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First Cow

(Kelly Reichardt, 2019) Introduced by Vera Brunner-Sung, filmmaker and Ohio State associate professor

With the gorgeously shot First Cow, Artist Residency Award recipient Kelly Reichardt trains her patient eye on male connection in the hardscrabble, early 19th-century Pacific Northwest.

A taciturn loner and skilled cook (John Magaro) has traveled west with a group of fur trappers to a fort in Oregon territory. Set apart from the loud and aggressive men, he finds true connection with a Chinese immigrant (Orion Lee) also seeking his fortune. Soon the two collaborate on a successful business, although its future relies on the clandestine participation of a nearby landowner’s prized milking cow. From this simple premise, Reichardt constructs an interrogation of foundational Americana with a sensitive depiction of male friendship and a mounting sense of suspense.
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​Light, Blaze, Fulgor — Auguries for a Non-Hierarchical Framing and Flourishing

(Luz, clarão, fulgor — augúrios para um enquadramento não hierárquico e venturoso, Sílvia das Fadas, 2018–ongoing)Sílvia das Fadas in personPresented in collaboration with Cinéseries

Filmmaker Sílvia das Fadas visits for a screening and discussion of her dazzling film channeling radical histories that upend conventional ideas about cinema and viewership.

Using three 16mm projectors, das Fadas will bring her wandering filmmaking practice to the Wexner Center for a memorable evening of expanded cinema. Inspired by the life and work of the early 20th century anarchist António Gonçalves Correia, Light, Blaze, Fulgor, in das Fadas’s own words, “is a kind of experiment: a practice of mutants in search of a metamorphic shift.
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Logbook Serbistan

(Želimir Žilnik, 2015)Preceded by Inventory (Želimir Žilnik, 1975)Želimir Žilnik in person

Želimir Žilnik, one of the most pioneering and politically engaged filmmakers of hybrid nonfiction forms, visits Unorthodocs to present his rarely seen contemporary masterpiece.

"Logbook Serbistan is a late career masterpiece from Žilnik and one of the finest works to come out of Europe that depicts the migration crisis of the early 21st century in an honest and empathetic manner. This pair of works also includes Inventory, a short sui generis structural documentary that analyzes labor, class, and migration in West Germany in one apartment building and one shot.” —guest curator Greg de Cuir Jr. In multiple languages with English subtitles. (program approx. 103 mins., digital video)