Step inside the worlds of Gabriel Abrantes, Alexander Carver, Benjamin Crotty, and Daniel Schmidt in these trailers for our upcoming showcase of their work, Friends with Benefits: An Anthology of Four New American Filmmakers. Created by editor Margarida Lucas, these trailers capture the spirit of the work included in the group retrospective, which runs February 5 – 11 and is presented with support from MUBI and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
The series is anchored by a one-week run of Benjamin Crotty’s feature debut, and New Directors/New Films 2015 selection, Fort Buchanan, which also opens on February 5th. Among its stars is filmmaker Mati Diop, who was recently announced as the Film Society’s honoree at this year’s Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Awards.
Program 1: Dreams, Drones, and Dactyls collects Gabriel Abrantes’s three most recent shorts, ribald and irreverent films that mark his recent swerve toward popular comedy.
Program 2: Slow Learners brings together five early shorts full of camp and ambition, including two early collaborations by Abrantes and Crotty.
Program 3: Friends for Eternity comprises Abrantes and Schmidt’s first two collaborations, sublime stories of friendship and betrayal spanning the medieval past to a dystopian future.
Finally, check out the trailer for Schmidt and Carver’s sci-fi feature-length tone poem, The Unity of All Things.
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