Film
Lightning Over Braddock
Tue, Jul 28, 2015
- 7PM
- 9:30PM
LOCATION:
RUN TIME: 80min
FORMAT: 16mm
GENERAL ADMISSION: $14
MEMBERS: $7 (free for Level 4 and above)
SENIORS/STUDENTS/VETERANS: $10 (Students 29 and under with a valid ID, Mon—Thu)
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July 2015
Tuesday July 28, 2015
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Part of
BAMcinématek 2015
series Indie 80s
Directed by Tony Buba | 1988
With Tony Buba, Sal Carollo
"Defies description as either documentary or fiction."
—Washington Post
Filmmaker Tony Buba chronicles the decline of his hometown of Braddock, PA, a once-thriving steel town that is now a post-industrial wasteland, in this offbeat pseudo-documentary. With an eye for the idiosyncratic folkways of American life, Buba—playing an egotistical caricature of himself—pieces together real and scripted footage to create an alternately deadpan and incisive portrait of Reagan-era optimism’s grim flipside.