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This program presents a range of video essays that inquire into the place of film in today’s world and media landscape, including desktop screens, online forums, production lots, and the streets of Hollywood.
Academy Award–winning writer and director Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail is a heartfelt and hilarious chronicle of the life of an outsider finding her confidence and silver linings amongst the clutter of everyday life. Director Adam Elliot in person, followed by reception! Free with RSVP!
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals—Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a severely obese 44-year-old man living in New York—blossoms in this beautifully animated, acclaimed comic drama. With director Adam Elliot in person!
Evil Does Not Exist slowly but surely transforms into a fable on man’s uneasy, symbiotic relationship to nature, buoyed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s singularly patient yet lucid storytelling.
This program presents New York City as it’s featured in documentary and experimental remix films. The artists represented in this screening pick up and disturb iconic TV clips, touristic images, video game simulations, and canonical films set in the city.
The magnificent Marianne Jean-Baptiste, reunited with the towering British director Mike Leigh for the first time since her Oscar-nominated performance in Secrets and Lies, gives a scalding performance in Hard Truths that won’t soon be forgotten.
Rooted in experimental cinema, the essay film, and documentary traditions, these makers challenge and play with our understanding of audiovisual media and the environments in which we use and experience them.
Voight and Roberts both received Oscar nominations for their gripping, physically instinctive performances in Russian filmmaker Konchalovsky’s bullet-paced American thriller based upon an original story by Akira Kurosawa.
One of the year’s marvelous cinematic discoveries, Payal Kapadia’s Grand Prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival is a profoundly moving, meditative, exquisitely textured look at the lives of three women seeking love and spiritual sustenance in working-class Mumbai.
Featuring films that operate in the spaces between documentary, found footage filmmaking, the essay film, and contemporary remix culture, this program invites viewers to engage with the past in thought-provoking and immersive ways. Followed by a Q&A featuring the series programmers in dialogue.
