Programs

Film Diary NYC Presents: Building Steam with a Grain of Salt

A program of experimental personal documentaries from our archive and beyond
3 films
On Friday, March 31st, 2023, at 7pm, join us at the FMC Screening Room (475 Park Ave. South, 6th Floor) for "Building Steam with a Grain of Salt," a program of diaristic films curated and presented by our friends at Film Diary NYC!
Films

Films

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    Trains Are For Dreaming
    Experimental

    Trains Are For Dreaming
    Jennifer Reeves

    color, sound, 7 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • History
    • Environment / Nature
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
    • Family
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    Nimbus
    Experimental

    Nimbus
    Gary Doberman

    16mm, color, silent, 4.5 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Arts / Artists
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
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    Forged Ways
    Documentary
    Experimental
    Narrative

    Forged Ways
    Ephraim Asili

    16mm, color and b/w, sound, 16 min
    Rental format: DVD NTSC
    • Ethnographic
    • History
    • Landscape / Architecture
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
    • Political / Social Activism
    • Spiritual / Mystical
Description

Description

On Friday, March 31st, 2023, at 7pm, join us at the FMC Screening Room (475 Park Ave. South, 6th Floor) for "Building Steam with a Grain of Salt," a program of diaristic films curated and presented by our friends at Film Diary NYC!

“Building Steam with a Grain of Salt” draws from FMC’s vast archive and beyond to survey transcendent, hauntingly intimate work by experimental filmmakers working in first-person, diaristic modes.

The program is curated by Saint Piñero and Sage Ó Tuama of Film Diary NYC, and features guest curator picks by film critic Joshua Minsoo Kim (Tone Glow, Pitchfork) and filmmakers Grace E. Mitchell and Jard Lerebours.

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PROGRAM:

Part 1 (TRT: 54 minutes)

Kites (2022) by Allen Golder, 5 minutes (digital projection)***

if there’s light move toward it; (2023) by Saint Piñero, 5 minutes (digital projection)

Forged Ways (2011) by Ephraim Asili, 16 minutes (digital projection)

San Diego (2020) by Fox Maxy, 32 minutes (digital projection)

Brief Intermission

Part 2 (TRT: 48 minutes)

Trains are for Dreaming (1999) by Jennifer Reeves, 7 minutes (16mm projection)*

Nimbus (1978) by Gary Doberman, 5 minutes (16mm projection)**

Lament Poems for Neptune Ave (2023) by Sage Ó Tuama, 10 minutes (digital projection)

Todo (2023) by Victoria Guillem, 25 minutes (digital projection)


* Guest curator pick: Grace Mitchell

** Guest curator pick: Joshua Minsoo Kim

*** Guest curator pick: Jard Lerebours

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