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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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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?

DISTANT STAR

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Explore the potential of audio documentary through an original collection of bold performative short works designed to be presented and experienced together.