Doc's Kingdom
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Director: Robert Kramer
1988 / 90min / DCP
A spiritual successor of sorts to Kramer’s 1970 Ice which catches up with one of that film’s stars, Paul McIsaac, now a 46-year-old ex-radical-firebrand-turned-doctor living in alcoholic isolation in the industrial outskirts of Lisbon, his monastic existence interrupted by the unexpected appearance of Jimmy (Vincent Gallo, in one of his earliest screen appearances), the offspring of a liaison some 20 years earlier. The climactic work of American expat Kramer’s intense political and cinematic engagement with Portugal, featuring the great Portuguese filmmaker João César Monteiro in a substantive role as the ashen-faced tavernkeeper who keeps “Doc’s” flask filled.
“We were interested in where the archetypal search for the missing father ends in the trauma of reconnection. Jimmy and Doc undergo a tumultuous reconnection that points to the irreconcilability of 1960s radicalism with the late ’80s.” —Series curators Callie Hernandez and Courtney Stephens
Featuring a post-screening conversation with actor Paul McIsaacs moderated by Assistant Professor of Film Mtume Gant on Friday, April 18th
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