TRADE CENTER
The voices of five gay men who cruised for sex at the World Trade Center in the 1980s and 1990s haunt the sanitized, commerce-driven landscape that is the newly rebuilt Freedom Tower campus.
United States 2021 / 8:36 / Director: Adam B Baran / Producer: Ethan Weinstock
SAME/DIFFERENT/BOTH/NEITHER
In a period of isolation, far away from each other, two friends reconnect through video-letters, inspired by the poetic gaze of women experimental filmmakers. They share their inspiration while capturing the reality of these times: the pot-banging protests against Bolsonaro, a home moving, the passing of days that feel all the same, gentrification that won’t stop even during a pandemic, the Black Lives Matter protests and the yearning of meeting each other again soon.
Brazil 2020 / 19:00 / Director: Adriana Barbosa, Fernanda Pessoa
GREETINGS FROM MYANMAR
Umbrella drinks and genocide.
Norway 2020 / 5:18 / Director: Andreas J. Riiser, Sunniva Sundby
DON’T GO TELLIN’ YOUR MOMMA
In 1970 a group of Black educators in Chicago developed a flashcard set of the Alphabet in order to provide Black centered teaching materials to a vastly White landscape of text books and learning materials. The Black ABCs were born. Now 50 years later, as artist Topaz Jones debuts a view into his and America’s Black Identity through 26 individual scenes, each representing a letter and Topaz’s corresponding update to their meanings.
United States 2021 / 34:33 / Director: Topaz Jones, rubberband
A PEOPLE'S RADIO - BALLADS FROM A WOODED COUNTRY
A carnivalesque portrayal of the Finnish landscape of the soul and abode, based on the iconic TV programme “People’s Radio”.
Finland 2021 / 26:30 / Director: Virpi Suutari / Producer: Virpi Suutari, Martti Suosalo