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Photos: Art of the Real 2019

By Jordan Raup on May 14, 2019 in Art of the Real

Swarm Season director Sarah J. Christman. Photo by Bridget Ye.
Swarm Season director Sarah J. Christman. Photo by Bridget Ye.
Acid Forest producer Dovydas Korba and director Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė. Photo by Bridget Ye.
Acid Forest producer Dovydas Korba and director Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė. Photo by Bridget Ye.
Anton Vidokle. Dovydas Korba, and Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė. Photo by Bridget Ye.
Eric Baudelaire. Photo by Richard Jopson.
Eric Baudelaire and Elena López Riera. Photo by Richard Jopson.
The Game director Marine de Contes. Photo by Michelle Fimbres.
The Game director Marine de Contes and So Dear, So Lovely director Diana Allan. Photo by Michelle Fimbres.
So Dear, So Lovely director Diana Allan. Photo by Michelle Fimbres.
Last Night I Saw You Smiling director Kavich Neang. Photo by Colleen Sturtevant.
Last Night I Saw You Smiling director Kavich Neang. Photo by Colleen Sturtevant.
Q&A for Francisco Marise's To War. Photo by Colleen Sturtevant.
Q&A for Francisco Marise's To War. Photo by Colleen Sturtevant.
Movements of a Nearby Mountain director Sebastian Brameshuber. Photo by Sean DiSerio.
Movements of a Nearby Mountain director Sebastian Brameshuber. Photo by Sean DiSerio.
No Data Plan director Miko Revereza. Photo by Sean DiSerio.
No Data Plan director Miko Revereza. Photo by Sean DiSerio.
The Stone Speakers director Igor Drljača. Photo by Maccray Rental.
While We Are Here directors Clarissa Campolina and Luiz Pretti. Photo by Bridget Ye.
While We Are Here directors Clarissa Campolina and Luiz Pretti. Photo by Bridget Ye.
Tamer Hassan, Armand Yervant Tufenkian, and Monika Uchiyama at Art of the Real. Photo by Richard Jopson.
Accession crowd at Art of the Real. Photo by Richard Jopson.
Tamer Hassan, Armand Yervant Tufenkian, and Monika Uchiyama at Art of the Real. Photo by Richard Jopson.
For Barbara introduction. Photo by Michelle Fimbres.
Lynne Sachs and Deborah Stratman discuss Barbara Hammer's legacy. Photo by Michelle Fimbres.
Breathless Animals director Lei Lei. Photo by Bridget Ye.
Breathless Animals director Lei Lei. Photo by Bridget Ye.
Dark Suns director Julien Elie. Photo by Michelle Fimbres.
Dark Suns director Julien Elie. Photo by Michelle Fimbres.

Celebrating its sixth year, the Art of the Real festival offered a survey of the most vital and innovative voices in nonfiction and hybrid filmmaking. This edition featured yet another vibrant slate of brilliant new works by internationally acclaimed filmmakers and impressive, award-winning debuts from around the world, plus a retrospective of Japanese experimental filmmaker Toshio Matsumoto’s nonfiction work and a tribute to the late Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab.

A selection of filmmakers joined Film at Lincoln Center to present their new work, including Sarah J. Christman (Swarm Season), Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė (Acid Forest), Lei Lei (Breathless Animals), Tamer Hassan and Armand Yervant Tufenkian (Accession), Kavich Neang (Last Night I Saw You Smiling), and more. Check out the photo gallery above and Frank Beauvais’s Opening Night Q&A for Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream below.