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| My Michel: Music-video maestro
Michel Gondry, center, is featured at RESFEST. |
While the New York Film Festival rages, a trio of alternative fests—Resfest,
the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival, and CineKink NYC—will
compete for cinephiles’ attention. Each is fairly young, but
the most exciting upstart looks to be Resfest, which will honor
music-video icon Michel Gondry with a 25-work retrospective of his
commercials and music videos for the likes of Björk and the
White Stripes. The director’s suitably flattered, though he’d
like to invite some of the critics who sniped at his feature debut,
Human Nature, at Cannes two years ago. “The feature-film
world is very close-minded—they have very preconceived notions
about music-video directors,” says Gondry, whose second Charlie
Kaufman–scripted feature, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless
Mind, debuts in November. “I wish they could come and
see all this work together—they’d see that we’re
not just people who do flashy things with lots of cuts.” —LOGAN
HILL
RESFEST
October 10-12
Tribeca Performing Arts Center
199 Chambers Street, 212-220-1460
A terrific bleeding-edge festival of state-of-the-art
music videos, art-house projects, and highly inventive animation.
Don’t miss the Gondry retrospective, the Spike Jonze rarities,
or the animated Daft Punk feature Interstella 5555.
For more information, visit resfest.com.
Brooklyn Underground Film Festival
October 8-14
68 Washington Street, 718-935-0560
This rapidly expanding Dumbo festival screens 97 films from indie
directors like Tony Gault and Daniel Vila, alongside works and talks
by radical outfits like Guerrilla News Network and Conglomco.org.
For more information, visit brooklynunderground.org.
CineKink
October 9-12
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue, 212-505-5110
Camera? Check. Film? Check. Whip and latex bodysuit?
Double-check! Props get interesting in a new festival dedicated
to “kink-positive” documentaries, features, and short
films. The lineup includes indies like Superfag, Madam and Eve,
The Naughty Garden, and Whipsmart.
For more information, visit cinekink.com.
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