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)

6th (2025/63rd):

Back Home (Tsai Ming-liang)@
Ecce Mole (Heinz Emigholz)@
Dracula (Radu Jude)
Windward (Sharon Lockhart)
Bouchra (Orian Barki & Meriem Bennani)
Pin de Fartie (Alejo Moguillansky)
Escape (Adachi Masao)
Evidence (Lee Anne Schmitt)
Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze)
Hair, Paper, Water... (Trương Minh Quý & Nicolas Graux)
Drunken Noodles (Lucio Castro)
*Mare's Nest (Ben Rivers)
Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes (Gabriel Azorín)

Program 1: Below the Surface

• Morning Circle (Basma al-Sharif)
• Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain (Oscar Ruiz Navia)
• Dooni (Claudrena N. Harold & Kevin Jerome Everson)
• A Real Christmas (Justin Jinsoo Kim)
• Daria's Night Flowers (Maryam Tafakory)

Program 2: Afterimages

• As Told by a Corpse (Yace Sula)
• Time Life Volume 15. Monument to a Period of Time in Which I Lived (Mungo Thomson)
• A Metamorphosis (Lin Htet Aung)
• 09/05/1982 (Jorge Caballero & Camilo Restrepo)
• Slet 1988 (Marta Popivoda)
• Water Sports (Whammy Alcazaren)

Barrio triste (Stillz)

Program 3: Common Ground

• Jacob's House (Lucas Kane)
• Anoka (Karthik Pandian)
• Give It Back: Crimes Against Realty (New Red Order)

little boy (James Benning)

Program 4: Model Behaviors

• Acetone Reality (Sara Magenheimer & Michael Bell-Smith)
• Their Eyes (Nicolas Gourault)
• And If the Body (Toby Lee)
• Fiction Contract (Carolyn Lazard)

With Hasan in Gaza (Kamal Aljafari)
Levers (Rhayne Vermette)

Program 5: Fields of Vision

• FELT (Blake Williams)
• Lover, Lovers, Loving, Love (Jodie Mack)
• Keyhole Conversation (Peter Larsson)
• toward a fundamental theory of physics (Victor Van Rossem)
• As a Tree Walks to Its Forest (Chen Jiayi)

7th (2026/64th):

*Bardi (Tala Hadid)
At Night (Beatrice Gibson)
A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra (Jacqueline Lentzou)
Fire Flower (Ana Vaz)
For the Moon (Éric Baudelaire)
Foreign Travel (Ted Fendt)
Heil Jupiter! (Carlos Reygadas)
Life of Jorge Luis Borges (Mariano Llinás)
London (Sebastian Brameshuber)
Overt Listening (Tiffany Sia)
Red Rocks (Bruno Dumont)
The Remotes (John Torres)
Suicide Note (Fred Camper)
Tomorrow a Long Time Ago (Luise Donschen)
What Can't Be Mentioned (Dan Sallitt)@
Sounds From Home (Nathan Silver)@

Program 1: The Hidden Dimension

• Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness (Zhang Yixuan)
• A Correspondence (Josh Weissbach & Ben Balcom)
• Chronicle of Tiredness (Natalia Marín)
• Rebecca's Mess (Jamie Crewe)
• Harmony (Aoki Tatsu)

Program 2: The Visible Invisible

• Fevers (James Richards)
• The End (Artavazd Peleshyan)
• Forever...Forever (Johann Lurf)
• Screening Room (Morgan Fisher)

Program 3: Surface Noise

• Procedures (Simon Liu)
• Practice Towards Light (Jonathan Seung-joon Lee)
• Interwoven Intervals (Laura Kraning)
• Flim Flam (Siegfried A. Fruhauf)
• Moored Shadow (Karissa Hahn)
• Day One (Cameron Worden)

Program 4: The Real World

• Certainties (Calum Walter)
• RW-LO (Martine Syms)
• Placeholder (Jesse McLean)
• Moon Palace (Yu Jiaqi)

Program 5: The Material Ghost

• The Wayfinders (Peggy Ahwesh)
• National Seating (Kevin Jerome Everson)
• The Flesh of the Mountain (Adam Piron)
• Elegy for the Forgotten, On an Endless War (Bani Khoshnoudi)

Program 6: Out of the Present

• They're Here (Laura Poitras & Rachel Lauren Mueller)
• Another Earth (Ben Russell)
• This Suffocating Now (Vika Kirchenbauer)
• Morne Fortune (Mara Chavez & doris duhennois)