***Moving* Body - Moving *Image***
is an evolving biennale thematic exploration of the Moving Body on Screen founded and directed by Gabri Christa

2026 Festival:
The Moving Immigrant Body On Screen

Moving Body – Moving Image 2026 brings together films exploring migration, displacement, identity, memory, heritage, belonging, and the immigrant experience.

The festival will have two parts with a full day event at Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium on October 18, 12:00–6:00PM, followed by additional programming and installation at Barnard College’s Movement Lab October 19–24.

Lincoln Center Films

- Navigation
- Provenance: A Letter to my Daughter
- Antítesis
- Ina Ama
- The Noise My Leaves Make
- When the chair fell into the void
- Las Madres
- Pasa Pasa
- Expectations Sharpen the Blade with Which We Carve Joy
- Air de Temps
- Family Portrait
- Refugiar el Gesto / Sheltering Gestures
- The Long Goodbye

Movement Lab Installation

- X PAT BOND
- In the Middle
- ASSEMBLY LINE
- HaMapah/The Map
- Room: A Corporeal Dialogue Across Time (live performance on 10/22)

MBMI 2026 Schedule

Live Event at Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium

October 18th from 12:00pm-6:00pm
FREE

12pm

12:30pm

2:00pm

3:30pm

4:30pm

Festival Opens at Lincoln Center Atrium

Shorts I Screening

Navigation
Provenance: A Letter to my Daughter
Antítesis
Ina Ama

Shorts II Screening

The Noise My Leaves Make
When the chair fell into the void
Las Madres
Pasa Pasa
Expectations Sharpen the Blade with Which We Carve Joy

Shorts III Screening

Air de Temps
Family Portrait
Refugiar el Gesto / Sheltering Gestures
The Long Goodbye

Live Discussion Moderated by Charlotte Brathwaite

Installation at Barnard College’s Movement Lab

October 19th - 24th

FREE (RSVP Required)

October 19th
12:00-2:00pm

October 19th-23rd
3:00-6:00pm

October 19th
6:00pm

October 22nd
6:00pm

October 24th
10:00am-6:00pm

Workshop with Jingqiu Guan

Installation Films

X PAT BOND
In the Middle
ASSEMBLY LINE
HaMapah/The Map

Reception with Installation Film Makers

Installation Performance & Talk Back by Jingqiu Quan

Room: A Corporeal Dialogue Across Time

Installation Films

X PAT BOND
In the Middle
ASSEMBLY LINE
HaMapah/The Map

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With less than THREE weeks away from our Lincoln Center debut, we want to introduce you to more of our incredible filmmakers for MBMI 2026🎬

First up… Olya Glotka 🎥

Olya Glotka is a Ukrainian-born, Toronto-based, queer, award-winning filmma

Stills from Jingqiu (J.J.) Guan’s Family Portrait 🧶

Film description: Confronting conflicting values, a young woman returns to her home country to rediscover what has shaped her own beliefs by tracing different lessons bestowed to her from he

FILM/ARTIST SPOTLIGHT:
Huang Jianming’s ASSEMBLY LINE

While MBMI is a ScreenDance festival, focused on the moving body and how it is depicted on screen, tackling some of the most critical social themes of our times sometimes requires us to st

MEET THE FILMMAKERS🎬
(slide to read more about each of our featured artists)

First up we have… Tia-Monique Uzor🌟

Tia-Monique Uzor is a London-based Caribbean artist-scholar who is interested in themes of identity, popular culture, resistan

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A person wearing a denim jacket sits on the subway with their eyes closed holding the handle of a cane. Image from "Vision Portraits."

Two people, shirtless and visible from the chest up, hold each other in low light. Image from "Gimp Gait."

A person lies on their stomach, bracing themselves with their arms bent as their eyes look forward. They are only visible from above the upper torso, and they are wearing a racerback tank top and a wristband. Image from "Eudaimonia."

An outline of a person’s upper body with their hands in front of them as they sit down, created through overlays of photographic chemical treatment outlines. Image from "Infusion No. 1"

A group of people wearing green each use one hand to pull the collar of their shirt towards their shoulder. They are grouped together, some sitting on blocks, others standing, and others in wheelchairs. Two neon green lights on stands sit in the back

A black-lined grid overlays an image of Alice and Laurel outstretched in full horizontal flight. Alice, a multiracial Black woman with short curly hair and coffee-colored skin, and Laurel, a pale white woman with short cropped brown hair, twist and c

Three people tilt to the right, looking up with one arm raised, and the other towards the ground. They are in an empty concrete lot with a bright sky behind them. Two of the people are in wheelchairs, the other one is kneeling with one leg stretched

A person wearing glasses and a cardigan over a floral shirt looks down at a book and gestures with their hands, palms facing towards their body and fingers separated. Image from "Reading Through the Body"

A propped up paper photograph with a figure cut out and placed slightly in front of the original photo. The background of the photo contains a person on the left in a lunge, and a person on the right leaning forward in a wheelchair in a dance studio

A person wearing a sweater with one hand against their neck and the other in a gesture with a closed hand. A curtain with branches, foliage, and birds is behind them. The image is split horizontally across the middle, and doubled. Image from "From Me

Two people hold hands in a counterbalance in a dim concrete space with three colorful murals on the back wall. The person on the left has long hair and is wearing a colorful outfit that matches the mural behind the pair. They are leaning backwards an

A line of figures with fists raised in triumphant positions. They positioned in pairs, wearing black outfits with colorful capes, belts, and gloves. One of the figures is in a wheelchair, the rest are standing. Image from "How to Train an Antihero"

A pale inner forearm cuts diagonally across the image with the hand folded backwards, braced against the black background. Image from "Exit Strategy #2"

A collage of digital images featuring a blue 3D modeled standing body with colorful lines and points on it, diagrams of hands, and x-rays. The text 我們可以互相關懷的地方 is written across the top, and “Where we found care.” is written across the bottom. Image

A person lays across a wooden deck path on their stomach, propped up on their hand and arm. They are wearing a long-sleeve shirt and pants, and are surrounded by small flowers and bushes in a field sparsely populated with trees. Image from "Uath Loch

A person wearing a pink hoodie and pink boxing gloves stands with their hands raised in front of their body and their eyes closed. The hoodie has colorful textural embroidery on it, including orange polka-dots and a red cartoon cyclops octopus with a

Two people are crouched facing opposite directions with the backs of their hands touching and moving towards the forehead of the person turned more to the camera. Still from "Sense-8"

Two people wearing dark clothing lean against each other, making contact with their upper bodies. The person on the left has their back to the camera, and has a cross-shaped tattoo on their upper back. The person on the right is facing the camera, an

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