ND/NF 2025 Shorts Program II
Featuring the U.S. premiere of Jessica Dunn Rovinelli’s Life Story, the North American premiere of Camille Vigny’s Crushed, the world premiere of Julia Sipowicz’s Maidenhair, the North American premiere of Kevin Walker and Irene Zahariadis’s Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, and the North American premiere of Daphné Hérétakis’s What We Ask of a Statue Is That It Doesn’t Move.
Q&A with Jessica Dunn Rovinelli, Julia Sipowicz, Kevin Walker, Irene Zahariadis on April 11 at 8:45pm (MoMA) and April 13 at 3:30pm (FLC)
Life Story
Jessica Dunn Rovinelli, 2024, U.S., 10m, 35mm
U.S. Premiere
Philosopher and theorist McKenzie Wark (Hacker Manifesto, Raving) reads excerpts from an original text that intertwines the history of the Left with her own corporeality. The camera delicately traces her nude body, laying bare the marks of her gender transition, as she muses on love, the making of one’s self, and lost futures while the specter of death looms large.
Crushed
Camille Vigny, 2024, Belgium, 12m
French with English subtitles
North American Premiere
The haunting story of a toxic relationship resonates with images of wrecked cars racing in a demolition derby. In Crushed, Camille Vigny captures stock cars as though they were bodies bearing trauma, creating a moving, cathartic experience from memories of a young, abusive love driving around in circles.
Maidenhair
Julia Sipowicz, 2025, U.S., 7m
World Premiere
Winnie, a preacher’s daughter in Newbury, Ohio, spends her days tending to her horses and assisting with her father’s congregation. When a young Bible salesman pays a visit to her father’s church, a nascent sense of desire is awakened in Winnie that leads her to the edges of her repression.
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Kevin Walker, Irene Zahariadis, 2025, Greece/U.S., 26m
Greek with English subtitles
North American Premiere
In this intimate, observational work of docu-fiction, the nine remaining inhabitants in the village of Archia on the Greek island of Nisyros must relocate the remains of their ancestors to make room for those of the recently deceased. Steeled away from the confines of death in a timeless town, the spirits of the dead co-mingle with the living as a local priest leads the community’s procession to the top of a mountain to perform the ceremonial re-burial.
What We Ask of a Statue Is That It Doesn’t Move
Daphné Hérétakis, 2024, Greece/France, 31m
Greek with English subtitles
North American Premiere
Inspired by Greek poet Yorgos Makris’s 1944 proclamation that the Parthenon should be blown up, Daphné Hérétakis creatively blends and experiments with various styles—documentary, street interviews, and musical skits—to question the significance of history, cultural heritage, gentrification, and the disruption of local routines in a European capital as it accommodates mass tourism.
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