FILM DIARY: NYC Festival of Home Video & Personal Documentary

 

FILM DIARY: NYC FESTIVAL OF HOME VIDEO & PERSONAL DOCUMENTARY
dirs. Anuj Malhorta, Cecil de Fátima, Chihiro Ito, Dro Watson, Gloria Chung, Jake Durham, Joie Estrella Horowitz, Paige Taul, Simonas Varvuolis, Violeta Mora, Jeff Preiss, 2021.
Program approximately 99 minutes.THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4 – 7 PM 
ONE NIGHT ONLY with Jeff Preiss in person!
(This event is $10.)

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Film Diary is a festival for experimental non-fiction that captures the personal history and daily experiences of filmmakers and the worlds they encounter. The festival’s name is a tribute to the legendary “film diarist” Jonas Mekas, and aims to expand on the genre of “diary film” and give films like his a place to be shared. The festival’s opening night at Spectacle will feature a diverse selection of short works by filmmakers from around the world including:Violeta Mora’s IMPOSSIBLE ENCONTRAR, a meditation on memory and seeing, shot through the lens of a toy telescope.THE PROMISE and 10:28:30 by Paige Taul, a pair of short personal documentaries that use home video and intimate film footage to form a deeply honest exploration of familial relationships, identity, and fate.

GREEN TURNS BROWN, Joie Estrella Horwitz’s beautiful Super-8 eulogy to the artist Luchita Hurtado, whose work was discovered at the age of 97 in a storage unit in San Bernardino, California.

The night concludes with Japanese painter and media artist Chihiro Ito’s LAST INTERVIEW FILM OF JONAS MEKAS in which Ito visits a 96-year-old Jonas at his apartment in October, 2018, shortly before his death.