NYFF50: Views from the Avant-Garde
October 4 – October 8
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For its 16th year, Views offers and expanded edition, presenting five days of New York and World Premieres from the frontiers of innovative moving image making. Curated by Mark McElhatten and Gavin Smith.
Purchase a $75 Views Pass for unlimited access to the 22 programs in this year’s Views from the Avant-Garde! The pass also entitles you to a discount on a ticket to the World Premiere of Peter Kubelka's Monument Film. Click here for more info.
A select portion of these films will be made available online starting October 9. Sponsored by Film Armada.
Peter Kubelka: Monument Film
"[Antiphon is] a remake [of Kubelka's classic 1960 film Arnulf Rainer] in the literal sense of the word – light becomes dark, sound becomes silence, in a reverse rhythm. And the projection of these twins, these two synthetical and contradictory works, are to be – according to Kubelka’s concept – screened consecutively, one after the other; doubly projected next to each other and then, finally, one superimposed over the other." —Viennale program notes
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Fragments of Kubelka
Martina Kudláček's epic documentary unveils the complex worldview of iconic filmmaker and theoretician Peter Kubelka.
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Free Amphitheater Programs
Free Views from the Avant-Garde programming all day in the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center from Thursday, October 4 through Monday, October 8!
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Chris Marker
Sans soleil
1982 | France | 100m | 35mm | color | sound
The Sorbonne should be razed and Chris Marker put up in its place. —Henri Michaux
"Sans Soleil is Marker’s tour de force as a cinematic essayist, all playful musings and meandering digressions, in which passing observations on such apparently banal subjects as pet cats and video games yield profound insights into the big issues of twentieth-century civilization: history, memory, political power, the function of representation, ritual and time." —Catherine Lupton
Raúl Ruiz
The Blind Owl
La Chouette aveugle | 1987 | France | 90m | 16mm | color | sound
" [The Blind Owl] has a continual mixture of dream and reality, past and present. Ceaselessly, one image contradicts the next. I regard it as Ruiz's masterwork." —Luc Moullet
Invisible Attributes – By Sky and on Foot
The Creation as We Saw It - Ben Rivers
Morning of Saint Anthony's Day - João Pedro Rodrigues
Concrete Parlay - Fern Silva
Walker - Tsai Ming-Liang
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Nicolas Rey
anders, Molussien
differently, Molussia | 2012 | France | 81m | 16mm
Circles of Confusion
20Hz - Semiconductor
Tension Building - Ericka Beckman
Collections - Peggy Ahwesh
Interstitial Project 1 - Matt McCormick
Birthstone - April Simmons
2 Couplets from the Rain series - Lewis Klahr
Tokens and Penalties - Talena Sanders
Interstitial Project 2 - Matt McCormick
Circle in the Sand - Michael Robinson
Ferdinand Khittl
The Parallel Road
Die Parallelstraße | 1961 | Germany | 86m | Beta Sp with PowerPoint subtitles | color | sound
David Gatten
The Extravagant Shadows
2012 | USA | 175m | DCP | color | sound
Luke Fowler
The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott
2012 | UK | 80m | DCP | color | sound
Screening with:
A Day At Karl Marx’s Grave
Peter von Bagh | Finland | 1983 | 19m. | 16mm | color | sound
Phantom Residence
S P E C T R E - Sarah Grace Nesin
Phantoms of a Libertine - Ben Rivers
The Room Called Heaven - Laida Lertxundi
Mekong Hotel - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Beyond the Borderline
Beyond Expression Bright - Erin Espelie
The Name is not the Thing Named - Deborah Stratman
Marshy Place Across - Lorenzo Gattorna
Tectonics - Peter Bo Rappmund
Peggy Ahwesh & Joe Gibbons
Martina's Playhouse - Peggy Ahwesh
From Romance to Ritual - Peggy Ahwesh
Confidential Pt. 2 - Joe Gibbons
Spying - Joe Gibbons
Jerome Hiler: New Shores
In the Stone House (35m)
New Shores (45m)
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Nathaniel Dorsky
August and After (18.5m)
April (26m)
Jeff Preiss
Stop
1995-2012 | USA | 120m | 16mm transferred to SD video | color | sound
Touch and Go
When Faces Touch - Paolo Gioli
Arbor - Janie Geiser
Impressions - Marika Borgeson
Point de Gaze - Jodie Mack
Audition - Karen Yasinsky
When Bodies Touch - Paolo Gioli
Dragonflies with Birds and Snake - Wolfgang Lehmann
James Benning
small roads
2011 | USA | 103m | 47 shots | HDCam
Doppelganger (The Eternal Return)
Strata of Natural History - Jeannette Munoz
The Girl Chewing Gum - John Smith
The Man Phoning Mum - John Smith
Interstitial Project 3 - Matt McCormick
Waiting Room - Vincent Grenier
Interstitial Project 4 - Matt McCormick
Transit of Venus I - Nicky Hamlyn
Transit of Venus II - Nicky Hamlyn
WORK IN PROGRESS - Ernie Gehr
Puzzling Evidence
Across and Down - Lori Felker
Hotel Room - Bernd Oppl
The Day of Two Noons - Mike Gibisser
Atlas Minus…
The Strife of Love in a Dream - Camille Henrot
21 Chitrakoot - Shambhavi Kaul
A Few Extra Copies - Bobby Abate
17 New Dam Rd. - Dani Leventhal
The Voice of God - Bernd Lützeler
The Tombigbee Chronicles Number Two - Kevin Jerome Everson
Chevelle - Kevin Jerome Everson
Wadena - Peggy Ahwesh
Luther Price
A Luther Price Bestiary
Miscellaneous 16mm work | 2007-12 | USA | 90m
Chronocolor
Jake Seven - Mary Beth Reed
Austerity Measures - Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell
Another Void - Paul Clipson
Which Ceaselessly Float Up - Beige aka Vanessa O'Neill & Kent Long
Bloom - Scott Stark
Never a Foot Too Far, Even - Daichi Saito
Deep Red - Esther Urlus
