12:00 AM Ma
11:15 PM CTZNSHP
10:30 PM Napolean
9:45 PM Happy Lives
9:00 PM Diamond Bones
8:15 PM Gingerlys
7:30 PM Chimes
11:40 PM Weird Womb
10:50 PM Big Ups
10:30 PM Lost Boy?
9:15 PM Vomitface
8:30 PM BOYTOY
7:45 PM No Shoes
7:00 PM Dead Tenants
11:15 PM The Venetia Fair
10:30 PM The Courtesy Tier
9:45 PM Slim Wray
9:00 PM The Freaky Baby Daddies
8:15 PM Sucker
7:30 PM Great Woods
11 PM Couch Slut
10PM Alien Trilogy
9PM Video Daughters
8PM Advaeta
Doors 7:30, $8
9:45pm Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires
8:25pm Mac DeMarco
7:30pm Benjamin Booker
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(the first 200 Music or Premium badge-holders/wristbands to show up before 8pm are granted entry without RSVPing; after 8pm, entry for badge-holders is on a first-come, first-served basis)
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All ages
11 PM NØMADS
10:15 SWF
9:30 Carl Creighton & Ajnabi
8:45 Unicycle Loves You
8:00 Rice Cultivation Society
Doors 7:45, $5
10:30 Luke Temple (w/ Jim White, from the Dirty Three)
9:50 Laura & Greg
9:10 Eastern Midwestern
8:30 Retail Space
(curated by Laura & Greg)
11 PM Radio Jarocho
10 PM Hiromi Suda
9 PM TBA
8 PM Lynette Williams
10:15 Owel
9:30 Sunset Hearts
8:45 The Meaning of Life
8:00 Nature Cruise
$10
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21+
11:30-12:15 Gringo Star
10:45-11:15 Slothrust
10:00-10:30 Flagland
9:15-19:45 Mannequin Pussy
8:30pm -9:00 pm Washer
11:30 PM Ishmael
10:30 INFiNiEN
9:45 Hannibal Montana
9:15 Girls & God
8:45 Lucas Brode
Doors 8:30 PM, $5
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Matt Wallaert, Bing
Marcos Salazar, Be Social Change
Melissa Jun Rowley, The Toolbox (moderator)
Northside Innovation invites you to come celebrate some of the year's most creative + compelling work in branded content in a two-part series on Friday, June 13th, in collaboration with mss ng p eces and The Barbarian Group.
The Barbarian Group's Colin Nagy will curate and moderate a panel about challenges & opportunities from a creative + brand perspective and look at what’s in store in the coming year.
Northside Innovation invites you to come celebrate some of the year's most creative + compelling work in branded content in a two-part series on Friday, June 13th, in collaboration with mss ng p eces and The Barbarian Group.
Ari Kuschnir and Kate Oppenheim from m ss ng p eces will do a short presentation on how new advancements in technology inspires, challenges and ultimately enables them to be better storytellers.
Following the presentation, special guests from different areas of the industry will join in the discussion including Landis Smithers, Creative Director of Pepsi, Jason Musante, Creative Director at Anomaly and more.10:15 - Nite Jewel
9:15 - Ejecta
8:15 - Brothertiger
7:15 - Psychic Twin
6:15 - The Great Void
11:15pm Ava Luna
10:30pm Glass Ghost
9:45pm Grooms
9:00pm Nat Baldwin
8:15pm Christopher Tignor12:40am The Teen Age
11:50pm Gone Quite Mad
11:10pm Osekre and the Lucky Bastards
10:30pm Zula
9:50pm EULA
9:10pm Bugs in the Dark
8:35pm Annie Rosie
8:00pm Sun Looks Down
21+
11:00 PM Goodnight Darlings
10:00 PM Dead Leaf Echo
9:00 PM Tyburn Saints
8:00 PM Tiers
11:30 PM White Mystery
10:45 PM J.A.C.K.
10:00 PM Whiskey Bitches
9:15 PM Vulture Shit
8:30PM Sharkmuffin
11 PM Beat Radio
10 PM Mount Sharp
9 PM Sorcha Richardson
8 PM Monica Lionheart
11:45 PM Shark?
11:00 PM The Planes
10:15 PM My Teenage Stride
9:30 PM The Teen Age10:00pm-12:00am Bookworms
12:00am-1:00am Entro Senestre
12:00am-1:00am Nao Katafuchi
1:00am-2:00am Steve Summers
1:00am- 2:30am Vereker
2:00am- 4:00am Marcos Cabral
2:30am -4:00am Shawn O'Sullivan
6:00PM Cosmonaut
5:15PM Honey Wild
4:30PM Such Hounds
3:45PM What Model Citizens
3:00PM Haybaby
2:15PM David Pollack
1:30PM The Meaning of Life
1:00PM Half Moon5:30 PM Graveyard Lovers
4:45 PM PussyWolf
4:00 PM The Venetia Fair
3:15 PM The Courtesy Tier
2:30 PM The Bushwick Hotel
1:45 PM MACH22
1:00 PM Jake Levine (of The Howler Weary)
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21+
8:15pm Deville
7:30pm Slothrust
6:45pm Clouder
6:00pm Ancient Sky
5:15pm The Golden Grass
4:30pm The Love Supremes
3:45pm Friend Roulette
3:00pm Winstons
2:00pm Naam
11 PM Karen & the Sorrows
10 PM Belle Mare
9 PM Catfox
8 PM Shenendoah & the Night
6 PM Bell’s Roar
5 PM Caitlin Harnett
4 PM The Rosewood Girl
6:15pm - Oliver Duncan
7:15pm - Lydia Ainsworth
8:15pm - White Prism
9:15pm - Monogold
10:15pm - Javelin
7:30pm - BLUFFING
8:15pm - Weekender
9:00pm - Little Racer
9:45pm - The Teen Age
10:30pm - BOYTOY
12:40 AM oddlogic
11:45 PM Wolvves
10:50 PM Twintapes
10:00 PM Leverage Models
9:15 PM Zula
8:30 PM Psychic Twin
7:45 PM nicholas nicholas
7:00 PM Space Meow
Doors 6:30 PM, $7
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21+
11:30 PM Sons of an Illustrious Father
10:45 PM Happy Lives
10:00 PM Napoleon
9:15 PM Alien Trilogy
8:30 PM Sun Castle
7:45 PM Jake Falby
7:00 PM Adam Brodsky
11 PM Pep
10 PM Whale Belly
9 PM Brambling
8 PM Gypsy George
10:00-11pm - Incan Abraham
9:00-9:45pm - Little Sur
8:15-8:45pm - Crush Distance
8pm doors, $1011:15pm Ski Lodge
10:30pm Literature
9:45pm Lushes
9:00pm My Teenage Stride
8:15pm Chalk and Numbers
Guerilla Toss 12:10 AM
Krill 11:25 PM
Creepoid 10:40 PM
Heliotropes 9:55 PM
Baked 9:10 PM
Flagland 8:25 PM
Celestial Shore 7:40 PM
Leapling 7 PM
Mattress Financial 6:20 PM
Bueno 5:40 PM
Ovlov 5 PM
Flesh Wounds 4:20 PM
BLUFFING 3:40 PM
Washer 3 PM
DOORS AT 2 PM
$10 (ALL DAY/NIGHT)
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18+
Eastern Hollows 5:45 PM
Crazy Pills 5 PM
The Living Kills 4:15 PM
Let's Be Loveless 3:30 PM
Big Quiet 2:45 PM
Doors 2:30, $5
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21+
DOORS AT 6 PM
$7
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21+
Bad Behavior 11 PM
Appomattox 10 PM
GYMSHORTS 9 PM
The Cowmen 8 PM
DOORS AT 7 PM, $5
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21+
11:00 PM The Golden Grass
10:15 PM NightBitch
9:30 PM gods
8:45 PM Ruby The Hatchet
8 :00 PM Contact
11 PM Shilpa Ray
10:15 Starlight Girls
9:30 Juniper Rising
8:45 Spirit Plate
8 Everything Forever
DOORS AT 7:30 PM
$8
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ALL AGES
11:30pm Life Size Maps
10:45pm Slonk Donkerson
10:00pm Journalism
9:15pm Sofa Club
8:30pm Big Muff Radio
7:45pm Grand Pantry Men
DOORS AT 7:30 PM, $6
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21+
11:15 PM Midnight Foolishness
10:30 PM Gameday Regulars
9:45 PM The Vampirates
9:00 PM Bound & Buried
8:15 PM Riot Fox
DOORS 8PM, $10
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21+
HARROW 11:00 PM
Wyatt 10:00 PM
Montgomery Streets 9:00 PM
DOORS 8:30PM,FREE
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21+
Short Circuit presented by Cinema Conservancy Screening Series
Directed by Manfred Kirchheimer
45min/1973/USA/English
Presented in 16mm
In his apartment on the corner of 101st Street and Broadway, a documentary filmmaker begins to question his interactions to the white family and black workers he shares his daily existence with. Staring out his window he begins to drift and fantasize a parallel life, which turns into a complex sound and image montage of street photography depicting an long-since vanquished Upper West Side. Full of doubt, a lifelong city resident looks at his liberalism and doesn’t like what he sees. Constructed reality and documentary fiction, an unclassifiable masterpiece of ideas and technique that by all rights should be considered a landmark, had it not been virtually impossible to see.
SCREENING WITH
Bridge High presented by Cinema Conservancy Screening Series
Directed by Manfred Kirchheimer
10min/1975/USA/English
Presented in 16mm
Passage across a suspension bridge, moving from the country to the city, a half minute trip – expanded. Choreographed cables, girders and arches.
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Cinema Conservancy is the distribution, preservation and screening program of Artists Public Domain, a New York-based non-profit production company, dedicated to ensuring the legacy of American Independent Cinema, past and present.
http://www.uniondocs.org/2014-06-16-bridge-high-short-circuit/
rDirected by Alex Winter
106 min/2013/USA/English
In 1998 Shawn Fanning, a teenage hacker and programmer, created the code that would become the basis for all peer-to-peer file sharing. In 1999, Fanning and his business partner, fellow teenager Sean Parker, launched the file-sharing service Napster. And what had begun as a largely unknown underground distribution medium erupted into a full-blown global revolution. “Downloaded” explores this revolution from its genesis to its peak and explains Napster’s downfall. “It’s about the music and the bands, the fans and the moguls, and the brilliant young minds that ignited the biggest youth revolt since Alan Freed hit the radio,” says director Alex Winter.
Free with RSVPJoin Adam Schartoff, host of the popular indie film chat show, Filmwax Radio for a live podcast with some of Northisde Film Festivals’s talented filmmakers. Guests include filmmaking team behind the recent SxSW hit Fort Tilden, Sarah-Violet Bliss & Charles Rogers and the director of Homemakers, Colin Healey. More guests to be announced.
Doors at 7pm
Event at 7:30pm
Homemakers (NY Premiere) presented by IFP
Directed by Colin Healey
85min/2014/USA/English
A rootless young singer with a knack for destruction attempts to restore her late grandfather's abandoned Pittsburgh home
screening with:
Awesome Asian Bad Guys
Directed by Stephen Dypiangco and Patrick Epino
8:30/2014/USA/English
http://www.nitehawkcinema.com/movie/homemakers/
Derby Crazy Love (NY Premiere) presented by Women Make Movies
Directed by Maya Gallus and Justine Pimlott
64min/2013/Canada/English
Maya Gallus and Justine Pimlott’s newest adrenaline-inducing documentary Derby Crazy Love takes viewers into the heart of the emerging roller derby phenomenon, a vibrant DIY community of third wave feminist empowerment.
Ya Wooto (World Premiere) - Northside DIY Film Competition Feature
Directed by Jenny Cartwright
68min/2014/Burkina Faso and Canada/French and Mooré with English subtitles
Sylvain did not complete grade school. That is why he dreams of getting his driver's license. With a driver's license in hand, Sylvain could drive merchandise trucks, a job which would allow him to find a wife and start a family. In Burkina Faso, you are not really an adult until you are married.
Meanwhile, he works seven days a week serving beers in one of Ouagadougou's thousands of "buvettes". Work is home for him: he sleeps in the backroom and is fed every day. He saves 100% of the 20$ he makes in a month in order to reach his goal.
In a year's time and with God's help he will have saved up enough cash to start his driving lessons.
Q&A with director Jenny Cartwright
https://yawoooto.eventbrite.comWhen I Walk presented by POV
Directed by Jason DaSilva
85 min/2013/USA and Canada/English
Jason DaSilva was 25 years old and a rising independent filmmaker when a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis changed everything — and inspired him to make another film. When I Walk is a candid and brave chronicle of one young man’s struggle to adapt to the harsh realities of M.S. while holding on to his personal and creative life. With his body growing weaker, DaSilva’s spirits, and his film, get a boost from his mother’s tough love and the support of Alice Cook, who becomes his wife and filmmaking partner. The result is a life-affirming documentary filled with unexpected moments of joy and humor. Official Selection of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
*Screening followed by party in honor of POV’s 2014 season
http://www.uniondocs.org/2014-06-16-walk/Human Geography - Northside DIY Film Competition Feature
Directed by Misha Spivack
44min/2012/USA/English
A young man follows a girl from Boston to New York. Human Geography maps the intertwined and complex network of connections, casual friendships and love triangles that keep Alex a perpetual arm's length away from Nyle.
Q&A with director Misha Spivack
https://humangeography.eventbrite.comHeavenly Creatures presented by Queer/Art/Film, curated by JD Samson
Directed by Peter Jackson
99min/1994/New Zealand/English
Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.
SCREENING WITH
Dyketactics
Directed by Barbara Hammer
4min/1974/USA/English
Born in Los Angeles but a New Yorker by choice, Barbara Hammer is a whole genre unto herself. Her pioneering 1974 short film Dyketactics, a four-minute, hippie wonder consisting of frolicking naked women in the countryside, broke new ground for its exploration of lesbian identity, desire and aesthetic. Abdellatif Kechiche, director of last year’s sexually sensationalist Blue Is the Warmest Colour, might have done better if he had taken a leaf out of Hammer’s book. Hammer calls the film her ‘lesbian commercial’.
- Selina Robertson, “Ten Great Lesbian Films”
(http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/10-great-lesbian-films)
Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger (NY Premiere) presented by DCTV
Directed by Sam Feder
70min/2014/USA/English
Kate Bornstein Is A Queer and Pleasant Danger captures the many facets of a queer hero and pioneering gender outlaw. Whether she is charming an enraptured audience on her latest book tour, tweeting to her 20 thousand followers from her home office, or cuddling with her puggle, this documentary portrait highlights Kate’s style, wicked wit, and astonishing candor.
screening withGrit & Grind (US Premiere) presented by DCTV
Directed by Felix Endara and Sasha Wortzel
10min/2014/USA/English
Grit & Grind is a short documentary about the Clit Club, an edgy lesbian party set in New York City’s Meatpacking District in the 1990s, as this large metropolis struggled with the AIDS epidemic. The film acts as a poly-vocal recollection of the sexually charged energy produced by this intergenerational, cross-racial, mixed class venue; and serves as a record of a vibrant neighborhood before it became home to homogeneous trendy boutiques and luxury hotels.
Natural Life - Northside DIY Film Competition Feature
Directed by Tirtza Even
77min/2014/USA/English
Natural Life is a feature length experimental documentary challenging inequities in the U.S. juvenile justice system by depicting, through documentation and reenactment, the stories of five individuals who were sentenced to Life Without Parole (Natural Life) for crimes they committed as youth.
The youthful status and/or lesser culpability of these youths, their background and their potential for rehabilitation, were not taken into account at any point in the charging and sentencing process. The five will never be evaluated for change, difference or growth. They will remain in prison till they die.
The project portrays the ripple-effect that the sentence has had not only on the incarcerated youth and their victims, but also on the community at large.
Q&A with director Tirtza Even
https://naturallifenorthside.eventbrite.comThe Tanning of America: One Nation Under Hip Hop presented by VH1 Rock Docs
Directed by Billy Corben
88 min/2012/USA/English
VH1’s The Tanning of America is a docu-series based on Steve Stoute’s best-selling book, “The Tanning of America: How Hip-Hop Created a Culture That Rewrote the Rules of the New Economy,” a thorough examination of hip hop as a pop cultural movement, whose profound influence eventually paved the way for the election of Barack Obama.
The Tanning of America will attempt to bring Stoute’s theory to life and provide a visual history of “tanning” and illustrate how hip hop has affected music, TV, film, language, politics, fashion, and race relations in America. Stoute describes “tanning” as “the catalytic force majeure that went beyond music boundaries and into the psyche of young America – blurring cultural and demographic lines so permanently that it laid the foundation for a transformation.
Over the last three decades, hip-hop culture and its seminal figures have gone from being an urban counterculture moment to permeating virtually every aspect of American life: the music we listen to, the fashion we wear, the food we eat, the cars we drive, etc. Hip-hop has done more to erase perceptions about racial distinctions for the generations that grew up exposed to it than any other force since the Civil Rights Movement. There’s now a whole generation of Americans who grew up immersed in this culture that are, for all intents and purposes, colorblind. This is the true story of that evolution.
Each one-hour episode will explore pivotal moments in American pop culture history beginning in the 1970’s to present day and how the influence of hip-hop music is woven throughout the very fiber of the American cultural fabric. The list includes: Al Sharpton, Andre Harrell, Ben Horowitz, Bethann Hardison, Bill Adler, Brett Ratner, Brian Grazer, Cory Booker, Dan Charnas, Dapper Dan, Daymond John, Dr Dre, Fab 5 Freddy, Jacob the Jeweler, Jesse Schiedlower, Jimmy Iovine, Joan Walsh, John Demsey, Jonathan Shecter, Rev. Run, Keith Clinkscales, Lyor Cohen, Marc Ecko, Meg Cox, Melvin van Peebles, Mona Scott-Young, Naomi Campbell, Nas, Nelson George, Norman Lear, Pharrell, Puffy, Ralph McDaniels, Rick Rubin, Ron Howard, Russell Simmons, Steve Stoute, Tommy Hilfiger, Toure, Wendy Day, and Will.i.am and many more.
Free with RSVP
FORTY YEARS FROM YESTERDAY (NY Premiere) presented by Hammer to Nail
Directed by Robert Machoian & Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck
77min/2013/USA/English
Grief quietly reverberates through a family after a man discovers his wife of forty years has unexpectedly passed away. Filmmakers Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck and and Robert Machoian make their feature directorial debut with this quietly powerful examination of love and loss.
Screening with:
THE IMMACULATE RECEPTION
Directed by CHARLOTTE GLYNN
16min/2014/USA/English
Q&A with curator Brandon Harris and director Charlotte Glynn
https://fortyyearsfromyesterday.eventbrite.comIf You Take This (NY Premiere) presented by BAMcinemaFest
Directed by Craig Butta
75min/2014/USA/Arabic, Berber, French, English
A psychedelic, hybrid ethnography that takes us into Morocco to discover its music and culture. An American film crew is hired by a Moroccan-born Wall Street financier to document his family, but they soon go off on their own path, chasing the legendary Joujouka musicians. Recalling the myths and legends about the place that first excited them, the crew soon finds history repeating itself in bizarre ways. Part road movie, part head trip, If You Take This is about sound, image and the distortions within the idea of “authenticity.” It might also be about the end of the world.
http://www.nitehawkcinema.com/movie/if-you-take-this
The story of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin and how their message for their generation made them targets of a US government plot. Directed by schlock cinema auteur Larry Buchanan (Zontar the Thing from Venus, Mars Needs Women, The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald) seven years before Oliver Stone’s The Doors, Buchanan’s film mixes generational war and conspiracy theory in a dead-end mise en scene in which political and pop history compete for attention in anonymous hotel rooms linked by TV sets nobody is watching. Buchanan, an Austin, Texas-based no-budget filmmaker, could not afford the rights to any Hendrix, Joplin, or The Doors hits, so instead commissioned unconvincing sound-alike songs for his cast of local actors to perform. Beyond the Doors/Down on US, which never played in any theater outside of Austin, presents a posthumous history of classic rock from before the point it was fully commodified, when it was still open to peculiar interpretation and awkward deification.
Q&A to follow
http://www.uniondocs.org/2014-06-17-beyond-the-doors/DIY Film Competition Narrative Shorts
Total Runtime: 65min
The Gravedigger’s Tale
Directed by Min Young Oh
13:06/2013/UK
Stone Cars
Directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green
14min/2013/USA and South Africa/Xhosa with English subtitles
Sweating in the Night
Directed by D.W. Young
Ving Rhames
Directed by Dean Peterson
9min/2014/USA/English
Q&A with select filmmakers following the screening
http://diyshorts.eventbrite.com
The Selfish Giant presented by Shooting People UK and British Consulate General New York
Directed by Clio Barnard
91min/2013/UK/English
THE SELFISH GIANT is a contemporary fable about 13 year old Arbor (Conner Chapman) and his best friend Swifty (Shaun Thomas). Excluded from school and outsiders in their own neighborhood, the two boys meet Kitten (Sean Gilder), a local scrapdealer – the Selfish Giant. They begin collecting scrap metal for him using a horse and cart. Swifty has a natural gift with horses while Arbor emulates Kitten – keen to impress him and make some money. However, Kitten favors Swifty, leaving Arbor feeling hurt and excluded, driving a wedge between the boys. Arbor becomes increasingly greedy and exploitative, becoming more like Kitten. Tensions build, leading to a tragic event, which transforms them all.
screening with
Avalanche
Directed by: Ginevra Boni
2:32/2013/UK/English
On a day like any other, a silent mountain appears as a mirror on the ice.
An uncertain character is about to make a discovery that will change his life forever.
Based on a story by Paul Auster
http://theselfishgiant.eventbrite.com
Homemakers (NY Premiere) presented by IFP
Directed by Colin Healey
85min/2014/USA/English
A rootless young singer with a knack for destruction attempts to restore her late grandfather's abandoned Pittsburgh home
screening with:
Awesome Asian Bad Guys
Directed by Stephen Dypiangco and Patrick Epino
8:30/2014/USA/English
https://homemakers.eventbrite.com
Fort Tilden (BK Premiere)
Directed by Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers
97 min/2014/USA/English
Fort Tilden: New York City’s secluded seaside nirvana where, like flies to honey, Brooklyn’s hip millennial set flocks on sweltering weekend afternoons for unbridled summertime indulgence. Amidst the vexing stagnation of quarter-life crises, Allie (Clare McNulty) struggles to prepare for the Peace Corps, while Harper (Bridey Elliott) awaits checks from her father to fund her artistic dreams. But the two friends quickly shun responsibilities for the day when a pair of good-looking guys invites them along for a carefree Fort Tilden afternoon. As the two young women board their fixed-gear bicycles and embark on a lengthy journey to the beach, they quickly realize that, akin to their confusing, transitioning lives, they neither know where they’re going nor how they plan to get there.
http://www.nitehawkcinema.com/movie/fort-tildenAnvil! The Story of Anvil
Directed by Sacha Gervasi
80min/2009/Canada/English
At 14, Toronto school friends Steve “Lips” Kudlow and Robb Reiner made a pact to rock together forever. They meant it. Their band, Anvil, went on to become the “demigods of Canadian metal,” releasing one of the heaviest albums in metal history, 1982’sMetal on Metal. The album influenced a musical generation, including Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax, that went on to sell millions of records. But Anvil’s career took a different path – straight to obscurity.
Director Sacha Gervasi has concocted a wonderful and often hilarious account of Anvil’s last-ditch quest for elusive fame and fortune. His ingenious filmmaking may first lead you to think this is a mockumentary, but it isn’t. Gervasi joined the legendary heavy-metal band as a roadie for a tour of Canadian hockey arenas, so he has intimate insight into the members’ eccentricities. It’s fascinating to see the reality of their day-to-day lives as they struggle to make ends meet, take a misguided European tour, and engage in antics on the road – which is not always lined with fans. Gervasi even finds a softer center to this raucous film, introducing us to band members’ ever-supportive, but long-suffering, families. At its core, Anvil! The Story of Anvil is a timeless tale of survival and the unadulterated passion it takes to follow your dream, year after year. Anvil rocks – it has no other choice.
Flood Tide (NY Premiere) - Northside DIY Film Competition Feature
Directed by Todd Chandler
70min/2013/USA/English
A group of artists and musicians living in a small, post-industrial town chase jobs, struggle with bills, and use art and music to build their own small world. When their friend Maya dies, they set out on an extraordinary voyage, unknowingly accompanied by her ghostly presence. And while they drift past empty new condo developments, explore crumbling castles, and swim in iridescent quarries, Maya narrates a parallel story about a strange and meandering river that flows both ways.
Flood Tide is a collaboration with the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea, a project dreamed up by the artist Swoon and built by a group of artists and performers who floated seven large sculptures down the Hudson River. Flood Tide interweaves documentation of this journey with layers of fiction, mythology, and oral history to create a film that both documents and reimagines the real-life project.
Music is an integral part of Flood Tide, both on screen and off. The film features an all-original score by the band Dark Dark Dark and includes several onscreen performances by the band as well as a special performance by renowned experimental musician Pauline Oliveros.
Q&A with director Todd Chandler
Join Narratively and friends for a rowdy yet refined evening of short docs and unfettered variety.
Playing By Ear
Directed by Daphnée Denis & Hoda Emam
5:30/2013/USA/English
The Caucasian Sensation
Directed by Alison Brockhouse
7:50/2013/USA/English
Loving the Bony Lady
Directed by Scott Elliott
6:28/2012/USA/Spanish with English subtitles
Karaoke Kills in Brooklyn
Directed by James Boo
6:22/2013/USA/English
No Strings Attached
Directed by: Emon Hassan
8:01/2012/USA/English
Matron of Morbidity (2013)
Directed by: Joel Tozer and Ella Rubeli
3:53/2013/USA/English
Kung Fu Noodles
Directed by: Yihuan Wu and Xiaoran Liu
7:46/2013/USA/English
Summer of Blood (Brooklyn Premiere) presented by Factory 25
Directed by Onur Tukel
Starring: Anna Margaret Hollyman, Dakota Goldhor, Onur Tukel, Dustin Guy Defa, Melodie Sisk, Jason Selvig
86min/2014/USA/English
Erik Sparrow is one of the lucky ones. He’s got a good job. He’s in a stable relationship. He lives in one of the greatest cities in the world. Does he deserve it? Probably not. He’s not too bright. He’s not very attractive. He’s not at all ambitious. He’s chubby and he’s always complaining. And when his girlfriend Jody proposes to him, he doesn’t even have the good sense to accept her offer. He’ll never find a woman like this again. Instead, Erik bumbles his way around the issue, offering one excuse after another for not getting married. When Jody dumps him and starts seeing an old flame from college, Erik tries to win her back. When he fails, he attempts to date other women, but the results are disastrous. Erik’s starts falling apart. His job grows more unfulfilling. He becomes obsessed with a kinky co-worker who has no interest in him. He becomes riddled with despair. One night, Erik meets an enigmatic stranger named Gavin who asks him, “Do you want to die?” Erik shrugs and says, “I do.” Then everything goes pitch black.
When Erik wakes up from the darkness, he finds himself changed forever. He’s stronger, more confident and free to do whatever he wants. Dating is a synch. He’s a lothario, a sexual dynamo; able to seduce any women he wants without even trying. He quits his job. Finally, he’s free and unshackled with not a care in the world. Except for one little thing, the excruciating stomach pains. There’s only one remedy for that….BLOOD!
New Short Shorts from the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective
Intuition
Directed by Danielle Lurie
8min/2014/USA and Spain/Spanish with English subtitles
Spider Drove a Taxi
Directed by Joshua Z Weinstein
3min/2013/USA/English
Take My Time
Directed by Brad DeCecco
4min/2013/USA/English
I Fenicotteri // Flamingos
Directed by Francesca Coppola
16min/2013/Italy/Italian with English subtitles
Carla & Cecil
Directed by Veena Rao and Emily Sheskin
6 min/2014/USA/English
This Is Just To Say
Directed by Lam Thuy Vo
1:30/2012/Hong Kong/no language
Between Colors Of I
Directed by Iva Radivojevic
7 min/2013/USA and Morocco/French with English subtitles
The Last Bread
Directed by Maria Rosa Badia
7 min/2013/USA/Spanish with English subtitles
Upgrade
Directed by Andrey Alistratov and Hazuki Aikawa
1:30/2013/USA/English
Watching the Rain
Directed by Alex Mallis
4 min/2014/USA/Spanish with English subtitles
The Deadly Cost of Fashion
Directed by Nathan Fitch & Ismail Ferdous
5 min/2014/USA and Bangladesh/English
Hummingbird
Directed by Kai Beverly-Whittemore
5 min/2014/USA/English
Q&A with select filmmakers
DIY Film Competition Experimental Shorts
Total Runtime: 71min
Adam's Pineapple (Ananas Spleen)
Directed by Guillaume Miquel
11min/2013/USA and France/English
Concert Video Recording
Directed by Ethan Knecht
2:48/2014/USA/English
Dead White
Directed by Ali A. Rashti
6min/2013/Canada/English
Dear Lucas
Directed by Winnie Cheung
19min/2014/USA/English
Macaulay Culkin Eating a Slice of Pizza
Directed by Macaulay Culkin
5min/2013/USA/English
Meet My Rapist
Directed by Jessie Kahnweiler
7:44/2013/USA/English
The Misadventures of Incredible Dr. Wonderfoot
Directed by Brett Glass & Grier Dill
12:17/2013/USA/Japanese with English subtitles
A Truncated Story of Infinity
Directed by Paul Trillo
8:08/2012/USA/English
Wawd Ahp
Directed by Steve Girard and Josh Chertoff
2:45/2013/USA/English
Q&A with select filmmakers
Rezeta presented by Cinema Tropical
Directed by Fernando Frías
83min/2012/Mexico/Spanish with English subtitles
Winner of the Grand Jury Narrative Prize at Slamdance, Frías' auspicious directorial debut follows Rezeta, a 21-year-old model born in Albania, arrives in Mexico City after living off of her beauty in many different countries. Soon she meets Alex, the guy in charge of cleaning her trailer during her first commercial gig in Mexico. Their friendship unfolds naturally, but after two failed attempts at dating stereotypical Mexican males Rezeta becomes romantically interested in Alex. This is the story of their complicated love.
Q&A with Carlos Gutierrez (Cinema Tropical) and director Fernando Frias
Ne Me Quitte Pas (BK Premiere) presented by the Dutch Consulate and Indiewire
Directed by Sabine Lubbe Bakker, Niels van Koevorden
107min/2013/Netherlands and Belgium/Flemish and French with English Subtitles
Ne Me Quitte Pas is a tragicomic ode to failure. Set in a village on the edge of Belgium, Bob (Flemish) and Marcel (Walloon) share their solitude, sense of humor and carving for alcohol. They have agreed that suicide is the best way out if worse comes to worst. In that case, they have chosen the perfect spot to do so: under Bob’s tree of life.
Bob is a retired cowboy who loves his freedom and forest, while Marcel is trying to hold on to the family he is about to lose. Time passes slowly in the Wallonian countryside. Fortunately, there’s wood to be chopped, sticky flypaper to be hung and there are the occasional trips to the dentist. The remaining time is killed with drinking.
In direct cinema style we witness a Walloon carnival, a car accident and a failed attempt to find Bob’s son. Even Bob’s tree of life appears to have vanished. Despite all, the two men never indulge in selfpity. They stand strong together, until Marcel decides to stop drinking and Bob refuses to join him in rehab.
If You Take This (NY Premiere) presented by BAMcinemaFest
Directed by Craig Butta
75min/2014/USA/Arabic, Berber, French, English
A psychedelic, hybrid ethnography that takes us into Morocco to discover its music and culture. An American film crew is hired by a Moroccan-born Wall Street financier to document his family, but they soon go off on their own path, chasing the legendary Joujouka musicians. Recalling the myths and legends about the place that first excited them, the crew soon finds history repeating itself in bizarre ways. Part road movie, part head trip, IF YOU TAKE THIS is about sound, image and the distortions within the idea of "authenticity." It might also be about the end of the world.
Q&A with director Craig Butta
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son’s fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Website: http://www.causewayfilms.com.au/#!the-babadook
http://www.nitehawkcinema.com/movie/the-babadook/
Seventeen presented by BOMB Magazine
Directed by Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines
120min/1983/USA/English
A film about coming of age in the working class. We decided to follow a group of teenagers — girls and boys, white and black — whose lives intertwine during their last year in high school. By filming for more than a year, and by living where we were filming, we encountered a range of experience. A white girl has a cross burned in her yard because she has a black boyfriend. A pal of hers from the neighborhood loses his best friend, who is killed in a car accident. Another classmate fathers an illegitimate baby.
From the beginning we mixed easily with the kids. We each use only a one-person rig we designed — a camera/tape recorder combination that allows the filmmaker to act intuitively and feel untied — no sound person, lights, crew, or crates of paraphernalia. It matters, too, that one of us is male, the other female: we could film those moments of high girlishness and boyishness that occur only out of earshot of the opposite sex.
The result is a free-flowing intimacy with the teenagers’ world. Kids smoke dope, get drunk, sass their teachers, disobey the taboo against race-mixing, try to break away from their mothers and fathers. It’s clear that they, on occasion, fuck and fight.
But the film is not scandalous. It got that reputation, sight-unseen by most citizens, when the authorities banned it from television, and boughten mouths told lies about it, over and over till invention became objective record, elevated to that pinnacle, and secured, by the typing sheep. Nothing new there — that the powerful have power. We refused to change our film.
We respected the kids’ complexity, celebrated their liveliness, despaired of their future. And we loved them dearly. But it was impossible to oblige America’s notion that to be worthy film subjects, the working class must be saintlike, and to be embraceable, cinema-verité (or any art) should become a broken version of what the makers made.
–Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines
http://www.uniondocs.org/2014-06-19-seventeen/Selected Shorts presented by NoBudge Films
Total Runtime: 70min
Infinite Solutions: Visit New York on $100
Directed by Fatal Farm
3:55/2007/USA/English
The Greggs
Directed by Bruce Bundy, Nigel Defriez, Jesse Levandov, Rob Malone, Alex Mechanik, and Jonathan Rosenblit
20:06/2013/USA/English
The Meteor
Directed by Charles Griffin Gibson
14:11/2013/USA/English
Life In Between
Directed by Stephen Gurewitz
7:30/2014/USA/English
We'll Be Happy Over There
Directed by Zach Fleming
13:07/2014/USA/English
Santa Monica
Directed by Andrew DeYoung
10:18min/2014/USA/English
http://selectedshortsnorthside.eventbrite.com
The Past is a Grotesque Animal (NY Premiere) presented by Oscilloscope
Directed by Jason Miller
76min/2014/USA/English
The Past is a Grotesque Animal is a personal, accessible look at an artist – Kevin Barnes, frontman of the endlessly versatile indie pop band of Montreal – whose pursuit to make transcendent music at all costs drives him to value art over human relationships. As he struggles with all of those around him, family and bandmates alike, he’s forced to reconsider the future of the band, begging the question – is this really worth it?
http://www.nitehawkcinema.com/movie/the-past-is-a-grotesqueOur Vinyl Weighs A Ton: This Is Stones Throw Records
Directed by Jeff Broadway
92 min/2014/US/English
Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton is a feature-length documentary about avant-garde Los Angeles-based record label Stones Throw Records. The film weaves together rare concert footage, never-before-seen archival material, inner-circle home video and photographs and in-depth interviews with the artists who put Stones Throw on the map. Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton gives an exclusive look into the label’s left-of-center artists, history, culture, and global following.
https://ourvinylweighsaton.eventbrite.comi hate myself : ) - Northside DIY Film Competition Feature
Directed by Joanna Arnow
56min/2013/USA/English
Nebbishy filmmaker Joanna Arnow documents her yearlong relationship with racially charged poet provocateur James Kepple. What starts out as an uncomfortably intimate portrait of a dysfunctional relationship and protracted mid-twenties adolescence, quickly turns into a complex commentary on societal repression, sexuality and self-confrontation through art.
Q&A with director Joanna Arnow
Transexual Menace presented by Dirty Looks and MOTHA (Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art)
Directed by Rosa Von Praunheim
75min/1996/USA/English
Transexual Menace takes its title from the name of “the most exciting political action group in the USA”—transgendered people who are defining themselves, demanding their legal rights, and fighting for medical care and against job discrimination. Considered by von Praunheim to be the “most fascinating [project] in my long life as a filmmaker,” Transexual Menace is a sensitive and carefully crafted portrait that deals with issues openly and honestly. “I was able to earn the trust of many who are often reluctant to be interviewed. Courageous people talked to me, who transitioned in such problematic professions as law enforcement and firefighting.” Transexual Menace gives viewers remarkable insight into the home and work lives of transsexuals from many cultures and countries, including female-to-male transsexuals and those with families and children.
http://www.uniondocs.org/2014-06-19-transexual-menace/Daisies by Reverse Shot and Janus Films
Directed by Vera Chytilová
76min/1966/Czechoslovakia/Czech with english subtitles
Presented in 35mm
One of the most anarchic films of all time, Vera Chytilová’s absurdist farce follows the misadventures of two brash young women. Believing the world to be “spoiled,” they embark on a series of pranks in which nothing—food, clothes, men, war—is taken seriously. An aesthetically and politically adventurous film that’s widely considered one of the great works of feminist cinema, Janus Films is proud to present Daisies in a new 35mm print.
http://www.nitehawkcinema.com/movie/daisiesDIY Film Competition Documentary Shorts
Total Runtime: 71min
After Trayvon
Directed by Alex Mallis
5min/2014/USA/English
Eleanor Ambos Interiors
Directed by Andrew Michael Ellis
15:15/2014/USA/English
Elvis Loses His Excess & Other Tales From The World's Longest Yard Sale
Directed by Riley Hooper
18:46/2014/USA/English
A Film Is A Film Is A Film
Directed by Eva von Schweinitz
16min/2013/USA/English
Self-Diagnosis
Directed by Alexander Jorgensen
3:10/2011/USA/English
Solo, Piano - NYC
Directed by Anthony Sherin
5min/2012/USA
STREET VIEWS
Directed by Annie Berman
8 min/2013/USA/English
http://documentaryshortsnorthside.eventbrite.com