ND/NF 2008 Program Overview Frozen River Ballast Correction Eat, for This... Epitaph Falling from Earth... Foster Child La France Japan Japan... Jellyfish A Lost Man Megane Momma’s Man Moving Midway Munyurangabo Sleep Dealer Slingshot Hip Hop Soul Carriage The Toe Tactic Trouble the Water Valse Sentimentale Water Lilies We Went to Wonderland Wonderful Town XXY La Zona HBO Films Roundtable ND/NF Classics Closing Night Party Ticket Info About Submissions Past ND/NF Festivals

Eat, for This Is My Body Series: New Directors/New Films [March 26 - April 6, 2008] Director: Michelange Quay, Release: 2007, Runtime: 105 Michelange Quay’s extraordinary first feature invites us to abandon the rules of traditional storytelling and embrace a poetic cinematic language uniquely his own, as was evident in his ferocious short The Gospel Of The Creole Pig (ND/NF 2004). This seductive and radical film begins with a breathtaking aerial traveling shot over a tropical island where nature’s bounty vies with images of poverty and suffering. A woman with a huge belly undergoes a difficult birth; the sound of a rushing waterfall quells her plaintive cries. A voodoo ceremony erupts with fervor. A white woman serves an imaginary dinner to a group of black boys forced to reiterate “merci.” Vibrant musical sequences give way to contemplative tableaux of sexual ambiguity. More than playing the race card, Quay reflects on the political and sexual politics of a country with a stormy past and an uncertain future in a film you are not likely to forget. Haiti/France Thu Mar 27: 9:00pm (MoMA) Sat Mar 29: 3:30pm (WRT) Michelange Quay studied film at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. In 2002, he was selected for Cannes Film Festival’s Cinefondation Residence for Directors. His short The Gospel Of The Creole Pig was screened in ND/NF 2004. Eat, for This is My Body is his feature debut.

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