New York Underground Film Festival
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Thu 15 November 2007 // 18:00
/ Cinema
The New York Underground Film Festival select will feature a
mix of documentary styles and molten experiments in film from the Big
Apple to entertain and stimulate.
These films got
beat
Check out the dox: SWAY and Brave New York are
Richard Sandler’s raw free form films shot on the fly
in the city’s streets and subways; Random Lunacy: videos from
the road less travelled is a feel-good flowing piece from
Victor Zimet and Stephanie Silber using footage shot by the subject
Poppa Neutrino who don’t work don’t pay rent and leads his
tribe across the random sea of life - literally.
At the
political face there’s According to, Kevin Everson’s excavation of
the Deep South with found and shot footage: Aaron Valdez’ The
assassination of Robert Kennedy starring Gary Cooper and La
Trenchera Luminosa – Jim Finn’s vision of one day in a Shining
Path women’s prison camp in 1989 Peru.
Film makers are
always hungry cos they got no money – so Mike Plant’s come up
with Lunch Films where filmmakers make a film in return for a lunch –
a wild set of pieces from many film makers makes you hunger for more
mama more. Bon appetit!
And we got rhythm a series of
coruscating shorts that mix light and optix like dance. Come move
with filmmakers: Nancy Holt, Jem Cohen, Jennifer Reeves Richard
Todd.
The late after midnight Saturday treat is a screening of
James Fotopoulis’ The Ant Hill a dark and absurd narrative about
the inner world of some nameless cult.
There’s a bar with
Manhattan cocktails – Pizza to Go
And on Saturday night 9:00 to
12:30 there’s noise from New York with electro impro band Talibam!, Chops from Leeds DJs - a big Big Apple event.
Check
in at the Star and Shadow the coolest screen this side of the Hudson
River
All tickets @ £4 / £3 conc.
Sat night
Manhattan party with late night film 9:pm until 1:30 am tickets £4/3
Full festival pass to all events £10