Last Address

United States

2010

8 Min

Color

English

Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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SOUND Damian Volpe

Sundance, Berlinale (Panorama), Outfest (Platinum), Queer Lisboa (Queer Art)

Synopsis

Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethorpe, Norman René, Peter Hujar, Ethyl Eichelberger, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Cookie Mueller, Klaus Nomi… The list of New York artists who died of AIDS over the last 30 years is countless, and the loss immeasurable. In Last Address_, filmmaker Ira Sachs (_The Delta, Married Life, and the 2005 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning Forty Shades of Blue), who first moved to the city himself in 1984, uses images of the exteriors of the houses, apartment buildings, and lofts where these and others were living at the time of their deaths to mark the disappearance of a generation. The elegaic film is both a remembrance of that loss, as well as an evocation of the continued presence of their work in our lives and culture. —www.irasachs.com

Director

Ira Sachs

Ira Sachs is a writer and director based in New York City. His films include Married Life (2007), The Delta (1997), and the 2005 Sundance Dramatic Grand Jury Prize–winning Forty Shades of Blue. His most recent film, Last Address, is a short work honoring a group of New York City artists who died of AIDS. Sachs is the founder and cocurator of Queer/Art/Film, a monthly series held at the IFC Center in New York, as well as its newly established program that supports mentorship among queer working artists. –Sundance Film Festival