Sunday, September 13, 2020

NYFF Currents

1st (2020/58th):

*The Inheritance (Ephraim Asili)

Program 8: New York Stories

  • Drills (Sarah Friedland)
  • Object Lessons, or: What Happened Whitsunday (Ricky D'Ambrose)
  • Shots in the Dark With David Godlis (Noah Kloster & Lewie Kloster)
  • Wild Bill Horsecock (Oliver Shahery) {canceled}
  • The Chicken (Sora Neo)
  • In Sudden Darkness (Tayler Montague)
  • The Isolated (Jay Giampietro)

Fauna (Nicolás Pereda)

Program 1: Remains to Be Seen

  • Apparition (Ismaïl Bahri)
  • A Revolt Without Images (Pilar Monsell)
  • Untitled Sequence of Gaps (Vika Kirchenbauer)
  • This Day Won't Last (Mouaad el Salem)
  • Hidden (Jafar Panahi)

Her Socialist Smile (John Gianvito)

Program 2: Free Radicals

  • King of Sanwi (Akousua Adoma Owusu)
  • - force - (Simon Liu & Jennie MaryTai Liu)
  • To the Harbour (Anonymous) {replaced with Letter From Your Far-Off Country}
  • Trust Study #1 (Shobun Baile)
  • Ekphrasis (Riccardo Giacconi)

The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror (Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento)

Program 3: Letters From Home

  • Malembe (Luis Arnías)
  • Notes, Imprints (On Love): Part 1 (Alexandra Cuesta)
  • Glimpses From a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995 (Ute Aurand)
  • Correspondence (Carla Simón & Dominga Sotomayor)
  • Claudette's Star (Ayo Akingbade)
  • Episodes - spring 2018 (Mathilde Girard)

There are not thirty-six ways of showing a man getting on a horse. (Nicolás Zukerfeld)%
Stump the Guesser (Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson)%

Program 4: There Are Other Worlds They Have Not Told You Of

  • Labor of Love (Sylvia Schedelbauer)
  • Look Then Below (Ben Rivers)
  • Figure Minus Fact (Mary Helena Clark)
  • While Cursed by Specters (Burak Çevik)
  • In the Air Tonight (Andrew Norman Wilson)

My Mexican Bretzel (Nuria Giménez)
Her Name Was Europa (Anja Dornieden & Juan David González Monroy)%
A Night at the Opera (Sergei Loznitsa)%

Program 5: The Medium Is the Message

  • An Arrow Pointing to a Hole (Steve Reinke)
  • Single Copy (Hsu Che-yu)
  • Letter From Your Far-Off Country (Suneil Sanzgiri) {moved to Program 2}
  • Once Removed (Lawrence Abu Hamdan)

The Last City (Heinz Emigholz)
The Lobby (Heinz Emigholz)

Program 6: Here and Elsewhere

  • Extractions (Thirza Cuthand)
  • Aquí y allá (Melisa Liebenthal)
  • Sanfield (Kevin Jerome Everson)
  • Apiyemiyekî (Ana Vaz)

Program 7: Code Unknown

  • Humongous! (Kawazoe Aya)
  • The End of Suffering (a proposal) (Jacqueline Lentzou)
  • Point and Line to Plane (Sofia Bohdanowicz)
  • The Unseen River (Lân Phạm Ngọc)
  • August 22, This Year (Graham Foy)

Ouvertures (Louis Henderson & Olivier Marboeuf)
The Plastic House (Allison Chhorn)%
Autoficción (Laida Lertxundi)%
See You in My Dreams (Ikezoe Shun)%
The Year of the Discovery (Luis López Carrasco)
Slow Machine (Joe DeNardo & Paul Felten)%
Hard, Cracked the Wind (Mark Jenkin)%
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (C. W. Winter & Anders Edström)

2nd (2021/59th):

El gran movimiento (Kiro Russo)
*The Tsugua Diaries (Maureen Fazendeiro & Miguel Gomes)
All About My Sisters (Wang Qiong)
Social Hygiene (Denis Côté)
Prism (Eléonore Yameogo & An van. Dienderen & Rosine Mbakam)
Outside Noise (Ted Fendt)
A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces (Zhu Shengze)
I Want to Talk About Duras (Claire Simon)
Haruhara-san's Recorder (Sugita Kyoshi)
The Tale of King Crab (Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis)

Program 1: Acts of Seeing

  • Day Is Done (Zhang Dalei)
  • 38 (Daniel Chew & Micaela Durand)
  • ELLE (Luise Donschen)
  • Sycorax (Lois Patiño & Matías Piñeiro)

Program 2: Critical Mass

  • Do Not Circulate (Tiffany Sia)
  • Dreams Under Confinement (Christopher Harris)
  • In Flow of Words (Eliane Esther Bots)
  • All of Your Stars Are But Dust on My Shoes (Haig Aivazian)
  • Kindertotenlieder (Virgil Vernier)

Program 3: Free Form

  • Personality Test (Justin Jinsoo Kim)
  • Dog Star Descending (Aykan Safoğlu)
  • Homage to the Work of Philip Henry Gosse (Pablo Martín Weber)
  • (No Subject) (Guillermo Moncayo)

A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia)

Program 4: Still Life

  • The Capacity for Adequate Anger (Vika Kirchenbauer)
  • A Human Certainty (Morgan Quaintance)
  • Home When You Return (Carl Elsaesser)

Program 5: Pattern Language

  • Cutting the Mushroom (Mike Crane)
  • Estuary (Ross Meckfessel)
  • The Canyon (Zachary Epcar)
  • Reach Capacity (Ericka Beckman)

Program 6: Camera Lucida

  • Here Is the Imagination of the Black Radical (Rhea Storr)
  • Strange Object (Miranda Pennell)
  • To Pick a Flower (Shireen Seno)
  • South (Morgan Quaintance)

Program 7: New Sensations

  • May June July (Kevin Jerome Everson)
  • Grandma's Scissors (Erica Sheu)
  • Blind Body (Allison Chhorn)
  • If I could name you myself (I would hold you forever) (Hope Strickland)
  • What is it that you said? (Ikezoe Shun)
  • In and Out a Window (Richard Tuohy)
  • Night Colonies (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

Program 8: Vibrant Matter

  • earthearthearth (Saïto Daïchi)
  • Tonalli (Los Ingrávidos)
  • Fictions (Manuela de Laborde)
  • Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 1 (Nishikawa Tomonari)

La Nature (Artavazd Peleshyan)%
2 Pasolini (Andrei Ujică)%
Returning to Reims (Jean-Gabriel Périot)
Just a Movement (Vincent Meessen)
Ste. Anne (Rhayne Vermette)

3rd (2022/60th):

The Unstable Object II (Daniel Eisenberg)
Queens of the Qing Dynasty (Ashley McKenzie)
The Dam (Ali Cherri)
You Have to Come and See It (Jonás Trueba)%
Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (Pedro Neves Marques)%
Coma (Bertrand Bonello)
*Will-o'-the-Wisp (João Pedro Rodrigues)
Mutzenbacher (Ruth Beckermann)
Tales of the Purple House (Abbas Fahdel)

Program 1: Field Trips

  • Flora (Nicolás Pereda)
  • Underground Rivers (Simón Vélez)
  • Watch the Fire or Burn Inside It (Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel)
  • Aribada (Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau & Natalia Escobar)

Program 2: Fault Lines

  • Quarries (Ellie Ga)
  • 45th Parallel (Lawrence Abu Hamdan)
  • Tiger Strike Red (Sophia Al-Maria)

Program 3: Action Figures

  • Fingerpicking (Riccardo Giacconi)
  • Glass Life (Sara Cwynar)
  • F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now (Fox Maxy)
  • IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS (Diane Severin Nguyen)

Program 4: Vital Signs

  • Exhibition (Mary Helena Clark)
  • Rememberance: A Portrait Study (Edward Owens)
  • PEAK HEAVEN LOVE FOREVER (Jordan Strafer)
  • NE CORRIDOR (Joshua Gen Solondz)
  • Qualities of Life: Living in the Radiant Cold (James Richards)

Program 5: After Utopia

  • Adaptation (Josh Kline)
  • urban solutions (Arne Hector & Luciana Mazeto & Minze Tummescheit & Vinícius Lopes)
  • Life on the CAPS (Meriem Bennani)

Program 6: Inside Voices

  • Bigger on the Inside (Angelo Madsen Minax)
  • The Sky's In There (Dani & Sheilah ReStack)
  • Lesser Choices (Courtney Stephens)
  • Diana, Diana (Kim Salac)
  • It Smells Like Springtime (Mackie Mallison)
  • Into the Violet Belly (Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi)

Program 7: Ordinary Devotion

  • The Demands of Ordinary Devotion (Eva Giolo)
  • Renate (Ute Aurand)
  • Lungta (Alexandra Cuesta)
  • The Newest Olds (Pablo Mazzolo)
  • Devil's Peak (Simon Liu)

Program 8: Time Out of Mind

  • Against Time (Ben Russell)
  • In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun (Sylvia Schedelbauer)
  • What Rules the Invisible (Tiffany Sia)
  • The Sower of Stars (Lois Patiño)

Slaughterhouses of Modernity (Heinz Emigholz)
Rewind & Play (Alain Gomis)%
Maria Schneider, 1983 (Elisabeth Subrin)%
Dry Ground Burning (Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós)
Human Flowers of Flesh (Helena Wittmann)

Program 9: New York Shorts

  • Same Old (Lloyd Lee Choi)
  • Trust Exercises (Sarah Friedland)
  • 29 Hour Long Birthday (Mark Jenkin)
  • Magic Ring (Alex Ashe)
  • Little Jerry (Charlotte Ercoli)
  • as time passes (Jamil McGinnis)

Remote (Mika Rottenberg & Mahyad Tousi)%
A Short Story (Bi Gan)%
The Adventures of Gigi the Law (Alessandro Comodin)
Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter (Gustavo Vinagre)

4th (2023/61st):

Nowhere Near (Miko Revereza)
A Prince (Pierre Creton)
*The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)
The Night Visitors (Michael Gitlin)%
When We Encounter the World (Leonardo Pirondi & Zazie Ray-Trapido)%
Jean-Luc Godard + Wang Bing + Pedro Costa [Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars, Man in Black, The Daughters of Fire] (Jean-Luc Godard, Wang Bing, Pedro Costa)
Mangosteen (Tulapop Saenjaroen)@
We Don't Talk Like We Used To (Joshua Gen Solondz)@
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Phạm Thiên Ân)

Program 1: Surface Tension

  • Abbatoir U.S.A.! (Aria Dean)
  • Mercurial Currents (Carolina Fusilier)
  • Sensitive Content (Narges Kalhor)
  • Dau:añcut (Moving Along Image) (Adam Piron)
  • Nameless Syndrome (Cha Jae-min)

The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Joanna Arnow)%
Unhappy Hour (Ted Fendt)%

Program 2: Stranger Than Paradise

  • Live From the Clouds (Mackie Mallison)
  • Shrooms (Jorge Jácome)
  • The Far and Near (Justin Jinsoo Kim)
  • Slow Shift (Shambhavi Kaul)
  • Solo la Luna comprenderá (Kim Torres)

Program 3: Inside Out

  • Larry (Murata Takeshi & Christopher Rutledge)
  • Bold Eagle (Whammy Alcazaren)
  • LOOPHOLE (Jordan Strafer)
  • False Wife (Jamie Crewe)
  • Sundown (Steve Reinke)

Last Things (Deborah Stratman)%
Laberint Sequences (Blake Williams)%

Program 4: Close Encounters

  • Intersection (Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie)
  • Mast-Del (Maryam Tafakory)
  • Disappearances (James Edmonds)
  • If You Don't Watch the Way You Move (Kevin Jerome Everson)
  • N'Importe Quoi (for Brunhild) (Luke Fowler)
  • Spark From a Falling Star (Ross Meckfessel)

ALLENSWORTH (James Benning)%
Air Force Two (Kevin Jerome Everson)%
Boyd v. Denton (Kevin Jerome Everson)%

Program 5: Burden of Dreams

  • Dildotectónica (Tomás Paula Marques)
  • and so it came about (A Tale of Consequential Dormancy) (Charlotte Pryce)
  • Coral (Sonia Oleniak)
  • Nocturne for a Forest (Catarina Vasconcelos)
  • The Rays of a Storm (Julio Hernández Cordón)

Mambar Pierrette (Rosine Mbakam)

Program 6: Site Specific

  • Projekt (Dane Komljen)
  • The Fist (Ayo Akingbade)
  • Ungentle (Huw Lemmey & Onyeka Igwe)