Programmed January 2022

Sundance Class of ’92: The Year Indie Exploded

Featuring a new introduction by Sundance festival director emeritus John Cooper and John Nein, senior programmer and director of strategic initiatives 1992 was a watershed year for American independent cinema, led by the Sundance Film Festival, where a generation of filmmakers proved that passion and personal vision could overcome any budgetary limitation. It was the year that idiosyncratic gems like In the Soup , The Waterdance , and Gas Food Lodging found acclaim for their bold, offbeat storytelling; the year that the New Queer Cinema (a term popularized at the festival’s Barbed Wire Kisses panel) crystallized with touchstone works by Gregg Araki ( The Living End ), Derek Jarman ( Edward II ), and Tom Kalin ( Swoon ); and it was a banner year for documentaries, with…