You are invited to MONO NO AWARE XVI; the free to attend, all ages, open to the public expanded cinema arts festival. Starting this Wednesday, November 30th, for five consecutive nights, MONO will present the work of over 50 international artists of the moving image. FULL PROGRAM, locations, & info here. Made possible with support from the New York State Council on the Arts, the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, by all our Festival sponsors-in-kind (below) and the 800+ persons who participated in our public workshops this year, to those who rent equipment, purchase film stock, printed publications or assisted lab services from our organization. Come out and celebrate!
* Wed Nov 30th "The Meadow" By Maya Edelman & "For Cynthia" By Nora Rodriguez
* Thurs Dec 1st "Stepping Into The Frame" By Lauren Noelle Oliver
* Fri Dec 2nd Program One : "Self-Reflecting Prophecy"
- Beam / 16mm Dual-Projection Installation Blinn & Lambert (Brooklyn, New York, United States)
- Birthday Song / 16mm Triple-Channel Installation Erica Sheu 徐璐 (Los Angeles, Ca United States)
- Coal / 16mm Single-Channel Installation Janika Herlevi (Ostrobothnia, Vaasa, Finland)
- Durational Program / Performances
- Three Faces Scratched In Cloth / 16mm Triple-Projection Performance With Optical Sound Peaches Goodrich (Philadelphia, Pa, United States)
- And So She Works... From Home... As Does She / 16mm Dual-Projection Performance With Optical Sound Simone Barros (Durham, Nc, United States)
- Three Cities Winter ‘19 / 16mm Projection W/ Steel Guitar Performance Connor Kramerer (Queens, Ny, United States)
- Dust In The Wind / 35mm Slide Projection With Live Narration Hsuan-Kuang Hsieh (Los Angeles, Ca, United States)
- The Folly / 16mm Single-Projection With Live Narration Hasabie Kidanu (Brooklyn, New York, United States)
- Pulsos Subterraneos / Underground Pulses / 16mm Multi-Projection Performance With Live Sound Elena Pardo (Mexico City, Mexico) Millie Wissar ((Lima, Peru & Vancouver, Canada) Misha Marks ((Wellington, New Zealand & Mexico City, Mexico)
- Optipus: The Mushroom Archive / 16mm Multi-Projection Performance With Live Sound & Poetry Bradley Eros (Brooklyn, New York, United States) Lary 7 (Manhattan, New York, United States) Scott Kiernan (Brooklyn, New York, United States) Richard Sylvarnes (Queens, New York, United States) Rachael Guma (Queens, New York, United States) Gabriel Guma (Queens, New York, United States) Masami Tomihisa (Queens, New York, United States) Lele Dai (Brooklyn, New York, United States) Ava Witonsky (Brooklyn, New York, United States) Linh Vu (Manhattan, New York, United States) Benji Santos (Brooklyn, New York, United States) Lily Sarosi (Brooklyn, New York, United States)
- Inter-Program Dj / House Dj Spawtr (Brooklyn, Ny, Us) & Marco Enri ( Brooklyn, Ny, Us)
* Sat Dec 3rd Program Two : "Out Of Shadows Cast"
- Touching The Rumble Of Melting / 16mm Installation Nung-Hsin Hu (Los Angeles, California, United States)
- Everything Comes Full Circle / 16mm Installation Lilan Yang (Providence, Ri United States)
- Into The Night / Kinetic Sculpture Ray Chang (Burbank, California United States)
- Durational Program / Performances
- Mere Dil Mere Musaafir / 16mm Single-Projection With Live Narration Julia Zanin De Paula (Bento Gonçalves, Brazil) Iman Selachii (Lahore, Pakistan)
- When The Seeds Say Enough / S8mm Dual-Projection Performance With Live Sound & Narration Dominick Rivers (Bloomington, Indiana, United States)
- Nowadays / Multi-Format Multi-Projection Performance Tessa Hughes-Freeland (New York, New York United States)
- Devotion / 16mm Single-Projection With Live Sound Sara Scur (Brooklyn, New York, United States) Hugo Wai (Brooklyn, New York, United States)
- The Lovesick Serpent / 16mm Single Channel-Projection With Live Sound Chae Yu (Seoul, South Korea)
- Content Warning / 16mm Single-Channel Projection With Spoken Word Performance Ayanna Dozier (Brooklyn, New York, United States)
- Seven Sins Of Memory / 16mm Multi-Projection Performance With Live Sound Ieva Balode (Riga, Latvia) Maksims Šenteļevs (Riga, Latvia)
- Inter-Program Dj / House Scuba Rob (Brooklyn, Ny, Us)
* Sun Dec 4th "Deprivation" By Caity Arthur