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Shorts: Be Yourself

Personal stories about self-identity are the focus of these documentary shorts. Shorts Program Includes: American Ren... read more

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Shorts: City Limits

This year our New York Shorts program “gets real” with four world premiere documentaries relatable to anyone who calls this city home. read more

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Shorts: Totally Twisted

Fun. Creepy. Weird. That pretty much sums up the feel of this program designed especially for our late-night loving audience. This program is a real killer, literally. read more

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For Spacious Sky

Inspired by actual events and set on Election Day, 2008, against the sweeping landscape of rural America, For Spacious Sky is the story of three lost brothers finding their way back to each other—one from incarceration, one from addiction, and one... read more

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All Vows

"All Vows" is an English translation of "Kol Nidre," the incantation that begins the Yom Kippur service and which pre-emptively nullifies any future vows made unintentionally. The film uses ancient archival films to depict an unknowable future, re... read more

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Noise Reduction II: Chinatown

The lament over the ‘death’ of film is re-enacted digitally, as the screen-as-landscape reacts to the material exegeses of film—scratches, splices, sprockets, dust etc.—that are digitally [de/re]constructed, in (im)probable verisimilitude to Cellu... read more

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Two Points of Failure

The disappearance of the analogue film medium, heralded by Jean-Luc Godard, is visualized by allowing film to disintegrate in a chemical solution. Screening in Shorts Program: read more

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CUT

CUT appropriates six classic black and white Hollywood film clips from the 30s and 40s. The images and sound are reconfigured through graphic and sequential interventions. The disruptions refocus and enhance our attention to obscure aspects of the... read more

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Romance Sans Paroles

Deconstruction and reconstruction from a found footage of a swashbuckling movie. Hundreds of images were scanned from film fragments and put together to get a rhythmic composition, “a stream of light energy,” giving a new life to the actors of an... read more

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Optical Sound

Music is there at the start. The composition is in charge of direction and draws the sound-on-film onto the image. The sound-on-film generates abstract pictures that trace and visualize the music. Screening in Shorts Program: ... read more