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shareA flurry of hands, a swing of arms. Nine thrilling shorts that experiment with performance, reenactments, the fine line between a curse and a prayer, and discovering oneself in the archive.
Post-screening Q&A scheduled with filmmakers.
In this program
HIYA
Directed by Naomi Christie
In her dreams, a young Catholic girl redefines godly devotion and awakens surprising new desires.
Bolero Study
Directed by Cherrie Yu
Torvill and Dean’s iconic 1984 Sarajevo Olympic ice dancing performance is reimagined into a duet of hands.
withal our bodies we are
Directed by Yoonseo Lee
A narrator recounts a close encounter with a stranger after dark through movement, reflected text, static-filled echoes, and soft close-ups.
Four Years of Solitude
Directed by James DeLisio, Seojin Ryoo
An international student’s hoped-for campus home turns into an isolated social vacuum filled with neverending construction, with his impending summons to Korea’s military duty hovering nearby.
Amma ki Katha
Directed by Nehal Vyas
A dreamy meditation on Indian mythology. The promises it made, the violence its retellings have caused, and the beauty it inspires for a new kind of future.
Forbidden City
Directed by Devin Jie Allen
A surprise discovery of his grandmother in the archive leads the filmmaker to uncover a buried Chinatown. An exploration of the small traces that open up a history that has been built over or all but lost.
Circles
Directed by Minji Kim
When a Korean dance major suddenly discovers a natural talent in sangmo dance, she finds herself looking over her shoulder, haunted by praise and possessed by expectations.
The Prayer
Directed by Alexandra Kumala
In this “prayer monologue,” an Indonesian woman moves between prayer and curse as she prowls various places of worship in New York City to ask multiple gods for vengeance.
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Directed by Daphne Xu
Lively and provocative, a playful experiment that layers audio and visuals around ping pong at NYC’s Seward Park and the uncanny resonances with practicing immigration questions.
