Hey all you makers / creatives / teachers / collaborators / community-builders!
This month, we Meerkats converge in an all new BROOKLYN locale for a Media Mixer, with the documentary pioneers at Union Docs. It’s a time to come together to share ideas, complain about our day jobs, imagine new and improbable projects and get inspired.
Come and talk to someone you don’t know. Come and surgically remove the “boring” from the burgeoning body of adulthood. Come and create a community that’s as self-sufficient and sustainable as a wind-powered commune run on a bike powered smoothie machine — a colony of collaborating meerkats in the city! Come kick off your Friday night with a drink and a dream.
Criticals / RSVP info:
DATE: Friday, August 29.
TIME: 7:30pm - midnight…
WHERE: UnionDocs - 322 Union Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn View Map
Subways: L train: Metropolitain Ave. J M train: Hewes St. G train: Broadway.
COST: $3-6 suggested donation
8:30PM screening of 2 new films, from UnionDocs and Meerkat Media
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interesting nytimes article on the role of programs like photoshop in re-envisioning history and what it says about ‘american’ notions of truth and photography. link to the article here.
I Was There. Just Ask Photoshop.
REMOVING her ex-husband from more than a decade of memories may take a lifetime for Laura Horn, a police emergency dispatcher in Rochester. But removing him from a dozen years of vacation photographs took only hours, with some deft mouse work from a willing friend who was proficient in Photoshop, the popular digital-image editing program.
Like a Stalin-era technician in the Kremlin removing all traces of an out-of-favor official from state photos, the friend erased the husband from numerous cherished pictures taken on cruises and at Caribbean cottages, where he had been standing alongside Ms. Horn, now 50, and other traveling companions.
“In my own reality, I know that these things did happen,” Ms. Horn said. But “without him in them, I can display them. I can look at those pictures and think of the laughter we were sharing, the places we went to.”
“This new reality,” she added, “is a lot more pleasant.”
You can take Bill Brown out of Texas, but you can’t take the Texas out of Bill Brown.
Bill will be with us on Sunday, August 17 at 8pm for a special outdoor screening of some of his short films and a reading from his entrancing ‘zine, Dreamwhip. Come watch the flicker of 16mm on our outdoor screen, enjoy some ice cold drinks, and listen to some tales of travel and intrigue.
His films are vast and expansive and take you on a road trip across the back roads of forgotten places. They blur the difference between documentary and personal filmmaking and create a time-capsule of the subtle changes of the North American landscape. His films have won many awards and screened at nearly every film festival on the planet, he has received both Rockefeller and Creative Capital grants, and in November 2003, the Museum of Modern Art presented a retrospective of his work. His ‘turn-ons’ include blimps, elevated trains, and vegan bratwurst, but the steady tug of time passing and Hummers leave him less excited.
Short films by Bill Brown and Dreamwhip reading
Sunday, August 17
8pm
UnionDocs newly-renovated backyard
322 Union Avenue, Brooklyn
off the Lorimer L stop in Williamsburg
During the Flaherty Seminar there was barely time to breathe between the films, discussions, arguments, and drinking… but there’s a lot to say on the subject. So, I wrote an essay that says nothing. It looks pretty (in pink) though. Click above to download the pdf. pdf. pdfff.
