"myrecent film 'you know they want to disappear hell's kitchen' (17 min) will be screening (as video, actually instead of film for this screening) this friday as part of a group program of the black maria film fest at millennium film workshop, which is in the east village on east 4th st between 2nd ave and bowery. closest trains are 6 to Bleecker or F to 2nd Ave or BDFM to Bwy/Lafayette... i believe the below listing is the line up order. show time is 8pm, i think they try to start on time. my work is 5th in a 95 minute program and will probably show about 30 minutes into the program."
here's the facebook event page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=194983797193287&ref=mf
Left: THE GARDEN by Ann Steuernagal
Right: YOU KNOW THEY WANT TO DISAPPEAR HELL'S KITCHEN by Stephanie Gray
30th ANNUAL BLACK MARIA FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
FRI. MARCH 4. STARTING TIME - 8pm Admission $8 / $6 members
A selection of award-winning independent films and videos from the 2010 festival. Festival director and co-founder, JOHN COLUMBUS will be present to introduce and discuss the works shown. Black Maria, one of the most well known festivals of new film and video in the United States, organizes a travelling showcase tour of 40 or more works exhibiting at more than 50 host institutions. Each program presents a different selection of work and is introduced by the festival's director.
Visit http://www.blackmariafilmfestival.org for more info on Black Maria.
SELECTED FILMS:
CET AIR LA (3 min, 2010) by Marie Losier, Brooklyn, NY
This witty musical ditty features April March and Julien Gasc performing a popular 1963 French while floating over a superimposed projection of clouds, birds, bubbles, whiffs of smoke and glitter.
DRUMS+TRAINS (12 min, 2009 ) by Paul Winkler, Sydney, Australia
This work ironically juxtaposes seemingly innocent shots of drummers (but in actuality appropriated from the notorious Nazi propaganda film, Triumph of the Will) with shots of toy trains, becoming an incisive meditation on the Holocaust.
POSSESSED (9 min, 2010) by Fred Worden, Silver Spring, MD
This arresting experimental work incorporates clips with Joan Crawford from the classic 1931 Hollywood film Possessed. Hyper-kinetic, mirrored images create a strobe effect positioning the heroine both on the inside and outside as a train leaves the station. The colliding frames shift between "adagio" and "allegro" phases much as with musical phrases but in the language of visual "montage."
SIX EASY PIECES (10 min, 2010) by Reynold Reynolds, Stuttgart, Germany
Basing this on the book "Six Easy Pieces: Essential Physics" Reynolds de-constructs film as a synthesis of art and technology and refers to an age when artists and scientists had similar concerns and were often the same person at typified by Leonardo da Vinci
YOU KNOW THEY WANT TO DISAPPEAR HELL'S KITCHEN (17 min, 2010) by Stephanie Gray, Flushing, NY
Composed of mysteriously insistent and gritty shots taken with a Super-8 camera, Stephanie Gray's quasi "underground" film was inspired by a letter to E.B. White, famed for his "Here is New York" essay. Mixing the filmmaker's voiceover invoking White's prose combined with lines from a 1960s tune "New York's a Lonely Town", this films is an "essay on the disappearing character of New York's Hell's Kitchen, a neighborhood regrettably renamed Clinton by developers.
COW BOY'S, HEIFERS (W)RAP (5.5 min, 2010) by Jerry Orr, Wyomissing, PA
Perhaps drawing on some inspiration from Leger's "Ballet Mechanique" this riske work plays with an auctioneer's rap under images appropriated from vintage "Blue" films.
LABYRINTHINE (14.5 min, 2010) by Greg Biermann, Hackensack, NJ
Forty-one separate shots that have been appropriated and excised from the Hitchcock classic Vertigo are repeated and transformed into a composite sequence of concentric rectangles as the narrative of the original is replaced by a hypnotic and meditative display of forms and sounds.
RETROGRADE PREMONITION (5 min, 2010) by Leighton Pierce, Iowa City, IA
Shot with a digital still camera, handheld at long exposures, each individual image bears the mark of time from the motion blur - a blur that may in fact contradict the apparent motion of the frame. Part of fifteen pieces that will explore consciousness, it looks and sounds like floating mind - the vicissitudes of thought, feeling and the senses.
SOUND OF A SHADOW (10 min, 2010) by Lynn Sachs & Mark Street, Brooklyn, NY
A summer in Japan, observing that which is imperfect, impermanent and incomplete, produces a series of visual haiku, accompanied by the haunting notes of Japanese flute, in search of teeming street life, bodies in motion, and leaf prints in the mud.
THE GARDEN(10 min. 2010) by Ann Steuernagal, Cambridge, MA
This gritty work is a personal reflection on climate change, created from found, recycled film footage, a truly tactile sense of the filmmaker's message.
Program runs approximately 96 min.
FULL PROGRAM DETAILS AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE. www.millenniumfilm.org
Programs are supported, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties; the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnerhsip with the city council; and various foundations and individuals.
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