Community Program

Posted on September 6, 2012 by ivriad

Saturday 9/22 @ 12:00pm – 329 Greenpoint ave.

This Community Program includes a feature film and special documentary footage. Q & A after program.

FEATURING:

The Domino Effect, directed by Megan Sperry, Daniel Phelps & Brian Paul, USA, 2012, 50 min, color, HD
The New York real-estate world is challenged in this politically charged investigative documentary. Through the lens of the controversial plan to transform the Domino Sugar factory into luxury condominiums and through conversations with longtime residents, the filmmakers reveal the impact gentrification has had on the community of North Brooklyn.

Trailer

Greenpoint Incinerator 1998

Community Environmental Footage, 45 min.

The program includes Keith Rodan’s Greenpoint Video Project of 1998.

Environmental Program

Posted on September 6, 2012 by ivriad

Saturday 9/22 – 329 Greenpoint Ave.

Screening @ 2:00pm

Panel @ 4:45pm

This Environmental Program includes short films, a feature film and a special panel to follow @ 4:45pm.

FEATURING:

Newtown Creek Digester Eggs: The Art of Human Waste, directed by David Leitner, USA, 2012, 3 min, color, HD
A short documentary film showcasing the achievements made by the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant – environmentally, architecturally and artistically – to enhance the living conditions for those in the Greenpoint community and encourage change for other environmental endeavors. An unusual marriage of form and function energizes the jaw-droppingly beautiful Digestor Eggs and Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Newtown, directed by Sarah Choi, USA, 2012, 8 min, color, HD
In this eye-opening documentary, filmmaker Sarah Choi exposes the history and realities behind the Greenpoint Oil Spill – one of the largest, and least publicized man-made disasters in the USA – and its impact on local communities.

The Water Underground, the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), USA, 2006, 33 min, color, SD
Below the surface of New York City lurks an immense grid of pipes designed to carry water in various states of grossness. They bring us water for drinking, washing our clothes, and putting out fires. This same water carries away our dirt, our soapy water, and our poo – the poo of eight million New Yorkers. Where does the water go? This educational video, produced by the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), the Lower East Side Ecology Center, and public high school students from City-As-School, explores the Water Underground – the millions of gallons of water flowing beneath NYC and the people who make it their business.

The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and art to increase meaningful civic engagement. To learn more about CUP, visit: welcometocup.org

H2Oh No!, the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), USA, 2012, 3 min, color, SD

Have you ever been told not to go swimming at the beach after a heavy rainfall? Did you ever wonder why? Like many older cities, New York City has a combined sewer system. That just means that dirty water from buildings is collected in the same network of pipes as stormwater from street and rooftops. Jump in to find out about what’s gross about NYC’s current system, and what you can do about it. This educational video was produced by the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) with Justin Cassano, and Andy Kennedy. The project is made possible through the generous support of the NYCEF Newtown Creek Fund of the Hudson River Foundation.

The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and art to increase meaningful civic engagement. To learn more about CUP, visit: welcometocup.org

Last Call at the Oasis, directed by Jessica Yu, USA, 2011, 105 min, color, HD
Cinematic journalism at its best, Jessica Yu’s startling documentary Last Call at the Oasis is a call to action regarding the current water crisis. The film exposes the consequences of human and corporate decisions made affecting our water on a local and global scale. With the reality of an impeding water crisis looming over our heads, there is also a measure of hope to be gleaned from Ms. Yu’s dedicated interview subjects, who will not give up in the fight to preserve our most valuable resource.

Environmental Panel

David Leitner, Filmmaker
Lisa Garrison, Hudson River Foundation
Paul Dallas, Film Curator

Crime Scene Greenpoint

Posted on September 7, 2012 by alexh

Directed by Christopher Arcella, USA, 2007, 4 min, color, SD

Saturday 9/22 @ 1:15pm – 186 Huron St.

A beautifully haunting observation of the fire that broke out at the Greenpoint Terminal Market on May 2nd 2006.

Crime Scene Greenpoint is the winner of the Greenpoint Film Festival’s Director’s Choice Award.

Bill Morrison: Light Excavations

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Selected Films 1996–2012

Curated by Paul Dallas

Program 1 Satuday 9/22 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm
186 Huron St.

Program 2 Satuday 9/22 @ 09:30pm – 11:00pm
186 Huron St.

“One of the most adventurous American filmmakers” —Robert Koehler, Variety

Filmmaker Bill Morrison has, over the last 20 years, created a singular body of work that defies classification. Drawing on the traditions of experimental or avant-garde film, installation, theater and musical performance, Morrison’s films create immersive visual and sonic landscapes that reflect on the symbiosis of creation and destruction. His medium is archival film footage, much of it in a state of voluptuous deterioration, which he transforms through deliberate editing into exquisite meditations on collective mythologies and forgotten narratives, both real and imagined.

Morrison gained international recognition with the acclaimed feature Decasia (2002), a film hailed by J. Hoberman as “that rare thing: a movie with avant-garde and universal appeal.” The film, which was composed entirely of decaying archival nitrate film stock and edited to composer Michael Gordon’s intense score, embodies the filmmaker’s persistent interest in the resonances of film’s physical properties as well as the expressive power of music to transform images.

Morrison’s works are often the result of collaborations with musicians and composers. The two programs offer the chance to witness, not only the breadth of Morrison’s image-making but also the range of lush soundtracks, from the mercurial jazz compositions of trumpeter Dave Douglas for Spark of Being to five partIcelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson’s six-part score for a 16-piece brass ensemble for The Miners’ Hymns.

Program I

City Walk (2003, 6 min, b&w, 16mm on DVD)
An abstract, high contrast tour across Manhattan’s streets and across bridges set to a score by Michael Gordon.

Light is Calling (2004, 8 min, color/b&w, 35mm on DVD)
A scene from James Young’s The Bells (1926) is optically reprinted and edited to a musical composition by Michael Gordon.

Spark of Being (2010, 68 min, color/b&w, DVD)
Morrison’s stunning feature, which won the LA Film Critic’s Best Experimental Film (2011) is a faithful adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein retold through an array of decaying archival footage and set to a score by jazz musician Dave Douglas. Rarely screened and a must-see.

Spark of Being draws fascinating parallels between the invention of cinema and that of the Creature, and pulls Shelley’s 19th-century tale into the modern age. —Robert Koehler, Variety

(Program: 82 min)

Q&A with Bill Morrison following Program 1.

Program II

The Film of Her (1996, 12 min, b&w, 35mm on DVD)
“A contemporary standout…Bill Morrison’s The Film of Her deftly combines documentary, fiction, and found-footage collage to tell the story of the unsung clerk who saved the Library of Congress’ paper print collection from certain destruction.” —Amy Taubin, Village Voice

Release (2012, 13 min, b&w, HD)
A crowd gathers in front of Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary in 1930, awaiting the appearance of a celebrity criminal in Morrison’s sly meditation on spectacle and spectatorship. Watch closely.

The Miners’ Hymns (2011, 52 min, color/b&w, HD)
Morrison’s latest feature tells the story of the doomed coal-mining communities in Northern England through archival footage (from the British Film Institute and BBC, among other sources) and is set to a five-movement elegiac score by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson. Trailer

“A miner himself of a type, Mr. Morrison has dug into the archives of the likes of the British Film Institute to cull primarily black-and-white images so rich, so alive with dirty faces, shadows and the occasional pit pony that they resurrect a world that for many has long been lost to history.” —Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

(Program: 77 min)

Separate $7 admission to each program.

About the Curator:
Paul Dallas studied architecture at The Cooper Union and filmmaking at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2011, Paul worked as the film programmer for the BMW Guggenheim Lab, an event space in downtown Manhattan that served as a place for public engagement on issues related to sustainability, community and the future of cities. In 2012, he curated “Street Views” for the Maysles Cinema and presented “Recent German Shorts: Viewing the Urban Landscape” at the Berlin Guggenhiem Lab.

Black & White & Grey

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Directed by Jonah Bleicher, USA, 2011, 14 min, color, HD

Sunday 9/23 @1:30pm – 607 Manhattan Av

Having a hard time adapting to parenthood after a year’s service in Iraq, Blake Martin goes in search of his own father. His quest leads him to a small gay bar where he is faced with the toughest battle of his life.

Part of the Narrative Shorts Program.

Bodily Heavens II

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Directed by Stephanie Wuertz, USA, 2012, 18 min, color, DV

Saturday 9/22 @ 1:15pm – 186 Huron St.

In Bodily Heavens, close proximity and deep space collide. Stop-motion techniques animate microscopic slides, transforming the inner functions of the body into a site where cells breathe, pulse, and disperse, evoking an underground abyss, a sublime spacescape, a deep-sea world.

Body and Material video program

Posted on September 3, 2012 by ivriad

Curated by Alexandra Ben-Abba

Sunday 9/23 @ 5:30pm – 186 Huron St.

“Since the 70’s artists have been using video to document events and interactions they have with materials and audience. The video documentation of performances alongside the development of technology generated a new genre of time based – moving image work. While this work parallels to experimental film it is unique in its approach to the human body and use of materials. This hour-long program offers a collection of short video works made in the past few years and it includes work that uses material as a subject or metaphor in dealing with identity, human interaction and gendered relations to vulnerability, labor, place and prayer.” – Alexandra Ben-Abba

The program will be followed by a panel with artists Liz Collins, Amy Jenkins, Catherine Telford-Keogh, Naomi Safran-Hon, Tal Gur, Tamar Ettun, Brett Swanson & Alexandra Ben-Abba

FEATURING:

Audrey Superhero, directed by Amy Jenkins, USA, 2010, 9 min, color, HD

The Paternal Relationship of Samson and Deliah, directed by Catherine Telford-Keogh, USA, 2011, 5 min, color, HD

The Rush, directed by Derek Paul Boyle, USA, 2011, 1 min, color, HD

Etch A Sketch, directed by Avital Burg, USA, 2012, 2 min, color, HD

Avoda Aravit, directed by Naomi Safran-Hon, USA, 2010, 14 min, color, video

Cleaning II, directed by Naomi Safran-Hon, Israel, 2010, 6 min, color, video

The Trash Athlete, directed by Tal Gur, USA, 2011, 1 minutes, color, video

Standing Prayer, directed by Tamar Ettun, Israel, 2008, 6 min, color, video

The Runway, directed by Alexandra Ben-Abba, Liz Collins and Marc Lester, USA, 2012, 3 min, color, HD

Execution, directed by Brett Swanson, USA, 2011, 9 min, color, HD

Peeling, directed by Alexandra Ben-Abba, USA, 2011, 2 min, color, HD

CURATOR:

Born in the US, Alexandra Ben-Abba grew up in Jerusalem, Israel. Her work explores aspects that are inherent and specific to her Israeli identity and culture and springs from observation of events and human relationships she experience. Transforming these experiences into artwork Ben-Abba investigates the material glass and its qualities, experimenting with reflections, projections, fragility and transparency she makes objects and record actions that result in sculptural, installation, photographic and video work. She graduated from RISD, with a MFA in Glass and with a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.

CUP Productions: The Water Underground

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Collaborative, USA, 2010, 25 min, color, HD

Saturday 9/22 @ 2:45pm – 329 Greenpoint Av

Below the surface of New York City lurks an immense grid of pipes designed to carry water in various states of grossness. They bring us water for drinking, washing our clothes, and putting out fires. This same water carries away our dirt, our soapy water, and our poo – the poo of eight million New Yorkers. Where does the water go? This educational video, produced by the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), the Lower East Side Ecology Center, and public high school students from City-As-School, explores the Water Underground – the millions of gallons of water flowing beneath NYC and the people who make it their business.

The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and art to increase meaningful civic engagement. To learn more about CUP, visit: welcometocup.org

Part of Greenpoint Film Festival’s Environmental Program.

Deaf Jam

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Directed by Judy Lieff, USA, 2011, 70 min, color, digital video

Thursday 9/20 @ 7pm – 186 Huron St.

This high-energy documentary explores the beauty and power of American Sign Language (ASL) poetry through the story of deaf teen Aneta Brodski’s bold journey into the spoken word poetry slam scene. When Aneta, an Israeli, meets and then collaborates with Tahani, a hearing Palestinian slam poet, they create a hearing/deaf duet touching on their shared personal and cultural experiences — generating a new form of slam poetry that crosses boundaries, cultures and languages.

Trailer

Website

Deaf Jam is the Opening Night Film. WINNER of Documentary Feature competition.
Director Judy Lieff, Aneta Brodski and interpreter Veronica Staehle will be present for a Q&A following the screening.
The film will be preceded by a Meet and Greet at 6pm and followed by the Opening Night After Party.

Funeral Season (La Saison des Funerailles)

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Directed by Matthew Lancit, Canada/Cameroon, 2010, 87 min, color, HD/DV

Sunday 9/23 @ 12pm – 186 Huron St.

“If Woody Allen sought out to make an ethnographic documentary in Cameroon, the result would probably be something like Funeral Season” – Traces de Vies jury member (2011)

In this comedic ghost story, a Canadian Jew wanders through an African culture where “the dead are not dead”. Embarking on a road trip examining some of Western Cameroon’s most joyous funeral celebrations, the foreigner becomes increasingly haunted by memories of his own ancestors.

Golf In the Kingdom

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Directed by Susan Streitfeld, USA, 2012, 86 min, color, HD

Sunday 9/23 @ 2pm – 607 Manhattan Av

A blend of sport and mysticism, this film tells the story of Michael who, in 1956, is bound for an ashram in India when he stops over in Scotland to play one last game on a renowned course, Burningbush. There he encounters Shivas Irons, a pro with a philosophical and metaphysical bent, who profoundly alters the young man’s perceptions of golf and life. Golf in the Kingdom, is adapted from Michael Murphy’s 1972 ground-breaking and best-selling novel.

Trailer

Golf in the Kingdom is the WINNER of the Narrative Feature competition.
Paired with Angelfish, WINNER of the Narrative Shorts competition.
A special Q&A with the Executive Producer of Golf in the Kingdom, George Stephanopoulos, will be following the screening of Love Stalker.

Last Call at the Oasis

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Directed by Jessica Yu, USA, 2011, 105 min, color, HD

Saturday 9/22 @ 2:00pm – 329 Greenpoint Av

Cinematic journalism at its best, Jessica Yu’s startling documentary Last Call at the Oasis is a call to action regarding the current water crisis. The film exposes the consequences of human and corporate decisions made affecting our water on a local and global scale. With the reality of an impeding water crisis looming over our heads, there is also a measure of hope to be gleaned from Ms. Yu’s dedicated interview subjects, who will not give up in the fight to preserve our most valuable resource.

Part of Greenpoint Film Festival’s Environmental Program.

Lost in America

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Directed by Ian Kennedy, USA, 2010, 47 min, color, DV

Sunday 9/23 @ 1:45pm – 186 Huron St.

A poetic urban western, Lost In America is a unique portrait of eccentric poet and singer Philip Norris who struggles to survive in the quickly changing neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Trailer

Lost in America is the WINNER of the Documentary Shorts competition.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A.

Louise and Her Lover

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Directed by Ryan Balas, USA, 2011, 72min, color, HD

Saturday 9/22 @ 11:45am – 186 Huron St.

Louise and Lilly, two young models, and Johanna, a painter, become involved in a twisted three-way relationship that spins out of control when the lines between art and sex get blurred.

Trailer

This is a world premiere of Louise and Her Lover.

Love Stalker

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Directed by Matt Glasson & B. Bowls MacLean, USA, 2011, 95min, color, HD

Sunday 9/23 @ 4pm – 607 Manhattan Ave

Womanizer plays girls. Womanizer finds the perfect girl. Womanizer stalks girl. What was once a short film made for St. Louis’ 48 Hour Film Project, this “unromantic comedy” is the quintessential example of the up-and-coming approach talented new filmmakers are taking to make passion projects: the “micro-budget.” Shot in the environs of St. Louis in five weeks with a $20,000 budget and a Canon 5D Mark II, filmmakers Brian Bowls MacLean and Matt “Mugs” Glasson crafted together a witty and semi-gritty feature.

Love Stalker is the winner of the Greenpoint Film Festival’s Best Mico Budget Film Award .
The screening will be followed by a panel with Love Stalker director and producer Matt Glasson and David Ohliger and Golf in the Kingdom Executive Producer George Stephanopoulos.

Maybe Tomorrow

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Directed by Michael Wolfe, USA, 2012, 93 min, color, HD

Sunday 9/23 @ 11:45am – 607 Manhattan Ave

Three old friends are reunited for one night by a terrible shared secret which begins to tear at the seams and makes them question the paths they have chosen in their lives.

Millennium Nomadic

Posted on September 3, 2012 by ivriad

Curated by Millennium Film Workshop

Friday 9/21 – 186 Huron St.

Program 1 @ 5pm

Panel @ 6:30pm

Program 2 @ 8pm

Program 3 @ 10pm

Millennium Film Workshop, the non-profit media arts center and cinema, located in the East Village, has been around since 1965, dedicated to the exhibition, study & practice of avant-garde and experimental film, video, and all technologies of the moving image. It’s Personal Cinema Series, from the local to the international, has been ongoing since the beginning.

This Millennium Nomadic series of programs will feature works from the current “new era” of Millennium, a time when dozens of artists & filmmakers have joined together to keep this vital space alive. In this moment of dwindling funds & dispersed focus, makers, teachers & curators have banded together to infuse new blood into a potentially disappearing institution in an act of creative self-determination. Exciting programs, essential workshops, & a thriving journal signal the “irrepressible” nature of this DIY cultural venue. Come see the film & video works of three generations of fiercely independent & wildly experimental media artists that refuse to quit or join the corporate spectacle.

Millennium Nomadic will consist of 3 programs & a panel, spanning a wide gamut of approaches, styles, techniques, attitudes & visions, from abstraction to appropriation, performance to animation, material to structural, lyrical to satirical, critical to poetic. Celluloid works will mingle with digital, and the single channel with expanded cinema. And both the programs & the panel will derive from New York artists engaged as curators, teachers, board members and equipment facilitators at Millennium, as well as from the journal and technical workshops. So as a way to meet & solicit new artists, to increase our visibility to other communities, and to experience satellite venues, we come displaying the pulse of this post-millennial Millennium.

PROGRAM #1 – ‘FROM THE SECRET FILES OF AN IDIOSYNCRATIC FILM CURATOR’ CURATED BY MARIANNA ELLENBERG

“A sampling of the films, videos and artists who have shaped my vision as an itinerant film curator, which began when I showed my first films at Millennium Film Workshop in 2000. From shooting super 8 film in fish tanks to holding screenings in parking lots, these artists have worked within the vein of an irreverent, passionate and symphonic underground cinema.” – Marianna Ellenberg

Screening Program:

Yew, directed by William Santen, USA, 2012, 6 min, color, 16mm

Cet Air La, directed by Marie Losier, France/USA, 2010, 3 min, b/w, 16mm film

The Pool, directed by Jayne Parker, UK, 1991, 10 min, b/w, 16mm film screened on mini-dv

This is the Place, directed by Marianna Ellenberg, USA, 2010, 7 min, color, video

Lucky Time Goh, directed by David Louis Zuckerman, USA, 2012, 3 min, color, video

Zeal for the Law, directed by Josh Mannis, USA, 2012, 2 min loop, color, HD

Junk Spirals, directed by Peter Burr, USA, 2009, 6 min, color, video

You Are Now Running on Reserve Battery Power, directed by Jessie Stead, USA, 2011, 11 min, color, HD

The Story of Elfranko Wessels, directed by Amanda Trager and Erik Moskowitz, Canada/USA, 2011, 16 min, color, video

MILLENNIUM NOMADIC PANEL

The panel will consist of artists & filmmakers from these Millennium Nomadic programs who are engaged as curators, teachers, board members, and equipment facilitators, as well as from the journal and technical workshops.

PROGRAM #2 – MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL PROGRAM CURATED BY GRAHAME WEINBREN

Artists featured in the 2012 issues of the Millennium Film Journal. Works covering a broad range of subjects, visual styles, and media, all from the world of the moving image in the hands of artists.
The first half of the program draws from the Spring issue and includes work by Alfred Guzzetti, Marie Losier, Robert Nelson, and Steina; and the second half, from the Fall issue (forthcoming), includes works by Bradley Eros, Janis Crystal Lipzin, Evan Meaney, Richard Tuohy and Steven Woloshen.

Part I: from MFJ 55 “Structures & Spaces: Cine-Installation” (Spring 2012)
What Actually Happened, directed by Alfred Guzzetti, USA, 1996, 9 min, color, video
‘Interview with Alfred Guzzetti’ by Scott MacDonald

Eat My Makeup (with George Kuchar as himself), directed by Marie Losier, USA, 2005, 6 min, color, 16mm
‘In Memoriam George Kuchar’ by Marie Losier

The Off-Handed Jape, directed by Robert Nelson & William T. Wiley, USA, 1967, 8 min, color, video
‘In Memoriam Robert Nelson’ by Mark Toscano

Urban Episodes, directed by Steina, Iceland/USA, 1980, 9 min, color, video
‘The Emergence of Steina’ by Gerald O’Grady

Part II: from MFJ 56 “Material Practice: From Sprockets to Binaries” (Fall 2012, in production)
Aerodynamics of the Black Sun, directed by Bradley Eros, USA, 2006, 6 min, color, HD
‘more captivating than phosphorus’ by Bradley Eros

DE LUCE 1: Vegetare, directed by Janis Crystal Lipzin, USA, 2009, 5 min, color, DVD from Super 8
‘A Materialist Film Practice in the Digital Age’ by Janis Crystal Lipzin

Ceibas – Epilogue – The Well of Representation, directed by Evan Meaney, USA, 2011, 7 min, color, video
‘Evan Meaney: the well of representation’ by Chris Kennedy

Centre Spot, directed by Richard Tuohy, Australia, 2008, 7 min, color, 16mm
‘Photographic Memory: Diary of a Viewer’ by Martin Rumsby

The Homestead Act, directed by Steven Woloshen, Canada, 2009, 8 min, color, 35mm
‘Photographic Memory: Diary of a Viewer’ by Martin Rumsby

PROGRAM #3 – ‘A BURNING DESIRE FOR SOMETHING UNUSUAL’ CURATED BY STEPHANIE WUERTZ & BRADLEY EROS

“a burning desire for something unusual”

from a core group active in vitalizing the current Millennium:
strange beautiful. monstrous, perhaps. incandescent, glowing with heat, maybe.
reverberating, sometimes. ripe, spectral, most likely. uxorious, you’d have to ask; but
definitely luminous in the night & more captivating than phosphorus.

experimental one, two & three projector works by Jay Hudson, Lary Seven,
Stephanie Wuertz, Bradley Eros, Shona Masarin, Grahame Weinbren, Sarah
Halpern, Kelly Spivey & Ken Jacobs.

CURATORS:

Marianna Ellenberg is an artist working with the still and moving image, currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Ellenberg’s film/video and photographic work centers around a re-imaging of female subjectivity and desire within visual abstraction and language play.

Grahame Weinbren, recognized as a pioneer of interactive cinema, has made films and installations for over 30 years. His high definition short films “Letters” were exhibited in the 2008 Berlin Film Festival and the 2010 Zero1 San Jose Biennial. He teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and is the senior editor of the Millennium Film Journal.

Stephanie Wuertz is a moving-image artist based in New York whose work draws inspiration from early cinema, proto-cinema, science and abstraction. Her work is not so much interested in depth as it is in surface, process and bodily experience. The imagery she creates incorporates stop-motion, superimposition, performance and music to explore subjectivity, dissolution and transformation.

Bradley Eros is an artist working in myriad media: experimental film & video, collage, photography, performance, sound, text, contracted and expanded cinema & installation. Also a maverick curator, composer, designer & researcher. Concepts include: ephemeral cinema, mediamystics, subterranean science, erotic psyche, cinema povera, poetic accidents and musique plastique.
Exhibited at Whitney Biennial & The American Century, MoMA, Performa09,
The New York, London & Rotterdam Film Festivals, The Kitchen, Microscope Gallery; Worked for many years with the New York Filmmakers’ Cooperative, Anthology Film Archives & co-directed the Roberta Beck Mercurial Cinema.

Newtown

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Directed by Sarah Choi, USA, 2012, 8min, color, HD

Saturday 9/22 @ 2:45pm – 329 Greenpoint Av

In this eye-opening documentary, filmmaker Sarah Choi exposes the history and realities behind the Greenpoint Oil Spill – one of the largest, and least publicized man-made disasters in the USA – and its impact on local communities.

Part of Greenpoint Film Festival’s Environmental Program.

Newtown Creek Digester Eggs: The Art of Human Waste

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Directed by David Leitner, USA, 2012, 3 min, color, HD

Saturday 9/22 @ 2:00pm – 329 Greenpoint Av

A short documentary film showcasing the achievements made by the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant – environmentally, architecturally and artistically – to enhance the living conditions for those in the Greenpoint community and encourage change for other environmental endeavors. An unusual marriage of form and function energizes the jaw-droppingly beautiful Digestor Eggs and Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Opening Greenpoint Film Festival’s Environmental Program.
Filmmaker will be present for a Q&A after the program.

Now Collection

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Directed by Aki Goto, USA/Japan, 2012, 39 min, color, video

Saturday 9/22 @ 1:15pm – 186 Huron St.

Multimedia artist Aki Goto’s fashion-video epic for her Now Collection is as sweet as it is daring, highlighting her one-of-a-kind repurposed creations while exploring the idea of the present outside of time.

Trailer

The Now Collection is the WINNER of the Experimental Shorts competition.

Rip Smops: The Sound No One Wants To Hear

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Directed by Jenny Miller, Sam Phillips & Arielle Edelman, USA, 2011, 21 min, color, HD

Sunday 9/23 @ 1:45pm – 186 Huron

A documentary portrait of multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter and DJ Rip Smops who has been making music for over 30 years and is ready for his big break.

Part of Greenpoint Film Festival’s Documentary Shorts Program.
A Q&A will follow the Documentary Shorts screening.

Same Same

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Directed by Dylan Allen, USA, 2011, 8 min, color

Sunday 9/23 @1:30pm – 607 Manhattan Av

In a homogenous world, a man struggles to crack an impossible task.

Part of Greenpoint Film Festival’s Narrative Shorts Program.

Documentary Program on Social Justice

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Curated by Karen Sloe Goodman & Sean Gallagher

Sunday 9/23 @ 3:30pm – 186 Huron

This Documentary Program on Social Justice includes short films which address issues surrounding LGBTQ, the Occupy Movement, Human Rights/Sexual Exploitation, Immigration and the Urban Environment.

A special Q&A with directors Antony Osso & David Berman will follow the curated program.

FEATURING:

The Devotion Project: My Person, directed by Antony Osso, 2012, USA, 10 min, color, HD
One in a series of 6 short award-winning documentary portraits of LGBTQ couples and families, celebrating their commitment and love.

Talk to the Horse, directed by David Berman & Michael Berman, USA, 2011, 15 min, color, HD
A silent, horse-headed news reporter interviews Occupy Wall Street protesters and onlookers in pursuit of understanding what the protest is really about.

Underage, directed by Danny Linsner & Ohm Phanphiroj, Thailand/USA, 2011, 7 min, color, HD
A documentary about underage male prostitutes in Thailand, this extraordinary film exposes the insidious problem of sexual exploitation among minors and the mistreatment of children.

Limbo, directed by Eliot Rausch, USA, 2012, 19 min, color, HD
This unique film exposes the lives of 3 undocumented students, living in the US without legal status. Never having touched a camera, the 3 students were gifted with a small handycam and trained for half a day. They were asked to film everyday for 3 months. Through their lens, this is their story.

Vigilante Gardener, directed by Todd Bieber, USA, 2011, 3 min, color, HD
The filmmaker decides to illegally grow a vegetable garden on a neglected patch of land in Brooklyn. The garden is located on 8th Ave and 5th Street in Brooklyn, New York. Feel free to stop by and water it if you’re in the area.

CURATORS:

Sean Gallagher is a filmmaker (Wimoweh) & editor from New York. He is currently directing his first full-length documentary, The Black List, which reveals the story behind the longest litigated civil rights case in American history. Sean works as a Projectionist & on the Technology Staff at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY.

Karen Sloe Goodman is a Film Programmer at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY, and resides in NYC. Karen has worked in documentary and feature production, and received her M.F.A. in Film Production (If She Grows Up Gay …), and an M.A. in Cinema Studies from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Sometimes City

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Directed by Tom Jarmusch, USA, 2011, 80 min, color and B/W video

Saturday 9/22 @ 5:30pm – 186 Huron St.

“An Essay-letter (love-hate) in the form of Documentary.” -Andrew Lampert. Archivist, Anthology Film Archives

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Experimental filmmaker Tom Jarmusch presents his first feature film, Sometimes City. A unique blend of the experimental and documentary genres, the film explores the history, economic status and everyday life of Jarmusch’s hometown – Cleveland, Ohio – with a unique approach.

“SOMETIMES CITY is a gritty and personal documentary portrait of Cleveland Ohio. SOMETIMES CITY suggests the city’s people, landscape, and decline. SOMETIMES CITY was conceived to include documentary, home movie, personal, and possibly fictional elements. SOMETIMES CITY originated from two different video installations with the intention that it would evolve into a film. As filmmaking progressed it became important to let different people speak, people that we do not usually hear from. I filmed a great deal and found what I would. The movie juxtaposes many scenes of residents and some performed music becoming a kind of “spare-parts scavenging of stories”. The title comes from a poem by d.a. levy and part of one of his poems is read in the movie. SOMETIMES CITY was photographed during 2008 and 2009 using various consumer video formats, 16mm and Super 8 film.” - Tom Jarmusch

Sometimes City is the WINNER of the Experimental Documentary competition.
Director Tom Jarmusch will be present for a Q&A after the screening.

The Domino Effect

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Directed by Megan Sperry, Daniel Phelps & Brian Paul, USA, 2012, 50 min, color, HD

Saturday 9/22 @ 12pm – 329 Greenpoint Av

The New York real-estate world is challenged in this politically charged investigative documentary. Through the lens of the controversial plan to transform the Domino Sugar factory into luxury condominiums and through conversations with longtime residents, the filmmakers reveal the impact gentrification has had on the community of North Brooklyn.

Part of Greenpoint Film Festival’s Community Program.

WIMOWEH: The Jay Siegel Story

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Directed by Sean Gallagher, USA, 2012, 10min, color, HD

Sunday 9/23 @ 1:45pm – 186 Huron

Known more by this voice than his name, Jay Siegel and his group, The Tokens, topped the charts 50 years ago with his distinct falsetto on the classic mega-hit, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” Now at the age of 72, Jay resides in Rockland County, NY, where he has turned his garage into a make-shift museum of his career. He loves the work he does and he’s still touring today and yes, he can still sing in the same key as he did when he was just a teenager.

The Documentary Shorts program will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.

Angelfish

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Directed by Michael Tyburski, USA, 2011, 11 min, color, HD

Sunday 9/23 @ 2pm – 607 Manhattan Av

After a difficult breakup, a quiet young man moves off the grid and onto a sailboat on New York’s East River in search of what can not be found within the confines of the city.

Angelfish is the WINNER of the Narrative Shorts competition.
Paired with Golf in the Kingdom, WINNER of the Narrative Feature competition.

Watching

Posted on September 3, 2012 by alexh

Bestiaire, winner best Experimental Feature

Curated by Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe

Saturday 9/22 @ 2:30pm – 186 Huron St.

There is no doubt that the human brain is good at acquiring information quickly. The media-saturated world in which we live makes the most of that gift, often bombarding us with rapid changes of information-rich imagery. The presumed challenge with rapidly-changing images is to “get” what’s happening immediately, to “know”. This program presents films that offer an opportunity for more of a meditative practice of watching. What we are watching is not dramatic, it is the everyday — the everyday with space to allow for wonder at something not exactly specific.

Bestiaire, WINNER of Experimental Feature competition, will be included in the curated program, with a Q&A to follow.
The curator would like to thank Kimstim.com for this screening of Bestiaire. Trailer

FEATURING:

Tanya/Sam 17, directed by Myrel Chernick, USA, 2012, 10 min, color, digital
In Tanya/Sam, two teenagers negotiate the shared space of the studio couch. Restless or thoughtful, bored or oblivious, their gaze addresses the unknown, toying with unarticulated questions.
This is a world premiere of Tanya/Sam 17.

Continuum, directed by Dominic Angerame, USA, 1987, 15 min, B/W, 16mm on DVD
Continuum is “a complex and finely woven picture of a day-in-the-life of labor, or a work, in progress, and without end, microcosmically reflecting a history of any labor and many an art. …we see into the turgid furnace of mans multifarious tasks, and, as in a vision, behold the ballet of his tools and accouterments: steaming tar, turning pulleys, swishing mops, changing lights and sewer-plates, acetylene torches and sandblasting serpents, snorting sting of jackhammers and gleaming jewels amid grime where undinal heat makes the atmosphere buckle.” (Ronald Sauer)

1, directed by Shelly Silver, USA, 2001, 3:12 min, color, digital
A group of cops laugh and talk, while scanning the street for suspicious activity. An extreme close-up of a sensuously exposed neck; a soft pink fleshy ear turns to reveal an inquisitive hostile eye…. 1 is a short tape about longing, threat, power and seduction, with the camera functioning in turn, as aggressor, mediator and confessor.

Greenpoint Afternoon, directed by Hey-Yeun Jang, USA, 2012, 3 min, color, digital
Greenpoint afternoon was commissioned for the Greenpoint Film Festival and features the people of Greenpoint on a weekend afternoon in August.
This is a world premiere of Greenpoint Study.

Traffic, directed by Perry Bard, USA, 2005, 5:20 min, color, digital
Near the intersection of Canal and Broadway a mobile marketplace repeatedly installs itself and disappears in sync with the ambling police patrol. Status symbol knockoffs sold out of suitcases and black plastic bags control the chaos with as much authority as the cops. One unsuspecting tourist finds herself scaling a wall to escape with her loot. The filmmaker spent years negotiating this intersection around the corner from her loft; one week she stood on the corner recording the illicit trade where speed and mobility are of the essence.

The Weather is Clearing Up!, directed by Jeffrey Skoller, USA, 2006, 3:42 min, color, digital
In the midst of war, Ho Chi Minh has a vision of happiness — 180 seconds shot in Hanoi 62 years later contain the image of its actualization.

Bestiaire, directed by Denis Côté, Canada/France, 2011, 72 min, color, HD
Bestiaire is an elegant meditation on the nature of sentience and the boundaries between nature and “civilisation.” We observe animals, they also observe us and one another; the mutual beholding initiates a shift in consciousness. We are left with an awareness of the constraints of captivity and of some liberation of mental constraint. Trailer

CURATOR:

Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe is a new media artist whose film, video and internet work is personal, experimental and dogma-resistant—deconstructively exploring the pleasures of narrative uncertainty.