CORMAC McCARTHY - 2 DOCUMENTARIES

Cormac McCarthy rarely gave interviews. He avoided publicity, lived largely outside the literary spotlight, and allowed his books to do most of the talking. For this double bill, we're screening two 30 min documentaries that approach McCarthy from very different angles. LOOKING FOR CORMAC follows filmmaker Charles McCarthy on a personal search for the elusive author. Part road movie, part literary investigation, the film sets out to find the real Cormac McCarthy — travelling through the landscapes and communities connected to his life and work while speaking to the people who knew, studied and were influenced by him. It's a search for a writer who deliberately kept himself out of sight. CORMAC McCARTHY'S VEER takes a more philosophical route, exploring the ideas and obsessions running through McCarthy's writing. Drawing on his novels, scientific interests and philosophical thinking, the documentary considers McCarthy not simply as a novelist of violence and the American West, but as a writer fascinated by consciousness, morality, language, science and the nature of existence. Together, the films offer two different ways into one of America's most enigmatic writers: one trying to find the man, the other trying to understand the mind behind the books.