This week, Hamptons Doc Fest is adding the 2014 Fest Favorite “Imber’s Left Hand” to its website, hamptonsdocfest.com.
“Imber’s Left Hand” (2014, 76 min.) is an art film directed by award-winning Oceanside-raised director Richard Kane, about the life and career of Baldwin-raised New England painter Jon Imber, who was diagnosed with ALS (amyotropic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease) in 2012 and courageously adapted from painting with his right hand to his left. Adversity increased his determination, and in four months he made over 100 portraits of his friends who came to visit before he died in 2014. He taught at Harvard for 26 years, and his work is held in numerous collections and museums around the United States.
Other films also still available through the Hamptons Doc Fest website, most with Q&As from the directors’ appearances at the Hamptons Doc Fest film festival in previous years, are “Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life,” “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am,” “In Search of Israeli Cuisine,” “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise,” “The Biggest Little Farm,” “Three Identical Strangers,” “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,” “Spielberg,” “Life, Animated,” “Very Semi-Serious,” “Free Solo,” “To a More Perfect Union: U.S. v. Windsor,” “Marvin Booker Was Murdered,” the new first-run documentary “Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint,” “Dads” for Father’s Day, “Pick of the Litter,” “Jane Fonda in Five Acts,” the new first-run documentaries “John Lewis: Good Trouble” and “Spaceship Earth,” “A Moment in Time: Hamptons Artists,” “What Happened, Miss Simone?” new first-run documentaries “The Fight” and “Denise Ho: Becoming the Song,” and Fest Faves “Mike Wallace Is Here,” “Merchants of Doubt,” “Driven To Abstraction,” “Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists,” “A Ballerina’s Tale,” “For the Birds,” a special screening of “RBG” in tribute to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who passed away on September 18, and also “King Bibi,” “Citizen Jane: Battle for the City,” and “Command and Control.”