CINDY SHERMAN: “UNTITLED FILM STILLS”
NYC PREMIERE Ms. Sherman created the Untitled Film Stills from 1977 to 1980, totaling 69 images, it is arguably her most coveted series.
Retrospective
HIGH ON CRACK STREET: LOST LIVES IN LOWELL (1995)
20th anniversary screening. Jon Alpert and Maryann De Leo teamed with former drug addict Rich Farell, a resident of Lowell, Massachusetts, for this harrowing chronicle of addiction in the economically depressed blue-collar town. Filmed over a year and a half, Brenda, Dicky and Boo-Boo are followed in and out of crackhouses, rehab and jail, seeking […]
GIMME SHELTER (1970)
45th anniversary screening, in memory of Al Maysles, who passed away this year. What began as a Direct Cinema portrait of the Rolling Stones becomes a disturbing record of a notorious concert. In contrast to Woodstock’s free-flowing peace and love, a palpable tension hangs over the free Altamont Speedway show on December 6, 1969, recognized […]
BERNICE
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.
THE TYPIST
NYC PREMIERE The forgotten history of a gay Korean War veteran tasked with writing the military discharges of outed gay seamen.
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 […]
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.
GERMAN SHEPHERD
This animated documentary poses difficult questions about the human capacity to forgive unimaginable evil acts.
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.
THE 414s
NYC PREMIERE The 414’s tells the story of the first widely recognized computer hackers, a group of Milwaukee teenagers who gained notoriety in 1983.