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Have You Seen This Man
Explores New York City's post-modern consumer market through artist/businessman Geoff Lupo. (Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, 18 min.)
Help! My Snowman's Burning Down
An Academy Award nominee of 1964, this live, active short is a surrealistic and humorous satire on modern living. (Carson Davidson, 10 min.)
Analogue Assemblage
Drawing from his 1970s experiments with video synthesizers, one of video art's pioneers creates a multi-layered montage using current digital technologies. The eerie 1969 electronic score floats over ghostly image processing; the result is a paean to the way the future was. (Nam June Paik, 2 min.)
Clay Pride: Being Clay in America
"Hi. My name is Steve and I'm clay." Steve, Gary and others come out of the plasticine closet. (David Karlsberg, Jonathan Watts, 4 min.)
Just Another Day Without You
Submerged in flowers and water bubbles, liquefied memories fade in and out at the end of an old Miami hotel corridor. (Virginia Valdes, 4 min.)
The Travelling Eye of the Blue Cat
This photo-collage animation is a surreal fairy tale that begins when a girl is awakened one morning by a mysterious seagull. She follows the bird to an abandoned garden, where she discovers the edge of the world and a single tree bearing tangled red fruit. The girl takes a bite of the fruit and is catapulted into a startling, violent and extended metamorphosis. (Shawn Atkins, 16 min.)
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Mona Mon Amour
Donning a "Born to Bleat" dress and sipping coffee at a sidewalk café, an animated Mona discusses her "theories" about the world, including the idea that everyone arriving in New York should receive a rulebook for dating in New York. (Michael Sporn, 9 min.)
Kalamazoo
A comedy about an aspiring New York actress and her struggles with temp jobs, therapy, an old song, and a love that still burns. (Claudia Silver, 30 min.)
Why I Don't Go To The Movies
The difficulties of living with a goddess, the practical limitations of obsession and the moral hazards of movie theaters are the preoccupations of this unconventional short film about a failed love affair. (Paul Karlin, 7 min.)
Invaders
Two men run through the streets of Chinatown, racing towards a surprise meeting. (Sean Lees, 3 min.)
Bar Talk
What are women really saying when they lock eyes across a crowded bar? Find out why some women are too cool for words. In Lesbian with English subtitles. (Cheryl Furjanic, 8 min.)
Dream
This computer-animated film begins with a woman entering a subway station. There, a man starts singing an operatic aria to her, which sets her on a daydream to the moon. (Masayo Nishimura, 2 min.)
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Not for Sale
From the bulldozing of the public garden Esperanza to the completion of the luxury condos built in its place, "Not for Sale" chronicles life on East Seventh Street and the transformations that have taken place in the lives of its inhabitants. The old-timers on the block, going about their daily lives amid gentrification, share their memories of what used to be an immigrant lower-class neighborhood. All around, new residential buildings -- catering to young, white, professional singles -- go up, eating away the remaining space of this older and mostly Puerto Rican community. (Yaël Bitton, 58 min.)
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We Got Us
A comic and poignant film portrait of four elderly women -- Glenna, Barbara, Toby, and Roberta -- drawn together by friendship and a weekly game of mah jong. The filmmakers followed the women for two years, recording conversations that recall the past -- childhood, affairs, marriage, illness, bereavement -- and embrace the present. (Joan Brooker, Michael Harry, 27 min.)
Grandpa's Apartment
After her Grandpa Sidney moves down to Florida, the filmmaker/narrator inherits his fixed equity co-op, originally the International Ladies Garment Workers Union Cooperative, located on the Lower East Side. As she rummages through his one-bedroom apartment, she discovers clues about the life he lived and the history of the neighborhood. (Melissa Lohman, 36 min.)
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Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
Four immigrant teens from the former Soviet Union share their often painful experiences of coming to America and leaving behind the life and world they knew. (Aleksandra Gezentsvey, 7.5 min.)
Reeperbahn
A visit from a Jewish-American filmmaker to her close friend, a German dancer living on the Reeperbahn, the main drag of Hamburg's "St. Pauli" red-light district. This experimental film raises questions about contemporary identity, control over representation, and the weight of recent European history on young adults today. (Samuael Topiary, 14 min.)
Mi Nombre Es Carlos (My Name is Carlos)
An intimate portrait of an immigrant from Guatemala, who comes to New York City in search of the American Dream. Still a window washer 30 years later, he begins to have visions of the love he left behind. (Paul Barrera, 13 min.)
Banana
Hua Wen, a frustrated Chinese immigrant living in New York, experiences deep cultural and parental confusion. Entertaining, culturally sensitive and ultimately touching, the film depicts the triumph of the immigrant spirit under harsh conditions. (Kevin B. Lee, 26 min.)
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In Our Hands: June 12, 1982: One Million People: One Voice
A documentary on the demonstration calling for the end to the nuclear arms race that took place in Central Park 21 years ago. Footage of the largest peace demonstration in the history of the city includes day-before preparations, counter-demonstrations, the thoughts of the marchers, and performances by James Taylor, Rita Marley, Carly Simon, Pete Seeger and more. (Robert Richter, 90 min.)
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In The Street
In the mid-1940s, Helen Levitt began filming with an old Cine-Kodak viewfinder in the streets of East Harlem with her friends Janice Loeb and James Agee, wondering if a movie could be made in the style of the still photography she was already known for. In 1952, Levitt edited the footage and called it "In the Street." In the ensuing decades it has become widely recognized as a classic of cinematic art and a sociological treasure. (Helen Levitt, 14 min.)
Brooklyn Bridge
Still photographs, live video and superimposed drawings are fused in this visual poem dedicated to the New York City landmark. Emphasizing its strength and beauty, the artist presents the bridge as an iconic site in this meditative, cryptic study of identity and place. The transformative power of video is used to infuse the static photographs and naturalistic footage of the bridge with a mythic, animistic force. (Joan Jonas, 6 min.)
Mannahatta
Walt Whitman's poem "Mannahatta," published in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, as seen through a camera lens. 140 years later, the poem still rings true. Set to the music of American iconoclast Harry Partch. (George Schifini, 4 min.)
Times Square
The Dow Index rolling, horns honking, ads flashing -- this 3D animation shows the busiest intersection in New York. Viewers experience the reality, myth and pulse of this urban icon from all angles. (Muriel Magenta, 4 min.)
37th & Lex.
This "video letter," originally intended for an audience of one, resonates with associations that many can embrace. Impressions of New York, as seen from a window at 37th Street and Lexington Avenue, evoke memories of the past and anticipations of the future. (Leighton Pierce, 3 min.)
Time Expired
The film depicts the American environment in and around New York City, focusing on the wasteful indulgences of society. In its format as poetic cinema, the film portrays the masses of alienated people, wallowing in the automated unnaturalness of city life, while inhaling polluted air. The filmmaker asks: "Where are we going?" (Barton Kaitz, 20 min.)
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Moonlight Electric
A guitar player with an unexpected handicap auditions for Juilliard. (Risa Morimoto, 8 min.)
The Gulf
A Marine's return home after Operation Desert Storm is juxtaposed with a fictional version of the same event. (Todd Smith, 14 min.)
Iceman
A vignette about a prostitute, an American serviceman, and a block of ice.
(Kate Judge, 5 min.)
The Silent Love of the Fish
This urban tale of a boy and a girl who meet at a fish market is a poetic and surrealist evocation of first love. (Vivian Sorenson, 15 min.)
Simulator
Tom fights with estranged girlfriend Liz. But is Liz real? Is Tom? This science fiction film about a computer game with artificial intelligence examines our relationship with technology. (Aldo Romero, 12 min.)
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