BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//http://www2.movingimage.us//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.10.23// X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260409T123417CEST-3332l3HBMK@http://www2.movingimage.us DTSTAMP:20260409T103417Z DESCRIPTION:Introduced by producers Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola. W ith director Shawn Snyder\, actor Géza Röhrig\, and microbiologist Maria G loria Dominguez-Bello in conversation \n\n\nTo Dust. Dir. Shawn Snyder. 20 19\, 92 mins. With Matthew Broderick and Géza Röhrig. DCP from Good Deed E ntertainment. Shmuel\, a Hasidic cantor living in upstate New York\, is di straught by his wife’s recent death and finds himself obsessing over how h er body is decaying six feet underground. (Judaism teaches that the soul c annot rest until the body turns to dust.) Seeking answers\, he develops a clandestine partnership with Albert\, a community college biology professo r. The two embark on an increasingly literal undertaking. Winner of the Au dience Award at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation\, To Dust is a dark comedy starring Matthew Broderick (You Can Count On Me) and Géza Röhrig (Son of Saul) as an adventurous pai r of opposites on an emotionally urgent quest for solace and understanding . This preview screening will be followed by a conversation about life aft er death from a microbial perspective. View trailer. \n\n\nTickets: $15 ($ 11 seniors and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / free for children under 3 and Museum members at the Film Lover and Kids Premium levels and above). Order tickets online. (Members may contact members@movingimage.us with que stions regarding online reservations.) \n\n\n Ticket purchase includes sam e-day admission to the Museum (see gallery hours). View the Museum’s ticke ting policy here. For more information on membership and to join online\, visit our membership page. \n\n\n About the speakers: \n \n \n Shawn Snyde r is a writer and director. He was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's '25 N ew Faces of Independent Film” in 2016. To Dust\, which won the Audience Aw ard when it premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival\, is his debut fea ture. At Tribeca\, Snyder also received the award for Best New Narrative D irector. The film has been supported by IFP's Emerging Storytellers progra m\, NYU’s Alfred P. Sloan First Feature Award\, the Tribeca Film Institute ’s Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize\, and it was selected for the inaugural slate of projects supported the NYU Production Lab. Snyder is a former IFP /Marcie Bloom Fellow\, a Sundance Institute Feature Film Fellow\, and a gr aduate of NYU’s Graduate Film Program. \n\n\n Géza Röhrig is a Hungarian a ctor best known for starring in the 2015 film Son of Saul\, which won the Grand Prix in Cannes\, the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film\, and the Ac ademy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film. Röhrig has two films in po st-production: The Chaperone—written by Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey) ab out a caretaker for a young Louise Brooks—and \;Undergods—a science fi ction film by Chino Moya. In his spare time\, Röhrig has volunteered for t he Jewish burial society. \n\n\n Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello is a Profess or of Microbiome and Health at Rutgers. Her research focuses on the develo pment of the human microbiome and its functions\, as well as the co-evolut ion of microbiota and host. Dr. Dominguez-Bello is leading a team of scien tists from multiple universities that propose creating a global vault to c ollect and preserve microbes. She has authored over 100 scientific publica tions\, is a member of the American Academy of Microbiology\, winner of th e Roi Baudouin Award given by the International Foundation for Science\, a nd of the Medal of Merit given by the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific R esearch. \n\n DTSTART:20190203T183000 DTEND:20190203T210000 LOCATION:Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater SUMMARY:To Dust: Death and the Necrobiome END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR