New York Film Festival parent Film at Lincoln Center has set the slate for its Currents strand at the 62nd edition 12 features and 28 shorts meant to complement the Main Slate with an emphasis on new, innovative voices.
Currents Centerpiece selection is the world premiere of Jem CohensLittle, Big, and Far,a tale of catastrophes through the travels of an astronomer in search of a sky dark enough to study the stars.
Other portraits include Madeleine Hunt-EhrlichsThe Ballad of Suzanne Cesaire,a fragmented recomposition of the Martiniquan writer and activists legacy; Pierre Creton and Vincent Barres7 Walks With Mark Brown, following the path of a paleobotanist in search of native plants; Yashaddai Owenss debut feature,Jimmy, which imagines a young James Baldwin as he arrives in Paris from New York; and Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovskysbluish(winner of the Grand Prix at FIDMarseille), portraying the day-to-day life of two young women recently transplanted to a big city as their early adulthood unfolds.
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Films tackle sociopolitical issues as in Guillaume Cailleau and Ben RussellsDIRECT ACTION(winner of the Best Film award in the Berlinales Encounters section), which traces the actions of a French political eco-activist group, and Dimitris Athiridissexergue on documenta 14, where politics and art collide in a 14-part serial looking behind the scenes of the making of the global contemporary art showcase Documenta 14 and how it signaled major impending political shifts in Europe.
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Other features include Nicolas PeredasLazaro at Night, an awkward love triangle among actors auditioning for the same film; Matthew RankinsUniversal Language(winner of the Audience Award at Cannes Directors Fortnight), which grasps at connection among relocated Iranians in Canada and Marta MateussFire of Wind, which mingles past and present traditions through a small community during the harvest season.
The short films in Currents reflect similar stylistic and thematic concerns and are grouped into six programs, see below.
NYFF runs September 27October 14 at Lincoln Center and venues in Staten Island (Alamo Drafthouse Cinema), Brooklyn (BAM), Bronx (The Bronx Museum, and Queens (Museum of the Moving Image).
CURRENTS FEATURES
Currents Centerpiece:Little, Big, and Far, Jem Cohen, World Premiere
7 Walks with Mark Brown, Pierre Creton and Vincent Barre
The Ballad of Suzanne Cesaire, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
Bluish, Lilith Kraxner, Milena Czernovsky
DIRECT ACTION, Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell
exergue on documenta 14, Dimitris Athiridis,
Fire of Wind, Marta Mateus
Jimmy, Yashaddai Owens,
Lazaro at Night, Nicolas Pereda
The Suit, Heinz Emigholz
Universal Language, Matthew Rankin
You Burn Me / Tu me abrasas, Matias Pineiro
CURRENTS SHORT FILMS
Currents Program 1: The Will to ChangeBlack Glass, Adam Piron
Man number 4, Miranda Pennell,
An All-Around Feel Good, Jordan Lord,
The Deep West Assembly, Cauleen Smith,
Currents Program 2: Identification Marks
Track_ing, Chanyeol Lee, Hanna Cho, Samgar Rakym, Ali Tynybekov,
I Remember (depth of flatten cruelty),James Richards, Tolia Astakhishvili
Efforts of Nature, Morgan Quaintance,
Being John Smith, John Smith
Currents Program 3: Signal to Noise
Grandmamauntsistercat, Zuza Banasinska,
Jizai, Maiko Endo,
Like an Outburst, Sebastian Schjaer
Hemel, Danielle Dean,
Currents Program 4: Space Is the Place
Revolving Rounds, Christina Jauernik,
ESP, Laura Kraning,
re-engraved, Lei Lei,
A Black Screen Too, Rhayne Vermette
The Land at Night, Richard Tuohy,
Archipelago of Earthen Bones To Bunya, Malena Szlam
Currents Program 5: Material WorldsVibrant Matter, Pablo Marin,
Towards the Sun, Far from the Center,Pascal Viveros, Luciana Merino,
No Spank, Jordan Strafer,
Sinking Feeling, Zachary Epcar
The Invisible Worm,Rosalind Nashashibi,
Currents Program 6: Poetry Is Not a Luxury
Refuse Room, Simon Liu,
Machine Boys, Karimah Ashadu,
Razeh-del, Maryam Tafakory,
Practice, Practice, Practice, Kevin Jerome Everson,
October Noon, Francisco Rodriguez Teare
