Garage Screen and art association CoolConnections present AMFEST, a program of film screenings
This year AMFEST is focusing on independent, experimental works and new names. Amanda Kramer, Winnie Cheung, and the duet of Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan have not previously featured on Russian screens and are here now thanks to the renewed AMFEST. Their films radically transform familiar genres: New Strains reinvents the romcom, Give Me Pity! is a mutation of a TV comedy special, and Residency turns the documentary chronicle inside out.
Other participants include Ricky D’Ambrose, author of the grandiose metamodernist film-novel The Cathedral, which received the silver medal at Sergei Solovyov’s Spirit of Fire International Debut Film Festival in Khanty-Mansiysk, and Sky Hopinka with Małni.
