Short Films
Experimental
162 CITIZENS IN TRUMP COUNTRY (2017)
"In 2016 I recorded events at the Mardi Gras celebration in Mobile, Alabama. "162 Citizens in Trump Country" was made scanning a crowd from the street with a small hand held slow motion camera. The Mardi Gras at Mobile was the first held in the U.S. Unlike the overtly drunk celebration in New Orleans, this Mardi Gras is more of a family event. The recordings were slowed in editing by a factor of 5."
Director: William Brown
Country: USA
TIME+PLACE: Fri, June 9 @ 6PM: Instituto Cervantes
BIENTOT (2016)
SEE YOU SOON (2016)
It is a conversation, a reunion accompanied by the images of a past that proclaims remembrance and the fear of neglect. Set between the nostalgia of a town that give birth to him and watched him grow into the man he once was and the memories of his voice giving his little daughter some answers about the most acclaimed topic by many that still do not comprehend it: love.
Director: Melissa Rico
Country: Colombia
TIME+PLACE: Mon, June 12 @ 6PM: City College, Aaron Davis Hall
CARTAS DESDE LA CELDA (2016)
LETTERS FROM THE CELL (2016)
From a cell anywhere in the world. Involuntary exile of those who their identity and turn, recycle, and disappear into a strange oblivion of words no longer spoken. Subject of oblivion for many and remembrance for a few. Letters written in the distance of those who struggle to wake up in a foreign place.
Director: Iñigo Pérez Picazo
Country: Cuba
TIME+PLACE: Sat, June 10 @ 3PM: CWE Auditorium
DEEP IN COSMOS (2016)
"Deep in Cosmos" is a short film about the last five minutes of a lonely man's life. By guiding the audience to experience these last five minutes, the film illustrates the loneliness of a human being.
Director: Jingyuan Wang
Country: USA
TIME+PLACE: Sat, June 10 @ 3PM: CWE Auditorium
MOVIE (2016)
Video graphic construction made with interpolation of monthly photographs conducted between July 2008 and January 2016.
Director: Joao Wesley de Souza
Country: Brazil / Spain
TIME+PLACE: Thurs, June 15 @ 6PM: NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
SHUFFLEBACKF*** (2016)
After the recent election in America, we seem to be a country with no forward, only back.
Director: Dee Hood
Country: USA
TIME+PLACE: Thurs, June 15 @ 6PM: NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
SNAPCHAT (2017)
Look around sometimes. A physical representation of Snapchat in our lives.
Director: Ben Krueger & Daniel Galastro
Country: USA
TIME+PLACE: Sat, June 10 @ 3PM: CWE Auditorium
SONATE NO 6 (2016)
SONATA NO 6 (2016)
With the sixth and final sonata by Galina Ustvolskaya, performed here by internationally renowned pianist Jacques Drouin, we enter the world of the Russian composer by meeting the mechanical percussion of the piano.
Director: Mario Cote
Country: Canada
TIME+PLACE: Mon, June 12 @ 6PM: City College, Aaron Davis Hall
TUPIANAS (2016)
Composed of Super 8 footage filmed in many different places in Brazil during the 70s, "Tupianas" is a reflection on the idea of "Tupi," the great native nation of inhabitants who lived in the vast solar territory, before the white men arrived- the Tupis-Gauranis called it "Pindorama" (land of the palm trees). The films elaborates a nonlinear narrative with a collage of "anthropophagic images," presenting the boy and space as topology of desires, dreams, and a convulsive social device of change.
Director: Marcos Bonisson & Khalil Charif
Country: Brazil
TIME+PLACE: Tues, June 13 @ 2PM: CWE Auditorium
UNTITLED #5, NEW YORK REFLEXIONS (2017)
This is one of a series of short poetic films exploring contemplative imagery found in everyday cityscapes and the power in evoking the act of contemplation in everyday life.
Director: Oscar Frasser
Country: USA / Colombia
TIME+PLACE: Thurs, June 15 @ 6PM: NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
