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COSMIC RAYS: WE’LL GO DOWN THE ABYSS IN SILENCE / Contractions

FILM PROGRAM 4

https://www.thechelseatheater.org/movie/cosmic-rays-well-go-down-the-abyss-in-silence

Coming Soon to Chelsea Theater

57 mins | Rated TBC | Short Film

The COSMIC RAYS FILM FESTIVAL is an annual celebration of short films that expand our idea of what film is and what it can be.

The Festival presents several programs of short films made by filmmakers from North Carolina and around the world that are formally inventive; speak with a personal voice; and are inspired by the possibilities of film as art.

PROGRAM 4: WE’LL GO DOWN IN THE ABYSS IN SILENCE

Rituals to ward off the demons or lead us through the abyss. Incantations in the face of dropped frames and radioactivity. If the choice is between love or religion, what are you waiting for?

Ashes of Rose
Sasha Waters, 2023
RT: 11:30 minutes

Her Backyard / My Front Window
Billy Palumbo, 2023
RT: 3:36 minutes

Hey Sweet Pea
Alee Peoples, 2023
RT: 4:08 minutes

Three Mystics
Ioanna Filippopoulou, 2023
RT: 8:34 minutes

We’ll Go Down The Abyss in Silence
Vincent Guilbert, 2023
RT: 11:00 minutes

Evocation
Richard Ashrowan, 2023
RT: 3:22 minutes

Otherhood
Deborah Stratman, 2023
RT: 3:00minutes

Poem For Three Voices
Lan Anh Chu, 2023
RT: 02:44 minutes

Contractions
Lynne Sachs, 2024
RT: 10:00 minutes

Total Runtime: 57 minutes

DOC NYC MEET THE 2023 JURORS / Lynne Sachs as Kaleidoscope Competition Juror

Lynne Sachs serves as Kaleidoscope Juror for DOC NYC 2023.

https://www.docnyc.net/meet-the-2023-jurors/

Kaleidoscope Grand Jury Prize Winner: ZINZINDURRUNKARRATZ

NEW YORK PREMIERE In this gem of minimalist and poetic magnetism, filmmaker Oskar Alegría and adorable donkey Paolo embark on a journey to bring provisions to the last shepherd of the Andia Mountains. Retracing the seasonal route his grandfather made with his flock, Alegría collects a trove of memories from a disappearing world, embodied in sounds and degraded silent images captured with his father’s Super-8 camera. Ancient songs, sounds, and encounters chart a way of life mostly forgotten.
– Ruth Somalo 

Lynne Sachs and Oskar Alegría.

International Short Film Festival Oberhausen / Swerve

Swerve is streaming with the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen on an on-going basis.
https://www.kurzfilmtage.de/en/film/swerve-156854/

Wearing the tell-tale masks of our daunting now, five New York City performers search for a meal in a Queens market while speaking in verse. The film itself transforms into an ars poetica/cinematica, a meditation on writing and making images in the liminal space between a global pandemic and what might come next. Inspired by Filipinx-American Paolo Javier’s Original Brown Boy poems.

2000, 33RD ANNUAL HUMBOLDT INT’L FILM FESTIVAL / Lynne Sachs as Festival Judge

We’d love to regale you with faerie tales of how things all came together, on time (ahead of time, even), how all we really did was make a few phone calls, watch a few films, and a festival just materialized.

But we’d be lying.

Rather, ours is more of a cautionary tale: a tempest-tossed sea filled with missed classes, empty gallons of midnight oil, and countless abandoned bodies in our wake. Yet somewhere, in the debris of our madness, from the ashes rose the phoenix of this week’s festival, which we proudly present to you. Pay no attention to the trio of lunatics who linger in the shadows, turn your eyes to the screen. These shows are for you: the audience, the filmmakers, the world.

The future of film starts here.

https://www.hsufilmfestival.com/2000-hiff-history