ALIENATION
A documentarian talks to real-life teenagers about puberty and pairs their interviews to alien animations.
Arts
CONE PHONES
WORLD PREMIERE Cone Phones explores the relationship between actuality and sound through children at play in Union Square playground.
MADE OF CLAY
Ahmed is a seventeen year-old Emirati clay animator whose artistic ambitions are to become the first claymation artist from the UAE.
SHORTS: A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS
Stories for the whole family. Cone Phones (USA, 6 min., Heidi Gelover) snap, crackle and pop in a city playground. Avery’s twin brother, Xander, is her Little Hero (USA, 10 min., Marcus McDougald, Jennifer Medvin). An Emirati boy dreams of being the first claymation artist from his homeland in Made of Clay (UAE, 10 min., […]
THE CLOCK OF THE LONG NOW
This story highlights the Clock of the Long Now, a grand, Stone Henge-like monolith, being constructed in a mountain in West Texas.
I WAS HERE FIRST
WORLD PREMIERE I Was Here First follows 3 prominent ex-Williamsburg venues, taking a critical look at the future of experimental art in a city whose soaring rental market is driving some of its best artists out in search of more welcoming places.
SHORTS: POINTS OF VIEW
Tales of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Stonehenge meets a grand cuckoo clock in The Clock of the Long Now (USA, 3 min., Jimmy Goldblum, Adam Weber). The Typist (USA, 8 min., Kristine Stolakis), a gay Korean War Vet, comes to terms with his role in discharging gay soldiers. A mother’s obsession causes her son to grapple […]
MAC PREMO – STUFFMAKER
WORLD PREMIERE Mac Premo is a collagist, animator, commercial director and carpenter whose goal is to make good stuffs.
MISSING PEOPLE
NYC PREMIERE Martina, the director of a prominent NYC gallery, is an obsessive collector of the work of late outsider artist Roy Ferdinand, which chronicled a violent, sexual pre-Katrina New Orleans. When she meets Ferdinand’s sisters, they are drawn together by common experience: Martina too is haunted by the spectre of her own brother, the […]
THE 100 YEARS SHOW
NYC PREMIERE Though she has painted all her life, Cuban-born NYC artist Carmen Herrera is “discovered” in her 90s. This film is followed by TOCANDO LA LUZ.