DOC NYC: Films About the Literary

This year, DOC NYC’s lineup features a few films for those with a literary jones.

THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY US PREMIERE The philosopher Slavoj Žižek is a world-class connoisseur of cinema. Here he teams with director Sophie Fiennes to riff on film clips for their ideological implications both overt and hidden. His eclectic associations encompass The Searchers, Jaws, Triumph of the Will, Titanic, M*A*S*H, Loves of a Blonde, andBrazil as he clicks through capitalism, fascism, consumerism, Stalinism, religion and more. The experience is like being inside an intellectual pinball machine, setting off lights in your brain.

SHEPARD & DARK Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark met in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s and, despite leading very different lives, have remained close friends ever since. Shepard became a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and an Academy Award®–nominated actor while Dark was a homebody with a penchant for letter writing and photography. Director Treva Wurmfeld observes the two men, separately and together, over a period of eighteen months and captures an indelible portrait of a complex friendship.

Expected to Attend: Treva Wurmfeld, Johnny Dark & Kristy Dark