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).
Tuesday, March 17, 7:30PM KEN JACOBS show and Discussion at Light Industry
New York City experimental filmmaking pioneer and founder of the Millennium Film Workshop Ken Jacobs will be present at Light Industry this Tuesday to present work, Return to LH6. Following will be a conversation with Jacobs and Amy Taubin. Come out to what’s sure to be a memorable evening.
“I expanded on the Laff Movie selections so one never knew what to expect and I disapproved of introductions: students were expected to grapple, and then there’d be talk, lots of it. Assuming I still have something of my teaching chops, you’re welcome to sit in on a re-creation of cinema studies in LH6. (I would sometimes screen some of my own stuff so there just might be samplings and discussion of recent Ken Jacobs work.)” - KJ
Excerpt of Jacobs Tom, Tom, The Piper’s Son
Showing Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 7:30pm at Light Industry.
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.”
Feb. 25 - Albert Serra’s BIRDSONG / EL CANT DELS OCELLS, Director in Person
Don’t miss Albert Serra’s new feature, Birdsong, opening Wednesday February 25 at Anthology Film Archives. A follow-up to the minimalist but bold Don Quixote adaptation Quixotic/Honor de Cavelleria, Serra is back with a new feature which has already garnered much acclaim on the festival circuit. Birdsong gives us Serra’s take on the biblical story of the Three Kings. Serra will be at Anthology in person for the 7PM and 9:15PM screenings Wednesday along with Mark Peranson (editor and publisher of Cinema Scope) who made the brilliant making of, Waiting For Sancho. Sancho also screens along side of Birdsong this weekend at Anthology. “Young maestro Serra excels himself in this black & white film with a very dry yet evocative representation of the journey made by the three wise men to the stable of little Jesus. Pure Cinemark by an absolute master enriched with hilarious humour.” - Rotterdam Film Festival 2009
Showing Wednesday, February 25 - Tuesday, March 3 at Anthology Film Archives.
Feb. 23 - Profit Motive and The Whispering Wind with John Gianvito present at MoMA
Come watch one of the best progressive experimental docs of the past few years this Monday evening at the Museum of Modern Art. John Gianvito will be present to present and discuss his 2007 PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND, which won Best Experimental Film by the National Society of Film Critics. Inspired by Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States, this doc chronicles America’s history of rebellion through grave sites and memorials of often forgotten past figures of protest. Screens as part of MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight.
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.
Feb 7 - MISSING ALLEN and THE GRANDFATHER TRILOGY at UnionDocs
Double feature at UnionDocs this week curated by Lorenzo Gattorna. First is Missing Allen (2001), a private detective documentary in which the director, Christian Bauer, combs the country in search of Allen Ross, a friend and collaborator who disappeared shortly after he and Bauer completed a film together. Years go by as the search goes on, and the possibility for a grim conclusion grows stronger every day. Following Bauer’s film is a special presentation of one of Ross’ own The Grandfather Trilogy (1978-81, 16mm), a series of three short films about his grandfather. “The films abound with images which suggest stasis, absence, silence, horizontality, oneness with the earth: a catalog of the conditions of death from the point of view of the living,” wrote Nosowitz in Millennium Film Journal.
Jan. 30 - THREE VIDEOS BY TAKAHIKO IIMURA at Anthology Film Archives
Legendary Japanese experimental filmmaker Takahiko Iimura will be at Anthology Film Archives on Friday presenting two of his classic films as well as a special “remix” of one of his works. Scott MacDonald praised Iimura’s work as being able “refresh our ability to perceive.” The works being screened are Self Identity (1972-74, revised 2008), Observer/Observed and Other Works of Video Semiology (1975-1978), and Seeing/Hearing/Speaking (2002), which Iimura described by asking the question, “Is there any difference phenomenologically between the utterance as it was read in the sentence and as recorded in the video?”
Showing Friday, January 30 at 7:30PM at Anthology Film Archives.
