Film Diary NYC 2.0: CLOSED PLACE, OPEN WORLD

TUES 11/15

@ MILLENNIUM FILM WORKSHOP

167 Wilson Ave Brooklyn, NY

6PM

CLOSED PLACE, OPEN WORLD

TRT: 87 min

Films:

Elka Park

Dir. Gloria Chung 2014

USA 20 min

A portrait of a place I know where, more than anything else, the changing of the seasons marks the time spent there.

Tempesta a “Les Fonts” d'una memòria (Storm in the sources of a memory)

Dir. Rrose Present 2015

Spain 5 min

I was recently stuck in the village where my mother was born, without wi-fi or television. As the only entertainment I contemplated the trees outside the front door.

Afternoon(s)

Dir. Tsen-Chu Hsu 2021

Taiwan 4 min

During the years of 2016 and 2017, I only finished shooting one roll of Reg8mm, and sometimes I only shot a couple feet in the period of one to two months. In the year of 2020, I finally got a chance to digest what I have shot during those years. Out of my surprise, I cannot remember where and why I captured those images. Nevertheless, one thing I remember specifically is that the scenes were all taken in the afternoons. Therefore, I name this project as: Afternoon(s).

the moment that holds you more beautiful than any

Dir. Kristie Chua 2021

USA 7 min

a chasm— time splintered and the future abruptly fell out of existence, dragging echos of the present with it. vestiges of a life lingered, then too, curled away and dissipated. the sun emerged each morning, sharpening the edges of every thing, painting the world in high definition that caused pain behind the eyes. internal fear mirrored the endless sky, became an imposing saturated blue stretching towards the horizon, swallowing broken shards of reality—an infinite vacuum, greedy and thankless.

Blue Distance

Dir. Devin Jie Allen 2021

USA 7 min

Occupying gaps in memory and history, Blue Distance serves as a personal and poetic intervention into the filmmaker’s familial immigration story. The film places in communion the mythic powers of cinema and the production of personal & cultural histories. Underpinning these tensions is the immigratory reality of occupying stolen land while trying to secure one’s own actualization.

Our Horizons

Dir. Charlotte Cayeux 2022

France 44 min

A woman's voice reads letters written to her by her imprisoned lover over a seascape. In this dialogue between images and text, absence, expectation and the desire for freedom are expressed...