April 5, 2022
Graphic by Rid, Darwin Marinho, and Ella Monstra of ‘Carnaval no Inferno’ Collective
Join Us for OPACITY SPIRALS - Tickets on sale now!
Flaherty NYC returns with OPACITY SPIRALS from April 14th to April 28th at the Maysles Documentary Center. The series features a reconfiguration of several films from the 2021 Flaherty Film Seminar— titled Opacity— with the addition of three films by the Otolith Group. By introducing the voices of another programmer and set of artists, the program hopes to highlight the way dialogues can be extended through ongoing interventions and by finding resonances as they echo through the world.
Each program will be followed by a conversation with the filmmakers. For the opening on April 14th we are excited to be joined in person by Montreal-based artist Deanna Bowen, whose artist talk was a highlight of the 2021 Opacity Seminar.
Program 1 - April 14
sum of the parts: what can be named, Deanna Bowen (2010, 18’)
Otolith I, Otolith Group (2003, 22’)
In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain, Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind (2016, 28’)
Missing Time, Morgan Quaintance (2020, 15’)
Followed by an in person conversation between Deanna Bowen, Janaína Oliveira, and Inney Prakash
Program 2 - April 21
Space Exodus, Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind (2009, 5’)
Serpent Rain, Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman (2016, 30’)
Nation State, Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind (2012, 9’)
Otolith II, Otolith Group (2007, 48’)
Followed by a conversation with the filmmakers
Program 3 - April 28
The Paul Good Papers at Notasulga, Deanna Bowen (2012, 28’)
Another Decade, Morgan Quaintance (2018, 26’)
Otolith III, Otolith Group (2009, 29’)
Followed by a conversation with the filmmakers
Opacity Spirals Programmers
Janaína Oliveira
Film scholar and freelancer programmer, Janaína Oliveira has a Ph.D. in History and is a professor at the Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ) and was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Center for African Studies at Howard University. Since 2009, her researches focus on Black and African Cinemas, also acting as consultant, jury and panelist in several festivals and film festivals in Brazil and abroad. She is the head programmer of the Zózimo Bulbul Black Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro, and also worked as an advisor for African and black diaspora films for the Locarno Film Festival, in Switzerland (2019-2020). In 2019 she programmed the “Soul in the eye: Zózimo Bulbil legacies and the contemporary Black Brazilian Cinema” series to the International Film Festival Rotterdam . She is the founder of the Black Cinema Itinerant Forum (FICINE - www.ficine.org ) and was the 66th Flaherty Film Seminar programmer in 2021. Oliveira lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Inney Prakash
Inney Prakash is film curator/programmer and writer based in New York. He is a cinema programmer at Maysles Documentary Center and the Founder/Director of Prismatic Ground, a new festival that will hold its second edition from May 4-8, 2022.
Order Now - Opacity Seminar Catalogue - Available
The bilingual print edition of the expanded Opacity Seminar Catalogue will be available soon.
Graphic by Rid, Darwin Marinho, and Ella Monstra of ‘Carnaval no Inferno’ Collective
The Opacity Catalogue is co-edited by Dessane Lopez Cassell and Carol Almeida, with contributions by Tina Campt, Tatiana Carvalho Costa, Amaranta César, Christopher Harris, Janaína Oliveira, Athi-Patra Ruga, Yeelen Cohen, and Grace Passô. Managing editor: Jason Fox. Design by Rid, Darwin Marinho and Ella Monstra of ‘Carnaval no Inferno’ Collective.
2022 Seminar Fellowship Application DUE TODAY!
2019 Flaherty Film Seminar Fellowship Recipients
If you are Indigenous to the land you call home, or have been historically dispossessed from your land, history, culture, and power, we especially invite you to apply to one of our 2022 Fellowships. Applicants are no longer required to submit reference letters, but instead are asked to submit the names and emails of two references. In order to receive a Fellowship, you must be available from Friday, June 24, 2022 until the end of the Seminar on Friday, July 1, 2022 at noon ET.
Please read all of the application details carefully before submitting your application by 11:59PM tonight.
2022 Seminar Registration - In-Person Waitlist Only | Online Spots Still Available
If you are interested in joining us in person, please add your name to the waitlist, below. You will be notified when a spot opens up via email, at which time you would need to pay the registration fee. No payment is due at this time.
All waitlist registrations will be offered an opportunity to join the virtual experience.
Other News
Flaherty Programmers
Unraveling Paradise, Curated by Dessane Lopez Cassell, Sunday evenings, from April 10-May 1
Unraveling Paradise presents a selection of Caribbean films and artist’s moving image works that pry apart illusions of the region as a tropical “paradise.” Framing the notion of paradise as a case study in colonial myth-making, this film series centers hybridity, mischief, and the mundane as counter gestures to the fantasies that bind the Caribbean in a predatory economic and cultural relationship with the Global North. Curated by Dessane Lopez Cassell (Flaherty NYC 2018). Featured artists include Sofía Gallisá Muriente (with the New York premiere of Celaje), Joiri Minaya, Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada, Esther Figueroa, Johanné Gómez Terrero, and Dalissa Montez de Oca (with the US premier of Pacaman). April 10-May 1 at Metrograph, Co-presented with Abrons Arts Center.
Flaherty Fellows
Still from “Dreams” by Tenzin Phuntsog (2022), 35mm film to 4k video, 2 minutes — Courtesy of the artist and Microscope Gallery, New York
"Pure Land" Solo Exhibition Continues
Microscope is very pleased to present Pure Land, the first solo exhibition by artist and filmmaker Tenzin Phuntsog (2019) in New York. Phuntsog’s works in moving image, installation, photography and performance have previously appeared at the gallery in screenings and exhibitions including in the 2019 exhibit “Scrapbook, (or Why Can’t We Live Together).” Runs through April 9, 2022.
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