If you haven’t been to a Flaherty Seminar and you are a doc lover, you are missing out on a truly unique event that is just for you. It takes place for a week in June and while in some ways, it has a rarefied academic feel, the program is also very much at the core of discussions on the genre as well as the subjects the films explore. I’ve never been to any other film program that is as intelligent. With that seriousness said, it’s fantastic that the Flaherty will now be screening monthly in NYC at Anthology Film Archives. It’s great news for those who can’t or are intimidated by the June week-long program. From their release:

The Flaherty NYC series premiere will feature the New York City debut of films by Oliver Husain, a German-Indian artist currently based in Toronto, who uses visual media to explore ideas of geography, migration, and globalization. His award-winning short films range from documentary to live-action composite to Bollywood dance sequences to most anything you can and can’t imagine. He carefully crafts worlds that are somewhat familiar to the viewer, but are also vaguely bizarre, visually captivating, and fantastically delightful. This inaugural program perfectly typifies the Flaherty’s history of celebrating independent and groundbreaking media by showcasing the unique and undiscovered films of Oliver Husain.

The event is on October 13 @ 7:30 PM. Tickets here. Enjoy! I wish I could be there.