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If Nietzsche Built a Wall...
New Documentary Opens May 31 in New York City at the Quad Cinema
Filmmaker Bill Stone, Stonemason Chris Overing, and Producer
Frederic Bohbot will be in person for all evening weekend shows
 As hilarious as it is meditative, Triumph of the Wall begins as a chronicle about the construction of a 1000-foot dry-stone wall by a novice stonemason in rural Quebec. The stonemason, Chris Overing, sets out to complete the wall within eight weeks; filmmaker Bill Stone plans to film Chris as a straightforward telling of this laborious yet creative task. But when Overing realizes he has woefully underestimated the time and energy required to construct the wall, both projects - the wall and the film - evolve into something altogether different.
Triumph of the Wall is a film about expectations: a story of two artists who inadvertently link their creative forces in a relationship that is at once co-dependent, antagonistic and profoundly rewarding. As they embark on an eight-week journey that turns into eight years, the film becomes a reminder that sometimes art (and life) is as much about the process as it is about the finished product.
THE CHARACTERS
CHRIS OVERING - THE STONEMASON
Artist, philosopher, savant, he’s impossible to pigeon hole; a true renaissance man for the current generation. Yet he’s so absolutely interested in so many things that it often seems impossible to keep up with his mind. Described in the film as a Mental Explosion, Chris is currently finishing his wall, nurturing a budding vineyard and apple cider orchard, farming bees for honey and all the while training for his pilot’s license. What else can we do but stand in awe.
BILL STONE - THE FILMMAKER
Standing in awe - and frustration, it must be admitted - is what first-time filmmaker Bill Stone found himself doing. Realizing that the wall might never be finished (not to mention his film), Bill looked at his footage with a new eye and realized that he in fact was capturing something else entirely - a treatise on the X and Y Generations, wallowing in endless diversions and opportunities, unsure of the fate of their world, often living at home, bereft of any expectation other than to search, post, tweet, follow, share and consume on a never-ending 24 hour cycle.
Triumph of the Wall might thus be the manifesto of the X and Y Generations: the right - or plight - of having the broadest freedom to choose one's life direction. No generation in history has ever been so free to uniquely define themselves and follow their “passions”. Yet many find themselves in paralysis, having to come to terms with what can seem like an overwhelming obligation to fulfill self-created goals.
"In its content as much as its subject, 'Triumph of the Wall' is truly original,
very much unlike any other documentary"- Malcolm Fraser, Cult Mtl.
New York Press Screening
Friday, May 10th at 11:00am
Quad Cinema | 34 w. 13th Street, NYC
RSVP to: kelly.hargraves@firstrunfeatures.com
Screeners and a Vimeo link are also available
*In an effort to go green, we're no longer automatically sending paper press materials along with screeners
or at press screenings. If you would like us to send a paper press kit with your screener, please let us know. |
TRIUMPH OF THE WALL
102 minutes, color 2012
A BUNBURY FILMS RELEASE
DIRECTED BY: Bill Stone
PRODUCERS: Frederic Bohbot & Bill Stone
WRITTEN BY: Bill Stone
EDITOR: Carl Freed & Bill Stone
COMPOSER: Julie Theriault, Mikael Tobias, Eric Harding Trio OTHER MUSIC BY: J.S.Bach, Francois Carrier, Erik Friedlander, W.A. Mozart, Rachel’s Band, Max Richter, Speedhair, Stars of the Lid, Zombie Death Machine
Press kit, photos, trailer and more at: www.firstrunfeatures.com/triumphofthewall_press.html
Complete list of playdates at: www.firstrunfeatures.com/triumphofthewall_playdates.html |
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