Satellite screening showcasing selections from Film Diary NYC’s fourth festival year. FILM DIARY NYC programs experimental, autobiographical films that capture the personal history and daily experiences of the filmmaker. Through an annual festival and ongoing special events, they provide a platform for the most heartfelt but most overlooked cinema: diary films, home movies, and personal documentary. The films in this screening are:
Dark Light by Gloria Chung, USA, 11 Min / Regarding the Sun, dead images, sound and etymologies. “The only thing left was the disease of images.”
Remote Views by Alexis McCrimmon, USA, 15 Min / A televisual stream of consciousness assembled from archival footage set in the Black media explosion of the 1980s.
Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object by Vega Royer-Gaspard, France, 7 Min / In her teenage bedroom, a young girl spends her days writing about her growing obsession for her classmate.
Undercover by josh brainin, USA, 6 Min / A moment of connection and confusion unfolds through non-linear voiceovers and distorted, hand-processed super 8 film, questioning the stakes of staying hidden and what freedom means with-in masculinity and a self fragmented by repression.
THUNDER by Sonnie Wooden, USA, 43 Min / A man who is experiencing the loss of a lover finds himself teetering on the edge of his own mortality.
Total runtime = 82 mins