Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance 2024

Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance 2024
Thurs. May 16, 17, 18 +20, 2024

SELECTED EXCLUSIVE LIVE SCREENINGS IN PERSON
of World + US PREMIERES
+ 3 WEEKS ONLINE of selected films

Free + Open to the Public
Segal Theatre, 365 5th Ave @ 34 st

RSVP not needed, but reserve here

During The Time of Corona the Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance presented over 100 screenings from over 60 countries–many works from artists who engaged in zoom and DIY projects created from home or outside theatres. Let’s see what is happening now, two years later.

(Due to restrictions some films can only be shown live once. Others will be available online for up to three weeks.) Check for update on schedule here.

Join us in person or online for screenings of:

Juggle & Hide by Wichaya (Japan); Genocide And Movements by Andreia Beatriz (Brazil), Hamilton Borges dos Santos and Luis Carlos de Alencar; Schlingensief: A Voice That Shook the Silence by Bettina Böhler (Germany); Talk to Us by Kirsten Burgen; The Making of Pinocchio by Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill (Scotland, UK); Nightshades – Veronica Viper by Ellen Callaghan (USA); Chinoiserie Redux by Ping Chong, Kristina Varshavskaya (Canada); Die Kinder der Toten by Kelly Copper & Pavol Liska / Nature Theater of Oklahome (Germany); Film mon corps virtuel et mon double by Bruno Deville Simon Senn (Switzerland); Queendom by Agniia Galdanova (USA/France); Book of Jacob by Krzysztof Garbaczewski (USA/Poland); Snow White by Dr.GoraParasit (Lithuania); Next… II (Mali/Iceland) by Janne Gregor (Island, Mali, Germany); Making of the Money Opera by Amitesh Grover (India); Dancing Pina by Florian Heinzen-Ziob (Germany); Maria Klassenerg by Magda Hueckel i Tomek Śliwiński (Poland) ; The End Is Not What I Thought It Would Be by Andrea Kleine (USA); The Utopians by Michael Klien & En Dynamei (Greece); I am not Ok by Gabrielle Lansner (USA); Aeschylus’ Oresteia by Carolin Mader (Germany); Roll Call: The Roots to Strange Fruit by Jonathan McCrory/National Black Theatre (USA); Elfriede Jelinek – Language Unleashed by Claudia Muller (Germany/Austria); The Hamlet Syndrome by Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosolowski (Poland/Syndrome); Muse by Pete O’Hare USA); Swing and Sway by Fernanda Pessoa and Chica Barbosa (Brazil); Revolution 21 by Martyna Peszko (Poland) ; Conference of the Absent by Rimini Protocol (Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel) & Expander Film (Lilli Kuschel, Stefan Korsinsky) (Germany); Who is Eugenio Barba by Magdalene Remoundou (Greece); Living Hans-Thies Lehmann by Christoph Rüter (Germany); Women of Theatre, New York by Juney Smith USA); Interstate by Jennie Mary Tei Liu (USA); Red Day by Besim Ugzmajli (Kosovo); Objects in Black by Jacqueline Wade (USA); Wo by Jiemin Yang; Newcomer “H” Sokerissa by Aoki Yuuki; Love by Alexander Zeldin – Schaubühne Berlin (Germany)

Co-Curated by Frank Hentschker & Tomek Smolarski.
Produced and presented by The Segal Theatre Center, The Graduate Center CUNY.

In The Time before Corona, the Segal Film Festival had evolved into the premier US event for new film and video work focusing on theatre and performance. Its mission was to invite experimental and established theatre makers to present work created for the screen – not filmed archival recordings–to audiences and industry professionals from around the world. During and after The Time of Corona the festival took on a new meaning. The 2022 Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance presented over 100 screenings from over 60 countries, many theatre artists engaged in zoom and DIY projects created from home or outside theatres.

It is time again to share an overview of some of the most compelling works created for the screen by theatre artists from around the world during the last two years. The Segal Film Festival will serve again as an archive and memory capsule for works on screen by theatre artists.

Thursday May 16
6:00 -7:40 PM
Queendom by Agniia Galdanova
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7:50 – 8:50 PM
Maria Klassenberg by Tomasz Śliwiński and Magda Hueckel (World Premiere)

Friday May 17
6:00 – 7:00 PM
Genocide and Movements by Andreia Beatriz, Hamilton Borges dos Santos and Luis Carlos de Alencar
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7:00 – 8:00 PM
Swing & Sway by Fernanda Pessoa and Chica Barbosa
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8:00 – 9:30 PM
Making of Pinocchio by Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill

Saturday May 18
10 – 11 AM
Who is Eugenio Barba by Magdalene Remoundou
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11:05 – 12:05 PM
Love by Alexander Zeldin
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12:10 – 2:15 PM
Schlingensief: A Voice That Shook the Silence by Frieder Schlaich
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2:20 – 3:50 PM
ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED by Claudia Muller
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4:00 – 5:51 PM
Dancing Pina by Florian Heinzen-Ziob

Monday May 20
2pm – 3:30 PM
Die Kinder der Toten by Kelly Copper & Pavol Liška – Nature Theater of Oklahoma
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3:35 – 5:20 PM
Viewing of selected short films from the festival lineup

Red Day by Besim Ugzmajli (15 Mins),
Interstate by Big Dance Theater / Bang on a Can (6 Mins),
Wo/我 by Jiemin Yang (11 Mins),
I AM NOT OK by Gabrielle Lansner (12 Mins),
MUSE by Pete O’Hare / Warehouse Films (10 Mins),
ORESTEIA by Carolin Mader (6 Min),
“Nightshades” – Veronica Viper by Ellen Callaghan (6 Mins),
Snow White by Dr.GoraParasit (18 Mins),
The Roll Call:The Roots to Strange Fruit
by Jonathan McCrory / National Black Theatre/ All Arts/ Creative Doula (23 Mins)
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5:20 – 6:40 PM
Chinoiserie Redux by Ping Chong, Kristina Varshavskaya

6:45 – 7:45 PM
Revolution 21 by Martyna Peszko (US Premiere)
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7:50 – 9:30 PM
The Hamlet Syndrome by Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosolowski

In The Time before Corona, the Segal Film Festival had evolved into the premier US event for new film and video work focusing on theatre and performance. Its mission was to invite experimental and established theatre makers to present work created for the screen – not filmed archival recordings–to audiences and industry professionals from around the world. During and after The Time of Corona the festival took on a new meaning. The 2022 Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance presented over 100 screenings from over 60 countries, many theatre artists engaged in zoom and DIY projects created from home or outside theatres.

It is time again to share an overview of some of the most compelling works created for the screen by theatre artists from around the world during the last two years. The Segal Film Festival will serve again as an archive and memory capsule for works on screen by theatre artists.

Program is subject to radical change. Stay tuned for lineup.

Image: Boris Camaca, from Queendom, by Agniia Galdanova (USA/France);