NYC PREMIERE Oscar®-winning director Kirk Simon (Strangers No More) examines the rich legacy of the Pulitzer Prize. Established in 1917, the award recognizes excellence in American arts and journalism. The film surveys the compelling stories of artists who have won the prestigious prize. Interviews include journalists Nicholas Kristof and David Remnick; novelists Toni Morrison and […]
WORLD PREMIERE While visiting his wife’s homeland of Venezuela in 1997, noted portrait artist Allen Hirsch unexpectedly fell in love. The object of his affection? A deathly ill, orphaned newborn Capuchin monkey named Benjamin. Nursing Benjamin back to health and sneaking him into New York City, Allen would find his life – and his sense […]
True innovation. What Lies Beneath the Sky (USA, 9 min., Vladimir de Fontenay) turns NYC into a canvas for a meditative city portrait in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Morgan Green Shaves Her Head Backwards (USA, 3 min., Morgan Green), records it and sets it to a score. A filmmaker discovers María 95 (USA, 14 […]
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.