Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis
Feb 2
Thursday 4:00, 6:00, 8:00
Peter Sasowsky - 2011 - 89m - Director in Person! - All Seats $7
Best Documentary at the Memphis Film Festival
Thirty years ago, a peg-legged motorcycle mechanic walked into the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT. They had not returned his calls. The police were summoned. Forty-five minutes later he walked out with an academic appointment. Since then Joe Davis has sent vaginal contractions into space to communicate with aliens, encoded poetry into DNA, and designed a sculpture to save the world. It's a great life for a man driven by imagination – except when it's not. No one pays him. He is evicted from apartments and labs. His uncompromising approach to art and life collides with the world's banal requirements. This is a story of self- discovery, sacrifice and the complexity of human endeavor, of the price of art and the ecstatic joy of discovery.
Every year we say the character doc is dead and every year someone proves us wrong...Peter Sasowsky's playful yet poignant look at a truly different thinker could easily stand with 2010 favorites" - Indiepix
