New York Film Festival 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 & 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)

5th (2024/62nd):

Jimmy (Yashaddai Owens)
7 Walks With Mark Brown (Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré)
bluish (Lilith Kraxner & Milena Czernovsky)
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich)
Fire of Wind (Marta Mateus)
Lázaro at Night (Nicolás Pereda)
exergue—on documenta 14 (Dimitris Athiridis)
You Burn Me (Matías Piñeiro)

Program 1: The Will to Change

• Black Glass (Adam Piron)
• Man number 4 (Miranda Pennell)
• An All-Around Feel Good (Jordan Lord)
• The Deep West Assembly (Cauleen Smith)

Program 2: Identification Marks

• Track_ing (Lee Chan-yeol & Hanna Cho & Samgar Rakym & Ali Tynybekov)
• I Remember (depth of flatten cruelty) (James Richards & Tolia Astakhishvili)
• Efforts of Nature (Morgan Quaintance)
• Being John Smith (John Smith)

Program 3: Signal to Noise

• Grandmamauntsistercat (Zuza Banasińska)
• Jizai (Endo Maiko)
• Like an Outburst (Sebastián Schjaer)
• Hemel (Danielle Dean)

Program 4: Space Is the Place

• Revolving Rounds (Christina Jauernik & Johann Lurf)
• ESP (Laura Kraning)
• re-engraved (Lei Lei)
• A Black Screen Too (Rhayne Vermette)
• The Land at Night (Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie)
• Archipelago of Earthen Bones—To Bunya (Malena Szlam)

Program 5: Material Worlds

• Vibrant Matter (Pablo Marín)
• Towards the Sun, Far From the Center (Pascal Viveros & Luciana Merino)
• No Spank (Jordan Strafer)
• Sinking Feeling (Zachary Epcar)
• The Invisible Worm (Rosalind Nashashibi)

*Little, Big, and Far (Jem Cohen)
The Suit (Heinz Emigholz)

Program 6: Poetry Is Not a Luxury

• Refuse Room (Simon Liu)
• Machine Boys (Karimah Ashadu)
• Razeh-del (Maryam Tafakory)
• Practice, Practice, Practice (Kevin Jerome Everson)
• October Noon (Francisco Rodríguez Teare)

Universal Language (Matthew Rankin)
DIRECT ACTION (Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell)