NO FOOD NO MONEY NO JEWELS (AND MORE!)
SPECIAL SCREENING – FILMMAKERS IN PERSON! Eve Sussman, Simon Lee, Angela Christlieb NO FOOD NO MONEY NO JEWELS 2026, 35 min, DCP A group of factory workers – Bear, Rabbit, Owl, Pig, and Donkey – are caught in a cycle of ridiculous labor, endlessly moving water around a scaffolding tower. Shot on a theater stage, where the characters are unable to exit, and at the Frankfurt Zoo, its own kind of stage with caged protagonists, NO FOOD NO MONEY NO JEWELS follows the trials and tribulations of workers clocking in at a makeshift factory. The film is both a literal and cinematic collage, merging vérité footage with a constructed theatrical set: a shifting arrangement of life-size found photographs make up the backdrop for each scene. The script combines original text, channelings of famous people, and rewrites of stories from House at Pooh Corner. In NO FOOD…, food becomes an object of obsession as the workers kill time in the break-room, search for treasure, and collude against the boss. What emerges is a story about work, authority, and the desire to escape. The film culminates in an epiphany: "Never stop dancing," as the characters waltz and the theater, with them in it, spins off into space. SNEAK PREVIEW! Angela Christlieb [SURPRISE FILM] 2026, 34 min, DCP "This film is based on diary fragments and anecdotes created since my first stay in New York in 1997 – a personal journey into the world of imagination, interwoven from dream journals, cinematic fragments, and real memories. The film begins in the present: New York, a city in a state of political upheaval. Everything seems familiar, yet nothing is normal anymore. From here, an associative journey opens inward – into an in-between world where reality, dream, and memory overlap into a fever dream of images, voices, and thoughts. A time loop leads back to 1997. In a first-person narrative, we encounter a woman living in a Russian house in East Brooklyn – surrounded by Latino gangs, salsa music, and a jealous Russian man. As she tries to write a screenplay, heat, noise, and unrest keep her awake. At night, she zaps through TV channels and becomes fixated on programs about paranormal phenomena. With each passing night, objects and furniture begin to take on a life of their own – the boundary between dream and reality dissolves." –Angela Christlieb Screening between the two films: Simon Lee LISTEN PUNK (HOFFA) (2015, 4 min, DCP)