{"id":11033,"date":"2018-08-31T20:12:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T00:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=11033"},"modified":"2022-01-12T20:10:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T01:10:31","slug":"ny56filmfest-shorts-talks-gregg-w-morris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/ny56filmfest-shorts-talks-gregg-w-morris\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorts and Talks, 56th New York Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Highlights include Talks with Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n, Claire Denis, Jia Zhangke, Alice Rohrwacher, and Errol Morris;\u00a0 <\/b>Five World Premieres include new shorts by Michael Almereyda, Benjamin Crotty, and Ashley Connor & Joe Stankus. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Featuring films from nine countries as well as from burgeoning talent here in New York, the shorts section presents 21 films in four different programs. NYFF Talks will bring wide-ranging conversations with directors featured in NYFF56 to the public.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

HBO\u00ae is the presenting sponsor of NYFF Talks, which includes Directors Dialogues and On Cinema. This year\u2019s Directors Dialogues feature conversations with Centerpiece filmmaker Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n, Main Slate filmmakers Jia Zhangke and Alice Rohrwacher (NYFF54 Filmmaker in Residence), and Spotlight on Documentary director Errol Morris. High Life<\/i> director Claire Denis is this year\u2019s On Cinema talk, an in-depth discussion with NYFF Director Kent Jones. HBO\u00ae also sponsors NYFF Live, which will be announced in September.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Shorts selection includes two International Programs, featuring a mix of narrative, animation, and documentary work by established and emerging directors; annual thriller program Genre Stories; and New York Stories, featuring some of the most exciting filmmakers living and working in New York today. <\/span><\/p>\n

Highlights include the world premieres of To the Unknown<\/i> and The North Wind\u2019s Gift<\/i>, directed by Michael Almereyda (Experimenter<\/i>, NYFF53); The Chore<\/i>, directed by Ashley Connor and Joe Stankus (The Layover<\/i>, NYFF55<\/span>)<\/span>; Quarterbacks<\/i>, directed by Jason Giampietro (<\/span>Unpresidented<\/span><\/i>, NYFF55)<\/span>, and Eleanore Pienta\u2019s Ada<\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Shorts are programmed by Laura Kern, Dan Sullivan, and Tyler Wilson.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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The 17-day New York Film Festival highlights the best in world cinema, featuring works from celebrated filmmakers as well as fresh new talent. The NYFF56 selection committee, chaired by Jones, also includes Dennis Lim, FSLC Director of Programming, and Florence Almozini, FSLC Associate Director of Programming.<\/p>\n

As previously announced, the NYFF56 Opening Night is Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019s The Favourite<\/i>, Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n\u2019s ROMA<\/i> is Centerpiece, and Julian Schnabel\u2019s At Eternity\u2019s Gate <\/i>will close the festival. The complete lineup for the Main Slate can be found <\/span>here<\/a><\/span>, for Projections <\/span>here<\/a><\/span>, for Convergence <\/span>here<\/a><\/span>, Spotlight on Documentary <\/span>here<\/a><\/span>, Retrospective <\/span>here<\/a><\/span>, and Revivals <\/span>here<\/a><\/span>, and Special Events <\/span>here<\/a><\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Shorts tickets are $12 for Members & Students, and $17 for the General Public. Tickets to NYFF Live events are free and open to the public. Free tickets will be distributed at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center box office (<\/span>144 West 65th Street<\/a>, between Broadway and Amsterdam) on a first-come, first-served basis starting one hour prior to the event. Ticketing pricing for Directors Dialogues and On Cinema may vary, please visit filmlinc.org\/NYFF<\/a> to learn more. <\/span><\/p>\n

Tickets for the 56th New York Film Festival go on sale to the general public on September 9. Film Society Members at the Contributor Level will receive an early access period in advance of the public, along with $5 off all Festival and year-round tickets. Learn more at <\/span>filmlinc.org\/membership<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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SHORT FILM DESCRIPTIONS<\/b><\/u><\/h2>\n

International Shorts I
\n<\/span><\/u><\/b>TRT: 72m<\/h3>\n

Anteu<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/b>Jo\u00e3o Vladimiro, Portugal\/France, 29m
\n<\/span>Portuguese with English subtitles
\n<\/span>North American Premiere
\n<\/b><\/span>This vividly stylized and formally audacious work from Portuguese director Jo\u00e3o Vladimiro follows the life of a young man as he gradually becomes the last living person of his village.<\/p>\n

Here There Is No Earth<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/b>Martin Diccico, USA\/Turkey, 2018, 6m<\/span>
\n<\/span>Turkish with English subtitles
\n<\/span>North American Premiere
\n<\/b><\/span>A testimony about a shepherd\u2019s fatal encounter at the Turkish-Armenian border provides a haunting perspective on the countries’ physical and invisible lines of separation.<\/p>\n

jeny303<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/b>Laura Huertas Mill\u00e1n, Colombia\/France, 2018, 7m<\/span>
\n<\/span>Spanish with English subtitles
\n<\/span>North American Premiere
\n<\/b><\/span>Footage of an abandoned Bauhaus-style building accompanies confessionals from Jeny, a self-described living work of art, in this fleeting meditation on architecture and biography.<\/p>\n

Man in the Well \/ Jing li of ren<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/b>Hu Bo, China, 2017, 16m<\/span>
\n<\/span>Mandarin with English subtitles
\n<\/span>U.S. Premiere
\n<\/b><\/span>Desperation and ruin pervade this unsettling short from the late novelist-turned-filmmaker Hu Bo (An Elephant Sitting Still<\/i>), in which two starving children encounter a dead body.<\/p>\n

Tourneur<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/b>Yalda Afsah, Germany, 2018, 15m<\/span>
\n<\/span>U.S. Premiere
\n<\/b><\/span>Yalda Afsah\u2019s nonverbal documentary beholds the strange, subtly tense proceedings of a bullfight in the south of France, in which young men confront the animal inside the arena<\/p>\n

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International Shorts II<\/span>
\n<\/b>TRT: 77m<\/span><\/h3>\n

Black Dog<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/b>Joshua Tuthill, USA, 2017, 15m<\/span>
\n<\/span>New York Premiere
\n<\/b><\/span>Through its uncanny blend of archival footage and stop-motion animation, Black Dog<\/i> evokes a nightmarish conception of an American family during the 1960s Space Race.<\/p>\n

Down There<\/em>
\nZhengfan Yang, China, 2018, 11m
\n<\/span><\/b>U.S. Premiere
\n<\/b><\/span>A single long take observes the collective psychology of an apartment building after a quiet night is interrupted by an off-screen sound.<\/p>\n

Glorious Acceptance of Nicolas Chauvin \/ Le Discours d’acceptation glorieux de Nicolas Chauvin<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/b>Benjamin Crotty, France, 2018, 27m<\/span>
\n<\/span>North American Premiere
\n<\/b><\/span>Benjamin Crotty\u2019s latest is this hilarious and unpredictable portrait of Nicolas Chauvin\u2014a possibly apocryphal Napoleonic soldier whose name is the basis for the word chauvinism\u2014as he recounts his travails via a lifetime achievement award speech.<\/p>\n

Let Us Now Praise Movies \/ <\/span><\/em>Y ahora elogiemos las pel\u00edculas<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/b>Nicol\u00e1s Zukerfeld, Argentina, 2017, 15m<\/span>
\n<\/span>Spanish with English subtitles
\n<\/span>North American Premiere
\n<\/b><\/span>A young critic balances his time between a day job at a stationary store and managing a film magazine in this amusingly intelligent homage to the small yet boundless moments so many films leave out.<\/p>\n

Veslem\u00f8y\u2019s Song<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/b>Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada, 2018, 9m<\/span>
\n<\/span>U.S. Premiere
\n<\/b><\/span>Shot on hand-processed black-and-white film, Sofia Bohdanowicz\u2019s wry, wistful narrative-doc follows a young woman (Deragh Campbell) as she investigates the legacy of the once celebrated Canadian musician Kathleen Parlow.<\/p>\n

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Genre Stories<\/span>
\n<\/b>TRT: 85m<\/span><\/h3>\n

Acid<\/b><\/em>
\nJust Philippot, France, 2017, 18m
\n<\/span>NY Premiere
\n<\/b><\/span>As contaminated rain threatens to wipe out humanity, a married couple desperately battle to keep their young son safe.<\/p>\n

Child of the Sky<\/b><\/em>
\nPhillip Montgomery, USA, 2018, 15m
\n<\/span>NY Premiere
\n<\/b><\/span>Lost in the desert, a woman gets lured into a nightmarish world of cult violence in this deeply chilling Mesopotamian myth\u2013infused tale told through ferocious dance movements.<\/p>\n

Helsinki Mansplaining Massacre<\/b><\/em>
\nIlja Rautsi, Finland, 2018, 15m
\n<\/span>NY Premiere
\n<\/b><\/span>A female car-crash survivor offers a very definitive response to the incessant \u201ceducating\u201d by the infantile male chauvinists of the household that\u2019s taken her in.<\/p>\n

The Slows <\/span><\/b><\/em>
\nNicole Perlman, USA, 2018, 20m
\nNY Premiere
\n<\/b>In a regenerating post-apocalyptic world, the only remaining traces of naturally reproduced life face extinction.<\/span><\/p>\n

Toto<\/em> <\/b>
\nDanny Lee, USA, 2018, 17m
\nNY Premiere
\n<\/b>The career of an embittered former horror star (M. Emmet Walsh) who longs for his glory days comes gruesomely full circle.<\/span><\/p>\n

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New York Stories<\/u>
\nTRT: 63m<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ada<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/b>Eleanore Pienta, USA, 2018, 11m
\n<\/span>World Premiere
\n<\/b><\/span>In her funny, expressive, and dialogue-free directorial debut, actress Eleanore Pienta plays an eccentric woman trying to get from point A to point B and, in the process, finding New York City an obstacle course of casual hostility and bizarre behaviors.<\/p>\n

The Chore<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/b>Ashley Connor & Joe Stankus, USA, 2018, 8m<\/span>
\n<\/span>World Premiere
\n<\/b><\/span>Ashley Connor and Joe Stankus\u2019s latest quotidian miniature follows two brothers going grocery shopping together, musing on the products they come across, reminiscing about the past, and, finally, comparing notes on snickerdoodle recipes.<\/p>\n

God Never Dies \/ Dios Nunca Muere<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/b>Barbara Cigarroa, USA\/Ireland, 2018, 14m<\/span>
\n<\/span>Spanish with English subtitles
\n<\/b><\/span>Filmed in New York\u2019s Hudson Valley, Barbara Cigarroa\u2019s captivating work of docu-fiction offers a rare, real glimpse into the secluded life of a migrant farmworker as she struggles to raise two children on her own.<\/p>\n

The North Wind\u2019s Gift<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/b>Michael Almereyda, USA, 2018, 19m<\/span>
\n<\/span>World Premiere
\n<\/b><\/span>Michael Almereyda\u2019s contemporary riff on an Italian folktale (shot in black-and-white 16mm by Sean Price Williams), in which a magic microwave ensnares a starving family and their landlord, is a delightfully peculiar moral tale of greed, trickery, and the elemental forces of nature.<\/p>\n

Quarterbacks<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/b>Jason Giampietro, USA, 2018, 6m<\/span>
\n<\/span>World Premiere
\n<\/b><\/span>In Giampietro\u2019s comic latest, some friends\u2019 dinner conversation about the impending NFL Draft becomes a frank discussion of the state of race relations within the league and amongst its fans.<\/p>\n

To the Unknown<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/b>Michael Almereyda, USA, 2018, 6m<\/span>
\n<\/span>World Premiere
\n<\/b>Almereyda’s reading of Kenneth Koch’s \u201cTo the Unknown\u201d transforms footage of the everyday into a moving tribute to one of the New York School\u2019s most treasured and inventive poets.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Film Society of LIncoln Center
\n<\/u><\/b>FSLC is devoted to supporting the art and elevating the craft of cinema. The only branch of the world-renowned arts complex Lincoln Center to shine a light on the everlasting yet evolving importance of the moving image, this nonprofit organization was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international film. Via year-round programming and discussions; its annual New York Film Festival; and its publications, including Film Comment<\/i>, the U.S.\u2019s premier magazine about films and film culture, the Film Society endeavors to make the discussion and appreciation of cinema accessible to a broader audience, as well as to ensure that it will remain an essential art form for years to come.<\/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.<\/p>\n

Support for the New York Film Festival is generously provided by Official Partners HBO\u00ae and The New York Times<\/i>, Benefactor Partners Dolby and illy caff\u00e8, Supporting Partners Warby Parker, MUBI, and Manhattan Portage, and Hospitality Partner Hudson Hotel. JCDecaux, Variety, Deadline Hollywood, WABC-7, WNET New York Public Media, and The Village Voice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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