This collection of short films explores city spaces, longing and connection, remembrance, and queer love. Films include Neil Goldberg’s Hallelujah Anyway, Anyway (2021), Joseph Cornell and Larry Jordan’s Flushing Meadows (1965), Jenni Olson’s Blue Diary (1997), Cauleen Smith’s Lessons in Semaphore (2015), Ed Owens’s Remembrance: A Portrait Study (1967), Anders Grafstrom’s Klaus Nomi Screen Test for Charles Ludlam (c. 1978), and Jem Cohen's Long for the City (2008).
Organized by Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, and Brittany Shaw, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Film.
Film at MoMA is made possible by CHANEL.
Additional support is provided by the Annual Film Fund. Leadership support for the Annual Film Fund is provided by Debra and Leon D. Black and by Steven Tisch, with major contributions from The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art, Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, MoMA’s Wallis Annenberg Fund for Innovation in Contemporary Art through the Annenberg Foundation, the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP), The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art, the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, Karen and Gary Winnick, and The Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston.
