This Saturday at 6pm, Art of the Real Program 3: What We See Is Real features works that push the premise of auto-ethnography into a rigorous, foreign, and experimental art form.
In POINTS OF DEPARTURE, director Alia Syed’s voice narrates entangled memories triggered by finding a family tablecloth, accompanying archival footage and shots of Glasgow’s landscape. An essayistic portrait of place, home, and lost words and translations.
Thirza Cuthand's SIGHT blends two stories of blindness to think about the realities of disability and mental illness. This frank testimony plays over Super-8 footage obscured by colored markings.
With vulnerability and a note of rage, Miko Revereza details the experience of his family’s relocation to Los Angeles from Manila in DISINTEGRATION 93-96.
Angelo Madsen Minax's AT THE RIVER is part of an ongoing effort, spanning the past four years, to document the filmmaker’s small-town-Michigan roots. This short seamlessly juxtaposes tensions inside the family house with a father and son’s walk in the woods. With Q&A!
A study of landscape as personal history & a marker of time’s passage, PUCHUNCAVÍ is a project in ongoing mutation, as director Jeannette Muñoz uses 16mm film to capture the same Chilean coastal town every time she travels there, making several cuts and revisions along the way.
In the wake of three profound losses, Barbara Hammer waltzes with an anatomical skeleton, confronting mortality head-on and meditating on grief, sickness, and burial rituals in VITAL SIGNS.
Onyeka Igwe's THE NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED, INCLUDING MY OWN AND TRUTHS HAVE BEEN ALTERED is a family story and land story, told in multiple ways, that explores the slippery notion of “truth” with the help of the British Colonial archive, Nollywood, and an adapted novel.
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The Film Comment Podcast: The Mind Games of David Fincher
Precision tools: Kent Jones and Adam Nayman join to discuss David Fincher and his decade-spanning body of gritty Americana