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Short experimental films presented @ Brooklyn Film Festival

Short experimental films presented @ Brooklyn Film Festival

June 10, 2015 by admin

In an afternoon of short films laced together as “experimental” on topics of love, memory, and change—in an age ripe with digital overload via the endless storage of images and information—it was “Boyland” that seemed to most resonate with the audience.

Brooklyn Film Festival Review: “Eadweard”

Brooklyn Film Festival Review: “Eadweard”

June 5, 2015 by admin

There are a couple more days left of the Brooklyn Film Festival. A review has been dispatched to us by Main Tim who attended the screening of “Eadweard,” a film portraying the complex life of Edward Muybridge who is best known for his pioneering work in photographic motion. The film was screened at The Wythe Hotel.

New Documentary CARE Warns America is Headed for Massive Care Gap in Coming Decades

New Documentary CARE Warns America is Headed for Massive Care Gap in Coming Decades

April 22, 2015 by Genia Gould

Deirdre Fishel is a Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker currently working on an ambitious documentary entitled “CARE” about the severe financial burden of home elder care in America.

Stations of the Elevated begins one-week run at BAMcinematek

Stations of the Elevated begins one-week run at BAMcinematek

October 15, 2014 by admin

“A 45-minute proto-hip-hop bliss-out, a masterpiece of train- and tag-spotting.” —The Village Voice

Controversy Follows Him, Filmmaker and Gambling Man—Gonzalo García-Pelayo

Controversy Follows Him, Filmmaker and Gambling Man—Gonzalo García-Pelayo

July 31, 2014 by admin

Film festivals all over the world suddenly want to show his films, the prestigious national and international publications are reaching out to him for interviews. He’s happy as a child, currently working on the editing of Niñas (“Little Girls”). Niñas is all about the feminine,” he said to me at an interview at his home in Madrid, where he and his wife Carmen welcomed me as a friend.

Night of Lust by José Bénazéraf  at Spectacle Theatre

Night of Lust by José Bénazéraf at Spectacle Theatre

July 26, 2014 by admin

Less salty than its title might suggest, NIGHT OF LUST is a New Wave noir set at a string of Parisian strip clubs. Hans Verner and Jean-Pierre Kalfon star as two rival gang leaders, both fighting to rule the Parisian drug trade.

Peter Tscherkassky’s Outer Space + Karl Freund’s Mad Love at Light Industry

Peter Tscherkassky’s Outer Space + Karl Freund’s Mad Love at Light Industry

July 22, 2014 by admin

“Yet what a complicated endless tale it seemed to tell, of tyranny and sanctuary, that poster looming above him now, showing the murderer Orlac! An artist with a murderer’s hands; that was the ticket, the hieroglyphic of the times.”

Tom Stathes Rare Cartoon Carnival 27: Bugs & Spiders at Standard Toykraft

Tom Stathes Rare Cartoon Carnival 27: Bugs & Spiders at Standard Toykraft

July 19, 2014 by admin

Standard Toykraft hosts Tom Stathes for some rare and unusual cartoons featuring bugs, creatures, and things with more arms and legs than you could shake a stick at.

Northside DIY Competition Winners Screening and ‘TV on the Fritz’ at Videology, 07/18

Northside DIY Competition Winners Screening and ‘TV on the Fritz’ at Videology, 07/18

July 18, 2014 by admin

Two great events tonight at Videology – first up, Northside Film Festival will be screening their 2 winning films from the Northside DIY Competition, at 7:30pm, followed by “TV on the Fritz” at 10:30pm. You can go for one or the other, both events are free to the public,

Marie Losier & Friends, experimental short works at The Picture Show, 07/12

Marie Losier & Friends, experimental short works at The Picture Show, 07/12

July 12, 2014 by admin

Back from Europe for only a few weeks, film portrait artist Marie Losier invites her friends to share the screen with her in this evening of experimental short works to celebrate her return.

OUTDOOR CINEMA: LA PIROGUE, a film by Senegalese director Moussa Touré, at Socrates Sculpture Park

OUTDOOR CINEMA: LA PIROGUE, a film by Senegalese director Moussa Touré, at Socrates Sculpture Park

July 9, 2014 by admin

An absorbing drama of 30 men (and one woman) who set out on an illegal 7-day voyage from the coast of Senegal to Spain – making the perilous journey in a pirogue, a boat resembling a vastly oversized dinghy.

The Driver’s Seat, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1974,  Taylor& Warhol, at Light Industry 7/08

The Driver’s Seat, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1974, Taylor& Warhol, at Light Industry 7/08

July 7, 2014 by admin

Taylor’s frantic performance mirrors The Driver’s Seat setting—an early ‘70s Rome, part consumer paradise and tourist hub, part staging ground for student riots and police violence, teetering on the edge of collapse.

Vyer Films announces online premiere of Sion Sono’s HIMIZU

Vyer Films announces online premiere of Sion Sono’s HIMIZU

June 27, 2014 by admin

This Saturday, Vyer Films will release Himizu by controversial and celebrated Japanese director Sion Sono, marking the films first availability online in the U.S. and Canada.

The Films of Anton Perich: Shit on the Fenders of Your Convertible Because We’re Coming Through No Matter What

The Films of Anton Perich: Shit on the Fenders of Your Convertible Because We’re Coming Through No Matter What

June 24, 2014 by admin

In 1973, filmmaker Anton Perich, the legendary Candy Darling and Taylor Mead, and the Broadway actor Craig Vandenburgh went to a nice apartment on Central Park West to make a film. The apartment belonged to the art collector Sam Green and the walls were groaning with Warhols. Perich came up with a simple scenario: Taylor Mead would play a decadent and perverse wall street type, Candy his socialite daughter.

A Conversation with Jean-Pierre Gorin at Light Industry

A Conversation with Jean-Pierre Gorin at Light Industry

June 21, 2014 by admin

Light Industry hosts a conversation with Jean-Pierre Gorin, one of cinema’s most erudite and incisive figures. Gorin began his career in filmmaking by advising Jean-Luc Godard on La Chinoise (1967)

In Bloom at The Picture Show

In Bloom at The Picture Show

June 21, 2014 by admin

Set in the newly independent Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, IN BLOOM is the story of the friendship between two girls, as they face men’s dominance, early marriage and disillusioned love.

A Night with Su Friedrich: “Sink or Swim” on 16mm & NY Premiere of “Queen Takes Pawn”, Spectacle Theatre 6/20

A Night with Su Friedrich: “Sink or Swim” on 16mm & NY Premiere of “Queen Takes Pawn”, Spectacle Theatre 6/20

June 19, 2014 by admin

Spectacle is pleased to welcome Su Friedrich in person for a 16mm screening of her masterpiece SINK OR SWIM (1990), followed by a selection of her short films, including the New York Premiere of her latest work QUEEN TAKES PAWN (2013).

Yilmaz Guney: Hope | Umut at Spectacle Theatre 6/19

Yilmaz Guney: Hope | Umut at Spectacle Theatre 6/19

June 18, 2014 by admin

Critics are fond of separating a filmmaker’s “life” from his “work,” as if the two were related but autonomous spheres. In the case of Yilmaz Güney, the hollow-cheeked, mustachioed action movie star and director whose name has become legend in Turkey.

Om Dar Ba Dar // i am micro at Light Industry

Om Dar Ba Dar // i am micro at Light Industry

June 17, 2014 by admin

even considering the long history of alternative Indian cinemas that have emerged under the shadow of Bollywood—the insistent auteurism of Guru Dutt, the humanist realism of Satyajit Ray, the Marxist interventions of Mrinal Sen

Northside Festival Presents Beyond the Doors at Union Docs

Northside Festival Presents Beyond the Doors at Union Docs

June 17, 2014 by admin

The story of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin and how their message for their generation made them targets of a US government plot. Directed by schlock cinema auteur Larry Buchanan

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