October 8, 2015

CONE PHONES

WORLD PREMIERE Cone Phones explores the relationship between actuality and sound through children at play in Union Square playground.

October 8, 2015

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.

October 8, 2015

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., […]

October 8, 2015

BACK

WORLD PREMIERE Back focuses on some of the hidden aspects of long-term confinement through the eyes of a memorable man, and reveals what re-entry is like for those released into a society that looks drastically different from that decades ago.

October 8, 2015

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.

October 8, 2015

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 […]

October 8, 2015

LENNY AND THE RAT

WORLD PREMIERE Lenny and the Rat captures a day in the life of union organizer Lenny Anselmo and the 20-foot inflatable rat he places at non-union construction sites around New York City

October 8, 2015

MAC PREMO – STUFFMAKER

WORLD PREMIERE Mac Premo is a collagist, animator, commercial director and carpenter whose goal is to make good stuffs.

October 8, 2015

SATELLITE BABY

WORLD PREMIERE The ‘Satellite Baby’ phenomenon is the term coined to depict children of immigrant parents who were born in the US and sent overseas as a solution to the lack of affordable childcare.

October 8, 2015

LOOKING AT TIME

NYC PREMIERE Salim Shariff, a 72-year-old watch repairman originally from Bombay, India, now living & working in the Jackson Heights shares his memories of living in NY for the past 30 years.