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MoMI First Look festival doc line-up

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Nick Cunningham
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Art Talent Show by Adéla Komrzý, Tomáš Bojar

New York’s Museum of the Moving Image has announced the full line-up for the 12th edition of First Look, the Museum’s festival of new and innovative international cinema, which takes place March 15–19. “The festival introduces New York audiences to formally inventive works that seek to redefine the art form while engaging in a wide range of subjects and styles,” write organisers.

The 2023 line-up includes both non-fiction and fiction, features and shorts, as well as forms that fall outside the boundaries of traditional theatrical distribution. This year, the festival will premiere 38 works, including 19 features representing more than 22 countries. 

Among the non-fiction highlights of the 2023 edition are Art Talent Show by Adéla Komrzý, Tomáš Bojar which won the Grand Prix in Proxima Competition at Karlovy Vary 2022 as well as the  the FIPRESCI international critics’ award, and Chloe Abrahams’s The Taste of Mango. Science on Screen, MoMI’s year-round series that showcases science or technology-themed works, will feature Gerard Ortín Castellví’s Agrilogistics and Leandro Listorti’s Herbaria, both of which speak to the precarious state of the world, showing plants seeking stable ground, while human agents of the Anthropocene are displaced. 

Several other festival films speak to the current moment, including films centered on Ukraine (Three Women, Away), resisting colonization (The River Is Not a Border, R 21 aka Restoring Solidarity), and women’s and LGBTQ+ issues (The Taste of Mango, Silent Love, Joan d’Arc, It’s What Each Person Needs).

Daytime sessions at MoMI running March 15–17 are open to the public in which filmmakers, critics, and students can engage in conversations about creative processes via workshops and work-in-progress presentations. 

This year sees a new collaboration with Polish doc fest Millennium Docs Against Gravity during which Artistic Director Karol Piekarczyk will present two selections from its Warsaw showcase and engage in the Working on It sessions. 

As in previous years, student work from both the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism and the BFA Film Department, School of Visual Arts will be presented both officially in the festival program and as works in progress.

Documentaries at MoMI First Look

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