Tonight: Swedish Documentary Up On The Roof

Tonight, Rooftop films presents Greetings from the Woods, a documentary about the town of Varberg, a beautiful little hamlet located deep within the Swedish forest. You can watch this film while sitting on the roof of the Old American Can Factory on Third Street and Third Avenue in Park Slope…

The rooftop screening starts at 8PM and costs $10 at the door. Here’s what Rooftop has to say about the film: “Impeccably composed and entrancing from start to finish, Mikel Cee Karlsson’s Greetings from the Woods is a masterful documentary about the town of Varberg, a beautiful little hamlet located deep within the Swedish forest. A former professional skateboarder and now a successful music video director, the filmmaker returned to Varberg to spend three years capturing the lovely charm and the magical and mundane habits of the longtime denizens of his boyhood home. His impressionistic portrait is filled with lovingly captured little moments: an eccentric local dressed as a Viking shops at a local strip mall; a tiny dog faces off against a herd of curious cattle; a seemingly endless parade of mopeds shoot down the road; a local photographer wanders through fairgrounds and local parks, capturing thousands of snapshots of the locals. Even the routine household rituals of Karlsson’s parents–his father playing with the cat and salting slugs in the yard, his mother vacuuming the house and falling asleep in the living room–are assembled to create a delicate, intimate, yet exhilaratingly engaging ballet of motion and stillness.”

Sounds interesting, eh?