Flaherty NYC | Season 24: Fall 2022
October 10–November 10
let’s all be lichen
programmed by asinnajaq
image by asinnajaq
let’s all be lichen is an Inukjuamiut’s response to 100 years of our namesake’s seminal film*. Featuring the works of largely circumpolar (Inuk, Sámi, Evenk and Sakha) filmmakers, the series weaves together works by artists who have harnessed their own power and distinct voice through the moving image. The series shimmers with personal histories, the spiritual anthropocene, questions of agency, memory, and urbanization, as well as a fierce and love-filled reclaiming of the arctic imaginary.
With works by Siku Allooloo, Zinnia Naqvi, Sunna Nousuniemi, Lindsay McIntyre, Chris Marker, Nivi Pedersen, Svetlana Romanova, Lada Suomenrinne, Zulaa Urchuud, asinnajaq, and her father, world-renown filmmaker Jobie Weetaluktuk.
let’s all be lichen is a five-part series that runs from October 10 to November 10, 2022 at Anthology Film Archives, e-flux Screening Room. Online programs will be announced shortly.
The Opening Night will take place on Indigenous People’s Day, October 10, and will be hosted by Anthology Film Archives. The screening will be preceded by Inuit games in First Street Art Park — all are welcome, RSVP required. Our closing event on November 10th will be at e-flux Screening Room.
Additional screenings will be hosted on campuses thanks to the Colgate/Flaherty Distinguished Global Filmmaker Residency program, NYU Cinema Studies Department Friday Night Screening Series & NYU Center for Media, Culture and History, and on The Flaherty’s custom-built platform virtual.theflaherty.org. Audiences all around the world, stay tuned: details of the hybrid and online components will be forthcoming!
program 1
LET ME INTRODUCE MYSELF
Monday, October 10, 7 pm
Anthology Film Archives
Still from THREE THOUSAND by asinnajaq
Jobie Weetaluktuk, INUKSHOP, 2009
asinnajaq, THREE THOUSAND, 2017
Jobie Weetaluktuk, UMIAQ SKIN BOAT, 2008
program 2
OBSERVATIONS & LITTLE EPIPHANIES
Monday, October 17, 7 pm
Anthology Film Archives
Still from MUN & DON (YOU & ME) by Lada Suomenrinne
Siku Allooloo, SPIRIT EMULSION, 2022
Lindsay McIntyre, SEEING HER, 2020
Zulaa Urchuud, ULAANBAATARAZATION, 2017
Zulaa Urchuud, NUUDELCH KHANDLAGA (NOMADTITUDE), 2021
Lada Suomenrinne, MUN & DON (YOU & ME), 2018
Lada Suomenrinne, Я неба (ME THE SKY), 2022
program 3
SLOW GROWTH
Tuesday, October 18, 7 pm
e-flux Screening Room
Still from BOSO MU RUOVTTOLUOTTA (BREATHE ME BACK TO LIFE) by Sunna Nousuniemi
Sunna Nousuniemi, BOSO MU RUOVTTOLUOTTA (BREATHE ME BACK TO LIFE), 2021
Nivi Pederson, PILLUARNEQ ERSIGIUNNAARPARA (HAPPINESS SCARES ME NO MORE), 2020
Still from FARZANA by Zinnia Naqvi
program 4
OUT OF SIGHT, HELD IN MIND
Monday November 7, 7pm
Anthology Film Archives
Zinnia Naqvi, SEAVIEW, 2015, 12 min, digital
Zinnia Naqvi, THE TRANSLATION IS APPROXIMATE, 2021, 11 min, digital
Zinnia Naqvi, FARZANA, 2021, 34 min, digital
Still from Тарыҥ (SEASON OF DYING WATER) by Svetlana Romanova, Chelsea Tuggle
program 5
MUTATIONS
Thursday, November 10, 7 pm
e-flux Screening Room and online for free
Starting with the same inspiration, building with a vastly different set of tools.
Chris Marker, LETTER FROM SIBERIA, 1957, 62 min, digital
Svetlana Romanova, Chelsea Tuggle, Тарыҥ SEASON OF DYING WATER, 2022, 62 min, digital
A hybrid discussion moderated by Jem Cohen will follow, as well as a closing night reception.
2022 Fall Flaherty NYC curator asinnajaq
asinnajaq is from Inukjuak, Nunavik, and lives in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal).
Her work includes filmmaking, writing, and curating. She co-created Tilliraniit, a three-day festival celebrating Inuit art and artists. asinnajaq’s work has been exhibited at art galleries and film festivals around the world. asinnajaq wrote and directed Three Thousand (2017) a short sci-fi documentary. She co-curated Isuma’s presence in the Canadian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. She co-curated the inaugural exhibition INUA at the Qaumajuq. In 2020 asinnajaq received a Sobey Art Award.
About Flaherty NYC
Flaherty NYC takes place twice a year, in the spring and in the fall. The series invites curator/s to assemble programs on a particular theme, featuring innovative, engaging, challenging, and groundbreaking films. The screenings are followed by discussions, often including the makers, about the work and the curatorial topic. This is the sister series of the Flaherty Film Seminar, and in 2022 we are excited to expand beyond the physical venues in New York City to online audiences around the world. Learn more about the series.
The complex legacy of Nanook of the North
This special FNYC Series is the result of multiple conversations in early spring 2022, during which we invited asinnajaq to curate a response to the Nanook Centennial. let’s all be lichen is the first of a series of interwoven programming initiatives in 2022/2023 to address the complex legacy of Nanook of the North in both settler-colonial as well as indigenous narratives. These initiatives are designed and led by primarily Inuit artists, scholars, and curators.
Flaherty NYC is made possible by the Ford Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Humanities New York, The New York State Council on the Arts, and The Consulate General of Canada in New York.
