Image from Richard Kroehling's film WAR. Via richardkroehling.com. Two-time Emmy Award–winning director Richard Kroehling will appear with a selection of several of his films including: War, an adaptation of the play War by celebrated Swedish playwright Lars Noren; After, a performance film exploring some of the world’s greatest poets; and excerpts from the gallery installation […]
In this film directed by Lanre Olabisi, four lovers find themselves caught in a tangle of intersecting relationships in this engaging, New York set romantic drama that explores the ripple effects of love and obsession. Developed through a year-long improvisational process and alternating between three different perspectives, Somewhere in the Middle (2015, 90 mins.) centers on a once-happy […]
Curator Jane Ursula Harris and directors Barbara Hammer, Katrina del Mar, Jill Reiter and Viva Ruiz will be in person to present Grrls on Girls II: Bonded, the second installment in a series curated by Harris. The films celebrate the transgressive, DIY feminism of riot grrl culture through the work of women filmmakers, bringing together queer, campy […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e-nOQHawZI Note: Snakehead will not be screened as previously listed; Leong's Linsanity is the full-length screening this evening. On February 2012, an entire nation of basketball fans unexpectedly went 'Linsane.' Stuck in the mire of a disappointing season, the New York Knicks did what no other NBA team had thought about doing. They gave backup point […]
Collaborating together for the first time, filmmaker Lynne Sachs and playwright Lizzie Olesker observe the disappearing public space of the neighborhood laundromat and the continual, intimate labor that happens there. With a title inspired by the 1881 organization of African-American laundresses, The Washing Society (44 minutes, 2008) investigates the intersection of history, underpaid work, immigration, and […]
