{"title": "Every Contact Leaves a Trace: The Poetic Movements of Lynne Sachs", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "The New School", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary/essay-film"], "description": "An evening with filmmaker Lynne Sachs presenting her film 'Every Contact Leaves a Trace', part of a monthly documentary series with film and video makers at The New School. The essay film takes its title from a forensic science principle coined by Edward Locard: any trace can link a person to a place, another person or an object. Sachs, who has saved every business card ever given to her, selects seven cards from hundreds and seeks out how each encounter left an imprint on her, from a German woman grappling with her country's history to a therapist who erased all records of her own life. Carrying the cards to a forensic scientist's lab, she entwines emotional memory with geopolitical history through visual abstraction, music, and a poet's introspection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/every-contact-leaves-a-trace-the-poetic-movements-of-lynne-s-88272/", "official_url": "https://event.newschool.edu/everycontactleavesatracethepoe", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b8753221c1e9a8f1d09ad5f5dd98ae5bd4a9c7b9491002cb582ef58b683fb0ef-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "The New School", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Ground Beneath Our Feet", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Scandinavia House", "address": "Park Avenue 58, 10016", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "Scandinavia House presents a screening of the documentary The Ground Beneath Our Feet, Iceland's official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards, followed by a talk with director Yrsa Roca Fannberg. The film takes place inside Grund, Iceland's oldest retirement home in Reykjavik, and follows the rhythm of the seasons rather than the end of life. With warmth and sensitivity, it captures everyday moments — joys, quiet routines, small miracles, and simple interactions — celebrating the lives of the elders and life itself. 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Umar's \"Truth Bears No Scandal\" brings hidden queer love stories within well-known Sudanese songs to the fore, while Elagoz and Walsh's \"You can't get what you want but you can get me\" documents their own love story across continents through a year of photographs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/here-already-52439/", "official_url": "https://www.e-flux.com/events/6783397/here-already/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d8494b80775001b38602e02f60e9cb7c7c56d4c3128fcc35cedd3d2fc5d4a110-2000.webp"}, {"title": "When a Witness Recants", "start": "2026-10-31T15:45:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Cinema Village", "address": "East 12th Street 22, 10003", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "14.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/law"], "description": "A documentary screening about a 1983 Baltimore school murder that led to three teens being wrongfully imprisoned for 36 years. Directed by Dawn Porter, the film runs 112 minutes and follows Ta-Nehisi Coates as he investigates how the case affected the accused, witnesses and their community. It plays at a cinema in New York City.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/when-a-witness-recants-51950/", "official_url": "https://www.cinemavillage.com/Now-Playing/when-a-witness-recants.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b5aea785957c31830e7dca4f39136281cf55934262d54d1f4c0a1a43c4ff3869-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Camera Ministry: Lens-based Encounters", "start": "2026-11-13T11:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-15T16:30:00-05:00", "place": "UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art", "address": "Onderdonk Avenue 352, 11385 Ridgewood", "price": "$295 early bird registration ends on Nov 7, 2026; $350 regular registration", "price_from": "295.00", "price_to": "350.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "film/documentary"], "description": "Camera Ministry: Lens-based Encounters is an intensive weekend workshop on lens-based storytelling, held at the UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art in Ridgewood. It is led by New York-based photographer and filmmaker Khalik Allah, who unpacks his singular approach to image-making and his concept of the 'Camera Ministry', treating the camera as both a technological object and a spiritual instrument. Participants explore how a camera can become a means of presence, connection and encounter rather than mere observation, considering the roles of intuition, trust and vulnerability in making an image, and can share their own work in feedback sessions. Guest artists include filmmaker and cinematographer Shevaun Mizrahi, discussing her move from cinematography to directing, and hip-hop photographer and cultural archivist Jamil GS, reflecting on photography as cultural memory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/camera-ministry-lens-based-encounters-57169/", "official_url": "https://uniondocs.org/event/camera-ministry-lens-based-encounters-2026-11-13/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2b18874d78accc9d184e71a19964981f9dfe1c9a552483f86af85f7091752fb1-600.webp"}, {"title": "En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-20T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Abrons Arts Center", "address": "Grand Street 466, New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/film"], "description": "En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy is a work spanning performance, film installation, and an exhibition that reassembles the Greek myth of Antigone. It is directed by artist Natalia Lassalle-Morillo as part of her two-year La Residencia residency with Abrons and Pública Espacio Cultural in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and organized by residency curator Natalia Viera-Salgado. Through collaboration with an ensemble of nonprofessional actors from Puerto Rico and New York City's Puerto Rican diasporic community, it examines the collective consciousness shaped by decades of environmental, economic, political, and spiritual tragedies in the archipelago. Presented as a two-part film installation with an accompanying exhibition, Part I chronicles the New York-based cast's process while Part II follows a Puerto Rico-based ensemble developing their own interpretation of Antigone.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/en-parabolaconversations-on-tragedy-50881/", "official_url": "https://www.abronsartscenter.org/programs/enparabola", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bbfbcb849e0bdfab76227597846f16a1412ee5330514f195c32ae0d319f07087-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A Radical Thread", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T19:30:00-05:00", "place": "UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art", "address": "Onderdonk Avenue 352, 11385 Ridgewood", "price": "$12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/environmentalism"], "description": "A screening of the film A Radical Thread, followed by a conversation between filmmaker Jeanne C. Finley and filmmaker Lynne Sachs. The film tells of a back-to-the-land community on California's San Juan Ridge, founded in the late 1960s as an alternative to American consumer culture, which organized against clear-cutting, river damming, and open-pit gold mining. It tells this story through an 83-foot tapestry created over seventeen years by Marsha Stone and a collective of artists and community members, weaving in archival footage of poet Gary Snyder and reflections from Nisenan spokesperson Shelly Covert. Afterward, the two filmmakers discuss collaborative storytelling, art and environmental activism, and collective memory in the face of ecological change.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/a-radical-thread-57168/", "official_url": "https://uniondocs.org/event/a-radical-thread-2026-11-05/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1f1334d0b6b4ddc016b9b2e1d13371190520e9ee84632cd22a7b59f10d99b8a1-600.webp"}, {"title": "The Monsters We Make: A Conversation with Rachel Corbett & Peter Mendelsund", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T19:00:00-05:00", "place": "The New School", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/non-fiction", "society/crime"], "description": "Author and New York Magazine writer Rachel Corbett joins Peter Mendelsund for a conversation about criminal profiling, journalism and the creative process. Corbett is the author of The Monsters We Make (W.W. Norton, 2025) and You Must Change Your Life (W.W. Norton, 2016), which won the Marfield Prize. Mendelsund is the author of seven books, including What We See When We Read and Cover. The talk is hosted and introduced by poet J. Mae Barizo and presented by the Creative Writing Program at The New School for Social Research.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-monsters-we-make-a-conversation-with-rachel-corbett-pete-88300/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c9df68c5baef24297181338b2627a671f3244644fda5f3324b0c50eeb28b92dd-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Sans Soleil", "start": "2026-11-01T13:45:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary/essay-film"], "description": "Sans Soleil is a film directed by Chris Marker, shown at Metrograph. It is a voyage through memory, history, and video games, a free-flow of images shot largely in Japan, with detours to Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco. There is nothing quite like it in the history of cinema.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sans-soleil-56662/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999003788-sans-soleil/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b4c15911b8c2aa0b8ba8d07094845605db4ffd7e11ff43231e337fd5d63b89b0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "And the Dogs Were Silent: A Convening by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "e-flux", "address": "172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA", "price": "General $12, Student $10", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film", "history"], "description": "And the Dogs Were Silent is a screening of three short films followed by a conversation, presented at e-flux's screening room in Brooklyn. It is a program convened by writer and historian Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, presented by the African Film Institute, which Christian Nyampeta convenes at e-flux. The films are Sarah Maldoror's Et les chiens se taisaient (1978), Stan Lathan's Statues Hardly Ever Smile (1971), and Alain Resnais and Chris Marker's Les statues meurent aussi (1953), extending Aimé Césaire's poem on the Haitian Revolution and questions of colonialism, memory, and the repatriation of cultural goods. After the screening, Rhodes-Pitts and Nyampeta will talk, as part of the African Film Institute's 2026 programming, Two Thousand Seasons.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/and-the-dogs-were-silent-a-convening-by-sharifa-rhodes-pitts-71191/", "official_url": "https://www.e-flux.com/events/6783403/and-the-dogs-were-silent-a-convening-by-sharifa-rhodes-pitts/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5c2400be00ada6de41980067c6a4a2f7aa3d802e8ff75c90d6d087c026d79d75-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Holy Destructors", "start": "2026-11-07T17:45:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T19:35:00-05:00", "place": "Scandinavia House", "address": "Park Avenue 58, 10016", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["science/biology/microbiology", "film/documentary"], "description": "A screening of the documentary film Holy Destructors (Biodestruktoriai), followed by a film talk and Q&A with film composer Gediminas Jakubka. It is directed by Aistė Žegulytė and is part of the 9th Annual New York Baltic Film Festival presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America. The documentary delves into the invisible world of organisms that emerge during the decay of organic matter: biodestructors, microfungi that existed millions of years before humans and will likely outlive us, transforming bodies into energy that nourishes the soil and gives rise to new life. Blending archival and new footage with shots of growing fungi, the film takes viewers on an enigmatic journey through a microscope lens, where humans fight against time by preserving images, bodies, and memories; it won Best Directing at IDFA (2025), Best Baltic Documentary Film at Tallinn Black Nights (2025), and Best Documentary at Lithuania's Silver Crane Awards (2026).", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/holy-destructors-55698/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/sh/films/holy-destructors-nybff-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b2049dbbfb0992dc43057365766dff7ad83631ba2bbf61c8fdb9847ac4846df8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Suzhou River", "start": "2026-11-06T21:10:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Suzhou River is a feature film screening. Director Ye Lou, from his hometown Shanghai, named it after the polluted river flowing through the city. Using the first-person perspective of an unseen videographer-narrator, it follows an unsuspecting motorcycle courier who becomes snared in a kidnapping plot and murder rap. The brooding film draws on influences from film noir to Vertigo while developing its own haunting visual vocabulary.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/suzhou-river-56699/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999003167-suzhou-river/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ed01a98d737c3a27b3be0a1a3318d5275ee0f19ccf147ac882581a221dcc1e95-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Changing Lanes & Anti-car films", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Interference Archive", "address": "7th Street 314, 11215 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/activism"], "description": "A screening of four documentaries about social movements that challenged the policing and commodification of urban mobility and embraced freedom of movement beyond the automobile. The films include Still We Ride, The Wreck of the New York Subway, Marathon de Triporteurs, and Changing Lanes, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers of Changing Lanes. It takes place at Interference Archive, 314 7th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, USA.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/changing-lanes-anti-car-films-53178/", "official_url": "https://interferencearchive.org/event/changing-lanes-anti-car-films/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4cd2fc69af89f4cca2af1ce1992fe8a690d61f3e1db633875c89563e4f1d7eb6-2000.webp"}]}