Reflex 72

NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR OUR ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY SCREENING✨🎞️ REFLEX 72 is a film screening focused on works shot on any ANALOG FORMAT (Super 8, 16mm, 35mm, tape, etc). Projects that are mixed media with elements of analog are accepted. For this screening ANY GENRE OF WORK IS WELCOMED!! Narrative, Fiction, Doc, Experimental, Fashion, etc!!! 🎥 📅 Submission deadline: May 30, 11:59pm
🎬 Maximum of 2 films per filmmaker
⏱️ Films must be 15 minutes or under Screening Date: June 25, 2026, 7-10pm at Village East. Thank you all so much for being a part of this community, we are so excited to celebrate our one year with you ❤️✨😊 🔗LINK IN BIO #analogfilm #nycfilm #16mm #super8

THANK YOU FOR ANOTHER SOLD OUT SHOW 🥳✨❤️ It is an honor to be able to host these events and cultivate such a beautiful and talented community of artists! You guys are amazing!! We had a blast putting together our first digital screening HOWEVER we are going right back to analog in typical Reflex fashion. As we plan out our one year anniversary in June we will be actively monitoring our rolling submissions form so send in your films!! Thank you again and we’ll see you in June! 😉✨

Some of our filmmakers in attendance last night 🎥✨ Thank you to everyone who came out to support Reflex and the amazing artists that we are able to program!! 🤍

✨ SPOTLIGHT ✨ Zina Louhaichy’s “MEEMA AL MUSĀFIRA” @zinalouhaichy MEEMA AL MUSĀFIRA  — “Meema the Traveler” is a comedic visual love letter to my Meema — a woman who always dreamed of seeing the world, but whose health in recent years hasn’t allowed her to. Shot in my childhood home in New York City, I transformed our apartment into a green screen studio. I photographed her using my Mamiya RZ67 and filmed her on my VHS camcorder, then reimagined her traveling — from Paris to Hollywood, Morocco to Egypt, Tokyo to sightseeing in New York. Blending nostalgia, fantasy, and diasporic identity, I pay tribute not only to my Meema, but to all the women who carried dreams of elsewhere but sacrificed them for family and survival. Directed, Shot & Edited by Zina Louhaichy/ Assisted by Yomna Mohamed Check out the full film TOMORROW NIGHT!! 7-10pm at KGB Bar ✨🍸 Tickets $10, link in bio 🎟️

✨ SPOTLIGHT ✨ D. Nanos’s “Aferdita” @nanobiite D. Nano is an emerging artist who explores expansive documentary and archival practices through image-making, filmmaking, collage, and community-oriented initiatives. Their work engages with themes of diaspora, queerness, and alternative forms of knowledge-making that embrace fluidity and resist rigid hierarchies. Their background as a first generation Albanian-American informs their thinking about memory, land, borders, and boundaries.  “Aferdita” was shot on a Canon C200 . This film, made in 2022, was originally a response to the word/prompt “dream”. It took me on a journey of piecing together my grandmother’s interior life: her world of dreams, pleasures, desires, wonder, and so on...an internal world that I felt closed off from for most of my life. Her granddaughters, myself and my youngest cousin, play versions of her at different stages of her life.  D. Nano: Director/DP/Editor  Ama Buzo: Assistant DP Playing this Sunday 4/26 at KGB Bar, 7-10pm. TICKETS ON SALE NOW 🎟️‼️ link in bio 🔗 #nycfilm #nycfilmscreening #nycfilmmakers #digitalfilmmaking #canoncamera

✨SPOTLIGHT✨ @arabellannabelle “Struthious Sands” Arabella creates performance art to communicate the ideas torturing her subconscious. Each piece is meant to open conversation because she loves to talk. Thanks for watching! Draw a contrast between the visual of an ostrich sticking its head in sand to the daily activity of scrolling away from impending disaster. When individualistic protection is pursued over greater change, we are warned that we will remain in harm’s way. Filmed on a Digi Camcorder. Filmed by Diane Lac @diane_lac Score by Theo Krantz @jez_spirit Performed and Words by Annabelle Landry @arabellannabelle Playing this Sunday 4/26 at KGB Bar, 7-10pm. TICKETS ON SALE NOW 🎟️‼️ link in bio 🔗 #nycfilm #nycfilmscreening #nycfilmmakers #digitalfilmmaking

✨ SPOTLIGHT ✨ Joaquin Bear’s “MMM” @joaquin_bear Joaquin Bear is a photographer and filmmaker based in New York City. He has created over a dozen dance short films in collaboration with dancer and choreographer Lucia Flexer-Marshall. His current documentary work examines the so-called romantic recession, tracing its social and technological causes and situating the trend within the broader history of romance as an artistic and literary invention of the Western world. “MMM” was shot on a Sony camera. An understudy’s longing spirals into suspense as ambition and identity collide.  Director: @joaquin_bear   Choreographer: Sasha Marlan-Librett (@taqdance )  Dancers: Lucia Flexer-Marshall & Tori Mazzacone (@lucy.fm @torimazzacone ) 🎟️ Catch this incredible work at our next event on April 26 at KGB Bar! Link in bio for tickets! #nycfilm #nycfilmscreening #nycfilmmakers #digitalfilmmaking

✨ SPOTLIGHT ✨ Yishen Wang’s “Double Exposure” @yswinehouse @doubleexposurethefilm Yishen Wang is a filmmaker who is drawn to the romanticization of the mundane and intense yet transient affairs, where beauty is found in the ephemeral. With a deep affinity for melancholia, he crafts intimate and emotionally resonating images that linger like a half-remembered dream. “Double Exposure” was shot on a Blackmagic 6k, a Sony Fx3, and an Iphone 6. This showcases a work in progress of the feature film, Double Exposure, in the form of a short trailer. WE SEARCH. WE FOUND. WE DISAPPEAR. In New York, six souls drift through another’s orbits. Directed by Yishen Wang Produced by Kevin Le, Ethan Nguyen, & Donghyun Kim Starring: Leo Dong, Arabella Landry, Zach Wetterqvist, Sofia Fone, Cameron Andre, & Lara Valery Cinematographers: Malcolm Lombardi, Matt Motyl, Justin Shen, Hunter Maul, Ethan Tran, Owen Smith Clark, Simon Redstone, Derek Matar, Ingridi Viruel, Alissa Xhixhabesi, Benjamin Aides, Zach Cooper, Sofia Paramonov, Zach Wetterqvist, & Yishen Wang 🎟️ Catch this incredible work at our next event on April 26 at KGB Bar! Link in bio for tickets! #nycfilmmakers #nycfilmscreening #nycfilmcommunity #digitalfilmmaking

✨SPOTLIGHT✨ Winona Lu’s “This Is All You Are” @thisisallyouare @winona.lu Winona is a filmmaker based in NYC. Her work as both a director and cinematographer often plays with memory within the boundaries of image and sound. Judy and her mother live in a two person world – until a sudden revelation from her mother’s past threatens to shatter it all. “This Is All You Are” was shot on an Alexa Mini + Panavised Ultra Speeds / 35mm Tri-X stills. Director: Winona Lu Producer: Mir Lien, Nas Aidid “Judy”: Juyeon Song “Ruth/Mother”: Rachel Ryu “Blurry Woman”: Alexandra Vega Script Supervisor: Eleanor Defer Assistant Director: Keya Saxena Casting Director: Peter Xiao Director of Photography: Jason Lu Wang 1st AC: Liam May 2nd AC: Nur Güzeldere Lead Gaffer: Bobby Han Gaffer: Yinan Shi Key Grip: Nicole Bula Grips: Sonja-Rose Bogulabov, Roie Karni , Kaushalya Patel, Lucas Manuel-Scheibe, Rishi Chhapolia Production Designer: Lillian Jacobs Key Hair and Makeup: Christina Kim Hair and Makeup: Alyssa DiBenedetto Wardrobe Designer: Sophia Spagna Production Sound: Alexandra Su Boom Operator: Callie Chen Schultz Foley Engineer: Lillie Lee Sound Designer/Mix Engineer: Alexandra Su Editor: Winona Lu Colourist: William Yu Composer: Miranda Scripp 🎟️ Catch this incredible work at our next event on April 26 at KGB Bar! Link in bio for tickets! #nycfilm #nycfilmmakers #filmscreening

✨SPOTLIGHT ✨ Pablo Koury & Małgorzata Suś | HALOCLINE | Experimental Short Film | Gotland, Sweden | 09:42 At the Baltic’s halocline, where salt and fresh waters tense against merging, three coastal dwellers embody the memory of the sea and reflect on vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience. Małgorzata Suś - dancer, performer and choreographer. Graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Warsaw. Her artistic practice is dedicated to connecting the body and movement with nature and the environment. Co-founder of The Memory of Water (), in collaboration with visual artist and bodypainter Vilija Vitkute. Co-creator of Watering Words (), with Joanna Gruntkowska and Kai Feldhammer. She has developed several dance and film projects focused on marine and coastal ecosystems, such as Ilha de Árvores / Island of Trees, Halocline, Body of Salt, and recently Wyspa-Wydmo / Phantom Island. Currently involved in developing an art and science platform encouraging crossdisciplinary collaborations, mainly in the field of marine sciences and performing arts. , @movementimage Pablo Koury – Rio-born, New York-based award-winning filmmaker. His work celebrates the sensory dialogue between body and environment through cinematic practice. Since 2019, he has participated in art residencies across Portugal, Iceland, Sweden, and New York. His practice also extends to video art and photography, with works exhibited in New York City and Venice. | @pablokoury_ WRITTEN BY Małgorzata Suś BODYPAINT & COSTUME DESIGN Vilija Vitkuté Additional Bodypainting Johannes Stoetter PRODUCTION The Memory of Water Productions by Vilija Vitkuté & Małgorzata Suś ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK Luisa Lemgruber SOUND ENGINEER Marc Brunkhorst SOUND MASTERING Guilherme Siqueira FEATURING Tuva Svendsen, Małgorzata Suś Kamilė Karpalovaitė CHOREOGRAPHED & CO-DIRECTED BY Małgorzata Suś PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Nils Arneberg VOICE PERFORMANCE Małgorzata Suś SHOT, CO-DIRECTED & EDITED BY Pablo Koury 🎟️ Catch this incredible work at our next event on April 26 at KGB Bar! Link in bio for tickets!

✨ SPOTLIGHT ✨ Tien Nguyen’s “farewell, the metal workers (ghosts▼↑hell’s gate)” follows a restless spirit in an abandoned building. @tienwin.avi Tien Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American filmmaker from the Bay Area, California who now resides in NYC, where they make primarily a mix of experimental and/or ethnographic documentary work. She is interested in exploring an enmeshment of both analog and digital experimentation as a way to explore the emotions of body, history, and spirituality. “Farewell, the metal workers (ghosts▼↑hell’s gate)” was shot on a Canon XF605. By: Tien Nguyen @tienwin.avi Camera operators: Thiago Marchetti @thiagopetrarca , Tien Nguyen @tienwin.avi , and Charles Misonne charlesmisonne 🎟️ Catch this incredible work at our next event on April 26 at KGB Bar! Link in bio for tickets! #nyccreatives #nycfilm #nycfilmmakers #nycfilmfestival

✨ SPOTLIGHT ✨ Zeema Das’ “A BODY IS A CANVAS” @suddenlyzeema Zeema is a 24-year-old Brooklyn-based Afro-Caribbean director whose work blends immersive world-building with spoken word and layered sound design. Rooted in cultural memory and emotional storytelling, their films explore identity, rhythm, and the unseen spaces between reality and imagination. A BODY IS A CANVAS was shot on a Blackmagic 6 K camera with 8mm film inserts. Inspired by LA MONTE YOUNG and the dream house in NYC, Zeema invites you to a meditative film into the essence of the untold spirit of self. @apollobual - movement @lalustudio - Space @leahnnac @odd.minds - Body art @sadllbass - MUA @quentinpistol - Co-Director 🎟️ Catch this incredible work at our next event on April 26 at KGB Bar! Link in bio for tickets! #analogfilm #digitalfilm #nycfilmmakers