Container #19 Experimental 16mm shorts from NYC

And some notes on Cannes as it unrolls.

Hello. Thank you once again for joining us.

Tuesday’s Screening:
Recent 16mm Films Retrieved from NYC, Various, 2009-21, 80m
A showcase of contemporary experimental work grounded in the material practice of 16mm film works and made by artists (mostly) in and around New York City.

Zero Length Spring – Ross Meckfessel (2021, 16m)
The Air of the Earth in Your Lungs – Ross Meckfessel (2018, 11 m)
With The Tide, with the tide – Anna Kipervaser (2022, 3m)
Orpheus (outtakes) – Mary Helena Clark (2012, 6m)
The Dragon is the Frame – Mary Helena Clark (2014, 14m, pictured)
Sound over Water – Mary Helena Clark (2009, 6m)
Everything Turns… – Aaron Zeghers (2016, 12 m)
California Picture Book – Zach Iannazzi (2013, 12m)

Unrated 15+
With thanks to all the artists and Artist Film Workshop
Presented on 16mm

Upcoming Screenings:
23 May: Recent 16mm films retrieved from NYC (in partnership with Artist Film Workshop)
6 June: Cyril Schäublin’s Unrest
20 June: Ashley McKenzie’s Queens of the Qing Dynasty (pictured below)
4 July: James Bidgood’s Pink Narcissus (pictured above and in partnership with Prototype.)

Festival notes:
Cannes is underway and films are emerging. Obviously titles like Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon has been well received but of more interested is the unexpected titles.
Two standouts so far are Argentinian filmmaker Rodrigo Moreno’s The Delinquents, a slow cinema heist film (reviewed here (and elsewhere) and Shujun Wei’s Only the River Flows a ‘90s set noir and serial killer procedural (reviewed here and elsewhere.)
Though we have yet to see it, Lisandro Alonso’s Eureka (video above) still tempts us the most. Though it has received mixed reviews, it’s received the best type of mixed reviews (praise from interesting people, damnation from uninteresting people.) A sense of its structure can be found here.

Thank you. We look forward to catching you on Tuesday for our screening of experimental 16mm films from NYC (and nearby) and then in a fortnight for our screening of Cyril Schäublin’s Unrest (pictured above), a stunning study of the industrialisation of time and space, and industrial action around a watch factory. We love it.