THE FACE OF THE PLANET, took a reflective look at the timescale in which nature and humans have coexisted, the consequences of such, and its culturally contextual meaning within the Anthropocene, as well as cinema. Following the screening artists Ja’Tovia Gary, Bill Basquin, film scholar Jennifer Peterson, and musician Jerome Ellis were in conversation with moderator Courtney Stephens, Flaherty NYC co-programmer and filmmaker. The evening was co-presented with MONO NO AWARE.
Saturday evening, October 5, 2019, was the opening night to Flaherty NYC’s Fall 2019 program SURFACE KNOWLEDGE, presented with one of our new screening partners Metrograph in the Lower East Side. The program’s theme, ELECTRIC NARCISSUS, was remarkably curated by co-curators Courtney Stephens and Mathilde Walker-Billaud. Following the screening, art historian and media theorist Kris Paulsen and artist Joan Jonas engaged in an insightful discussion in which the audience was exposed to Joan and how she considers her formal process and work in relation to the present day. ELECTRIC NARCISSUS was presented in partnership with Electric Arts Intermix (EAI) and co-presented with Triple Canopy.
Map of a New World - Films From the Flaherty Film Seminar at Tacoma Film Festival (Tacoma, WA). Six animated and documentary films taken from various editions of the Flaherty Film Seminar. The filmmakers include David Ehrlich (1988 Seminar), Rox Lee (2019 Seminar), Shambhavi Kaul (2019 Seminar), Lourdes Portillo (1992 Seminar), Ben Rivers (2012 Seminar) and Cauleen Smith (1992 & 2018 Seminars). The screening will be held on October 5.
Shireen Hamza, 2019 Harvard Flaherty Fellow, shared her reflections on the Seminar on the Critical Media Practice (CMP) blog. Shireen is a PhD student in Harvard’s History of Science department. Her work focuses on the history of science and medicine in the medieval Islamicate world (Islamicate here refers to the multi-confessional world within the borders of Islamic polities).
This two-day film series collaboration with The High Line celebrates the trailblazing Simone Leigh’s Brick House . The two nights feature short works by primarily women filmmakers from around the world. With Leigh’s focus on Black female beauty and empowerment in mind, curators Jon-Sesrie Goff and Claire Diao selected films and videos that represent the range and complexity of Black female-identified creativity.
