P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
MoMA's Affiliation with P.S.1
Visiting P.S.1
This year's annual showcase of nonfiction film and video at MoMA offers over thirty selections, with a focus on documentaries about the environment. The diverse selection covers such ecological issues as the impact of an Austin housing development on that area's water resources; vast mountaintop coal removal in Appalachia; and the "biotecture" of a maverick architect and his crew of renegade house builders from New Mexico. One experimental work reveals the private recordings of a dancer's chemical sensitivity to environmental toxins, and a poignant docu-feature follows the Acehnese people of Indonesia as they recover after a killer tsunami.
Also included are stories about women making change in Afghanistan and Pakistan; an episodic poem on recent Balkan history in war-torn Serbia and Croatia; and cell phone diaries that examine personal memory and history. A special tribute salutes Joan Churchill, a West Coast filmmaker and cinematographer whose work over the past thirty years reveals a history of the documentary from the 1970s to the present.
Organized by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator, Department of Film, and William Sloan, consultant. Special thanks to the Museum's copresenting partners: Asian CineVision, Cinema Tropical, Planet in Focus International Environmental Film and Video Festival, Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and Women Make Movies.
Related Film Screenings
Upcoming
Past
SprayMasters
2007. USA. Manfred Kirchheimer. 85 min.
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore
2007. USA. Jeff Sumerel.
Oddech Wielkiego Lasu (The Nature of Rebirth)
2007. Finland. Johanna Lampi. 14 min.
Black Diamonds
2006. USA. Catherine Pancake. 72 min.
Garbage Warrior
2006. Great Britain. Oliver Hodge. 85 min.
Exposed
2005. USA. Heidrun Holzfeind. 39 min.
Teeth
2007. USA. Alice Arnold. 30 min.
Hors les murs (Out of Bounds)
2005. France. Alexandre Leborgne, Pierre Barougier. 82 min.
Doctor
2006. Taiwan. Mong-Hong Chung. 92 min.
Serambi
2005. Indonesia. Garin Nugroho, Tonny Trimarsanto, Viva Westi, Lianto Luseno. 75 min.
The Unforseen
2007. USA. Laura Dunn. 93 min.
Match Made
2006. Singapore. Mirabelle Ang. 48 min.
Oh, Saigon
2007. USA. Doan Hoang. 57 min.
Aus der Zeit (Out of Time)
2006. Austria. Harald Friedl. 80 min.
Miss Universe 1929
2006. Hungary. Peter Forgacs. 70 min.
The End of the Neubacher Project
2007. Austria/Netherlands. Marcus J. Carney. 74 min.
Enemies of Happiness
2006. Denmark/Afghanistan. Eva Mulvad, Anja Al-Erhayem. 59 min.
Run Granny Run
2007. USA. Marlo Poras. 76 min.
Shame
2007. Pakistan. Mohammed Ali Naqvi. 96 min.
Forbidden Lie$
2007. Australia. Anna Broinowski. 108 min.
CELLuloid: Cell Phone–Made Documentaries
Mechkar: The Story of a Bulgarian Bear Owner
2006. Sweden. Albin Biblom. 29 min.
Balkan Rhapsodies: Encounters, Observations and Afterthoughts about Serbia and Kosovo
2007. USA/Serbia/Kosovo. Jeff Silva. 54 min.
Tovarich: I Am Not Dead
2007. Great Britain. Stuart Urban. 83 min.
Joan Churchill: Tribute to a Distinguished Director and Cinematographer
Juvenile Liaison
1975. Great Britain. Joan Churchill, Nick Broomfield. 101 min.
Punishment Park
1971. USA. Peter Watkins. 90 min.
Soldier Girls
1981. USA. Joan Churchill, Nick Broomfield. 87 min.
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
2003. Great Britain/USA. Joan Churchill, Nick Broomfield. 89 min.
Checkpoint/Paso
2007. Mexico/Germany. Julia Barco. 5 min.
Santiago
2006. Brazil. João Moreira Salles. 80 min.
Prize of the Pole
2006. Sweden/Denmark. Staffan Julen. 75 min.
An Inconvenient Truth
2006. USA. Davis Guggenheim. 94 min.