NewFilmmakers Announces Their Summer Series 9/28

The NewFilmmakers NY Series screens at Anthology Film Archives on the Lower East Side at 32 Second Avenue & 2nd Street. Tickets for the whole evening at NewFilmmakers NY are only $6 and are available at the Anthology Box Office the night of screening.

Wednesday, September 28th

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6:00 PM Short Film Program

Shannon Brown THE POWER OF WORDS
Woman faces a writers block and tries to escape it by entering into her own unfinished story.

Chris Calicchio ODE TO JOY
everything isn't what it seems.

Jenna Bush THE GROUND KEEPER
an old man discovers his childhood kite under some junk in his garage, rekindling a memory of emotional instability, youthful freedom, and a love to last a lifetime.

Navid Azad SQUARE ONE
Fariba, a four-month pregnant woman, gets a feeling that her husband neither care for her nor her baby.

Pasquale Anthony Leonardo IV KAYA
Kaya, 19, is caught between fate and freedom when she leaves behind the sleepy Midwest for a risky future as a bike messenger in New York City.

7:00 PM Special Program

The Women's Filmmaker Group and EYE:AM presents ANOTHER EXPERIMENT by WOMEN
curated by Lili White

Muriel Montini INSTANTS D'APRÈS (FUTURE ANTERIOR)
A woman emerges from The Shadows in slow motion.

A. Moon DREAM OF ME
Images and testimony far removed from the life of its ostensible subject, the documentary attempts to imagine a sister, a relationship, and mixed-race identity.

Jessica Bardsley LAND OF MOURNING CALM
An epistolary video essay that charts a long distance correspondence between two women--one American, the other South Korean.

Simone Bailey ELINOR BEAUREGARD
Drawing from Gustave Calliebotte's The Floor Scrapers, the video examines labor, bodies, and touch.

Doris Neidl THE SIN
A video inspired by a poem of Iranian writer Forough Farrokzhad about love, lust and desire.

Tammy Kinsey TRUST
Digital and traditional elements chronicling the experience of traveling alone as a female, observations of the road, an internal and external journey measured in miles.

Hilda Daniel HATCHET
Phonetic sequences propel decapitated segments suggesting threat, violence.

8:30 PM Feature Presentation

Stephen Wallace Pruitt WORKS IN PROGRESS
A poignant, PG-rated romantic comedy/drama which follows the lives of two recent small-town college art graduates and a successful, yet unfulfilled insurance professional during a magical summer in "the big city.'