Film at Lincoln Center Press Release Edited for Style<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n An essential showcasing of the most vital and innovative voices in nonfiction and hybrid filmmaking, the 2018 lineup features a host of brilliant new works and exciting artist spotlights, including one world premiere, eight North American premieres, and seven U.S. premieres, with many of the filmmakers in person.<\/p>\n \u201cIn addition to a lineup packed with ambitious first features, premieres, and festival favorites from around the world, this year we are thrilled to spotlight a group of remarkable artists who work with documentary aesthetics and practices in formally exciting ways,\u201d said Film Society of Lincoln Center Programmer-at-Large Rachael Rakes, who organized the festival with Director of Programming Dennis Lim. \u201cBy bringing these artists and their works, typically exhibited in gallery contexts, to the cinema, we are acknowledging the intimate, focused environment that the theater and its audience offers.\u201d<\/p>\n The Opening Night selection is the North American premiere of Julien Faraut\u2019s John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection, an essayistic found-footage ode to the capricious tennis legend. Closing Night is the World Premiere of Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer\u2019s hallucinatory Empty Metal, which investigates personal politics in an apathetic world of mass surveillance and pervasive policing.<\/p>\n Highlights include:<\/strong><\/p>\n New works by familiar names at the festival include:<\/strong><\/p>\n The lineup also features several standout works by first-time filmmakers: Luise Donschen\u2019s Casanova Gene, an utterly captivating visual exploration of desire; G\u00fcrcan Keltek\u2019s poetic Meteors, which captures a critical political moment in Turkish-Kurdish conflict; and Juliana Antunes\u2019s Baronesa, filmed with an almost exclusively female crew and cast of nonprofessional actors.<\/p>\n Art of the Real will also host a series of \u201cArtist Spotlights,\u201d four presentations and career-spanning conversations with visual artists whose work resonates with nonfiction filmmaking. Featured participants are Hiwa K, who will be the subject of a solo exhibition at the New Museum this May, and will present works from his recent \u201cPre-Image\u201d series, among others; Amar Kanwar, who will present two works from his celebrated The Sovereign Forest series; Steffani Jemison, who will present her singular film and audio works, which merge politics, poetics, and aesthetics; and Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, presenting a survey of their recent immersive audiovisual works.<\/p>\n The complete lineup is listed below.<\/p>\n This year, Art of the Real is proud to continue its collaboration with curated streaming platform MUBI. A selection of titles from the 2018 program will be featured on MUBI after their presentation at the festival. Details on the films and schedule will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n Organized by Dennis Lim and Rachael Rakes. Art of the Real is sponsored by MUBI.<\/p>\n Tickets go on sale April 13, with Film Society members receiving an early access period beginning April 9. Tickets are $15; $12 for students, seniors (62+), and MUBI subscribers; and $10 for Film Society members. See more and save with a 3+ film discount package and All-Access Pass. Plus, introducing a special $50 Student All-Access Pass. Learn more at filmlinc.org.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n All films are projected digitally at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center (144 West 65th St.) unless otherwise noted.<\/strong><\/p>\n OPENING NIGHT In the Realm of Perfection inventively renders its s ubject as both a brilliant athlete and a complicated man utterly alone in his greatness, fueled by, as the film\/tennis critic Serge Daney wrote, \u201cthe eternal injustice of which he and only he is the victim.\u201d An Oscilloscope release.Thursday, April 26, 7 p.m. (Q&A with Julien Faraut)* <\/p>\n CLOSING NIGHT All That Passes by Through a Window that Doesn\u2019t Open<\/strong> Baronesa<\/strong> Braguino<\/strong> Preceded by: Casanova Gene \/ Casanovagen<\/strong> Central Airport THF \/ Zentralflughafen THF<\/strong> Fail to Appear<\/strong> I Remember the Crows \/ Lembro mais dos Corvos<\/strong> The Image You Missed<\/strong> Infinite Football \/ Fotbal infinit<\/strong> Inland Sea \/ Minatomachi<\/strong> Meteors \/ Meteorlar<\/strong> Milford Graves Full Manti<\/strong>s Once There Was Bras\u00edlia \/ Era uma Vez Bras\u00edlia<\/strong> One or Two Questions \/ Unas preguntas<\/strong> Such a Morning<\/strong> Victory Day \/ Den\u2019 Pobedy<\/strong> Wild Relatives<\/strong> Yours in Sisterhood<\/strong> <\/p>\n A Moon Made of Iron \/ Una luna de hierro<\/strong> La Libertad<\/strong> Optimism<\/strong> <\/p>\n Tribute to Eugenio Polgovsky (1977-2017): <\/p>\n Artist Spotlight: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme<\/strong> Artist Spotlight: Steffani Jemison<\/strong> Artist Spotlight: Hiwa K<\/strong> Artist Spotlight: Amar Kanwar<\/strong> <\/p>\n Nicol\u00e1s Pereda\u2019s The Private Property Trilogy<\/strong> <\/p>\n Film Society of LIncoln Center<\/strong> Special Thanks to NYLO NYC.<\/p>\n The Film Society receives generous, year-round support from Shutterstock, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. American Airlines is the Official Airline of the Film Society of Lincoln Center. For more information, visit www.filmlinc.org and follow @filmlinc on Twitter.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gregg Morris can be reached at gmorris@hunter.cuny.edu<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An essential showcasing of the most vital and innovative voices in nonfiction and hybrid filmmaking, the 2018 lineup features a host of brilliant new works and exciting artist spotlights, including one world premiere, eight North American premieres, and seven U.S. premieres, with many of the filmmakers in person.<\/p>\n\n
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FILMS & DESCRIPTIONS<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nJohn McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection<\/strong>
\nJulien Faraut, France, 2018, 95m
\nFrench with English subtitles
\nNorth American Premiere
\nJean-Luc Godard once said, \u201cCinema lies, sports doesn\u2019t.\u201d Julien Faraut\u2019s sophisticated and witty found-footage ode to tennis legend John McEnroe takes this maxim as its point of departure. An essayistic investigation into the poetics of athletics, the film is composed largely of 16mm footage of Johnny Mac competing in the 1984 French Open\u2014clubbing magisterial aces while bickering to no end with umpires, ball boys, and courtside cameramen alike.<\/p>\n
\n*Venue: Walter Reade Theater, 165 W 65th Street<\/p>\n
\nEmpty Metal<\/strong>
\nAdam Khalil & Bayley Sweitzer, USA, 2018, 83m
\nWorld Premiere
\n\u201cI used to look forward to a complete societal collapse. I felt\u00a0 ready for it. I used to think the end of the world and the apocalypse were the same thing. Now I know the difference.\u201d Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer\u2019s first feature as co-directors, Empty Metal takes place in a world similar to ours\u2014one of mass surveillance, pervasive policing, and increasing individual apathy. The lives of several people, each inhabiting extreme poles of American social and political consciousness, weave together as each attempts to achieve some kind of forward motion, sometimes in contradiction, and always under the eye of far more controlling powers.Filled with energy, rage, and the smallest measure of hope, Empty Metal is a new kind of political film for these extraordinary times.Sunday, May 6, 7:30 p.m. (Q&A with Adam Khalil & Bayley Sweitzer)<\/p>\n
\nMartin DiCicco, USA\/Qatar, 2017, 70m
\nAzerbaijani, Armenian, and Russian with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\nThe Baku\u2013Tbilisi\u2013Kars railway, known as the \u201cIr on Silk Road,\u201d sought to create the fastest route between Asia and Europe by running new track through Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey (and ignore existing track in Armenia). Martin DiCicco\u2019s serene documentary follows the laborers building the line as they work or hang out, giving them space to talk about their lives, country, beliefs, and regrets. The film, which won the Visions du Reel Best First Film Award, doubles as a stunning document of Central Asia\u2019s unique geography. Tuesday, May 1, 9 p.m. (Q&A with Martin DiCicco)<\/p>\n
\nJuliana Antunes, Brazil, 2017, 70m
\nPortuguese with English subtitles
\nU.S. Premiere
\nJuliana Antunes\u2019s debut feature offers an evocative, rigorously composed glimpse at life in the favelas of Belo Horizonte. Baronesa follows friends Leidiane and Andreia as their conversation flows freely across backyards and within cramped quarters, addressing the facts of life: family, drugs, sex, death. With its almost exclusively female crew and nonprofessional cast, Baronesa is structurally simple yet multilayered in its resonance, recalling the films of Pedro Costa as it establishes Antunes as a formidable new voice in Brazilian cinema. Winner of the Audience Prize at the 2017 FIDMarseille festival.
\nSunday, April 29, 8:00pm (Q&A with Juliana Antunes)<\/p>\n
\nCl\u00e9ment Cogitore, France, 2017, 49m
\nRussian patois with English subtitles
\nU.S. Premiere
\nThe director of Neither Heaven Nor Earth (ND\/NF 2016) offers a look at the conflict between two families of \u201cOld Believers\u201d living in an extremely remote region of the Siberian taiga. Uninterested in anyone\u2019s rules but their own, the families are not only threatened by each other and wild animals but also by environmental change.<\/p>\n
\nDivieto 2<\/strong>
\nAlex Tyson, USA\/Italy, 2018, 12m
\nWorld Premiere
\nMonitoring the volcanologists, miners, and shopkeepers near the peak of Mount Etna in Sicily, Tyson generates an ever-expanding tableau of the volcano\u2019s natural and manufactured landscape. Thursday, April 26, 9:30pm (Q&A with Cl\u00e9ment Cogitore)*
\n*Venue: Walter Reade Theater, 165 W 65th Street<\/p>\n
\nLuise Donschen, Germany, 2018, 67m
\nEnglish and German with English subtitles
\nNorth American Premiere
\nDonschen\u2019s ravishing, eclectic feature debut veers radically from fiction to observational documentary to single-subject interview to landscape and back again. Exploring desire in a singular fashion, Donschen presents an investigation into the mating habits of finches; a portrait of a dominatrix, her clients, and her hypnotherapist; a conversation with John Malkovich, in the midst of an onstage role as Casanova; woozy, enigmatic, alluringly staged scenes in a bar; the goings-ons of a monastery; and assorted other phenomena, all richly captured on 16mm by cinematographer Helena Wittmann. An invigorating hybrid whatsit, Casanova Gene is a funny and seductive look at seduction, organized according to the ineffable logic of desire itself. Thursday, May 3, 9:00pm (Q&A with Luise Donschen)<\/p>\n
\nKarim A\u00efnouz, Germany\/France\/Brazil, 2018, 97m
\nArabic, English, and German with English subtitles
\nU.S. Premiere
\nBerlin-based Brazilian director Karim A\u00efnouz (Futuro Beach) returns with this impeccably photographed documentary chronicling a year in the lives of asylum seekers in Berlin’s historic Tempelhof, a former airport built by the Nazi government as a symbol for Hitler’s Germania. The irony is not lost on A\u00efnouz or his subjects\u2014Ibrahim, an 18-year-old from Syria, and Qutaiba, a 35-year-old from Iraq who was forced to flee before he could graduate from medical school. Today, the airport has been repurposed into an emergency medical headquarters: an ad hoc village for those waiting to be deported or granted residency. Central Airport THF is a moving portrait of displaced people as well as a treatise on our malleable relationship to architecture. Sunday, May 6, 3 p.m.<\/p>\n
\nAntoine Bourges, Canada, 2017, 70m
\nNew York Premiere
\nIsolde (Deragh Campbell) is a support caseworker in training trying to get a handle on the protocols, norms, and material constraints of her new vocation. She\u2019s assigned to the case of Eric (Nathan Roder), a withdrawn, sullen man charged with petty theft, with whom she must forge enough of a relationship that he\u2019ll show up for his impending court date. Bourges\u2019s Toronto-set debut precisely renders the mechanics and kinks of the Canadian legal system and social services, conferring an element of documentary reality on a droll, touching narrative, which has an elegantly unembellished style that verges on the Bressonian. Thursday, May 3, 7 p.m. (Q&A with Antoine Bourges and actress Deragh Campbell)<\/p>\n
\nGustavo Vinagre, Brazil, 2017, 82m
\nPortuguese with English subtitles
\nU.S. Premiere
\nFilmed in a single all-night session, the latest from Gustavo Vinagre (Nova Dubai, Art of the Real 2015) is an extended interview with his friend and collaborator Julia Katharine, a Japanese-Brazilian trans actress-filmmaker whose insomnia keeps her awake long enough to candidly spill stories of her childhood, family, romances, desires, self-destructive impulses, and\u2014above all\u2014love of cinema. Vinagre invests himself in Julia\u2019s tales as a quiet but attentive insider as she speaks at length of her insecurities, her desire to divulge honestly and still engage her audience, and the various films that have shaped her identity, from Terms of Endearment to The Birds to Querelle. A deeply personal and immediate confessional that will readily call to mind Shirley Clarke\u2019s Portrait of Jason and Jean Eustache\u2019s Num\u00e9ro z\u00e9ro, I Remember the Crows observes a psychological fulfillment from its subject and director inconceivable in any other time and place.
\nSaturday, May 5, 8:45pm<\/p>\n
\nDonal Foreman, Ireland\/France\/USA\/UK, 2018, 73m
\nEnglish and French with English subtitles
\nNorth American Premiere
\nForeman tries to understand the father he hardly knew, the Irish-American political filmmaker Arthur MacCaig, who passed away in 2008, in his singular essay film. Though he was largely based in Paris, MacCaig made documentaries on the conflict in Northern Ireland\u2014including 1979\u2019s The Patriot Game\u2014and left behind a vast visual archive that Foreman analyzes in search of familial affinities. Through this footage\u2014powerful, direct images capturing the Troubles in all their complexity\u2014Foreman comes to know his father on a more profound and moving plane. The Image You Missed is an enthralling historical exhumation that erases the boundary between the personal and the political.
\nFriday, May 4, 9 p.m. (Q&A with Donal Foreman)<\/p>\n
\nCorneliu Porumboiu, Romania, 2018, 70m
\nRomanian with English subtitles
\nNorth American Premiere
\nThe hilarious and politically incisive new film from Romanian New Wave master Porumboiu finds him spending time with Lauren\u021biu Ginghin\u0103, a bureaucrat whose budding career on the pitch was cut short in 1987 by a slide tackle that fractured his fibula. Ginghin\u0103 now dreams of radically revising the beautiful game\u2019s rules in order to cut down on injuries and, in his mind at least, revolutionize the world\u2019s most popular sport. Porumboiu\u2019s portrait of this goofy and self-assured would-be revolutionary is a follow-up to The Second Game (which opened the inaugural edition of Art of the Real in 2014) and a clever parable for the obstacles faced by utopian thought today. Saturday, May 5, 5 p.m.<\/p>\n
\nKazuhiro Soda, Japan\/USA, 2017, 122m
\nJapanese with English subtitles
\nNorth American Premiere
\nKazuhiro Soda continues to monitor changes to the Japanese fishing industry in the black and white documentary Inland Sea, set in Ushimado, the same village as his expansive Oyster Factory (Art of the Real 2015). Mrs. Koso is an elderly fishmonger who shuffles through the streets hawking fish, and Mr. Murata (affectionately called \u201cWai-chan\u201d) is an 86-year-old fisherman who still takes his boat out daily. Through a mix of v\u00e9rit\u00e9 shots and direct conversations, Soda shows that these tenacious residents are so much more than remnants of a dying way of life. Saturday, April 28, 8:30 p.m. (Q&A with Kazuhiro Soda)<\/p>\n
\nG\u00fcrcan Keltek, Netherlands\/Turkey, 2017, 84m
\nKurdish and Turkish with English subtitles
\nU.S. Premiere
\nG\u00fcrcan Keltek\u2019s poetic first feature captures a critical moment from the Turkish-Kurdish conflict via otherworldly black and white images, largely filmed with disarming immediacy by Southeast Turkish locals. Meteors repurposes this archival footage and combines it with intimate interviews and oneiric scenes of life in Southeast Anatolia to yield a panoramic view of Turkey in a moment of existential and political upheaval; the reverberations of the fight for Turkey\u2019s future find expression in mountains dotted by rams and hunters and chaotic city streets littered with debris and protesters alike. Transcending fiction and nonfiction to arrive at a political truth somewhere in between, Meteors is a transfixing work featuring a cosmic ending not to be missed. Friday, May 4, 6:30 p.m. (Q&A with G\u00fcrcan Keltek)<\/p>\n
\nJake Meginsky & Neil Cloaca Young, USA, 2018, 91m
\nNew York Premiere
\nAn experimental jazz icon who has played with Albert Ayler, Giuseppi Logan, and Sonny Sharrock, Milford Graves is now the subject of a documentary as radical as his music. With a variety of formats, the film mixes interviews about Graves\u2019s craft with impromptu backyard kung-fu sessions, archival performances, and glimpses of his eccentric home studio. Graves talks about the practices and technologies that have driven his work, from recordings of heartbeats to concepts of energy related to Chinese medicine. Even if you\u2019re unfamiliar with his work, you\u2019re sure to find Graves\u2019s passions infectious and captivating.
\nFriday, April 27, 9:00pm (Q&A with Milford Graves, Jake Meginsky, and Neil Cloaca Young)<\/p>\n
\nAdirley Queir\u00f3s, Brazil\/Portugal, 2017, 99m
\nPortuguese with English subtitles
\nNorth American Premiere
\nContinuing the Afrofuturist docufiction of White Out, Black In ( which screened at Art of the Real in 2015), Adirley Queir\u00f3s\u2019s Once There Was Bras\u00edlia takes on the legacies of Brazil\u2019s structural racism and the 2016 coup against Dilma Rousseff. W4, a disgraced intergalactic agent, is given the opportunity to acquire land for his family by traveling to earth to assassinate Juscelino Kubitschek, the president who founded Bras\u00edlia, on the day the city was to be inaugurated. Instead, he ends up in Ceil\u00e2ndia (a suburb founded for Bras\u00edlia\u2019s black population) on the verge of Rousseff\u2019s impeachment. Funny and visually dazzling (the cinematographer is filmmaker Joana Pimenta), Queir\u00f3s\u2019s film continues in the bold tradition of Brazilian underground cinema. Friday, April 27, 6:30 p.m. (Q&A with cinematographer Joana Pimenta)<\/p>\n
\nKristina Konrad, Germany\/Uruguay, 2018, 237m
\nSpanish with English subtitles
\nNorth American Premiere
\nWhat is peace? What is justice? Why should these two concepts be mutually exclusive? These hard questions are posed by Swiss documentarian Kristina Konrad\u2019s epic document of Uruguay\u2019s 1989 amnesty referendum, a vote to determine whether members of the police and military accused of crimes during the country\u2019s 12 years of junta rule could be prosecuted after they were controversially granted impunity in 1986. Working from a wealth of U-matic tapes, Konrad follows two TV interviewers as they talk to common citizens on the street about how they\u2019ll vote and what peace and justice mean to them. One or Two Questions is an engrossing, powerful, and frequently funny look at democracy in action.
\nMonday, April 30, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
\nAmar Kanwar, India, 2017, 84m
\nNew York Premiere
\nIn this thoughtful meditation on modern existence, a well-off math professor gives everything up to live in a train car. Amar Kanwar\u2019s dialogue-free film tells its tale through intertitles, letters, and minimal on-screen action. As the ascetic professor goes about his daily routine or just wanders around inside the car, Kanwar proves himself a master of light and shadow, making every small gesture into a simple, powerful image. Originally the centerpiece of an installation at Documenta 14, Such a Morning questions what it means to be truly in the moment.
\nSaturday, April 28, 6:30 p.m. (Introduction by Amar Kanwar)<\/p>\n
\nSergei Loznitsa, Germany, 2018, 94m
\nRussian, German and English with English subtitles
\nU.S. Premiere
\nThe latest from the ve rsatile Loznitsa (My Joy, Maidan) documents the annual gathering at the Soviet Memorial in Berlin\u2019s Treptower Park, a commemoration of the Red Army\u2019s victory over the Nazis in World War II. Victory Day captures the final preparations before immersing us in a choreographed spectacle marked by unfettered kitsch, pride, shame, reflection, and celebration\u2014a curious form of Russian patriotism away from Russia itself. With his typically patient, incisive eye, Loznitsa homes in on the contradictions and ecstatic strangeness of the ways history is used to forge a sense of community, yielding a complex work at once funny and profound.Saturday, May 5, 6:45 p.m.<\/p>\n
\nJumana Manna, Germany\/Lebanon\/Norway, 2017, 70m
\nEnglish, Arabic, Norwegian with English subtitles
\nNorth American Premiere
\nFollowing her debut feature, A Magical Substance Flows Into Me (Art of the Real 2016), Jumana Manna has created a profound meditation on resilience in an era defined by displacement, climate change, and war. Wild Relatives documents the complex pathway of seed distribution between Lebanon\u2019s Beqaa Valley and the Global Seed Vault deep inside Norway\u2019s Svalbard archipelago. Manna\u2019s beautifully photographed, itinerant documentary starts in the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)\u2014a Lebanon-based gene bank of unique landraces and cereals, headquartered in Aleppo until 2012\u2014and weaves through an intricate network of genealogists, refugees, farmers, and depositors as they safeguard endangered seeds through traditional and innovative agricultural methods.
\nTuesday, May 1, 7 p.m. (Q&A with Jumana Manna)<\/p>\n
\nIrene Lusztig, USA, 2017, 101m
\nU.S. Premiere
\nIn the 1970s, Ms. received several thousand letters to the editor detailing all manner of injustices\u2014from discrimination at work to failed relationships\u2014as well as criticisms of the magazine\u2019s feminism. The staff responded to some, but the overwhelming majority of them went unpublished. Starting in 2015, Irene Lusztig returned to the sites where some of the letters originated and recorded women of all ages reciting them directly to the camera. The readers also respond with their own commentaries. These fascinating vignettes cohere into a remarkable study of the way things have and haven\u2019t changed for women.
\nWednesday, May 2, 8:45 p.m. (Q&A with Irene Lusztig)<\/p>\nShorts Program<\/strong>
\n TRT: 73m<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nFrancisco Rodriguez, Chile\/France, 2017, 28m
\nNorth American Premiere
\nFour Chinese workers died at sea after jumping from their boat in the hopes of reaching Chile. This film explores their story, mixing impressionist images of the sea with straightforward interviews.<\/p>\n
\nLaura Huertas Mill\u00e1n, USA\/Argentina, 2017, 29m
\nSpanish with English subtitles
\nContinuing the groundbreaking anthropological work of Harvard\u2019s Sensory Ethnography Lab, Laura Huertas Mill\u00e1n follows a group of indigenous weavers who use a pre-Spanish loom to create their work. The women and men onscreen discuss what freedom means to them\u2014be it the decision not to marry or what it is to be wealthy.<\/p>\n
\nDeborah Stratman, USA\/Canada, 2018, 15m
\nU.S. Premiere
\nA multilayered portrait of the residents of Dawson City, Yukon Territory, who live in perpetual winter and hibernal darkness.
\nSunday, April 29, 2 p.m. (Q&A with Francisco Rodriguez, Laura Huertas Mill\u00e1n, and Deborah Stratman)<\/p>\nTribute<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nTropic of Cancer (Mexico, 2004, 52m)
\nMitote (Mexico, 2012, 53m)
\nOne of the best documentary filmmakers of his generation, Eugenio Polgovsky died suddenly last year. Art of the Real pays tribute to him with this double bill of medium-length works: Tropic of Cancer, a pointed dispatch from the deserts of inland Mexico, where impoverished families use homemade traps and weapons to hunt snakes and birds amid arid brushland, a state of existence that might as well be prehistoric; and Mitote, which weaves through the hunger strikers, wrestlers, soccer fans, and shamans at El Zocalo, Mexico City\u2019s vast main plaza, evoking a hallucinatory, v\u00e9rit\u00e9 snapshot of the nation.
\nSunday, May 6, 5 p.m. (Introduction by Mara Polgovsky)<\/p>\nArtist Spotlights<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nApprox: 90m
\nIn their work, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, who live between NYC and Ramallah, synthesize sound, image, text, installation, and performance practices. Their exhibitions, films, and audio works engage with politics and create hyper-sensory audiovisual landscapes rooted in the real; these immersive new worlds then suggest an escape from or alternative to colonial and extractive narratives and discourse. This event will share some of the duo\u2019s recent single-channel audiovisual works, followed by a discussion with the artists.
\nSaturday, May 5, 3:00pm<\/p>\n
\nApprox. 90m
\nMultimedia artist Steffani Jemison\u2019s videos, performances, scores, and installations seamlessly merge politics, poetics, and aesthetics. This program spotlights her urgent and sublime body of work, featuring several of Jemison\u2019s videos from the past decade, many of which concentrate on the black male body in contemporary America, as well as her recent sound work, and will culminate in a career-spanning discussion with the artist.
\nSaturday, April 28, 4:30pm (Discussion with Steffani Jemison)<\/p>\n
\nApprox: 75m
\nIraqi-born, Germany-based artist Hiwa K has created a body of work over the past 15 years that combines autobiography, oral histories, pedagogies, and multiple modes of encounter. His videos, performances, and installations often include people from his past and present life, from estranged family members, to recently acquired friends and strangers at a political rally. As a primarily self-taught artist, he creates work that inherently critiques the art education system and the professionalization of the field. Endemically social, and often tender and funny, the works together trace the artist\u2019s own diasporic path. Coinciding with a solo exhibition of the artist at the New Museum, this screening and discussion highlights a few of the artist\u2019s key works from the past decade.
\nWednesday, May 2, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
\nApprox. 90m
\nArtist and filmmaker Amar Kanwar has spent his career chronicling India\u2019s political shifts and the dramatic changes to its landscape, focusing especially on those most vulnerable to the effects. Kanwar\u2019s series The Sovereign Forest focuses on the state of Odisha in East India, a locus of conflict, power grabs, and major development. This program features two core works from that project: The Scene of Crime (2011, 42 min), composed of a series of visual \u201cmaps\u201d that document the landscape of Odisha in minute detail, serving as a memorial to the local land and lives lost to industrialization; and A Love Story (2010, 6 min), a tender love letter to the region\u2019s lost landscape. Kanwar will discuss his films following the screening.
\nSunday, April 29, 4:15 p.m. (Discussion with Amar Kanwar)<\/p>\nSpecial Event<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nApprox. 40m + Q&A
\nIn this interactive performance, Nicolas Pereda will explain his relationship to C.B., an amateur archaeologist, activist, artist, and the creator of the Mining Museum in La Union, who lives in the Sierra de Catorce (one of the highest mountains in Mexico), as interview footage plays behind him. It\u2019s a fascinating look at creativity and those who truly go their own way.
\nSunday, April 29, 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
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