NYFF Shorts Program 1
Directors Todd Rosken and Henry Joost in person at 10/14 screening!
Rush tickets available!
Crescendo
Alonso Alvarez | 16m
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow: driven by domestic misery, an expectant mother teeters on the brink until a piano intervenes.
Up the Valley and Beyond
Todd Rosken | 15m
All you ever wanted to know about how sexploitation genius Russ Meyer got to be…Russ Meyer.
A Story for the Modlins
Sergio Oksman | 2012 | Spain | 26m
Memorabilia retrieved from the trash help recreate at least one account of a most peculiar American family.
A Brief History of John Baldessari
Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman | 6m
The work and philosophy of Los Angeles’s venerable conceptual artist receives a breathless run-through.
Saint Pierre
Kevan Funk | 15m
A dishwasher dreams of mixed martial arts glory, embodied by the eponymous reallife MMA champ.
Frank-Etienne
Constance Meyer | 13m
A sad sack traveling salesman (Gérard Depardieu—seriously!) gets more than he bargained for on his first day on the job.