Putty Hill Teaser from Matt Porterfield on Vimeo.

Directed by Matt Porterfield, edited by Marc Vives. Music: Beach House.

Thursday, December 17th, HAMILTON will screen on 16mm at the Philadelphia International House. For over thirty years, International House has been the leading venue in Philadelphia for repertory film programming, independent premieres and cutting edge, avant-garde cinema from around the world. The screening is free and begins at 7PM. A Q&A with director Matt Porterfield will follow.

“A film is the relation between two stories. The first one is the film’s plot: the succession of narrative facts more or less dramatic and literary. The second one is the film’s process: the experiences woven between the filmmaker and the people he films, or those with whom he films. Learning to watch film requires recognition of the signs of that other story, which is constituted by the experience rising from the work: more secret and more private, and always more tense and contradictory.”

- Gonzalo de Lucas, re: Pedro Costa