May 5 2016, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. DOXA Documentary Film Festival: Aim for the Roses. DOXA Documentary Film Festival presents Aim for the Roses a film by John Bolton about ambition, obsession and glory. Preceded by DOXA’s festival opening remarks and will include a post-film Q & A with the filmmaker.. Event detailsEvery artist has his great white whale. For Melville, it was an actual whale. For Canadian daredevil Ken Carter, it was jumping the St. Lawrence River in a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental. Vancouver composer Mark Haney’s quixotic quest was writing a concept album for solo double bass inspired by Carter’s legendary stunt, and for filmmaker John Bolton, it was combining all of these things into a musical docudrama called Aim For The Roses.Orchestral in its heft, Bolton’s glorious collision of documentary cinema, automotive carnage, and song and dance numbers combines elements of Greek tragedy, Kubrickian lushness, and the archetypal Hero’s Journey to reveal the true cost of following one’s muse. Like Haney’s album that traverses the “space between highbrow art and complete trash,” Aim For The Roses is itself imbued with the very thing it examines — ambition, glory, and finally, the desire for greatness. Or as Ken Carter called it: “The ultimate statement.” -DWNo membership required for this film. Open to youth under 18. Classification to be confirmed...
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600 Hamilton Street, Vancouver