Join us for the closing night of Film Diary III: Coldest Winter, followed by a Q&A and reception. Drinks and snacks will be available at concessions.
Curation is Care
Ajay Ram - USA - 4min
A fractured oral history of New York City cinema from my mom, Harlem archivist and public school teacher jean phillips.
I Was Born in 1988
Yasaman Baghban - Iran - 9min
A series of executions of Iranian political prisoners began in the summer of 1988, following the end of the eight-year war between Iran and Iraq. For nearly three decades, I have been preoccupied with the coincidence of this massacre and my birth in August 1988.
Electric Postcards
Gloria Chung - USA - 12min
The unexpected fragments and fields of light we encounter while traveling, and borrowed eyes with which to see them.
everything in our house did not seem to fit
Alicia Abieyuwa Bergamelli - Netherlands - 6min
Part exorcism, part film, everything in our house did not seem to fit is an exploration of remembrance. This cinematic exorcism ritual is a poetic and experimental eulogy to the past, as it sheds light on the forgotten corners of childhood once lived.
Windows
Deven Ladson - USA - 6min
An experimental diary that documents the windows into my past year. It’s a representation of the abrupt moments in life as well as the meditative ones.
Soon Come Back
Nande Walters - USA - 15min
A poetic documentary about migration’s effect on my family’s relationships to “home” in Jamaica and the US, and my feelings of alienation being a child of the diaspora.
Ceaseless Translation
Alejandra Saldivar - Mexico - 5min
Tells the story of a mother’s experience of caring for a child with autism. The film is a mix of personal home videos, stock footage and mixed media animation, emphasizing the role of hands as symbols of care.
Beauty in the chaos
Kenzä Bousseloub - Algeria - 7min
A short film that captures the essence of a two-month trip back home, showing personal moments spent with family and the chaos of a week-long wedding celebration in Algeria.
Hello, Whale
Laura Ohio - Canada - 13min
A diaristic short film that follows a sex worker and her encounters with three distinct versions of a whale that transform her definitions of love, death, and survival. She documents her personal and work life, observing the entanglement of her body within the systemic pressures of late capitalism.
Spirit
Kevin Prince - USA - 9min
A collection of images from the past year of my life. A meditation on movement and a search for answers on this Earth.