[NY Programmer Choice]

In New York native Manfred Kirchheimer's formally audacious confessional work, shot in his home with his family, a documentary filmmaker ponders his increasingly alienated condition, and begins to interrogate the show of solidarity he extends to his newly arrived Black neighbors. As he stares out the window of his apartment on 101st Street and Broadway, he drifts into a disassociated reverie, an adventure of blissfully heightened senses, and guilty liberal consciousness, through the streets of a rapidly changing Upper West Side. "I tried to look into my own paranoia... There’s something terrifying going on, which is the knocking and the empty hall. Where’s the knocking coming from? No, this is something inside you."

Edo Choi
Programmer, Metrograph
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Founded in 2016, Metrograph is an arthouse cinema in New York City's historic Chinatown. A special curated world of cinema inspired by the great New York movie theaters of the 1920s and the Commissaries of the Hollywood Studio backlots, Metrograph is a community inhabited by movie professionals screening their work, taking meetings, watching films, collaborating together - an audience built around our shared love of cinema.