IN CINEMA
WAYS OF SEEING: FILM SCHOOL SHORTS
Thursday, June 29th at 7PM
Tickets: $15 General Admission/$7 Reduced Price
Film School Shorts is a program of films from emerging filmmakers in the university space. It is a celebration of the upcoming generation of filmmakers in NYC, as they implore thoughts on the politics of film school as young femme students, auteurs, and creators.
Program:
Lagrimas (Ariana Marie Luque, 3 min.)
Mother Nature walks through the beaches, towns, and sidewalks of Puerto Rico, delivering a monologue addressing the audience, her children. She speaks on what it feels like to be disappointed, abused, and forgotten about on the backdrop of infamous and beautiful landscapes.
By The River (Al Lado Del Rio) (Sofia Camargo, 12 min.)
Synopsis: Isolated in their summer house in Colombia after a recent divorce, a mother and her two teenage daughters are forced to face one another.
Bloodline: Soon Come Back (Nande Walters, 12 min.)
Soon Come Back is a poetic documentary about migration’s effect on my family’s relationships to “home” in Jamaica and the US, and my feelings of alienation being a child of the diaspora.
Two or More (Ifeyinwa Arinze, 9 min.)
Wrestling with the loss of her mother, a young girl faces her disenchantment with prayer when asked to pray for her grandmother's healing.
RUMI (Aisha Amin, 12 min.)
When Rumi, a budding actress, is scouted by an agent and invited to an open casting call, she comes face to face with a deeply problematic and troubling industry.
Post-screening conversation with Mars Kere (WOS founder) and participating filmmakers.
Ways of Seeing (WOS) is a curatorial project that canonizes, archives, and curates the work of Black women and women of color filmmakers. It is a film hub and micro-cinema that collaborates with respective institutional spaces to demystify mysteries around filmmaking practice in an effort to create burgeoning and active film cultures in NYC. WOS can be located at @Waysofseeingfilm for access to their digital library.
Mars Kere is a curator and film programmer. Her first curatorial program "FEMMES" premiered at NYC Cultural Institutions Group, Weeksville Heritage Center. She has collaborated with the Schomburg Center for Black Research, Los Angeles Philharmonic assisted the Brooklyn Academy of Art, and has been a program assistant for the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle, Washington. She is invested in the liberatory relevance of African cinema and the amassed legacies of Afro-diasporic film cultures, invested in the speculative, the transcendental, the flying Africans, and the unseen burial grounds of the diaspora.
