Three by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew

First meeting as first year film school undergraduates at NYU, Durand and Chew began to collaborate on highly unconventional narrative shorts following their individual stints in the art world, making singularly of-the-moment films about mediated desire (and rankling jealousy) in our terminally on-line world. Screenings of Durand and Chew’s trilogy of thematically interlocked shorts, accompanied by two carte blanche picks by the filmmakers.

“Afterschool and Water Lilies ruined us when we first saw them. They’re both raw films about young people in moments of transition. Watching them made us feel like stalkers in the best way.” —Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew

Series created in collaboration with MacDowell and curated by 2024 MacDowell Fellows Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew.