Visionary Auteurs : Five decades of MK2

Founded in 1974 by Bucharest-born Marin Karmitz, mk2 has through its 50 years been involved in the production, distribution, and exhibition of films by a line-up of directors that reads like a who’s who of French and international cinema, including Jean-Luc Godard, Justine Triet, Agnès Varda, François Truffaut, Michael Haneke, Abbas Kiarostami, Claire Denis, Céline Sciamma, and too many others to name. To mark the company’s half century as an independent, family-run titan of cinema, we’re screening a long list of titles from their vast catalog, including the Karmitz-directed 1972 documentary Blow by Blow, as well as welcoming actress and director Lubna Playoust to screen her very contemporary state-of-cinema address, Room 999, made four decades later in response to Wim Wenders’s 1982 cine-interrogation, Room 666.