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2011 Migrating Forms: Closing Night Tonight!

By Mike Everleth ⋅ May 29, 2011

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Tonight marks the end of the 3rd annual Migrating Forms experimental media festival in NYC at the Anthology Film Archives. Films run all afternoon and evening, concluding with the meta-documentary You Are All Captains directed by Oliver Laxe. If you’re in NYC today, go check it out!

Richard Brody gave a glowing review of the film for the New Yorker, as did Lexie Delaney for VoxTalk.

The full lineup of films screening at Migrating Forms today is below.

May 29

1:30 p.m.: “Group Program 8″
A Movie by Jen Proctor, dir. Jen Proctor (Watch online)
Coming Attractions, dir. Peter Tscherkassky
Despair, dir. Stephen Sutcliffe
Misty Suite, dir. James Richards
These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us, dir. Michael Robinson

3:15 p.m.: “Group Program 9 ”
Brune Renault, dir. Neil Beloufa
Rosalinda, dir. Matías Piñeiro
Cry When It Happens, dir. Laida Lertxundi

5:00 p.m.: Antonio das Mortes, dir. Glauber Rocha. A legendary warrior becomes a gun for hire on the Brazilian plains.

7:00 p.m.: “Recent Work by Nicolas Provost”
Stardust
Storyteller
Long Live the New Flesh
Plot Point

8:30 p.m.: You All Are Captains, dir. Oliver Laxe. This meta-documentary chronicles the disintegrating relationship between the director and his collaborators: A class of middle-school Moroccan filmmakers in Tangiers.