Film Screening - presented in connection with the Nasher Museum of Art's installation Let the Great World Spin (July 20-October 6), a thematic art installation inspired by the 2013 Summer Reading book Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

Man on Wire
(James Marsh, 2008, 90 min, USA, in English, Color, DVD) 

A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century."
 

-- Winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature at the 2009 Academy Awards! 

"A documentary about a towering act of daring proves a spine-tingling memorial to recklessness as art." -- Boston Globe

-- Screening media provided by the Archive of Documentary Arts in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University

Cost: Free and Open to the Public!

Sponsors: The Nasher Museum of Art and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)