ART OF THE REAL

ART OF THE REAL

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From November 13-26, 2020, Film at Lincoln Center virtually screened the seventh edition of Art of the Real, an essential showcase for the most vital and innovative voices in nonfiction and hybrid filmmaking. The program was organized by Dennis Lim, director of programming at Film at Lincoln Center and the author of the critical biography David Lynch: The Man From Another Place, and Rachael Rakes, with program advisor Almudena Escobar López.

143 Sahara Street
Hassen Ferhani, 2019, Algeria/France/Qatar, 103m
Arabic and French with English subtitles

Hassen Ferhani's quiet documentary about an off-the-grid café in the Sahara Desert is an intimate portrait of its proprietor and her guests - as well a...

Corporate Accountability
Jonathan Perel, 2020, Argentina, 68m
Spanish with English subtitles

The trailer for "Responsabilidad empresarial" (Corporate Accountability) by Jonathan Perel.Images of Argentinian companies and factories in the first light o...

Expedition Content
Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati, 2020, USA, 78m
English, Mid Grand Valley Dani, and Dutch with English subtitles

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The Faculties
Eloisa Soláas, 2019, Argentina, 82m
Spanish with English subtitles

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małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore
Sky Hopinka, 2020, USA, 82m
English and Chinuk Wawa with English subtitles

(pronounced: moth-nee) This film follows Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier's wanderings through each of their worlds as they wonder through and contemplate the afterlife, rebirth, and the place in-between. Spoken mostly in chinuk wawa, their stories are departures from the Chinookan origin of death myth, with its distant beginning and circular shape.

A Shape of Things to Come
Lisa Marie Malloy & J.P. Sniadecki, 2020, USA, 77m

A Shape of Things to Come (Lisa Marie Malloy, J. P. Sniadecki)International Feature Film SectionL'Alternativa - 27è Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelo...

The Two Sights
Joshua Bonnetta, 2020, Canada/UK, 90m
English and Gaelic with English subtitles

I Never Climbed the Provincia
Ignacio Agüero, 2019, Chile, 92m
Spanish with English subtitles

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CONVERSATION

Five filmmakers speak about their meditations on landscape as an actor in historical, social, and cultural life. The spooky seas of the Outer Hebrides in Joshua Bonnetta’s The Two Sights, the critical soundscapes of an ethnographic visit to Dutch New Guinea in Ernst Karel and Veronika Kusumaryati’s Expedition Content, “ethno-fictional” stagings on the Northern Plains in Argentina in Ezequiel Yanco’s La vida en común, and the same country’s complicit industrial structures captured in Jonathan Perel’s Corporate Accountability join together in a discussion about the visual production of place, evidence, and environmental encounter.

Five filmmakers speak about their meditations on landscape as an actor in historical, social, and cultural life. The spooky seas of the Outer Hebrides in Jos...

Fragments is a notebook of things seen and read. Some of the thinking in Fragments is my own.

Much I have excerpted from various sources.

Please note that I do not own the copyright to most of the texts, images, or videos.

NEITHER SETTER NOR NATIVE by Mahmood Mamdani

NEITHER SETTER NOR NATIVE by Mahmood Mamdani

BLACK VISUAL ARCHIVES - A CONVERSATION

BLACK VISUAL ARCHIVES - A CONVERSATION