Movies at The Modern
2018 Double Take Film Series
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
3200 Darnell St., Fort Worth 76107
Saturday, June 23 at 2 PM
Apricot Groves
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Here is a double take of our Q19 Best Drama and Best First Film winner.
Aram, the Iranian Armenian youth who has immigrated to the US in childhood returns to Armenia for the first time to propose to an Armenian girlfriend Aram met and lived with in the US. Aram sees many cultural, religious, and national differences on the one day trip, but harder obstacles are ahead. Dir. Pouria Heidary Oureh | 2016 | Armenia | Armenian | 1 hour 19 min | WEBSITE | TRAILER | TEASER $10 for general Admission Apricot Groves is preceded by Iridescence, Q19 Best Student Short.
Iridescence tells the story of an emotionally repressed abusive father and his son who struggles to accept himself and his sexuality. Dir. Max Beauchamp | 2017 | Canada | 9 min | WEBSITE | TRAILER |
Saturday, July 21 at 2 PM
Happy: a small film with a big smile
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Here is a double take of the Q19 Audience Choice Award.
Artist Leonard "Porkchop" Zimmerman is happy... now. Michael McKinley's documentary about Leonard is a survivor's story and a hero's journey. After losing his partner and suffering a lengthy battle with grief and depression, Leonard began using his own artistic process as a therapeutic vehicle for making his way out of the darkest of places. And the byproduct of his inspiring journey is a vibrant, emotionally evocative body of work that resonates with people of all ages and cultural backgrounds. And of course, Leonard's HAPPY campaign, which continues to canvas the globe, one smile at a time. Dir. Michael Patrick McKinley | USA | 2017 | 1 hour 17 min | WEBSITE | TRAILER $10 for general Admission Happy is preceded by Birdcage. A story about opening up... literally.
Dir. Vincent Cappelluti | 2017 | 4 min | WEBSITE |
Saturday, August 18 at 2 PM
Transpose: The Transgender Project
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Transpose is preceded by the Q19 Best Short Film, And Why Not?
Virginie, a charming girl girl, is waiting for an old girl friend she lost touch with but met up with again on the social networks. In the meantime, a man sitting in the bar takes his chance to approach her. Is he only a womanizer or more than that? Dir. Nicolas Fay & Blanche Pinon | 2016 | France | French | 12 min | TRAILER |
Here is a double take of our Q19 Shawn A. Moore Award.
Transpose is a film documentary that explores the extraordinary challenges and triumphs of transgender people as they transition from the gender assigned to them at birth to living the life that they have envisioned for themselves whether as a transgender man or transgender woman. Transpose is a collection of powerful stories of individuals who choose to determine the course of their life, regardless of the difficult path of transition. Dir. Kurtz Frausun | 2017 | USA | 45 min | WEBSITE | TRAILER $10 for general Admission |
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