DOC NYC 2023

Direcciones (Addresses)

María Luisa Santos Carlo Nasisse

<p>In Costa Rica there are no street addresses. Or they may exist in some government office, but the people have steadily resisted any effort to develop a centralized system. Instead, an address contains a series of directions in reference to various landmarks. In this film, a Costa Rican woman who has always felt a pressing anxiety by this lack of order tries to understand its origins. In doing so she discovers a larger story about human memory and place.</p> <p>En Costa Rica no hay n&uacute;meros ni nombres de calles. Tal vez existen en alguna oficina del gobierno, pero la gente se ha resistido constantemente a cualquier esfuerzo por desarrollar un sistema centralizado. En cambio, una direcci&oacute;n contiene una serie de direcciones en referencia a varios puntos de referencia. En esta pel&iacute;cula, una mujer costarricense a la que siempre le ha molestado este desorden trata de comprender sus or&iacute;genes. Al hacerlo, descubre una historia m&aacute;s amplia sobre la memoria humana y el lugar.</p>

Between Earth & Sky

Andrew Nadkarni

<p>For her entire professional life, renowned ecologist Nalini Nadkarni pioneered climbing techniques to study &quot;what grows back&rdquo; after an ecological disturbance in the rainforest canopy. Now, after surviving a life-threatening fall from a tree, she must turn her research question onto herself in order to understand the effects of disturbance and recovery throughout her life.</p>

Kokomo City

D. Smith

<p>Morning routines and conversations in bed, gossip and real talk. In encounters and interviews, D. Smith portrays four Black trans sex workers in New York and Georgia. The protagonists discuss their lives with relish but without any sugar-coating. The conversations that emerge are deep and passionate reflections on socio-political and social realities as well as perceptive analyses of belonging and identity within the Black community and beyond. Dramatisations and reconstructions, performative interventions and associative collages of biographical set pieces are brought together organically in haunting black-and-white images accompanied by a carefully deployed soundtrack. Dreams and memories, battles fought and crises overcome are openly addressed without skirting topics such as precarity and violence. The protagonists also tell us about their lovers, friends and families, and how these relationships are marked by taboos and fetishisation, but also by their own desires. This vibrant portrait gives them space for their uninhibited and defiant narratives and undermines white, cis-heteronormative assumptions and stigmatisations.</p>