The American Sector

Director: Courtney Stephens, Pacho Velez

2020 / 69min / DCP

A cockeyed history of the fall of the Berlin Wall that never leaves American soil, Stephens and Velez’s film is the result of an 18-month tour to visit all 75 US locations where sections of the wall have been placed on public display. Through interviews with the owners and caretakers of these relics, The American Sector wakens the ghosts of the Cold War, while also shedding light on certain perennial pathologies in American culture. “An exemplary work of cinema as political action.”—Richard Brody, The New Yorker

Introduction and Q&A with directors Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez on Friday, November 10th at 6:30pm