WORLD PREMIERE Becoming Billy Name is a short film about the artist Billy Name, born William Linich. Billy is the photographer who most extensively and richly documented the “Silver Age” of Andy Warhol’s The Factory, from 1960-1971. However, this is a film about Billy and not about Warhol or The Factory. It is the intimate […]
WORLD PREMIERE BlindSight examines the photographic imagination of the members of the Seeing with Photography Collective through their photography. While all the members were sighted at one time, they are all now blind or visually impaired. Many came to photography after their blindness, and photography has given them a new voice, a way to express […]
NYC PREMIERE Sebastiano’s passion is documenting war. But at what cost? His award-winning photographs from Syria and Afghanistan are widely published. His girlfriend, Gessica, who is proud of him, fears for his life constantly and struggles to understand Sebastiano’s drive to work in combat zones. This short documentary is a mixture of compelling verite and […]
Iconic and ubiquitous, thousands of manhole covers dot the streets of New York City. Enlivening the everyday objects around us, this short film is a glimpse of the working lives of the men behind the manhole covers in New York City. This is playing part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: PARTS + LABOR
NYC PREMIERE A group of young skateboarders find direction in their lives when they move to New York and start a pickle business. This is playing part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: PARTS + LABOR
WORLD PREMIERE The roads we erect and the cars we drive maximize our comfort and efficiency, but at what cost? As You Pass By commences an exploration of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, an infamous highway in New York City that slices through the two named boroughs. We pause in Woodside, Queens to observe one of the […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Dante DeMille and Hank Iken are two octogenarian volunteers who muse on life and death as they restore old aircraft in a forgotten hangar of Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Airfield. This is part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: LOST + FOUND
WORLD PREMIERE Do you see what I see?’. The fading New York City public telephones sadly stand in the midst of a crowd that disregards their presence. John and Mark care for them, although each in his own manner. The former is the owner of one of the last remaining independent payphone companies; the latter […]
A recollection of the infamous, edgy, lesbian party Clit Club, which boasted a intergenerational, cross-racial, sexually charged, mixed class venue emblematic of gritty, vibrant, pre-gentrified Manhattan. This is part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: LOST + FOUND
NYC PREMIERE Andrew & Wendy is a 30 minute documentary film that tells the story of a New York upper West Side couple at a crisis point. Andrew, who is in a coma, is not responding to anything and his prognosis is frighteningly bleak. Wendy’s inspired idea to play Bach for him actually brings him […]