We’re taking our nonfiction showcase on the road! True/False presents a special screening of Thy Father’s Chair at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago for one night only: Wednesday, January 4, 2017. As with all of T/F’s film events, the stage is set with a band: the wide-ranging Mar Caribe will play at 7pm. Then stay for one of 2016’s best documentaries (and T/F ’16 alum) THY FATHER’S CHAIR beginning at 7:30pm followed by a post-film conversation with director Antonio Tibaldi.
A chamber piece par excellence, Thy Father’s Chair profiles aging twins Abraham and Shraga, forced to open their derelict Brooklyn apartment to professional cleaners. The crew turn out to be counselors of the higher order who seek to rescue the brothers from themselves. Both wry and warm-hearted, Thy Father’s Chair has a clear-eyed appreciation for life’s contradictions. Plays with “Balloonfest” (dir. Nathan Truesdell, 6 min.) in which civic pride comes untethered.