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Luis Arnías<p>Bisagras is a film that triangulates the journey of African slaves to America and draws a line that goes through my brown skin.</p>
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<p>Bisagras is a film that triangulates the journey of African slaves to America and draws a line that goes through my brown skin.</p>
<p>Burnt Milk centers around Una (voiced by Tamara Lawrance), an isolated Jamaican woman living in 1985 suburban London, working as a nurse on a maternity ward. As Una takes a moment of solace to make her traditional condensed milk pudding, 'Burnt Milk', she is flooded with spiritual imagery that takes her back to Jamaica.</p>
<p>A family suicide leads the narrator, Catalina Kulczar, on a quest to explore her Jewish lineage and her family’s immigration story over multiple generations, with open-water swimming becoming her way to come to terms with the present.</p>
<p>This personal doc reconstructs memory through cultural memorabilia and explores the role of objects in fostering nostalgia. It also investigates the reliability of memory as a form of remembrance, as the protagonist fails to remember her first memory. This film is left intentionally unsubtitled as I wanted my non-Urdu/Hindi-speaking audience to understand the piece emotionally and visually, and I believe that the sentiments conveyed are not difficult to decipher.</p>
<p>Structured over a remote therapy session between Elya, a young immigrant woman, and her therapist, the film explores the existential challenges of belonging to a country not one's own.</p>
<p>A German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.</p>
<p>Lachman observes Wim Wenders and his team filming The State of Things in a remote hotel on the Portuguese coast.</p>
<p>Follow a young filmmaker, as she recounts the story of struggling to make her first feature. Fact bleeding into fiction, and past, present, and future converging to create a modern myth that redefines the very act of creation.</p>
<p>The end of a relationship leaves a woman desperate to reassert her independence by overcoming her driving phobia. But when she finds herself in the driver's seat, she turns into a compulsive oversharer who can't start the car. Luckily, her new driving companion won't let her off the hook so easy.</p>
<p>A tonal shift occurs inside the world of an American sitcom resulting in the disruption of the show's rhythm. As it evolves, a looming presence of banality casts a shadow on the show's bright lights and bubbly personalities. Moments of vulnerability and honesty begin to seep into a world filled with shallow conflicts and punchlines.</p>
<p>While a grieving teen seeks revenge on the local townspeople, his odd behavior draws the sympathetic eye of a curious young woman.</p>
<p>Iskra (the name translates to "spark") wakes up in a black, soot-covered apartment. She opens the balcony door to let in a glimpse of light. Stuck inside, she cleans the blackness away all day while her grandfather, obsessed with the past, burns documents and old newspapers all night. New soot settles on the walls and Iskra wakes up to another day of cleaning. Her only friend is a chicken, who lives on the balcony and lays walnuts. While feeding it, Iskra takes notice of a young man in the courtyard. He shows up at her apartment the next day. Grandfather throws him out but the young man's arrival, awakens a longing for the outside world inside Iskra and she starts dreaming of breaking free from her dull routine. Another day of cleaning awaits. When a fight with her grandfather escalates, Iskra takes her chicken and jumps off the balcony. Her dress gets stuck in the door frame and she remains floating in limbo between past and future while the chicken marches on.</p>
<p>Artist/filmmaker Faith Hubley drew a self-portrait in her journal every day for the last few decades of her life. Years later, her daughter revisits specific memories and dreams, and considers a relationship altered by death.</p>
<p>Two little girls muse on marriage and babies, love and death as they create and act out plays in their backyard.</p>
<p>Mother Earth and Father Time discuss and observe humanity's questionable and destructive progress throughout history.</p>
<p>Faith Hubley’s first solo project. Using ritualistic Goddess imagery from different ancient civilizations, she creates a new history of the world – from a feminist point of view.</p>
<p>"Time of the Angels" is a view of the Americas from an indigenous perspective. The poetry of Nezahualcotl, Aztec Emperor of Texcoco (1420-1472), tells us of our brief moment here on Earth</p>
<p>A grandmother discusses past and present attitudes toward menstruation.</p>
<p>Northern Ice, Golden Sun explores the Inuits deep attachment to the natural world. They hunt, they fish and make art in tune with the seasonal cycle of the Arctic. During the fearsome winter months, they rely on the mysterious powers of the Shaman.</p>
<p>Isolated in her warehouse apartment, Jodiiie plays a VR guided meditation video game to calm her escalating anxiety. The game, run by a next generation AI algorithm, adapts its gameplay to the player’s emotions as they navigate twelve levels on a quest to achieve the ultimate goal: transcendence. Jodiiie becomes increasingly consumed by the game as the meditation descends into a maze of real, virtual, and hybrid worlds. Ultimately, Jodiiie must transcend the game itself.</p>
<p>Patiently documenting the installation of new coastal infrastructure in the Rockaways, this observational process story was recorded on 16mm film and features an original score by Animal Collective. World Premiere. Post-screening Q&A with filmmakers and subjects.</p>
<p>Honduran-American video essayist Adrian Quetzal Randall traces the origins of radio and television across military histories, global politics, and into the human psyche.</p>
<p>RED HOUSE is an animation that playfully explores metamorphosis in relation to the stability and structure of housing. Created using the AMIGA computer console and Deluxe Paint IV software, hand drawn sequences delight in the constant reconfiguration of images, characters and forms.</p>
<p>MOTH is a traditionally animated, hand painted, gouache-on-paper film. It is animated mostly straight-ahead, with frames painted on paper almost daily for 14 months. The film seeded and bloomed from a moth hitting my studio window and continues as a wandering through the emotions of birth, motherhood, body, nature, metamorphosis and dance.</p>
<p>A childhood investigation into the ancient book Classic of Mountains and Seas.</p>
<p>In this animated short, thousands of beads are arranged and manipulated, assuming shapes of creatures both mythical and real. They continually devour, merge, and absorb one another in explosions of color.</p>
<p>In 1946, Douglass Crockwell released his most famous film, GLENS FALLS SEQUENCE and, one year later, THE LONG BODIES, an assembly of the experiments he had made over several years. In his own words, the long bodies are four-dimensional traces objects leave in space during the course of their existence. - Giannalberto Bendazzi</p>
<p>Plane of Incidence explores the convergence of objects and living beings, drawing inspiration from their conceptual, spiritual, and scientific connections. Informed by philosophical concepts such as object agency, animism, and Lynn Margulis's "Interliving," this video series seeks to re-enchant reality by exploring the interconnectedness of all forms of existence.</p>
<p>Sausage City illustrates Beckett’s additive cycle process. Constantly evolving rectangular shapes provide a foundation for an environment inhabited by mutating blobs - or sausages. Sounds and shapes create a moving space that teeters on the edge between control and chaos. The ending is somewhat mystifying, pulling us out of the surreal environment and revealing its origins. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.</p>
<p>A large mirror in a silent room where you know there is a presence. You look into it but there is nothing.</p>
<p>Abstract figures rapidly shape-shift until finally settling into the form of a man and his dog, but only for a moment.</p>
<p>First museum solo exhibition of multimedia artist Oliver Laric in the Netherlands.</p>
<p>Whimsical and yet somewhat deranged silhouettes of anamorphic men twist and transform themselves in a world where nothing moves or acts as one should, would or could expect.</p>
<p>The animated body shifts in smear frames through the history of painting, parroting famous depictions of women. She tests the postures by inhabiting them and promptly discarding them, rejecting the fantasy that each represents. The cartoon body is confined by the frame but thrives in constant transition.</p>
<p>An animated short by Lisze Bechtold in which a woman and her two cats battle the forces of nature.</p>
<p>An exploration into the way images enter our consciousness, framed by the shores of Gaza.</p>
<p>Uncovering the early cinematography of a Palestinian revolutionary, an artist considers what it means to bear witness to suffering across time and space.</p>
<p dir="ltr">A deadly accident between a self-driving car and a pedestrian sets off an investigation about the role of human workers in the training of driverless cars. Testimonies from vehicle operators guide us through a night shift where the landscape merges with data from the car’s sensors.</p> <p><br /> </p>
<p>On the second day after the city’s central data center unexpectedly crashes and reboots, the server keeper meets the cloud system in a disordered digital world where they become a passenger and a woman who is a retired taxi driver. They drive through the city, get lost, and try to locate themselves. Meanwhile, they also recall the ocean that covered this continent hundreds of millions of years ago, with a shell fossil that can track ancient memories and a pulsar star that guides the direction in the depths of the universe, as if they’re traveling and entering fragments of memories stored in the Cloud, or a wider version of themselves. Finally, they reach the end of the road and find themselves in another memory of a stone beach that is going to sink under the water soon after the hydropower station dam is built. Gradually, they also recall each other’s forgotten memories, like they were not really strangers.</p>
<p>As a tree muses on their role in the Order of Things, this being (which humans normally think of as immobile) reveals the speed, agility, and finesse integral to their experience of the world. Adapted from a short story written by Ursula LeGuin, this decidedly inhuman filmic narrative uses the overlapping cyan and scarlet of anaglyph stereoscopic 3D imaging to speculate how a tree (which responds more acutely to light waves in the red and blue portions of the spectrum) might perceive the world visually. Though 3D stereoscopy is used in this film, it is intended to be viewed without 3D glasses.</p>
<p>Artificial moons are going to be launched into space to eliminate the difference between day and night. An elderly couple retreats into the increasing darkness of their apartment, illuminated by digital devices.</p>
<p>"Christmas, Every Day" gives a slice-of-life glimpse of preteen influencers Peyton and Lyla Wesson, ages 11 and 12, as they perform for their online fans under their mother’s watchful guidance. Shot in a series of highly composed, locked-off takes, the film examines everyday cultural practice under late stage capitalism, juxtaposing rural life with the patina of the virtual world. As Peyton and Lyla shift between performance and reality, ideas of self-presentation as empowerment, female confidence, and self-branding come to the fore.</p>
<p>August 11th, 2023 filmmaker and Dogma95 founder Lars Von Trier posted a video on instagram seeking applications for a, "female girlfriend/muse." Later that week I visited Rose, my 75 year old best friend, neighbor, and muse, to film an application. Lars has yet to respond.</p>
<p>Darkness falls over Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and its 17 million inhabitants. It is just before Christmas and people are struggling to gain access to electric light. Kudi is mobilising the residents of his Kisenso neighbourhood to collect money for a new power cable. On Mount Mangengenge, a holy place overlooking the city, Pastor Gédéon delivers a sermon about the light of Christ as the path to life and truth. Davido is searching for a place to stay after his house was flooded by the Congo River. Together with other young men, he kills time by working out and dreams of a better future.<br /> <em>Tongo Saa</em> is a sensitive portrait of the residents of Kinshasa as they face the challenges of life in an environment plagued by violence and coloured by the uncertainty of tomorrow.</p>
<p>The 27 residents on the tiny Danish Wadden Sea island of Mandø are used to severe weather and flooding. But climate change and increasingly extreme weather now pose a serious threat to the eight-square-kilometer island. Its last farmer, Gregers, bravely faces the inevitable catastrophe. He refuses to build a life elsewhere and instead hopes to find a wife to manage the farm with him.</p> <p>As a storm approaches, Gregers and his faithful dog inspect the decaying dykes that protect his beloved island. Meanwhile Mie celebrates her 100th birthday and Niels, an avid birdwatcher, laments the rare birds that don’t visit the island anymore. Tourists arrive in buses at low tide and hear from tour guide Preben how Mandø’s community was almost completely wiped out during a storm surge in 1634. Today, the current generation holds on steadfastly, despite the new threats from nature.</p> <p>The portrait of this microcosm is accompanied by masterly shots of the distinctive landscape, shifting skies, and seas that change with the wind and tide. In a sense, the grim fate of these islanders, presented in drily comic situations, affects us all.</p>
<p>The animation of beads, stones, pencils and brushes against Dwight Ripley's paintings.</p>
<p>A prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl he sees in a dance hall.</p>
<p>Lydia is a dog-obsessed girl. When she meets June, a lonely honey-colored mutt tied up to a fence, it's love at first sight, and Lydia steals her. Soon Lydia learns that while her heart has space for June, her life may not.</p>
<p>Stray cats abound in New York City, and Steven Hock seeks to save them. The more cats he rescues, the more he feels rescued. <em>– DeWitt Davis</em></p>
<p>Larry Wallach is the owner of “Sloth Encounters,” a controversial Long Island exotic pet store.</p>
<p>A portrait of my mother, my tortoise, and mild winters: In 2009, I moved from my home in Salzburg, Austria, to the United States. The care of my pet tortoise, Tony, fell upon my mother, Kathleen. Tony’s species, native to the Mediterranean, hibernate several months each winter at a predictable temperature. Our family’s garage used to provide these conditions, but recent erratic winters forced my mother to find a more reliable, future-facing solution. What’s revealed is an intimately amusing story of familial relationships rising to the occasion of unpredictable climate change, in which providing mindful care, above all, plays a crucial role.</p>
<p>If there is an animal whose legendary proximity makes us curious about the human community, it would undoubtedly be the dog. Norman Nedellec wins the bet of bringing back into fashion a less famous text by Miguel de Cervantes, The Colloquium of the Dogs , in which Berganza and Scipio, two canines, discuss an entire night in front of a hospital. This animal fable paints a vitriolic portrait of the human race capable of the greatest baseness. The filmmaker offers a brilliant adaptation in a brief but ample gesture that takes literally the idea of these beasts gifted with speech. In a colorful staging, he uses the tricks and tips of cinema to make two big dogs, Ivar and Drogon, talk while locked in a car. The Koulechov effect works wonderfully. At the center, a few well-chosen pieces of the original text to which is grafted a network of heterogeneous visual escapes that take us from meadows burned by a summer sun to the tombstones of the cemetery of the Dogs of Asnières-sur-Seine, from the blue of a sky to that of the flashing lights of an ambulance. Attention and precision dominate the film: the way in which the harpsichord converses with the noise of the cars, the rhythm and delicacy of the diction of the narrators who lend their voices, the place and intensity of each shot, the sensitivity with which the animal is filmed. From the apologue, Norman Nedellec keeps the timeless philosophical depth. From the cinema, he draws a playful fabric conducive to the very fair commentary of our contemporary realities. Thus, Le colloquium des chiens , mixed with humor and poetry, navigates between a playful joy and a beautiful gravity. That of these faithful companions who humbly hold up to us the mirror of our condition.</p>
<p>A coastal metropolis in Brazil. Heartbroken, Kai lands from Taiwan for a vacation. A broken air conditioner leads them to Fu Ang's umbrella shop. He could become a friend, but the rainy season doesn't come and his business disappears. While searching for Fu Ang, Kai discovers the story of Xiaoxin and a group of Chinese workers in a posh skyscraper. Imported products made in China deliver problems to their rich, white neighbors. In Xiaoxin's story, Kai finds himself strangely reflected.</p> <p>Main characters come and go unexpectedly in this quiet comedy of misunderstandings, played by amateurs and actors. From one foreign city to the next they follow the needs of work more than a classic dramaturgy. But over the course of a hot, slow summer, tender bonds grow between them like islands in a sea full of sharks.</p>
<p>The Silueta Series is Mendieta's most well-known body of work, created between 1973 and 1980. In Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece), Mendieta's iconic abstracted shape of the female figure is formed from an armature of fireworks. Outlined in bright red and billowing smoke, the “silhouette” of the title is set against the night sky of Oaxaca, Mexico.</p>
<p>A fable featuring five scrawny children who wade ashore a deserted, sun-dappled island, wearing marvelous steampunk headdresses. Accompanied by a captivating soundtrack, the children encounter many objects whose history recalls the times past, some of them magical and mysterious…</p>
<p>A lost and amnesiac narrator explores the toxic and alien waterways of New York City in order to discover his relationship to this environment and what it means to be human.</p>
<p>A ban on physical contact in a dystopian workplace has turned interaction into otherworldly simulations. The suppression of touch transformed the boatyard into charged landscape of alienation and sensuality beyond heteronormative desires.</p>
<p>Set in a near-future New York City, Adaptation is a short science fiction film that depicts a waterlogged city utterly transformed by the traumatic consequences of today’s irresponsible politics and economics. In the wake of these transformations, day to day life carries on for a group of relief workers—essential workers—whose jobs bring them into this new New York. Shot on film and produced using largely analog special effects—scale-models, miniatures, and matte photographs—Adaptation eschews the slick computer generated imagery that powers so much contemporary video art in search of a less seamless and more poetic science fiction.</p> <p>If the sea level rises drastically, it’s not inconceivable that New York will disappear beneath the waves. Josh Kline built a drowned city of the future using stylized scale models and miniatures, and filmed on 16mm. A bright orange boat sails through Manhattan, where buildings still tower above the water. There is no sign of life. The once-crowded streets have disappeared below the surface of the ocean.</p> <p>The contemplations in the commentary are both poetic and somber—musings about the water, which is not only polluted with all the rubbish humanity produces, but also filled with disappointment and sadness.</p> <p>Like a Noah’s Ark with humans as its only species, the solitary ship carries a small party of survivors. Everyone boards in full diving gear and is thoroughly disinfected. They chat over a beer and watch as the skyline of the ominously silent city seems to be sinking beneath the sea like a sunset.</p>
<p>“I’ve never seen a movie or read a story that was absolutely free of any misery. And so, I thought I would make one.”‍<br /> <br /> Agnes Martin was one of the most influential abstract artists of the twentieth century. Known for her meticulous paintings of horizontal and vertical lines, her anomalous only completed film is conversely loose and imprecise in its pursuit of perfection. Gabriel opens on a little boy surveying the ocean, then follows him as he wanders freely through the desert landscapes of New Mexico. It is a film embodying happiness and innocence amid natural beauty. Silent except for several passages from Bach’s Goldberg Variations, we are thrilled to present this rarely-screened film with a live score performed by Rockaway Chamber Music.</p>