The Urban Landscape in Cinematic Transformation
New American Cinema Group, Inc. and The Film-Makers' Cooperative
May 7th & 8th
Millennium Film Workshop
66 East 4th Street, (betwween 2nd Ave. and Bowery) New York, NY
In conjunction with The New Museum’s ambitious five day Festival of Ideas for the New City, The Film-Makers’ Cooperative (FMC) will present The Urban Landscape in Cinematic Transformation, a two day program of four unique screenings of historic and new films from their collection. An avant-garde film series interweaves three threads pertinent to the East Village, Chinatown, and Lower East Side: the urban landscape, subcultures that inhabit them, and changes over time. The screenings will take place at The Millennium Film Workshop (66 East 4th St.).
Featuring works by: Rachel Amodeo, Rudolph Burckhardt, Bill Brand, Donna Cameron, Shirley Clarke, Peter Cramer, Coleen Fitzgibbons, Henry Hills, Philip Hartman and Doris Kornish, Ken Jacobs, Oona Mekas, Marie Menken, Lynne Sachs, Joel Schlemowitz, MM Serra and Jennifer Reeves, and Mark Street
Programme:
May 7th, 19h
This program will include Ken Jacobs’ Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days, using innovative digital techniques to transform Mekas into 3D motion; also screening are: Breathing Twice by Katy Martin, Memories of Soho by Oona Mekas, Darling International by MM Serra and Jenn Reeves, Coney Island by Peter Cramer, L.E.S. by Coleen Fitzgibbons, Georgic for a Forgotten Planet by Lynne Sachs and Alone, Apart: The Dream Reveals the Waking Day by Mark Street.
May 7th, 21h
Filmgoers can view Rachel Amodeo’s What About Me, the story of a young homeless woman who is slowly deteriorating on the streets of the Lower East Side, including footage of the homeless shanty-town that existed in Tompkins Square Park from 1989 to 1990.
May 8th, 14h
This program includes Shirley Clarke’s Bridges-Go-Round, a classic masterpiece of undulating man-made urban constructions; Henry Hills’ Money, a meditation on the economic problems facing New York avant-garde artists; and Donna Cameron’s Broken Bridge, a collage of deconstructed hand-drawn images of the iconic Brooklyn Bridge, using Cameron’s own patented invention, paper emulsion. Also screening: Moving Images – The Film-Makers’ Cooperative Relocates by Joel Schlemowitz, Go! Go! Go! by Marie Menken, Eastside Summer by Rudolph Burckhardt, and Susie’s Ghost by Bill Brand.
May 8th, 17h
Phillip Hartman and Doris Kornish’s filmic love letter to the Lower East Side’s pre-gentrification days, No Picnic, features the diverse, off-beat, and often insane characters representing the various subcultures that once defined the neighborhood. Look for an early “performance” by Steve Buscemi as a dead pimp.