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.
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Clockwise from top left: 350 MYA, Distant Shores, 350 MYA, Uprising in Jazak, Black Film, Reckless Eyeballing; all courtesy of the filmmakers.
Program lineup
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)
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Program Support
FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
National Endowment for the Arts
Ohio Humanities
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Rohauer Collection Foundation
WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Ohio Department of Development
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Wexner Family
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Ohio Arts Council
CampusParc
Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme
The Columbus Foundation
Nationwide Foundation
Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Mike and Paige Crane
Axium Packaging
Nancy Kramer
Ohio State Energy Partners
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection
Larry and Donna James
Bruce and Joy Soll
Jones Day
Alex and Renée Shumate
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