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Friday, May 28 - 7:30pm VideoKills: INVISIBLE CITY SYMPHONIES With JJ Hurvich and Will Martin The program of City Symphonies will be accompanied by original scores composed specifically for each piece, and performed live in the tradition of the early silent cinematic experience.

VideoKills: INVISIBLE CITY SYMPHONIES

With JJ Hurvich and Will Martin The program of City Symphonies will be accompanied by original scores composed specifically for each piece, and performed live in the tradition of the early silent cinematic experience.
Sunday, May 23 - 7:30pm Godard, Miéville & Lynne Sachs: Movie-making and the Stubborn, Unruly Galaxy of Childhood With Lynne Sachs, Kelly Anderson and Josetxo Cerdán Los Arcos Leave it to Jean-Luc Godard and Anne Marie Miéville to figure out how to use television to reveal the latent brilliance of a child.

Godard, Miéville & Lynne Sachs: Movie-making and the Stubborn, Unruly Galaxy of Childhood

With Lynne Sachs, Kelly Anderson and Josetxo Cerdán Los Arcos Leave it to Jean-Luc Godard and Anne Marie Miéville to figure out how to use television to reveal the latent brilliance of a child.
Saturday, May 15 - 7:30pm Thirty-Four Short Films About Nine Things: Personal Documentaries from the New School With Caveh Zahedi Independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi, best known for his autobiographical films, also teaches a personal documentary class at the New School in which students are asked to make a film every week on a given topic. "The Personal Documentary" showcases the work of his students.

Thirty-Four Short Films About Nine Things: Personal Documentaries from the New School

With Caveh Zahedi Independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi, best known for his autobiographical films, also teaches a personal documentary class at the New School in which students are asked to make a film every week on a given topic. "The Personal Documentary" showcases the work of his students.
Saturday, May 8 - 4:00pm Scene: Brooklyn – Documentary Criticism Panel & Good Fortune With Richard Brody, Ed Halter, Thom Powers, Lisa Rosman, Aaron Hillis, Karin Chien Discussion about the challenges of getting documentaries critically reviewed and Good Fortune Screening.

Scene: Brooklyn – Documentary Criticism Panel & Good Fortune

With Richard Brody, Ed Halter, Thom Powers, Lisa Rosman, Aaron Hillis, Karin Chien Discussion about the challenges of getting documentaries critically reviewed and Good Fortune Screening.
Saturday, May 1 - 7:30pm Zachary Levy’s STRONGMAN With Zachary Levy One of the most poignant and hauntingly original American documentaries in years, Strongman tells the up-close-and-personal story of Stanley "Stanless Steel" Pleskun, who can lift dump trucks and bend pennies with his bare hands, but who struggles to transcend his chaotic New Jersey home life and the toll of his slowly-but-surely advancing age.

Zachary Levy’s STRONGMAN

With Zachary Levy One of the most poignant and hauntingly original American documentaries in years, Strongman tells the up-close-and-personal story of Stanley "Stanless Steel" Pleskun, who can lift dump trucks and bend pennies with his bare hands, but who struggles to transcend his chaotic New Jersey home life and the toll of his slowly-but-surely advancing age.
Sunday, Apr 18 - 7:30pm SMALL-GAUGE: Super-8mm Films by Kevin T. Allen & Jen Heuson With Kevin T. Allen and Jen Heuson The artists introduce their films by discussing how the small-gauge format shapes a documentary subject and why super-8mm is gaining such popularity within the current media landscape.

SMALL-GAUGE: Super-8mm Films by Kevin T. Allen & Jen Heuson

With Kevin T. Allen and Jen Heuson The artists introduce their films by discussing how the small-gauge format shapes a documentary subject and why super-8mm is gaining such popularity within the current media landscape.

Scott Nyerges & Ryan Marino Present: TACTILE TOPOGRAPHIES

With Scott Nyerges and Ryan Marino The camera surveys its surrounding in this program of classic and rarely seen films from the Filmmakers' Cooperative library. Whether an industrial urban wasteland or a pristine rural landscape, filmmakers have long used the camera to explore, interpret and re-imagine the landscapes they inhabit, transporting us from the familiar to the foreign and back again.
Friday, Apr 16 - 7:30pm Adam Sekuler Presents: CASCADIAN FACTS AND FICTIONS With Adam Sekuler and Sarah Jane Lapp This program features films from Webster Crowell, Serge Gregory, Vanessa Renwick, Craig Downing, Sarah Jane Lapp, Larry Kent, and Matt McCormick, displaying just the tip of the iceberg from the regions wide-ranging talents.

Adam Sekuler Presents: CASCADIAN FACTS AND FICTIONS

With Adam Sekuler and Sarah Jane Lapp This program features films from Webster Crowell, Serge Gregory, Vanessa Renwick, Craig Downing, Sarah Jane Lapp, Larry Kent, and Matt McCormick, displaying just the tip of the iceberg from the regions wide-ranging talents.
Sunday, Apr 11 - 7:30pm Archeology of the Image: Retrospective of Experimental Cinema in Uruguay With Angela Lòpez Ruiz, Bill Brand and Mark Street Uruguayan visual artist, film historian, and curator Angela Lòpez Ruiz presents “Archeology of the Image”, a review of the history of Uruguayan cinema between the 20s and the 70s.

Archeology of the Image: Retrospective of Experimental Cinema in Uruguay

With Angela Lòpez Ruiz, Bill Brand and Mark Street Uruguayan visual artist, film historian, and curator Angela Lòpez Ruiz presents “Archeology of the Image”, a review of the history of Uruguayan cinema between the 20s and the 70s.

51 Birch Street With Doug Block

With Doug Block Both unexpectedly funny and heartbreaking, 51 Birch Street is the first-person account of Block’s unpredictable journey through a whirlwind of dramatic life-changing events: the death of his mother, the uncovering of decades of family secrets, and the ensuing reconciliation with his father.
Wednesday, Mar 24 - 7:30pm Don Siegel Tribute: Last of the Independents With Foster Hirsch, Cullen Gallagher As part of our on-going Docs on Auteurs series, we will be honoring Siegel with a presentation of Thys Ockersen’s rare documentary Don Siegel: The Last of the Independents (1980).

Don Siegel Tribute: Last of the Independents

With Foster Hirsch, Cullen Gallagher As part of our on-going Docs on Auteurs series, we will be honoring Siegel with a presentation of Thys Ockersen’s rare documentary Don Siegel: The Last of the Independents (1980).
Saturday, Mar 20 - 7:30pm Craig Baldwin: Mock up on Mu; Accelerated Underdevelopment & Other Cinema Shorts With Craig Baldwin, Bosko Blagojevic, A radical hybrid of spy, sci-fi, Western, and even horror genres, Craig Baldwin's Mock Up On Mu cobbles together a feature-length "collage-narrative" based on (mostly) true stories of California's post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions, and Beat lifestyles.

Craig Baldwin: Mock up on Mu; Accelerated Underdevelopment & Other Cinema Shorts

With Craig Baldwin, Bosko Blagojevic, A radical hybrid of spy, sci-fi, Western, and even horror genres, Craig Baldwin's Mock Up On Mu cobbles together a feature-length "collage-narrative" based on (mostly) true stories of California's post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions, and Beat lifestyles.

War Against The Weak

With Justin Strawhand and Peter Demas War Against the Weak is a shocking investigation of American eugenics, arguably the most dangerous pseudoscience of all time, which became the largely unknown foundation for Nazi genocide.
Friday, Mar 12 - 7:30pm The River & The Fight for Life In The River, Pare Lorentz deploys powerful images, a poetic Pulitzer Prize-nominated script and another score by Virgil Thomson to illustrate the problems of flood control on the Mississippi River. In The Fight for Life, Lorentz presents a staged re-enactment of an emergency childbirth in an urban hospital.

The River & The Fight for Life

In The River, Pare Lorentz deploys powerful images, a poetic Pulitzer Prize-nominated script and another score by Virgil Thomson to illustrate the problems of flood control on the Mississippi River. In The Fight for Life, Lorentz presents a staged re-enactment of an emergency childbirth in an urban hospital.
Saturday, Mar 6 - 7:30pm Brian McCarthy: Flowering (Frost) With Brian McCarthy Focusing on two key works – Guy Sherwin’s 1983 Messages, and Larry Gottheim’s Tree of Knowledge from 1981 – which address the theme of child language development, this program is dedicated to the dialectics of flowering and frost.

Brian McCarthy: Flowering (Frost)

With Brian McCarthy Focusing on two key works – Guy Sherwin’s 1983 Messages, and Larry Gottheim’s Tree of Knowledge from 1981 – which address the theme of child language development, this program is dedicated to the dialectics of flowering and frost.

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