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Christopher Harris and Želimir Žilnik in person
$7 members and adults 55 and over$9 general public$5 students
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Experience genre-expanding work from Christopher Harris, Želimir Žilnik, and more in this year's Unorthodocs shorts program.
This year's shorts program presents an array of projects by filmmakers featured throughout the festival. Christopher Harris’s Reckless Eyeballing (2004) is a blistering, entrancing 16mm remix of D. W. Griffith’s notorious The Birth of a Nation, with footage of Pam Grier and Angela Davis upending racist and sexist cinematic traditions. Želimir Žilnik’s Black Film (1971) remains one of the most radical and significant works to come out of the late 1960s global New Wave movements. Žilnik attempts to address homelessness by inviting a dozen unhoused men into his residence, much to his wife’s dismay. However, the film ultimately becomes a bleak inquiry into the value of filmmaking as a tool for social change. Harris and Žilnik will be present to discuss their work after the screening.
See the complete Unorthodocs 2023 lineup.
IMAGE CAPTION Clockwise from top left: 350 MYA, Distant Shores, 350 MYA, Uprising in Jazak, Black Film, Reckless Eyeballing; all courtesy of the filmmakers.
28.IV.81 (Descending Figures) (Christopher Harris, 2011) (3 mins., DCP)350 MYA (Terra Long, 2016) (5 mins., DCP)Black Film (Želimir Žilnik, 1971) (14 mins., DCP)La cabeza mató a todos (Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, 2018) (4 mins., DCP)Distant Shores (Christopher Harris, 2016) (3 mins., DCP)Other Uses (Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, 2014) (7 mins., DCP)Reckless Eyeballing (Christopher Harris, 2004) (14 mins., 16mm)Uprising in Jazak (Želimir Žilnik, 1973) (18 mins., DCP)
FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BYNational Endowment for the ArtsOhio Humanities
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BYRohauer Collection Foundation
WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BYOhio Department of DevelopmentGreater Columbus Arts CouncilThe Wexner FamilyInstitute of Museum and Library ServicesOhio Arts CouncilCampusParcOhio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery ThemeThe Columbus FoundationNationwide FoundationVorys, Sater, Seymour, and PeaseADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BYMike and Paige CraneAxium PackagingNancy KramerOhio State Energy PartnersOhio History Fund/Ohio History ConnectionLarry and Donna JamesBruce and Joy SollJones DayAlex and Renée Shumate
Past Film/Video
Unorthodocs Shorts
