Image: New York Public Library Picture Collection, 2026.

PEOPLE MOVERS is 

a screening of Teleférico T.1 by Catalina Jordan Alvarez in a program of mobile movies ******a performance by composers Daniel Fishkin and Femi Shonuga-Fleming******  moving machines by Fordham art students****** and a ferry ride 

Open to all ages. Families with children welcome.

an installation of moving machines by Fordham art students 

Mosa Adiba, Angelina Bland, Anne Cresson, Lily Mazullo, Maddy McAuliffe, Analiz Quezada, & Rachel Richardson present tiny trains

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a performance by composers Daniel Fishkin and Femi Shonuga-Fleming

daxophone and electronics 

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a screening of Teleférico T.1 by Catalina Jordan Alvarez in a program of mobile movies

Teleférico T.1, broods over New York City’s mobile infrastructure. Starring Lucky Benson and the Roosevelt Island Tram. 

Production of Teleferico T.1 was supported by a Queens Art Fund New Work grant and a Fordham-NYU Research Fellow and Intern Program award.

With short mobile-network films including And when I die let me be buried in a Hemlock coffin, so I’ll go through hell snapping by Sarah Friedland. 

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and a ferry ride 

A ride on the most pleasurable mode of transport, from the terminal near Flux IV at Hunters Point South to 34th Street. We’ll leave from the terminal around 5 p.m. The crossing between these two stops is very brief—7 minutes. Go home from there, or come back five minutes later!

Free tickets for Fordham students, sponsored by the Fordham CCEL.

Program Schedule

3:00 p.m. moving machines 

3:30 p.m. concert

4:00 p.m. screening

4:30 p.m. walk along the beautiful paths to the ferry terminal 

5:00 p.m. ferry ride to 34th Street—and back, if you like!

About the Artists

Catalina Jordan Alvarez makes choreographed films and experimental musicals. Her feature-length documentary “Sound Spring” is distributed by Grasshopper Film and her bilingual collection of short “screen plays” titled, “Vagaries” is published by Edições da Ruína (Lisbon). She has held fellowships and residencies at the Flaherty Seminar, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Rooftop Films, Flux Factory, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. Her films have screened at festivals including Slamdance, Fantastic Fest, New Orleans, and Palm Springs, and at venues such as ICA Philadelphia, the San Diego Art Institute, and the Museum of the Moving Image. Raised in a bilingual Spanish-English household, she grew up with a father who ran the Roosevelt Island Tram. Catalina is currently an Associate Professor in the Visual Arts program at Fordham University.

Lucky Benson is an actor and filmmaker whose performance work is informed by their training as a visual artist, journalist, and hypnotist. Past roles have included the ghost of cellist Charlotte Moorman, a nonbinary version of Conan the Barbarian, an evil pickup artist, and a filmmaker who successfully infiltrates the JPEG codec. They star in the forthcoming feature film “C.A.R.E.” directed by Brock Enright. Their work has appeared in places like the CPH:DOX Documentary Film Festival, on the BBC, at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, in The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, on the screen at Anthology Film Archives, in The Brooklyn Museum, on the BBC, in The New York Times, and on the walls of Nicolai Wallner Gallery. They are manifesting that their next role involves fire, fencing, or gymnastics. https://www.lucky-benson.com/

Daniel Fishkin’s ears are ringing. Daniel is the only luthier that studied directly with the daxophone’s inventor, Hans Reichel. Daniel’s instruments have traveled the world, including Canada, Norway, Germany, France, Japan, Kazakhstan, and Australia. He is the first USA-based artist to receive the P.I.G. Prize (2021) from acclaimed fashion designer Henrik Vibskov. Daniel received his MA in Music Composition from Wesleyan University, and earned his PhD in Composition and Computer Music at the University of Virginia. He teaches at Ramapo College of New Jersey, where he is Assistant Professor of Music Production. His current favorite wood is prunus serotina, or black cherry.

Femi Shonuga-Fleming is a New York based sound artist whose compositions explore the intersections of acousmatics and cultural anthropology. His work employs site specific rituals that investigate environments and create new forms of discourse in conversation with the resulting research. Through performance, multichannel installation and sculpture, he examines the dynamic relationships between human gesture and sound technology. Femi works with handmade electro-acoustic instruments and generative systems as cybernetic mediums, extending embodied experience into spatial interventions. The focus of his work is to amplify the world of the surreal by designing new immersive environments. He is particularly interested in sonic acts as ritual and the poetics of sound technology. His work has been presented at the Sonic Acts Biennial in Amsterdam (2026), Waterworks Festival in Massachusetts (2024), and Ende Tymes in New York (2022), among other venues and festivals.

Sarah Ema Friedland is a NYC-based media artist and educator. Her work has been screened and exhibited at institutions including Lincoln Center, Anthology Film Archives, The DCTV Firehouse Cinema, PBS, Cannes Film Festival Doc Corner Pitch, the Tang Teaching Museum, The Chelsea Museum, The Queens Museum, and the MIT List Center. Her works have been supported by grants and fellowships including Jerome, Paul Newman, Ford, NYSCA, the Palestine American Research Center, the LABA House of Study, and the MacDowell Colony. She was named one of the “Top 10 Independent Filmmakers to Watch” by the Independent Magazine, is a recipient of the Paul Robeson award from the Newark Museum, and was nominated for a New York Emmy. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU, Liberal Studies where she also directs the Liberal Studies Global Media Lab.

Fivel Rothberg is a sound recordist, producer, and filmmaker who is currently attending Adelphi University for a masters in social work. A long-time media activist, Fivel loves using storytelling to empower movements for social justice. Additionally, he has years of experience in development for nonprofits. Fivel co-founded the democratically-run independent news site Indymedia.org, which empowered thousands of citizen journalists in chapters worldwide.  Credits as a producer on feature-length documentary work include: The People’s Bubbie (in-progress), Lyd, Island Soldier, and My Brooklyn.

Ben Still is a filmmaker and musician. His documentary work has won awards at film festivals, has been featured in the New York Times and as a imeo Staff Pick, and has received support from The Sundance Institute, The International Documentary Association, Wave Farm, and New York State Council on the Arts. His music videos have been featured in Rolling Stone and NPR’s All Songs Considered. He holds a PhD in Social Psychology from New York University.

Tito Joao is an Ecuadorian actor and storyteller. Born and raised in Portoviejo, Ecuador, Tito found in movies and imagination his earliest forms of artistic expression. After studying medicine, he followed his passion for the arts and moved to New York City to study acting at the New York Film Academy. His work is drawn to psychological depth, silence, isolation, and the emotions that exist beneath what we reveal.

Paige Finley is a performer and choreographer. She is a graduate of the Ailey/Fordham BFA program and a member of Ballet Hispánico’s BH2. Additional training includes Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet, ABT, BalletX, ArchCore40, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. She has performed works by Barak Marshall, Christopher Huggins, Clifford Williams, Caili Quan, and Annie Rigney as well as worked with and performed a solo by Gregory Dawson. Paige has had the opportunity to perform as an apprentice with Chicago Repertory Ballet, as a trainee with Zeitgeist Dance Theatre in Santa Fe, NM and is a current company member with Pangea Dance Collective and DoubleTake Dance. In addition to dance, Paige has trained in voice and acting, debuted choreographic works in New York, Chicago and Santa Fe, and works as a Barre instructor.