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).
Monday March 9 - Josh Weinstien and Jacqueline Goss in person for FLAHERTY NYC
Flying On One Engine - Trailer from FlyingOnOneEngine on Vimeo.
This Monday Anthology Film Archives will host its monthly screening series with the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Flaherty NYC, at 7:30PM. Jacqueline Goss will be in attendance and presenting her innovative short film STRANGER COMES TO TOWN. Also on hand is NYC based filmmaker Josh Weinstein presenting his debut doc FLYING ON ONE ENGINE which has played at festivals across the world including IDFA, South by Southwest, and Full Frame. Both docs are centered on the theme of last year’s Seminar, The Age of Migration. A special post screening discussion will be moderated by fellow NYC filmmaker Scott Nyerges.
Showing Monday, March 9 at 7:30PM at Anthology Film Archives.
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.
THE HAPPY MAN and 53 WINTER DAYS at NYU
Tuesday, February 3 marks the first day of Spanish Women Behind the Camera, a series of ten films showing Tuesdays throughout the month at the King Juan Carlos 1 of Spain Center at NYU. The opening night film is Judith Colell’s directorial debut 53 Winter Days (53 días de invierno) (2006), which Jonathan Holland of Variety described as a “gentle, character-based [film that] interweaves three naturalistic short pieces about troubled lives -one psychological, one emotional, one social — into an unexpectedly resonant, understated whole.” Preceding the feature is Lucina Gil’s short film The Happy Man (El Hombre Feliz) (2006) about the search for a truly “happy man.”
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.
Jan. 30 - From Underground to Independent: New Cinema from China
This Friday, January 30th, the China Institute will be screening work from underground Chinese filmmakers who use their cameras to investigate the country’s on-going modernization. Inspired by Dziga Vertov, San Yuan Li (2003) examines the conflict between traditional and urban cultures, while Digital Underground in the PRC (2008) discusses the possibilities the future holds for Chinese cinema.
Showing Friday, January 30 at 6:30PM at the China Institute.
Tonight! BOF and AMAZING THE LION at The PIT
Special big-screen presentation of two fabulous new web-comedy series, Amazing the Lion and BOF (which, of course, stands for “Best of Friends”), at The People’s Improv Theater. Cleverly animated with a darkly, almost psychedelic sense of humor, Amazing the Lion focuses on the mis-adventures of a lion and his pals (including a suicidal panda) in the magical forest near the Long Island Expressway. BOF’s “friends” - Mamrie Hart and Stephen Soroka - are like Siamese Twins caught in a nightmarish game of Chutes and Ladders: together they can climb to great heights, but once they get there they want to cut off the other half and kick them down the chute so they never come back. But, of course, joined at the proverbial hip, the two are inseparable. Plus - what are best friends for, if not fighting, scheming, double-crossing, cursing, lying…
Sample the goodness of BOF online courtesy of the Independent Comedy Newtork:
Showing Friday, January 16, at 8:00PM at The People’s Improv Theater at 154 West 29th Street.
