FLAHERTY NYC
SEASON 24 | FALL 2022
LET’S ALL BE LICHEN
programmed by asinnajaq
october 10–november 10
OCTOBER 10: OPENING NIGHT
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
Still from THREE THOUSAND by asinnajaq
LET ME INTRODUCE MYSELF
Monday, October 10, 7 pm
Anthology Film Archives
In a personal practice of honesty around the perspective of those who are framing our experiences, asinnajaq begins this month-long screening series with an introduction. This program includes films by asinnajaq as well as her father, Jobie Weetaluktuk.
Jobie Weetaluktuk, INUKSHOP, 2009, 2 min, digital
asinnajaq, THREE THOUSAND, 2017, 14 min, digital
Jobie Weetaluktuk, UMIAQ SKIN BOAT, 2008, 31 min, betacam-to-digital
47 min total running time | With Jobie Weetaluktuk in person. Moderated by asinnajaq, filmmaker and curator. An opening night reception will follow the program.
Special opening celebration–with games! First Street Art Park, 5–6:45 pm. Please RSVP, space is limited.
** In collaboration with NYU Cinema Studies Department Friday Night Screening Series & NYU Center for Media, Culture and History, this screening will repeat on Friday, October 14th at Michelson Theater, NYU Department of Cinema Studies (721 Broadway 6th Floor). The event will be moderated by Iñupiat filmmaker Andrew Okpeaha MacLean.
UPDATE: The screening is now hybrid, with the films and discussion available ONLINE ONLY for non-NYU attendees. The event is free but requires advance registration here.
program 2
Still from MUN & DON (YOU & ME) by Lada Suomenrinne
OBSERVATIONS & LITTLE EPIPHANIES
Monday, October 17, 7 pm
Anthology Film Archives
This program focuses on the personal. From the importance and changing relationship to our surroundings – through our familial and ancestral relations – right past the epidermis and into a soul.
Siku Allooloo, SPIRIT EMULSION, 2022, 7 min, 16mm-to-digital
Lindsay McIntyre, SEEING HER, 2020, 4 min, digital
Zulaa Urchuud, ULAANBAATARAZATION, 2017, 3 min, 16mm-to-digital
Zulaa Urchuud, NUUDELCH KHANDLAGA (NOMADTITUDE), 2021, 7 min, 16mm-to-digital
Lada Suomenrinne, MUN & DON (YOU & ME), 2018, 2 min, digital
Lada Suomenrinne, Я неба (ME THE SKY), 2022, 17 min, digital
40 min total running time. With Siku Allooloo and Lada Suomenrinne in person. Moderated by asinnajaq, filmmaker and curator.
program 3
Still from BOSO MU RUOVTTOLUOTTA (BREATHE ME BACK TO LIFE) by Sunna Nousuniemi
SLOW GROWTH
Tuesday, October 18, 7 pm
e-flux Screening Room
A pair of films highlighting going patiently through all the feelings while experiencing the lifelong journey of experiencing sexualized violence. Dealing with court proceedings, and ways to move through personal feelings.
Sunna Nousuniemi, BOSO MU RUOVTTOLUOTTA (BREATHE ME BACK TO LIFE), 2021, 24 min, digital
Nivi Pederson, PILLUARNEQ ERSIGIUNNAARPARA (HAPPINESS SCARES ME NO MORE), 2020, 70 min, digital
94 min total running time | Screening followed by cake & tea reception.
program 4
Still from FARZANA by Zinnia Naqvi
OUT OF SIGHT, HELD IN MIND
Monday, November 7, 7 pm
Anthology Film Archives
A spotlight introducing artist, filmmaker, and academic Zinnia Naqvi. Questioning all that is left in and out of frame, the way that meaning is made from images. Naqvi tries to express in concise phrases and images uncomfortable circumstances that have long been accepted as truth and left unquestioned.
Zinnia Naqvi, SEAVIEW, 2015, 12 mins, digital
Zinnia Naqvi, THE TRANSLATION IS APPROXIMATE, 2021, 11 mins, digital
Zinnia Naqvi, FARZANA, 2021, 34 mins, digital
67 min total running time | With Zinnia Naqvi in person. Moderator TBA. | Co-presented with Colgate University.
TICKET INFORMATION COMING SOON
program 5
Still from Тарыҥ (SEASON OF DYING WATER) by Svetlana Romanova, Chelsea Tuggle
MUTATIONS
Thursday, November 10, 7 pm
e-flux Screening Room
Starting with the same inspiration, building with a vastly different set of tools.
Svetlana Romanova, Chelsea Tuggle, Тарыҥ SEASON OF DYING WATER, 2022, 62 min, digital
Chris Marker, LETTER FROM SIBERIA, 1957, 61 min, digital
123 min total running time | A closing night reception will follow the program.
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.
* 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.
Read more about The Flaherty’s response to the centennial.
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.
