The annual tour of award winners from the Thomas Edison Film Festival (TEFF) returns to the National Gallery. Since 1981, the mission of TEFF has been to promote innovation in the art of the moving image with films that honor Edison’s vision. The selected international shorts include animation, experimental, documentary, narrative, and screen dance works from Armenia, Australia, France, and the US among other countries. Festival director Jane Steuerwald will introduce this two-part program.
Program 1, 12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
A Tiny Man (Aude David and Mikaël Gaudin, Montpellier, France, animation, 10 minutes)
Tracing Imperfection (Chehade Boulos, Pompano Beach, FL, USA, documentary, 8 minutes)
250km (Hasmik Movsisyan, Yeravan, Armenia, narrative, 22 minutes)
Impossible Image (Karen Pearlman and Richard James Allen, New South Wales, Australia, screen dance, 8 minutes)
AIKĀNE (Dean Hamer, Daniel Sousa, and Joe Wilson, Haleiwa, HI, USA, animation, 14 minutes)
Note of Defiance (Brian Henderson, Greenbay, WI, USA, documentary, 15 minutes)
Freedom for Freedom (Yuri Alves, Newark, NJ, USA, experimental, 4 minutes)
Intermission 2:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Program 2, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
13 Driver’s Licenses (Ryoya Terao, Tarrytown, NY and Germany, documentary, 26 minutes)
A Life Like This (James Hollenbaugh, Harrisburg, PA, USA, documentary,12 minutes excerpt from 43 minutes title)
Minus Plus Multiply (Chu-Chieh Lee, London, UK, animation, 4 minutes)
The Old Young Crow (Liam LoPinto, Japan, and NY, USA, narrative, 12 minutes)
Between Earth and Sky (Andrew Nadkarni, Brooklyn, NY, USA, documentary, 25 minutes, Academy-Award Short List 2024)
A Place for Us (Leigh-Ann Esty and Ellie Gravitte, Hoboken, NJ, USA, screen dance, 6 minutes)
Part of the ongoing Art Films and Special Screenings series.
The end time for this event is estimated. End times may vary with post-screening discussion, audience Q&A, or other factors. All film events finish by 5:00 p.m.