IN SEARCH OF GLADYS GLOVER
Dir. Gina Telaroli, 2024.
United States, Thailand. 89 min.

SUNDAY, MAY 5 – 7:30PM w/Q&A between Gina Telaroli and filmmaker Matías Piñeiro

MONDAY, MAY 12 – 7:00PM w/introduction and work in progress screening preceding!
*Feature presentation begins approx. 8:15PM*

In the early winter of 2022, filmmaker and soon-to-be-star Gina Telaroli went to Film Forum to see a 35mm screening of George Cukor’s NYC classic IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU (1954). When the film ended she burst out of the theater loudly proclaiming her desire to make a sequel, a narrative horror film entitled DON’T LET IT HAPPEN TO YOU. She grabbed the iPhone 13 mini she was forced to buy when BlackBerries died, enlisted her beloved friends, and spent the next few months running around the streets of New York City shooting a Larry Cohen-esque pandemic thriller about a woman whose life is overtaken by a blonde doppelganger. After the shooting ended, the footage (and the filmmaker) took a much needed rest and two years later a new movie, IN SEARCH OF GLADYS GLOVER, started to twist itself into existence. Manically oscillating between the epic and the intimate, the shapeshifting finished film is lovingly indebted to Cohen, Anne Charlotte Robertson, Iris Murdoch, and the unrelenting oppressive energy of the New York Yankees.