Shorts Program: Untamed Nature

Film

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Post-screening discussions with Alex Tyson and Éléonore Saintagnan and Grégoire Motte

Mountain Fire Personnel. 2015. USA. Directed by Alex Tyson. Courtesy of the filmmaker

Neige. 2016. Great Britain/Canada. Directed by Ashley Sabin, David Redmon. 5 min.

In this snowbound ballet mécanique, hills of snow are cleared from the lamplit streets of Montreal in noisy, rhythmic procession. World premiere

Herd. 2015. Great Britain. Directed by Ashley Sabin,  David Redmon. 12 min.

At first shy and softly braying, the stars of this delightful short are soon gamboling and returning the viewer’s gaze. A gentle study of shared curiosity between man and nature. New York premiere

Mountain Fire Personnel. 2015. USA. Directed by Alex Tyson. 29 min.

Firemen and emergency-ready prison inmates battle a Southern California wildfire in this startling experimental short that interweaves on-the-ground reportage, amateur footage, satellite recordings, and an electronic score into its blazing chaos. New York premiere

Les Bêtes sauvages (Wild Beasts). 2015. France/Belgium. Directed by Éléonore Saintagnan, Grégoire Motte. In French, Spanish, Kikongo, Dutch; English subtitles. 37 min.

Society’s impact on the animal kingdom and the animals’ unique ways of adapting are revealed in three dramatized tales of the feral—wild animals descended from domesticated ones—each as original and playful as it is perverse. U.S. premiere

This film accompanies Documentary Fortnight 2016: MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media.

Past events

Sun, Feb 21, 2016, 1:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
Sat, Feb 20, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

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