OSWALD'S GHOST - New Movie is free and open to the Public  

Where
Salt Lake City Library - 210 E 400 S, Salt Lake City

When
Jan 20, 2007   starts at 2:00 pm

2PM - Saturday, January 20 at the City Library, 210 E 400 S, Salt Lake City 
OSWALD'S GHOST with Director, Producer, and Writer Robert Stone
Presented by WGBH Boston, KUED and the SLC Film Center
Free and open to the Public 

SYNOPSIS

Director, producer and writer Robert Stone will be present at the screening.

With Oswald’s Ghost, acclaimed director Robert Stone (Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst) offers an unprecedented deconstruction of the mythologies and controversy surrounding what is perhaps the most tangled and far-reaching murder mystery of all time. Featuring interviews with authors Norman Mailer and Edward J. Epstein, politician Gary Hart, activist Tom Hayden, attorney Mark Lane, and others, the 90-minute film probes the deep psychic wounds inflicted by the Kennedy assassination on American politics and culture, the scars of which remain evident to this day.

Using a wealth of archival material, much of it never before publicly seen or heard, Stone chronicles America’s forty-year obsession with the pivotal event of a generation. Quietly implicit throughout the film is a haunting parallel to 9/11 and its aftermath.


BIO
Robert Stone was born in England in 1958 and spent his childhood in both England and America. He graduated with a degree in history from the University of Wisconsin/Madison in 1980. Eventually settling in New York City, he spent 5 years a film about nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific. The result was the acclaimed “Radio Bikini” (1987), nominated for an Oscar for Best Feature Documentary and winner of over a dozen international awards. This was followed by the feature documentaries “The Satellite Sky” (1989) about America’s reaction to Sputnik, and “Farewell Good Brothers” (1992) about 1950’s flying saucer cults. In the early ‘90’s he was commissioned to create a 22-part permanent film & video installation about President Kennedy for the JFK Library and Museum in Boston. He served as a director of photography and associate producer on several other documentaries including the cult film “Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey” (1994 Sundance award winner). His only fiction film is a unique and controversial fake historical documentary for ZDF German Television entitled “World War Three” (1998). In recent years he has shot and directed several verité films including the feature documentary “American Babylon” (2000) about Atlantic City. In 2004 he released “Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst” which premiered at Sundance and went on to become one of the most highly acclaimed theatrical documentaries of the year. His most recent work includes the AMC documentary “Hollywood Vietnam”. He is also executive producer of the Brazilian feature documentary “Samba!” which is scheduled for release in early 2007.