café. Ticket includes buffet and one complimentary beverage.

Cash bar. Advance purchase recommended.

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ART EXHIBITION & MEET THE ARTIST COFFEE BREAKS 40 48

REVOLUTIONS, CONSIDERED November 13–17 I 12:00–5:00pm I The Smithy November 9–12 & 18–22 by app’t, text or call: 315-941-9607 Sydney L. Waller, Curator I Founding Member, Glimmerglass Film Days Steering Committee

In diverse ways the works presented in Revolutions, Considered reference visually-compelling “revolutions,” with full-form and flat compositions organized around wheel shapes; colorful curvilinear abstract watercolors, and intimate portraits of a vulnerable Planet Earth.

JAMES GREGG HERMAN, who lives in the hills of Hartwick, NY, is originally from Missouri by way of New York City. In five large elegant abstract watercolors he conducts probing, intuitive investigations of ‘the space between two concentric circles,’ as teased forth with a mesmerizing complex of undulating, ever-revolving lines.

TOM NUSSBAUM grew up in Minnesota and lives mostly in New Jersey but also rural New York. A wheel form revolves in his powerful two- and three-dimensional works on display. Most relate to public art projects for New Jersey Light Rail train stations. His work is currently on view in a major retrospective exhibition at the Montclair Art Museum.

JIM SULLIVAN grew up in Rhode Island and now splits his time between Jefferson NY, New York City, and Switzerland. He offers a haunting series of paintings—at times enigmatic—that depicts a small Planet Earth, sometimes beleaguered, in strange settings, presented and maybe protected by a Renaissance cherub. It seems delicate, its fate unknown.

C L O C K W I S E , F R O M O P P O S I T E PA G E :

Tom Nussbaum, Jim Sullivan, James Gregg Herman

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IN & AROUND TOWN

COOPERSTOWN ART ASSOCIATION HOLIDAY SHOW & SALE Opening Reception: Friday I November 14 I 5:00–7:00pm I Village Hall This annual show features paintings, ornaments, sculpture, jewelry, photos, fiber arts, woodwork, stained glass, cards, pottery, and more created by CAA member artists. The Holiday Show & Sale will be open for all of your holiday gift giving needs during CAA Gallery Hours, Tuesday–Saturday, 11:00am to 4:00pm, through December 23rd. cooperstownart.com

COOPERSTOWN FARMERS’ MARKET Saturday I November 15 I 9:00am–2:00pm 101 Main Street in Pioneer Alley I Cooperstown Shop from 30 local farmers, makers, artisans, and growers, all located within 50 miles of Cooperstown. Live music from 10:00am to noon. The Farmers’ Market, a program of Otsego 2000, is open year-round on Saturdays. cooperstownfarmersmarket.org

EMPTY BOWLS LUNCHEON Saturday I November 15 I 12:00–2:00pm Christ Church Parish Hall I 69 Fair Street I Cooperstown For a $20 donation to the Cooperstown Food Pantry, enjoy a soup lunch served in a hand-thrown pottery bowl of your choice that you get to keep.

All funds raised support the Cooperstown Food Pantry, which serves Otsego County and is open six days a week. cooperstownfoodpantry.org

BIRD WALK WITH THE DELAWAREOTSEGO AUDUBON SOCIETY Saturday I November 15 I 8:30am I Meet at Fenimore Art Museum Join Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society co-president Becky Gretton for a local bird walk. Please meet promptly at 8:30am outside the entrance to the Fenimore Art Museum. The walk will take participants through the Fenimore grounds, along the shores of Otsego Lake, and will loop around back to the starting point. Bring binoculars and dress for the weather conditions. This program is free and open to the public. Birdwatchers of all levels—novice to expert—are welcome to attend!

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TREE WALK: REVOLUTIONS IN THE VILLAGE Saturday I November 15 I 3:30–4:30pm I Meet at Village Hall Join the Otsego County Conservation Association for a guided tree walk through the Village of Cooperstown during this year’s Glimmerglass Film Days. Led by OCCA’s Assistant Director, Shelby MacLeish, this walk invites participants to explore how trees embody revolutions, not just as symbols of growth, change, and renewal but as living forces shaping the health and resilience of our communities.

In a small village like Cooperstown, trees are quiet yet powerful allies. They cool streets and homes, buffer noise, clean the air, and provide beauty and shade that enhance daily life. Their roots help manage stormwater, protecting Otsego Lake, the source of the Susquehanna River, from erosion and pollution. Each tree contributes to the broader ecological revolutions that sustain the watershed and the planet.

As we meander through Cooperstown’s tree-lined streets, we’ll reflect on how nature’s steady cycles mirror the theme of this year’s Film Days and how even in turbulent times, trees remind us of balance, interconnection, and the possibility of renewal.

Free, register in advance at occainfo.org/calendar.

OTSEGO 2000 HISTORIC PRESERVATION WALKING TOUR Sunday I November 16 I 12:00–1:00pm I Meet at Village Hall Evolution or Revolution? The built environment has been subject to both slow and dramatic change. We will look at examples of how the buildings around us have been transformed by both. Dr. Cindy Falk, Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies at SUNY Oneonta and Professor of Material Culture at the University’s Cooperstown Graduate Program, will lead this tour. Free.

Otsego 2000 offers historic preservation walking tours throughout Otsego County from May through November.

BEAVER WALK WITH OTSEGO LAND TRUST Sunday I November 16 I 3:30pm Lordsland Preserve I 512 Gage Road I Roseboom Join the Otsego Land Trust for a walk led by wetland and beaver specialists.

Free. Register in advance at otsegolandtrust.org

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FILMMAKERS & GUESTS

ROBERT BORGATTI (producer, America’s Stairway) is a media professional and former professor/ coordinator of the Digital Media, Communication Studies, and Animation programs at SUNY Niagara.

His background includes both production and teaching experience in digital filmmaking, photography, web design, graphic design, and social media. In addition to America’s Stairway, he has collaborated with Paul Lamont on several award-winning projects, including the PBS documentary films in/word/out and Fading in the Mist. He is a graduate of the Television & Film program at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School and has a B.A. in History from Niagara University.

SAM FLEISCHNER (director, Jetty) is an American director based in New York. His directing career began with micro-budget feature film, Wah Do Dem, shot on location on a cruise ship and in Jamaica. The film premiered at the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize for best feature film. Amy Taubin of Film Comment called it “one of the best debuts of the 21st century.” Fleischner’s second dramatic feature, Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival where it won a special Jury Prize for best film. Stephen Holden of The New York Times called it a “small miracle of a film” and listed in his top 10 from 2014.

In 2018, Fleischner co-founded Rockaway Film Festival, a nonprofit film organization that presents a wide variety of cinema and other arts and which is planning to open the first year-round cinema in Rockaway in over 30 years.

SARAH GROSS (director, Grains of Sand) is a politically engaged filmmaker, writer, and mother of three young adults. Her prior works have been shown in festivals around the world and broadcast on PBS/ World Channel nationally and other public and private broadcasters internationally. Having grown up in a multiracial family in the US, Gross has a deep personal connection to stories of racism, identity, and belonging.

She has citizenship in the US, UK, and in Germany.

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PETER HUTCHISON (producer, Calico Rebellion) is an award-winning filmmaker, New York Times bestselling author, educator, and activist. This is his fifth appearance at Film Days, where he has presented films including Requiem for the American Dream: Noam Chomsky and the Principles of Concentration of Wealth and Power, Healing From Hate: Battle for the Soul of a Nation, Devil Put the Coal in the Ground (Film Days Audience Choice Winner), and The Cure for Hate. His numerous documentary features include What Would Jesus Buy? (Sundance Channel Feature), SPLIT: A Divided America (IFC Choice Indie), its follow-up SPLIT: A Deeper Divide (The Documentary Channel), and Awake Zion (Film Buff ).

FRED ISSEKS (film subject, Middletown) was radicalized during his sophomore year of college, notably during the anti-Vietnam War March on the Pentagon in 1967. As a teacher, “Hippie Fred” brought left-wing ideals to Middletown High School. Interested in the history of Middletown, he applied for a grant to buy Instamatic cameras for the students and guide them toward creating a visual history of their town.

Their ensuing investigation into the mafia-sponsored illegal dumping in local landfills earned Fred a reputation as a “crusader,” leading students into potentially dangerous situations as part of his own quixotic quest. Since retiring Fred has remained dedicated to the cause – monitoring the landfill sites and the Wallkill River and also digitizing his records and archival footage of the investigation. Fred currently lives in Middletown with his wife Denise with his daughter Sadie nearby in New York City.

VICTORIA KUPCHINETSKY (director, Calico Rebellion) is an award-winning TV journalist and filmmaker. Her documentary, The Lakota Daughters, about women and girls on the Pine Ridge Native American Reservation in South Dakota, won the national 2021 Gracie Award for Outstanding Original Online Programming/Documentary. The Lakota Daughters has also won the Jury Prize at the 2021 Loyola Feminist Film Festival and the Audience Choice Best Documentary Short Award at the 2021 Kansas City International Film Festival. Victoria’s other directing and producing credits include documentaries about the first US climate refugees in Louisiana, Guantanamo prison, and Mormon feminists in Utah’s polygamist communities. Victoria’s career as a storyteller spans from working on several international co-productions at Sesame Workshop to collecting and recording testimonies of Holocaust survivors at Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation. She is a first-generation immigrant from St. Petersburg, Russia.

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FILMMAKERS & GUESTS

PAUL LAMONT (director, America’s Stairway) is a veteran filmmaker whose career spans over 35 years. He has produced, directed, and written numerous documentary films that have been broadcast on public television stations nationwide. His films tackle a wide range of subjects and events and cover diverse topics including history, race, science, and the arts. In addition to PBS broadcasts, Lamont’s films have been screened at festivals, universities, museums, and institutions around the world and have been recognized with several Emmy nominations as well as multiple other national and international awards.

PETER RUTKOFF (Speaker and moderator, Rutkoff Brunch Discussion) is Chair Emeritus of the Department of American Studies at Kenyon College in Ohio. He is the author of recent non-fiction works that examine African-American art and culture, as well as two novels, most recently Irish Eyes. He is a regular summer visitor to Cooperstown, which is also the setting of his book of short stories, Cooperstown Chronicles. Peter is a member of the Film Days Steering Committee.

JANE STEUERWALD (executive director, Thomas Edison Media Arts Consortium-Thomas Edison Film Festival) curates and presents film programs for colleges, universities, museums, cinemas, and arts venues across the country and abroad. Her films have been screened at MoMA, the National Gallery of Art, Anthology Film Archives, and festivals nationwide. Steuerwald was a professor and chair of the Media Arts Department, NJ City University, for many years, where she taught media production, history, and aesthetics. She has worked with film and video as an art medium since 1980, creating installations, documentaries, found footage works, experimental films, and single edition art books. In 2012, she was a Women's History Month Honoree in New Jersey for empowering women through education.

ILANA TRACHTMAN (director, Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round) has made Emmy award-winning nonfiction programs for over 30 years. For PBS, HBO Family, ABC-TV, Showtime, Lifetime, Discovery, A&E, and the Sundance Channel, she has explored worlds such as the legacy of slavery in Latin America, activism among Gulf Coast shrimpers, glassblowing with at-risk youth, and transgender parents. Prime-time directing credits for PBS include the independent feature Mariachi High (Imagen Award Nomination), Black in Latin America hosted by Henry

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Louis Gates, and Texas Ranch House. Ilana was a supervising producer on PBS’ History Detectives and the Sundance Channel’s Big Ideas for a Small Planet. Ilana began her career in the documentary unit of PBS’s Reading Rainbow. Ilana’s independent feature documentary Praying with Lior played theatrically in over 60 cities in the US and abroad, garnered multiple awards and critical acclaim. Ilana produced and directed The Pursuit: 50 Years in the Fight for LGBT Rights for WHYY, which won the Mid-Atlantic Emmy for Best Documentary. Most recently, she co-produced Stand Up and Shout: Songs from a Philly High School (HBO).

PAUL WAGNER and ELLEN CASEY WAGNER (Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light) formed American Focus in 1989, one year after they married.

Their non-profit organization is dedicated to the creation of documentary films about America and her people. As a team, Ellen is the president of American Focus and assumes the producing duties, while Paul serves as the writer and director of their films. They have released over 30 films, including several feature films broadcast nationally on public television: Out of Ireland, about the history of Irish emigration to America; Good Work, about master craftsmen in the building arts; and Black in Blue, about the four football players at the University of Kentucky who broke the color line in the Southeastern Conference. In 1999, Paul and Ellen released Windhorse, the award-winning dramatic feature film about young Tibetans and their struggle for freedom under the Chinese communist regime, filmed secretly in China and Nepal.

Prior to their formation of American Focus, Ellen worked as a producer for WETA, the public television station in Washington, DC, and Paul was an independent filmmaker, winning an Oscar and several Emmy Awards for his documentary work.

SASHA WORTZEL (director, River of Grass) is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist exploring how past and present are inextricably linked through resonant spaces and their hauntings. She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in Film-Video.

Wortzel’s films have screened at the True/False Film Fest, MoMA DocFortnight, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, San Francisco International Film Festival, and Dokufest, among others. River of Grass is her first feature and received support from the Sundance Institute, Ford Foundation, Doc Society, Field of Vision, and Chicken & Egg Pictures. Her short films include How to Carry Water (2023), IDA Awards nominee for best short documentary and currently streaming on Criterion Channel; This is an Address (2020), distributed by Field of Vision; and Happy Birthday Marsha! (2018; co-director Tourmaline), which won special mention at Outfest and is distributed by Frameline.

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GLIMMERGLASS FILM DAYS READER

STONE BUILDING: HOW TO MAKE NEW ENGLAND ST YLE WALLS AND OTHER STRUCTURES THE OLD WAY KEVIN GARDNER STONE BY STONE: THE MAGNIFICENT HISTORY IN NEW ENGLAND’S STONE WALLS ROBERT THORSON STONE: ANCIENT CRAFT TO MODERN MASTERY RICHARD RHODES

BEAUTIFUL SWIMMERS: WATERMEN, CRABS, AND THE CHESAPEAKE BAY WILLIAM W. WARNER CHESAPEAKE REQUIEM: A YEAR WITH THE WATERMEN OF VANISHING TANGIER ISLAND EARL SWIFT

TIN HORNS AND CALICO: A DECISIVE EPISODE IN THE EMERGENCE OF DEMOCRACY HENRY CHRISTMAN PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST: A BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGIA O’KEEFFE LAURIE LISLE NINTH STREET WOMEN: LEE KRASNER, ELAINE DE KOONING, GRACE HARTIGAN, JOAN MITCHELL, AND HELEN FRANKENTHALER: FIVE PAINTERS AND THE MOVEMENT THAT CHANGED MODERN ART MARY GABRIEL

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COMING UP SHORT: A MEMOIR OF MY AMERICA ROBERT B. REICH

ON LOOKING: A WALKER’S GUIDE TO THE ART OF OBSERVATION ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ WAYS OF SEEING JOHN BERGER UNDERSTANDING A PHOTOGRAPH JOHN BERGER THE SWAMP: THE EVERGLADES, FLORIDA, AND THE POLITICS OF PARADISE MICHAEL GRUNWALD GROWING OLD: NOTES ON AGING WITH SOMETHING LIKE GRACE ELIZABETH MARSHALL THOMAS THE WAR CAME TO US: LIFE AND DEATH IN UKRAINE CHRISTOPHER MILLER THE FUTURE OF TRUTH WERNER HERZOG THE BOOK OF CHARLIE: WISDOM FROM THE REMARKABLE AMERICAN LIFE OF A 109-YEAR-OLD MAN DAVID VON DREHLE MY LIFE WITH SEA TURTLES: A MARINE BIOLOGIST’S QUEST TO PROTECT ONE OF THE MOST ANCIENT ANIMALS ON EARTH CHRISTINE FIGGENER

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