Show Category: Screening

Pride Month is here and Disability Pop is ready to celebrate with a brand new event! This time we’re highlighting queer x disability narratives with a screening of Rent (2005) and LIVE performances by Dyke Drag. This musical, set at the dawn of the 1990s, has a little of everything: chronic illness, catchy bops, and Taye Diggs.

Come in your favorite Doc Martens, 90’s grunge, and kn95 mask!

This is an accessible and covid safe event.

Access information:

– This event is physically accessible. Wheelchair and accessible seating will be integrated throughout the space and a wheelchair accessible bathroom is on the same floor.
– Unfortunately, there is not an audio described version of Rent (2005). If you want one of the organizers to live describe, please email mzalopany@gmail.com
– Proof of a negative covid test will be required for entry. Tests should be taken within 24hrs of the event. A limited number of masks and tests will be available for those who need them, but please plan to test ahead of time if able.
– Air Purifiers will be present in the event space
– Participants will be asked to wear a mask unless eating/drinking
– The movie will be captioned
– Light snacks will be provided (gluten free vegan popcorn)

Cine Farito will host a community gathering and screening at Performance Space New York of Borderland: The Line Within, the latest feature documentary from Oscar, Emmy and Overseas Press Club Award-winning filmmaker Pamela Yates. Borderland explores and exposes the cruel human cost of immigration at the same time as it weaves in stories of immigrants who want to build a social movement to demand their human rights. A conversation with its filmmakers and community gathering will follow.
 

About Cine Farito
Cine Farito is a group of families partnering with filmmakers to shed light on the issues that deeply affect marginalized communities. Through film screenings, we raise funds to provide direct financial assistance to the most vulnerable families in our community, whose safety is threatened by harmful federal immigration policies and exclusion.
 

Who the funds will go to:
As an ad-hoc subcommittee of the Family Association of PS513, Cine Farito is committed to advocating for immigrant rights and humanity. The funds raised will support families in our community who are in urgent need of legal or economic resources.
 
Our initiative begins with screenings of three powerful documentaries—Borderland (dir. Pamela Yates), The Infiltrators (dir. Cristina Ibarra & Alex Rivera), and abUSed: The Postville Raid (dir. Luis Argueta). These films tell gripping, urgent stories of the immigrant experience in today’s climate, raising awareness and amplifying the need for justice. All funds will directly benefit individuals and families in our community facing legal and financial hardships.
 

 
Access Provision: Closed Captioning
 
Inspired by ghost stories she heard as a child, Tracey Moffatt’s visually haunting film beDevil, delves into three tales that explore Indigenous relationships with the unseen world. This largely buried film is the first feature made by an Aboriginal Australian Woman. Each narrative brims with a sense of unease as the ghostly apparitions collide with the living to reveal the unsettling forces that shape our lives.
 
The film unfolds in three distinct but interconnected vignettes, each peeling back layers of the past to reveal the complex and often haunting relationship between identity and the enduring scars of colonialism and capitalism.
 
The screening is followed by a conversation with writer Sarah Fonseca.

Access Provisions: Closed Captioning

Anicka Yi presents The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland, a film by the Indigenous Karrabing Film Collective. The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland is a surrealist exploration of contamination, extractive capitalism, and its impact on human and non-human life. The film transports us to a landscape poisoned by the toxicity of Western colonization and capitalism, where Europeans can no longer survive outdoors. The film follows Aiden, a young Indigenous man who is able to survive long periods outdoors, as he comes up against two possible futures and pasts. Yi’s initial experience with the movie during the Hawai’i Triennial 2022: Pacific Century inspired profound inquiries about the deep time histories of colonialism, migration, and environmental resilience in the Pacific region.

The screening is followed by a conversation with Elizabeth Povinelli, Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University.