NEW YORK, May 9, 2011 – Migrating Forms announces its third annual festival, running Friday, May 20th through Sunday, May 29th at Anthology Film Archives in New York. The 2011 program includes new works by more than 48 artists representing a broad spectrum of contemporary film and video practices, retrospective screenings, and special guest curated programs. Migrating Forms is programmed by Nellie Killian and Kevin McGarry.
Migrating Forms will showcase films and videos by 48 artists living and working in 19 countries including Argentina, Algeria, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Morocco, The Netherlands, Portugal, The Republic of Congo, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the festival of new work:
Michael Bell-Smith • Neil Beloufa • Madison Brookshire • Olga Chernysheva • Jacob Ciocci • eteam • Kevin Jerome Everson • Omer Fast • Cao Fei • Iván Fund & Santiago Loza • Ryan Garrett • Melanie Gilligan • Jacqueline Goss •Adele Horne • Liu Jiayin • Andrew Lampert • Oliver Laric • Oliver Laxe • Laida Lertxundi • Dani Leventhal • Jeanne Liotta • Darrin Martin • Katherin McInnis • Shana Moulton • Takeshi Murata • Tomonari Nishikawa • Jenny Perlin • Mario Pfeifer • Matías Piñeiro • Sasha Pirker • Jennifer Proctor • Laure Prouvost • Nicolas Provost • Steve Reinke • James Richards • Michael Robinson • Lee Anne Schmitt • Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa • Fern Silva • J.P. Sniadecki • Hito Steyerl • Stephen Sutcliffe • Peter Tscherkassky • Robert Todd
Full Schedule
Friday, May 20
8:30pm – Opening Night
Popular Unrest (60 min., Canada/UK/USA 2010) dir. Melanie Gilligan
Saturday, May 21
2:30pm
The Tiny Ventriloquist (48 min., Canada, 2011) dir. Steve Reinke
Reinke’s collection and organization of images and sounds seem casual at first, but ultimately reveal themselves to be heavily mediated and orchestrated. This new series of works is another chapter in the Final Thoughts series, an ongoing project intended to be continued until Reinke’s death, concerning the limits of things: discourse, experience, events and thought.
3:45pm
Group Program 1
The Yellow Bank (30 min., USA, 2010) dir. J.P. Sniadecki, Tokyo-Ebisu (5 min., Japan, 2010) dir. Tomonari Nishikawa, Track One (2 min., Taiwan/USA, 2011) dir. eteam, Shibuya-Tokyo (10min., Japan, 2010) dir. Tomonari Nishikawa, In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails (14 min., Brazil/USA, 2010) dir. Fern Silva
5:15pm
Group Program 2
Untitled. Dedicated to Sengai (6 min., Russia, 2008) dir. Olga Chernysheva, Fragments (7 min., USA , 2010) dir. Darrin Martin, It, heat, hit (6 min., UK, 2010) dir. Laure Prouvost, Hearts and Trump Again (9 min., USA, 2010) dir. Dani Leventhal, Monolog (13 min., UK, 2009) dir. Laure Prouvost, Trashman (7 min., Russia, 2010/2011) dir. Olga Chernysheva, Rigamarole Reversal (10 min., USA, 2010) dir. Andrew Lampert
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7:00pm
Recent Work by Nicolas Provost
Stardust (20 min., USA, 2010), Storyteller (7 min., USA, 2010), Long Live The New Flesh (14 min., USA, 2009), Plot Point (15 min., USA, 2007)
8:30pm
Holidays in the Sun: Cynthia Maughan (70 min., USA)
Work by Maughan and her influences. Drawing from the grotesqueries of B-movies and pulp fiction with a dry conceptualist wit, and imbuing the hygienic domesticity of lifestyle magazines with a macabre and iconoclastic sensibility, Maughan’s videos rarely screen.
10:00pm
Holidays in the Sun: The Hills Have Eyes (90 min., USA, 1977) dir. Wes Craven
“They wanted to see something different, but something different saw them first…”
Sunday, May 22
2:00pm
The Observers (67 min., USA, 2011) dir. Jacqueline Goss
The land and sky of Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, form a frame for a meteorologist as she goes about the solitary and steadfast work of measuring and recording the weather.
3:45pm
Group Program 3
History Minor (19 min., USA, 2010) dir. Ryan Garrett, And Again (56 min., Canada, 2010) dir. Adele Horne
5:30pm
Color Series (74 min., USA, 2010) dir. Madison Brookshire
Six films that form one work. Each fades between colors. They are made without a camera, using only the lights of the printing process at the lab. The subject of the work is duration and color is the medium through which we experience it. The converse is also true: the subject is color and duration is the medium.
7:15pm
Musical Numbers from the Juche-Oriented Socialist State of Korea
Filmmaker Jim Finn shows clips from his favorite North Korean movies and reads excerpts from Kim Jong Il’s On the Art of the Cinema.
9:15pm
Group Program 4
The Writer in Residence (3 min., UK, 2010) dir. Stephen Sutcliffe, Art Tape: Live With / Think About (3 min., USA, 2011) dir. Michael Bell-Smith, I, Popeye (6 min., USA, 2010) dir. Takeshi Murata, Your Life/Your Language (7 min., USA, 2010) dir. Jacob Ciocci, The Galactic Pot Healer (9 min., USA, 2010) dir. Shana Moulton, The Artist (10 min., UK, 2010) dir. Laure Prouvost, Versions (9 min., Germany, 2011) dir. Oliver Laric
Monday, May 23
7:00pm
Primary Information presents: Destroy All Monsters
A program of videos tracking the legendary Detroit “anti-rock” band founded by Mike Kelley, Niagara, Jim Shaw and Cary Loren.
9:30pm
Los Labios (105 min., Argentina , 2010) dir. Iván Fund & Santiago Loza
Hybrid fiction-documentary about three women traveling through rural Argentina as aid workers.
Tuesday, May 24
7:00pm
Oxhide (110 min., China, 2005) dir. Liu Jiayin
A family plays fictionalized versions of themselves in a cramped Beijing apartment in one of the most important Chinese films of the past decade.
9:15pm
Oxhide II (132 min., China, 2009) dir. Liu Jiayin
Liu Jiayin returns to the family apartment, staging intricate dramas around the dining room table.
Wednesday, May 25
7:00pm
Serie Noire (111 min., France, 1979) dir. Alain Corneau
Perec wrote dialogue made-up almost entirely of cliches and aphorisms for this adaptation of Jim Thompson’s A Hell of a Woman.
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9:30pm
Un homme qui dort (77 min., France, 1974) dir. Georges Perec & Bernard Queysanne
Structured as a filmic sestina, Perec and Queysanne re-imagine the framework of the novel while maintaining much of the original narration (read by Shelly Duvall in the English version!).
Thursday, May 26
7:00pm
Too Early, Too Late (100 min., France, 1981) dir. Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
Jean Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s structural investigation of revolutionary history and landscape in France and Egypt.
9:15pm
The Art of the Supercut
Re-edit master and pop culture parser Rich Juzwiak (fourfour.typepad.com, VH1) presents a program of his influences and favorites. Followed by a screening of Curt Hanks epic Star Wars: Chewbacca Supercut
Friday, May 27
7:00pm
Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (115 min., Brazil, 1964) dir. Glauber Rocha
Considered one of the greatest Brazilian films of all time, Deus e o Diabolo follows a young man and his wife as they travel through Brazil encountering mystics and soothsayers, robbing and killing to get by in a corrupt and violent landscape.
9:30pm
Tube Time!
Online found video presentations by Matt Wolf and Kelly Rakwoski (Teenagefilm.com), Benjamin Graves (toysandtechniques.blogspot.com), and Mary Manning (unchangingwindow.com)
Saturday, May 28
2:00pm
A Formal Film in Nine Episodes, Prologue & Epilogue (51 min., India/Germany, 2011) dir. Mario Pfeifer
A contemporary Asian Metropolis through an observational, anthropological lens. The scenery depicted portrays landscape, architecture, interiors or humans from rural communities to factories, medical facilities or ancient and religious sites. Slowly establishing two characters, the film leaves its’ documentarian nature and progresses into a narrative.
3:15pm
Group Program 5
BZV (32 min., The Republic of Congo/ Netherlands/USA, 2010) dir. Kevin Jerome Everson, Crosswalk (19 min., USA, 2010) dir. Jeanne Liotta
4:45pm
Group Program 6
The Green and the Blue (14 min., USA, 2010) dir. Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa, Horizon Line (1 min., USA, 2009) dir. Katherin McInnis, Threshold (1 min., USA, 2010) dir. Katherin McInnis, Last Resort (2 min., USA, 2010) dir. Katherin McInnis, East Wind (10 min., China, 2011) dir. Cao Fei, Meer (4 min., USA, 2010) dir. Robert Todd, Inaudible (4 min., USA, 2006/2010) dir. Jenny Perlin, Leads (6 min., USA, 2009) dir. Jenny Perlin, Shadow Life (10 min., China, 2011) dir. Cao Fei, Servants of Mercy (14min., Portugal/USA, 2010) dir. Fern Silva
6:30pm
Nostalgia (45 min., Germany/UK, 2009) dir. Omer Fast
“Three-part film and video installation that continues Fast’s fascination with exploring configurations of fact and fiction through narrative and filmic constructions, intertwining modes of documentary and dramatization.” – The Whitney Museum of Art
7:45pm
Group Program 7
The Future will not be Capitalist (19 min., Austria, 2010) dir. Sasha Pirker, Untitled (15 min., Algeria/France, 2010) dir. Neil Beloufa, In Free Fall (32 min., Austria/Germany, 2010) dir. Hito Steyerl, Burrow Me (12 min, UK, 2009) dir. Laure Prouvost
9:30pm
Terra em Transe (106 min., Brazil, 1967) dir. Glauber Rocha
Set in the fictional country of Eldorado, an idealistic and anarchist poet is deeply entangled in a political contest between a populist governor and conservative president with revolutionary support.
Sunday, May 29
1:30pm
Group Program 8
A Movie (12 min., USA, 2010) dir. Jennifer Proctor, Coming Attractions (25 min., Austria, 2010) dir. Peter Tscherkassky, Despair (16 min., UK, 2009) dir. Stephen Sutcliffe, Misty Suite (6 min., UK, 2009) dir. James Richards, These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us (13 min., USA, 2010) dir. Michael Robinson
3:15pm
Group Program 9
Brune Renault (17 min., France, 2009) dir. Neil Beloufa, Rosalinda (43 min., Argentina, 2011) dir. Matías Piñeiro, Cry When It Happens (14 min., USA, 2010) dir. Laida Lertxundi
5:00pm
Antônio das Mortes (100 min., Brazil, 1969) dir. Glauber Rocha
One of the most influential revolutionary films of all time, Antonio das Mortes is an epic allegorical folk tale about a legendary warrior turned hired gun on the Brazilian plains.
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7:00pm
The Last Buffalo Hunt (76 min., USA, 2010) dir. Lee Anne Schmitt
Documentary essay film about the culture and industry around buffalo hunting in Southern Utah.
830pm
You All Are Captains (78 min., Spain/Morocco, 2010) dir. Oliver Laxe
A meta-documentary charting the director’s disintegrating relationship with his collaborators: a class of middle-school Moroccan filmmakers in Tangiers.