$9.00 indie flicks from a rooftop with hooch and live bands. Find a better way to spend a weekend in New York this summer and Discosalt will buy you a taco. Now in its 13th year, Rooftop Films “Underground Movies Outdoors” has announced its summer film lineup for May and June. The Summer series includes a fresh crop of 19 independent feature-length film premieres and 150 shorts, filmmaker Q & A and Live music pre-shows provided by Sound Fix Presents .The great thing is all films are coupled with venues that connect artists with audiences so that each event is unique and memorable.
Here’s the Discosalt breakdown of what’s playing where:
Friday, May 22
Romantic Short Films: Endless Forgiveness
Love, lust and sexual confusion.
Shorts: Endless Forgiveness display the many varied sacrifices we make to be with the people we love and lust after.
Venue: On the Open Road Rooftop above New Design High School
Address: 350 Grand St. @ Essex (Lower East Side, Manhattan)
Saturday, May 23
Dangerous Docs
Train surfers, beard competitions, and rare chicken rescues. You can’t make this stuff up.
Venue: On the Roof of Brooklyn Technical High School
Address: 29 Fort Greene Place (Fort Greene, Brooklyn)
Friday, May 29
Dark ‘Toons: Optical Illusions
Animated short films that bring the still to life.
Venue: On the Open Road Rooftop above New Design High School
Address: 350 Grand St. @ Essex (Lower East Side, Manhattan)
Saturday, May 30
Strongman
(Zachary Levy | New York, NY | | 113 min.)
A humorous but heart-wrenching verité documentary about Stanless Steel, the only man in the world who can bend a penny with his fingers, a working class strongman struggling to succeed and survive.
Venue: On the Roof of Brooklyn Technical High School
Address: 29 Fort Greene Place (Fort Greene, Brooklyn)
Stanless will be in attendance to perform a stunning feat of strength.
Friday, June 5
Trapped Inside The Machine
A fun, frantic, fantastical program of films about losing your grip on reality, and reality losing its grip on the world.
Venue: On the Open Road Rooftop above New Design High School
Address: 350 Grand St. @ Essex (Lower East Side, Manhattan)
Saturday, June 6
Stingray Sam
(Cory McAbee | Brooklyn, NY | | 70 min.)
New York Premiere!
A dazzling six-episode musical-western comedy that takes place in outer space, written, directed by and starring Cory McAbee, the creator of The American Astronaut.
Venue: On the Roof of Brooklyn Technical High School
Address: 29 Fort Greene Place (Fort Greene, Brooklyn)
The filmmakers will be in attendance.
