(2023, USA, 99')
Hartford, Connecticut, 1964. Willie Pep is a former featherweight champion, but today, all he has is financial and familial ruin. Saddled with debt, married to a much younger woman whose acting aspirations are incompatible with marriage, and a drug abuser son who is the source of constant worry. Under pressure in life as he used to be on the ring, there’s only one thing Willie can do: fight.
Director, screenwriter, and video artist Robert Kolodny was cinematographer for the 2022 Golden Lion film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed by Laura Poitras. He also worked in projects by David Byrne and Nan Goldin and teaches film at the New York School of Visual Arts. Kolodny is a regular collaborator at MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the High Line.
