Film at Lincoln Center Announces CURRENTS for 61st NYFF
— — — — Opening Night-Eduardo Williams’s The Human Surge 3 — — — -
New York, NY (August 23, 2023) — Film at Lincoln Center announces the lineup of the Currents section of the 61st New York Film Festival, taking place September 29-October 15 at Lincoln Center and in venues across the city. The Currents slate includes 11 feature programs and 36 short films, representing 23 countries, and complements the Main Slate, tracing a more complete picture of contemporary cinema with an emphasis on new and innovative forms and voices. The section presents a diverse offering of productions by filmmakers and artists working at the vanguard of the medium.
“The filmmakers in this year’s Currents lineup range from well-known veterans to prodigious newcomers, and the films encompass narrative, documentary, and experimental modes, sometimes recombined and redefined,” said Dennis Lim, Artistic Director, New York Film Festival. “If there is something that unites this richly varied array of features, medium-length, and short films, it is an exploratory spirit and a sense of cinema as a pliable art form still capable of surprise.”
The Currents Opening Night selection is 2019 Lincoln Center Emerging Artists Award winner Eduardo Williams’s The Human Surge 3, which expands on the bold, time-and-continent-skipping world of his 2016 film, The Human Surge (NYFF54). Cannes award-winners in this year’s Currents include two new directors to NYFF: Vietnamese filmmaker Thien An Pham’s enthralling Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, which took this year’s Camera d’Or for best first film; and Pierre Creton’s A Prince, winner for best French-language film in the Directors’ Fortnight section.
Additional films not to be missed include the world premiere of Michael Gitlin’s surreal documentary The Night Visitors; James Benning’s ( 11×14, NYFF56) ALLENSWORTH; Joanna Arnow’s ( Laying Out, NYFF57) The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed; Deborah Stratman’s ( Second Sighted, NYFF52; The Illinois Parables, NYFF54) Last Things; Rosine Mbakam’s (co-director, Prism, NYFF59) Mambar Pierrette; Miko Revereza’s ( Distancing, NYFF57) Nowhere Near; Tulapop Saenjaroen’s Mangosteen; and Joshua Gen Solondz’s ( NE Corridor, NYFF60) We Don’t Talk Like We Used To.
A special program features three legendary directors — the late Jean-Luc Godard, Wang Bing (whose Youth (Spring) screens in the Main Slate), and Pedro Costa — with Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars, Man in Black, and The Daughters of Fire (As Filhas do Fogo), respectively.
Shorts from the Currents slate include an expansive range of offerings and topics with works from: Ayo Akingbade, Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie, James Edmonds, Luke Fowler, Jorge Jácome, Shambhavi Kaul, Justin Jinsoo Kim, Dane Komljen, Mackie Mallison, Ross Meckfessel, Charlotte Pryce, Steve Reinke, and Jordan Strafer.
Filmmakers returning to FLC whose work will be screened for the first time in NYFF are: Jeamin Cha (Art of the Real 2019), Julio Hernández Cordón (ND/NF 2016, Neighboring Scenes 2019), Kim Torres (ND/NF 2022), and Catarina Vasconcelos (ND/NF 2020). Directors who will have their films presented at NYFF for the first time include: Whammy Alcazaren, Jamie Crewe, Aria Dean, Carolina Fusilier, Huw Lemmey & Onyeka Igwe, Narges Kalhor, Tomás Paula Marques, Sonia Oleniak, Adam Piron, Christopher Rutledge, Tulapop Saenjaroen, and Maryam Tafakory.
Five of this year’s Currents shorts are paired with features from the section: the world premieres of Kevin Jerome Everson’s ( Tonsler Park, NYFF55; Black Bus Stop, NYFF57; May June July, NYFF59) Air Force 2 and Boyd v. Denton precedes ALLENSWORTH; the world premiere of Ted Fendt’s ( Classical Period, NYFF57 Projections; Outside Noise, NYFF59 Currents) Unhappy Hour precedes The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed; a 3D presentation of Blake Williams’s Laberint Sequences precedes Deborah Stratman’s Last Things, screened from a 35mm print; and Leonardo Pirondi and Zazie Ray-Trapido’s first NYFF film When We Encounter the World precedes The Night Visitors.
For more information, visit the festival website.
Originally published at https://behindtherabbitproductions.wordpress.com on August 23, 2023.
