Media City 2017 Grand Prize winner and Mobile Frames Filmmaker in Residence, Ephraim Asili is presenting a live three-act performance at EMPAC this month. The evening will include a reading by legendary Philadelphia poet, activist, and scholar Sonia Sanchez, and scenes from Asili’s forthcoming feature The Inheritance. Details about the event on EMPAC’s website: http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2018/spring/ephraim-asili Asili […]

Media City Film Festival award winner, Ben Russell’s newest film Good Luck makes its UK premiere at Tate Modern this February. Watch River Rites, which won the festival’s Grand Prize in 2012 here: https://vimeo.com/25532189 “From the outset, it felt too easy to critique a process that all of us are directly implicated in, to have a […]

Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch is a series of 24 x 1 minute films curated and assembled by Media City Grand Prize winner, Ana Vaz (Brazil). In January 2018, Dreaming the Dark will tour museums and cultural spaces around the world. Media City artists including Ute Aurand, Mary Helena Clark, Ben Balcom, Salomé Lamas, Saul […]

Media City Film Festival award winner Sky Hopinka is the featured artist on Vdrome January 12-25, 2018. Until January 25, you can watch Sky’s Dislocation Blues which premiered at Media City’s 22nd edition in 2017. Hopinka discusses the film with Tate Modern’s Carly Whitefield. Here is a segment from that interview: CW: Language has been a prominent […]

29 SEPTEMBER – 1 OCTOBER 2017 Tate Modern will be presenting a survey of films made by Kevin Jerome Everson: September 29-October 1, 2017. Included in the survey are films made in Windsor as part of the Mobile Frames series, along with the new long-form film Rhino set in Florence circa 1530s, exploring the days leading up […]

KINO PLAY: ZAGREB CROATIA Media City Film Festival’s Oona Mosna will be presenting films at the 25FPS festival in Zagreb, Croatia this September. Learn more about the festival here: https://www.25fps.hr/  “I believe the form is at its brightest when you can’t quite pin down what holds things together, even when you know it’s just a splice.” – […]