Posted on December 30, 2011 5:40 pm
2012 Season : FUTURE SEEDS For 2010 to 2012, ASsociety has been soliciting residency proposals based on the theme, “FUTURE SEEDS”. This initiative derives from our urban/rural farming exchanges and explores media art to connect programming codes and data processing …
Posted on December 13, 2011 1:05 pm
A nearly 40-year span brackets the filmmakers’ shared interest in pageantry and policing. Iconic Americana is both celebrated and critically framed as it plays out on our nation’s lawns, forests and streets. Program runtime: 1 hour 7 minutes We will be presenting the following films: O’er the Land by Deborah Stratman, USA, 2009, 51 [...]
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This screening presents hand-processed Super 8 and 16mm films by contemporary artists and filmmakers. This screening emphasizes experimentation, imperfections, nostalgia, and the immediacy of erasure. The idea of the death of film is not new– over the past two decades, major manufacturers have severely halted their rate of production and processing of film and paper [...]
Posted on December 5, 2011 1:17 pm
“Bruce McClure doesn’t make films, he performs them… Twirling knobs, flipping switches, and adjusting lenses, he coaxes a bank of whirring projectors into producing images impossible to record.” THE BROOKLYN RAIL. Projector placements in theatrical space symbolically repudiate the camera’s claims on the picture plane by upsetting its hegemony of flattened evidence taken from the [...]
Posted on November 22, 2011 4:57 pm
More information coming soon! Mia Makela works in the fields of real-time audiovisual performance, experimental video and documentary. Her visual language has a mystical dream-like narrative approach and has been described as a digital version of William Blake’s poetry. She processes her material in real-time and performs in tandem with musicians. Makela, an innovator in the [...]
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This screening presents selections from Mapping Journey and Straight Stories. In these short films, Khalili molds the narratives of individual journeys to portray the startling terrain of routes and passage, of stories that are rarely shown. In these works the clandestine nature of the journeys are a given as individuals narrate and configure the relationship [...]
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It kind of feels like fall here in Brooklyn, but UnionDocs thinks that the holidays are coming anyway. We’d like to party with you. Performances by these awesome bands: 11:15pm – Steer 12:15am – 973 Future Yook Steer is Chris Abbadessa and Zach Ellis living and breathing music together since childhood. After ten years of [...]
Posted on October 4, 2011 12:07 pm
This project presented audio oral histories about North Brooklyn through listening stations situated in construction fences and on the street. This created serendipitous encounters for passers-by, inviting them to engage with neighborhood’s history while standing at sites of its developing future. Starting in the fall of 2010, Yulman and the The North Brooklyn Public Art [...]
Posted on September 26, 2011 4:14 pm
Society has lines and boundaries that most people are expected to fit within. But many exists on the edge of those boundaries. Some try to fit in, while others embrace a unique path. These four films portray people on the edges -whether physically or personally – and while some might see them or the situation [...]
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In celebration of Halloween, we present scary documentary shorts from Wholphin. Fukushima Infiltrator 7 minutes An interview with Tetsuo Jimbo, journalist who drove into the Fukushima Daiichi evacuation zone. Kids + Money by Lauren Greenfield USA, 15 minutes, 2008, digital projection A piercing short film by photographer Lauren Greenfield, Kids + Money is a [...]
Posted on September 13, 2011 6:54 pm
Following the bloody coup that overthrew Salvador Allende’s government in 1973, several prominent Chilean artists and intellectuals fled the county, seeking amnesty in Europe and North America. Among them were: Raúl Ruiz, Allende’s “Cinema Advisor” and maker of over 100 internationally renowned films; Marilú Mallet, an aspiring architect-turned-filmmaker who fled to Canada; and Patricio Guzmán, [...]
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Moment of Impact by Julia Loktev USA, 1998, 117 minutes, 16mm Julia Loktev, the director of the critically acclaimed The Loneliest Planet (New York Film Festival 2011) and Cannes award-winning Day Night Day Night made her extraordinary debut with this sui generis documentary, an intimate family triptych. Loktev gets up close and personal with her parents after [...]
Posted on September 8, 2011 1:53 pm
How do you tell the story of New York’s giant transit system? MTA staff will discuss the strategy behind their popular YouTube channel.
Posted on September 7, 2011 4:19 pm
OUR ONLINE TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT. REMAINING SEATS WILL BE GRANTED TO BODEGA PASS HOLDERS AND A LIMITED AMOUNT OF WALK-UPS BASED ON AVAILABILITY. The documentary genre gives us the special opportunity to share the experience of the person in the film, when that person is an exceptionally talented artist, the experience is all the [...]
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We will be selecting a series of works that make the collective explicit—either visually, through showing the collective in action; or conceptually, through content or style. These videos will be the foundation for conversations before and after each screening, about the how, why, what, and what not of collective creation. Collectively curated by Red Channels, [...]
Posted on September 1, 2011 7:39 pm
Cinematic distortion, replica architecture, and speculative taxidermy. Program length 60 minutes All work by Caspar Stracke. GATEWAY (entrance loop) 2010, loop, digital projection Clipped from a short documentary on the annual taxidermists convention in Springfield, Illinois, originally produced by Dominique Gradenwitz for German TV Sat 1, re-edited. PROXIMITY (bubble version) 2010, 11 minutes, digital projection [...]
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The best school for dialectics is emigration. The most penetrating dialecticians are exiles.
Posted on August 24, 2011 3:15 pm
An attempt by young punks, dissatisfied with the world they were born into, to grab and forge a new ethnicity for themselves
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The tension of telenovelas and the seductiveness of a language that can’t seize the bodies it describes
Posted on July 13, 2011 11:34 pm
We are on a summer programming break until mid-September, working hard to plan the next year of events and collaborative projects. Have a great summer, and check back soon for exciting upcoming events!
Posted on June 27, 2011 8:58 pm
Roger Beebe, Artistic Director of the Florida Experimental Film Festival visits Microscope Gallery with films & video selections from this year’s festival. Beebe’s international mini-tour most recently included a program presented in May in Berlin. The impressive line-up of emerging and established artists includes: Steve Cossman, Sam Green, Christopher Harris, Zach Iannazzi, Georg Koszulinski, Penny [...]
Posted on June 14, 2011 11:46 am
Cuchillo de Palo by Renate Costa Spain/ Paraguay, 2010, 91 minutes, digital projection The work in Cuchillo de Palo reflects on the search of the right place for the filmmaker, not only in the film but also in the filmed world: How to place oneself when filmming an unknown family story closely related to a [...]
Posted on May 28, 2011 3:03 pm
It’s 1981. Raiders of the Lost Ark hits the big screen. Particularly impressed are three highly motivated twelve-year olds who conceive a shot-for-shot remake of Raiders, stunts and all. It would take them seven years. So how do you make a Hollywood film on an allowance? Boy Scout uniforms become Nazi costumes, and Mom’s basement [...]
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5pm: In Kind, Heart of Now More information In Kind by Cameron Bruce Nelson USA, 2011, 15min A man, drowned in debt and struggling with unemployment, receives the greatest gift. Robert Drake is dealing with the uncontrollable forces in his life. Trapped in middle-age, unemployed and struggling with debt, he lives an ascetic lifestyle marked [...]
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5pm: Celluloid, Incredibly Small More information Celluloid by Ethan Knecht USA, 2 minutes *Director Ethan Knecht in attendance. Celluloid is a short film about the affect of the present on memory and love. Celluloid is a short experimental/documentary about the affect of the present on memory and love. Shot in 16mm, HD video, and using [...]
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8pm: Short Program #1 More information Unstrung by Meerkat Media CollectiveUSA, 2010, 5 minutes What happens when the lights go down at the Puppet Kitchen? The Meerkat Media Collective is a self-organized community of makers committed to creating innovative and thought-provoking films through shared authorship and consensus process. Since 2005, the collective has produced and [...]
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In the late seventies and early eighties, South Williamsburg was one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. Largely Puerto Rican and Dominican, it was troubled by drugs and violence, full of abandoned real estate, and badly under-served. Los Sures, a documentary from 1984 by Diego Echeverria, skillfully represents the challenges of this time, [...]
Posted on May 27, 2011 5:21 pm
Resurrecting the long and noble tradition of itinerant cinema, Echo Park Film Center is in town with their traveling film school and cinema like the pied pipers of contemporary experimental and documentary cinema. They are circumnavigating the United States to celebrate their 10-year anniversary by communing with cinephiles across the land and sharing the power [...]
Posted on May 20, 2011 1:30 pm
This program will present work-in-progress and shorts by artists presenting at the 2011 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, “Sonic Truth,” programmed by Dan Streible. All filmmakers will be in attendance to present their work. MoMA will also be running a post-Flaherty showcase with Les Blank: Ultimate Insider. The audio dimension of documentary operates in several ways: [...]