Cinema Guild Acquires Debora Stratman’s Sundance and Berlin Competition Title ‘Last Things’

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has acquired US distribution rights to Debora Stratman’s acclaimed latest film Last thingswhich debuted in the “New Frontiers” section at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

The film will screen on 35mm at the Anthology Film Archives in New York on January 12th before being broadcast nationally. The rough summary of the film is: Last things look at evolution and extinction from the perspective of the rocks and minerals that existed before humanity and will survive us. With scientists and thinkers such as Lynn Margulis and Marcia Bjørnerud as guides and quotations from the proto-science fiction texts of JH Rosny, Deborah Stratman presents an astonishing range of images, from microscopic forms to vast landscapes, in search of a picture of evolution without humans. in the middle.

After Sundance, Last things She then played in Berlin and NYFF and won awards at the Dokufest Kosovo and the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival. This deal was negotiated with the film’s producers by Tom Sveen and Peter Kelly of Cinema Guild.

“We have long been fans of Deborah Stratman’s rich and challenging work,” says Sveen. “And Last things She finds her most ingenious when she interacts with the oldest matter on earth and finds new images and new possibilities.”

Stratman added: “It’s a dream to release it Last things accompanied by the stunning new works of Laura Citarella, Claire Simon, Bas Devos and Angela Schanelec, who without a doubt have made some of the best and most ambitious films I’ve seen this year. Thanks to Cinema Guild for supporting these visionary films and trying to bring them more attention.”

Cinema Guild’s other upcoming releases include Hong Sangsoo’s In waterBas Devos’s Here, and that of Angela Schanelec Music. Recent publications include those by Laura Citarella Trenque Lauquen and Claire Simons Our body.