Tender
Lynette Wallworth
2014 | 73 minutes | Australia
US Premiere | Director in Attendance
An hour south of Sydney in the industrial town of Port Kembla, the local community center embarks on a noble and atypical quest: to serve the townspeople with a not-for-profit funeral service. Disillusioned by costly and impersonal funerals that don’t always embrace the wishes of grieving families, the vision was to bring the process of honoring the dead back to the community level. Flowers are hand-picked, coffins are hand-painted, and just as plans begin to proceed, the funeral home is unexpectedly confronted with the illness of one of their own. Featuring music from Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Tender is a funny, beautiful, and life-affirming film that delves into the rituals of death with heartbreaking delicacy. Director Lynette Wallworth returns to the museum after her 2011 premiere of Corals: Rekindling Venus in which she transformed the Hayden Planetarium into an immersive undersea environment.Russell Bush
2013 | 21 min | US, Tibet, China
Director in Attendance