2021 Program

by Lynne Sachs (2021, 74’)

Wednesday 4 August 6:00 PM
Boedecker Cinema

Drawing on a painstaking personal archive of images, home movies, and interviews, Film About A Father Who is a rare kind of cinematic portrait: one that succeeds in expanding our understanding of the filmmaker, her protagonist, and their relationship through its structure, aesthetic, and method. A beautiful accumulation of time, contradictions, and a multitude of perspectives reflects the all-too-familiar operatic dynamics of family.

This screening will be followed by a conversation with the artist and a reception with light refreshments.

A filmmaking workshop on the every day with opening night artist Lynne Sachs.

Saturday 7 August 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Grace Gamm Theater

According to Sigmund Freud’s theory of dreams, our day residue is composed of the memory traces left by the events of our waking state. In this workshop, we explore the ways in which fragments of our daily lives can become material for the making of a film poem. While many people in the film industry rely upon a chronological process that begins with the development phase and ends with post-production, our Day Residue workshop will build on an entirely different creative paradigm that encourages artists to embrace the nuances, surprises and challenges of their daily lives as a foundation for a diaristic practice.

The workshop will include screenings of some of Lynne’s recent short film poems, including Starfish Aorta Colossus (2015), A Month of Single Frames (2019), Visit to Bernadette Mayer’s Childhood Home (2020), and Girl is Presence (2020) as well as excerpts from her feature Tip of My Tongue (2017).

Saturday 3:00 - 5:00 PM Lynne will make an appearance at Trident Booksellers and Cafe to read from her new book Year By Year Poems. This special literary event celebrates the long anticipated leap from Lynne’s extraordinary career in filmmaking to this, her first book of poems.

by Pedro Costa (2019, 124’)

Friday 6 August 7:15 PM
Boedecker Cinema

A film of deeply concentrated beauty, Vitalina Varela stars nonprofessional actor Vitalina Varela in an extraordinary performance based on her own life. Vitalina plays a Cape Verdean woman who has travelled to Lisbon to reunite with her husband, after two decades of separation, only to arrive mere days after his funeral. Alone in a strange forbidding land, she perseveres and begins to establish a new life. Winner of the Golden Leopard for Best Film and Best Actress at the Locarno Film Festival, as well as an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, Vitalina Varela is a film of shadow and whisper, a profoundly moving and visually ravishing masterpiece.

This screening will be followed by a conversation with the artist.

by Pedro Costa (2014, 103’)

Sunday 8 August 11:30 AM
Boedecker Cinema

Horse Money is a mesmerizing odyssey into the real, imagined and nightmarish memories of the elderly Ventura, a Cape Verdean immigrant living in Lisbon. The time is now, a numbing and timeless present of hospital stays, bureaucratic questioning, and wandering through remembered spaces... and suddenly it is also then, the mid '70s and the time of Portugal's Carnation Revolution, when Ventura got into a knife fight with his friend Joaquim. Horse Money is a self-reckoning, a moving memorialization of lives in danger of being forgotten, as well as a piercingly beautiful work of modern cinema.

This screening will be followed by a conversation with the artist

A practical consideration of editing with featured artist Pedro Costa.

Sunday 8 August 9:30 AM
Grace Gamm Theater

This session is built around a new restoration of Costa’s iconic documentary Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? (2001), which follows Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet in the editing room as they work on their 1999 drama, Sicilia!. Like the film, participants will examine the practicalities of editorial decision-making in a unique opportunity to engage with a virtuosic filmmaker and his process.

Registration will be limited, stay tuned for more details.

Programmed by Kelsey White and L u m i a

The decline of civilization casts a long, dark shadow. The Earth is not dying, we are making it uninhabitable. Where can we find solace? At times, cinema has been a fertile land where the complex reality of existence took on many forms, and a constant search for new ideas strengthened viewers’ resistance against homogenization. These two programs investigate the current state of this cultural war, highlighting filmmakers who search for new languages to respond to the many crises that mark this epoch of chicken bones and cheap condos.

The first program includes films from decades past yet relevant as ever for their probing depictions of identity: as performance that subverts representation, as illusory and fluid social and material categories, as the sensitive, fragmented self embracing a breakdown. The second focuses on the present and what we can glean from ancestors and myths of the past to make sense of the now. These films weave questions of identity with moments of transcendence, generously honoring existence as it is yet never giving up on the possibility of transformation and renewal.

Thursday 5 August 4:15 PM
Grace Gamm Theater

Program:

Zone (1983, Super 8, 8’)
Sokhi Wagner

Doppelgänger (1987, Super 8 to 16mm, 8’)
Peggy Ahwesh

Smoke (1995, Super 8 to 16mm, 26’)
Pelle Lowe

The Accursed Mazurka (1994, 16mm, 40’)
Nina Fonoroff

małni - towards the ocean, towards the shore
by Sky Hopinka (2020, 80’)

Thursday 5 August 8 PM
Boedecker Cinema

A poetic, experimental debut feature circling the origin of the death myth from the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest. Spoken mostly in chinuk wawa, małni – towards the ocean, towards the shore follows two people as they wander through nature, the spirit world, and something much deeper inside.

with Jane Wodening

Thursday 5 August 2:00 PM
Grace Gamm Theater

"I wanted to understand the patterns of various worlds in the history of life on Earth, how the mass extinctions happen and how a new world starts up, and what it’s made of. I couldn’t find the book that would tell me, so I wrote it.

This is not science and I am no scientist. I’ve read the scientists’ papers for a few years, thousands of them. But I’m a story-teller, and EARTH DANCING is a story-teller’s rendering of that history." -- Jane Wodening

Space is limited to 12 participants.

Documentary Block

Tuesday 10 August 4:15 PM
Boedecker Cinema

Sunday 8 August 7:00 PM
Grace Gamm Theater

A city’s agenda enforces logic, favoring blueprint over footprint, form over function. Observational and performative, these stories explore the friction between architectural bias and the evolving everyday lives of communities in the city.

Program:

Reimagining the City, As Our Own (2020, USA, 21’)
Irene Gustafson in collaboration with Skywatchers

Up the Mountain (2021, USA, 10’)
Adler Shannon

I Dream of Vancouver (2020, CA, 7’)
Warren Chan

Hotel Regina (2019, FR, 52’)
Matthias Berger

Documentary Block

Saturday 7 August 1:00PM
Boedecker Cinema

This program interrogates the limits and frames of knowledge production, disrupting colonial narratives embedded into history and art. Between folktales and philosophy, ethnographic film and university structures, the projects here reclaim, reinterpret and subvert conventional modes of education, offering redemption through productive unlearning.

Program:

the mango tree (2020, IN, 12’)
Pooja Jain

A New England Document (2020, UK, 16’)
Che Applewhaite

Who Built the Cage? (2019, USA, 8’)
Paul Carpenter

The Seven Doors (2019, TR, 50’)
Mehmet Mim Kurt

Documentary Block

Friday 6 August 4:15 PM
Boedecker Cinema

Saturday 7 August 5:30 PM
Grace Gamm Theater

In a capitalist society defined by work time, how do we separate renewal of life from the reproduction of labor? These documentaries look at the work of gestating, of organizing, of rearing eleven children and countless cows, prompting us to reconceptualize connections between labor and care, and working together. Seize the Means of Production! Abolish Wage Labor! Abolish the Family! Motherese is the Mother Tongue of Liberation!

Program:

Batay La (2019, USA, 25’)
Malia Bruker

Beloved (2018, IR, 54’)
Yaser Talebi

Contraction, Expansion (2021, UK, 15’)
Marcy Saude

​Documentary Block

Thursday 5 August 2:00 PM
Boedecker Cinema

Saturday 7 August 8:00 PM
Grace Gamm Theater

Between Colorado and California, Jakarta and New York, Cambodia and Minnesota, Syria and Italy, works in this program explore the possibilities of friendship and collaboration across distance and time. Soul searching protagonists defy social and political boundaries, their personal histories caught in the flux of political asylum and belonging. With hope in healing, empathy, and camaraderie, worlds and ideas collide through letters, opening up more questions than they answer.

Program:

So Many Ideas Impossible to Do All (2019, USA, 11’)
Mark Street and Barbara Hammer

Big Durian, Big Apple (2018, ID, 5’)
Azalia Muchransyah

A Story from Shaba's Family Hairstyling (2020, USA, 2’)
Jonathan Onsuwan Johnson

Unwritten Letters (2020, DE, 59’)
Max Bloching and Abd Alrahman Dukmak

Documentary Block

Monday 9 August 7:00 PM
Boedecker Cinema

Three conflict zones plagued by transboundary infestations, destruction, and instability. Struggling with ISIS, locusts, and diamond mining, protagonists contemplate the impossible thought of turning their backs on their homes, now changed forever. These are stories of anthropomorphized xenophobia, familial loss, resilience, and reconstruction.

Program:

Diamond Boys (2019, UK, 17’)
Jaremey McMullin

A Gregarious Species (2021, USA, 7’)
Natasha Raheja

A House in Pieces (2020, PH, 65’)
Jean Claire Dy, Manuel Domes

Documentary Block

Tuesday 10 August 2:00 PM
Boedecker Cinema

Friday 6 August 4:15 PM
Grace Gamm Theater

Through the lens of a global health crisis, this program reflects on the vulnerability of our bodies and spirits, our methods of protecting ourselves, and our unflinching desire to remain open and connected. By investigating a Brazilian legend, embalming practices in the US, and a childhood in Chad, these projects point to a balance between safety and exposure, fulfillment and harm reduction, physical distancing and social connection.

Program:

Souk Corona (2021, USA, 5’)
Bentley Brown

The Final Touch (2021, USA, 6’)
Claire Maske

The Body Won't Close (2020, NL, 74’)
Mattijs van de Port

Documentary Block

Friday 6 August 11:30 AM
Boedecker Cinema

Sunday 8 August 9:30 AM
Boedecker Cinema

Archives preserve legacies, but conceal traces of abuse and oppression. The five projects in this program are made by women about women, reuniting stories from different generations through narrative investigation, animation, collage, and cinematic experiment. In the porous space between experience, memory, and imagination, personal and collective archives begin to speak.

Program:

The Adventures of Annie (2021, USA, 5’)
Rachel Askari

Inherent (2020, USA, 8’)
Ailin Mo

Originate & Recompile (2020, IT, 4’)
Federica Foglia

Her Own Time (2020, USA, 3’)
Sarah Ema Friedland

The Celine Archive (2019, USA, 69’)
Celine Parrenas Shimizu

Documentary Block

Sunday 8 August 4:00PM
Boedecker Cinema

Documents of resistance revolt against complicity in state violence. From occupations in New York City, to boarding school rebellions, to extrajudicial killings in the United Kingdom, the films in this program will not be silenced. These provocations harness the immense power of protest in the face of injustice, making difficult acts of change a reality.

Program:

E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo (2021, USA, 5’)
Lynne Sachs

Frontline of the Narrative (2021, USA, 5’)
Omolola Sanusi

Impression of Resistance and Erasure (2020, USA, 3’)
Lucas Kane

Ultraviolence (2020, UK, 75’)
Ken Fero

by Rob Christopher

Tuesday 10 August 7:00 PM
Boedecker Cinema

Barry Gifford's ("Wild at Heart") gritty autobiographical stories of growing up in 1950s Chicago are the backdrop for an impressionistic portrait of a vanished time and place.

by David Scott Kessler (2018, USA, 104’)

Monday 9 August 11:30 AM
Boedecker Cinema

Friday 6 August 11:30 AM
Grace Gamm Theater

Through lingering and present images, this documentary takes you on an adventure of the Pine Barrens National Reserve – a large tract of wilderness not far from the megalopolis of New York City. On this land, once deemed inhospitable, rare orchids grow; endangered species thrive; inhabitants engage in folk art, oral history, wildcrafting and unite in the fight against the encroachments of a natural gas pipeline.

Documentary Shorts

Monday 9 August 4:30 PM
Boedecker Cinema

Saturday 7 August 1:00 PM
Grace Gamm Theater

Infrastructure is the scaffolding of human civilization – trains, cranes, bridges, tunnels, dams and nuclear power plants are all casualties and causalities of progress. Some of these structures we notice, others we don't see at all. Failures, everyday conveniences, latent environmental impacts – this program takes a cautious look at the studs and struts hidden all around us, the physical markers in the landscape, and their social and environmental consequences.

Program:

Riveted, Structures, Lands (2019, USA, 6’)
Brenda Grell

Atomkraftwerk Zwentendorf (2018, USA, 17’)
Hope Tucker

The Depth Beneath, The Height Above (2019, CH, 18’)
Andrea Bordoli

Before the Deluge (2019, CA, 39’)
Jean-Jacques Martinod

Documentary Shorts

Sunday 8 August 7:00 PM
Boedecker Cinema

From the salt flats of Kutch in India to the Utah Tar Sands, we are reminded of how notably humans and other animals have shaped the landscape of the globe. Through road trip musing and corporate archives, filmmakers unpack the consequences of imperialism, fossil fuels, and national propaganda campaigns in the oil towns of South-Western Iran and the American West. This program engages human extractive activities, labor histories, power relations, and climate resistance, casting doubt on enthusiastic narratives of prosperity and progress.

Program:

Driving Dinosaurs (2018, USA, 9’)
Emma Piper-Burket

Ancient Sunshine (2020, USA, 19’)
Jason Livingston

Rann (2021, NZ, 20’)
Peter Simpson, Sarina Pearson, and Shuchi Kothari

One Image, Two Acts (2020, CA, 45’)
Sanaz Sohrabi

Documentary Shorts

Saturday 7 August 3:15 PM
Boedecker Cinema

Through visceral portrayals of addiction, subtle reflections on the past, and abstract commentary on familial traumas, this program explores communal living as space for making kin and telling personal histories.

Program:

Demeure (2019, BE, 39’)
Lucie Martin

The Addresses (2018, USA, 22’)
Josh Weissbach

Abandominium (2021, USA, 26’)
Greg Scott

Documentary Shorts

Friday 6 August 2:00 PM
Grace Gamm Theater

Saturday 7 August 5:30 PM
Boedecker Cinema

These are the mundane lives of horseshoe crabs, cats, vegetables, scientific specimens, primordial flora, and dedicated collectors of trash – the day to day sensing of the world, and speculation on planetary expansion. This diverse group of documentaries are linked through acts of sustainability: mythical communion with the land and others, the search for scientific and eco-existential answers, more-than-human solidarity, and the rejection of human exceptionalism.

Program:

Level IV (2018, USA, 15’)
Laura Iancu

Field Resistance (2019, USA, 16’)
Emily Drummer

The Whelming Sea (2020, USA, 29’)
Sean Hanley

Rahmat Creel (2020, IR, 2’)
Behzad Alavi

Grey Seals (2019, USA, 10’)
Jonathan Rattner

Moonrise (2021, AU, 11’)
Rowena Potts

Documentary Shorts

Saturday 7 August 8:00PM
Boedecker Cinema

A planet is born­ – a celestial body in ocular orbit.
Have we always inhabited the realm of science fiction? Have we always been the astronaut – or are we the asteroid? Viewing our planet from afar, this program analyzes gentrification cycles and the desire to push beyond earthly human habitats.

Program:

New Mexico Deathwish Diatribe (2020, USA, 12’)
Georg Koszulinski

Orbita (2020, MO, 4’)
Udval Altangerel

Seeing Spacecraft Earth (2021, USA, 6’)
Lisa McCarty

Frankston (2020, AU, 21’)
Patrick Tarrant

Terrain Vague (2020, USA, 47’)
Edward Kihn

Documentary Shorts

Monday 9 August 2:15 PM
Boedecker Cinema

Saturday 7 August 3:15 PM
Grace Gamm Theater

Between physical structure and inner comfort, “home” is where affect is inscribed in geological substratum. How do we understand this site of memory formation - its scents, its shape, and its potential for transformation or resistance? This eclectic program of experimental documentary, slow cinema, and ethnographic film spotlights new, bold ways to represent displacement, homecoming, and relations between people and places.

Program:

3xShapes of Home (2020, NO, 7’)
Elisabeth Brun

Pratola (2020, VE, 30’)
Lino Sanguino

Via Karelia (2021, FI, 12’)
Elian Mikkola

Dehsalm (2019, IR, 28’)
mohammad abdollahi

Painting and Decorating (2020, ES, 12’)
Florrie James

Documentary Block

Tuesday 10 August 11:30 AM
Boedecker Cinema

Sunday 8 August 1:45 PM
Grace Gamm Theater

Minds and bodies push back against expectations, the party line, the pressures of ‘passing’, and being persuaded to settle. Coloring outside the lines of gender politics, artistic invention, or their intended professional path, these protagonists invent, reinvent, and shape the world around them.

Program:

Choosing Words (2021, CA, 2’)
Andrew Bateman

I want to make a film about women (2019, AU, 12’)
Karen Pearlman

Estranged (2021, USA, 7’)
Carleen Maur

Changes in the Ocean, Changes in the Sea (2019, USA, 13’)
Emett Casey

Birth Date (2020, USA, 7’)
Leela Khanna

Red Lipstick (2019, IR, 42’)
Shiva Sanjari

Documentary Shorts

Thursday 5 August 11:30 AM
Boedecker Cinema

Sunday 8 August 4:00 PM
Grace Gamm Theater

Couples form in idiosyncratic ways. Lovers, collaborators, soulmates, and friends come together as two, but their dynamics in space and time are anything but binary. Protagonists of these films exist in tension and love, in mutual understanding and irreducible conflict. Their relations are resilient and fluid - twisting, turning and flowing like the lives, ideas and events they encounter along the way.

Program:

Who Wants to Fall In Love (2019, USA, 5’)
Emily Van Loan

The Length of Day (2020, USA, 15’)
Laura Conway

Endless Possibilities: Jack Waters & Peter Cramer (2020, USA, 15’)
MM Serra

Eleven Weeks (2020, USA, 14’)
Anna Kuperberg and Julie Caskey

Mawhialeo Ote Alowha / Our Love (2020, NZ, 16’)
Valeriya Golovina

Encounters In Light (2020, USA, 21’)
Devin Allen

Documentary Shorts

Sunday 8 August 1:45 PM
Boedecker Cinema

Confusion between the real and its representation explodes into a surreal echo chamber. Complicating identity, compulsive performativity, voyeurism, and the production of self, these movies look at how and why permission is granted into private – yet also very public – online lives. From YouTube articulations of trauma to televised family traditions, protagonists navigate the captcha, webcam, selfie stick, and an endless circulation of images within the claustrophobic enclosure of liquid crystal screens.

Program:

Petting Zoo (2019, USA, 11’)
Daniel Robin

Pharmakosis (2020, USA, 13’)
SL Pang

Stones for Thunder (2018, USA, 16’)
Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney

To Be Honest (2020, CA, 12’)
Jess Shane

Recaptcha (2020, USA, 4’)
Heather Warren-Crow

Recreation (2020, USA, 10’)
Duane Peterson III

Letter From Your Far Off Country (2020, USA, 17’)
Suneil Sanzgiri

Documentary Shorts

Friday 6 August 2:00 PM
Boedecker Cinema

Thursday 5 August 11:30 AM
Grace Gamm Theater

Training for a zombie invasion, for leaving home, for coming of age, and the age of AI – from the safety of their simulations, these protagonists practice for the real thing. Synaptic strength increases before our eyes and neural circuitry remodels pathways, forging electrical connections. We get a glimpse of the human brain in the midst of its plastic change.

Projects:

Lillian Finds the Zombies (2020, USA, 14’)
Stephen Wardell

Smart Homes for Seniors (2021, AU, 32’)
Sarah Pink

Young Guns (2021, DK, 20’)
Andreas Thaulow

Kuya/Ate (2020, USA, 5’)
Myles Aquino

aromatics of longing 爆香 (2021, USA, 14’)
Jade Wong

by Abraham Ravett (2020, 15’)

5-10 August, 11 AM-6 PM
B2 Center for Media Arts and Performance

The artist’s personal archive of postcards from film critic, writer and filmmaker, Donald Richie, documenting decades of correspondence between friends.

by Nima Bahrehmand (2020, 5’)

5-10 August, 11 AM-6 PM
B2 Center for Media Arts and Performance

A three-channel synchronized video and sound installation sourced from a found footage video streamed online from a location — (37.084833, 44.153222) — in the Middle East.

by Madyha Leghari (2020, 12’)

5-10 August, 11 AM-6 PM
B2 Center for Media Arts and Performance

Derived from extensive archival research into Northern-Rhodesian born British conceptual artist John Latham and his early history in Zambia. Describing personal histories of Latham’s father and interweaving these with those of the filmmaker's own father, the project considers the nature of taking influence from another and the problem of attributing origins.

by Louis Hock (2019, 13’)

5-10 August, 11 AM-6 PM
B2 Center for Media Arts and Performance

Both the moon landing and the artist’s backyard wildlife evidence their existence only through their documentation. One defines the “new frontier” of space colonization and the other the “new wilderness” of urban centers. In experiencing Otherworld, these two realms of possible futures consider each other, the edited moon landing audio serving as a soundtrack for the feral animal activity.

by Sasha Waters Freyer (2019, 4’)

5-10 August, 11 AM-6 PM
B2 Center for Media Arts and Performance

River naiads and backyard deities; nothing noticed is lonely. From inspiration to expiration, breathing is the only work to be enacted now. A 16mm film collage of original and found/archival footage.

by Keely Kernan (2020, 50’)

5-10 August, 11 AM-6 PM
B2 Center for Media Arts and Performance

An interactive documentary that explores the ecological transformation of the River. Using interviews with residents, local activists and researchers along with images and sounds, the project investigates the accumulation of impacts that create one of the largest dead zones in the world.

Audio Documentaries

5-10 August, 11 AM - 6 PM
B2 Center for Media Arts and Performance

Interviews with transgender rural residents of “Greater Minnesota” (Put the Brights On), a holistic revolution in Audio Description for performance, spearheaded by visually impaired dance artists (What is this Shape?), and a binaural diary documenting a night and day in cabin quarantine (School of Hard Equinox) — storytelling, field-recording, and music composition that focuses our close attention on personal experience and empathy.

Program:

Put the Brights On (2021, 17’)
Raymond Rea

What is this Shape? (2021, 10’)
Jess Shane

School of Hard Equinox (2020, 10’)
Adam Tinkle

by Jennifer Boles (2020, 11’)

5-10 August, 11 AM-6 PM
B2 Center for Media Arts and Performance

The Reversal animates thousands of glass-plate negatives with a haunting, time-traveling sound collage to evoke the reverse-engineering of the Chicago River and the invisible histories of our capital-driven landscapes.

by Baba Hillman (2021, 17’)

5-10 August, 11 AM-6 PM

B2 Center for Media Arts and Performance

In Table d’orientation, a woman returns to her former home in Paris to visit a beloved teacher. Moving between past and present, between lost messages and footage filmed many years ago, this lyrical film explores transience, memory and loss.

Conversation
Thursday 5 August 9:30 AM
Grace Gamm Theater

A live conversation with MDF2021 Artists on the intersection of images and words. Letters and diaries order thoughts, feelings, and memory into systems of correspondence. Protagonist-filmmaker-viewer, writer-reader-writer, archivist-interpreter-investigator: between them, the traces of experience begin to make new sense.

Topics include: epistolary cinema, essay film, the archive, history, juxtaposition, regimes of signification, appropriation, memory, correspondence, diary film, the self, the Other, intimacy, distance communication, films in isolation, altered states, participatory experiment, social media, and emerging epistolary forms.

Suggested Watch List:
Unwritten Letters
Letter From Your Far Off Country
E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo
So Many Ideas Impossible to Do All
Recaptcha
A New England Document
Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago
Estranged
Souk Corona
The Length of Day
Ultraviolence
3xShapes of Home
The Celine Archive
To Be Honest
Gray Seals
Table d'orientation
24 Cards

Conversation
Friday 6 August 9:30 AM
Grace Gamm Theater

A live conversation with MDF2021 Artists shedding light on nonfiction’s role in the process of building society, and how we make our worlds.

Topics include: social inquiry & community engagement, making kin, creating social connections, politics of portraiture, collaborative processes

Suggested Watch List:
Batay La
Whelming Sea
Abandominium
Who Built the Cage?
Mango Tree
The Final Touch
A House in Pieces
Red Lipstick
Contraction/Expansion
Choosing Words
Birth Date
Recreation
Reimagining the city, as our own

Conversation
Monday 9 August 9:30 AM
Boedecker Cinema

A live conversation with MDF2021 artists around representational media’s engagement with extraction; from documentary media’s extraction of meaning and metaphor to the environmental and social consequences of resource extraction of matter and material.

Topics: Reanimating the archive, resource extraction, narrative refusal, undoing, speculative futures, visual violence, Extractivism, sustainability, phantasmagoric images, the billionaire space race, and time.

Suggested Watch List:
Ancient Sunshine
​​A Gregarious Species
Atomkraftwerk Zwentendorf
Before the Deluge
Diamond boys
Driving Dinosaurs
Lillian Finds the Zombies
The Pine Barrens
The Body Won't Close
Rann
One Image, Two Acts
New Mexico Deathwish Diatribe
Moonrise

Conversation
Tuesday 10 August 9:30 AM
Boedecker Cinema

A live conversation with MDF2021 artists on expanded documentary practices and the translation of embodied experiences.

Topics include: architecture, embodiment, affect, installation, live performance, interactivity, immersion, movement, space, circulation, repetition, and site-specificity.

Suggested Watch List:
The Reversal
Blowback
Otherworld
The Mississippi
Choose Your Own Father
Who Wants to Fall In Love
Respiration
School of Hard Equinox
What is this Shape