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Sky So Blue

The 9/11 Memorial in New York City is a sacred place. The final resting place for many of the nearly 3,000 victims of the September 11th attacks. Based on the book, "Finding Fifteen," "Sky So Blue" is a feature length documentary based on families who lost so much on 9/11. Follow Tim Oliver on his daily walk to work through the memorial. A walk that becomes a journey of love, hope and survival as Oliver finds five families of 9/11, who relive the final moments of innocent Americans caught up in the terrorist attacks and share their unique perspectives on a divided and pandemic-stricken America 20 years later. New Jersey: A police officer who ran toward danger. Long Island: A woman who wouldn't leave a wounded friend. Maryland: A young enlisted man on duty to protect his country. Long Island: A custodian who survived a previous terrorist attack. Rhode Island: A flight attendant who filled in for a co-worker.

Sky So Blue

NR 2021
Godsend

When a man (Michael Ochotorena, "John Light," "Dispatched") wakes up under a bridge to discover he no longer knows who he is or how he got there, his life brutally unfolds as a homeless person. Enduring the scorn of random people, the elements, and coping with a terrible head injury, he finds hope in the unlikeliest of friends: a dog and a pastor (Greg Mason, "Midnight (2020)," "Dispatched"). Together, they explore kindness, compassion, and what it means to live--and to become a Godsend to others.

Godsend

7.0 2021
I'm Khoisan, not Coloured

During his stay in Cape Town as a film student, Shatho Tibone was inspired by an initial casual trip he took to the scenic but informal settlement of Hangberg. This film focuses on the uncertainties and inhumane acts of police and state brutality faced by the predominantly Rastafarian, KhoiSan identifying community of Hangberg in Cape Town, South Africa. So, through the participatory collective effort of a few journalists, filmmaker and community leaders Shatho went on a 5 year journey to document the story of this community which has become an enigma in South African imagination,

I'm Khoisan, not Coloured

NR 2021
A Defense

In 2016, hundreds of academics signed a petition in Turkey, asking the state to put an end to violence inflicted upon Kurdish people. Academics for Peace have been criminalized and put on trial with the charge of terrorist propaganda. A Defense portrays one of the Academics for Peace while preparing for her upcoming appearance in court in 2019. A psychodrama is put on stage in a house, where the person is both the state, the judge, the academic and the cook. It’s a self-portrait on the violence and absurdity of the ways in which the state sneaks into the house of an academic, forcing her to adjust her words, body and gestures.

A Defense

NR 2021
Good Ol Girl

Follows three young Texas cowgirls tasked with carrying on their families' legacies amidst a volatile landscape and industry. The film explores the modern West: a place where the male cowboy mythology must answer to a new, honest, and some would say subversive, female story. The jarring transition between generations illuminates the weight of heritage and tradition. As the old guard wanes, these three women stand amidst the vast ranchlands of Texas. Who has the authority to claim our traditions when only those who have been overlooked are left to carry them on?

Good Ol Girl

1.0 2021
Out of the Blue

OUT OF THE BLUE is a typically thought-provoking and contemplative work constructed from seemingly disparate elements: imagery recorded from the window of a plane during her trans-Atlantic travels, diary-like footage, found imagery and sound, and onscreen texts. The result is a highly personal, open-ended meditation on the passage of time, historical trauma, and liminal physical and emotional spaces that embodies Fisher’s radically multilayered approach: she juxtaposes multiple layers of visual and aural materials not only to create a rich visual experience, but to bring into play a dizzying and cross-pollinating array of ideas. The soundtrack features composer Lois V Vierk’s long-form piece, “Words Fail Me,” a work inspired by Vierk’s experience as an eyewitness to the fall of the World Trade Center, twenty years ago.

Out of the Blue

NR 2021
13 Minutes of Horror: Folklore

Inspired by folklore, the NYX 13 Minutes of Horror Film Festival collects 13 inventive, eerie DIY shorts directed by women. The NYX 13 Minutes of Horror film festival challenges the assumption that women “just aren’t into horror” by offering women horror filmmakers (including BIWOC, LGBTQ+ women, disabled women, and non-binary creators) exposure for their projects and accessibility to resources, free of charge. Together with creators and partners, 13 Minutes is looking to redefine the horror industry and women’s roles within it. Contains mild language, violence and gore.

13 Minutes of Horror: Folklore

6.0 2021
Mind of Modernism

Mind of Modernism brings you on a meditative and smooth journey through Norwegian architecture. In this film, Paul Tunge and photographer Egil Håskjold Larsen venture out into the public and into rooms, to explore modernist buildings in Norwegian society. This audiovisual journey is composed of three short films: Ad Astra, Bauta and Platform. In Ad Astra you will see brutalist church architecture, which is in stark contrast to the traditional church we all know. In Bauta you will soar around Oslo and observe concrete public buildings, while in Platform you will enter modern villas. Sound and image exist in a calm (but also chilling) symbiosis in this portrait of modernistic buildings.

Mind of Modernism

NR 2021
Sous le signe du lion

It was while proceeding with the digital restoration of the film CHANTILLY produced in 1976 that the idea for this project came about. Originally the idea was to do a follow-up to the original film, a sort of unrolling of all the graphic elements of the "multi-screen" grid; but very quickly, another film came to the fore. The superimposition of 80 painted transparent celluloid gels and monochromes used for the backgrounds called for new elements to come from a different personal, contemporary reality.

Sous le signe du lion

NR 2021
Voice Engine

In Voice Engine, 2021, Rosa Barba further explores ideas that undergo perpetual transformation of images and their translation through sound. The work destabilizes the old hierarchy of cinema components, freeing them up from their original use and letting them interact in new and unforeseen ways. Voice Engine resonates with Barba’s sculptural approach to film and the relation between the work and the viewer. At Kunsthal, the voices of choristers from Rotterdam power a set of projectors. Their song is a new, unique composition closely aligned to the film material. The choristers activate the 16mm and 35mm projectors with the various frequencies of their voices. Here, light and sound can respond unexpectedly to one another using the analogue footage and the timbre and power of analogue voices.

Voice Engine

NR 2021