21st Century Limited es el título de una serie de seis programas de abarcan filmes y vídeos seleccionados a partir de los resultados de la encuesta de la revista Film Comment “A Decade in the Dark—Avant-Garde Film and Video 2000-2009.” Dicha encuesta recogía las opiniones de cuarenta y seis cineastas, comisarios y críticos de cine sobre las mejores piezas de cine y vídeo de la primera década del siglo 21 (2000-2009), los 'mejores' cineastas y sus opiniones sobre los más prometedores artistas 'emergentes'. Los programas se proyectarán agrupados en tres distintas fechas: 11, 18 y 25 de Julio en el Walter Reader Theater de New York. En la primera fecha se contará con la presencia de los cineastas David Gatten y Jeanne Liotta

Sunday July 11

18:30h
Program One: Pictures Of Quiet Light
In person: David Gatten

- Song and Solitude (Nathaniel Dorsky, 2005/6, 21m)
- The Great Art of Knowing (David Gatten, 2004, 37m)
- Pitcher of Colored Light (Robert Beavers, 2007, U.S./Switzerland, 25m)

1. A song of the earth and departure in the heart of dusk.
2. Breaking ground, a broken heart, and the foundations of higher learning. The ghosts that lie between whispering pages.
3. Facing home, and the most familiar face, twilight returns.

20:30h
Program Two: Breaking The Waves
In person: Jeanne Liotta

- Observando el cielo (Jeanne Liotta, 2007, 19m)
- At Sea (Peter Hutton, 2004-07, U.S./South Korea/Bangladesh, 60m)
- The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him (Stan Brakhage, 2000, Canada/U.S., 50m)

1. Liotta’s Night Watch. Radio Waves and Constellations. When you wish upon a star, the skies rise and shine.
2. Former Merchant Marine Hutton follows the life of a sea vessel from the cradle to the grave.
3. Brakhage returns to his wife’s childhood haunts, reading the ocean for signs of life, a submerged biography written in the waves, silently told in tidal passages.

Sunday July 18

18:30h
Program Three: I'll Keep It With Mine
- She Puppet (Peggy Ahwesh, 2001, 17m)
- Nest of Tens (Miranda July, 2000, 27m)
- Poetry and Truth (Peter Kubelka, 2003, Austria, 13m)
- Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (Peter Tscherkassky, 2005, Austria, 17m)
- The General Returns From One Place to Another (Michael Robinson, 2006, 11m)
- Rehearsals for Retirement (Phil Solomon, 2007, 10m)

1. Lara Croft walks through a field of fire.
2. Venus flytraps of the quotidian.
3. Living waxworks advertising the accursed eternities of household nirvanas.
4. A descent into the Western Lands—Spaghetti Hades.
5. Frank O’Hara meets the Hollies.
6. In the hidden margins of Grand Theft Auto, past the landscapes of mayhem, beyond the valley of Death, a human chrysalis sheds its skin and plunges into the next world without a final goodbye.

20:45h
Program Four: Some Velvet Morning
- Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (Daichi Saito, 2009, Canada, 10m)
- Easter Morning (Bruce Conner, 2008, 10m)
- False Aging (Lewis Klahr, 2008, 14.5m)
- Black and White Trypps Number Three (Ben Russell, 2007, 12m)
- Light work I (Jennifer Reeves, 2006, 8m)
- Lumphini 2552 (Tomonari Nishikawa, Japan, 2009, 2.5m)
- Horizontal Boundaries (Pat O’Neill, 2008, 23m)

Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. Transcendence and Transport. Taking the less beaten path, music provides the backbeat and opens up the gates. Music by Malcolm Goldstein, Terry Riley, Jefferson Airplane, Lightning Bolt, Anthony Burr, and Carl Stone, among others.

Sunday July 25

18:30h
Program Five: Liberty Or Death
- Ah Liberty! (Ben Rivers, 2008, U.K., 19m)
- Footnotes to A House of Love (Laida Lertxundi, 2007, 13m)
- The Fourth Watch (Janie Geiser, 2000, 10m)
- An Injury to One (Travis Wilkerson, 2002, 53m)

1. Anarchy in the U.K. Scavengers in an untamed settlement. Born Free – Live Wild.
2. A heart with no vacancy, a house without walls.
3. A spectral haunting just before daybreak, in dappled sunlight and the blue moiré of the cathode ray.
4. Speaking the unspoken truth, revisiting the scene of a crime.

21:15h
Program Six: Confidential
- A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2009, Thailand, 18m)
- Tabula Rasa (Vincent Grenier, 1993-2004, Canada, 7m)
- Dwarfs the Sea (Stephanie Barber, 2007, 5m)
- Let Me Count the Ways 10...9...8...7...6... (Leslie Thornton, 2004, 22m)
- Great Man and Cinema (Jim Finn, 2009, 4m)
- Second and Lee (Kevin J.Everson, 2008, 3m)
- Something Else (Kevin J.Everson 2007, 3m)
- It’s Not My Memory of It – Three Related Documents (The Speculative Archive, 2003, 25m)

Porous boundaries of identity, spirits of place. On the record, off the radar, registered as ephemeral or indestructible. History can be invisible, apparitional, stealthy, manufactured, planted, bronzed. File or misfile under: Confidential or Public Record.