February 10, 2017 – February 25, 2017
Bold, original, and aesthetically inventive new works pushing against the borders of cinematic expression, which in the process challenge our assumptions about the possibilities of image and sound, form and narrative.

All the Cities of the North
Directed by Dane Komljen
Built around origin myths and mysteries from a not-so-distant past, Komljen’s debut is set in an abandoned, hotel complex near …

Dead Slow Ahead
Directed by Mauro Herce
Despite new technology, the transport of physical goods continues to rely on age-old means. Herce’s film is a hypnotic and …

Eldorado XXI
Directed by Salomé Lamas
Set at 18,000 feet in the Peruvian Andes and focused on a community of exploited miners in the small village …

Kékszakállú
Directed by Gastón Solnicki
Loosely based on Béla Bartók’s 1918 opera “Bluebeard’s Castle” and largely constructed out of improvised scenes featuring non-actors, Solnicki’s film …

The Dreamed Ones
Directed by Ruth Beckermann
In 1948, Paul Celan, a concentration camp survivor and esteemed post-war poet, met Ingeborg Bachmann, a writer whose father was …

The Dreamed Path
Directed by Angela Schanelec
Influenced by the ethos of legendary French director Robert Bresson, The Dreamed Path is a riddle of a film and …

The Human Surge
Directed by Eduardo Williams
Work and leisure—particularly in the “developing” world—has inexorably shifted to a quasi-industrial, quasi-service hellscape where everything is commodified and interpersonal …