Rooftop Films: INDUSTRIANCE: The Livelong Day (Event Over)

Venue: on the roof of The Old American Can Factory

Address: 232 3rd Street @ 3rd Avenue (Gowanus / Park Slope, Brooklyn)

Directions: F/G to Carroll St. or M/R to Union Ave.

Rain: In the event of rain the show will be held indoors at the same location

8:00PM: Doors open

8:30PM: Sound Fix presents live music by Pwrfl Power ( www.myspace.com/pwrflpower)

9:00PM: Films

Tickets: $6 online for a limited time, $9 after

Presented in partnership with: IFC.com, New York magazine & XO Projects

INDUSTRIANCE™ï¡¿Short Films: The Livelong Day

Short films about the weirder side of work. Dancing dock hands, desperate CEOs, out-of-control operating system salesmen and radioactive chicken.  

For some folks, work is their passion, and they’re willing to lose money to save a dying industry like drive-in movies, or spend their free time nostalgically playing at a children’s version of their profession, like the railroaders who maintain model trains. For other folks, work is a struggle, as white-collar wimps jostle for jobs and harried commuters are heckled by the very infrastructure that supports them. But for most everyone, work is a necessity, and so we present a joyful program about jobs that’s both hard-working and humorous.

Part of Rooftop Films and XO Projects’ INDUSTRIANCE™ï¡¿Series: films, discussions, installations and more about the changing landscape in industry, architecture, agriculture, labor, and related fields.

THE FILMS

The Job (Jonathan Browning | Los Angeles, CA | 3:10)

The job market is changing, in a significant (but comic) way.

34 x 25 x 36 (Jesse Epstein| Brooklyn, NY & Industry City, CA | 7:00)

For some, perfection on the job means achieving an unrealistic perfection of beauty. This lively and spooky documentary tour of the Patina V Mannequin Factory in Industry City, CA, shows how our perception of the “ideal” female form has been manufactured.  

SOS E1 - Introducing SOS (Jeremy Bailey | Toronto, Canada | 3:13)

A tutorial for a new computer operating system that will revolutionize the way you work with computers. Just bang that square against the wall!

Chicken Delight (Byran Konefsky | Albuquerque, NM | 22:00)

This lighthearted but poignant personal essay film is a meditation on the United States’ ongoing courtship with radioactivity, and the way our obsession with productivity has lead us down some pretty strange and dangerous paths.

Behind the Glass (Gabriel Rhodes | Brooklyn, NY | 19:30)

The perfect film for Rooftop’s unique brand of cinema, this lovely documentary traces the evolution and decline of a particularly American craft: the motion picture projectionist. Once considered the most important link in the movie production chain, the projectionist has slowly fallen prey to the advancements of technology. Behind the Glass captures the stories and lives of these invisible showmen and women before they are relegated to the history books.

INTERMISSION

SOS E2 – Circle Whore   (Jeremy Bailey | Toronto, Canada | 3:05)

In Episode 2, we learn that managing your files has never been easier: just get them hooked on heroin and they’ll do whatever you want.

City of Cranes (Eva Weber | London, UK | 14:00)

London (like many modern metropolises, as observed from our very rooftop) is a city in constant transformation—its skyline animated by “a ballet of cranes.” This gorgeous documentary traces those changes from the unique vantage of those at the top, while also exploring the impact of these powerful man-made structures on the drivers who operate them and spend most of their lives removed from the world they are building?

Terminus (Trevor Cawood | Montreal, Canada | 8:22)

In this charmingly bizarre film about the way we take the modern city for granted, a commuter is taunted by the very infrastructure that supports him.

Dock 5 (Benjamin Devaux, Paul Chaudet, Simon Landrein   | France | 5:15)

A glorious animated musical celebration of the dockworker, another disappearing occupation.

The Livelong Day (David Fenster | Miami, FL | 21:00)

Three generations of train enthusiasts gather to pilot one of the largest, most obsessively realistic model railroads in the world. Their play is work, as they take eight-hour shifts piloting the trains through detailed schedules recreating journeys taken decades before. They are nostalgics and romantics, mourning the vanishing of railroad culture and craftsmanship while striving to maintain it at 1/64 scale.