How to Fold a Flag
Documentary Films

Performance Schedule

Sun, Jun 6 - 9:30AM @ Triplex #3

Description

 

Writer: Michael Tucker

Directors: Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker

Cast: Javorn Drummond, Michael Goss, Cornelius Massey, Jon Powers, Stuart Wilf

USA (2010) 85 min.

When the American flag is folded at a memorial service, each fold is said to represent a virtue: liberty, unity, justice, perseverance, hardiness, valor, purity, innocence, sacrifice, honor, independence and truth. These are the things soldiers are said to fight for.

Then they come home.

Independence Day parades, young politicians, cage fighters, hog slaughterers, death metal guitars, God-angry mothers, cursers of fate, American flags of shocking number and flapping violence these are the images that populate the American phantasmagoria of HOW TO FOLD A FLAG. A portrait of America today, of men returned from war, of the crazy amalgam of hope, snake oil and innocence called patriotism, this new film by Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein is a poetic evocation of the everyday reality of those who fought as seen against the fantasies of those who sent them away so proudly.

New England Premiere

 

Price

$10