Final Showcase
Experimental film movements in the United States have always been about the search for voice and true expression. The filmmakers at the forefront ask what constitutes “Americanness”? Who gets represented within power structures? Many contemporary experimental films have emerged out of a documentary paradigm, retaining elements of nonfiction storytelling while incorporating ever-expanding methods to document and reimagine the outside world and the self.
The American Experiment Final Showcase (Feb 27–29 2020) reflects on and synthesizes themes we’ve explored over the past year of experimental programming. The filmmakers featured in the Final Showcase challenge and expand genre, ethnography-making, imagined futures, and internet-era moving images.
Programmed by Emily Apter and Annie Horner.
getting at //... the very idea of how images are - made -
Thursday, February 27
Q&A TBA
The Complete Works of Ed Owens
Friday, February 28
Post-screening discussion with Melissa Lyde and Ed Halter
