Category: Film

  • Every House Has A Door at MCA

    Chicago’s EVERY HOUSE HAS A DOOR had to postpone their engagement at PS122 but the film they produced, WAKING THINGS, plays this weekend at Anthology Film Archive.

  • A Week in Openings: Witness Relocation, Toni Dove & Wakka Wakka’s “Baby Universe”

    Toni Dove and Witness Relocation play with chance in live-mixed performances, while Wakka Wakka Productions gives us a stunning puppet show spectacle on astronomical-existential themes

  • Merce Cunningham’s Interscape at BAC Flicks

    To watch Interscape (2000), a film of a dance by Merce Cunningham created by Charles Atlas, is to see the not-so-distant future of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

  • Scott Pilgrim Rules

    Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is an incredible, landmark film. Not only is it fun, smart and enjoyable, but it will probably be as much of a generational hallmark as Slacker was to Gen X.

  • EMPAC announces DANCE MOViES COMMISSION 2010-2011

    With the widest definition yet of what dance on screen can be, EMPAC announces the 4 recipients of this year’s EMPAC DANCE MOViES Commission. Chosen out of 71 proposals by a panel of artists, curators and producers, the projects range widely in format, style and intent: from a contemplative video installation, to massively processed images…

  • FUTURE CINEMA PRESENT BLOW UP

    For their New York launch, London’s Future Cinema presents an immersive experience of Michaelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 iconic classic ‘Blow Up’ on Wednesday 30th June at 8PM at Shangri La Studios, 100 Sutton Street in Greenpoint. This event is FREE.

  • Red Carpet Muncher 2: Ivan as Cartman, your mom as Kyle & the elusive Mr. Pussy

    To those readers flipping the stations of their microaerophile attention spans, X-TINA, a short film directed by yours temporarily, was in the marginalia (literally the basement) at Cannes Film Fest but there nonetheless. This event, held annually for two weeks in May, is over ergo rendering this screed not so much a blog entry but…

  • Rooftop Films 2010 Summer Series: New York Non-Fiction

    This Friday, June 18th, you can check out some of the coolest NYC-themed short films by NYC-based filmmakers as part of Rooftop Films’ New York Non-Fiction Series. “New York City scratches, splashes, survives, creates, gets sick, dies, makes music, mourns, becomes activated, does its hair, and is reborn in a different shape to do it…

  • Red Carpet Muncher 1: Ivan Bellman on a taut leash at Cannes Film Festival

    Ivan Bellman on a taut leash at Cannes Film Festival

  • Last Address

    Last Address is an elegiac film made up of exterior images of the last residential addresses of a group of New York City artists who died of AIDS: a film by Ira Sachs produced by Lucas Joaquin shot by Michael Simmonds edited by Brian A. Kates sound by Damian Volpe additional assistance by Jonathan Boyd…

  • A Quintessential Postmortem on SXSW 2010

    The quintessential South by Southwest Festival (SXSW) happening came at the tail end of the festivities on Saturday, March 20th when Joseph Gordon-Levitt hosted and curated an evening of music, film and live performance at the G-Tech Theater located at the Austin Convention Center for hitRecord.org. The music, film and interactive event featured live performances…

  • Dance On Camera Festival

    If, like the NY Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay, you are “only slightly acquainted with the work of three of these artists (Beth Gill, Ralph Lemon, Sarah Michelson) and not at all with three others (John Jasperse, Jennifer Monson, Anna Liv Young),” or even if you are,  check out the Dance On Camera Festival kicking…