There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse

Nicolás Zukerfeld
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June 11 - August 26, 2021

Nicolás Zukerfeld’s third feature is a wry, surprising work of filmmaking-as-criticism that traces a mysterious and amusing arc across the vast oeuvre of pantheon auteur Raoul Walsh, before suddenly reinventing itself as an essayistic investigation into memory, cinema, and their shared mutability.

DIRECTOR
Nicolás Zukerfeld
YEAR
2020
COUNTRY
Argentina
RUNTIME
63 minutes
LANGUAGE
English and Spanish with English subtitles

Nicolás Zukerfeld’s third feature is a wry, surprising work of filmmaking-as-criticism that begins as a kind of supercut of moments from the work of pantheon Hollywood auteur Raoul Walsh. This rhythmically entrancing parade of images traces a mysterious and amusing arc across the director’s vast oeuvre—but at the halfway mark, the film reinvents itself as an idiosyncratic, essayistic investigation into memory, cinema, and their shared mutability. There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways… reimagines cinema as a medium for the generation and transmission of ideas, and the results are by turns humorous, stimulating, and thrilling. An NYFF58 Currents selection.

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