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  • Three by João Pedro Rodrigues

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    By turns playful, provocative, and committed to the pursuit of strange pleasures, the films of João Pedro Rodrigues have established the shapeshifting Portuguese director as a singular figure in contemporary queer cinema. The Lisbon-born filmmaker studied biology before embarking upon his directo...

  • Mommy Issues

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    From Norma Bates to Natalia Akerman, mothers have loomed large in the history (and herstory) of cinema; whether warm or wicked, nurturing or nagging, their presence is primal, poignant, and freighted with psychic baggage for filmmaker and audience alike. By way of tribute to their earthly burden,...

  • Short Films by Ari Marcopoulos

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    A program of selected short films by Ari Marcopoulos, a photographer, filmmaker, and tireless chronicler of subcultures in New York City and points further afield. Includes "Roma," a portrait of daily life in the Italian capital; "Sketches for #PUNK," intercutting choreographer Nora Chipaumire’s ...

  • Personal Archives of Home

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    This program of short works—including experimental works from a first-person perspective, documentary pieces, found footage decoupages, or combinations of all of the above—considers the manner in which migration impacts and reshapes cultural identity and memory, offering a diversity of rumination...

  • Two Starring Irmena Chichikova

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    One of the breakout stars of Derrick B. Harden and Crystal Moselle’s "The Black Sea," Bulgaria’s reigning “ice queen” Irmena Chichikova has built a storied career in her homeland as an actor, model and multidisciplinary artist, beginning as an acclaimed theater performer before essaying complex p...

  • The Black Sea

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    Live Streaming Premiere May 18

    Directed by Crystal Moselle and Derrick B. Harden | 93 mins | 2024
    A compassionate, convivial, and deeply humane improvised comedy from Moselle ("The Wolfpack", "Skate Kitchen") and co-director Harden, inspired by the latter’s own experiences, "The Black Sea" stars...

  • The Leather Boys

    Directed by Sidney J. Furie | 107 mins | 1964
    Long before he directed the Diana Ross vehicle "Lady Sings the Blues" and cult horror classic "The Entity," versatile Canadian filmmaker Furie helmed this Cockney tale of motorized delinquency and Ton-Up rocker subculture, starring Colin Campbell and ...

  • A Kind of Loving

    Directed by John Schlesinger | 113 mins | 1962
    Set against the factories and watering holes of Lancashire, the fiction feature debut of "Midnight Cowboy" director Schlesinger stars the brooding Alan Bates as a young draughtsman whose affair with an office secretary (June Ritchie) results in a the...

  • Old Enough

    Directed by Marisa Silver | 92 mins | 1984
    Eleven-year-old Lonnie (Sarah Boyd) is a Lower East Side kid who comes from money, while her teenaged pal Karen (Rainbow Harvest) doesn’t come from much of anything at all. At first these opposites attract, but then budding hormones and first crushes fur...

  • Victoria

    Directed by Sebastian Schipper | 138 mins | 2015
    Eschewing the digitally composited “single take” of "Birdman" for the real-deal, in-camera approach seen in "Russian Ark," this electric German thriller follows the titular Victoria (Laia Costa), a young Spanish woman who stumbles out of an early-h...

  • Will-o'-the-Wisp

    Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues | 67 mins | 2022
    A queer musical fantasia unlike anything in recent cinema, Rodrigues’s 2069 love song finds an ailing monarch flashing back to his erotic youth as a fireman during a time of climate crisis, in which his beefcake blaze-battler (Mauro Costa) is tran...

  • Momma's Man

    Directed by Azazel Jacobs | 99 mins | 2008
    After two delicate, scrappy features that made him a filmmaker to watch ("Nobody Needs to Know" and "The Good Times Kid"), Azazel Jacobs delivered a small-scale treasure that quickly became the standard bearer for a new generation of New York independent...

  • afternoon

    Directed by Erica Sheu | 3 mins | 2017
    Taking inspiration from Jonas Mekas’s "The Diary Film," Los Angeles-based Taiwanese experimental filmmaker Erica Sheu deploys hand-processed 16mm film and in-camera editing to evoke the perspective of gazing through a window and onto the domestic life of an ...

  • Alone Together

    Directed by Ari Marcopoulos | 24 mins | 2021
    Marcopoulos’s vital document of jazz multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, filmed in an empty gallery with three cameras recording the raw behind-the-scenes set-up, captures the avant-garde legend in all of his improvised splendor, his poetry reading and a...

  • DROGA!

    Directed by Miko Revereza | 8 mins | 2014
    The debut work of Manila-born filmmaker Miko Revereza, whose features "No Data Plan" (2019) and "Nowhere Near" (2023) reflect on his experience as an undocumented resident in the United States, this 8mm short—comprising a repeated shot of a singer and a c...

  • Disintegration 93-96

    Directed by Miko Revereza | 5 mins | 2017
    As timely now as it was upon first release, this intimate essay film—a patchwork of self-portraiture and home-movie footage overlaid with the filmmaker’s voice-over—finds Revereza reflecting upon his childhood relocation from the Philippines to California...

  • Finding Christa

    Directed by Camille Billops and James Hatch | 55 mins | 1991
    An affecting yet unsentimental portrait of motherhood, Camille Billops’s collaboration with husband James Hatch captures her reunion with the daughter she was forced to give up for adoption in 1961, combining candid interviews and archi...

  • Hammons Flute

    Directed by Ari marcopoulos | 9 mins | 1991
    Marcopoulos’s intimate video portrait of David Hammons finds the artist casually resplendent in a beret and mock turtleneck and playing a flute in his cluttered New York studio, surrounded by the ephemera of his practice: paintings, sculpture, and the i...

  • History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige

    Directed by Rea Tajiri | 32 mins | 1991
    A groundbreaking, highly influential work by the Chicago-born visual artist and filmmaker Rea Tajiri, this poetic tapestry of the personal and the political reckons with the internment of some 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II, amo...

  • My Hands Are Full

    Directed by Ari Marcopoulos | 2 mins | 2020
    A prime example of Marcopoulos’s up-close-and-personal portraiture, this unguarded slice of storytelling brio catches the Houston-born, Nigerian American rapper Maxo freestyling alone on a sofa, dragging on a spliff and spitting infectious rhymes while—...

  • Not a Lot to Fear

    Directed by Ari Marcopoulos | 3 mins | 2021
    A multi-generational portrait starring skateboarder, rapper, record producer and artist Sage Elsesser, his mother and grandmother, Marcopoulos’s short film bears witness to the bonds between three eras of Black America, with the elder matriarch, regally...

  • O Fantasma

    Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues | 87 mins | 2000
    The rare film to be both feted by festival cognoscenti and uploaded to disreputable porn sites, Rodrigues’s confrontational, controversial debut feature heralded the arrival of a major queer artist. Concerning the carnal odyssey of a Lisbon trash ...

  • Sketches for #PUNK

    Directed by Ari Marcopoulos | 15 mins | 2019
    The rhythms of tribal dance and street basketball commune in this diasporic summit, in which studio footage of famed Zimbabwe-born, New York–based choreographer Nora Chipaumire is intercut with teenagers hitting jump shots on a Manhattan court. The cit...

  • Roma

    Directed by Ari Marcopoulos | 14 mins | 2016
    Evoking the spirit of postwar neo-realism, Marcopoulos sketches an impression of the Italian capital with unvarnished detail, capturing the quotidian life of a city where past and present collide. A lone roller-skater pirouettes beside an ancient canal...