Auteur: Ricky D'Ambrose

The Micro-Wave Cinema Series, curated by 2016 WFF Golden Badger Juror Brandon Colvin, highlights the most adventurous, provocative and beautiful work being made by American independent film­makers. The spring schedule has just been released! Click here for a full schedule. All screenings are free and take place on Sundays at 4070 Vilas Hall.

Auteur: RICKY D’AMBROSE

SPIRAL JETTY/2017/14 mins

SIX CENTS IN THE POCKET/2015/14 mins

PILGRIMS/2013/14 mins

Mubi Interviews/2013/25 mins

Ricky D’Ambrose is, without question, one of the most gifted young American filmmakers. In these three shorts, his mastery of composition, color, rhythm, sound, language, and performance is clear. While all of D’Ambrose’s work maintains a purity and consistency of vision, the variations from work to work indicate an

ever-developing personal style. All three films deploy minimalism and elliptical narration to arrive at moments of understated, lingering emotion: the discovery of buried truths, the bleary-eyed shock of unexpected tragedy, the blank confusion of absolute alienation. D’Ambrose’s fiction work will be accompanied by two video interviews with filmmakers (Chantal Akerman and Dan Sallitt) he produced for Mubi.

2015 New York Film Festival

2016 Berlin International Film Festival