To Commune
69th Flaherty Film Seminar
Thai Film Archive, Salaya, Thailand
June 27–July 2, 2024
Seminar Registration Opens March 1!
We at the Thai Film Archive are excited to collaborate with the Flaherty team in hosting the 2024 Flaherty Seminar, the first time this esteemed event will take place in Thailand. This is a huge opportunity for us to welcome international participants to come together to watch films and do what we all love the most—discuss cinema and expand our horizons. Our motto is Cinema Enlightens. We hope to share an enlightening week with all of you in late June.
—Director Chalida Uabumrungjit & Deputy Directors Kong Rithdee and Sanchai Chotirosseranee, Thai Film Archive
2024 Seminar FAQs
We look forward to welcoming participants from around the world to Thailand for a unique Flaherty Film Seminar! In tandem, we are excited to once again offer an online Seminar experience for those who can’t make it to Thailand. Registration opens March 1. Get ready with this head start on what to expect and how to prepare. Check out our Frequently Asked Questions for information about registration, what’s included, what you need to plan, and details about Salaya, Thailand.
We‘ll be sharing lodging options and travel recommendations within Thailand, and locally in Salaya after registration opens.
Photographs of Patty Zimmermann at the 1994 Flaherty Film Seminar; contact sheet
Patty Zimmermann’s Life and Legacy
March 16, noon ET | Online
Join us for a celebration of our extraordinary, exuberant, indefatigable friend and colleague Patty Zimmermann (1955–2023). This virtual gathering will be an informal, grassroots, and participatory celebration where all attendees are invited to join in and share brief stories and tributes about our brilliant and beloved colleague.
An influential member of The Flaherty community for decades, Patty Zimmermann was a beloved programmer, mentor, and board member. One of the many contributions she made to the organization over the years was co-authoring The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema (2017) and Flash Flaherty: Tales from a Film Seminar (2021) (both alongside Scott MacDonald), two books that honor The Flaherty’s history and legacy and demonstrate how the relationships that have grown out of our annual seminar have been instrumental in transforming American media history.
We are ever grateful for her spirit, creativity, and presence in film and in our community. We welcome you to read these incredible tributes to Patty from The Flaherty community.
AFTER REGISTRATION, YOU WILL RECEIVE A ZOOM LINK TO JOIN THE EVENT
Community News
Image courtesy Kimi Takesue
THE FLAHERTY RECOMMENDSKimi Takesue's Onlookers
February 16-23, 2024
Metrograph & Metrograph at Home
Onlookers, a visually striking, immersive meditation on travel and tourism in Laos and how we all exist as observers, opened in New York City at Metrograph on February 16. The final screening is TOMORROW February 22 at Metrograph.
Metrograph at Home is featuring a streaming showcase of Takesue’s films including Onlookers, Where are you taking me?, and 95 and 6 to go until March 23, 2024.
IN PERSON | 7 Ludlow Street, NYC
ONLINE | metrograph.com/at-home/
Still from Monisme, courtesy Chandra Knotts
SCREENING SERIESDoc Fortnight 2024
Feb 22—March 7, 2024
The Museum of Modern Art
MoMA’s annual celebration of nonfiction cinema returns with a showcase of the most innovative, vital voices in documentary and hybrid filmmaking. In its 23rd year, Doc Fortnight’s wide-ranging slate continues to bring New York City audiences award-winning debuts, film-festival highlights from around the world, and adventurous new films by moving-image artists.
IN PERSON | 11 W 53rd St, New York, NY
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Image courtesy Seminario El Público del Futuro FICUNAM
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS; DEADLINE FEB 25Seminario El Público del Futuro FICUNAM
Mexico City, Mexico
April 10—May 18, 2024; Apply by Feb 25
Seminario El Público del Futuro invites projects and exhibition spaces from Mexico, Ibero-America (including Central America and the Caribbean), and Italy to collectively reflect, investigate, discuss, and imagine possible audiovisual exhibition and distribution models in line with current times. The Seminar will run April 10—May 18, 2024 and include weekly online meetings. For the first time, it will have two groups: one for emerging projects and another for established projects. Read more and apply today— Applications close February 25!
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS; DEADLINE MAR 8Extremely Shorts Film Festival 2024
May 31—June 1, 2024; Apply by March 8
Submit your film to Extremely Shorts, Aurora Picture Show’s eclectic festival of adventurous short films (3 min. max.) of all kinds. The 27th annual program will be selected by guest juror Lili Chin and presented in person and online in late May.
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SCREENING (CHICAGO)Commodity Trading: Dies Irae
March 15, 7 pm at Chicago Filmmakers
Flaherty 2021 Filmmaker M. Woods premieres Commodity Trading: Dies Irae, their fourth feature film, for its first theatrical running, at Chicago Filmmakers.
A "bad trip" mapping the socio-political hyperreality and its nightmares, Commodity Trading: Dies Irae opens the door to the most potent drug available, The Numb Spiral, where you can manipulate the material of physical reality in a viral Nihilistic haze. Through interwoven 16mm hallucinations and multimedia collages, Woods weaves a narrative through Los Angeles as two lost souls look for the entrance to the Numb Spiral, where they are swallowed up.
IN PERSON: 1326 W. Hollywood Avenue, Chicago IL 60660)
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WORKSHOPPitch It
March 22, 2024
2 pm PT
Join Film Fatales on for an online workshop, How to Create Impactful Decks and Pitches, led by Film Fatales member Jenny Deller.
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CASTING CALLIndigenous Genders
A documentary by Raven & Relatives
Feature-length documentary filmmakers seeking femme Indigenous person, mid 30–40s: non-cis, trans, non-binary, and/or Indigiqueer. Ideally living on lands near or east of the Mississippi River. The project explores finding joy through reflection and memory. LEARN MORE