R 21 aka Restoring Solidarity
Mohanad Yaqubi offers a fascinating, eclectic, and inspiring survey of cross-continental solidarity using a voluminous collection of pro-Palestinian work discovered in Japan.
CALENDAR
GENERAL ADMISSION
You can buy admission tickets online. Pick a date and time to visit the Museum. Timed-entry slots are released generally one-month prior. All sales are final and payments cannot be refunded.
Loading view.
Persistent Visions Program 1: Always and Only Place
Warped records of unexplained disappearances and lost transmissions, abandoned projects and utopian fantasies, echoing in one place then another, moving through time. Fermented ephemera unearthed from the roots of American decay.
Silent Love + Joanna d’Arc
Thirty-five-year-old Aga starts to look after her teenage brother, Milosz, after their mother’s death. While caring for him with the dedication and responsibility of a parent, she also seeks to become his legal guardian.
Persistent Visions Program 2: Earth in the Mouth
Beginning with a recitation of Brecht and Weill’s “The Drowned Girl,” here is a sequence of odes, melancholy and ecstatic, to the wonderful difficulty of currently inhabiting this world in these bodies
New Strains
Encore ScreeningShaw and Kamalakanthan’s film is at once a depressingly accurate evocation of the city’s first few months of lockdown and an endearing display of cinematic ingenuity under extreme duress.
Huahua’s Dazzling World and Its Myriad Temptations + It’s What Each Person Needs
With Daphne Xu and Sophy Romvari in person Huahua’s Dazzling World and Its Myriad Temptations Dir. Daphne Xu. China/Canada/U.S. 2022, 82 mins. In Mandarin with English subtitles. In Xiong’an New Area, a government-planned city just ...
Love Life + Tulpa
Fukada’s film constitutes a sparkling revival of the emotional currents of classical Japanese melodrama.
A Little Love Package + Tension Envelopes
Governed by a musical logic, Solnicki’s film is a sensual and synesthetic delight that culminates in one of current cinema’s most eloquent needle drops.
Three Women
Encore ScreeningThe opposite of a detached portrait, Three Women freely engages and communes with the village, capturing the warmth of the place and its people.
Robert Beavers’s The Sparrow Dream and Other Films
Returning to a New York screen with his first film in nearly four years, Robert Beavers will present the North American premiere of his magisterial The Sparrow Dream, screening in context with his previous five films.
Tori and Lokita + Maid
Playing 3/19, the latest by the Dardenne Brothers is an angry, intimate account of the harrowing odyssey of two African refugees, a young boy and teenage girl, who have come to care for each other like brother and sister.
Art Talent Show
Encore ScreeningEvery year the Academy of Arts (AVU) in Prague receives hundreds of applications. Art Talent Show observes every step in the arduous process for three studios.
Mami Wata
Encore ScreeningIn the waters off the coast of West Africa swims the powerful mermaid goddess Mami Wata. Nigerian filmmaker C.J. "Fiery" Obasi's closing night selection for First Look 2023, on Sunday, March 19, electrifies the eye.