Sam Contis’s show Phases at @artsandlettersnyc closes 2/8. We worked with Sam on the production of her three channel film ‘Five Kilometers’, which follows the faces of three female runners as they run a 5K cross-country race through an Appalachian landscape.
The galleries of Arts and Letters are open to the public Thursday through Sunday, 12 to 6pm. The film screens every half hour.
Director: @samcontis
Prod Co: Ecstatic Static
Executive Producers: Myriam Schroeter, Jason Evans
Producers: @philosophie , @larajeangal
Cinematographer: @trevortweeten
Sound Designer: @danielle.dupre
Colorist: @sofie_borup
Editor: Matthew Hannam
Composer: Murat Colak
Post Producer: Sam Contis
1st Assistant Camera: Rob Agulo
Camera Vehicle Driver: Jim Mundell
Location Sound Recording: Guido Schierano
Driving and Key PA: Aubrey Resto, Alberto Yapur
Locations and Basecamp PA: Cameron Hightower
Locations and Lead Car PA: Nick Haskins
Set PA: Francesca Arcuri, Jackson Moyes
Photographers: Morgan Levy, Macie Naberezny
Mark McKnight’s stunning solo show ‘Decreation’, curated by @drewmsawyer , closes this Sunday, Jan 12, at the @whitneymuseum . We were fortunate to work with Mark on the production of the 16mm film ‘Without a Song’, which is featured as part of the show, shot with much care by @trevortweeten . Mark has created a beautiful space to spend time in, please drop by if you can.
Director: @markarmijomcknight
Prod Co: @ecstatic.static
Producers: @philosophie , @jasonevansfilm , @putshki
Director of Photography: @trevortweeten
1st AC: Bishop Pattison
2nd AC: Shawn Smith
Sound Mixer: Brett Becker
Location Manager: Matt Toplikar
PA’s: Caleb Birkhauser, Emily Cates
Editor: @trevortweeten
Colorist: @jeromethelia
Sound Designer: @kevin_t_allen
We’re honored to partner with Media City Film Festival to co-present an online screening of ‘Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)’ by Suneil Sanzgiri (@suneil_sanzgiri ). The film will be free to watch on MCFF’s website until December 30th, along with a huge line-up of other great works. Congrats to @oonamosna and all involved. More details at @mediacityfilmfestival
‘Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)’ is an experimental film focussing on interwoven narratives around the mutual struggle against Portuguese colonialism between India and Africa and the bonds of solidarity that developed between the two continents.
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Media City Film Festival’s 27th edition presents more than 70 films and digital artworks with nearly 50 virtual world premieres, free to stream internationally over the course of its online celebration: December 9 – December 30th, 2024.
The festival includes many artists and filmmakers previously featured on Ecstatic Static, such as Akram Zaatari, Ayanna Dozier, Ben Rivers, Colectivo los Ingrávidos, Deborah Stratman, Jocelyne Saab, Kevin Jerome Everson, Sharon Lockhart and Simon Liu, amongst others.
All screenings are free - mediacityfilmfestival.com
#suneilsanzgiri
#mediacityfilmfestival
#ecstaticstatic
From our previous screening FREEDOM TO STAY, FREEDOM TO MOVE: ‘Like Twenty Impossibles (Ka’inana Ashrun Mustaheel)’ by Annemarie Jacir. Occupied Palestine, a serene landscape now pockmarked by military checkpoints. When a Palestinian film crew decides to avert a closed checkpoint by taking a remote side road, the political landscape unravels, and the passengers are slowly taken apart by the mundane brutality of military occupation. Both a visual poem and a narrative, like twenty impossibles wryly questions artistic responsibility and the politics of filmmaking, while speaking to the fragmentation of a people.
If you’ve spent time with any of our free film programs over the past two years, please donate: @thepcrf@medicalaidpal
With thanks to both the filmmaker and mec film.
@annamariajacir
From our previous screening FREEDOM TO STAY, FREEDOM TO MOVE: ‘At Those Terrifying Frontiers Where the Existence and Disappearance of People Fade into Each Other’ by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. Fragments from Edward Said’s most personal and poetic work ‘After the Last Sky’ are repurposed to create a new script that reflects on what it means now to be constructed as an ‘illegal’ person, body or entity. The script is turned into a song sung and performed by the artists as multiple avatars. Using a software that generates avatars from a single image the avatars in the video are all drawn from people who participated in the ‘March of Return’, that continue to take place on the seamline in Gaza, an area that has been under physical siege by the Israeli army since 2006. With the impossibility of the artists, who were also in Palestine, reaching the marchers and the marchers reaching them the avatars that are created create a composite between the original images and the artist as the performers of the avatars only a 100 km away. The work attempts to rupture this impossible imposed distance in an act of intense proximity and new becoming.
If you’ve spent time with any of our free film programs over the past two years, please donate: @thepcrf@medicalaidpal
With thanks to the filmmakers
@basel.abb@ruanne.ar
A few more days to watch this program of five films by Felipe Romero Beltrán.
As a Mother Tongue (2023)
Instruction (2022)
Recital (2020)
Studio Visit (2020)
Violence (2018)
Taking a break from our break to present this program of five films by Felipe Romero Beltrán. Link in bio
As a Mother Tongue (2023)
Instruction (2022)
Recital (2020)
Studio Visit (2020)
Violence (2018)
Helena Wittmann’s Human Flowers of Flesh screen tomorrow at @metrograph . For our resources page Helena share these production notebooks, “These lists accompanied us during the shooting of my new film ‘Human Flowers of Flesh’, while on board, on the sea. We had to change plans constantly (like every hour, adapting to meteo, seasickness, etc), therefore these kinds of lists definitely helped us to navigate the shoot.” Link in bio
I Cannot Now Recall by Kersti Jan Werdal. Screening tonight, 7.30pm at Mast Books, NY. Also streaming online via Metrograph until April 9th.
The film presents a collection of Yvonne Rainer’s dreams selected by the filmmaker from Rainer’s journals. Through choice and abstraction, the film produces a shared psychic landscape that is as expansive as it is anxious.
Dir: @kerstijanwerdal
DP: @gilliangarcia@mastbooks@metrograph
