June 20 - TIKIMENTARY at Otto’s Shrunken Head
Head out to Otto’s Shrunken Head this Saturday, June 20 for an exotic, surf-themed night of cinema and music. First up is Duda Leite’s Tikimentary, a documentary about all things tiki, which shows at 7PM. Following the screening is a lineup of surf rock bands, including The Chillers, Thee Icepicks, Bongo Surf, The Octomen, and Sasquatch and the Sick-A-Billys.
May 24 - A NAME IN WHITE FILM FESTIVAL at Millenium Film Workshop
Filmmaker Reuben Meltzer’s third annual A Name in White Film Festival is happening this Sunday, May 24 at Millenium Film Workshop. There are two separate programs, one at 2pm and one at 5pm, and both include a separate lineup of local New York filmmakers including Joel Schelmowitz, Karl Mendoca, Reed French, Jeff Curran, Will Lucas, Maura Feeney, Jonah Kruvant, Savros Toumanidis, Tawania Pettus, Adele Ray, Juan David Gonzalez, Paul Gennaro, Morgyanna Roach, and Cullen Gallagher. Half of the proceeds will be donated to the Leukemia Lymphoma Society.
Showing Sunday, May 24 at 2pm and 5pm at Millenium Film Workshop.
May 15 - QUICKSHOTS at The Archive, Curated by Nana Seo and Leung Chi Wo
Screenshots is a new montly media and video series. Quickshots, this month’s event, occurs May 15 at The Archive in Brooklyn and is organized by curator Nana Seo and artist Leung Chi Wo, both based out of Hong Kong. The artists featured include: Chow Chun Fai (Hong Kong), David Clarke (Hong Kong), Ise Parkingproject (Malaysia), Yoshiaki Kaihatsu (Tokyo), Kwan Sheung Chi (Hong Kong), Lam Tung Pang (Beijing), Michael Lee Hong Hwee, Willam Phuan & Tan Chee Tat (Singapore), Lee Kit (Hong Kong), Alexia Mellor (Boston), Nam HyoJun (Shanghai), Huong Ngo (New York), Nguyen Quang Huy (Hanoi), Political Art Group (Hong Kong), Qiu Anxiong (Guangzhou), Gilad Ratman (New York) and Doris Wong Wai Yin (Hong Kong).
Shows at Friday, May 15 at 9:30PM at The Archive (49 Bogart Street, Brooklyn).
(image courtesy of kleebversestheworld.blogspot.com)
May 14 - Joel Schlemowitz presents NON-CAMERA FILMMAKING at The New School
Experimental filmmaker and curator Joel Schlemowitz is presenting Non-Camera Filmmaking, a collection of short films all made without the use of a physical camera. Come support twelve emerging filmmakers as they break the rules of moviemaking and explore the myriad possibilities of celluloid and projection. Among the filmmakers exhibiting their work are: Jaclyn Amor, Cassandra Colletti, Nathaniel Cummings-Lambert, Maura Feeney, Jenn Gellman, Will Lucas , Reuben Meltzer, Karl Mendonca, Marissa Mickelberg, Mary Denise Patterson, Ina Adele Ray, and Evan Walter.
Showing Thursday, May 14th at 8:00PM at The New School (66 Fifth Avenue Room 404).
May 11 - Flaherty NYC presents JOHNNY BERLIN 2 at Anthology Film Archives
Flaherty NYC is bringing director Dominic DeJoseph to Anthology Film Archives on Monday, May 11 to present his latest documentary, Johnny Berlin 2; Notes from the Dumpster, the sequel to Johnny Berlin. The latest film continues in the adventures of a train porter wh now finds himself broke in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. “Brilliantly funny and wise monologue-as-portrait of a unique American thinker,” proclaims the Sarasota Film Festival, while Snow Vandermore at El Vigilate highly recommended the film by saying, “I was hoping it would just keeping going on and on, it was that good.”
Shooting People’s Ingrid Kopp will be on hand to discuss the film with the director after the screening, and help to give away a few free special prizes!
Showing Monday, May 11 at 7:30PM at Anthology Film Archives.
Sunday, May 3: “RIP: A Remix Manifesto” at UnionDocs at 7:30PM
Timely issues of copyright control, piracy, and fair use come to the forefront of Brett Gaylor’s RIP: A Remix Manifesto (2009), which focuses on the controversy surrounding the increasingly popular sample-based musical artist Girl Talk. Gaylor’s film goes above and beyond the bounds of most traditional documentaries and fully engages in the issue at hand: he has made his film “open source” and available online for anyone to “remix” themselves. Visit opensourcecinema.org for more info.
New York-based programmer Steve Holmgren has curated this event, and has invited Fred Benenson (co-founder of Free Culture @ NYU) for a conversation after the film.
March 13 - Godard’s BAND OF OUTSIDERS introduced by JONATHAN LETHEM at Rubin Museum
Brooklyn’s own Jonathan Lethem will introduce a screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s masterful (and, some might argue, his masterpiece) Band of Outsiders (Bande à Part) this Friday, March 13 at 9:30PM at The Rubin Museum of Art. Godard’s wife and muse, Anna Karina, stars in this charming homage to film noir about a young woman who is roped into robbing her family by Sami Frey (Mr. Brigitte Bardot) and Claude Brasseur. Featuring stunning cinematography by Raoul Coutard, music by Michel Legrand, and one of the coolest and most indelible dance sequences in film history.
Showing Friday, March 13 at 9:30PM at The Rubin Museum of Art.
March 6 - JOEL SCHLEMOWITZ + TILL BY TURNING + FOLDS ENSEMBLE at Issue Project Room
Prominent New York City experimental filmmaker and curator Joel Schlemowitz will be providing a visual performance to music by Till By Turning and Folds Ensemble at Issue Project Room this Friday, March 6, at 8:00PM. In addition to Schelmowitz’s visuals, this event will also include new music by Jim Altieri, Katherine Young (of Till by Turning), and a trio for violin, piano, and percussion featuring Aaron Siegel. Formed at Oberlin University, Till by Turning was described by Steve Dollar in Time Out Magazine as, “a new generation of adventurous musicians bringing contemporary music to clubland….the players dip into the modern canon…and give breath to new works by their peers.”
ANOTHER SIDE OF A KING: FILMS AND LITERATURE OF WOODIE KING, JR. at Maysles Cinema
As part of Black History Month, Maysles Cinema is paying tribute to Woodie King, Jr., a pioneering writer and director for both stage and screen. Born in Alabama, King was raised in Detroit where he worked for Ford Motor Company before becoming an engineer. Dissatisfied with the state of theater and lack of roles for black actors, he began forging his own movement first in Detroit, and later in New York City where he would go on to found the New Federal Theater. You can read more about King’s life in this article by Jerry Tallmer from The Villager.
Another Side of a King: Films and Literature of Woodie King, Jr. will be showcasing several of King’s films including: Death of A Prophet (1981) (Feb. 11 and Feb. 18, 7:00 pm), a documentary about Malcolm X’s last 24 hours and featuring music by Max Roach; Segregating The Greatest Generation (2006) (Feb. 12, 7:00 pm), about black artists during World War II; The Long Night (1976) (Feb. 13, 7:00 pm), his first feature film; and The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six (1980) (Feb. 20, 7:00 pm) based on a true story that occurred in 1963.
Woodie King Jr. will also be at Maysles Cinema in person on Thursday, Feb. 19 at 7:00 pm for a reading and reception.
Feb 7 - Scott Nyerges at Millennium Film Workshop
Brooklyn-based experimental filmmaker Scott Nyerges will make an appearance at Millennium Film Workshop as part of their on-going Personal Cinema series this Saturday, February 7, for a special presentation of his works including Autumnal (2008), Polar (2007), Flow (2005), Means and Meditations (2004), Floating in the Ether (2002), and a sneak-peak at a work-in-progress. Many of his films involve painting directly on the celluloid itself. He has shown at film festivals around the world including Tribeca, Rotterdam, and Seattle. See an excerpt of Flow by clicking the link below.
