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PMA Films: Those Who Wait (with filmmakers Chani Bockwinkel and Ty Burdenski)

  • Portland Museum of Art 7 Congress Square Portland, ME, 04101 United States (map)

SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM


78 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Chani Bockwinkel and Ty Burdenski. In English. DCP.

Those Who Wait is a poetic retelling of the Millerite doomsday movement that swept across America in the 1840s. The film follows the town of Portland, Maine as its residents navigate waves of apocalyptic prophecy and disappointment. Mixing the genres of historical re-enactment and fantastic parable, this queer gaze into the colonial past explores the powers and perils of "believing it's over."

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