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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.
Sunday, May 18 - 7:30pm Documentary Editing With film editor David Teague, Will Cox (Final Frame), and Peter Levin, hosted by Zach Heinzerling. How can documentary directors work effectively with editors, sound designers, and other essential post-production talent? How does a story emerge from a pile of footage?

Documentary Editing

With film editor David Teague, Will Cox (Final Frame), and Peter Levin, hosted by Zach Heinzerling. How can documentary directors work effectively with editors, sound designers, and other essential post-production talent? How does a story emerge from a pile of footage?

Documentary Shooting & Directing

With Oscar-winning filmmaker Ross Kauffman, Malika Zouhali-Worrall, hosted by Zach Heinzerling at AbelCine. Documentary filmmakers produce and shoot in a wide variety of locations under many different practical, financial, technical and legal constraints.

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.

Documentary Financing

With José Rodriguez, John T. Trigonis, Fred Siegel and Sierra Pettengill. This session will address the eternal question: how to finance your doc? What are the pros and cons of different fundraising models (grants, equity investment, pre-sales, crowdsourcing)?

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.
Sunday, Apr 27 - 7:30pm Documentary Planning With Tom Davis, Karen Shatzkin, and Sierra Pettengill. This session covers issues of legal rights and clearances, business basics for filmmakers, budgeting, structuring agreements for talent and crew, and more.

Documentary Planning

With Tom Davis, Karen Shatzkin, and Sierra Pettengill. This session covers issues of legal rights and clearances, business basics for filmmakers, budgeting, structuring agreements for talent and crew, and more.
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.

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.

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