From the personal to the cosmic, this grouping of artists’ films demonstrates that the most daring and probing works are often short in form. James N. Kienitz Wilkins returns to Doc Fortnight with Moon v. State, an archival photo-film whose rapid-fire monologue by Emily Davis (star of Broadway’s Is This a Room) harkens back to the disarray of a small Texas town in the late 1950s, where a bewildering robbery has gone fatally awry.
Moon v. State. 2024. USA. Directed by James N. Kienitz Wilkins. 16 min. World premiere. This film accompanies Doc Fortnight 2024: MoMA’s Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media.