HEAVEN-O
OFF
OFF BROADWAY
Wednesday, November 21
Courthouse Theater
NewFilmmakers screens films about New York.
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS SPECIAL PRESENTATION
Peter Davis & Eric Laplante KNOT (2007, 32 Minutes, Video)
A sometimes funny look at three recently graduated roommates who have come to live together in Brooklyn. There is the troubled couple, Kate and Matt. Kate is a new schoolteacher, and Matt a PA for reality TV. Stephanie, the art major, moves in, and we watch these three characters weave a few days of their lives through each other and others.
J Huston OFF OFF BROADWAY (2007, 80
Minutes, 35MM)
Open letter to audience: I was recently convinced by a
childhood friend (Francis Enwright) to shoot a documentary which
chronicled the making of his most current theatre production. Out of
respect for him and due to his persistent insistence, I put other projects
aside to undertake this subjective documentation. “Specific
Conceptualism” is not only his contribution to avant garde theatre, but
best sums up the tangled cobweb of circuits, gears, and tubes that make up
his neural network. -Art Ferguson (documentrist)
8:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS NEWASIAN SHORT FILMS
ABOUT OUR LIFE IN NEW YORK
Eun Ho Kim NEW YORK
(2007, 14 Minutes, Video)
New York as an international city
Miao Wang YELLOW OX MOUNTAIN (2006, 27 Minutes, Video)
The Diaspora of Chinese Artists and the New York Chinese art community
Heland Lee D4 DELIVERY (2007, 13 Minutes, 35MM)
How Chinese food gets delivered in New York City
Eun Ho Kim ARE YOU
LONELY (2007, 9 Minutes, Video)
Korean man orders his own take out in New York
Jayan Cherian TREE OF
LIFE (2007, 13 Minutes, Video)
A discourse between a New York cab driver and a middle American passenger
9:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE
PRESENTATION
Jena Starkes HEAVEN-O:
A FILM ABOUT TAXI RAY KOTTNER
(2007, 90 Minutes, Video)
Ray
Kottner is 80 years old. He's been driving a taxi in New York City for 60
years. If you’re lucky enough to see him driving along in his old
Checker cab, he'll give you a free ride and tell you the story of his
life, and his city, along the way. Ride with Ray during the summer of
2005 and see a New York you’ve never seen before. A ride with Ray in his
Checker is truly a life event. Ray, alas, is probably the last of his
breed.
Courthouse Theater
Wednesday, November 21
Deren Theater
NewFilmmakers travels the world
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS
DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Florens Fanciulli GIRO
GIRO TONDO (2007, 2 Minutes, Video)
Keith Wilson WHEN THE LIGHT’S RED (2007, 10 Minutes, Video)
Beth Miranda Botshon OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN (2007, 43 Minutes, Video)
7:10PM NEWFILMMAKERS
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Alex Lubliner POP ROCKS
(2007, 16 Minutes, Video)
Adi Refaeli EMPATHY
(2006, 39 Minutes, Video)
As part of our
NewIsreali Filmmakers Series, we are screening this unique film that
presents multiple stories, arranged in reverse chronological order. In
each story there is a ‘victim’ and an ‘attacker’. In each
subsequent story, the person who was the ‘attacker’ becomes the
‘victim’.
8:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS
FIRST FEATURE PRESENTATION
Adam Hootnick UNSETTLED
(2007, 80 Minutes, Video)
During the Gaza
withdrawal, three young Israelis will be forced from their homes, two
soldiers will be sent to evict them, and one activist will try to help her
country avoid a war. UNSETTLED is a story about religion and democracy,
soldiers and civilians, and the kids on the front lines of a battle where
there is no enemy.
9:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS
SECOND FEATURE PRESENTATION
J. R. Heffelfinger UNDER THE RAINBOW (2005, 76 Minutes, Video)
UNDER THE RAINBOW explores the economic and social reality of Yasuda, a middle aged Japanese "Salary Man" who briefly escapes his marriage and his humiliating work through music he hears coming through his apartment walls. An insightful and poignant study of modern Japanese life.
When The Light Turns Red