On The Edge
“Are you a 1 or 0?” asks one of the films rejecting the rigidity of established binaries in “On the Edge,” a collection of films that push us to relish in the in-between space of what we readily accept in our society. Foundational silent cinema, uncovered film strips, and dystopian futures become fodder for the modern imagination in these films, grabbing from both the past and future to make sense of our present realities. Both abstract and hyper-focused, this program invites us to deconstruct our held beliefs, positing that the clearest way to see our world is to blur all of the lines.
Saturday, November 14th • 1:00pm – 3:00pm | Screening + Artist Q&A
Cinema Village in New York City.
META BITCH: Feathers and Blood
Director: Rois Martin
Synopsis: A young woman is transported via a USB drive into a cabaret, where she becomes complicit in a murder. After escaping with no answers, she will discover she is trapped in a dreamlike loop.
Saturday, November 14th • 1:00pm – 3:00pm | Screening + Artist Q&A
Cinema Village in New York City.
Turning Away
Director: Joaquim Bayle
Synopsis: Through the gesture of a man who, one morning, turns back before reaching his office, the film questions this movement we follow without thinking: moving forward, moving up, at all costs. It is the story of a slight rupture — an attempt to interrupt the flow and recover a space to think about the structures that shape our lives.
Cinema Village in New York City.
Beauty is the Terror We Can Bear
Director: Derek Spencer
Synopsis: A controversial performance at a DIY art space divides a close-knit community. This film attempts to capture a conversation that is only possible in *this* space after *this* performance. It allows the viewer to form a judgement of an artwork, temporarily join a community full of people with their own strongly developed judgements, and then question the validity of their initial reaction.
Cinema Village in New York City.
EXIT
Director: Lievan Vanhove
Synopsis: In a vast vertical maze of platforms and lifts, a man and a woman hesitate over which EXIT to take. Their love is tested: he reaches for the bright light above, but a painful growth pulls her toward nearer exits.
Cinema Village in New York City.
Transmutation
Director: Charlie Jimenes
Synopsis: A story of creation: a blind god creates their eyes at the moment of a woman’s birth. The two undergo several transformations before transmutating into a chimera.
Cinema Village in New York City.
Binary
Director: Patrick Ritch
Synopsis: Explores the audience’s relationship to opposing identity centric labels as a proxy to corporations and tech companies’ practice of curating our social media algorithms for engagement and advertisements.
Cinema Village in New York City.
Throne
Director: Mark Chan, Omi Bahuguna
Synopsis: Follows a man through shifting spaces, where the ordinary slips into the surreal, absurd, and strangely intense.
Cinema Village in New York City.
Un Pais Sin Imagen
Director: Fabian Wolf
Synopsis: The ICAIC film archive in Havana preserves the country’s cultural heritage on film reels. A living work of art that may be – or may be not – synonymous with the country’s current development.
Cinema Village in New York City.
Entities
Director: Marcin Pospiech
Synopsis: A cinematic descent into the architecture of a diseased mind. The film visualises the organic parasites – the entities – that inhabit the emptiness of mental collapse.
Cinema Village in New York City.
