Portraits of everyday characters. Tiger Hood (USA, 7 min., Christopher André Marks) profiles Patrick, an urban golfer who has a mean trashcan handicap. Pink Boy (USA, 15 min., Eric Rockey) shows us that real boys wear tutus. Inventor Dominic wants to make everyone’s life sweeter in The Reinvention of Normal (UK, 8 min., Liam Saint-Pierre). […]
NYC PREMIERE Morgan Green records and manipulates a video of herself shaving her head in an attempt to control her perceived identity.
WORLD PREMIERE A filmmaker unearths discarded home video footage of a Gen-X’er only known as “María.”
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Le Mur et L’Eau (The Water and the Wall) is a movie about the issue of the father, about transmission, childhood and cinema as the art of childhood.
In the 1960s and ‘70s, a group of NYC-based artists abandoned the constraints of gallery spaces and the demands of the marketplace, moving to the expanse of the American Southwest to engage in a radical reconceptualization of their artistic practice. Turning to nature, acclaimed artists like Michael Heizer (Double Negative) and Robert Smithson (Spiral Jetty) […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE The Reinvention of Normal follows Dominic Wilcox, an artist-inventor-designer, on his quest for new ideas.
NYC PREMIERE Ms. Sherman created the Untitled Film Stills from 1977 to 1980, totaling 69 images, it is arguably her most coveted series.
Mother and daughter artisans devote their lives in pursuit of understanding and preserving the national treasure of Japanese textile.
Artists and their art. Sideshow of the Absurd (USA, 14 min., Tina DiFeliciantonio, Jane C. Wagner) profiles antique carnival attractions. Cindy Sherman: “Untitled Film Stills” (USA, 4 min., Douglas Sloan) puts the famed photographer’s early work into focus. Colors of Life (Japan, 14 min., Goro Ushijima) explores the Japanese practice of creating colors found in […]
NYC PREMIERE Inspired by nostalgia for early 20th-century carnivals and freak shows, Sideshow of the Absurd is a cinematic exploration of a whimsical and fantastical exhibition.