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Wednesday, April 1 Deren Theater @ Anthology NewFilmmakers celebrates artists and creative people. 6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES Rima Yamazaki MAYA ONODA: NOMADIC HOME (2008, 27 Minutes, Video) Young Japanese Artist living and working in New York City Thomas Campbell BIRTH OF THE SUN (2008, 27 Minutes, 16MM) The East Village art scene in the 1980’s and an artist who died violently in it. Haitian artist Grady Alexis moved between the Lower East Side world of art, music, the streets, and galleries. He lived in squats and on the street for much of his life in New York City. He was artist-in-residence at El Taller Latino Americano on East Second Street until 1990, living informally in the space, painting and making music. With his violent death in 1991, the Taller “family” broke up, and the East Village was about to change forever. “Birth of the Sun” explores New York City of the late 1980’s through the short artistic life of Grady Alexis. R. Chett Hoffman & Bridget Matthews LIVE FROM NEW YORK … (2008, 12 Minutes, Video) Saturday Night Live and the true story of man who has been in its audience since 1975 7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM Jeremy Schaulin-Rious ONE THOUSAND STORIES (2008, 14 Minutes, Video) A thousand stories and a reading tour on a bicycle Mehmet Oztekin ULUMA (2008, 33 Minutes, Video) Howl is an homage to the reading rituals of the Beat poets, to Wholly Communion, to 1965, to Allen Ginsberg, to Jack Kerouac, to William Burroughs, to all those books that we believe to be published in heaven, and to all the restless spirits, from these lands. The film documents the translator of the poem Howl into Turkish, accompanied by a musician. Renee Busse ROBERT OTIS (2008, 10 Minutes, Video) A writer tries to kill himself to no avail. 8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION John Kinsella THE AWKWARD STAGE (2007, 21 Minutes, Video) The story of five performers who come together to tour their educational show for schools all across America. Oh, and by educational we mean sex educational (and by performers we mean people who aren't very good at performing). The film follows them as they make their way to their first performance of Puberty's Okay With Me! L. Brandon Krall AN EVENING WITH QUENTIN CRISP (2008, 98 Minutes, Video) Author, wit and philosopher, Quentin Crisp lived "the profession of being." He was born and raised in a suburb of London, and moved to that city in the early 20s becoming notorious because he refused to hide his beauty as an effeminate homosexual, dying his hair red, painting his nails and wearing brightly colored silk shirts and scarves with ordinary suits. Quentin Crisps autobiography, The Naked Civil Servant was made into a movie in 1973 (starring John Hurt as his representative on earth) which gained wide admiration for both the author and the actor. At the age of 72, Mr. Crisp moved to New York City, which he loved and where he lived on the Lower East Side. He toured his one-man show, An Evening With Quentin Crisp, over a period of more than a decade. This performance was his last on a public stage before he died on the eve of the London run; November 21, 1999. |
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