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DISTANT STAR

With Paul Clipson, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Byron Westbrook. Sound/film performances, projections and REEL book release.

Narrative Medicine

With Nellie Hermann, Catherine Rogers, Danielle Spencer, and Deepu Gowda What do the fields of creative writing, medicine, oral history and literary studies have to teach one another?
Saturday, Mar 22 - 7:30pm My Name is Janez Janša With Janez Janša, Marco Antonini, Eva and Franco Mattes Reasons for changing one’s name are explored as the film draws references from history, popular culture and individual experiences, leading us to the case of a name change that caused a stir in the small country of Slovenia and beyond.

My Name is Janez Janša

With Janez Janša, Marco Antonini, Eva and Franco Mattes Reasons for changing one’s name are explored as the film draws references from history, popular culture and individual experiences, leading us to the case of a name change that caused a stir in the small country of Slovenia and beyond.
Sunday, Mar 9 - 7:30pm Joshua Oppenheimer Early Works & The Act of Killing (DIR. CUT) With Joshua Oppenheimer and Nicolas Rapold The Act of Killing—presented here in its revealing 159-minute director’s cut—takes an innovative and willfully unnerving approach to the murderous legacy of Indonesia. This double program also features important Early Works from Oppenheimer which proceeded this stirring doc.

Joshua Oppenheimer Early Works & The Act of Killing (DIR. CUT)

With Joshua Oppenheimer and Nicolas Rapold The Act of Killing—presented here in its revealing 159-minute director’s cut—takes an innovative and willfully unnerving approach to the murderous legacy of Indonesia. This double program also features important Early Works from Oppenheimer which proceeded this stirring doc.

Public Hearing

With James N. Kienitz Wilkins, Theodore Bouloukos and Eugene Wasserman. Public Hearing is the verbatim re-performance of a rural American town meeting from a transcript downloaded as publicly available information.

Unheard America

With Emile Klein, Gabriel Zucker, Paul Barman and Phantom Fauna. The stories, which tackle religion, race, family, and environment, were produced by Jeff Emtman and Emile Klein, who have embraced the musical concept of the ”mashup.”
Sunday, Feb 9 - 7:30pm Deluge With John Knecht and Rebecca Cleman A series of works that John Knecht has made in both video, drawings and paintings which are informed by a fascination with imagined spaces that lay outside of the rational, gravitationally determined physical world that we occupy as biological and emotional beings.

Deluge

With John Knecht and Rebecca Cleman A series of works that John Knecht has made in both video, drawings and paintings which are informed by a fascination with imagined spaces that lay outside of the rational, gravitationally determined physical world that we occupy as biological and emotional beings.
Sunday, Jan 19 - 7:30pm Start Somewhere With Joe DeNardo, Eleanor Friedberger and Paul Felten. Musician and filmmaker Joe DeNardo’s vibrant body of 16mm work over the course of the last five years has eschewed traditional performance documentary aesthetics, favoring an experimental, jaggedly playful approach.

Start Somewhere

With Joe DeNardo, Eleanor Friedberger and Paul Felten. Musician and filmmaker Joe DeNardo’s vibrant body of 16mm work over the course of the last five years has eschewed traditional performance documentary aesthetics, favoring an experimental, jaggedly playful approach.
Saturday, Jan 18 - 7:30pm The Aesthetic of the Fragment With Soon-Mi Yoo, Melissa Ragona and Federico Windhausen. These nonfiction films and videos are composed of ambiguously-related parts. Each work constructs sound-image juxtapositions and concatenations of scenes with various points of connection.

The Aesthetic of the Fragment

With Soon-Mi Yoo, Melissa Ragona and Federico Windhausen. These nonfiction films and videos are composed of ambiguously-related parts. Each work constructs sound-image juxtapositions and concatenations of scenes with various points of connection.

Observing the Observers

With Pegi Vail Monique Scott, Kimi Takesue, and Holly Morris. Observing the Observers explores the travel film’s role in shaping how people and places have been represented in popular culture, from one of the genre’s heydays in the early 20th century to today.
Monday, Nov 25 - 7:30pm Today, Or The Golden Age With Cong Feng Mao Chenyu Yi Sicheng, Zhou Xin and Benny Shaffer. Three central figures from the Chinese documentary scene will discuss documentary filmmaking and exhibition in contemporary China, particularly the case of the Yunnan Multi-Culture Visual Festival (Yunfest).

Today, Or The Golden Age

With Cong Feng Mao Chenyu Yi Sicheng, Zhou Xin and Benny Shaffer. Three central figures from the Chinese documentary scene will discuss documentary filmmaking and exhibition in contemporary China, particularly the case of the Yunnan Multi-Culture Visual Festival (Yunfest).
Sunday, Oct 13 - 7:30pm Girlfriend in a Coma With Bill Emmott, Joseph Luzzi, Susan Chira and Federica Sasso. Girlfriend in a Coma aims to wake Italy up to the true nature and severity of its political, economic and moral sickness over the past 20 years, to warn other countries that a similar destiny could await them, and to serve as a call to action, at all levels of society.

Girlfriend in a Coma

With Bill Emmott, Joseph Luzzi, Susan Chira and Federica Sasso. Girlfriend in a Coma aims to wake Italy up to the true nature and severity of its political, economic and moral sickness over the past 20 years, to warn other countries that a similar destiny could await them, and to serve as a call to action, at all levels of society.

Diskos and Tulips

With Andrew Miksys and Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock Tulips in Belarus, Eastern European village discos, the Roma of Lithuania and winning at bingo.

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