Acclaimed photographer Lena Herzog presents slides from her recent work Lost Souls and previews her latest work Light Matter in a conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner David Turnley. Herzog’s portfolios have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, and Harper’s among other publications. Lost Souls recently exhibited at the International Center of Photography, […]
The radio documentary is enjoying a golden age, on the broadcast airwaves—and newly reinvented on the Internet. Longtime public radio personality Dean Olsher, creator and host of The Next Big Thing on PRI (2000-2005), brings that popular show’s spirit of discovery to this public listening experience. Olsher curates a selection of dramatic audio documentaries that […]
Young musicians from the world over are plucked from obscurity when they win online auditions for a prestigious Carnegie Hall concert. With only two days to rehearse a complicated program under classical masters Michael Tilson Thomas and Tan Dun, the musicians face language barriers, jet lag, a daunting schedule and the temptations of New York […]
See a sampling of rediscovered short films and forgotten footage of NYC, as saved by archives, labs, researchers, and filmmakers participating in the NYU Orphan Film Project. Films from the biennial Orphan Film Symposium include: Fox Movietone newsreel outtakes from the 1920s, an amateur city portrait from the 1930s, a leftist campaign piece from East […]
GALA: Sun. Nov. 7, 2010 – 7pm (NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts) “Tabloid is a return to my favorite genre,” writes Errol Morris. “Sick, sad and funny, but, of course, it’s more than that. It is a meditation on how we are shaped by the media and even more powerfully, by ourselves.” At […]
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, […]