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Rooftop Films: Home Movies (Event Over)
- When:Fri 8/14/09 (8PM)
- Where: Automotive High School
- Address: 50 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn , NY Map
- Cost: $9-$25
Tickets for this Event
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General Admission - $9.00
Not Available No refunds. In the event of rain, show will go on indoors at the same location. Seating is first come, first served. Due to lawn texture there will be very few chairs. We invite you to bring your own or bring a blanket and sit picnic-style.
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Rooftop friend ($9 General Admission ticket + $6 donation) - $15 - $15.00
Not Available 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
Not Available 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.
FRIDAY AUGUST 14
ROOFTOP FILMS AND
VERIZON FIOS PRESENT
HOME MOVIES
Short films and video about moments in time, capturing and
imagining what it felt like to be there.
OPEN BAR AFTER PARTY FOLLOWING THE SCREENING FOR ALL IN ATTENDANCE
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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.
HOME MOVIES
Every year Rooftop hosts a program of Home Movies—discovering
the forgotten, unmediated moments of people’s lives,
unfiltered and as they live them. The films reveal textures,
patterns, feelings that might go unnoticed, fleeting incidents that
would otherwise pass without thought, but when captured on film or
video provide an insight into the lives captured, or those
recording.
This year’s program includes a wide range of techniques and
storytelling strategies, displaying the varied forms that
biographical documentary (and pseudo-documentary) can take.
Filmmakers parse through mysteriously painful childhood memories (
Bloomfield or a Childhood Memory); trace their family history (
Ten for Grandpa); work through their issues relating to failed romances and
short-lived affairs (
Men With Girlfriends Later; I Slept With a Cookie Monster); and capture the fleeting impact of politics on the moments of
their lives (
Hotel Diaries). The details change and the narrative devices are diverse, but
the goal of each film remains the same: to express through film or
video what happened in that moment, what it meant to the filmmaker,
what it felt like to be there.
THE FILMS:
Road (Dillon Dewaters | Brooklyn | 4:50)
Asphalt and nature collide, roads and road-kill race past, as a
cross-country voyage is captured in a series of rapid-fire images.
Bloomfield or A Childhood Memory (Eran Barak | Israel | 8:00)
A cinematic journey to the Bloomfield Football Stadium from a
child's point of view.
INTERMISSION
I Slept With Cookie Monster (Kara Nasdor-Jones | Massachusetts |
3:27)
This is the story of one mother's experience with and eventual
escape from domestic violence. Winner of two awards from the Ottawa
International Animation Festival for Best Undergraduate Animation
Men with Girlfriends Later (Noralil Ryan Fores | Atlanta | 3:39)
An experimental video art short about a sad, bitter little moment
and the way in which it finds itself remembered.
Home Movie (Braden King | Brooklyn | 8:00)
Braden King (Do Believe in Rapture, Rooftop 2008) returns to the
Rooftop Summer Series with this mysteriously naturalistic portrait
of a fractured family. We witness only elliptical hints of domestic
distress, but King’s graceful touch imbues each subtle moment
with meaning.
Hotel Diaries, Part 6 - Dirty Pictures (John Smith | London |
14:00)
Moving from one hotel in Bethlehem to another in East Jerusalem,
the filmmaker encounters a series of problems involving a ceiling,
a video camera and the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Beck Video (Denise Prince | Austin | 12:13 )
At certain times in our life, we all need a little inspiration. But
what if our icons fail to motivate us? Maybe then it is time to
dance with the dogs.
Ten for Grandpa (Doug Carr | Canada | 7:00)
One man. Two superpowers. Three wives. Four autopsies.
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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