FLiCX: Uncertain
Posted by Wai Yee Vicky Lee on Monday, March 20, 2017 in Archives, News.
Uncertain
Thursday, Mar. 23, 2017, 7:00 p.m. - 9:45 p.m.
Belcourt Theatre
2012 Belcourt Avenue, Nashville, TN 37212
Anchor Link: https://anchorlink.vanderbilt.edu/organization/flicx/calendar/details/1276811
Dirs. Ewan McNicol and Anna Sandilands |USA |2017 |82 min. |NR |DCP
Post-screening discussion with Jessica Griffith, Belcourt front of house manager and Harrison County, Texas native
- that if you RSVP in the affirmative, and your plans change, you are expected to log back in and change your status to “not attending;”
- that Vanderbilt participants must RSVP for themselves, and may not be “guests;”
- and non-Vanderbilt guests are limited to one per participant.
Winner of Tribeca Film Festival’s Albert Maysles Documentary Director Award, Uncertain is a visually stunning and disarmingly funny portrait of the literal and figurative troubled waters of Uncertain, TX. In a 94-resident town so tucked away “you’ve got to be lost to find it,” three Uncertain men make their own bids for survival looking to find a more certain future. An ex-convict is obsessed with Mr. Ed, a gigantic boar he hunts in order to stay on the straight and narrow. A young idealist with big plans but few prospects is looking for a bigger life. An aging fisherman is learning to let go of his youthful ways, and making peace with a fateful moment thirty years ago. All the while Uncertain’s vast, swampy lake is being choked by an aquatic weed, upsetting the natural balance and the town’s only source of livelihood. From award-winning directors Ewan McNicol and Anna Sandilands, Uncertain is an outstanding feature debut capturing a vivid cast of characters as compelling as any fiction.