COLORS OF LIFE
Mother and daughter artisans devote their lives in pursuit of understanding and preserving the national treasure of Japanese textile.
Arts
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 […]
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.
FROM THIS DAY FORWARD
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 […]
EMORY DOUGLAS: THE ART OF THE BLACK PANTHERS
A portrait of art used as a revolutionary weapon. This film is followed by, THE INVADERS
I AM SUN MU
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 […]
MAD TIGER
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 […]
AN ART THAT NATURE MAKES: THE WORK OF ROSAMOND PURCELL
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 […]
WHAT LIES BENEATH THE SKY
A contemplative portrait of NYC post Hurricane Sandy.
ZONE BLANCHE
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.