May/June 2015 - Film Society of Lincoln Center

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TITANUS
Two Women
EMBASSY / THE KOBAL COLLECTION
BERTRAND BONELLO
NEW YORK AFRICAN
FILM FESTIVAL
MARTÍN REJTMAN
TITANUS
OPEN ROADS: NEW
ITALIAN CINEMA
HUMAN RIGHTS
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NEW YORK ASIAN
FILM FESTIVAL
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PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT
I P U T A S P E L L O N YO U : T H E F I L M S O F B E R T R A N D B O N E L LO
Each new Bertrand Bonello film is an event in and of itself. Part of what makes Bonello’s
work so thrilling is that, with some exceptions, world cinema has yet to catch up with his
unique combination of artistic rigor and ability to distill emotion from the often extravagantly
stylish, almost baroque figures, places, and events that he portrays. He already occupies
a singular place in French cinema, and we’re excited that our audiences now have the
opportunity to discover a body of work that is unlike any other.
–Dennis Lim, Director of Programming
T I TA N U S
We have selected 23 cinematic gems from the Locarno Film Festival’s tribute to Titanus.
The 110-year-old Italian production company nurtured the young auteur talents of Valeria
Zurlini, Alberto Lattuada, Vittorio De Sica, and Federico Fellini, and explored genre films—
Evil’s Commandment (I Vampiri), Italy’s first horror movie; Steno’s comic Totò Diabolicus; and
Raffaello Matarazzo’s melodrama The White Angel. We are very excited that all the films in
the series will be projected on 35mm—a not-to-be-missed opportunity to experience the
golden age of Italian cinema.
–Isa Cucinotta, Programmer
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Festivals & Series 2
I Put a Spell on You: The Films of Bertrand Bonello (Through May 4) 2
New York African Film Festival (May 6 – 12) 4
Sounds Like Music: The Films of Martín Rejtman (May 13 – 19) 7
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Titanus (May 22 – 31) Open Roads: New Italian Cinema (June 4 – 11) 12
Human Rights Watch Film Festval (June 12 – 20) 16
New York Asian Film Festival (June 26 – July 8) 17
Special Programs 18
Sound + Vision Live (May 28, June 25) 18
Columbia University Film Festival (May 1 – 3) 18
Convergence (May 19, June 23) 19
The Films of Lav Diaz (May 31) 19
54: The Director’s Cut (June 23) 19
Print Screen (May 9 & 18) 20
New Releases 21
May – Saint Laurent, Two Shots Fired, Love at First Fight 22
June – The Wolfpack, The Princess of France PRINT SCREEN
Rather than focusing on adaptations, the idea is to take a less direct approach to
c ombining cinema and literature. Print Screen spotlights the range of films that influence
writers, and the fascinating ways that those cinematic influences take shape in their writing.
The series also gives authors the opportunity to discuss their own work in a different context,
or through a different lens.
–Rachael Rakes, Programmer at Large
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May Schedule 24
June Schedule 26
Exhibits 28
Venue and Ticket Information 29
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PROGRAMMERS
Director of Programming Dennis Lim • Director, NYFF Kent Jones
Senior Programmer Florence Almozini • Programmer Isa Cucinotta
Print Traffic Manager Rufus de Rham • Programming Coordinator Dan Sullivan
Programming Operations Assistant Tony Trius
Senior Programming Advisor Marian Masone
Programmer at Large Jake Perlin • Programmer at Large Rachael Rakes
Programmer, Convergence Matt Bolish • Programmer, Sound + Vision Live Ben Seretan
T H E FI L M S OC I ETY O F L I NC O L N C ENTER R EC EI V ES MA J O R SUP P O RT F R O M:
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Saint
Laurent
On War
The Pornographer
House of Pleasures / L’Apollonide: Souvenirs de la
maison close
Bertrand Bonello, France, 2011, 35mm, 122m
This gorgeous, opium-soaked fever dream of life in a
Parisian brothel at the turn of the century, filmed with a
mixture of casual detachment and needlepoint precision,
might be Bonello’s greatest work to date.
Thursday, April 30, 6:45pm (Q&A with Bertrand
Bonello)
Monday, May 4, 7:00pm
Bertrand Bonello in person!
I PUT A SPELL ON YOU
TH E FI LM S O F
A PR I L 29 – M AY 4
Ingrid Caven: Music and Voice
Bertrand Bonello, France, 2014, digital projection, 95m
Bonello’s engrossing portrait of Ingrid Caven is a showcase for the work of a truly sui generis musician—a sort
of cabaret singer for the 21st century—and a respectful
tribute to one artist from another.
Saturday, May 2, 4:30pm & 9:30pm
On War / De la guerre
In Bonello’s nutty, exhilarating symphony about an artistic community in revolt, Mathieu Amalric plays a harried
filmmaker who, after an on-set brush with death, retreats
to a rural hedonist commune.
Friday, May 1, 6:30pm (Q&A with Bertrand Bonello)
Saturday, May 2, 6:45pm
The Pornographer / Le Pornographe
Bertrand Bonello, France/Canada, 2001, 35mm, 108m
Bonello emerged as a major filmmaker with this ambitious, tragic meditation on what would become two of his
recurring obsessions: the use of sex as economic capital,
and the post-’68 state of political radicalism in France.
Thursday, April 30, 4:30pm & 9:30pm (Introduction
by Bertrand Bonello at the 9:30pm screening)
One of the most daring, intelligent, and virtuosic figures in contemporary French cinema, Bertrand
Bonello approaches his movies like pieces of music, allowing competing tonal elements to collide and
rearrange themselves in bracing configurations. The result is a body of work that consistently pushes
viewers into new and surprising territory.
Portrait of the Artist / Le dos rouge
Antoine Barraud, France, 2014, DCP, 127m
Bertrand Bonello stars as “Bertrand,” a filmmaker
obsessed with monstrosity as the central theme of his
new work in this disquieting yet fascinating (and funny!)
mixture of body horror and character study.
Monday, May 4, 4:15pm & 9:30pm
SPECIAL THANKS
Bertrand Bonello; Benjamin Crotty; Judith Lou Lévy; The Cultural Services of the French Embassy, NY;
Sony Pictures Classics; EuropaCorp; Jeff Hill
Saint Laurent — SNEAK PREVIEW!
Bertrand Bonello, France, 2014, DCP, 150m
Zeroing in on a dark, hedonistic, wildly creative decade
in the life of its subject, Bonello’s latest feature is a
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kaleidoscopic torrent of lavish excess—and a delirious twist on the modern biopic’s rules and limitations.
An NYFF52 selection. Opens theatrically at the Film
Society on May 8 (see page 22).
Wednesday, April 29, 7:00pm (Q&A with Bertrand
Bonello Gaspard Ulliel, and actress Aymeline Valade)
Shorts Program
These shorts, most of them very seldom screened in
the U.S., range from autobiographical reverie (Where
Are You, Bertrand Bonello?) to emotionally charged
chamber drama (Cindy: The Doll Is Mine and Where the
Boys Are).
Cindy: The Doll Is Mine Bertrand Bonello, France,
2005, digital projection, 15m
Where the Boys Are Bertrand Bonello, France, 2010,
35mm, 21m
Where Are You, Bertrand Bonello? / Où en êtes-vous,
Bertrand Bonello? Bertrand Bonello, France, 2014,
digital projection, 17m
Sunday, May 3, 2:45pm & 6:45pm
Something Organic / Quelque chose d’organique
Bonello’s rarely screened first feature, about a young
married couple living in frigid Montreal, starts with the
basic materials of the domestic drama and rearranges
them in invigorating, startling new configurations.
Screening with The Adventures of James and David
France, 2002, digital projection, 11m
Friday, May 1, 4:15pm & 9:30pm (Introduction by
Bertrand Bonello at the 9:30pm screening)
Tiresia
This lyrical and disturbing modern update of the myth of
Tiresias, in which a Brazilian transsexual develops the gift
of prophecy after surviving an act of violence, is perhaps
Bonello’s richest and most elusive film.
EXHIBIT: BERTRAND BONELLO, RÉSONANCES
APRIL 28 – MAY 30
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Featuring selections of works from Bonello’s recent
exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. See the
“Exhibits” section on page 28 for more information.
I PUT A SPELL ON YOU: THE FILMS OF BERTRAND BONELLO
The Prophecy
M AY 6 – 1 2
The New York African Film Festival returns to the Film Society for its 22nd edition, offering a selection
of over 25 titles from more than 15 countries that reflects on the ways African men and women have
broken through borders with films and narratives that form part of the global imagination.
Tickets on sale April 23. Early access for Film Society members (Film Lover and higher) begins April 21.
PHOTO: FABRICE MONTEIRO
Opening Night
Cold Harbour
Carey McKenzie, South Africa, 2014, DCP, 73m
While investigating a smugglers’ turf war in Cape Town,
township cop Sizwe discovers police corruption linked
to the illegal abalone trade, and integrity demands that
he take the law into his own hands.
Wednesday, May 6, 7:00pm (Q&A with Carey
McKenzie and Tendeka Matatu)
Centerpiece
Red Leaves
Bazi Gete, Israel, 2014, DCP, 80m
After losing his wife, Meseganio sets out on a journey
leading him through his children’s homes and realizes
that, having immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia 28 years
ago, he belongs to a rapidly disappearing class that
believes in retaining Ethiopian culture. U.S. Premiere
Friday, May 8, 6:45pm (Q&A with Bazi Gete)
Sunday, May 10, 4:15pm (Q&A with Bazi Gete)
100% Dakar – More Than Art
Sandra Krampelhuber, Austria/Senegal, 2014, digital
projection, 62m
This documentary offers a vibrant portrait of the youthful and creative arts scene in Dakar, revealing a world
of people who stand for a passionate, collective, and
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c reative fight against all economic and political b urdens
in Senegal’s buzzing capital city. U.S. Premiere
Screening with The Prophecy
Marcia Juzga, Senegal, 2015, digital projection, 20m
Saturday, May 9, 4:15pm (Q&A with Sandra
Krampelhuber)
Tuesday, May 12, 4:00pm
order city whose people both bridge and personify
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the immense gaps between Europe and Africa. U.S.
Premiere
Screening with Ziara. Beyond the Threshold / Ziara.
Más allá del umbral
Sonia Gámez, Spain, 2013, digital projection, 54m
A documentary focusing on the Morabitos (or
Marabouts), important religious pilgrimage sites in
northern Morocco, and the precarious situation they
are now in due to repression from Islamic radicals.
Sunday, May 10, 1:00pm (Introduction by Beatriz
Leal Riesco)
Head Gone
Dare Fasasi, Nigeria/Sweden, 2014, DCP, 111m
In this comedy of errors featuring some of Nigeria’s
fi nest entertainers, a bus driver loses some psychiatric
patients on the way to a federal hospital, and decides
to substitute them with unsuspecting commuters.
Mossane
Safi Faye, Senegal, 1996, 35mm, 105m
A beautiful 14-year-old girl from a rural Senegalese
village who has long been promised as a bride to the
wealthy local falls in love and refuses to go through
with the marriage—with tragic results.
Tuesday, May 12, 9:00pm (Introduction by
Mamadou Niang)
Love the One You Love
Jenna Bass, South Africa, 2014, DCP, 105m
Across the city of Cape Town, a sex-line operator, a
dog handler, and an IT technician begin to suspect that
their romantic relationships are the subject of a bizarre
conspiracy, involving their friends, family, and possibly
even greater forces. U.S. Premiere
Friday, May 8, 9:00pm
The Narrow Frame of Midnight
Tala Hadid, Morocco/France/UK, 2014, DCP, 93m
The intersecting journeys of three disparate characters—a young orphan, a writer in search of his brother,
and the woman that the writer left behind—leads
audiences across Morocco, to Istanbul, the plains of
Melillans / Melillenses
Moisés Salama, Spain, 2004, digital projection, 76m
A detailed look at the denizens of Melillenses, a
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Kurdistan, and beyond.
Monday, May 11, 6:30pm (Q&A with Tala Hadid
and Danny Glover)
National Diploma
Dieudo Hamadi, Democratic Republic of the Congo/
France, 2014, DCP, 92m
Dieudo Hamadi’s documentary follows a group of
Congolese high-school students—from the classroom, to
the communal house where they study, to the chaotic city
streets they walk looking for work—as they prepare for
the state exam.
Screening with The Road We Travel
Aidan Belizaire, Uganda/UK, 2014, digital projection,
38m
Sunday, May 10, 9:00pm
Plot for Peace
Carlos Agulló & Mandy Jacobson, South Africa, 2014,
DCP, 84m
This fascinating account of off-the-books diplomacy
in the 1980s that has won awards at film
f estivals
around the globe, tells the little-known tale of JeanYves Ollivier, a French commodities trader who made
his fortune doing business in “difficult countries”—
including the internationally shunned South Africa.
Thursday, May 7, 6:30pm (Q&A with Mandy
Jacobson and Jean-Yves Ollivier)
NEW YORK AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL
Run
Philippe Lacôte, France/Ivory Coast, 2014, DCP, 100m
This alternately dreamlike and ultra-realistic comingof-age tale—the first film from the Ivory Coast selected
to screen at Cannes—uses mesmerizing flashbacks to
recount the life of Run, who is hiding out after assassinating the Prime Minister of the Ivory Coast.
Monday, May 11, 9:00pm (Q&A with Isaach de Bankolé)
Sobukwe: A Great Soul
Mickey Madoda Dube, South Africa, 2011, digital projection, 100m
Exploring the life of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe and providing a platform for his voice to be heard decades after
he made his mark, this film puts his name back on the
historical map of great liberators.
Wednesday, May 6, 9:00pm
Afripedia
The Magic
Gloves
Special Work-in-Progress Screening
DCP, 90m
A soon-to-be-released documentary on an artist-led
youth movement that erupted after a political crisis in
West Africa.
Stories of Our Lives
Jim Chuchu, Kenya, 2014, digital projection, 62m
Created by the members of The NEST Collective, a
Nairobi-based arts collaborative, this anthology of five
short films dramatizes true stories of LGBT life in Kenya.
Screening with: Surrender
Celine Gilbert, Tanzania, 2000, digital projection, 30m
Thursday, May 7, 9:00pm
Sounds Like Music: The Films of
Martín Rejtman
With Rapado, his 1992 debut feature, Martín Rejtman single-handedly revitalized Argentine narrative
film. The five movies he’s made since are models of stylistic precision, narrative structure, and comic
pacing. Romantic confusion, investment troubles, unemployment, youthful aimlessness, the numbing
rush of city life, and the revivifying power of music and dance: in Rejtman’s films, the business of modern
urban living comes off as both familiar and thrillingly strange.
SHORTS PROGRAM #1: AFRIPEDIA SERIES
TRT: 140m
Afripedia is a five-part documentary-short series produced by the Swedish collective Stocktown. Shot in
Kenya, Ghana, Angola, Senegal, and South Africa, each
of the five episodes focus on a different group of artists
and creators in their respective country.
Saturday, May 9, 6:30pm (Q&A with Teddy Goitom)
M AY 1 3 – 1 9
SPECIAL THANKS
Cinema Tropical, The Consulate General of Argentina in New York; The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation, Inc.
SHORTS PROGRAM #2: WOMEN IN THE MEDIA
Burkina, All About Women
Cold
Harbour
TRT: 113m
A collection of seven shorts by and about women.
The Summer of Gods Eliciana Nascimento, Brazil,
Burkina, All About Women Nicole Mackinlay Hahn,
USA/Burkina Faso, digital projection, 2015, 11m
Handmade in Thamaga Nova Scott-James, USA/
Botswana, 2014, digital projection, 5m
Bus Nut Akosua Adoma Owusu, Ghana/USA, 2014,
Sister Oyo / Soeur Oyo Monique Mbeka Phoba,
Belgium/Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2014,
Cholo Muzna Almusafer, United Arab Emirates/France,
Panic Button Libby Dougherty, South Africa, 2014,
Tuesday, May 12, 6:00pm (Introduction by Nova
Scott-James and actress MaameYaa Boafo)
Elementary Training for Actors
Martín Rejtman & Federico Léon, Argentina, 2009,
Co-directed with the playwright Federico León, Rejtman’s
hilarious, whip-smart reconstruction of an experimental children’s acting workshop has a manic, irrepressible energy new to his work.
Screening with Copacabana
Martín Rejtman, Argentina, 2006, HDCAM, 58m
After completing his loose trilogy of movies set among
Buenos Aires’ young aimless working-middle-class,
Rejtman turned to nonfiction with this moving, attentive study of the city’s large community of Bolivian
immigrants.
The Magic Gloves
Martín Rejtman, Argentina, 2003, 35mm, 90m
Following the crisscrossed fortunes of several characters in recession-plagued urban Argentina, Rejtman’s
comic masterpiece is suffused with a terse, prickly
s ympathy for its heroes, and alive to the mystery and
charm of the modern world.
Screening with Doli Goes Home
Martín Rejtman, Argentina, 1986, digital projection,
30m
A nocturnal urban walkabout reminiscent of the films
of Chantal Akerman and Jim Jarmusch, Rejtman’s first
short marked the beginning of his many cinematic
reckonings with Buenos Aires.
DIGITAL EXHIBIT: THE PROPHECY BY
FABRICE MONTEIRO
The Prophecy, by Fabrice Monteiro, is a series of hypnotic, environmental-themed photographs that represent
the intersection of art, fashion, mythology, and nature to
raise awareness about environmental concerns. On view
in the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater.
Marcia Juzga’s short film of the same name will also
screen during the festival. See the “Exhibits” section on
page 28 for more information.
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Martín Rejtman in person!
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Rapado
The debut feature by Rejtman, which helped launch
a new wave of Argentine filmmakers, is a perfect
introduction to the director’s droll, shaggy-dog comic
sensibility—and one of the great modern cinematic

studies of youthful aimlessness.
Silvia Prieto
Rejtman’s radiant second feature, which follows a young
woman through a short, precarious stretch of her life in
Buenos Aires, is a comedy of oddball details and occasional, quiet epiphanies.
OPENS MAY 13 – ONE-WEEK EXCLUSIVE
Two Shots Fired / Dos Disparos
Martín Rejtman, Argentina, 2014, DCP, 105m
Martín Rejtman’s first feature in a decade, about a family’s
curious methods of coping with the youngest teenage
son’s inexplicable suicide attempt, is an engrossing,
digressive comedy with the weight of an existentialist
novel. An NYFF52 selection. Rejtman in person on May
13 and May 15 at the 6:30pm shows. (See page 22.)
IN THE MAY/JUNE ISSUE OF FILM COMMENT:
Quintín reports on Martín Rejtman’s singular
comedies of middle-class malaise. Learn more at
filmcomment.com.
MARTÍN REJTMAN
TITANUS / THE KOBAL COLLECTION
Two Women
All films in 35mm!
Le Amiche
TITANUS
EMBASSY / THE KOBAL COLLECTION
Le Amiche
Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, 1955, 35mm, 104m
New to Turin, a fashion designer befriends a quartet
of wealthy, lovelorn women in this elegant character
study that inaugurated the themes that would define
Antonioni as a filmmaker. New restoration!
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage / L’uccello dalle
piume di cristallo
Dario Argento, Italy/West Germany, 1970, 35mm, 98m
An American in Rome witnesses a botched murder, and
then becomes obsessed with tracking down the mysterious attacker. Dario Argento’s directorial debut!
Friday, May 29, 2:00pm & 8:45pm
The Demon / Il Demonio
Brunello Rondi, Italy/France, 1963, 35mm, 94m
A love-crazed girl is taken for a witch by fanatical villagers in Brunello Rondi’s profoundly unnerving treatise
on compulsion and superstition, a clear forerunner to
The Exorcist.
Evil’s Commandment / I Vampiri
Riccardo Freda, Italy, 1957, 35mm, 77m
The first Italian horror film of the sound era, a cheap
but chilling twist on vampirism, anticipates decades of
Euro Horror—including the works of its cinematographer and unbilled co-director, Mario Bava.
Bandits of
Orgosolo
Bread, Love and Dreams / Pane, amore e fantasia
Luigi Comencini, Italy, 1953, 35mm, 90m
A middle-aged police chief pursues a spirited country
girl in this Oscar-nominated farce, which supplied Gina
Lollobrigida with perhaps her most popular role.
Monday, May 25, 2:15pm & 8:45pm
M AY 2 2 – 3 1
Like MGM’s lion and The Archers’ target, the familiar shield and sash of Titanus promises something
primal on sight—movies for lovers of movies. From soul-searching works by Fellini and Antonioni to gruesome frightfests by Argento and Bava, the Italian studio lives up to its name in abundance and diversity.
Organized by Isa Cucinotta and Dennis Lim for the Film Society of Lincoln Center. This program was
selected from the Titanus retrospective curated by Roberto Turigliatto and Sergio M. Germani at the 2014
Locarno Film Festival, presented in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, the Centro S
perimentale
di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale (National Film Archive), the Istituto Luce Cinecittà, and the
Cinémathèque suisse in Lausanne. Special thanks to Kim R. Brizzolara.
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Bandits of Orgosolo / Banditi a Orgosolo
Vittorio De Seta, Italy, 1961, 35mm, 98m
Vittorio De Seta’s tough, post-neorealist study of survival
in the highlands of Sardinia moved Martin Scorsese to
observe: “It was as if De Seta were an anthropologist who
spoke with the voice of a poet.”
ccupation of Rome and the Italian resistance moveo
ment was helmed by four major figures in Italian cinema but is seldom screened in the U.S.
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Cronaca Nera
Giorgio Bianchi, Italy, 1947, 35mm, 90m
A wanted criminal hides out in the home of an associate,
finding love and reassessing his life in this unexpectedly
poignant tale of redemption. New restoration!
Days of Glory / Giorni di gloria
Giuseppe De Santis, Mario Serandrei, Marcello Pagliero
& Luchino Visconti, Italy/Switzerland, 1945, 35mm, 71m
The harrowing first documentary on the German
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The Fiancés
Sweet Deceptions
The Fiancés / I Fidanzati
Ermanno Olmi, Italy, 1963, 35mm, 77m
A Milanese factory worker relocates to Sicily and
leaves behind his fiancée in Ermanno Olmi’s lyrical
study of loneliness, which Kent Jones calls “by far his
most beautiful foray into modernist territory, simply
because it feels so homegrown.”
The Magliari
A Hero of Our Times / Un eroe dei nostri tempi
Mario Monicelli, Italy, 1957, 35mm, 85m
A hard-charging boor exploits his widowed boss’s
affections in this blackly comedic rumination on
postwar amorality from Big Deal on Madonna Street
d irector Mario Monicelli.
S.G.C. / TITANUS / THE KOBAL COLLECTION
Violent Summer
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Little Girls and High Finance / Anonima cocottes
Camillo Mastrocinque, Italy, 1960, 35mm, 107m
In this screwball comedy loosely based on a true story,
a whistleblower gets revenge on the bank that fired
him by ruthlessly playing the stock market. Co-starring
Anita Ekberg!
Thursday, May 28, 2:00pm & 6:40pm
The Sign of Venus / Il segno di Venere
Dino Risi, Italy, 1955, 35mm, 101m
Dino Risi’s touching human comedy gave Sophia Loren
an early triumph as Agnese, the town’s effortless
object of male desire with whom her husband-seeking
cousin cannot compete.
Thursday, May 28, 4:15pm & 9:00pm
The Magliari / I Magliari
Francesco Rosi, Italy/France, 1959, 35mm, 132m
“Poet of civic courage” Francesco Rosi directed this
gritty account of life in the urban margins, as a Tuscan
laborer arrives in Germany and falls in with a gang of
crooked peddlers.
Sweet Deceptions / I dolci inganni
Alberto Lattuada, Italy/France, 1960, 35mm, 95m
A 17-year-old girl examines her feelings for a much
older family friend in Fellini collaborator Alberto
Lattuada’s tender portrait of burgeoning adulthood
that defies coming-of-age clichés.
Numbered Days / I giorni contati
Elio Petri, Italy, 1962, 35mm, 93m
After quitting his job, a middle-aged plumber is diagnosed with a terminal condition, and decides to wander
the streets in this melancholy meditation on modern life
and consumer values.
The Swindle / Il Bidone
Federico Fellini, Italy/France, 1955, 35mm, 112m
Fellini’s heartrending portrait of three itinerant con men
is among his most socially conscious works, highlighted
by exceptional acting from its international cast.
Wednesday, May 27, 4:00pm & 8:30pm
The Professor / La prima notte di quiete
Valerio Zurlini, Italy, 1972, 35mm, 132m
Alain Delon stars as a bohemian literature professor and
gambler who escapes his troubled wife by having an
affair with one of his students.
Friday, May 22, 3:30pm & 8:35pm
Totò Diabolicus
Steno, Italy, 1962, 35mm, 92m
Kind Hearts and Coronets meets Danger: Diabolik in this
uproarious black comedy, which features Italian superstar
Totò (nicknamed “The Prince of Laughter”) in six roles.
Rome 11:00 / Roma ore 11
Giuseppe De Santis, Italy/France, 1952, 35mm, 107m
An overlooked entry in the neorealist canon, Rome
11:00 chronicles the buildup to and aftermath of a reallife tragedy derived from the dearth of opportunities in
postwar Rome.
Two Women / La Ciociara
Vittorio De Sica, Italy, 1960, 35mm, 100m
A widow (Sophia Loren, in an Oscar-winning role) and
her daughter find peace (and an affable Marxist played
by Jean-Paul Belmondo) in the countryside, but their
idyll is shattered on their way back to Rome.
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Violent Summer / Estate violenta
Valerio Zurlini, Italy, 1959, 35mm, 98m
The draft-dodging son of a prominent Fascist (JeanLouis Trintignant) falls for a war widow in the summer
leading up to Italy’s 1943 armistice.
The White Angel / L’angelo bianco
Raffaello Matarazzo, Italy, 1955, 35mm, 100m
King of Italian melodrama Raffaello Matarazzo merges
neorealism with Sirk and Hitchcock in the c ontinuing
narrative of Guido, the luckless hero of Nobody’s
Children.
The Sign of Venus
Rome 11:00
The Law of the Trumpet / La legge della tromba
Augusto Tretti, Italy, 1962, 35mm, 85m
This absurdist comedy about an ex-con working in a
trumpet factory is the first film by Augusto Tretti, whom
Fellini called “the madman that Italian cinema needs.”
TITANUS
So Far So Good
Opening Night
Latin Lover
Cristina Comencini, Italy, 2015, 104m
The lovers and offspring of Italy’s most popular movie
star (and most prolific ladies’ man), played by a starstudded international cast, gather in his hometown on
the 10th anniversary of his passing to piece together
the puzzle of his life. North American Premiere
Thursday, June 4, 6:30pm (Q&A with Cristina
Comencini)
Monday, June 8, 1:30pm
9 x 10 Novanta
Marco Bonfanti, Claudio Giovannesi, Alina Marazzi,
Pietro Marcello, Sara Fgaier, Giovanni Piperno,
Costanza Quatriglio, Paola Randi, Alice Rohrwacher &
Roland Sejko, Italy, 2014, 94m
Nine shorts by 10 young Italian filmmakers (including The Wonders writer-director, Alice Rohrwacher),
comprised of archival material from the Istituto Luce in
honor of its 90th anniversary, give light to rare material
unseen for decades. North American Premiere
Thursday, June 9, 6:30pm
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Chlorine / Cloro
Lamberto Sanfelice, Italy, 2015, 98m
In this sensitively wrought drama that screened in
competition at Berlin and Sundance, 17-year-old Jenny
must abandon dreams of becoming a synchronized
swimmer to hold her family together after her mother’s
unexpected death and her father’s subsequent nervous breakdown. New York Premiere
Sunday, June 7, 6:15pm (Q&A with Lamberto
Sanfelice)
Tuesday, June 9, 4:15pm
The Dinner / I nostri ragazzi
Ivano De Matteo, Italy, 2014, 92m
An all-star cast shows the intense moral struggle f acing
two wealthy brothers and their wives after their teenage children brutally beat a homeless man. Winner of
four prizes at last year’s Venice Film Festival. A Film
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Movement release. North American Premiere
Friday, June 5, 6:30pm (Q&A with Ivano De Matteo)
Greenery Will Bloom Again / Torneranno i prati
Ermanno Olmi, Italy, 2014, 80m
“Poet of Silence” Ermanno Olmi (Il Posto) captures a
single snowy night on World War II’s Italian front, as
soldiers b urrowed in trenches find pockets of hope
where they can. North American Premiere
Saturday, June 6, 6:30pm (Q&A with actor Claudio
Santamaria)
The Ice Forest / La foresta di ghiaccio
Claudio Noce, Italy, 2014, 99m
Claudio Noce proves himself to be a master of suspense with this heart-pounding thriller involving foul
play and human trafficking set on the Italian-Slovenian
border, shot with a swooping grace befitting its majestic Alpine setting. With Emir Kusturica in a supporting
role! North American Premiere
Thursday, June 4, 3:30pm (Q&A with actor
Adriano Giannini)
Sunday, June 7, 3:30pm (Q&A with actor Adriano
Giannini)
The Invisible Boy / Il ragazzo invisibile
Gabriele Salvatores, Italy/France, 2014, 100m
An unpopular 13-year-old boy suddenly discovers he
has the ability to become invisible, and gets pulled into
a new world of mystery, intrigue, and responsibility in
this superhero fantasy from Gabriele Salvatores (I’m
Not Scared) that harkens back to adventure classics of
the 1980s. North American Premiere
Sunday, June 7, 1:00 (Q&A with Gabriele Salvatores)
An Italian Name / Il nome del figlio
Francesca Archibugi, Italy, 2015, 96m
A dinner party takes a turn for the volatile when the
topic turns to the name of the hosts’ unborn child in
The Dinner
JUNE 4 – 11
For 14 years, Open Roads has proudly offered North American audiences the most diverse and
extensive lineup of contemporary Italian films available. This year’s program strikes a satisfying balance between emerging talents and esteemed veterans, showcasing a medley of commercial and
independent fare. Experience the best of Italian cinema, with special in-person appearances by many
of the filmmakers. Programmed by Isa Cucinotta and Dennis Lim.
Tickets on sale May 21. Early access for Film Society members (Film Buff and higher) begins May 14.
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Istituto Luce Cinecittà; Antonio Mondo; The Italian Trade Commission; Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò;
The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation, Inc.; National Endowment of the Arts; Kim R. Brizzolara
The Astronauts
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Natural Resistance
Jonathan Nossiter, Italy/France, 2014, 86m
World-renowned sommelier and director of Mondovino
Jonathan Nossiter offers a strong case in favor of organic
wines from an environmental and political perspective in
this must-see for any foodie. U.S. Premiere
Latin Lover
The Lack
this uproariously un-PC variation on Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?. North American Premiere
Saturday, June 6, 9:00pm (Q&A with Francesca
Archibugi)
The Lack
Masbedo, Italy, 2014, 76m
Directing duo Masbedo bridges the gap between
the worlds of video art and narrative filmmaking in
this poetic work of pure cinema, a vignette-based
i nvestigation of the meaning of “lack” through the

journeys of six women on the Aeolean Islands. North
American Premiere
Thursday, June 4, 9:15pm (Q&A with Masbedo)
Leopardi
Leopardi
Mario Martone, Italy, 2014, 144m
A luscious portrait of the great Italian poet Giacomo
Leopardi, from his days as the toast of Florentine literary circles to his death in the Neapolitan countryside.
Monday, June 8, 6:00pm (Q&A with Mario Martone
& co-writer Ippolita di Majo)
Wednesday, June 10, 1:00pm
Money Buddies
Short Skin
Duccio Chiarini, Italy, 2014, 86m
A 17-year-old who suffers from phimosis (a congenital
problem with the foreskin) yearns to lose his virginity
while his family struggles with sexual issues of their own
in Duccio Chiarini’s endearing and hilarious coming-ofage tale. North American Premiere
Friday, June 5, 9:00pm (Q&A with Duccio Chiarini)
N-Capace
Natural Resistance
So Far So Good / Fino a qui tutto bene
Roan Johnson, Italy, 2014, 80m
Five students who’ve shared an apartment—and their
many joys and sorrows—must part ways in this perceptive
character study about the terrifying prospect of adulthood that won multiple prizes at the Rome International
Film Festival. North American Premiere
Friday, June 5, 4:00pm (Q&A with Roan Johnson)
Saturday, June 6, 1:30pm (Q&A with Roan Johnson)
The State-Mafia Pact / La trattativa
Sabina Guzzanti, Italy, 2014, 108m
Disgraced former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is only
the tip of the sleazy iceberg in Sabina Guzzanti’s bombshell hybrid documentary that shows the collaboration
between high-ranking government officials and the mafia
in the early 1990s. North American Premiere
Sunday, June 7, 8:45pm
Short Skin
EXHIBIT: LOOKING WITH
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
An exhibition of Renato Zacchia’s rare photographs
of Antonioni taken during the shoot of one of his final
documentaries (Sicily, 1997). Courtesy of EVOL Design.
On display in the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery. See
the “Exhibits” section on page 28 for more information.
Money Buddies / La buca
Daniele Ciprì, Italy/Switzerland, 2014, 90m
Better Call Saul, Italian-style! In this timeless and fun
buddy comedy, an unscrupulous lawyer and a penniless man just released from jail after 30 years for a
crime he didn’t commit team up in the hopes of suing
the state for big cash.
Saturday, June 6, 4:00pm
N-Capace / N-Able
Eleonora Danco, Italy, 2014, 80m
The sparklingly imaginative autobiography of playwright/director/actress Danco evokes the spirit of
Fellini’s 8 ½ and sometimes pulls people of all ages
on the street into its fanciful stagings that, even at
their lightest, belie a deep poignancy. North American
Premiere
Friday, June 5, 1:30pm
The State-Mafia Pact
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JUNE 12 – 20
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival brings human rights issues to life through storytelling in a way
that challenges each individual to empathize and demand justice for all. The festival creates a forum
for courageous individuals on both sides of the lens to empower audiences with the knowledge that
personal commitment can make a difference.
APR 17 –30
Life Is Sacred
For the complete lineup and schedule, visit filmlinc.com.
Tickets on sale May 21. Early access for Film Society members (Film Icon and higher) and HRW subscribers begins May 19.
Beats of the Antonov
Hajooj Kuka, Sudan/South Africa, 2014, 68m
Over two years, Sudanese filmmaker Hajooj Kuka lived
alongside farmers, herders, and rebels displaced to the
Blue Nile and Nuba Mountain regions, filming their lives
within hillside hideouts and refugee camps. The result
is this unique perspective on the complex realities of a
divided Sudan, focusing on the vibrant musical heritage
of the region. Q&A with Hajooj Kuka
Burden of Peace
Joey Boink, Guatemala/Netherlands, 2015, 76m
This epic tale of personal sacrifice, hard-fought change,
and hope follows Guatemala’s first female attorney general, Claudia Paz y Paz, as we witness her battle to bring
to justice powerful criminals and corrupt politicians. Q&A
with Joey Boink & Claudia Paz y Paz
Life Is Sacred
Andreas Dalsgaard, Denmark, 2014, 104m
Unorthodox presidential candidate Antanas Mockus and
his enthusiastic young activist supporters attempt to
reverse the vicious cycle of brutal violence in Colombia
with an imaginative and positive election campaign: as
mayor of Bogotá, dressed in a Superman costume, he
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took on towering crime rates and people’s bad traffic
habits. But can good ideas and an idealistic drive alone
change a political culture where violence is rampant?
Q&A with Andreas Dalsgaard
No Land’s Song
Ayat Najafi, France/Germany/Iran, 2014, 93m
The Islamic revolution of 1979 banned female singers
from appearing in public in Iran, but composer Sara Najafi
is determined to revive their voices in the present as
she courageously plans an evening of performances by
Iranian and French soloists to rebuild shattered cultural
bridges. Q&A with Ayat Najafi and Sara Najafi
The Wanted 18
Amer Shomali & Paul Cowan, Canada/Palestine/France,
2014, 75m
Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and
interviews, Palestinian artist Amer Shomali and veteran Canadian director Paul Cowan re-create an astonishing true story: the Israeli army’s pursuit of 18 cows,
whose independent milk production on a Palestinian
collective farm was declared “a threat to the national
security of the state of Israel.” Q&A with Amer Shomali
& Paul Cowan
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The hottest summer event in New York is back... with a vengeance! The 14th edition of North
America’s leading festival of Asian cinema is packed with cutting-edge art-house fare; action
extravaganzas filled with flying sweat and bleeding hearts; dynamic blockbusters; and wild, mindbending c omedies. Tired of the lukewarm plates of stateside popcorn flicks and snail-paced Oscar
bait? We’ll be delivering all the spice and swagger from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and
Southeast Asia, with actor and filmmaker guests including Director in Focus Daihachi Yoshida, one of
the most original storytellers of our troubled times. Also on deck is The Last Men in Japanese Film, a
very special tribute to two Japanese film legends: Ken Takakura and Bunta Sugawara, the guys who
basically invented Nippon-grown badassery. And, of course, there are the fresh-from-the-editingroom movies that are racking up awards and setting the box office on fire across Asia.
For the lineup and schedule, visit filmlinc.com.
Tickets on sale June 4. Early access for Film Society members (Cinephile and higher) begins June 2.
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Sitting at the intersection of technology and filmmaking,
Convergence is a forum for storytellers of all stripes to
actively explore the shifting media landscape.
StoryCode Forum Free Event!
For May’s program, Bayeté Ross Smith will present The
Question Bridge, a platform for black men to ask questions about life in contemporary America. Launched in
2012 as a video-art installation, the project has grown
into an incredible interactive website, mobile app, and
curriculum for students.
Tuesday, June 23, 7:00pm (program TBD)
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TIME REGAINED: THE FILMS OF LAV DIAZ
Launched in August 2014, the most complete
American retrospective to date of this major,
criminally underseen Filipino master concludes
this month with Heremias.
SOUND + VISION LIVE
Heremias
Lav Diaz, Philippines/Netherlands/Sweden, 2006,
A merchant and his ox part ways with their traveling companions and embark on an almost mythical journey in this
celebration of stillness and storytelling in all its forms.
Sunday, May 31, 11:00am
An exciting monthly music series that pairs intimate concerts with boundary-pushing video work.
Fan Letters, Maria Chavez & Kendall Williams
An experimental video/audio duo, a turntable master,
and a steel-drum expert perform new works, roundrobin style.
Thursday, May 28, 8:00pm
Fan Letters, Maria Chavez & Kendall Williams
Martin Bisi: Sound and Chaos
A screening of Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio,
about the legendary recording studio in Gowanus,
Brooklyn, will be followed by a special live performance
by the film’s subject, BC Studio head Martin Bisi.
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Mark Christopher, USA, 2015, DCP, 106m
Seventeen years after producers sanitized his portrait of
New York’s legendary disco palace, Mark Christopher’s
director’s cut restores his gritty, Dionysian vision of the
club where “the stars are nobody because everybody’s
a star.” Featuring a brilliant Mike Myers, alongside Selma
Hayek, Breckin Meyer, and Ryan Phillippe.
Tuesday, June 23, 7:00pm (Q&A with Mark
Christopher and cast members)
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FILM FESTIVAL MAY 1–3
The Columbia University School of the Arts Film Program presents the 28th Annual Columbia
University Film Festival, a weeklong program of screenings, dramatic readings, and special events.
The programs on May 1–3 will take place at the Film Society. For more information, visit cufilmfest.com.
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that complement and have inspired their work,
with discussions and book signings to follow
screenings.
Karl Ove Knausgaard and The Idiots
On the occasion of the U.S. release of Book Four in his
brilliant, widely acclaimed My Struggle series, we invited
Karl Ove Knausgaard to make a carte blanche selection. A devotee of Dogme 95, Knausgaard selected Lars
von Trier’s sui generis The Idiots (1998, 35mm, 117m),
which he will introduce. Presented in collaboration with
Archipelago Books and McNally Jackson Books.
Saturday, May 9, 1:00pm (Q&A with Karl Ove
Knausgaard)
Maggie Nelson
This reading, screening, and discussion launches The
Argonauts, the latest book by Maggie Nelson (Bluets,
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning). Nelson will read from
her new book and introduce a screening of three recent
works of performative video art that focus on language
and the body, followed by a post-screening discussion with her partner Harry Dodge and a book signing.
Presented in collaboration with McNally Jackson Books.
Monday. May 18, 7:00pm (Q&A with Maggie Nelson
& Harry Dodge)
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Saint Laurent
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The Wolfpack
Crystal Moselle, USA, 2015, DCP, 89m
“A bombshell documentary.”
— Kyle Smith, The New York Post
First-time feature filmmaker Crystal Moselle trains her
camera on an utterly unique subject in this documentary portrait of the Angulos, a family whose children
have been forbidden from leaving their Lower East
Side apartment yet whose love for cinema signals a
desire to engage with the outside world. A Magnolia
Pictures release.
SNEAK PREVIEW on June 11 with Crystal Moselle and
cast members in person!
Two Shots Fired
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The Princess of France / La Princesa de Francia
Matías Piñeiro, Argentina, 2014, DCP, 70m
OPENS MAY 8
Saint Laurent
Bertrand Bonello, France, 2014, DCP, 150m
“Packs an amazing amount of action and thought.”
— Richard Brody, The New Yorker
“A lush, stylish, and evocative journey.”
— Mark Adams, Screen Daily
Zeroing in on a dark, hedonistic, wildly creative decade in
the life of its subject (played by Gaspard Ulliel), Bonello’s latest feature is a kaleidoscopic torrent of lavish excess—and a
delirious twist on the modern biopic’s rules and limitations.
An NYFF52 selection. A Sony Pictures Classics release.
Matías Piñeiro’s dazzling fifth feature, which follows a
group of young people involved in a radio production of
Love’s Labour’s Lost, doesn’t transplant Shakespeare to
the present day so much as summon the spirit of his polymorphous comedies. An NYFF52 selection. A Cinema
Guild release. Director Matías Piñeiro in person!
The Princess of France
SNEAK PREVIEW on April 29 with Bonello, Ulliel, and
Aymeline Valade in person! Screening in conjunction with
the Bertrand Bonello series, April 29–May 4 (see page 2).
OPENS MAY 13—One-Week Exclusive!
Two Shots Fired / Dos Disparos
Martín Rejtman, Argentina, 2014, DCP, 105m
“One of the sharpest, savviest, and most humane
comic sensibilities in contemporary cinema.”
— Max Nelson, Cinema Scope
The first feature in a decade by Martín Rejtman, about
a family’s curious methods of coping with the youngest
teenage son’s inexplicable suicide attempt, is an engrossing, digressive comedy with the weight of an existentialist
novel. An NYFF52 selection. A Cinema Tropical release.
Director Martín Rejtman in person!
Screening in conjunction with a Martín Rejtman retrospective, taking place May 13–19 (see page 7).
OPENS MAY 22
Love at First Fight / Les Combattants
Thomas Cailley, 2014, France, DCP, 98m
“An expertly handled and brilliantly performed feelgood comedy with an original twist.”
—John Bleasdale, Cine-Vue
Love at First Fight
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Easygoing Arnaud becomes smitten with hard-charger
Madeleine and follows her to boot camp in this warm and
refreshing coming-of age story that was a triple winner at
last year’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. Winner of three
César Awards, for Most Promising Actor, Best Actress,
and Best First Film. A Strand Releasing release.
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APRIL 28 – MAY 30
On View at the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery and
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater
Featuring selections from Bertrand Bonello’s recent
exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the exhibit
offers audiences a glimpse at the full breadth of
Bonello’s transfixing work in other media. Presented in
conjunction with our retrospective I Put a Spell on You:
The Films of Bertrand Bonello (see page 2).
Among the works will be a single-screen version of the
installation “Remix,” which reworks Bonello’s films House
of Pleasures, Something Organic, On War, Ingrid Caven:
Music and Voice, Cindy: The Doll Is Mine, Tiresia, and The
Pornographer by crafting a new soundtrack to accompany a seven-part simultaneous split-screen comprised
of footage from the aforementioned films. Presented in
the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater.
On display in the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery will
be “Ghost Films” and “Autumn Mists.” “Ghost Films”
combines two sequences of silent images from unrealized projects—rushes from Madeleine d’entre les
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morts (a reworking of Hitchcock’s Vertigo, starring Alex
Descas and Isild le Besco) and images from The Death
of Laurie Markovitch as well as screen tests of actress
Kate Moran—with Bonello reading a text explaining his
theory of “ghost films” in between the two sets. “Autumn
Mists” consists of a screening of Dimitri Kirsanoff’s
Brumes d’automne (1928), its images left intact but with
four different scores created by musicians including the
classic original version by Paul Devred, Richie Hawtin
(aka Plastikman)’s electronic version, Diana Soh, and
Bertrand Bonello himself, yielding four radically distinct
audiovisual experiences.
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Special thanks to the Centre Pompidou for the adaptation of the exhibition Bertrand Bonello conceived and presented
at Centre Pompidou, Paris, September 19 to October 26, 2014, Partie informatique de l’œuvre réalisée dans les studios
de I’Ircam-Centre Pompidou; Mixage – Mathieu Farnarier, and for the presentation of works from Bertrand Bonello,
Résonances: Centre Pompidou; and Commande Ircam-Centre Pompidou.
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BY FABRICE MONTEIRO
MAY 6 – 17
On View at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
Amphitheater
A digital exhibit of hypnotic, environmental-themed
photographs that represent the intersection of art,

fashion, mythology, and nature. Based in Dakar, the
Beninese-Belgian photographer collaborated with a
collective of young artists to depict some of Senegal’s
worst-hit areas in order to raise awareness of environmental concerns. Showing in conjunction with the New
York African Film Festival (see page 4).
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JUNE 4 – 11
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An exhibit of Renato Zacchia’s rare photographs of the
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taken during the shoot of one of his final documentaries (Sicily, 1997). Event organized by EVOL Design.
Showing in conjunction with Open Roads: New Italian
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