First Look, which New York's Museum of the Moving Image calls "not just a festival of new films" but "a festival about new approaches to filmmaking," opens tonight with Jessica Hausner's Amour fou and runs through January 18. We're gathering overviews ranging from Tony Pipolo's for Artforum, wherein he writes about Jon Jost’s Coming to Terms with James Benning, Kyle Turner in the Notebook on two new shorts by Gina Telaroli, Sam Weisberg in the Voice on Omer Fast's Everything That Rises Must Converge, Max Nelson in Reverse Shot on two 3D films by Ken Jacobs—plus interviews and more. » - David Hudson...
- 1/9/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
First Look, which New York's Museum of the Moving Image calls "not just a festival of new films" but "a festival about new approaches to filmmaking," opens tonight with Jessica Hausner's Amour fou and runs through January 18. We're gathering overviews ranging from Tony Pipolo's for Artforum, wherein he writes about Jon Jost’s Coming to Terms with James Benning, Kyle Turner in the Notebook on two new shorts by Gina Telaroli, Sam Weisberg in the Voice on Omer Fast's Everything That Rises Must Converge, Max Nelson in Reverse Shot on two 3D films by Ken Jacobs—plus interviews and more. » - David Hudson...
- 1/9/2015
- Keyframe
The Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look festival has become a bastion of obscure films by talented, on-the-rise filmmakers. From January 9 through January 18, the Long Island City haven will host a mix of screenings, some of which are free (check the museum website for details), all of which are worth a couple hours of your life. Not oriented towards the casual moviegoer, this is a series of films that careen from slow and silent to overtly experimental, feature-length adventures and 10-minute freak-outs. There’s not a wholly bad film in the batch, but we’ve picked a handful of filmmakers whose works really deserve your attention. Omer Fast Omer Fast’s "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (57m), which has nothing to do with the iconic Flannery O’Connor story, is a cinematic adaptation of an art installation Fast orchestrated in 2013. The film, like its progenitor piece, depicts the...
- 1/9/2015
- by Greg Cwik
- Indiewire
Pornographic films now employ, with some regularity, a quadruple screen/angle effect, allowing viewers to choose which feed to look at. But it's doubtful that any smut film has featured a subplot in which hoodlums steal a fossilized egg from a mansion lawn. Also unlikely: that any porno flick to date has been based — however loosely — on a Flannery O'Connor short story.
Omer Fast's Everything That Rises Must Converge can lay claim to such bizarre distinctions. The film premieres in the U.S. this Saturday at the Museum of the Moving Image's fourth annual First Look Festival, which will show roughly forty films starting January 9.
Fast's documentary/narrative hybrid, which glimpses a day in the life of several real-life porn stars, is an unapologetic te...
Omer Fast's Everything That Rises Must Converge can lay claim to such bizarre distinctions. The film premieres in the U.S. this Saturday at the Museum of the Moving Image's fourth annual First Look Festival, which will show roughly forty films starting January 9.
Fast's documentary/narrative hybrid, which glimpses a day in the life of several real-life porn stars, is an unapologetic te...
- 1/7/2015
- Village Voice
For Astoria’s Museum of the Moving Image to house an event like the First Look series—opening this Friday and running through January 18—is a cinematic blessing. Here, in its fourth year, you’ll find undistributed gems, but, though its similarities to other festivals halt with “undistributed,” the curation of the series is precise and impeccable, giving an illusion of intimacy. This year, with selections from Omer Fast, Gina Telaroli, and Jessica Hausner, there’s a stress on waking nightmares; films whose atmospheres are bone chilling in both overt and subtle ways.
Ville Marie
Opening with a title card dedicating the film to Carlos Lorenzo, Ville Marie—one of the many experimental films being exhibited during the series—intentionally or otherwise becomes a living fever dream, its use of double and reverse exposure reminiscent of E. Elias Merhige’s horror experiment Begotten. That film sought to expose the horror of creation,...
Ville Marie
Opening with a title card dedicating the film to Carlos Lorenzo, Ville Marie—one of the many experimental films being exhibited during the series—intentionally or otherwise becomes a living fever dream, its use of double and reverse exposure reminiscent of E. Elias Merhige’s horror experiment Begotten. That film sought to expose the horror of creation,...
- 1/6/2015
- by Kyle Turner
- MUBI
The falling leaves are a sure sign it’s now the beginning of awards season, with Oscar short lists starting to leak out, Ida Awards prepping their program and the Emmy’s already handing out golden statues. Also, on the festival circuit this month we have a whole host of big lineup announcements coming from a hefty set of acronym loving non-fiction fests the world over, from Cph:dox and Doc NYC, to Idfa and Ridm. Best of Fests Docs is a monthly snapshot of the films and filmmakers that are the make-up of the docu film festival and awards circuit. Check out the full rundown below:
Cph:dox - Denmark – November 6th-16th
The festival, also known as Copenhagen International Documentary Festival , has announced its 2014 lineup, which was guest curated this year by Citizenfour director Laura Poitras. Over 200 films (with the likes of Robert Greene’s Actress, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence,...
Cph:dox - Denmark – November 6th-16th
The festival, also known as Copenhagen International Documentary Festival , has announced its 2014 lineup, which was guest curated this year by Citizenfour director Laura Poitras. Over 200 films (with the likes of Robert Greene’s Actress, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence,...
- 10/28/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
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