MMoCA Cinema • America: Everything You’ve Ever Dreamed Of

Overview

MMoCA Cinema • America: Everything You’ve Ever Dreamed Of
Thursday, August 6, 8:30 PM
America: Everything You’ve Ever Dreamed Of | USA | Tony Ganz and Rhody Streeter | 1971-1973 | 80 minutes

The short documentaries of Tony Ganz and Rhody Streeter are as funny as they are unsettling, as affectionate as they are trenchant, and made with a refreshing concision that belies the depth of their cultural and social observations.

Produced in the early 1970s for the public television series “The Great American Dream Machine” and “The 51st State,” many of their films have been newly restored and are poised to regain their rightful place as some of the most eccentric and hilarious examples of American independent documentary filmmaking.

“Amazing collection of short portraits – the invention of Muzak, a hotline for people that just need to talk, etiquette classes, billboard painters. I especially connect to the one they filmed at the Cove Haven honeymoon hotel – somewhere I’ve been to many times.” ―John Wilson, HBO’s How To with John Wilson

About MMoCA Cinema

MMoCA Cinema is a program of MMoCA’s Education Department and is curated by James Kreul. MMoCA’s film programming is generously funded by maiahaus, Venture Investors, LLC, and a gift from an anonymous donor.