TWST– THINGS WE SAID TODAY

Summer 1965: the arrival of the Beatles unleashes mass hysteria, while the Watts riots expose racial tensions and police brutality in African-American neighborhoods. Through archives, home movies, and animation, Andrei Ujică - master of the found-footage and godfather of the Romanian Nouvelle Vague - interweaves the exhilaration of a youth celebrating music with the harsh reality of political and racial divides. The voices of two witnesses - poet Geoffrey O’Brien and writer Judith Kristen - embodied by two animated characters, guide us through this collision.