Anna Pollack

Briarpatch

Anna Pollack

Juan Lara, Oumou Traoré

A film about two siblings confronted with sacrifice on the longest day of the year

Chameleon

Anna Pollack

Clovis Bataille

A young man cycling through the night, talking about his ardent teenage love for a girl, remembering and recounting small details about her, such as her chameleon-like quality.

Jamaica Tapes

Anna Pollack

Mischievous and introspective in turns, Anna Pollack’s lo-fi travelogue shot while visiting family in Jamaica showcases the distinctive camerawork and playful editing style of an emerging talent in NYC independent film. Loosely divided into four vignettes, its many standout moments include an encounter with an absurd would-be rasta and a charming game of celebrity hot-or-not.

Sacral

Jacqueline Sir

Anna Pollack, Max Macnow

When Silvia mysteriously goes missing in Chinatown, tension rises between the two people closest to her. Jacqueline Sir directs “Sacral,” a fragmentary drama about the messy relationships and social life of a group of young NY city kids. Told with blurred low-fi imagery and a constant sense of unease and disorientation, it’s raw as they come, and paints an authentic picture of an alarming absence. When Nadia can’t locate her best friend, Silvia, she seeks out her boyfriend, Max, the last person she saw him with. As their group of friends pre-game for a party, she doubles down on Max who is behaving suspiciously evasive. A mix of edgy realism and almost nightmarish paranoia, the film’s resonance accumulates from jagged shards into a haunting mystery.