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Reel Pieces with Annette Insdorf: Swan Song Actor and Producer Mahershala Ali, plus Writer-Director Benjamin Cleary in Conversation

Dec 14, 2021


Moderator Annette Insdorf will interview Mahershala Ali. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice — for Moonlight (2017) and Green Book (2018) — and played Boggs in The Hunger Games. He is known to TV audiences from the HBO series True Detective (2019) as well as Treme (2011-12), and for playing Remy Danton in House of Cards. He will be joined by the film’s writer-director Benjamin Cleary.

Ali stars as Cameron in Swan Song, a touching and philosophically provocative drama set in the near future. A first feature for Benjamin Cleary (Oscar winner for Stutterer, Best Live-Action short of 2015), it co-stars Glenn Close as a doctor in charge of a facility that can create human duplicates. Naomie Harris — Ali's co-star in Moonlight — plays Cam’s loving wife. The review in Variety praised, “Part unconventionally-deconstructed love story, part high-concept sci-fi-tinged melancholic drama, the ultra-sleek, elegantly-realized tale is centered on one man’s journey toward answers and self-resolve in the face of death.”

Annette Insdorf

Annette Insdorf

Annette Insdorf is Professor of Film at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and Moderator of 92Y’s Reel Pieces series …

Annette Insdorf

Annette Insdorf

Annette Insdorf is Professor of Film at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and Moderator of 92Y’s Reel Pieces series. She is the author of Francois Truffaut, a study of the French director's work; two books about Polish filmmakers—Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski and Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has; Philip Kaufman, and the landmark study, Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust (with a foreword by Elie Wiesel). Her latest book is Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes, and she received the Mel Novikoff Award from the 2018 San Francisco Film Festival.


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