MEDIA CITY 21 OPENING PARTY Meet, mingle and have a drink and hors d’oeuvres with fellow festival-goers at the Capitol Theatre. This event is FREE, open to the media and public, with guest filmmakers, curators and critics attending from around the world. Opening remarks from festival organizers and others and an introduction to the 21st […]

Where Did Our Love Go? Films of Warren Sonbert The US filmmaker Warren Sonbert (1947-1995) has been called “the supreme Romantic diarist of the cinema” (Wheeler Winston Dixon). Twenty years after his untimely passing, this program re-introduces four of Sonbert’s films made between 1966 and 1992, curated with and introduced by Jeremy Rossen, Assistant Curator […]

Occidente Artist: Ana Vaz Country: Brazil Format: 16mm Duration: 15 min Year: 2014 Antiques become reproducible dinner sets, exotic birds become luxury currency, exploration becomes extreme-sport tourism, monuments become geodata. A film-poem of an ecology of signs tracing a colonial history repeating itself: objects and fetishes, roots and branches, celebration and power relations in a struggle to […]