October 11, 2015

SHORTS: LARGER THAN LIFE

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). […]

October 9, 2015

MORGAN GREEN SHAVES HER HEAD BACKWARDS

NYC PREMIERE Morgan Green records and manipulates a video of herself shaving her head in an attempt to control her perceived identity.

October 9, 2015

María 95

WORLD PREMIERE A filmmaker unearths discarded home video footage of a Gen-X’er only known as “María.”

October 9, 2015

LE MUR ET L’EAU

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.

October 9, 2015

TROUBLEMAKERS: THE STORY OF LAND ART

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) […]

October 9, 2015

THE REINVENTION OF NORMAL

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE The Reinvention of Normal follows Dominic Wilcox, an artist-inventor-designer, on his quest for new ideas.

October 9, 2015

COLORS OF LIFE

Mother and daughter artisans devote their lives in pursuit of understanding and preserving the national treasure of Japanese textile.

October 9, 2015

SHORTS: EXPRESSIONS

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 […]

October 9, 2015

SIDESHOW OF THE ABSURD

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.