Indefinite Pitch followed by This Action Lies

Director: James N. Kienitz Wilkins

2016 / 55min / DCP

Black-and-white stills of the scummy surface of Androscoggin River are accompanied by a free-ranging monologue on the histories of the twin Maine cities of Lewiston and Auburn—Wilkins’s home turf—and their upriver relation, Berlin, New Hampshire, in Indefinite Pitch, which also makes fascinating digressions into the production history of the lost 1927 film The Masked Menace, the racially-charged pronouncements of Maine Governor Paul LePage, and recent local spikes in arson, heroin use, and white supremacist organization membership. Screens with fellow monologue film This Action Lies, a meditation on a Styrofoam coffee cup that opens into a far-reaching inquiry into the veracity of the filmed image.

Introduction and post-screening Q&A with James N. Kienitz Wilkins, moderated by Joey Frank, on Saturday, August 3rd