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Rachid Hami just showed his second feature POUR LA FRANCE ( For My Country ) at Film at Lincoln Center's Rendezvous with French Cinema. He explains in this episode why the title changes from 'For France' to 'For My Country' in the US. Toward the end is the most striking point to me about assimilation vs. integration. We speak of our upbringings, his being French by way of Algeria (as portrayed in...

Beth B is an NYC arts legend returning Friday for a retrospective at Metrograph. I was at her previous retrospective at MoMa, and we showed her Lydia Lunch documentary at my place last year. That hang was amazing, the crowd kept Beth and Lydia talking for longer than the film runtime and nobody left. She's got incredible stories from my favorite era of NYC arts and a beautiful personal arc to show...

Eugene Kotlyarenko, Lea Rose Sebastianis, Nate Wilson, Morgan Krantz collaborated to create The Straightball , which we’ll show on Thursday February 16 @reunion. This is like a film school episode in a way, and also kinda heartwarming friendship tale. Eugene had a retrospective in Toronto, and Nate and Lea tell us of the vibrant film community who came out. That turned into hangs, and eventually c...

Lucy McKendrick @lucy_elizabeth_mckendrick premieres her short film Fuck Me Richard @sxsw in March and will show some of her work @reunion this week on February 16th At Wonderland Dreams. We actually had a long tea hang the other day which we aimed to post but because of the subject matter of Lucy’s film, we both got super raw and went in depth on a lot of topics that we decided to let disappear i...

Samara, Winnie and Chase just premiered their film Residency at Rotterdam Film Fest. We’ll show 10-15 min preview on Thursday February 16th @reunion at Wonderland Dreams as part of a shorts block. Samara @miss3liss is founder of art collective, gallery and I don’t know entirely how to describe space @thelockerroomnyc. She paired up with Winnie @w1nn1th (previously of Woodlands Dark and Days B...

Hannah Ha Ha is out now in NY and LA. The co-directors Jordan and Josh and star Hannah join me @banjohannah @jordan_tetewsky. We hosted the first in person screening last year after they won Slamdance, and then hosted opening night party on Friday, I did Q+A Saturday. Next, we’ll actually be showing the short film that preceded this, Hannah in April , on Thursday Feb 16 at Wonderland Dreams, with...

Anya Raza & Yumna Rizvi @anyarazaofficial @yumrizvi will show their film Still Here on Thursday February 16 @reunion pop up at Wonderland Dreams. Anya is a documentarian and Yumna works at CVT Center for Victims of Torture in DC. They partnered on the project. Here we talk about the relationship between causes and art, how money factors in, how the west creates bias. I talk about Beyonce and D...

Blake James Reid + Max Frumkin @blakejamesreid @moque.furs just made their first short Yamashiro LIVE! and we're going to screen it on February 16th @reunion @wonderlanddreamland. We talk about their creative collaboration, their influences, and in many ways the nature of communication through art. I'm excited for these guys to watch Chainsaw and Naked properly. I think it'll blow their minds. See...

Brontez Purnell @brontezpurnell joins me for an episode after having played his short film 100 Boyfriends Mixtape #3 @reunion a few weeks ago. It was an absolute smash. I was nervous about how the audience would take it, as it includes imagery that honestly most will never see or even conceptualize of. He somehow packages that sensitively and thoughtfully in a way that warmly opens the audien...

Jeff Rutherford @jeffsrutherford just premiered his feature debut A Perfect Day for Caribou starring Charlie Plummer at Locarno and Slamdance. We had his team Kyra Bailey and Joseph Longo on yesterday. We’re showing films they’ve all worked on this Wednesday February 8th at Gospel NYC with @reunion. Jeff talks about his festival experience, getting a movie out into the world right now with distrib...

Joseph Longo & Kyra Bailey @josephsrlongofilm @kyra.bailey will show some films @reunion on Wednesday February 8th and just premiered their feature A Perfect Day for Caribou at Locarno and Slamdance. We talk in detail about what it takes to put a low budget movie together and how to bring it to the world. More from writer director Jeff Rutherford @jeffsrutherford on next episode too. Come see...

Brenna @brennapower just premiered her first short film Cold & Sara at Slamdance Film Fest and we show it @reunion on Wednesday February 8th with a full program of shorts at Gospel NYC. We talk about what it's like to be a filmmaker today, pushing shorts, developing features. I forgot to ask her about Babylon I just realized, which she was in. Wow. How tf did I forget to ask about Babylon. Wow...

Sofia @sofiacamargo__ is a filmmaker whose short Al Lado Del Rio we’ll show on Wednesday February 8th at Gospel in NYC @reunion. We talk about what NYU grad school is like, and balancing one’s own artistic sensibility with the learned techniques of an intensive program and community like that. Wednesday will share a lineup with some more classmates and collaborators like producer Joseph Longo. Hop...

Eran Kolirin is a filmmaker with a current retrospective at NYC's Quad Cinema, in celebration of his new film Let It Be Morning , which premiered at Cannes in Un Certain Regard. You'd know him most from the wildly successful The Band's Visit , which was adapted into a huge musical. I like the movie more, which I had the pleasure of watching on 35mm this week before moderating opening night's Q&amp...

Jay Giampietro @jaygiampietro has made a ton of short films that have played tons of festivals most importantly NYFF. He represents a vibe and milieu of NYC arts culture that's maintained its crisp purity for the last decade plus. The Safdies transfer that NYC anxiety into crime, but Jay likes to examine closely the people we walk by every day and the conversations we exist amongst. Monday Februar...

Miles Emanuel @ gertrudkanning is back and we have a screening together Monday February 6th at Gospel NYC . https://reunion262023.splashthat.com Another surprise lineup that we talk about in detail here, so listen now for a preview or wait until later. Hope to see y'all on Monday!!

Kenny Schachter @kennyschachter is an art world hybrid--artist, critic, journalist, curator, dealer, NFT expert... We focus specifically on his video work for much of this conversation, as we'll showcase a few of the hundreds he's made over the years this Friday January 13th @reunion in NYC, actually showing Kenny's work for the first time ever in a theater. As I type this the morning after record...

Daniel Antebi @dantebi_ just gave a talk about how to make your first feature film before turning 25. He did. @reunion is going to show the opening of God's Time Friday January 13th at Midnight Theatre. I love the opening most actually, so I'm really winning here. I love the film overall, but I really feel that the opening packs in soooo much of what Daniel is good at--capturing kinetic energy and...

Lucia Santina Ribisi @peace_on_earth.mp4 is a filmmaker and activist who made the short film Climate Chaos, Baby which we're going to show @reunion Friday January 13th at Midnight Theatre with live narration and score. She explores whether she feels having children is ok when our environment is collapsing, and what the real problem is. Recent NYC resident via LA, Lucia's also working on a 'real-ti...

Libe @libebarer and Ruby @ruby.mccollister just made a short film called With the Fishes , that I'll screen on Friday Jan 6 with the secret 16mm print referenced in yesterday's episode with Miles Emanuel. We talk about Streisand and Minelli, Funny Girl , Los Angeles, Babylon . Talked a lot about the importance of programming and bringing people to the movies. The cruelty of data. If you're in NYC...

Miles Emanuel and I host a @reunion 16mm film screening on Friday January 6th 2023 at Midnight Theatre NYC (link below). The film is a secret publicly, but listen here if you want the reveal (spoiler alert). Miles is a born and raised New Yorker, who just watched his 10,000th movie at the age of 23.  You may have seen him recently in Funny Pages (written+directed by Owen Kline) and he is curr...

Here’s Antoneta’s interview without the intro (previous episode). Here’s our post-screening Q+A with @antonetaalamatkusijanovic filmmaker of Murina. Antoneta won Camera D’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, first time filmmaker award. Love this movie. Kino Lorber release it this summer in US. Read more on her here: https://variety.com/2022/film/global/alamat-kusijanovic-murina-cannes-interview...

First episode in a while. A little update. Talk about movies and exhibition and theatrical experience. Then this episode turns into a recording of my post-screening Q+A with @antonetaalamatkusijanovic filmmaker of Murina. Antoneta won Camera D’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, first time filmmaker award. Love this movie. Kino Lorber release it this summer in US. Read more on her here: https:...

Orson @orsonowitz and I went to Emerson College together. We both basically hated it, feeling like it was a buncha industry talk and comedy bs and no real art thinking. Attribute all that to me no him just in case. He's now made 3 films in about 3 years. And he's just making stuff. Whatever elements come together, with whatever resources...attach a point of view...and make a movie. He talks about...

Ben @benhozie just premiered @fantasiafestival his new film PVT Chat starring Uncut Gems' @juliafox and @petervackofficial. People who asked what's Julia gonna be in next...this is it. It's a very NYC movie. Internet folk in NYC movie. Bc that's what we are. Made by a bunch of NYC people, namely Ben, who fronts one of the last fresh and relevant actual NYC based indie rock bands. They're like The...