Megadoc is coming to The Frida Cinema for a special two-night presentation. Director Mike Figgis’ behind-the-scenes documentary chronicling the ambitious and often chaotic making of Francis Ford Coppola’s long-gestating passion project Megalopolis.

Shot over several years, the film follows Coppola—now in his 80s—as he self-finances a massive, decades-in-the-making science-fiction epic about rebuilding civilization. Through intimate footage, production meetings, and candid on-set moments, Megadoc captures the enormous creative and logistical challenges of realizing a dream that has obsessed Coppola for more than forty years.

Rather than presenting a tidy “making-of,” Figgis’s film becomes a portrait of obsession, creativity, and artistic risk. The result is as much about the filmmaker himself as it is about the film he’s trying to make—a meditation on the uncompromising pursuit of art.