Doc Fortnight Shorts Program: The Presence of Place

Sat. Feb 17, 2018 at 7:30pm EST
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Includes the following films:

Find Fix Finish

2017. Germany. Directed by Sylvain Cruiziat, Mila Zhluktenko. US premiere In this short, comprised entirely of drone footage, three military drone pilots share their experiences and how they deal with the ability to kill with the push of a button. 19 min.

Spirit Lake

2017. Azerbaijan/USA. Directed by Rena Effendi. This haunting portrait of North Dakota’s Spirit Lake reservation portrays inhabitants’ lives, from trauma to spiritual practice. 20 min.

Dérive Veneziane

2015. Spain/Venice/USA. Directed by Antoni Muntadas. US premiere An homage to the city of Venice—a nighttime boat ride through the hidden, the unknown, the mysterious—inspired by the Situationists’ theory of the dérive. 38 min.

Attachment

2017. Great Britain. Directed by Naomi Bowey. International premiere Navigating through the corridors of a self-storage facility, this short work delves into the peculiar bonds we have with our possessions. 3 min.

Abbeville

2017. USA. Directed by Juan Mejia. International premiere In 1916, a black farmer named Anthony Crawford was brutally lynched in Abbeville, South Carolina. One hundred years later, the Crawford family returns to the town square to acknowledge the racial violence that once drove them away. 7 min.

...the thing itself

2018. Romania/USA. Directed by Edin Velez. World premiere An intimate space carved out of a quiet late summer day. Extreme close-ups of domestic life bathed in a ripe light slowly open up into wider landscapes of less forgiving time. This is a morning in Transylvania. 5 min.

UNTITLED (Pow Wow)

2017. USA. Directed by Mary Lucier. In an initiative supported by the Rauschenberg Foundation, Lucier was among artists who created work in collaboration with the Spirit Lake Dakota Sioux reservation. Here she responds to the music, dance, costume, and decoration of tribal activities in which individuals and groups embody an ancient culture. 9 min.

Twin Tastes & Tongues

2017. Spain/China. World premiere Split-screen footage of daily goings-on in Shanghai and Barcelona captures the blurred cultural lines of our global present. 15 min.

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The Museum of Modern Art Theater 2 11 West 53 Street
New York, NY 10019