We spent 4+ hours waiting cuffed in the bus blocking grand army traffic because none of the dozens of cops knew how to drive it! Solidarity w/ the bus drivers! ✊🏻
Bus drivers refused to transport protestors from last night's Seder in the Streets to the precinct, forcing cops to drive the busses. Power and solidarity to the union bus drivers with
@twu100
who refuse to collaborate with the NYPD, which commandeers MTA busses for mass arrests.
Sono felice che Familiar Touch della regista statunitense Sarah Friedland abbia vinto il Premio Venezia Opera Prima Leone del Futuro Luigi De Laurentiis, giunto alla 28a edizione. Grazie a Giuseppe Tornatore che ha consegnato il premio, ideato in memoria di mio padre Luigi
Overjoyed to announce that my debut feature film FAMILIAR TOUCH will premiere at the 81st Venice Film Festival
@la_Biennale
in the Orizzonti Competition.
As a former Berlinale “Talent,” I say: shame on you, Berlinale. This weaponization of false accusations of anti-Semitism against pro-Palestinian artists who give your festival its value is unforgiveable.
Berlinale Files Criminal Charges Over the Spreading of Anti-Semitic Posts / Criticism of Statements Made by Artists at the Berlinale Award Ceremony
See full press release via:
Oy vey
@tenementmuseum
. I used to lead a tour called “Hard Times,” which, among other things, explored the need for mutual aid and economic support for workers during recessions. Yesterday, they fired me and 75 of my colleagues during what the museum might call a...“hard time.”
Spent the 2nd night of Passover getting arrested with hundreds of other anti-Zionist Jews at an emergency seder on Schumer’s doorstep demanding an end to US funding of genocide and divestment from Israel. Next year in Palestinian liberation! Solidarity w/ the student encampments!
Know an older adult who wants to try filmmaking? I’m teaching a free workshop for older adults
@BronxMuseum
on 4/18. No prior experience needed. Workshop will be accessible for folks with memory loss and other disabilities. Sign up:
Proud to have joined 1500 fellow anti-Zionist Jews and allies today, risking arrest, as we shut down the Manhattan Bridge, demanding a permanent ceasefire, an end to the occupation, and a Free Palestine!
HAPPENING NOW: Thousands are shutting down the Manhattan Bridge on the busiest travel day of the year, refusing to leave until Biden calls for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
We will make business as usual impossible until the US stops funding and fueling a genocide.
I’m absolutely honored and delighted to be one of
@FilmmakerMag
25 New Faces of Independent Film this year! Was a joy getting to speak with Scott Macaulay about my practice:
Currents also features seven robust shorts programs with work from Radu Jude, Bi Gan, Mark Jenkin, Simón Velez, Nicolás Pereda, Courtney Stephens, Ben Russell, Mary Helena Clark, Dani & Sheilah ReStack, Lois Patiño, Sarah Friedland & more!
Full lineup:
Tickets are now on sale for
@TheNYFF
! My film Trust Exercises is playing in Currents program 9 on 10/10 and 10/12. Here’s our poster designed by the brilliant pa-i-ka:
Honored to be a 2021
@NYSCArts
/
@nyfacurrent
fellow in Video/Film, and feeling so v excited and grateful cuz it means I can start filming the third short in my trilogy about movement exercises! 🕺🏻🎥✨
Announcing: our 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows & Finalists in Fiction, Folk/Traditional Art, Interdisciplinary Work, Painting, & Video/Film! Congratulations to all & thank you to the Panelists who helped to select this year's recipients. Details
@NYSCArts
“in the several days that we spent arguing about whether the left was sufficiently decent about Hamas’s victims, Israel geared up its genocide machine—which it now is releasing.”
Movement Exercises trilogy is screening Fri 12/9 at 7:30
@MayslesCinema
followed by a conversation w/
@storebrandbrown
! Honored to present the theatrical premiere of this now-completed body of work at a cinema I love to attend. Come join us!
Delighted to be leading this workshop on choreographic practices in hybrid film in conversation with so many artists I admire from all over the globe: Chris Emile,
@useurjudgement
,
@CaraHagan87
, Wen Hui, and Jaśmina Wójcik. Come join us
@UnionDocs
from 12/4 to 12/8!
“If nothing else, it’s a sign that the pacts between the artist and the institution have begun to fray. The possibility of refusal has reared its head.” As always, lucid and sharp analysis by the wonderful
@devikagirgayi
For
@FilmComment
, I wrote about the protests at Berlinale 2024, Strike Germany, NO OTHER LAND, the crisis of agency for film workers, and the limits of “political art”
Today I linked arms with fellow anti-Zionist Jews + allies with
@IfNotNowOrg
@JvpAction
as we blocked all the gates to the White House to demand an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and to refuse the weaponization of Jewish grief against Palestinians.
#FreePalestine
#CeasefireNOW
BREAKING: American Jews and allies have now blocked 4+ doors to the White House. We’re prepared to put our bodies in the way of more slaughter — we’re ready to stay here until Biden forces a ceasefire.
Honored and elated to premiere my new film Drills
@TheNYFF
, a festival that continues to teach me, year after year, about all that moving images mean to me. And Ohhhhhh to be in the company of these artists I so admire!!
Announcing the new Currents section at the 58th
#NYFF
, which complements the Main Slate, tracing a more complete picture of contemporary cinema with an emphasis on new and innovative forms and voices. Explore the lineup:
Movement Exercises is now streaming for free on Video Data Bank and its run was just extended through June 11! Thanks
@FilmmakerMag
for spreading the word!
"Familiar Touch extends us the same respect it affords its characters; this isn’t a film interested in connecting the dots as it is in letting us luxuriate in its enigmas, silences, and mysteries. It is also, unlike so many other dramas of its ilk, refreshingly joyful."
It’s a wrap! For my last
@mubinotebook
Venice Dispatch, words on some of the festival’s best (APRIL, FAMILIAR TOUCH, THE BRUTALIST…), films that shared the same belief in cinema’s power to surprise and mesmerize:
I’m on the Pina Bausch suspended railcar. I’m on the Wim Wenders hanging train compartment. I’m dancing on the inside on the Pina Bausch-Wim Wenders Schwebebahn!
Every year I attend
@NDNF
and sit in the dark rooms of
@FilmLinc
and
@MoMAFilm
and fall in love, once again, with the wild and expansive possibilities of this form. What utter joy it brings to me say that my short HOME EXERCISES will have its NY premiere at this year's festival.
"Friedland’s Drills opens the program by directing our attention to supposed safety practices...The images repeat over and over as Friedland picks up on patterns and dissimilarities alike. Drills is a hypnotic choice to start with..."
Among the shorts playing the 2020 New York Film Festival, those in the "New York Stories" block embody the spirit of a city erroneously declared dead, offering studies in movement and character.
TODAY IS THE DAY (2 pm ET!) to buy your tickets for
@TheNYFF
and so today is the day I'm pleased to present the poster the brilliant designer pa-i-ka () made for our film:
Joan Micklin Silver’s films helped show me what a “Jewish” film could be beyond the Holocaust blockbuster, Woody Allen idolatry, and Zionist propaganda. What a huge gift to bestow to us in the diaspora🙏🏼
My solo exhibition, Assembled Choreographies, is now live at Hartnett Gallery! Through 4/26.
👉 I wrote a text w/ Tess Takahashi on the stakes of reading crowds to accompany the digital premiere of CROWDS, my 3-channel installation.
Tonight’s the last night to watch
@storebrandbrown
’s incredible programming of
@prismaticground
! How Im spending the next 4 hours...perhaps u should too...
Have you been thinking about the ways we embody the anxieties of our deranged society, our hapless choreography of panic and fear? So has
@motionxpictures
— watch her film ‘Drills’ in ‘wave 2’ and find a link to the enlightening Q&A directly beneath the film description.
In conjunction with my upcoming installation and residency
@VSWnews
,
@VideoDataBank
is streaming my Movement Exercises Trilogy for free on their VDB TV platform for the entire month of May! Stream it now at:
My octogenarian and nonagenarian film students screened their final films this week and clapped and cheered at the end of every scene they liked. This is the energy I want to bring with me into NYFF!
So excited to be a part of this
@MoMAFilm
series “navigating our fraught relationship with our only home,” imaginatively conjured by Brittany Shaw. Screening my film Drills on 5/20 and 5/25, and in convo w/ brilliant peers on the 20th!
ringing in the start of a new year screening with filmmakers whose work I admire at
@TheBrooklynRail
! Pleased to start 2021 alongside
@akosuadoma
,
@jaygiampietro
, Emily Drummer, and Sofia Bohdanowicz + Deragh Campbell! Register for free here:
"In ‘Familiar Touch,’ filmmaker Sarah Friedland’s achingly intimate drama, we follow Ruth as she attempts to acclimate to her new life...Friedland, who also wrote the film‘s script, is not given over to histrionics or blaring displays of emotion, instead asking us to follow Ruth
The advent of the fall festival season is always one of the biggest events of the year for cinephiles, but movie lovers from around the world have additional reasons to underline the dates on their calendars this year:
1/ We are the workers of Film at Lincoln Center. We are programmers, coordinators, editors, marketers, ushers, fundraisers, theater staff, & more. We are proud to help bring the best in cinema to NYC & shape film culture worldwide.
“To witness a group of bodies seamlessly transform...is to witness the evolution and politics of gathering unfold through the visual language of dance.” Honored by
@AngelineGragzin
’s words in
@ScreenSlate
today. Open until 12/1
@LaMaMaETC
!
"In a moment when togetherness feels like a distant memory and bodily vulnerability permeates the everyday, Assembled Choreographies offers a gift of agency, a toolkit for probing the poetics and politics of our motions, from the mass-scale to the menial."
The field of screendance is chock-full of artists redefining what it means to make dance, and to create films. Now that the pandemic has put a spotlight on the genre, it's time to highlight some of the artists.
What joy that our film, which in part looks at the distorted logic of embodying nuclear preparation through a shelled turtle, will precede Gunda, a film about a sow. 🐢🐷📽️❤️Can't wait to share a drive-in screen on 9/19 and join my local peers virtually on 9/18!
Movement Exercises, my trio of short films about the choreopolitics of exercises and drills, screens at 8 pm tomorrow night
@BrattleTheatre
in Cambridge as part of the RPM Festival curated by Wenhua Shi.
All
#NYFF60
encore screenings have been announced & are now on sale, including WHITE NOISE, BONES AND ALL, ALCARRÀS, SHE SAID, THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER, CORSAGE, WOMEN TALKING, STONEWALLING & many more!
Act fast:
What joy and pride and gratitude it brings me to say the following: my first solo gallery show and the NYC premiere of CROWDS will be
@lamamagalleria
from November 7 - December 8th. I'm honored and over the moon to be part of
@LaMaMaETC
's 58th season.
La MaMa's 58th Season is now on sale! More than 30 events are on sale, browse our season brochure online:
This season, we celebrate Ellen Stewart’s centennial year. We hope you will join us this season to celebrate her profound vision & enduring legacy.
The Bureau presents a night of
#shortfilm
at
@nitehawkcinema
- a collection of never-before-seen and festival favorites from Sundance, AFI & more. The 100-minute block of films will be followed by a
#filmmaker
Q&A. Meet (support) your local film community.
This summer
@VideoDataBank
invited my Movement Exercises trilogy to be a part of their collection. As the distributor for some of my favorite moving image artists (Yvonne Rainer! Harun Farocki!), I’m grateful and ecstatic to join their fold:
Tonight at 7! Looking forward to being in conversation with the other filmmakers in this program, moderated by Anna Khimasia. Today’s the last day to watch the full program
Watch 50 mins of moving bodies resist social and political anxieties through connective gestures and choreographies of care then join us for a Closing Q&A Wednesday, June 2, 7:00 pm EST. PWYC Rental at
"At a time when films that seek to do anything other than entertain are pegged as irreparably pretentious, Friedland’s approach feels almost subversive. But for those willing to embrace its wavelength, Familiar Touch is nothing short of engrossing, that rarest of works that lives
In my last Venice dispatch, I wrote about cops, the militarization of film festivals, the reduction of criticism to mere marketing—and a few fine films, too. More at
@FilmmakerMag
:
"The choreographic" flourishes and intersects across a wide spectrum of practices. So what and how does a filmmaker choreograph?
Learn more in ON THE CHOREOGRAPHIC: Dance and Movement workshop led by
@motionxpictures
Register by 11/30 for early rate!
So very happy to say that my 3-channel dance film installation CROWDS will have its world premiere later this month
@AAFilmFest
! Grateful to genius graphic designer pa-i-ka for this poster! Full scoop👉
Giving this talk tomorrow on the choreographic practices I use to make hybrid films. Come join us at 2 pm ET and support the Festival of Recorded Movement, an artist-run fest supporting young dance filmmakers:
Starting tonight at 8 pm ET! Drills screens
@mdffparkway
for
#MdFF2021
alongside the work of my 🔥🔥 short filmmaking peers making work in hybrid and experimental non-fiction forms! Check out the Unorthodocs block, more info 👇🏼
SHORTS RELEASES: UNORTHODOCS and CHARGED SPACES
Two emotionally charged, experimental short film blocks that break down barriers and redefine the norm.
Tickets at
Delighted to be a part of this show curated by Dan Fethke on home, on place, on belonging. We will be raising money for
@AlOtroLado_Org
. Come join us Friday for opening!
Dearest Californians back home,
Tomorrow you have the chance to vote for a candidate who has built a multiracial, intergenerational movement fighting to guarantee health care, education, and housing as rights for all. Please oh please vote for Bernie tomorrow.
love,
Sarah
"Precisely the perception of the community through the tensions or encounters of the crowds is what is perceived in the conceptual proposal of this work by Friedland...but not from autonomy or immanence but in absolute relation to social learning, in its codes and conventions..."
Mónica Delgado escribe sobre la exposición virtual Assembled Choreographies, de la cineasta y coreógrafa Sarah Friedland, bajo la curaduría de Almudena Escobar López, que va en la página de la Hartnett Galery. Gratuitamente hasta el 26 de abril.
Monday at 8 pm, Hartnett Gallery will screen the 1st two short films in my trilogy about movement exercises, followed by a conversation with the gallery directors. Come join us! Register here:
Had the pleasure of talking to
@storebrandbrown
earlier this week about disrupting choreographies of preparation, incoherent cries for help, and rehearsal play, among other things. The films in wave 2, including Drills and our conversation, are live here!
Throughout the festival tour and theatrical release of FAMILIAR TOUCH, I'm going to be hosting FREE filmmaking workshops for older adults and their care partners. Our first one is on 10/7 at
@MVFilmFest
. More info and sign-up link below!
"There are several moments from this first week of shorts that I think will outlast the binge-viewing — a deserted classroom prior to a lockdown drill in Sarah Friedland’s Drills ... but this kind of interaction is something else..."
Honored to have the support of this community of filmmakers. Thank you Flies Collective for believing in our vision for this film and giving us the capital to move it forward! 🙏🏼
7 yrs ago I had the pleasure of co-writing an essay with my fave college professor
@whkchun
. Now our essay "Habits of Leaking" has been republished for the 13th Gwangju Biennale's Reader, ed by
@defneayas
,
@natashaginwala
, & Jill Winder. Get ur copy here!👉
Jessica’s coloring is so so beautiful! Brought 2 of my films/installations to life w/ an inimitable eye for hue and shadow and saved me from myself when I started trying to overcook the image. Hire her! 👇
Monday at 8 pm, Hartnett Gallery will screen the 1st two short films in my trilogy about movement exercises, followed by a conversation with the gallery directors. Come join us! Register here:
Hey Chicagoans! I spent last week in the basement of
@saic_news
gallery making videos w/ Eiko Otake of her dance of installation. You can see them exhibited tomorrow and Saturday, guided by Eiko’s performative tours:
Está no ar a seleção do III
#FestivalECR
Ã! São 81 filmes entre longas, médias, curtas e instalações. A entrada para o festival é gratuita.
De 11 a 21 de julho na Cinemateca do MAM Rio.