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Sundance Film Festival · 2011

Sundance Film Festival 2011

New Frontier

Works that push the limits of traditional cinema aesthetics and the narrative structures of filmmaking.

Programme

5 films · 1 review

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Jess + Moss

Without immediate families that they can relate to, and lacking friends their own age, second cousins Jess and Moss only have each other. A series of visceral vignettes conjure memories of companionship and sexual awakening during a summer shared together on their Kentucky farm.

(Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Clay Jeter; Writer: Clay Jeter, Debra Jeter; Stars: Sarah Hagan, Austin Vickers)

World Premiere

The Mill And The Cross

A visually vibrant and masterful work that seamlessly fortifies rich painterly compositions with digital effects, bringing Peter Brugel’s 1564 painting, The Way to Calvary, to real life.

(Country: Poland, Sweden; Year: 2010; Director: Lech Majewski; Writer: Michael Francis Gibson and Lech Majewski; Stars: Rutger Hauer, Michael York, Charlotte Rampling, Joanna Litwin)

World Premiere

The Nine Muses

Review preview for The Nine Muses

It’s definitely not everyone’s cup of tea, having more the feel of a gallery installation than a feature film.

Jeff Robson · 3.5 out of 5
A poetic exploration of mass immigration in postwar Britain.

(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: John Akomfrah; Writer: John Akomfrah; Stars: Trevor Mathison, David Lawson)

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North American Premiere

!Women Art Revolution

One part of a transmedia project that includes the interactive video installation RAW WAR presented at New Frontier. This seminal documentary depicts the history of women artists who have used art as an activist practice to fight oppression and protest gender and racial exclusion – creating what many historians feel is the most significant art movement of the late-20th century.

(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Lynn Hershman-Leeson; Stars: Lynn Hershman-Leeson) , Official site

US Premiere

The Woods

A satirical nod to ethnographic film fashions a critique on media technology dependence, when eight young Americans move deep into to the woods to start their own utopia.

(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Matthew Lessner; Writer: Matthew Lessner; Stars: Toby David, Anne-Sophie Dutoit, Chris Edley, Amanda Furches, Lauren Hamersmith, Adam Mortemore, Nicola Persky, Justin Phillips, Brian Woods) , Official site

World Premiere