The second annual Out In The Streets fest is two-day party at Brooklyn Fireproof in Bushwick Saturday + Sunday August 27th and 28th, following up last month’s Bushwick Walkabout Festival. Free beer will be provided by Brooklyn Brewery, lots of give-a-ways and more than a dozen awesome bands.
The EPIX Free-For-All will screen Woody Allen’s Academy Award Winning classic Annie Hall on Coney Island, a key location for the film. The evening will feature a Woody Allen Impression contest with prizes. To enter, please email woody@rooftopfilms.com.
WHEN: Monday, August 8, 2011
7:00 PM Live DJ
8:30 PM Rooftop Films presents Kristen Lepore’s short film Bottle
8:40 PM Annie Hall
WHERE: On the Beach at Coney Island at W 12th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11224
Subway Directions: Take the F train to Coney Island, walk to the beach and make a left.
ABOUT THE FILM:
ANNIE HALL(Written and directed by Woody Allen | 1977 | 94 mins)
When most people hear the name Woody Allen, they think of two women: Soon-Yi and Annie Hall. Fortunately for Allen, his legacy in cinema had been cemented with the latter long before the former came along. With Oscar wins for best director, best picture and best actress for the radiantly quirky Diane Keaton, Annie Hall struck a chord with audiences outside of erudite Manhattan film houses-and with good reason. Sure, we get the standard dose of neurotic Woody-isms, but we also get a sweet, sad, hopeful tale that reminds us love is sweet, love is sad, and if we’re lucky, love is downright funny.
The Coney Island History Project will be in attendance to speak about the history of Coney Island and the filming of Annie Hall.
ABOUT THE EPIX MOVIE FREE-FOR-ALL
All summer long, the EPIX Movie Free-For-All is hosting FREE movie screenings in four NYC parks! Sit under the stars and watch movies in The East Village, Long Island City, Williamsburg and Coney Island. And not just the movies are free.
EPIX is giving away prizes and swag at each event and also via Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and online.
Head on over to Hudson River Park’s River Rocks at Pier 54 in Manhattan tonight to see Metronomy play for FREE! They should be going on at 8:30PM just after Brooklyn based Class Actress opens it up. You can download their Free 2011 Digital Mix Tape, that contains tracks from a lot of the acts on their summer lineup, here.
Daniel Isaiah’s recent release High Twilight winds it’s way through years of folk references with some refreshing indie ingredients. There are tracks that speak to Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Conor Oberst, but with bursts of a youthful Montreal indie rock sound. For those looking for an energetic update to more traditional folk songwriting, Isaiah delivers with tracks like “The Naked Night” which features some heavier guitars and synth backgrounds and “Candlemaker Row” with stark percussive interludes. His charming French tracks “J’habites un pays” and “Mélissa” are a sweet addition and also offer a soft contrast to his folkier sounds. I like that he follows “Mélissa” with “Ogygia” which has a similar quality, but is sung in English. The two songs speak to each other melodically and tonally.
Check out “High Twilight” and “The Naked Night” now and don’t miss Daniel Isaiah live Friday 6/24 at Pianos or Saturday 6/25 at Rock Shop.
ROOFTOP FILMS: CODEPENDENT LESBIAN SPACE ALIEN SEEKS SAME
(Madeline Olnek | New York, NY | 76 min.)
Premiering on Gay Pride weekend, this playful send-up of 1950′s sci-fi follows a group of lesbian extraterrestrials banished to Earth because their feelings of love cloud up the atmosphere on their home planet. Called “A hilarious date movie for couples of all orientations” by the Hollywood Reporter, New York playwright and filmmaker Madeleine Olnek’s feature-length debut is the joyously campy tale of extraterrestrial lesbians banished to Earth to experience heartbreak and rid themselves of love, a feeling that clouds up the atmosphere on their home planet. Shot in expressive black-and-white, the movie lovingly sends up 1950′s-era sci-fi while honestly dealing with the intricacies of contemporary relationships.
Tickets are $10 online or at the door. Tickets and more information at:
OPEN ROAD ROOFTOP
350 Grand Street (at Essex), Lower East Side, New York, NY 10002
Subway: F, J, M, Z to Delancey Street-Essex Street; B, D, Q to Grand Street
8:00 PM Doors Open
8:30 PM Live Music by The Suzan
9:00 PM Film begins
10:30 PM Q&A with filmmaker Madeline Olnek and several lesbian space aliens
11:30 PM After Party at Fontana’s (105 Eldridge St. btwn Broome St. and Grand St.)
Music:
THE SUZAN THE SUZAN are a Japanese all-girl band formed by Rie(Key&G), Saori(Vo&G), Nico(Dr) and Ikue(Ba)-self proclaimed “riot-girls”. They gathered as a band in 2004 after sisters Rie and Saori had created a unique sound more influenced by the dislike of what they heard in Japanese Pop music. The music THE SUZAN plays is absolute original sound that takes in every kinds of music; Pop, Wild dance, Punk, Garage Rock and so on. The results THE SUZAN produce is a fresh sound easy to memorize but an exciting new sound for your soul to fall in love with.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
ROOFTOP FILMS: THE REDEMPTION OF GENERAL BUTT NAKED
(Daniele Anastasion and Eric Strauss | Liberia | 90 min.)
Joshua Milton Blahyi is a murderous Liberian warlord turned evangelical minister in this stirring vérité documentary about the nature of justice and absolution. The man known as General Butt Naked murdered thousands during Liberia’s horrific 14-year civil war. Today this once-brutal warlord has renounced his sadistic past and reinvented himself as evangelist Joshua Milton Blahyi. In a riveting cinema vérité journey that unfolds over the course of five years, filmmakers Eric Strauss and Daniele Anastasion follow Blahyi’s unrelenting crusade to redeem his life. Facing those he once terrorized, preaching where he once murdered, Blahyi is on a quest to save his soul.
Venue:
OPEN ROAD ROOFTOP
350 Grand Street (at Essex), Lower East Side, New York, NY 10002
Subway: F, J, M, Z to Delancey Street-Essex Street; B, D, Q to Grand Street
8:00 PM Doors Open
8:30 PM Live Music by Janka Nabay
9:00 PM Film Begins
11:30 PM After Party at Fontana’s (105 Eldridge St., btwn Broome St. and Grand St.)
Tickets are $10 online or at the door. Tickets and more information at:
JANKA NABAY
“There was also an African apparition: Janka Nabay from Sierra Leone, wearing a straw skirt and singing and dancing to recorded tracks of what he said was a 500-year-old tradition called bubu music. The tracks were modern, and the beat, fast and skeletal and driven by bell taps, was unstoppable, demanding wider dissemination.” -NY Times
Sunday June 26, 2011
ROOFTOP FILMS: FAMILY INSTINCT – NY Premiere
(Andris Gauja | Latvia | 60 min.)
“Riding a razor edge between exploitation and art, Family Instinct is the documentary that Harmony Korine wishes he’d made.”
- David Wilson, True/False Film Festival
Luridly fascinating and darkly comic, Family Instinct is unlike any film you have seen before: a vérité pseudo-documentary comedy about an isolated town in rural Latvia and a young mother’s patient wait for her lover/brother to return from prison. One part Borat, two parts Eastern Bloc Gothic, and three parts documentary tragicomedy, Andris Gauja’s feature film debut never lets you relax. If you don’t feel a little uncomfortable watching this film, there is something dead inside of you. And yet Family Instinct remains undeniably engaging throughout, making for an unforgettable and surprisingly entertaining movie-watching experience.
Tickets are $10 online or at the door. Tickets and more information at:
On the roof of The Old American Can Factory, 232 3rd St. (at 3rd Ave.), Gowanus/Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY 11215 Subway: F/G to Carroll St. or M/R to Union
8:00 PM Doors Open
8:30 PM Live Music by
9:00 PM Film Begins
11:30 PM Reception in Courtyard
Music:
BIG SPIDER’S BACK
“The past few weeks have heard me relentlessly blasting Big Spider’s Back Memory Man from bedrooms, fire escapes, and cuddle puddles, and our ecosystem is better off for it. Since Yair shared his Warped EP in 2009 we’ve been huge appreciators of the blankets he so delicately threads and the smiles they bring to our cheeks, and were so grateful for his presence at our end of the year party last December. Memory Man is the debut record we’ve waited patiently for, and these pieces develop a journey carefully traversed through mind explorations. A short glance provokes that of jogging a familiar face while a deserving exposure plants these sounds within background thoughts and daydreams. ‘Black Chow’ has provided me with an anthem, whether the days that pass are sun-drenched or thunder-laden. The drops Yair creates leave room for environment to fill, and his comforting vocals wash into an audible hug for everyone. We love you Yair.”
- thefmly.com
The full schedule for Brooklyn’s Northside Music Festival with Guided By Voices, Twin Sister, Deertick, Waaves, Surfer Blood and too many other great bands to list, has finally been announced. You can catch the Festival spanning numerous North Brooklyn music venues from June 16-19.
You can also still buy a Northside badge to get you into most of the events (capacity permitting) including the sold out Beirut/Sharon Van Etten show.
Individual tickets are also still on sale for a lot of the other shows like Guided By Voices show withWavves, Surfer Blood, and The Babies in McCarren Park on June 18.
Herds of bicycle enthusiasts from around the world will flock to New York City this June for the Bicycle Film Festivalʼs Eleventh year in NY, to celebrate the worldʼs best invention: the bicycle.
Born in New York, the festival’s immense popularity and continued growth has evolved hand in hand with the unprecedented boomin urban cycling internationally. From its roots in New York City, the BFF has grown into a multi-faceted, globalevent that will travel to over 25 cities this year, from Milan to Tokyo, Minneapolis to Sydney.
In 2001 Brendt Barbur, Founding Director, was compelled to start the Bicycle Film Festival after being hit by a bus while riding his bike in New York City. He was inspired to turn this negative experience into a positive one, and created a festival that celebrates the bicycle through music, art, and film.
The festival merges many creative communities, including fashion, music and art, as well as various bicycling communities – road cycling, mountainbiking, fixed gear, BMX, cyclocross – over a shared passion for bike riding.“NY is one of the greatest bicycle cities in the world” says Brendt Barbur. “We are very happy to bring the BFFback home.”
Film highlights include:
The World Premiere of RACING TOWARDS RED HOOK (Dir. Jessica Scott & HydeHarper)
The story of 3 cyclists of diverse backgrounds competing in one of New York Cityʼs biggest undergroundevents, the 2011 Red Hook Criterium. The rules are simple: 20 laps, one gear, zero brakes.
SUNCHASERS (Dir. Irvin Coffee)
This documentary explores the world of competitive cycling through the lives ofthree disabled women, each in distinct periods of their cycling careers as they prepare for the Paralympics.BFF11 showcases a stellar collection of short films, including
LAST MINUTES WITH ODEN (winner of VimeoʼsBest Video Award)
dramatic documentary about Odenʼs struggle with cancer,
BIKELORDZ: STUNTS ANDSTYLES FROM ACCRA, GHANA
showcasing a new interesting bike culture
BIKE RACE
a bike animationthat puts some of cyclingʼs greats head to head.
Aside from the films, you can also check out
BIKES ROCK, a BFF kick-off concert, June 22
JOYRIDE ART SHOW June 23 at the Spencer Brownstone Gallery
GOLD SPRINTS PARTY June 24 at The Acheron
BFF STREET PARTYJune 25 in the Lower East Side
Celebrating bikes & community, 12-6 PM 2nd street, between 1st and 2nd ave.
The BFF Annual Street Party brings together bicycle enthusiasts and street riders from all over the world foran afternoon of bike fun in the street. Bicycle contests hosted by the best riders in the world. Freestyle fixedgear compettions hosted by the popular group GRIME and BMX Jam hosted by Post BMX. Vendors that spanthe globe will be selling handmade bicycle goods. Thousands of people expected!
LET THE RYTHYM ROCK dance party, June 25 at China Chalet.
300,000 people are expected to attend BFF in 2011. Make sure that youʼre one of them!For the most up to date information on the festival please visit bicyclefilmfestival.com
Some more great shows at Rooftop Films coming up this week. On Thursday, They’re presenting a free screening of the David vs. Goliath documentary Battle for Brooklyn, about Bruce Ratner’s controversial Atlantic Yard’s project. Friday is “New York Non-Fiction,” the popular annual program of short films featuringthe quirky, compelling, and captivating local characters that make New York City great. And on Saturday check out a special sneak preview of Sophia Takal’s deliciously creepy sexual thriller Green, which won her the SXSW Chicken and Egg Emergent Narrative Woman Director Award in Austin this year.
Thursday, June 9th
ROOFTOP FILMS: BATTLE FOR BROOKLYN – Free show
(Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley, David Beilinson | Brooklyn, NY | 93 min.)
A group of people in Rooftop’s beloved Brooklyn come together to fight the Atlantic Yards Project—a massive real estate development that threatens to destroy their homes and neighborhood—in this epic tale of how far people will go to fight for what they believe in. Presented in partnership with the Brooklyn Film Festival. BFF runs from June 3rd through June 12th.
The Myrtle Avenue Hill in Ft. Greene Park, Myrtle and N. Portland, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY 11205
Enter the park at Myrtle and N. Portland and walk up the path.
Subway: G to Fulton, C to Lafayette, 2,3,4,5 to Nevins or B,M,Q, R to Dekalb
9:00PM Film Begins
Friday, June 10, 2011
ROOFTOP FILMS: NEW YORK NON-FICTION (Short Films)
It’s Your City. Take a Look. One’s a hustler. One’s a magician. Several are men of music. And one’s just a regular guy. But they have two things in common: They’re all New Yorkers, and they all have a story. One that distinguishes them. One that defines them. One that strikes a universal chord, yet is uniquely New York. These New York stories will stick with you.
OPEN ROAD ROOFTOP
350 Grand Street (at Essex), Lower East Side, New York, NY 10002
Subway: F, J, M, Z to Delancey Street-Essex Street; B, D, Q to Grand Street
8:00 PM Doors Open
8:30 PM Live Music by Greg Garing
9:00 PM Films Begin
11:30 PM After Party at Fontanas (105 Eldridge Street, btwn Grand St. and Broome St.)
The Films:
FOUND: LOST PICTURES OF NEW YORK BLIZZARD (Todd Bieber | NYC)
A MAN NAMED MAGICK (Joaquin Perez & Robert Hatch-Miller | Brooklyn, NY)
THE BOWLER (Sean Dunne | NYC)
LEGEND: A FILM ABOUT GREG GARING (Emily Branham | NYC)
FOUND: LOST PICTURES OF NEW YORK BLIZZARD, PART 2 (Todd Bieber | NYC)
WHITE LINES AND THE FEVER: THE DEATH OF DJ JUNEBUG (Travis Senger | NYC)
FOUND: LOST PICTURES OF NEW YORK BLIZZARD, PART 3 (Todd Bieber | NYC)
Saturday, June 11, 2011
ROOFTOP FILMS: GREEN – Sneak Preview
(Sophia Takal | Brooklyn, NY | 72 min.)
An eerily compelling sexual thriller from writer-director Sophia Takal, Green focuses on a young literary couple who encounter an alluring country bumpkin during their weekend getaway. Brooklyn-based filmmaker Sophia Takal’s promising debut focuses on the romantic tensions that develop between a young literary couple and the outgoing country bumpkin they encounter during a getaway from the city. Out in the woods, existing relationships start to fray, and the makings of a dangerous love triangle start to come together. Or do they? Takal’s auspicious debut hovers in remarkable ambiguity. Winner of the Chicken & Egg Emergent Narrative Woman Director Award at the SXSW Film Festival.
Tickets are $10 online or at the door. Tickets and more information at:
OPEN ROAD ROOFTOP
350 Grand Street (at Essex), Lower East Side, New York, NY 10002
Subway: F, J, M, Z to Delancey Street-Essex Street; B, D, Q to Grand Street
8:00 PM Doors Open
8:30 PM Live Music
9:00 PM Film Begins
11:30 PM After Party at Fontanas (105 Eldridge St., btwn Grand St. and Broome St.)
Plays with:
MEN IN LOVE (Keith Davis | Brooklyn, NY | 12 min.)
Following a bitter break-up, Leo’s best friend takes him out to meet a new woman and ‘get over’ his ex. But after a steamy and unexpected encounter with a stranger he’s forced to face what most men fear: they don’t realize they’re in love until it’s too late.
In preparation for the brand-new 4Knots Music Festival at South Street Seaport, the Village Voice is holding a free, all-ages kickoff show on July 9 with Ted Leo & The Pharmacists. Show starts at 6pm. Then the following week, on the 16th you can check out The Black Angels with Davila 666 and Oberhofer. More bands and DJ’s will be announced shortly and both days are rain or shine.
This weekend at Rooftop Films, is their our long-awaited SXSW Weekend. This year, for the first time, Rooftop worked with the SXSW festival to put together a weekend of films that made their World Premieres at SXSW 2011. This weekend they will be presenting the New York Premieres of The Dish and the Spoon, with star Greta Gerwig in person, the gorgeous coming of age film No Matter What, and Rooftop Grantee The City Dark (Ian Cheney, King Corn). Friday, June 3, 2011ROOFTOP FILMS: THE DISH AND THE SPOON (NY Premiere) (Alison Bagnall | Philadelphia, PA | 92 min.) Presented by SXSW and Rooftop Films. SXSW weekend begins with the New York premiere of The Dish and the Spoon. Indie starlet Greta Gerwig and newcomer Olly Alexander put on alternately fierce and delicate performances in this enchantingly offbeat romance about an alienated teen and a woman on the run from a troublesome marriage. Over the last five years, Greta Gerwig has made her mark as one of the most promising young actresses to come out of American independent cinema. Even though she has since appeared in larger Hollywood projects such as Arthur, Gerwig hasn’t lost touch with her indie roots, as proven by her extraordinary performance in Alison Bagnall’s charming feature film. Greta Gerwig and Alison Bagnall will be there in person to answer questions after the film Tickets are $10 online or at the door. Tickets and more information:http://rooftopfilms.com/2011/schedule/the-dish-and-the-spoon/Venue: OPEN ROAD ROOFTOP 350 Grand Street (at Essex), Lower East Side, New York, NY 10002Subway: F, J, M, Z to Delancey Street-Essex Street; B, D, Q to Grand Street 8:00 PM Doors Open 8:30 PM Live Music by Snowmine 9:00 PM Film Begins 10:30 PM Q and A with filmmaker Alison Bagnall and star Greta Gerwig 11:30 PM After Party at Fontana’s (105 Eldridge St. btwn Grand St. and Broome St.) Plays with: CHIEF SERENBE (Evan Curtis | USA | 5 min.) Music: SNOWMINE Brooklyn’s Snowmine embraces a sound rich with echo pedals, tribal beats, electro-acoustic soundscapes and classical orchestrations. Inspired by love found and lost, forest trips, and circuit bending, it seems their music can be an apt cure for problems strange but beautiful, uplifting but melancholy. The quintet formed in 2008 from a long bubbling friendship between bassist Jay Goodman, drummer Alex Beckmann, and lead singer/composer Grayson Sanders. Many parties, road trips, and treacherous leaky basements fraught with jam sessions later, they met guitarists Austin Mendenhall and Scott Seelig – two wayfarers from D.C. and Los Angeles. The band’s nine-track debut album, Laminate Pet Animal, was recorded with Dave Trumfio (Wilco, My Morning Jacket). Saturday, June 4, 2010No Matter What – Trailer from Cherie Saulter on Vimeo. ROOFTOP FILMS: NO MATTER WHAT (NY Premiere) (Cherie Saulter | Chipley, FL | 90 min.) Presented by SXSW and Rooftop Films. SXSW Weekend Continues with the story of Nick and Joey, two best friends living in the crumbling landscape of rural Florida, whose lives and friendship are changed by the journey to find Joey’s mother. Teenagers Joey and Nick are navigating the complex landscape of rural Florida on their own — they don’t really have parents, they prefer skateboarding to school. When the pair set out to find Joey’s mother — camping out in drug dealers’ backyards, hopping freight trains — we wonder if, perhaps, they should just keep going. Tickets are $10 online or at the door. Tickets and more information:http://rooftopfilms.com/2011/schedule/no-matter-what/Venue: OPEN ROAD ROOFTOP 350 Grand Street (at Essex), Lower East Side, New York, NY 10002Subway: F, J, M, Z to Delancey Street-Essex Street; B, D, Q to Grand Street 8:00 PM Doors Open 8:30 PM Live music by Secret Mountains 9:00 PM Film Begins 10:30 PM Q and A with filmmaker Cherie Saulter 11:30 PM After Party at Fontanas (105 Eldridge Street btwn Grand St. and Broome St.) Music: SECRET MOUNTAINS The bulk of the last decade brought Baltimore’s hyper-color acts—the dance epics of Dan Deacon and the guitar spirals of Ecstatic Sunshine and Ponytail, or even the expatriate pop exuberance of Animal Collective—to the central streams of indie rock. Maybe it’s time to pull the shades: Maryland sextet Secret Mountains is a slow, subdued wonder, shaped by serpentine guitar lines that sigh and moan and busy drumming that sidles into the beat and shuffles around it. The surface is supplied by Kelly Laughlin, a singer whose muted alto seems wounded but resilient, like an autumn sun breaking through early morning clouds. This band is bound for bigger rooms.—Grayson Currin Sunday, June 5, 2011ROOFTOP FILMS: THE CITY DARK (NY Premiere) (Ian Cheney | Brooklyn, NY | 84 min.) Presented by Rooftop Films, SXSW, and Edgeworx Studios. For thousands of years, the night sky was a crucial part of human experience, but due to light pollution, the stars are disappearing from our vision and consciousness. Would bringing back the sky make us better humans, or save us from some of the harmful effects of modern city life? Our SXSW weekend concludes with the New York premiere of The City Dark. Filmmaker Ian Cheney (Rooftop alum, King Corn) grew up with a deep fascination with the sky — he was even an amateur astronomer and astrophotographer who built his own telescope on his family’s farm in rural Maine. His childhood memories comprise as much looking out, into the universe, as looking around him. When he moved to New York, the relative lack of visible stars was a rude awakening. The difference seemed more than purely aesthetic, and eventually Cheney asked himself how the flood of light, and lack of night sky, could be affecting all creatures on the planet – humans and otherwise. Tickets are $10 online or at the door. Tickets and more information:http://rooftopfilms.com/2011/schedule/the-city-dark/Venue: On the roof of The Old American Can Factory, 232 3rd St. (at 3rd Ave.), Gowanus/Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY 11215 Subway: F/G to Carroll St. or M/R to Union 8:00 PM Doors Open 8:30 PM Live Music by The Fishermen Three 9:00 PM Film Begins 11:30 PM Reception in the Courtyard Plays with:HELIOTROPES (Michael Langan | San Francisco, CA | 3 min.) HELIOTROPES documents the parallel goals of man and nature, through the most primitive and sophisticated means, to simply stay in the light. Based on the poem by Brian Christian.HOWLING AT THE MOON (Jason Tippett and Elizabeth Mims | Los Angeles, CA | 8 min.) Matt and Harry receive an invitation to see a fellow employees band. To escape the awkward coffee shop performance, Matt comes up with a somewhat decent excuse. Music: FISHERMEN THREE The Fishermen Three play mystical country music and blues of every color. Simon Beins, member of New York City’s weird folk trio The WoWz, writes the songs and plays a few instruments, and Raphi Gottesman provides spiritual guidance, friendship, and percussion. They also wrote the score for The City Dark, which won an award at the SXSW festival.
Two great shows coming up this week at Rooftopfilms. On Thursday, check out Sound of Noise, a maniacally funny Swedish comedy about a band of musical anarchists who break into banks, hospitals, and construction sites and perform guerilla style concerts using their surroundings as musical instruments. The film’s musicians and filmmakers will be at the show, facing off in a live, heavyweight drum battle that we hear has been brewing ever since they started shooting the film. Friday is “Dark ‘Toons,” the popular annual collection of enjoyable evil animation. This year’s batch will include a crazy quilt remix of Bill Plympton’s Oscar nominated short Guard Dog.
Show details below:
Thursday, May 19th
SOUND OF NOISE
A clever and fiercely entertaining Swedish comedy about a group of “musical terrorists” who break into hospitals, banks, and other public places to play compositions using the surroundings as their instruments. The screening will feature a special live performance by the musicians from the film. Presented in partnership withMusicDoc Malmo.
Venue: On the pier at Solar One
2420 FDR Drive (E 23rd Street and the East River)
New York, NY 10010 Subway: R/6 to 23rd St., walk all the way east.
8:00PM Doors Open
8:30PM Live Music by Prylf
9:00PM Film begins
10:30PM Special LIVE Heavyweight Drum Battle between the Drummers and the Filmmakers!
GUARD DOG GLOBAL JAM (Bill Plympton | New York, NY | 5 min.)
75 different artists combined their talents (and styles) for this crazy-quilt remake of an Oscar-nominated short. plymptoons.com
THE HOLY CHICKEN OF LIFE AND MUSIC (Nomint | Greece | 3 min.)
A giant, two-headed chicken is the ultimate false god, in this jaw-droppingly surreal fantasy. theholychicken.com
THE GLOAMING (Niko Nobrain | France | 14 min.)
The last man in his world creates new life that quickly spins out of his control – despite his efforts to play God. An allegory for the ages. nobrain.fr
COSMIC JUNGLE (Marie Ayne, Martin Brunet, Alexander Casals, Sebastien DeOliveira Bispo, Fabrice Fiteni, Mathieu Garcia | France | 5 min.)
Two rambunctious mutts upset the order of a robot-run metropolis in this ultra-kinetic future fantasy.
THE REPLICANTS: USER (Edouardo Salier | France | 4 min.)
Old-school flipbook filmmaking – with an angst-rock soundtrack. Courtesy of Autour De Minuit.
TRIUMPH OF THE WILD (Martha Colburn | New York | 11 min.)
An exploration of the impulses that prompt hunting and the resiliency of people and animals in times of battle during 300 years of American history. [Sundance]
THE ONGOING LIFE OF PETER PEEL: CAN, CAN, CAN’T (Felix Massie | UK | 2 min.)
The drudgery of the stock clerk’s day is perfectly encapsulated, in this cheerfully wan vignette.
LGFUAD (Kelsey Stark | Brooklyn, NY | 4 min.)
Sex. Violence. Death. The interior life of the average, alienated suburban teen. riversideflesh.blogspot.com
MOSKITO BRAVO (Emeline Chankamshu, Alexandre Cuegniet, Paul Serrell, Sarah Sutter, Henning Wagenbreth | France | 7 min.)
One dog-eat-dog world is just a speck on the surface of another – which in turn exists inside another. And so on, in a riot of color and ordered chaos.
ENRIQUE WRECKS THE WORLD (David Chai | San Jose, California | 4 min.)
One surly kid with a sling shot accidentally unleashes a cataclysmic chain reaction in this mordant imagining of a whoops apocalypse. houseofchai.net
The new video off of the seventh full-length studio album from Scottish post-rock band Mogwai, entitled Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, for the track Mexican Grand Prix has a lighter and less epic-end-of-all-we-know mood than what Mogwai is so well known for producing. The video was shot entirely on the streets of Glasgow and is as approachable (for a lack of a better term – watch the video) and friendly as the song itself. The track is apparently a tribute to the home town of the band though I can’t quite make out if they are calling them Mexican or not.
You can also check out the video for San Pedro below. The video follows a man through an urban setting – starting in the Lower East Side of Manhattan then over the Williamsburg bridge into Brooklyn around Broadway Avenue – until the man eerily stops. Give it a go:
