Book Launch: A Mistrust Of Arrival
Steve Mitchell brings out his latest book, A Mistrust Of Arrival, a memoir with movies.
The call-them-essays in this book think about art (generally but not exclusively film art) and they use movies to manipulate the psychic space in a writer’s memory of a younger self. This event is:
A celebration of the ways art influences our lives with words, music and film.
- Modern Robot performs with a film about an obstreperous, challenging, and ultimately endearing piece of furniture;
- The debut of Echodynia, a thrilling new group featuring Julia Reeves and Rachel York;
- a performance by saxophonist, composer, and sound artist Laurent Estoppey;
- a short film about a head in a pan with opinions;
and more.
"In these clear-eyed, tender essays, Mitchell dances from memoir to film critique to a magical place between the two where art meets lived experience. These are not just explorations of movies and the people who make them-though they are that too—they are new modes of seeing, the way watching a snippet of Bonnie and Clyde as a kid showed Mitchell that "these few images-it's less than a minute of wordless film-might be the first time I...understand I'm not alone." And neither are we alone, with this book in our hands."
— Lex Orgera
