EX LIBRIS
Directed by Frederick Wiseman
Host Sponsor: Main Street Landing
Joint Partnership with Burlington Book Festival
2017 | USA | Documentary | 197 mins

March 11, 2018, 2:30 PM

Main Street Landing Film House
60 Lake Street, 3rd floor
Burlington

FREE, by donation

Contact Info: 802-660-2600
info@vtiff.org
vtiff.org/events

VTIFF and Burlington Book Festival are delighted to bring you the Vermont theatrical premiere of Ex Libris: The New York Public Library as part of our 2018 Page and Screen Series.

In his latest, the Oscar-winning director brings his incisive vision behind the scenes of one of the world’s greatest institutions of learning, capturing the vast programmatic scope of NYC’s library system across its 92 branches. The film celebrates a venerable place of cultural exchange and intellectual creativity. Ex Libris is the 42nd film from one of the world’s greatest living documentary pioneers. Over the past half century, Wiseman has created a distinguished body of work primarily devoted to examining American institutions, society and democracy as well as existence itself. To date, the film has been honored with the Critics’ Choice Award, special recognition from the Vancouver Film Critics Circle and International Cinephile Society along with multiple prizes from the Venice Film Festival.
~ Rick Kisonack

In an interview with “Indiewire” in January, Wiseman made the following observation about the film: “Trump made it a political film because it represents, in my mind, everything he doesn’t believe in or doesn’t understand. The movie itself is not ideological, but in the current political atmosphere, it becomes that”.

***** This screening is by donation to raise money for VTIFF and Burlington Book Festival. Suggested donation $20 *****