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Andy Graydon, still from Farwanderer, 2003, single-channel digital video
Site Matters: Brooklyn Represents Film Screenings
11/01/07
7:00PM - 8:00PM
Andy Graydon, still from Farwanderer, 2003, single-channel digital video
Film Screenings, beer, discussion with the filmmakers
Saturday, October 13 at The Outpost Lounge - 8 pm - 1014 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill
Thursday, November 1 at BAC Gallery - 7pm, (DUMBO 1st Thursdays)111 Front Street, Suite 218, Dumbo
Saturday, October 13 at The Outpost Lounge - 8 pm - 1014 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill
Thursday, November 1 at BAC Gallery - 7pm, (DUMBO 1st Thursdays)111 Front Street, Suite 218, Dumbo
Brooklyn Arts Council is pleased to present two evenings of short films in conjunction with the exhibition Site Matters: Brooklyn Represents. The films, primarily by Brooklyn based artists, expand on the exhibition's theme of site as physical location and cultural debate as they engage Brooklyn as backdrop, location and documentary subject.
The selected films examine site through complex notions of community, home, economics, and political climate.
The selected films examine site through complex notions of community, home, economics, and political climate.
The program features an hour of short film and will screen two nights at two different Brooklyn locations and includes Local Celebrity, the third episode of the No Mas TV series Brooklyn to Beijing which follows three Brooklyn boxers as they fight for spots on the 2008 US Olympic Boxing team. Rafi Kam, Casimir Nozkowski and Dallas Penn illustrate the finer points of the Bronx Bodega Food Pyramid in their humorous yet searing film about the choices confronting the people who live in “the poorest urban county in the country.” The DB and John Rose’s Neighbors documents what happens when a man confronts his newspaper-thieving neighbor, while Danny Baxter gives us a very different sort of confrontation on the F train platform. Wartime by Benjamin Rosen tells the story of a man, driven to the breaking point by political rhetoric and an awareness of his own helplessness, sets off to restore himself. In Andy Graydon’s award-winning Farwanderer, a nameless traveler requests picture postcards from home in order to construct an imaginary hybrid zone that is both home and away, without fully being either. Derick Melander's Nomad explores the poetic possibilities found in his own closet, and the award winning directing/design collective The Saline Project presents several shorts from their experimental series Project-K.
SCREENING PROGRAM
(Programs are subject to change.)
Casimir Nozkowski, Dallas Penn, Rafi Kam (Brooklyn)
Bodega (2007), 6.30 min.
Nicholas Strini, Director, Chris Isenberg, Producer (Brooklyn)
Local Celebrity (2007), 3:54min
Derick Melander (Queens), Co-directed by Sanford Wintersberger (Brooklyn)
Nomad, (2007), 3 min.
Saline Project (Brooklyn)
The Amazing Zorpan, (2006), 1:41 min.
Ode to Joy (2006), 1:23 min.
The Three Cowboys (2006), 2:31 min.
The DB, Director John Rose (Brooklyn)
The Neighbors (2004), 5:13 min
Andy Graydon (Manhattan)
Farwanderer (2003), 8:35 min
Benjamin Rosen (Brooklyn)
Wartime (2005), 11 min.
Danny Baxter (Brooklyn)
Does Not Compute (2006), 1:51 min.
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