Tom McCormick in Alt Screen:
“Migrating Forms, now in its third year, escorts viewers from the humdrum of the East Village into a subterranean world of ghostly apparitions and material mayhem. Forms grew out of the New York Underground Film Festival, and it expands upon that fest’s interest in bringing together heterogeneous material: the celluloid revival of the American avant-garde, the rough-hewn outer edges of the European art-house, old curios, New Media, the academy, the grindhouse, and the gutter. As a result, Forms has some of the most unpredictable and interesting—and some of the best—programming of any US festival.”
Interview with Nelle Killian and Kevin McGarry in The Brooklyn Rail:
“At what other festival are you going to encounter a filmmaker like Jim Finn sharing “clips from his favorite North Korean movies and reading excerpts from Kim Jong Il’s On the Art of the Cinema”? If a traditional narrative is what you’re after, look elsewhere; but if you are intrigued by the sound of Jacqueline Goss’s unorthodox portrait of a meteorologist (The Observers), or Straub and Huillet’s 1981 “structural investigation of revolutionary history” (Too Early, Too Late) this gem of a fest should not be missed.”
Ricky D’Ambrose in Slant:
“This year’s installment of Migrating Forms pursues relationships between time and space that are complicated and vibrant; it is also a cross section of a cinema with a taste for landscapes and selves transformed.”
Earlier: Reviews in The L Magazine and The Village Voice
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