(ANTI) COLONIAL TIME Wally Fall PLOWING THE STARS / FOUYÉ ZÉTWAL 2020, 14 min, DCP. In French Creole with English subtitles. Morgan Quaintance MISSING TIME 2019, 15 min, DCP Terence Dixon MEETING THE MAN: JAMES BALDWIN IN PARIS 1971, 26 min, 16mm-to-DCP Hussein Shariffe THE DISLOCATION OF AMBER 1975, 32 min, 16mm-to-DCP. In Arabic with English subtitles.

Giulio Questi ARCANA 1972, 102 min, 35mm. In Italian with projected English subtitles. Print from the CSC-Cineteca Nazionale (Rome).

BLACK/QUEER TIME Marlon Riggs BLACK IS…BLACK AIN’T 1995, 87 min, 16mm-to-DCP

Robert Siodmak COBRA WOMAN 1944, 72 min, 35mm. With Maria Montez. Preceded by: Jack Smith JUNGLE ISLAND aka REEFERS OF TECHNICOLOR ISLAND 1967, 15 min, 16mm

CYCLE TIME Barbara McCullough WATER RITUAL #1: AN URBAN RITE OF PURIFICATION 1979, 4 min, 35mm Zeinabu irene Davis CYCLES 1989, 17 min, 16mm-to-DCP Ja’tovia Gary QUIET AS IT’S KEPT 2023, 26 min, Super-8mm-and-16mm-to-DCP Julie Dash FOUR WOMEN 1975, 7 min, 16mm-to-DCP Ayoka Chenzira SYVILLA, THEY DANCE TO HER DRUM 1979, 22 min, 16mm

1931, 67 min, 35mm, b&w. In Russian with no subtitles; English synopsis available. ENTHUSIASM is Vertov’s vision of the transformation of social energies in a progressive society. The film is remarkable for its experimental use of sound and montage. Vertov himself invented special lightweight recording equipment to register the sounds of workers in the mines and factories of the Don Basin in this film. It is the best example of his theory of cinema which brings together “the film-eye and the radio-ear.” At one point he described the film as a “symphony of noises.”

1929, 104 min, 35mm, b&w, silent. No intertitles. “If Vertov had never made anything other than MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA he would still be among the cinema’s greatest masters. A kaleidoscopic city symphony – conjoining Moscow, Kiev, and Odessa in one dizzying metropolis – this is Vertov’s most complex film, matching the rhythms of a day to the cycle of life (birth, death, marriage, divorce) and the mechanisms of movie-making to the logic of production. Made without titles, the movie is at once a documentary portrait of the Soviet people, a reflexive essay on cinematic representation (as dazzling as it is didactic), and an ode to work itself as a process of transformation.” –J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE

1928, 60 min, 35mm, b&w, silent. With Russian intertitles; English synopsis available. “Vertov’s ecstatic paean to industrial development was, like Eisenstein’s OCTOBER, commissioned to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution and was accused of the dread ‘formalism.’” –J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE Preceded by: Excerpts from KINO-PRAVDA 1922, 16 min, 16mm, silent Produced from 1922-25, Vertov’s KINO-PRAVDA was an ongoing series of newsreels that ultimately comprised 23 separate “issues” (of which 22 exist today, albeit some only in fragmentary form). Taken together, they created a record of Soviet life through a mix of documentary, animation, and direct address. The reel screening here showcases excerpts from the series, with footage documenting the reconstruction of the Moscow trolley system, tanks on the labor front, and starving children, and culminating with a fascinating call for “inquiries regarding traveling film shows.”

1934, 60 min, 35mm, b&w. In Russian with no subtitles; English synopsis available. “Vertov’s ‘official’ Soviet masterpiece – a hagiographic compilation of lyrically edited stock footage and cinema’s first direct interviews – was the most successful (and compromised) movie he ever made.” –J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE

FAMILY TIME Thomas Allen Harris VINTAGE: FAMILIES OF VALUE 1995, 72 min, 16mm Preceded by: Cheryl Dunye AN UNTITLED PORTRAIT 1993, 3 min, DCP

Federico Fellini FELLINI’S CASANOVA 1976, 155 min, 35mm. In English, Italian, French, and German with English subtitles.

Frédéric Pardo HOME MOVIE: TINA AUMONT 1968, 8.5 min, 8mm-to-DCP, silent. Courtesy of the Cinémathèque Française. HOME MOVIE: ON THE SET OF PHILIPPE GARREL’S ‘LE LIT DE LA VIERGE’ / HOME MOVIE, AUTOUR DU ‘LIT DE LA VIERGE’ 1968, 39 min, 8mm-to-DCP, silent. Courtesy of the Cinémathèque Française. GARREL, NICO, FREDERIC ET TINA, APPARTEMENT RUE DUPONT DES LOGES 1970, 16.5 min, 8mm-to-DCP, silent. Courtesy of the Cinémathèque Française.

Frédéric Pardo HOME MOVIE: NEW YORK 1968, 20 min, 8mm-to-DCP, silent. Courtesy of the Cinémathèque Française. Ivan Galietti ANTI STAR TINA AUMONT 2025 (work in progress), ca. 30 min, digital. In English, French, and Italian with English subtitles.

HORNY SHORTS FOR INTELLECTUAL PERVERTS Shaped as a surreal dialog between artists Liz/Riv Rosenfeld and Lily Baldwin, ECSTASIE asks, How does ecstasy move? Can it be captured? What lives in the intersection between a true lived act, performance, and digitization? MYSOPHILIAC is the newest music video from Klovis Gaynor and the Urinal Cakes, featuring CHRISTEENE, in the filthiest therapy session on Earth. In PLENUM IM TUNTENHAUS the district administration has cut down trees and put up lights in the cruising area in Volkspark Hasenheide. The antifa faggots plan to fight back against this heterosexist attack. But is the text in their campaign poster too academic? It’s going to be a long plenum… IDEXA, 1992 traces tattooist and body play icon Idexa Stern’s metamorphosis and hook suspension experience. This work is screening for the first time in its intended form after a previous censorship. SANCTUARY explores queer spirituality and utopian sexualities through the figure of Purusha Androgyne Larkin (1934-88), a monk, pioneering gay filmmaker, and self-proclaimed cosmic-erotic mystic. Larkin’s 1981 book, “The Divine Androgyne”, challenged repression with a spiritual vision rooted in eroticism and presented a radical path to cosmic-erotic consciousness through “extreme” forms of sexual pleasure. This program is curated by Angelo Madsen for Folsom Street East, the longest running and largest kink and fetish festival on the East Coast as well as a charitable non-profit serving the LGBTQIA+ community in NYC and beyond. Lily Baldwin ECSTASIE 2025, 14 min, digital Adam Baran MYSOPHILIAC 2026, 5 min, digital Angelo Madsen IDEXA, 1992 2026, 15 min, 16mm-and-VHS-to-digital Lasse Långström PLENUM IM TUNTENHAUS 2024, 13 min, digital Sam Ashby SANCTUARY 2024, 25 min, 16mm-to-digital

JAZZ TIME Edward O. Bland THE CRY OF JAZZ 1959, 34 min, 16mm-to-35mm. Restored by Anthology Film Archives with funding provided by The Film Foundation. Lab work by Cineric Inc.; sound restoration by BluWave Audio. Additional support from The Orphans Film Symposium. Alain Gomis REWIND & PLAY 2022, 65 min, DCP. In English and French with English subtitles.

PROGRAM 5: FLO JACOBS CYCLOPEAN 3D: LIFE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN 2011, 47 min, digital, silent Preceded by: FLO ROUNDS A CORNER 1999, 6 min, digital, silent

PROGRAM 6: THE WHIRLED 1956-63 [compiled in early 1990s], 19 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. THE SKY SOCIALIST: ENVIRONS AND OUT-TAKES Filmed 1964-66/completed 2019, 47 min, 8mm-to-digital, silent. Restored by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

PROGRAM 7: STEVE ANKER SELECTS: KEN JACOBS – LOST WORLDS IN DEPTH AMOROUS INTERLUDES 2007, 8 min, digital THE SURGING SEA OF HUMANITY 2006, 10.5 min, digital THINGS TO COME 2019/22, 31.5 min, digital KRYPTON IS DOOMED 2005, 34.5 min, digital

PROGRAM 8: STEVE ANKER SELECTS: LATE ETERNALISMS – NEW YORK VIEWS AND BEYOND BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 43 2025, 13 min, digital TOURISTS OF THE FAMILIAR 70 2024, 17 min, digital ABOVE THE RAIN 2019, 13 min, digital MANHATTAN IS AN ISLAND 2023, 21.5 min, digital HOBGOBLIN BALL 2023, 5.5 min, digital

PROGRAM 9: ESSENTIAL CINEMA TOM, TOM, THE PIPER’S SON 1969, 115 min, 35mm, silent. Restored by the Museum of Modern Art. Preceded by: AIRSHAFT 1967, 4 min, 16mm, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.

Philippe Garrel LES HAUTES SOLITUDES 1974, 82 min, 35mm-to-DCP. No dialogue.

CO-PRESENTED BY SNIFFIES Todd Verow BEHIND THE OPEN DOOR 2025, 93 min, DCP With the skill and precision of an Olympic athlete, content creator Corey Hudsonn meticulously conducts an all-night sexual marathon with the aim of collecting as much semen in his butt as possible. As director Todd Verow’s camera chronicles the literal ins and outs of Hudsonn’s piggy pursuits, we listen to the British bottom explain the best practices, etiquette, and psychology behind the now commonplace fetish for cumdumping. Minimalist, fly-on-the-wall and completely explicit, the latest film from NYC’s prolific gay underground auteur Todd Verow is a sequel to his notorious 2012 doc BOTTOM, which chronicled the experiences of another ravenous bareback sex enthusiast. Whereas BOTTOM’s shock value came from viewers’ awareness of the risks associated with cumdumping before PrEP and Doxycycline became standard safety tools, BEHIND THE OPEN DOOR’s subject embraces his pursuit of pleasure without qualifications. Following a much-discussed premiere at 2025’s Berlin Porn Film Festival, we’re happy to be the first to premiere the film in the U.S., with director Todd Verow in attendance to introduce the film.

Jack Smith NORMAL LOVE 1963, 120 min, 16mm. With Mario Montez.

U.S. PREMIERE! Daniela Seggiaro OUR DEMAND / SENDA INDIA Argentina, 2023, 80 min, DCP. In Spanish and Wichí with English subtitles. In the early 1990s, as the Wichí community of northern Argentina fought for legal recognition of their ancestral territory, a young man named Miguel Ángel Lorenzo began filming what he knew best: everyday life. With a Hi8 camcorder in hand, he recorded walks through the forest, and shared routines, school gatherings, visits between neighbors, and moments when the outside world intruded – including the presence of a judge. Decades later, filmmaker Daniela Seggiaro returns to these images, assembling a film shaped by Indigenous perspectives and community memory. OUR DEMAND moves beyond the courtroom to reveal a worldview in which land is not property but a living relationship, where language, forest, and communal life are inseparable. The result is a quietly powerful testament to a struggle that is at once legal, cultural, and profoundly existential.

Bernardo Bertolucci PARTNER 1968, 112 min, 35mm-to-DCP. In Italian and French with English subtitles. Preceded by: Paola Rispoli JAKOB IL REALE E SOSIA IL VERO 1968, 11 min, 35mm-to-DCP. Courtesy of the Cineteca di Bologna.

PIERRE CLÉMENTI PROGRAM LA RÉVOLUTION N’EST QU’UN DÉBUT. CONTINUONS LE COMBAT 1968, 22 min, 16mm-to-DCP, silent. Courtesy of the Cinémathèque Française. POSITANO 1969, 28 min, 16mm-to-DCP, silent. Courtesy of the Cinémathèque Française.

Lightly Heeled (Kioto Aoki, 2024, 3min, 16mm) + Brumaire (Vincent Guilbert, 2026, 14min) + Phototropes (Blanca García, James Devine, 2026, 3min, Super 8mm) + Nude Descending (Dianna Barrie, Richard Tuohy, 2026, 10min, 16mm) + Stitch the Ruin(Željka Blakšić, 2024, 8min, 16mm) + Flowers for an Old Shrine (Long Pham, 2025, 6min, 16mm) + Goodnight, My Dear (Vanij Choksi, 2026, 6min) + Rojo Zalia Blau (Viktoria Schmid, 2025, 11min) + La Durete De Mental (Charles-Andre Coderre, 2025, 20 min, 35mm) + Q&A

Levers (Rhayne Vermette, 20min, Poetry Reading) + Surrendur (Karthik Pandian, 2026, 87min); Co-presented by Triple Canopy + Q&A

Concealed and Denied (Jordan Lord, 2026, 35min) + The Glass Booth (Jenny Brady, 2026, 33min) + Q&A

Anomalies in a Landscape (Félix Caraballo, 2025, 8min, 16mm) + In the Manner of Smoke (Armand Yervant Tufenkian, 2025, 91min) + Q&A

before everything has a name (An-li dīng, 2026, 17min) + Masayume (Nao Yoshigai, 2026, 110min)

sitrep (Blair Barnes, 2026, 20min) + Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski, 2013, 92min) + Q&A

My Friends in My Address Book (Kohei Ando, 1974, 3min, 16mm) + Every Contact Leaves a Trace (Lynne Sachs, 2025, 83min) + Q&A

WORLD ENTERPRISES (Anthony Banua-Simon, 2026, 14min) + Aanikoobijigan (Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, 2026, 80min) + Q&A

Tamago Stories One (Kioto Aoki, 2026, 3min, 16mm) + Ceiling (Hu Didi, 2026, 8min, 16mm) + Testament (Mike Stoltz, 2026, 6min, 16mm) + Artificial Horizons Test (Mike Stoltz, 2026, 6min, 16mm) + Xtended Release (Joshua Gen Solondz, 2026, 15min, 16mm) + Chang Gyeong (Lee Jangwook, 2025, 18min, 16mm) + Night Swing (TT Takemoto, 2min, 2026, 16mm) + Tooborac (Richard Tuohy, Dianna Barrie, 2026, 9min, 16mm) + Q&A

Crunch (Invisible Scissors, 15min, Live Music) + Archura Leaves the City Forever (Yusuf Demirors, 2026, 12min) + To Summon a Seer (Alan Medina, 2026, 8min) + 逆立ち逆立ち : If pinholes were right side up, I would be doing handstands (Kioto Aoki, 2024, 3min, 16mm) + Landscape in the afternoon (Lee Jangwook, 2026, 14min, 16mm) + Mounds Above the Earth (Jiayi Chen, 2025, 5min, 16mm) + It Must Be Because I Decided to Leave (Zhouyun Chen, 2026, 19 min) + Q&A

Rotating Signals (Chae Yu, 2025, 10min) + Goblin Play (2025, 47min) + Q&A

An Afternoon with a Gnawa (Meena Nanji, 2026, 12min) + Àwọ̀ ojú ọ̀run (The Colour of the Sky) (Judah Iyunade, 2026, 71min)

We deh here (Maybelle Peters, 2025, 7min) + Joy Boy: A Tribute to Julius Eastman (Collective Faire-Part, 2026, 64min)

Perfect Image? (Maureen Blackwood, 1989, 30min) + La ronde de vodou (Elsie Haas, 1989, 52min) + Q&A

Another Birth (Isabelle Kalander, 2025, 70min) + Q&A

Chronovisor (Kevin Walker, Jack Auen, 2026, 99min) + Q&A

The Land Lies Heavy: The Contemporary Chinese Avant-Garde; Co-presented by Tone Glow; Article 4 (Hsin-Yu Chen, 2026, 4min) + Branches From Concrete (Zhou Zhenyu, 2026, 14min) + Words Fly Back to the Black Earth (Xiao Zhang, 2026, 19min) + Redland Hooves (Kaiwen Ren, 2026, 27min)

Ground Glass Award 2026: Star Waars (Kohei Ando, 1978, 3min, 16mm) + Like a Passing Train 1 (Kohei Ando, 1978, 3min, 16mm) + Like a Passing Train 2 (Kohei Ando, 1979, 7min, 16mm) + Oh! My Mother (Kohei Ando, 1969, 10min) + The Sons (Kohei Ando, 1973, 25min, 16mm) + On the Far Side of Twilight (Kohei Ando, 1994, 39min, 35mm) + Q&A

An Evening of Film and Poetry Guest Curated by Shiv Kotecha and Courtney Stephens (Ft. Ed Steck, Joanne Kyger, charles theonia, Lily Jue Sheng, Stom Sogo, Benjamin Krusling, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha)

Atash, Aisha, Teyh: Three Films by Parine Jaddo; Co-presented by Arte East: Atash (Thirst) (Parine Jaddo, 1995, 14min) + Aisha (Surviving) (Parine Jaddo, 1999, 32min) + Tayh (Astray) (Parine Jaddo, 2002, 21min) + Q&A

REBEL TIME Isaac Julien YOUNG SOUL REBELS 1991, 105 min, 35mm-to-DCP

RETURNING TIME Med Hondo & Bernard Nantet BALLADE AUX SOURCES 1965, 31 min, 16mm-to-DCP. Collection Ciné-Archives. Ben Caldwell I & I: AN AFRICAN ALLEGORY 1979, 32 min, 16mm Ephraim Asili FLUID FRONTIERS 2017, 23 min, 16mm-to-DCP

STORY TIME Gaston Kaboré GOD’S GIFT / WEND KUUNI 1982, 75 min, 35mm-to-DCP. In More with English subtitles. Digitally restored by the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique.

SURVIVING TIME Michelle Parkerson & Ada Gay Griffin A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL: THE LIFE AND WORK OF AUDRE LORDE 1995, 90 min, 16mm-to-DCP. Co-presented by NewFest, New York’s largest presenter of LGBTQ+ film & media; for more info visit: https://newfest.org

Tinto Brass THE HOWL / L’URLO 1968, 95 min, 35mm-to-DCP

Philippe Garrel THE VIRGIN’S BED / LE LIT DE LA VIERGE 1969, 95 min, 35mm. In French with English subtitles.

Sergio Martino TORSO 1973, 90 min, 35mm-to-DCP