The Future is Experimental

Monday, April 8, 7:15 PM

Vera
Director: Karen Yasinsky
Experimental, USA, 7 min.

A collage film working with hand-drawn animation.

Portage
Director: Kellie Bornhoft
Experimental, USA, 4 min.

A whispering soundtrack tells the story of the artist skiing across an Alaskan lake in search of a receding glacier.

Foreclosed Home Movie
Director: Lisa Danker
Experimental, USA

A memoir of losing a home in 1930, in Miami, becomes the sister tale to a foreclosure in 2013.

The Real Thing
Director: Julianna Villarosa
Experimental, USA, 3 min.

The famous ad “I’d Like To Buy The World A Coke” contrasts with The Coca-Cola Company’s most recent scandal: unconscionable water privatization in Chiapas, Mexico.

Community Room
Director: Amanda Katz
Experimental, USA, 5 min.

An underutilized space, tacked-on to a newly constructed condominium. Filmed on the first day of Spring. 210 North 12th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Winter’s First Moons
Director: Kathleen Rugh
Experimental, USA, 4 min.

Filmed over numerous nights the moons of different phases are brought together in the black sky.

And By The Night
Director: Anna Kipervaser
Experimental, USA, 10 min.

After a period of no revelations, Surah al-Duha was revealed to Prophet Muhammad, stating that God had neither forsaken nor forgotten him. And to be patient.

Pelourinho: They Don’t Really Care About Us
Director: Akosua Adoma Owusu
Documentary, Brazil, 9 min.

A series of vignettes that juxtaposes a letter from Du Bois to the U.S. Embassy of Brazil in 1927 concerning attitudes and discrimination towards Black American travelers against pop icon Michael Jackson’s most controversial music video.

Evangelia c’est Moi
Director: Alison Folland
Experimental, Greece, 11 min.

An essay on the joys and heartaches of largesse, and the influence of film on lived reality.

Fortress
Director: Meredith Moore
Experimental, USA, 4 min.

Building a film about building a fortress. It is the journey, not the destination that matters.

Memoria Data
Director: Lori Felker
Experimental, Italy, 12 min

Moments of connection from various and distant familial archives.

Take it Down
Director: Sabine Gruffat
Experimental, USA, 13 min.

The last stand for the silent guardians of the old order and a filmic day of reckoning for the Old Confederate South.