Red Hook Cine Soiree!!
Saturday July 31st, 15h
BWAC - Red Hook, Brooklyn
499 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, NY

Guest Programmer Joel Schlemowitz presents...

A salon of experimental and underground films from cine-artists Marie Losier, Jennifer Reeves, Nathaniel Lambert Cummings, Bradley Eros & Tim Geraghty, Jim Jennings, Jeremy D. Slater, Sheri Wills.

A summer afternoon and short works of avant-garde cinema? Our agenda is to program our soiree attuned to the enchantment of the season of Mid-Summer Nights' Dreams, to indulge ourselves in the hazy and lazy segment of the calendar, to enlighten ourselves lightly and sprightly, to work Puckish mischief on the screen, to take respite from the oppressive sun in the magic lantern parlor by the sea.

Expect red wine and soft cheese, and 78s of 1920s Hawaiian guitar played on the Victrola!

Grand Prize:

- Bachelor Machines Part I & Part II (Rosalind Nashashibi, Scotland, 2007)

2nd Prize:

- Victory over the Sun (Michael Robinson, USA, 2007)

3rd Prize:

- Public Domain (Jim Jennings, USA, 2007)

Honourable mentions (in alphabetical order):

- Androa Autoportrait (Matthias De Groof and Kristin Rogghe with Androa Mindre Kolo, Belgium/ DR Congo, 2006)

- Bay Bridge from Embarcadero (Guy Sherwin, England, 2004/2007)

- Dislocated Smaller Parts (Bruce McClure, USA, 2008)

- Golf House and Grey Heron II (Helga Fanderl, Germany, 2006)

- Land of Cockaigne (Rachel Reupke, England, 2007)

- Observando el Cielo (Jeanne Liotta, USA, 2007)

- Room of Chromatic Mystery (Arthur & Corinne Cantrill, Australia, 2006)

- RR (James Benning, USA, 2007)

- Sidewalk (Karl Kels, Germany, 2008)

- Sketch Film #5 (Tomonari Nishikawa, Japan, 2007)

- Take into the air my quiet breath (Speculative Archive, USA, 2007)

The jury:

Amy Beste is Director of Public Programming for the department of Film, Video & New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she organizes the visiting artist series "Conversations at the Edge" at the Gene Siskel Film Center.

Vincent Grenier has been making experimental films and videos since the early 1970s. His films have been exhibited at the Pompidou Centre, the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), and countless other international venues and festivals. Grenier is currently Chair of the Cinema Department at Binghamton University in New York.

Mike Sperlinger is Assistant Director of LUX, London, which holds the UK's most significant collection of artists' film and video. He has contributed to publications including Frieze, Radical Philosophy and Art Monthly, and recently edited the book "Afterthought: New Writing on Conceptual Art (Rachmaninoffs, 2005)