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Free Screening · Q&A with Rory Kennedy

In a shockingly large number of schools, access to technology, connectivity, and teacher-training is nonexistent; this new film from Rory Kennedy and co-produced by Verizon, lays out the steps we must take a to bring our public education system into the 21st century. Free screening.

HBO Directors Dialogues: Agnès Varda & JR

The two artist friends will discuss their unique project Faces Places and the wise and wonderful film that came out of it.

HBO Directors Dialogues: Hong Sang-soo

Beyond prolific, South Korean director Hong Sang-soo has presented new films in NYFF’s Main Slate for five years in a row. And this year, he has two new movies. Hong will be on-hand to discuss these intimate, dialogue-driven, comic-tinged dramas.

HBO Directors Dialogues: Lucrecia Martel

Join Martel for a discussion of her films and her remarkable latest Zama, an adaptation of a classic Argentinean novel, set in the late 18th century.

HBO Directors Dialogues: Philippe Garrel

French master Philippe Garrel represents a strain of modernist cinema that stretches from the post–New Wave era to today, as evidenced by three of his films showing during NYFF this year. And we’re thrilled to have Garrel at this rare public appearance.

Film Comment Live: The Cinema of Experience

At this year’s NYFF, filmmakers are rising to the challenge of representing race and immigration at a pivotal time in our nation’s history. Our guests will discuss how cinematic technique is used to reflect such experiences and what is different about the latest generation of storytelling.

Film Comment Live: Filmmakers Chat

For the second year, Film Comment gives you the rare chance to see some of today’s most important filmmakers in dialogue with each other, featuring Claire Denis (Let the Sun Shine In), Kevin Jerome Everson (Tonsler Park), and Joachim Trier (Thelma).

Film Comment Live: Festival Wrap

In what is becoming an annual tradition, Film Comment contributing critics and editors gather for the festival’s last weekend and talk about the films they’ve seen, discussing—or arguing about—the selections in the lineup, from Main Slate and beyond.

Dark Corner VR: Night Night, Mule, & Catatonic

The team at Dark Corner Studios have made a name for themselves on 360 degree virtual reality film projects that explore the boundaries of horror cinema by placing audiences in the center of thrilling—and often terrifying—scenarios.

Look But With Love – Episodes 1 & 2

Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and presented by WITHIN, this documentary series follows extraordinary people in Pakistan actively working to change their communities through causes they care deeply about.

VR and the Future of Virtual Production by Lucasfilm

Talk on Friday at 8 at EBM · Demo on Saturday from 12-3 at Opera Learning Center

From the depths of earth’s oceans to galaxies far, far away, VR allows us to be anyone, go anywhere, and see anything. Lucasfilm and its visual effects division, Industrial Light & Magic, have harnessed the power of this medium to create a new Virtual Production toolset, allowing filmmakers to build and scout a virtual set, manipulate props, puppeteer characters and vehicles, even compose shots to create virtual storyboards.

Reality Jockeys

Finnish visual artists Fthr and Lintu specialize in creating surreal worlds in real time while interacting with the audience. Using custom software (Vizor Patches) and a variety of materials, they guide you through a trip that starts from nothing and ends in a living, breathing virtual world.

Virtual Virtual Reality

The brainchild of Tender Claws, the collective behind PRY (2015), Virtual Virtual Reality ponders humanity’s purpose in a future where our jobs have been co-opted by machines. Will we be little more than relics, reminders…even pets?

Arilyn

With Augmented Reality, which superimposes images, video, and other content onto our flesh and bone world, the line between the virtual and the real can blur to the point of being indistinguishable—with little more than a cell phone.

Gamescape: The Revenge of Full Motion Video

Full Motion Video games are making a comeback as creators breathe new life into this 35-year-old form. The 2017 edition of Gamescape celebrates some of the best new FMV work and looks back on titles both famous and infamous from the golden age of the arcade.

De-Escalation Room: Live Lab with Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab

A collaboration with SAFELab, the De-Escalation Room aims to create an immersive storytelling space that reckons with the negative behaviors of social media, forcing its players to work together to defuse an otherwise dangerous situation.