The New Frontier section offers seven films which are experimental and pushing the boundaries of filmmaking.
Phantom Love and Strange Culture
Artist Spotlight: Pierre Huyghe
(Year: 2007; Director: Pierre Huyghe; Writer: Pierre Huyghe)
A presentation of short films that have rarely been screened outside of a museum or art gallery context. Huyghe is one of France's most celebrated young artists. His multimedia installations-which are concerned with collective memory, the construction of narratives, and textures of re-enactment-have been exhibited at museums across the world including the Guggenheim, Tate Modern, and the Whitney Museums.
The Last Dining Table (Majimak Babsang)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2006; Director: Roh Gyeong-tae; Writer: Roh Gyeong-tae; Stars: Baek Hyun-joo, Kim Do-yeon, Oh Heoung-ki, Hong Suk-yeon, Hwang Bok-soon)
Seeking fulfillment on the fringes of Seoul.
North American Premiere
Offscreen
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2006; Director: Christoffer Boe; Writer: Christoffer Boe, Knud Romer Jørgensen; Stars: Nicolas Bro, Lene Maria Christensen, Karen Margrethe Bjerre, Christoffer Boe, Jakob Cedergren, Bjarke de Koning, Trine Dyrholm, Ellen Hillingsø, Joen Højerslev, Mathilde Norholt, Signe Skov)
Actor Nicolas Bro reigns supreme in the role of Nicolas Bro - a man intent on making a film about himself. After his director friend Christoffer Boe lends him a camera, his self-monitoring is so hair-raisingly private (and creepy!) that it becomes impossible to separate fact from fiction.
World Premiere
Phantom Love
(Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Nina Menkes; Writer: Nina Menkes; Stars: Marina Choif, Juliette Marquis, Bobby Naderi),
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An alienated woman undertakes a strange spiritual journey.
World Premiere
Slipstream
(Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Anthony Hopkins; Writer: Anthony Hopkins; Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Lana Antonova, Stella Arroyave, Gene Borkan, Michael Clarke Duncan)
A man discovers that life is random and fortune is sightless as he is thrown into a vortex where time, dreams and reality collide in an increasingly whirling Slipstream.
World Premiere
The Last Dining Table and Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
Strange Culture
(Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Lynn Hershman-Leeson; Writer: Lynn Hershman-Leeson; Stars: Thomas Jay Ryan, Tilda Swinton, Peter Coyote, Josh Kornbluth, Steve Kurtz, Shoresh Alaudini, Cassie Powell, Jakob Bokulich, Larissa Clayton, Beatriz da Costa, Dr Susan Leeson)
The artist as victim of The Patriot Act.