A sched­ule of short films titled Not a Place, An Outlook, cur­ated by Regine Basha, will con­sider site-specific cur­at­orial frame­work of The Six Borough. The Sixth Borough, cur­ated by Manon Slome and Julian Navarro, entails a series of site spe­cific install­a­tions,  explores the para­dox and par­al­lel real­it­ies of the main­land of New York City and Governors Island, exist­ing in spa­tial prox­im­ity but in dif­fer­ent states of being.

A col­lec­tion of ten films will be shown in two view­ings, each last­ing for half an hour. Films in con­sid­er­a­tion include Julieta Aranda’s Film on Kiribati Island, Javier Tellez’s Caligari and the Sleepwalker. Also films by Jenny Perlin, Steve Roden, Alan Michelson and Erin Shirreff.

This film series is inspired by this Island’s odd pos­i­tion in time and space as being phys­ic­ally close yet ever so remote. Governor’s Island closed down in 1996, another close, yet remote time that remains in the blind-spot of our recent his­tory; too recent to be nos­tal­gic about, too long ago to eas­ily recall. This selec­tion of films is based on how this island has the uncanny abil­ity to con­fuse our sense of time and space.

The films will reflect on place as a state of mind, tem­poral dis­lo­ca­tions, sim­ul­tan­eity, his­tory run­ning back­wards, and slow­ness. Included in the Sunday pro­gram is a rare set of screen­ings by exper­i­mental film­maker, Luke Fowler, selec­ted by invited guest, Christoph Cox.

July 16–17-18 | August 13–14-15 | September 10–11-12 | September 17–18-19

From 12 — 5pm, every 30 minutes at the Fort Jay Theater

via No Longer Empty.