First Look Festival at the Museum of the Moving Image

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The Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look Festival is a welcome post-Oscars tonic, a chance to bask in original films, many accessibly avante garde. I only caught a sliver of the 40-something films, but from the selection I saw I noticed a similar undercurrent similar running through them: each work was collage-like, holding a tactile melange of textu…