12:15p: Amelia: A Listening Party with Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson’s first new album since 2018’s Grammy-winning Landfall comprises 22 tracks about renowned female aviator Amelia Earhart’s tragic last flight. Anderson wrote the music and lyrics. She is joined on the album by Filharmonie Brno, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, and Anohni, Gabriel Cabezas, Rob Moose, Ryan Kelly, Martha Mooke, Marc Ribot, Tony Scherr, Nadia Sirota, and Kenny Wolleson. Presented in Dolby Atmos immersive sound. Introduced by Play for the Vote and Laurie Anderson and followed by a Q&A with Laurie.
The listening party will be live streamed on the Upstate Films Youtube Page
2p-3:30p (at The Local) Cookies and Coffee
Coffee provided by Clermont Coffee; sweets from Mighty Donuts and the Hudson Valley Dessert Company
3:30p Mountain Queen CLOSE UP, with Lucy Walker and Lhakpa Sherpa, preceded by a performance by Martha Mooke and a presentation by the League of Women Voters
Lhakpa Sherpa’s life straddles two wildly disparate worlds: as an immigrant dishwasher in Connecticut, and as a boundary-breaking mountaineer. Lucy Walker, the Oscar-nominated director of The Waste Land and The Crash Reel, follows Lhakpa, who was once forced to conceal her gender to pursue the sport she loves, as she sets out to prepare for her record tenth summit of Mount Everest. With a performance from the acclaimed violist Martha Mooke and a presentation by the League of Women Voters and followed by a Q&A with Lucy Walker and Lhakpa Sherpa. (U.S., 2023, 105m)
Laurie Anderson is one of America’s most renowned and daring creative pioneers. Known primarily for her multimedia presentations, she has cast herself in roles as visual artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, electronics whiz, vocalist, and instrumentalist.
Lucy Walker, an Emmy-winning, twice Oscar-nominated director, has won more than 100 awards for films including Bring Your Own Brigade, The Lion’s Mouth Opens, The Crash Reel, The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, Waste Land, Countdown to Zero, Blindsight, and Devil’s Playground.
Martha Mooke is a Grammy Award-winning, pioneering electric violist/composer, known for her artistry, music advocacy, and innovative educational programs. She is Founder/Artistic Director of the Scorchio Quartet which performs as resident quartet in the Tibet House Benefit Concerts at Carnegie Hall produced by Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson. Mooke is featured with Scorchio on David Bowie’s Heathen, Carla Patullo’s Grammy-winning So She Howls, and most recently on Laurie Anderson’s latest Nonesuch release, Amelia.
Lhakpa Sherpa is a Nepali Sherpa mountain climber. She has climbed Mount Everest ten times, the most of any woman in the world. Her record-breaking tenth climb was on May 12, 2022, which she financed via a crowd-funding campaign. In 2000, she became the first Nepali woman to climb and descend Everest successfully.
Women Ascending Committee
Laurie Anderson, Rosie Bruno, Kit Fitzgerald, Bette Gordon, Jessica Grindstaff, Stacy Hoover, Paula Longendyke, Lulu Lewis, Martha Mooke, Tanya Selvaratnam, Jason Silverman, Lucy Walker
Upstate Films programs are made possible by Arts Mid Hudson, Dutchess Tourism, and support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.