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Crossing Arizona

With Joseph Matthew and Dan DeVivo The surprising political stances people take when immigration and border policy fails everyone.

Jacqueline Goss

With Jacqueline Goss Videos and web-based works exploring the rules, histories, and tools of language and mapmaking systems.

The Crowd Show

With Ken Jacobs and Paige Sarlin Lined up before the lens of a camera, the crowd is transformed for an audience into a figure of both order and disorder, a representation of humanity as a whole, of social totality and its movements, of its power and force.

State of Fear

With Pamela Yates a cautionary tale for a world engaged in a “global war on terror”.
Sunday, Jun 3 - 7:00pm Brooklyn Matters With Isabel Hill an insightful documentary that reveals the fuller truth about the Atlantic Yards proposal and highlights how a few powerful men are circumventing community participation and planning principles to try to push their own interests forward.

Brooklyn Matters

With Isabel Hill an insightful documentary that reveals the fuller truth about the Atlantic Yards proposal and highlights how a few powerful men are circumventing community participation and planning principles to try to push their own interests forward.
Thursday, Jan 1 - 12:00am Holocaust Reloaded: Israeli Artists Deconstruct Trauma, History and Commemoration With Itay Ziv, Rona Yefman, Tamar Latzman, and Neta Alexander How can a filmmaker or a video-art artist approach an historical catastrophe that had already been the subject of numerous works of art? How can one create a work that might shed a new light on a trauma that took place many decades ago? Is it acceptable to use humor, provocation and satire when dealing with such a sensitive topic which could not be detached from its political implications?

Holocaust Reloaded: Israeli Artists Deconstruct Trauma, History and Commemoration

With Itay Ziv, Rona Yefman, Tamar Latzman, and Neta Alexander How can a filmmaker or a video-art artist approach an historical catastrophe that had already been the subject of numerous works of art? How can one create a work that might shed a new light on a trauma that took place many decades ago? Is it acceptable to use humor, provocation and satire when dealing with such a sensitive topic which could not be detached from its political implications?

A Master Class with Michael Glawogger

with Michael Glawogger and Scott Macdonald. Director, Writer and Cinematographer Michael Glawogger will present and discuss his awards-winning works, and will talk about his documentry trilogy on the world of work which includes Workingman Death (2004), Megacities (2009) and Whores' Glory(2011), which was honored with a special Orizzonti Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival in September. This is an ambitious and unprecedented look at globalization and the human soul on a scale seldom possible in nonfiction filmmaking.
Thursday, Jan 1 - 12:00am Roll Out, Cowboy: Screening and Live Performance With Elizabeth Lawrence, Chris Sand, and Warner Boutin. Chris "Sandman" Sand is a rappin' cowboy from Dunn Center, North Dakota (population: 120 and shrinking). He drives a semi, plays the guitar and raps. Sandman looks like Woody Guthrie but sings like LL Cool J. Roll Out, Cowboy follows the 39-year-old country/hip-hop musician as he tours the American West, performing for rural towns who might not have heard live hip-hop before. Sandman's story is the struggle of an artist trying to make a buck. In a tough economy, can your American dream still carry a tune?

Roll Out, Cowboy: Screening and Live Performance

With Elizabeth Lawrence, Chris Sand, and Warner Boutin. Chris "Sandman" Sand is a rappin' cowboy from Dunn Center, North Dakota (population: 120 and shrinking). He drives a semi, plays the guitar and raps. Sandman looks like Woody Guthrie but sings like LL Cool J. Roll Out, Cowboy follows the 39-year-old country/hip-hop musician as he tours the American West, performing for rural towns who might not have heard live hip-hop before. Sandman's story is the struggle of an artist trying to make a buck. In a tough economy, can your American dream still carry a tune?
Thursday, Jan 1 - 12:00am From Sand to Concrete: The Transformation of an Egyptian Soldier With Menna Khalil, Yosra Sultan Moussa and Mohammad Shawky Hassan. The presentation is based on a recitation of a personal journal, accompanied by audio recordings and a projection of a digitized album containing images and illustrations, some collected and others drawn.

From Sand to Concrete: The Transformation of an Egyptian Soldier

With Menna Khalil, Yosra Sultan Moussa and Mohammad Shawky Hassan. The presentation is based on a recitation of a personal journal, accompanied by audio recordings and a projection of a digitized album containing images and illustrations, some collected and others drawn.
Thursday, Jan 1 - 12:00am Let’s Try That Once More, This Time In The Past: Performance & Documentation With Martha Wilson, Matvei Yankelevich, Yelena Gluzman, Christa Holka, and Johanna Linsley. s performance navigates the shifting of its institutional position – from practitioners’ self-identification as alternative/radical/revolutionary to blockbuster museum fodder – artists and academics (and artist-academics) are re-evaluating the stories performance tells about itself.

Let’s Try That Once More, This Time In The Past: Performance & Documentation

With Martha Wilson, Matvei Yankelevich, Yelena Gluzman, Christa Holka, and Johanna Linsley. s performance navigates the shifting of its institutional position – from practitioners’ self-identification as alternative/radical/revolutionary to blockbuster museum fodder – artists and academics (and artist-academics) are re-evaluating the stories performance tells about itself.
Thursday, Jan 1 - 12:00am The Amnesia Pavilions with Nicholas Muellner With Nicholas Muellner, Dan Torop and Jim Supanick Annotated slideshow based on Nicholas Muellner's new book of photographs and writing, named by Time Magazine a top photo book of 2011

The Amnesia Pavilions with Nicholas Muellner

With Nicholas Muellner, Dan Torop and Jim Supanick Annotated slideshow based on Nicholas Muellner's new book of photographs and writing, named by Time Magazine a top photo book of 2011
Thursday, Jan 1 - 12:00am Bruce McClure: Bumps, Bellows, and Bawls – Shake Eternity and Lick Creation With Bruce McClure A live performance from Bruce McClure. A metaphor for consciousness - breaking a reign of filmic re-enactments and broadcasting energy into the vitality of perceptual activity

Bruce McClure: Bumps, Bellows, and Bawls – Shake Eternity and Lick Creation

With Bruce McClure A live performance from Bruce McClure. A metaphor for consciousness - breaking a reign of filmic re-enactments and broadcasting energy into the vitality of perceptual activity
Thursday, Jan 1 - 12:00am The Exiles: Films After the Chilean Coup With Rachael Rakes, Leo Goldsmith, Amalia Córdova, Jerónimo Rodríguez, José Miguel Palacios Following the bloody coup that overthrew Salvador Allende's government in 1973, several prominent Chilean artists and intellectuals fled the county, seeking amnesty in Europe and North America.

The Exiles: Films After the Chilean Coup

With Rachael Rakes, Leo Goldsmith, Amalia Córdova, Jerónimo Rodríguez, José Miguel Palacios Following the bloody coup that overthrew Salvador Allende's government in 1973, several prominent Chilean artists and intellectuals fled the county, seeking amnesty in Europe and North America.

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