Borderline Films Retrospective at Museum of the Moving Image

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• The Eyes of My Mother (2016)

  

  In the 13 years since it was founded in New York by Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin and Josh Mond, Borderline Films has produced seven features. Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) will host a retrospective featuring all of these — including the two most recent, “Christine” and “The Eyes of My Mother” — from November 17 – 27.

  It begins with “Eyes,” a black-and-white slow burn of a horror film directed by Nicholas Pesce. The filmmaker will appear in person for the 7 p.m. screening on November 17. Dark and disturbing but rarely as graphic as you’d expect, “The Eyes of My Mother” tells of a young woman who’s grown up surrounded by death — and eventually comes to feel comforted by its presence.

• Two Gates of Sleep (201)

  

  Brady Corbet stars in this tale of two brothers living in the south, which screens November 18 at 2 p.m. With a focus on his story’s natural environs, writer/director Alistair Banks Griffin hones in on a fraternal relationship tested by the imminent death of the siblings’ mother.

• Afterschool (2008)

  

  Antonio Campos made his directorial debut with this unnerving drama, which stars Ezra Miller as a prep-school student whose online viewing habits suggest — but don’t give the full extent of — his unhealthy inclinations. (November 18, 4 p.m.)

• Christine (2016)

  

   
  Campos’ latest film is one of two made about Christine Chubbuck this year, the other being Robert Greene’s “Kate Plays Christine.” Rebecca Hall (who will appear in person for the November 18, 7 p.m. screening) turns in one of the year’s most compelling performances of the year in the title role.

• James White (2015)

  

  Josh Mond’s first outing as director was among the most acclaimed debut films of last year, with Christopher Abbott (as the title character) and especially Cynthia Nixon earning praise for their performances. The immersive, experiential drama screens November 25 at 3 p.m.

• Simon Killer (2012)

  

  Corbet’s collaboration with the Borderline collective continued with Campos’ sophomore effort, an icy look at an even icier young man whose trip to Paris takes on dark, violent tones. “Simon Killer” screens November 25 at 5 p.m.

• Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)

  

  Before she was Scarlet Witch, Elizabeth Olson was Martha (and Marcy May, and Marlene) in Sean Durkin’s cult drama, a breakout of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Screens November 27, 7 p.m.