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In My Own Time: A Portrait of Karen Dalton is the other #DOCNYC virtual screening I attended this past weekend. Admission ($12.50, plus $1.50 service fee) gives you 48-hour access to the #documentary. I watched it twice in that time period. It's SO good. #movies #InMyOwnTime
Directed by Richard Peete & Robert Yapkowitz, In My Own Time: A Portrait of #KarenDalton (2020) is a wonderfully insightful, deeply moving #documentary about the 60s & 70s folk/blues singer whose music was largely forgotten til a 2000s revival (which I remember). #movies #DOCNYC
Peete & Yapkowitz paint an unforgettable portrait of Karen Dalton through interviews with her daughter Abby & other family, former lovers & ex-husbands, musical collaborators & friends, & readings of her poetry & journals by Angel Olson. #documentary #InMyOwnTime #DOCNYC
Practically all #KarenDalton's personal documentation of her life was destroyed in a 2018 fire. (Thankfully, some was digitized prior.) The resulting gaps are aptly filled with mid-century animation by Faith & John Hubley (daughter Georgia cofounded the band Yo La Tengo). #DOCNYC
Though I had heard of #KarenDalton, before In My Own Time I had never listened to her music. Clearly she imitated Billie Holiday in her vocal stylings; still, she made exquisite music. Light in the Attic, which releases her music, fills the #documentary soundtrack. #DOCNYC
Besides being a memorable & practically perfect portrait of Dalton, In My Own Time is a love letter to the Greenwich Village folk music scene of early 60s New York. Bob Dylan (left) is not in the #documentary, but his words praising #KarenDalton (middle) are. #movies #DOCNYC
In My Own Time: A Portrait of #KarenDalton is screening online through Nov 19 via #DOCNYC, where it premiered. Admission includes a prerecorded Q&A with the directors. Like Dalton's music, the #documentary is hauntingly beautiful. Highly recommended. https://www.docnyc.net/film/in-my-own-time-a-portrait-of-karen-dalton/
