Up From the Underground by Michael Joshua Rowin
There are gems like Stephanie Spray’s As Long As There’s Breath, an unpretentious portrait of a Nepali family anticipating the return of their son, Kevin Jerome Everson’s opening night film Erie, a series of rich black and white long takes of African-American life along the titular lake, and Sharon Lockhart’s Podworka, a half-hour series of commentary-less vignettes capturing the post-industrial courtyards of Lodz, Poland, where children turn landscapes of urban decay into sites of play. The latter seems to stand in for Migrating as a whole: observing what others might regard as disintegration and discovering the resurgence within it… (read more)