MOMA FILM JUNE 2012

Cole Smithey

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ANNOUNCES FILM EXHIBITIONS FOR JUNE 2012

MoMA Presents: ContemporAsian
Xiaolu Guo's UFO in Her Eyes
June 13-18, 2012

ContemporAsian, MoMA's annual showcase of Asian cinema, features weeklong engagements of films that capture the various styles, histories, and changes in contemporary Asian filmmaking. This series includes recent independent gems by both new and established filmmakers whose work represent the rapidly transforming visual culture of the region. June's edition includes the U.S. premiere of Xiaolu Guo'sUFO in Her Eyes

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MoMA Presents: Natalia Amada's El Velador/The Night Watchman
June 14-20, 2012

Natalia Almada's astonishing new film takes us to a vast cemetery where notorious drug lords sleep. From dusk to dawn, Martin, the night watchman, guards this labyrinthine graveyard on the Mexican border. As young widows sweep the marble floors of elaborate crypts, luxurious cars glide silently between tombs, and poor laborers construct lavish new mausoleums. This city of the dead sits at the intersection between ordinary life and the violent conflict of Mexico's drug wars, which have already claimed over 60,000 lives.

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MoMA Presents: Asli Ozge's Men on the Bridge
June 20-25, 2012

Three men work on a traffic congested Istanbul bridge that spans the Bosphorusthe dividing line between Europe and Asia. Fikret, a young man without papers, sells roses while avoiding the police, including Murat, and skirting the taxis whose drivers, like Umut, add to chronic traffic jams that reduce bridge crossing to a snail's pace. Ozge's feature debut reveals the drama, sadness, and hope in the everyday lives of her protagonists, each of whom yearns for something better. Men on the Bridge is a revelatory portrait of a cosmopolis in flux.

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Lourdes Portillo: La Cineasta Inquisitiva
June 22-30, 2012

For over 30 years, Lourdes Portillo's award-winning films have explored Latin American, Mexican, and Chicano experiences and social-justice issues. She has produced and directed over a dozen works in her signature hybrid style as a visual artist, investigative journalist, and activist. Her films have been widely influential for younger generations of filmmakers, particularly Latina women interested in the expression of their culture.

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