OPENING NIGHT GALA: Wed. Nov. 3, 2010 – 7pm (NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts). This $30 ticket includes the screening and a post-film conversation with Werner Herzog. THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT – There are other Herzog events at the festival including an In-Conversation and several films in our Spotlight section. Werner Herzog, […]
2010 METROPOLIS COMPETITION AND AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER Karina, Pearl and Anthony are three New York teenagers in a radical poetry workshop called Power Writing that has a profound affect on their lives. Putting pen to paper they’re able to imagine a future where fathers aren’t in jail, mothers aren’t abusive and college isn’t something you […]
RIDE, RISE, ROAR is a David Byrne concert film that blends riveting onstage performances with intimate details of the creative collaborations. Shot with multiple cameras over several concerts during the 08/09 tour, the film blends the energy and charisma of classic Talking Heads with the heartfelt pathos of Byrne and Brian Eno’s most recent collaboration. […]
PUPPET interweaves a broad look at the fraught history of American puppetry (its marginalization as children’s theater and its sudden explosion as high art) with an intimate thread following Dan Hurlin, a downtown artist who is creating a complex puppet work called “Disfarmer” based on the life of a Depression-era portrait photographer. Hurlin’s struggle to mount […]
Before rock journalism was respectable, before feminism had gained ground, Lillian Roxon was trailblazing both as an Australian journalist transplanted to New York. She forecast the significance of musicians such as Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, and the Velvet Underground; and authored “Lillian Roxon’s Rock Encyclopedia” before succumbing to an early death at age 41. Director […]
The visionary theater director Richard Foreman has been an icon of New York’s avant garde for 40 years. Whether or not you’re familiar with his work, this portrait gives an accessible entry to understanding an important chapter of cultural history, packed with interviews including F. Murray Abraham, Eric Bogosian, James Cromwell, Willem Dafoe, Yoko Ono, […]
WINNER OF METROPOLIS SPECIAL JURY PRIZE For over a century, Carnegie Hall rented affordable studio apartments atop the famous music hall to artistic tenants such as Marlon Brando, Paddy Chayefsky and Isadora Duncan. As a privileged tenant, director Josef Birdman Astor began to videotape his neighbors whose lives intersected with decades of artistic history. But […]
2010 VIEWFINDERS COMPETITION WINNER In this revealing look at wind energy, residents of Meredith, NY are divided when companies want to build wind turbines in the traditional dairy farm community. Laura Israel makes her directorial debut after years of film editing for individualists such as Robert Frank and John Lurie. She brings a strong sense […]
ANPO refers to the US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty, which has justified the presence of 90 US military bases in Japan for six decades. The presence of the bases has spawned opposition and protests. Director Linda Hoaglund (who was born and raised in Japan) delves deeply into resistance against ANPO, drawing upon rich archival sources of […]
Director Kim Longinotto has earned acclaim and a recent MoMA retrospective for her globe-spanning films about women fighting odds such as “Divorce Iranian Style” and “Rough Aunties.” In her latest “Pink Saris,” Longinotto travels to Uddar Pradesh in northern India to follow the crusading Sampat Pal Devi who dispenses street justice like a self-appointed Judge […]