KAUFMAN ASTORIA STUDIOS
FILM & VIDEO GALLERY
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Emergency Needs, 2007; 16mm film, color, sound; 7 min.
11:20 am (Friday 1:20 pm)
Everson presents archival footage from a news
conference held in response to the 1968 Cleveland
race riots alongside its re-enactment. Courtesy Picture
Palace Pictures
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Crossings, 2006-07; 16mm film, color, sound and silent; 10 min.
11:30 am (Friday 1:30 pm)
Filming the U.S.-Mexican border using strobelike
effects, Fenz highlights the structure’s surprising
formal beauty while also evoking its more hostile
connotations.
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DRIVE THRU, 2006; High-definition video, color, sound; 20 min.
11:50 am (Friday 1:50 pm)
Skogerson takes elegiac stock of the damage
inflicted on the Florida coast by Hurricane Ivan in a
series of nocturnal scenes with broken neon lights.
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Operation Atropos, 2006; Video, color, sound; 59 min.
12:15 pm (Friday 2:15 pm)
Documenting her participation in a course
designed to prepare civilians for the “psychology
of torture,” Fusco’s film probes the mechanics and
ethics of interrogation.
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Let Me Count the Ways 10 . . . 9 . . . 8 . . . 7 . . . 6, 2004 – ; Video, color, sound; 22 min.
1:20 pm (Friday 3:20 pm)
Thornton’s episodic work reflects on anxiety,
trauma, and culpability, using past warfare to
contemplate contemporary politics. Courtesy Drift
International and Electronic Arts Intermix
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Notes on the Death of Kodachrome, 1990 - 2006; Video, color, sound; 52 min.
NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE
1:50 pm (Friday 3:50 pm)
Celluloid aficionado Montgomery takes the
discontinuation of Kodachrome film stock as
impetus to embark on a trip across the country that
includes visits with filmmakers Lisa Cholodenko
and Todd Haynes.
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Portal Excursion, 2005 - 07; Digital video, color, sound; 10 min.
2:50 pm (Friday 4:50 pm)
Everyman “Mike,” Smith’s eponymous performance persona in works and videos made since the late
1970s, finds invigorated hope for success in the
form of educational shareware and online learning
courses. Produced by Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT;
courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix
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March, 2008; High-definition video, color, sound; approx. 10 min.
WORLD PREMIERE
3:10 pm (Friday 5:10 pm)
Featuring the Knickerbocker Greys, a paramilitary
drill club for children that has practiced at the
Park Avenue Armory since 1881, McCorkle’s film
explores their weekly pageant within the neo-gothic
interiors of the historic building. Produced by Art
Production Fund, Jennifer and Curt Conklin, and Maccarone, Inc.;
courtesy Maccarone, Inc.
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RDD/DDR, 2008; Super 16 film and high-definition video transferred to high-definition video, color, sound; approx. 135 min.
WORLD PREMIERE
3:30 pm (Friday 5:30 pm)
Siegel’s concern with cultural memory, identity,
and the cinematic portrayal of place centers on the
former East German state, investigating Stasi
surveillance, filmmaking, collective therapy, and
“Indian hobbyists.”
EMILY FISHER LANDAU GALLERIES
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Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side), 2005; Digital video, color, sound; 66 min.
11:20 am (Friday 1:20 pm)
Interweaving stories revolving around corrido music,
drug trafficking, and illegal immigration present a
candid portrayal of U.S.-Mexican border politics
and cultural exchange. Co-produced by P.O.V. /American
Documentary Inc. Educational distribution by Cinema Tropical
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Tearoom, 1962/2007; 16mm film transferred to video, color, silent; 56 min.
NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE
12:30 pm (Friday 2:30 pm)
Jones culls found footage of sexual interactions
between men in a public restroom shot by a hidden
police camera in the early 1960s. Courtesy David
Kordansky Gallery
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When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, 2006; Video, color, sound; 255 min.
1:30 pm (Friday 3:30 pm)
Lee’s chronicling of Hurricane Katrina presents a
scathing indictment of the slow emergency
response to the disaster in New Orleans in 2005.
Courtesy Home Box Office, Inc.