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Wednesday, Jun 18 - 7:30pm Crazy, Quirky, Scary, and True Presented by Emon Hassaon (Narratively) with a performance by Ken Butler with the filmmakers in attendance. A shorts program presented by Emon Hassan (Narratively) with a performance by Ken Butler.

Crazy, Quirky, Scary, and True

Presented by Emon Hassaon (Narratively) with a performance by Ken Butler with the filmmakers in attendance. A shorts program presented by Emon Hassan (Narratively) with a performance by Ken Butler.
Tuesday, Jun 17 - 7:30pm Grit & Grind + Kate Bornstein Featuring Kate Bornstein and Dara Messinger with filmmakers Sasha Wortzel, Felix Endara, & Sam Feder. Grit & Grind is a short documentary about the Clit Club, an edgy lesbian party set in New York City’s Meatpacking District in the 1990s, as this large metropolis struggled with the AIDS epidemic. Kate Bornstein Is A Queer and Pleasant Danger captures the many facets of a queer hero and pioneering gender outlaw.

Grit & Grind + Kate Bornstein

Featuring Kate Bornstein and Dara Messinger with filmmakers Sasha Wortzel, Felix Endara, & Sam Feder. Grit & Grind is a short documentary about the Clit Club, an edgy lesbian party set in New York City’s Meatpacking District in the 1990s, as this large metropolis struggled with the AIDS epidemic. Kate Bornstein Is A Queer and Pleasant Danger captures the many facets of a queer hero and pioneering gender outlaw.

When I Walk

With Director Jason DaSilva, Executive Producer Yael Melamede, Aubrey Gallegos (POV). A candid and brave chronicle of one young man’s struggle to adapt to the harsh realities of M.S. while holding onto his personal and creative life.
Monday, Jun 16 - 7:30pm Bridge High + Short Circuit Director Manfred Kirchheimer with Jacob Perlin (Cinema Conservancy) in person. Bridge High examines a passage across a suspension bridge, moving from the country to the city, a half minute trip ­expanded; Short Circuit has a documentary filmmaker begins to question his interactions to the white family and black workers he shares his daily existence with.

Bridge High + Short Circuit

Director Manfred Kirchheimer with Jacob Perlin (Cinema Conservancy) in person. Bridge High examines a passage across a suspension bridge, moving from the country to the city, a half minute trip ­expanded; Short Circuit has a documentary filmmaker begins to question his interactions to the white family and black workers he shares his daily existence with.
Friday, Jun 13 - 7:30pm The Traffic of Illusions With Jean-Christian Bourcart, Pawel Wojtasik, and Nan Goldin. Using photography, writing and moving pictures, Jean-Christian Bourcart explores what constitutes an image: a significant surface that questions our relationship to ourselves, to society, to history, to reality.

The Traffic of Illusions

With Jean-Christian Bourcart, Pawel Wojtasik, and Nan Goldin. Using photography, writing and moving pictures, Jean-Christian Bourcart explores what constitutes an image: a significant surface that questions our relationship to ourselves, to society, to history, to reality.

NYFVC Graduating Film Student Mixer

Free Reception with Student ID. Mingle and forge connections while also meeting members of the oldest film non profit in NY, the NYFVC whose members represent EAI, Screen Slate, Janus Films, SVA, Maysles Films and more.
Sunday, Jun 8 - 7:30pm MK2 Expanded: Another Idea of Cinema in the City With Marin Karmitz, Elisha Karmitz, and Dan Nuxoll (Rooftop Films). Marin Karmitz introduces his rare short NUIT NOIRE, CALCUTTA (1964), and Elisha Karmitz talks about MK2’s expanded cinema projects.

MK2 Expanded: Another Idea of Cinema in the City

With Marin Karmitz, Elisha Karmitz, and Dan Nuxoll (Rooftop Films). Marin Karmitz introduces his rare short NUIT NOIRE, CALCUTTA (1964), and Elisha Karmitz talks about MK2’s expanded cinema projects.
Saturday, Jun 7 - 7:30pm LIVING LOS SURES: PREVIEW IN THE PARK & PARTY Outdoor Screening at Sternberg Park + Music by Rich Bologna, Juan Wauters & Ashok Kondabolu. A special public preview to celebrate the creation of seven new documentary projects made this year as part of the UnionDocs Collaborative Production Living Los Sures.

LIVING LOS SURES: PREVIEW IN THE PARK & PARTY

Outdoor Screening at Sternberg Park + Music by Rich Bologna, Juan Wauters & Ashok Kondabolu. A special public preview to celebrate the creation of seven new documentary projects made this year as part of the UnionDocs Collaborative Production Living Los Sures.
Friday, Jun 6 - 7:30pm Stories You Can’t Tell on the Radio With Anne Heppermann, Scott Gurian, Sally Herships, Ilya Marritz and Shia Levitt. This evening we’ll focus on tales from backstage, between the folds and behind the scenes – the tape, info. and crazy bits that can’t be shared on air.

Stories You Can’t Tell on the Radio

With Anne Heppermann, Scott Gurian, Sally Herships, Ilya Marritz and Shia Levitt. This evening we’ll focus on tales from backstage, between the folds and behind the scenes – the tape, info. and crazy bits that can’t be shared on air.
Saturday, May 31 - 7:30pm DE CVRATORIBVS. The Dialectics of Care and Confinement With Vesna Madzoski, author of DE CVRATORIBVS, scholar Thomas Zummer, and curator Nova Benway. In this lecture, Vesna Madzoski will offer an overview of problems raised by two documentaries by Jef Cornelis, as well as point out the specificity of Cornelis’ method in filmmaking.

DE CVRATORIBVS. The Dialectics of Care and Confinement

With Vesna Madzoski, author of DE CVRATORIBVS, scholar Thomas Zummer, and curator Nova Benway. In this lecture, Vesna Madzoski will offer an overview of problems raised by two documentaries by Jef Cornelis, as well as point out the specificity of Cornelis’ method in filmmaking.
Friday, May 30 - 7:30pm The Sochi Project With Rob Hornstra (FOTODOK) and writer/filmmaker Arnold Van Bruggen. An alternative perspective and in-depth reporting on the remarkable region of Sochi, Russia, which sits at the combustible crossroads of war, tourism, and history.

The Sochi Project

With Rob Hornstra (FOTODOK) and writer/filmmaker Arnold Van Bruggen. An alternative perspective and in-depth reporting on the remarkable region of Sochi, Russia, which sits at the combustible crossroads of war, tourism, and history.

The Ties that Bind: Documentary and Families

With James Fotopoulos and Rebecca Cleman Life in a rural industrial town: a teenage boy, his family, friends and failed attempt at love are investigated through stark black-and-white photography and static long takes.

Ukrainian Protest Cinema

With Lesya Kalynska, Olha Onyshko, Vanessa Black, Roxy Toporowych, and Andrij Dobriansky in discussion. Moderated by film historian Yuri Shevchuk. Discussion of the current crisis in Ukraine with filmmakers and Ukrainian activists who have been using their cameras as weapons to tell the story of the people of Maidan.
Saturday, Apr 19 - 7:30pm Penumbra and Letter With Evgeny Gusyatinskiy, Inge de Leeuw, Lucila Moctezuma and Eduardo Villanueva Double feature: Penumbra is a portrait of a poor and aged couple waiting for death and filling time with the rituals of routine, while Letter describes Russia as a place inhabited by unconscious prisoners.

Penumbra and Letter

With Evgeny Gusyatinskiy, Inge de Leeuw, Lucila Moctezuma and Eduardo Villanueva Double feature: Penumbra is a portrait of a poor and aged couple waiting for death and filling time with the rituals of routine, while Letter describes Russia as a place inhabited by unconscious prisoners.

SLEEPLESS NIGHTS

With Eliane Raheb and Thomas McCarthy. Through the stories of Assaad Shaftari, a former high ranking intelligence officer in a Christian right wing militia, responsible for many casualties in the protracted civil war in Lebanon and Maryam Saiidi, the mother of Maher, a missing young communist fighter who disappeared in 1982, the film digs in the war wounds and asks if redemption and forgiveness are possible.

JOKE ON A JOKE

With Ben Coonley, Eileen Maxson, Angie Waller, Alina Simone, Joel Holmberg, Sophia Cleary, Cecilia Dougherty, Andrew Lampert, Benjamin Hale, Brian Droitcour, David Kalal, and Jordan Rathus. An evening of video artists, performance artists, musicians, and writers reenacting, translating, paying homage to, improving upon, and/or pissing all over classic stand-up routines from some of comedy’s most revered live performers.

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