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Shorts: FML

This thought-provoking program curated for a contemporary audience that lives online ponders, “Does technology rule, or rule us?” Shorts Program Includes: read more

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Shorts: Gallery Opening

This combination of artistic and cerebral docs and narratives will captivate you with some very visual storytelling. Shorts Program Includes: ... read more

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Shorts: Family Dynamics

Relationships are often complicated, particularly so for the characters in this short program. Shorts Program Includes: Merry Xmas read more

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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