March 2021
Flaherty NYC Announces A Two-Night Program
“To Feel, To Feel More, To Feel More Than”
Friday, April 2, 8pm ET & Saturday, April 3, 4pm ET
Live conversation to follow the screenings featuring our 2020 Programmers-in-residence - Devon Narine-Singh, Suneil Sanzgiri, and Alia Ayman
Guests for the post-screening discussion announced shortly
TICKETS ON SALE NOW see link below
We are very excited to announce the upcoming online film program fully curated by our 2020 Programmers-in-residence - Devon Narine-Singh, Suneil Sanzgiri, and Alia Ayman. The program will be divided into two parts. Part 1 and 2 will stream on our Vimeo platform Friday April 2 and Saturday April 3 respectively and it will showcase carefully selected work by new and known artists (full program below).
We are inviting all of the Flaherty community and beyond to join us in this special two-nights event and to the post-screening conversations with the programmers.
In order to access the screening we are asking our supportive audience to contribute to The Flaherty by purchasing a ticket worth $15 per night or to purchase the two-night package for $25. We hope that you will attend TO FEEL, TO FEEL MORE, TO FEEL MORE THAN on April 2 and 3, and the other programs we will bring to you in the upcoming year including this year’s virtual Flaherty Seminar on July 9-18.
Film Still from WHALES SPF 50 (2017) by Wickerham & Lomax
“To Feel, To Feel More, To Feel More Than”
Programmed by Alia Ayman, Devon Narine-Singh, and Suneil Sanzgiri
The future remains uncertain, but the past persists. The abundance, excess, and indulgence of images, and access to information that simultaneously leaves us sick, overwhelmed, and uneasy, also brings us further away from oblivion. Despite the fiction of borders, race, gender, and time that many would have us maintain through both overt violence and covert forms of soft power, our interconnection to each other—the continuum of care that brings us together across generations—is visible through the ways we commit to each other through our screens.
This program, developed as a final output of the Flaherty NYC programming team comprised of Alia Ayman, Devon Narine Singh, and Suneil Sanzgiri, looks at how media ecosystems, digital detritus, and cultural memory are navigated across boundaries, identities, and history. Can remembrance fix a broken world? If not only by an act of saving the memories from being encompassed by that world, but acting as beginnings for other possibilities?From children’s drawings collected by Frantz Fanon during the Algerian war, sci-fi allegories on toxicity, swimming, and e-waste, to a 1908 film effectively envisioning our obsessions with Zoom calls and Snapchat filters, these films question the human, our relationship to the natural world, to time, to technology, and to each other. Our title comes from a passage from Fred Moten’s Black and Blur, which asks if anything still remains of the human, and how we might enact that remainder.
Film still from Tattva (2018) by Kalpana Subramanian
PROGRAM 1 - Friday, April 2
Shell Revolution (2018) 1’, by Ho Rui An
Core Dump (2018) 15’, by Francois Knoetze
WHALES SPF 50 (2017) 7’, by Wickerham & Lomax
Tattva (2018) 4’ , by Kalpana Subramanian
Long Distance Wireless Photography (1908) 6’, by Georges Méliés
Bedford Cheese (2016) 19’, by M. Woods
WARNING: This video may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.
The Wind (2019) 3’, by Miranda Javid
Kink Retrograde (2019) 18’, by Bassem Saad
A Gregarious Species (2021) 7’, by Natasha Raheja
TRT: 80 mins
PROGRAM 2 - Saturday, April 3
Memory Palace (2015) 2’, by Martine Syms
A Short History (2017) 3.5’, by Erica Sheu
Field Notes (2014) 18’, by Vashti Harrsion
Glimpse of the Garden (1957) 5’, by Marie Menken
An Excavation of Us (2017) 11’, by Shirley Bruno
Brief Conversation about the D Word (2018) 15’, by Teona Galgoțiu
J'ai huit ans (1961) 9’, by Yann Le Masson, Rene Vautier, Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff
Now Pretend (1991) 10’, by Leah Gilliam
I Don’t Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow (2017), 5’, by Jessica Ashman
TRT: 78.5 mins
The Flaherty Is Looking For a New Executive Director
ABOUT THE POSITION
The Flaherty seeks an Executive Director to lead its New York office. Working closely with the Board of Trustees and Program Managers, the Executive Director will co-create the vision of the organization, focusing specific attention to an expanded digital presence. They will raise operating funds, oversee financial management and programs, and manage staff. The Executive Director position requires a unique skill set combining organizational and program development, relationship and coalition building, systems and personnel management, and fundraising and stakeholder cultivation to effectively develop and manage the annual Seminar and related activities.
Please learn more about the Executive Director search HERE.
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FLAHERTY LONGTIME FRIENDS
Longtime Robert Flaherty Seminar collaborators Scott Macdonald and Patricia Zimmermann, with the assistance of Julia Tulke, are releasing their book this month, Flash Flaherty. The much-anticipated follow-up volume to The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema, offers a people’s history of the world-renowned Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, an annual event where participants confront and reimagine the creative process surrounding multiple document/documentary forms and modes of the moving image. (Save the date for a virtual book launch event on Thursday, April 29, 2021, more details coming in our April newsletter.)
FLAHERTY NYC PROGRAMMERS
Almudena Escobar López, (2014 Flaherty Fellow and 2018 FNYC Co-Programmer) is the Graduate Director of the Hartnett Gallery at the University of Rochester where she is curating the online exhibition with works by Crystal Z Campbell: from the corner of my eye (2018 Flaherty Fellow), on view from March 1 - 22. The exhibition will feature several short video works by Campbell from 2009 to the present.
from the corner of my eye is the first retrospective of video works of artist, filmmaker, and writer Crystal Z Campbell. Campbell’s multidisciplinary artistic practice traces how the relationality between ideas and forms emerge through embodied creative research. Rupturing public experiences of historical memory through lived experiences of selfhood, Campbell imagines a new understanding of social relations, and questions the institutional forensics of witnessing.
Alongside from the corner of my eye, there is a forthcoming publication on the works featuring writings by Campbell and Escobar López, edited by Julie Niemi, independent curator, editor, and writer. On March 15 at 8pm (EST), the Hartnett Gallery will host a performative reading by Campbell followed by a conversation with Julie Niemi, and Almudena Escobar López. To receive the link to the webinar, please register in advance at Hartnett’s website.
FLAHERTY FELLOWS
We are happy to announce that the film North By Current by Angelo Madsen Minax (2017 Flaherty Seminar Fellow) will have its world premiere at Berlinale. Minax was working on this film and pitching it during his fellowship year at the seminar. Another great news for Minax is that POV (PBS) has acquired North By Current for broadcast so more people can have access to his work. The film shows on Thursday, March 4 at Berlinale EFM. The Festival’s Stage 1 (with Industry Event) ends Friday, March 5 but it will have a summer special or Stage 2 for general public on Jun 9-20.
AROUND THE VIRTUAL WORLD
Lucid Dreaming is a podcast bringing you deep stereo conversations with contemporary moving image makers and artists from all over the world. The latest podcast episodes featured the filmmakers Naeem Mohaiemen and Yin Ju-Chen. The upcoming installation will be a thrilling conversation with Lawrence Lek. The podcast is hosted by author and curator Pamela Cohn (2008 Flaherty NYC Moderator and Flaherty Seminar Participant).
Past guests of the podcast include Camilo Restrepo, Ana Vaz (2016 Flaherty Filmmaker), Filipa César (2015 Flaherty Filmmaker), Miko Revereza (2019 Flaherty Filmmaker) and Penny Lane (2010-2011 Flaherty NYC Programmer).
CALL FOR ENTRIES
BLACK STAR Film Festival 2021
The Black Star Film Festival will happen online from August 19 - 26, and it is currently accepting submissions. The preferred deadline is March 8 and final deadline is March 31. Entry fees for student is free during the preferred deadline and $20 during the late deadline. Non-students pay between $35-$40. Entrants are required to submit via FilmFreeway.
Films must be directed by a person who identifies as Black, as indigenous, or as a person of color (POC), from anywhere in the world. Work must feature persons of color or tell a story of Black, indigenous, or POC experience.
Please visit their website for detailed information regarding the submission of films for selection.
Workspace Residency, Summer 2021
Squeaky Wheel invites applications to the Summer 2021 session of its Workspace Residency for artists and researchers working in media arts. The residency is open to applicants from Buffalo and across the United States who are seeking resources, time, and support for ongoing projects or the creation of new work. This session will be held virtually, with equipment access provided through mailing service for non-local residents, and local pick-up for local residents. Stipend, artist fees, and financial assistance offered: Up to $1550 in stipend & artist fees; up to $1000 in financial assistance for child care and/or disability support.
CANYON CINEMA DISCOVERED
Canyon Cinema Foundation invites proposals for a new curatorial endeavor. This multifaceted, year-long fellowship program aims to engender fresh perspectives on experimental cinema. Four curatorial fellows will be selected to assemble programs from Canyon’s unique collection of artist-made films for online streaming. Apply by April 1, 2021.
POSITION OPENING
Open call for Brooklyn Rail's next Film Editor
The Rail’s mission is to provide an independent forum for arts, culture, and politics. The ideal candidate is deeply interested in experimental/non-mainstream film, well organized, and a lover of language and critical discourse. As part of our commitment to anti-racism, we encourage people underrepresented in film criticism to apply.
virtual office
We are currently working remotely. If you have any inquiries please email us info@theflaherty.org, as we are not answering our phone calls at our 80 Hanson Pl office in Brooklyn.
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Add the 2019 Robert Flaherty Seminar Catalogue to your library!
The 2019 Seminar Catalogue includes detailed information about the 65th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. This publication is the result of a collaboration between Flaherty / International Film Seminars, Inc. and World Records, in conjunction with the Action: the 2019 Flaherty Film Seminar, programmed by Shai Heredia.
Thank you to all our contributors: Shai Heredia, Jason Fox, Abby Sun, Joel Neville Anderson, Lakshmi Padmanabhan, Priya Sen, Ani Maitra, Pooja Rangan, Aparna Sharma, Jim Supanick, Tenzin Phuntsog, Jheanelle Brown, Chet Pancake, and Carl Elsaesser.
Edited by World Records
Design by Dan Schrempf
Copy Editing by Nadine Covert
About the Flaherty
The Flaherty is a media arts organization that brings together diverse, curious minds to foster an in-depth discourse on film and the creative process. We believe in the transformative power of the moving image and its ability to change how we think about film, and the world we live in. Since 1954, our unique Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, has provided an unparalleled opportunity to explore beyond known limits of the moving image and renew the challenge to discover, reveal and illuminate the ways of life of peoples and cultures throughout the world.
