“Iris” – a documentary focusing on 90+ year old fashion icon Iris Apfel who possesses a well-developed, self deprecating sense of humor - is presented by First Tuesday Social Justice Films.
Iris was known in the worlds of fashion and design for decades, but it wasn’t until the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York staged a show of her work in 2005, and it turned into a big word-of-mouth hit, that she became a public celebrity—or a “geriatric starlet,” as she puts it.
Few documentaries match subject and filmmaker as perfectly as “Iris.” Fashion icon Iris Apfel and documentarian Albert Maysles were well on in life when he set out to make a verité portrait of her: she in her early 90s, he in his late 80s.
Both were quintessential New York characters with their own senses of style. Each possessed an obvious zest for life as well as a well-developed, self-deprecating sense of humor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo8jwJ_2l0c
This presentation is co-sponsored by the UUCOC’s Social Justice Ministry and is operated by volunteers. For more information about the film series, visit http://www.firsttuesdayfilms.org/index.shtml or http://www.facebook.com/firsttuesdayfilms.
Price
- FREE!
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