Film by GME Consultant Matt McKinzie Plays in Film Diary NYC's Annual Festival This Week

OFFICIAL POSTER FOR FILM DIARY NYC III: COLDEST WINTER, DESIGNED BY MARGO DELA CRUZ. SOURCE: FILM DIARY NYC.

On Wednesday, January 24th, at 4pm, the experimental short film QUEER DREAM TRIPTYCH, made by GME consultant Matt McKinzie, will screen in Film Diary NYC’s third annual film festival, titled “Coldest Winter,” in the program “a soft place to land,” which plays at Millennium Film Workshop.

Organized by Saint Piñero and Sage Ó Tuama, Film Diary NYC “programs experimental non-fiction films that capture the personal history and daily experiences of the filmmaker and the world they encounter. Through an annual festival and ongoing special events, [they] provide a platform for the most heartfelt but most overlooked cinema: diary films, home movies, and personal documentary.”

Piñero and Tuama describe this year’s lineup as follows:

[The films are] personal and poetic... There are diary films in the pure Jonas Mekas sense of diary, and there are diary films that re-interpret what diary means; there are home movies; there are personal documentaries; and there are films that are all of these things at once. There are even films with auto-fictional elements. The common thread is that these are intimate, autobiographical objects pulled from the filmmakers’ own souls, and presented with experimental, first-person approaches.

This year’s festival features work from every continent except Antarctica, and from a diverse and intergenerational group of emerging and established filmmakers.

GME distributes diary films of personal and poetic nature to the North American university market. Notable titles include Jonas Mekas’ meditative autobiographies WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES (1969), LOST LOST LOST (1976), REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA (1972) (all three are available in the DVD boxset JONAS MEKAS: THE MAJOR WORKS, as well as in DSL format), and HE STANDS IN A DESERT COUNTING THE SECONDS OF HIS LIFE (1969-1985; available as both a DVD and DSL file). GME also distributes DIARY and FINNISH SUITE. The former centers on filmmaker David Perlov’s public and private gaze on his family, his surroundings, and his native country writ large, and is available as both a DVD and DSL file. The latter is a DVD boxset featuring three found footage films by award-winning filmmaker, writer, critic, professor, archive director, and programmer Peter Von Bagh.