In collaboration with the International Center of Photography – whose current exhibition,
Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change, includes a section devoted to the refugee crisis – Anthology Film Archives and the Goethe-Institut New York present a film series highlighting moving-image works that have depicted and explored the subject of mass migration and the experiences of refugees, particularly in the 21st century. The program showcases contemporary filmmakers’ attempts to reckon with a phenomenon that has recurred throughout human history but that remains a tragic part of our war-torn, cataclysmic present, and to put a human face on a topic that’s in perpetual danger of dissolving into a stream of statistics and neutered images.
Displaced Persons features, among others, films from the Middle East (
A World Not Ours, which documents a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon), Africa (
Those Who Jump), Asia (
Rithy Panh’s debut film,
Site 2, about a Thai camp for refugees from Cambodia and elsewhere), and Europe (two separate portraits of Lampedusa, the Italian island that is on the front line of African migration). The series also anticipates Anthology’s retrospective (coming later in May) of the work of Serbian filmmaker
Želimir Žilnik, who has been exploring issues of migration throughout his extraordinary career, and culminates in a week-long run of
Wang Bing’s monumental new film,
Ta’ang.
Screening program:
Vladimir Tomic
FLOTEL EUROPA
April 29, 4:45pm
May 2, 7:00pm
Rithy Panh
SITE 2
April 29, 6:45pm
April 30, 4:00pm
Philip Scheffner
HAVARIE
April 29, 9:00pm
Moritz Siebert, Estephan Wagner, and Abou Bakar Sidibé
THOSE WHO JUMP
April 30, 6:00pm
May 2, 8:45pm
Mahdi Fleifel
A WORLD NOT OURS
April 30, 8:00pm
May 4, 7:30pm
Jakob Brossmann
LAMPEDUSA IN WINTER
May 1, 7:00pm
Gianfranco Rosi
FIRE AT SEA
May 1, 9:00pm
Sylvain George
MAY THEY REST IN REVOLT (FIGURES OF WAR)
May 3, 7:30pm
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