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Rooftop Films: 45365 (Event Over)
- When:Sat 7/11 (7PM)
- Where: The Old American Can Factory
- Address: 232 Third Street at Third Avenue Brooklyn, NY Map
- Cost: $9-25
Tickets for this Event
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General Admission - $9.00 - $9.00
No refunds. In the event of rain, show will go on indoors at the same location. Seating is first come, first served. Physical seats are limited. This means you may not get a chair. You are welcome to bring a blanket and sit picnic-style.
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Rooftop friend ($9 General Admission ticket + $6 donation) - $15 - $15.00
Did you know that Rooftop Films is a non-profit organization? Consider making this additional $6 donation with the purchase of your General Admission ticket, and help sustain Rooftop Films during these difficult times. Additional donation is not tax deductible.
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Rooftop patron ($9 General Admission ticket + $16 donation) - $2 - $25.00
Did you know that Rooftop Films is a non-profit organization? Consider making this additional $16 donation with the purchase of your General Admission ticket, and help sustain Rooftop Films during these difficult times. Additional donation is not tax deductible.
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SATURDAY, JULY 11
45365
Special Advance Screening
Pre-teen peer pressure, high school heartbreak and adult
disillusionment on the football fields, factories, and fair grounds
of small town America. A luscious and gritty verite film that
captures the mood and melody of Midwest life.
Venue: On the roof of the Old American Can Factory
Address: 232 3RD St. @ 3rd Ave. (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 Records presents live music by
Like Bells
9:00PM: Film
10:30: Filmmaker Q and A
11:00PM–12:30AM: Reception in courtyard including free sangria courtesy of
Carlo Rossi sangria
Tickets: $9-$25 at the door or online
Presented in partnership with:
, &
XØ Projects
No refunds. In the event of rain, the show will be indoors at
the same locations. Seating is first come, first served. Physical
seats are limited. This means you may not get a chair. You are
welcome to bring a blanket and picnic.
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LIKE BELLS |
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TRAILER
45365
(Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross | 91 min.)
Pre-teen peer pressure, high school heartbreak and adult
disillusionment on the football fields, factories, and fair grounds
of small town America. A luscious and gritty verite film that
captures the mood and melody of Midwest life. Artfully directed by
brothers Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross, native sons to Sidney, OH,
this amusing and revelatory documentary won the award for Best
Documentary at SXSW 2009.
One of the enjoyable challenges of 45365 (a documentary portrait of
Sidney, Ohio, made by brothers Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross,
native sons) is just how difficult it is to write about. Like the
old joke about the dancer asked to explain her dance, to which she
replies, “If I could explain it, I wouldn’t go to all
the trouble of dancing it.” With a free-form verite film like
45365, the only way to explain it: to describe every luscious and
gritty shot, football fields, factories, fist fights and fair
grounds; to perform all the flatly fantastic dialogue, pre-teen
peer pressure, high school heartbreak, adult disillusionment; to
replicate all the parade noise broadcast on local radio, the train
rumble that rattles the windows, the melody of Midwest life = to go
to all the trouble of making it.
Over nine months, the Ross brothers floated through their home town
with ghostly freedom and access. There is no voice over, no
interviews, no overt story lines. But dramatic scenes coalesce from
the quiver between banality and beauty. A table of old ladies
dotter on about the home shopping network, unfurling an unexpected
vivaciousness. Characters are crafted in chitchat. A cop who cares
enough about a convict to leave a note for the guy’s wife.
And storylines pop like fireworks, that is, in spontaneous but
recurring motifs. A teen who can’t bring herself to break up
with the boyfriend who is always on the other end of a cell phone.
A guy who can’t bring himself to stay honest, even with his
own mother. A high school football team whose best moments are in
practice, in the locker room, at video game parties.
45365 captures the plain pathos of a single place like few other
films ever do. It is amusing and informative, exciting and
realistic, tragic and eternal. But as I said, this synopsis is
inadequate. To get at these emotions and ideas, you could live all
your life in Sidney, Ohio, or you could see this film.
Winner of the award for Best Documentary at SXSW 2009.
Part of Rooftop Films and XO Projects’ INDUSTRIANCE Series:
films, discussions, installations and more about the changing
landscape in industry, architecture, agriculture, labor and related
fields, and the way these changes affect individuals around the
world.
Rooftop Films is a non-profit organization whose mission is to engage and inspire the diverse communities of New York City by showcasing the work of emerging filmmakers and musicians. In addition to our Summer Series – which takes place in unique outdoor venues every weekend throughout the summer – Rooftop provides grants to filmmakers, teaches media literacy and filmmaking to young people, rents low-cost equipment to artists and non-profits, and produces new independent films. At Rooftop Films, we bring the underground outdoors. For more information and updates please visit our website at www.rooftopfilms.com.
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