Doc Fortnight Shorts

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The Time That Separates Us. 2022. Canada/Jordan/Palestine. Directed by Parastoo Anoushahpour. Courtesy the artist

First Team Offense. 2023. USA. Directed by Kevin Jerome Everson. 3 min. World premiere

Conspiracy. USA. 2022. Directed by Simone Leigh, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich. With Lorraine O'Grady. 23 min. New York premiere. Best Experimental Film, BlackStar Film Festival

Hough 66. USA. 2023. Directed by Kevin Jerome Everson. With Fuego Mansa Mufasa. 7 min. World premiere

The Time That Separates Us. 2022. Canada/Jordan/Palestine. Directed by Parastoo Anoushahpour. With Bayan Kiwan, Haneen Dajani, Dina Mimi, Firas Hamdan. In Arabic, English; English subtitles. 35 min. US premiere

In these recent nonfiction works, artists and filmmakers create cinematic incantations across time and space. Conspiracy, co-directed by Simone Leigh and Madeleine Hunt-Ehlrich and first presented as part of Leigh’s award-winning participation in the 2022 Venice Biennale, is a hypnotic, black-and-white elegy to sculptural creation via the legacy of mid-century artist Ruth Inge Hardison. Parastoo Anoushahpour’s The Time That Separates Us uses the tale of Sodom and Gomorrah to explore contested geographies and narratives along the Jordan River Valley, depicting the landscape through multiple media, including security camera footage, 8mm film, smartphone imagery, and vintage photography. A pair of Kevin Jerome Everson shorts weave through the screening program, crystallizing its poetic exploration of gesture and superimposition. Through his signature supple, vivid imagery, the films evoke different registers of history: one channels the 1966 Cleveland Uprising, another considers family ties and America’s favorite sport.

Program 68 min.

This film accompanies Doc Fortnight 2023: MoMA’s Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media.

Past events

Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 7:00 p.m.

Followed by a conversation with the filmmakers

MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
Fri, Feb 24, 2023, 5:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

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