Poster Image by Caroline Monnet
May 2, 2022
Register Now for the 67th Flaherty Film Seminar
Continents of Drifting Clouds
At Colgate University
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or, World Wide
Registration for the Flaherty virtual experience closes on June 1st . We will cap the number of participants to ensure a quality experience – please register ASAP! Registration rates for the virtual experience are on a sliding scale from $150 to $1,000. See more details here.
Digital scan of Flaherty Barn Interior April 2022 Vermont,USA
The Flaherty virtual experience is built on ohyay by creative technologists Ziv Schneider and Michael Krisch with artistic direction by immersive director and digital artist Alexander Porter, and Mohawk artist, filmmaker and educator Katsitsionni Fox.
Venice Biennale Golden Lion Recipients
Flaherty Board Member Simone Leigh, recipient of the Golden Lion for the best participant at the Venice Biennale
Our Flaherty community celebrates board member Simone Leigh! Leigh won the Golden Lion for the best participant at the Venice Biennale in April. ICA Boston is organizing an exhibition of Leigh’s work in 2023 which will feature works from the Venice Biennale presentation. The exhibition will travel to Washington DC’s Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in the Fall of 2023 and to LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) in 2024.
Our community also celebrates artist Cecilia Vicuña, recipient of the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement award. Vicuña most recently joined us for Flaherty NYC: Of Creation/Of Potential in December 2021, screening Kon Kon and joining in discussion with Monika Fabijanska and programmer Kelsey White.
Flaherty NYC: Opacity Spirals
L-R: Inney Prakash, Deanna Bowen, and Janaína Olivera in discussion at the Maysles Documentary Center. Photo by Juan Pedro Agurcia
Thank you for joining us in April for Opacity Spirals at the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem. It was a joy to bring this special program featuring the work of Opacity Seminar Artists Deanna Bowen, Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, and Arjuna Newman & Denise Ferreira da Silva in dialogue with three films by the Otolith Group.
Check out photos on Facebook and Instagram and enjoy a conversation with programmers Janaína Olivera and Inney Prakash.
Experience Opacity through our upcoming seminar catalogue:
Order Now - Opacity Seminar Catalogue
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.
Other News
Flaherty Programmers
We Will Cut You
French filmmaker Callisto McNulty and writer Emilie Notéris revisit the history and legacy of the 1970's feminist film collective Les Insoumuses (Carole Roussopoulos, Delphine Seyrig, and Ioana Wieder).
The program includes a screening of McNulty's documentary Delphine & Carole, Insoumuses (2020) on Roussopolos & Seyrig's film collaboration, preceded by a short performance WE WILL CUT YOU (with the two artists in person) and a screening of Matthieu Ponchel's Violences that Exist Don't Exist, a short based on Notéris's text on state violence in today's France.
Friday May 6, 2022 at 7:30pm at Union Docs programmed by Mathilde Walker-Billaud (Flaherty NYC, 2019)
Flaherty Recommends
Still from Sengal - Keur Massar 2022, 5’ from a series of films created through the Mayors Make Movies initiative.
African Voices in Changing Climates: Post-Production and Social Impact Cinema
Q&A with longtime Flaherty supporter Linda Lilienfeld, members of CUAHSI and Alain Gomis on Saturday May 14, 2022 at 1:30pm at Film at Lincoln Center as a part of the 29th African Film Festival New York. This program presents films created through the Mayors Make Movies initiative, and discussions with Linda Lillenfield, creator and director of Let’s Talk About Water; members from the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI): and Alain Gomis, filmmaker and founder of Centre Yennenga in Dakar, Senegal.
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