DESISTFILM REVIEWS APIYEMIYEKI? BY ANA VAZ IFFR 2020: APIYEMIYEKI? BY ANA VAZ By Jessica McGoff A river runs through Ana Vaz’s latest work in the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Ammodo Tiger Short Competition. Apiyemiyekî? was commissioned as part of a project designed to act as a space of reflection on the Brazilian military dictatorship that spanned 1964-1985. Vaz’s previous work has been interested […]
SKY HOPINKA & BASMA ALSHARIF AT MOMA Media City Film Festival Award Winners (and multi-festival alumni) Sky Hopinka (2014) and Basma AlSharif (2013) co-present an evening of their films at MoMA: February 17, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. Details here: https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/6404 “For the first time in their flourishing careers as artists and filmmakers, Basma alSharif (Palestinian, resides in Egypt) and Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk […]
Ben Rivers’ new film Look Then Below screen’s as part of IFF Rotterdam’s 2020 Ammodo Tiger Competition MCFF Chrysalis Fellow, Ben Rivers’ new film Look Then Below screens as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Ammodo Tiger Competition in January and February 2020. Ben Rivers’ films study the otherworldly, looking for places and stories outside the daily conventions of reality. Look Then Below was filmed in a Somerset transformed into a coloured, mist-enveloped […]
2019-2020 CHRYSALIS SHOWCASE Media City Film Festival is proud to launch the 2019-2020 CHRYSALIS SHOWCASE, presented in partnership with Common Ground Art Gallery and a host of additional grass-roots collaborators in Windsor-Detroit. The CHRYSALIS SHOWCASE takes place February 14, 15, 16, 2020 at Mackenzie Hall Cultural Centre 3277 Sandwich Street in Windsor, ON. The event will feature more […]
SKY HOPINKA: MAŁNI AT TATE MODERN Preview the artist’s debut feature (and Chrysalis Fellowship supported film) at Tate Modern, January 8, 2020. Artist Sky Hopinka presents a special sneak preview of his soon-to-be-completed feature film małni – towards the ocean, towards the shore. This lyrical film guides viewers along parallel journeys with two protagonists, Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier, as they share […]
Ana Vaz’s Apiyemiyekî? screens at IFF Rotterdam as part of the 2020 Ammodo Tiger Competition. MCFF Chrysalis Fellow, Ana Vaz’s new film Apiyemiyekî? will screen as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Ammodo Tiger Competition in January and February 2020. Apiyemiyekî? is sewn together from a series of drawings made by the Waimiri-Atroari, an autochthonous people native to the Brazilian Amazon, who were submitted to a number of violent […]
