Stay for a second screening to see even more of the award-winning films from the 59th AAFF.

What if we watched our dreams the way we watched TV? Natalia Rocafuerte guides you through her dream from September 2020 through found footage, home movies, and lo-fi video. Inspired by the flippant way we surf television, Rocafuerte engages media aesthetics to entrance a viewer into the surreal world of dreams.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/33973e047d45a739fb7ac9f16562d1af.png" width="200">

Dream of Emma and Tony

A city of brick, tin, and board, rent by internal tectonics and sliding into the sea. (Note: this film can be viewed in 3D with the Pulfrich effect by tilting a pair of sunglasses so they only cover one eye)<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/6b8ab88d0e6a473ddfb1a4a06efb2140.png" width="200">

Valpi

Several years ago I immigrated to Germany. Here, I live in a small old house, which urgently needs modernization and that theoretically protects me from wind, rain, and cold.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/7d264b3dfeb3f94236e88fd862fbfbb3.png" width="200">

Revolykus

The file card of an anonymous autopsy report documents violent attacks as the “cause of death.” Jyoti Mistry constructs five miniature vignettes to the rhythm of evocative spoken word poetry by Napo Masheane, accompanied by a collection of archival bits and pieces from the Eye Filmmuseum—ethnographic film footage, chorus-line films, and physical culture films. Femicide, witch hunts, stonings.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/dc549d59e845b07c0b5eea1f03ad9ca2.png" width="200">

Cause of Death

Reflections of clouds in the water, a woman emerges from a puddle, a man waits, hesitates on the edge of a vacant lot. Characters appear and seem to search their way. Do they seek to recognize a place they have already crossed? At the mercy of a camera that turns on itself, the landscape changes with each passage.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/cbd1d6e3a6c6c25b9c0ce3642eb50079.png" width="200">

This ethnographic excursion is a feast for the eyes paced by the quotidian chorus of sounds in a Chiapan village. Gradually, political themes arise. As it relates to the legacy of co-director Saúl Kak’s refugeed forebears, (((((/*))))) aka Echoes of the Volcano gives voice to the Zoque struggle for Indigenous sovereignty, against the neoliberal state.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/3374fb425154b0248aa520bf4cab20fb.png" width="200">

( ( ( ( ( /*\ ) ) ) ) ) aka Echoes of the Volcano

Silver Femme is a digital ode to the moon; a poetic film that envisions a future and space where trans people are safe. The eponymous figure’s shifting femininity serves as a visual focal point for the narrator’s lamentations on love and the possibilities trans women and femmes hold.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/822278d115f6eb8c1de39b6270bcbe38.png" width="200">

Silver Femme

“Placid views of Hong Kong merge with dizzying, semi-abstract digital animations: avatars in a parable about control. A mesmerizing, menacing voice-over—part body politic regulator, part cyberpunk travel guide—promises order, accountability, and satisfaction, and threatens trouble, polarization, and tears. A fire has been started, movement has reached multiple points of no return.” –NYFF<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/226081243ca00cc8b8e87d5bdd5b9b46.png" width="200">

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Go ahead and torture yourself, if that’s what you want.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/3441cec3d0e1ded2c39ccef55114998b.png" width="200">

Stunting Cunts

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