A triple header of new short and mid-length work by Godard, Wang and Costa offers ruminations on national identity and holding onto the traumas of the past.
Death and Transfiguration: Godard, Wang, Costa
Nick Kouhi
Nick Kouhi is a programmer and critic based in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Nowhere Near. Diaristic Digressions Through Family and History.
Miko Revereza brings his trademark diaristic style of digital filmmaking to a polyphonous exploration of family and history in Nowhere Near — playing at NYFF.
The Night Visitors. Moths in the Frame.
The Night Visitors sees avant-garde filmmaker Michael Gitlin use moths as a metaphor for knowledge, asking the viewer to regard the world anew.
Berlinale Forum 2023: An Incomplete Past Treating an Unclear Future
A handful of forum films, including new works by James Benning and Claire Simon, probe the ways history, ever contested, is inscribed onto the future.