NYC PREMIERE On the eve of her own wedding, Sharon Shattuck seeks to understand the relationship between her parents in this revealing portrait of an unorthodox family. When she was in middle school, Shattuck’s father came out as transgender, taking the name Trisha, yet remained married to the filmmaker’s straight-identified mother, Marcia. With sensitivity and […]
A portrait of art used as a revolutionary weapon. This film is followed by, THE INVADERS
US PREMIERE After fleeing his native North Korea to defect to the south, the artist Sun Mu works under a defiant alias meaning “no boundaries” to criticize the repressive regime of Kim Jong-un. A former propaganda artist, he subverts familiar images which once glorified the Supreme Leader, transforming them into satirical political pop art. Offered […]
WORLD PREMIERE Peelander-Z isn’t your ordinary band. Once audiences see their outrageous onstage antics – human bowling, anyone? – and distinctive color-coded costumes, they might just start to believe the Japanese art-punk band’s claims of coming from another planet. After fifteen years of playing in NYC and touring around the country, Peelander Red decides to […]
WORLD PREMIERE Finding unexpected beauty in the overlooked, discarded and decayed, photographer Rosamond Purcell has developed a body of work that has garnered international acclaim, fruitful collaborations with writers such as Stephen Jay Gould and admirers like Errol Morris. An Art That Nature Makes details Purcell’s fascination with the natural world – from a mastodon […]
A contemplative portrait of NYC post Hurricane Sandy.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Four women who are electro-hypersensitive; a rare condition where people find themselves acutely intolerant to electromagnetic fields and are driven deep into the French Alps in search for remote underground shelters.
City life. A union man on a mission uses a giant inflatable rat to raise awareness in Lenny and the Rat (USA, 8 min., Jason Hutt). S – The Musical Shuttle (USA, 40 min., Alina Abouelenin, Benjamin Bergmann) shows why the S train is the most lucrative for NYC’s buskers. Mac Premo – stuffmaker (USA, […]
Artspeak follows New York artist Bill Claps discovering everyday people’s thoughts and feelings about contemporary art as he develops a video installation and a series of artworks that comment on the phenomena of Artspeak.
NYC PREMIERE Art world pioneer, Bernice Steinbaum, spent her life working to help female artists and artists of color gain recognition at a time when such artists were largely disregarded in America.