PARADISE [DVD]

Presented here in a new version completed in 2021, Michael Almereyda’s Paradise is a poignant and surprising sketchbook, a collection of brief episodes captured during a decade of travel. The film is marked by a sense of mystery, wonderment, and sly humor, reflecting a notion of life as a series of elusive, paradisiacal moments that are routinely taken for granted — and always slipping away. SPECIAL FEATURES — Three Short Films by Michael Almereyda • What is Cinema? (2012, 5 minutes) • To the Unknown (2018, 6 minutes) • The North Wind's Gift (2018, 20 minutes) — Booklet featuring an interview between Almereyda and Jonathan Lethem