ART OF THE REAL

From November 13-26, 2020, Film at Lincoln Center virtually screened the seventh edition of Art of the Real, an essential showcase for the most vital and innovative voices in nonfiction and hybrid filmmaking. The program was organized by Dennis Lim, director of programming at Film at Lincoln Center and the author of the critical biography David Lynch: The Man From Another Place, and Rachael Rakes, with program advisor Almudena Escobar López.

143 Sahara Street
Hassen Ferhani, 2019, Algeria/France/Qatar, 103m
Arabic and French with English subtitles

Corporate Accountability
Jonathan Perel, 2020, Argentina, 68m
Spanish with English subtitles

Expedition Content
Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati, 2020, USA, 78m
English, Mid Grand Valley Dani, and Dutch with English subtitles

The Faculties
Eloisa Soláas, 2019, Argentina, 82m
Spanish with English subtitles

małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore
Sky Hopinka, 2020, USA, 82m
English and Chinuk Wawa with English subtitles

A Shape of Things to Come
Lisa Marie Malloy & J.P. Sniadecki, 2020, USA, 77m

The Two Sights
Joshua Bonnetta, 2020, Canada/UK, 90m
English and Gaelic with English subtitles

I Never Climbed the Provincia
Ignacio Agüero, 2019, Chile, 92m
Spanish with English subtitles

CONVERSATION

Five filmmakers speak about their meditations on landscape as an actor in historical, social, and cultural life. The spooky seas of the Outer Hebrides in Joshua Bonnetta’s The Two Sights, the critical soundscapes of an ethnographic visit to Dutch New Guinea in Ernst Karel and Veronika Kusumaryati’s Expedition Content, “ethno-fictional” stagings on the Northern Plains in Argentina in Ezequiel Yanco’s La vida en común, and the same country’s complicit industrial structures captured in Jonathan Perel’s Corporate Accountability join together in a discussion about the visual production of place, evidence, and environmental encounter.