Here
Directed by Braden King
Director Braden King will appear in person following the 6:30 pm screening on Friday, May 11. Also appearing will be filmmaker and Bay Area avant-garde star Paul Clipson, whose work appears in the film.
Originating as a non-narrative multimedia piece presented in 2008, Braden King’s debut feature is a carefully composed romantic drama detailing the fraught relationship between Will, a satellite-mapping expert, and Gadarine, the exuberant Armenian-born photographer he meets while conducting a survey of the country. Deciding on impulse to travel together, the film details their unique journey and the dramatic personal transformations it leads each of them through. The linear story is punctuated by a variety of innovative segments that complement the more traditional narrative. With memorable performances by Ben Foster and Lubna Azabal as the couple and remarkable footage of the Armenian landscape, Here reinvents the romantic road-trip film with poetic visual and verbal flourishes.
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USA 2011, 120 min. Written by Braden King, Dani Valent. Photographed by Lol Crowley. With Ben Foster, Lubna Azabal, Narek Nerisyan, Sophik Sarkisyan. Strand Releasing. In English and Armenian with subtitles.
Tickets $9 for SFFS members, $11 general, $10 senior/student/disabled. Box office now open online at sffs.org and in person at SF Film Society Cinema.
Originating as a non-narrative multimedia piece presented in 2008, Braden King’s debut feature is a carefully composed romantic drama detailing the fraught relationship between Will, a satellite-mapping expert, and Gadarine, the exuberant Armenian-born photographer he meets while conducting a survey of the country. Deciding on impulse to travel together, the film details their unique journey and the dramatic personal transformations it leads each of them through. The linear story is punctuated by a variety of innovative segments that complement the more traditional narrative. With memorable performances by Ben Foster and Lubna Azabal as the couple and remarkable footage of the Armenian landscape, Here reinvents the romantic road-trip film with poetic visual and verbal flourishes.
 | Read the San Francisco Chronicle review "...an entrancing, meticulously crafted film." |
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"Compelling . . . Foster and Azabal have real chemistry . . . erotic!"
—David Fear, Time Out New York
"King's blending of naturalism and pure cinematic flourish, the startlingly direct romantic philosophy nestled within layers of enigmatic writing and visual obfuscation, packs an unexpectedly powerful emotional punch. It's the road trip romance reinvented, remapped." —Karina Longworth, Village Voice
"Braden King's lyrical cinepoem Here is one of those movies so fully achieved it restores your faith in the cinema. An extended tone poem about a brief encounter between an American cartographer and an Armenian photographic artist, the film utilizes the surreal landscape of contemporary Armenia as a kind of undiscovered planet." —Box Office Magazine
—David Fear, Time Out New York
"King's blending of naturalism and pure cinematic flourish, the startlingly direct romantic philosophy nestled within layers of enigmatic writing and visual obfuscation, packs an unexpectedly powerful emotional punch. It's the road trip romance reinvented, remapped." —Karina Longworth, Village Voice
"Braden King's lyrical cinepoem Here is one of those movies so fully achieved it restores your faith in the cinema. An extended tone poem about a brief encounter between an American cartographer and an Armenian photographic artist, the film utilizes the surreal landscape of contemporary Armenia as a kind of undiscovered planet." —Box Office Magazine
USA 2011, 120 min. Written by Braden King, Dani Valent. Photographed by Lol Crowley. With Ben Foster, Lubna Azabal, Narek Nerisyan, Sophik Sarkisyan. Strand Releasing. In English and Armenian with subtitles.
Tickets $9 for SFFS members, $11 general, $10 senior/student/disabled. Box office now open online at sffs.org and in person at SF Film Society Cinema.
May 11–17
Showtimes 1:45, 6:30
SF Film Society Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
Showtimes 1:45, 6:30
SF Film Society Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)