New Orleans Film Festival 2020 Experimental Shorts block. Runtime: 89 minutes <a href="https://warholfoundation.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/af2dd1fcef72ae3abdc5751d4bfa1c51.png" width="800"></a><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/94ac88798bde6bdc18361285887852ac.png" width="800">

Winner of NOFF2020 Experimental Shorts Competition: Jury Award With a Bankhead bounce as clarion call, a single woman chorus labors a cacophony of chor(e)s: from the domestic to the limits of being left 'lone. This meditation on transformation and unsung labor takes Saadiya Hartman's Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments text as foundation and breaks free through a chopped and screwed sonic chant.

CHOR(E)S

With a Bankhead bounce as clarion call, a single woman chorus labors a cacophony of chor(e)s: from the domestic to the limits of being left 'lone.

Simon Liu’s eerie, entrancing portrait of contemporary Hong Kong tracks a series of strange disruptions to the city’s urban infrastructure. Deceptively tranquil 16mm images of everyday life are accompanied by muffled music cues, ominous radio transmissions, and intimations of an impending hazardous event that may never arrive.

Signal 8

An eerie, entrancing portrait of contemporary Hong Kong tracks a series of strange disruptions to the city’s urban infrastructure.

This short film addresses the past as an idea of which we have control, particularly to discuss the intersection of communities in New Orleans with those in Latin America.

The Past is a Foreign Country

This short film addresses the past as an idea of which we have control, particularly to discuss the intersection of communities in New Orleans with those in Latin America.

The second film in our tribute to the late parapsychologist D. Scott Rogo, murdered in 1990 under mysterious circumstances.

The Second Body

In this meditation on community, gentrification, and erasure, and Stonewall veterans— including prominent trans activist Sylvia Rivera— HIV-positive New Yorkers take up residency on the Hudson River piers as cranes raze vacant buildings for a new skyline.

THIS IS AN ADDRESS

In this meditation on community, gentrification, and erasure, and Stonewall veterans— including prominent trans activist Sylvia Rivera— HIV-positive New Yorkers take up residency on the Hudson River piers as cranes raze vacant buildings for a new skyline.

2065

A hybrid documentary and experimental dance film reimagining the form of the Cold War-era, US government-produced social guidance film, Drills asks what futures we are preparing for through the exercises embodying present anxieties. Weaving in between multiple forms of choreography and documentation, Drills restages lockdown and active shooter drills, frames corporate and tech start-up office meditation, and reperforms Boy Scout drills from the 1917 Boy Scout manual.

Drills

A hybrid documentary and experimental dance film reimagining the form of the Cold War-era, US government-produced social guidance film, Drills asks what futures we are preparing for through the exercises embodying present anxieties.

MEND works under the idea that male norms can cause harm to the male body–– so after seeing the toll this constant internal fight takes on a dancer, he explores the process of mending oneself.

MEND

MEND works under the idea that male norms can cause harm to the male body–– so after seeing the toll this constant internal fight takes on a dancer, he explores the process of mending oneself.

[untitled] draws the viewer into a vortex — of despair and illness-made-illegible — to wait, for hell, alongside its Black protagonist and amidst the syncopated static and digital residue of her life.

[untitled]

[untitled] draws the viewer into a vortex — of despair and illness-made-illegible — to wait, for hell, alongside its Black protagonist and amidst the syncopated static and digital residue of her life.

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