FOOD and Dwellings, October 2, 2011, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Food by Gordon Matta-Clark
1972, 43 min, b&w, 16mm transferred to video
This film documents the legendary SoHo restaurant and artists’ cooperative Food, which opened in 1971. Owned and operated by Caroline Goodden, Food was designed and built largely by Matta-Clark, who also organized art events and performances there. As a social space, meeting ground and ongoing art project for the emergent downtown artists’ community, Food was a landmark that still resonates in the history and mythology of SoHo in the 1970s.
Shot by Robert Frank.
Shown with Dwellings: Charles Simonds by Rudy Burckhardt.
Six dollars.
http://www.microscopegallery.com/?page_id=351
This screening at Microscope Gallery is held in conjunction with the Round Robin Collective exhibit, LIVE / WORK SPACE, at Camel Art Space.
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Phantom Highway : A Slide Show by Katherin McInnis, September 17, 2011, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Phantom Highway traces the path of the never-built Bushwick Expressway. Planned by Robert Moses in 1955 as part of federal Interstate 78, the expressway — connecting the Williamsburgh Bridge to routes to JFK — was scheduled for completion by 1975, but shelved by 1971. Following the freeway’s path tells a story of displacement and disinvestment, met with community resilience and reinvention.
* Shown with *
New York Portrait #1 by Peter Hutton, 1978-79
Spirit by Jem Cohen, 2007, 7:30
Available Properties by Mary Billyou, 2011
The Commoners by Jessica Bardsley & Penny Lane, 2009
Six dollars.
http://www.microscopegallery.com/?page_id=351
This screening at Microscope Gallery is held in conjunction with the Round Robin Collective exhibit, LIVE / WORK SPACE, at Camel Art Space.
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Mixed Use, August 16, 2011, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
A video screening organized by Mary Billyou for the exhibit Round Robin Collective in Residence at A.I.R. Gallery. Combined, the videos address different civic and artistic approaches to challenging traditional definitions of public space.
track 1 by e-team
2011, 1:30 mins.
Holland Tunnel by The Neistadt Brothers
2007, 2:30 mins.
Perforation by Leopold Kessler
2007, 10 mins.
In the Street by Helen Leavitt, Janice Loeb, and James Agee 1948, 16 mins.
Contours of Staying by Caraballo-Farman
2004, 11 mins.
Tactical Tourist by Dara Greenwald
2006, 15 mins.
and
Video selections from A.I.R. Gallery’s first opening in 1972.
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THIS IS A HISTORY OF NEW YORK
Experimental Documentary Film Screenings Curated by Mary Billyou
SATURDAY JUNE 11th, 2011, 2PM, 5PM, 8PM
Focusing a lens on the ephemeral experiences of NYC street life, a broader analysis of commercial forces and “urban renewal” programs will be put in context. Held in the engine bay of the Former Williamsburg Firehouse at 134 Wythe Ave in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
PROGRAM
5 lessons and 9 questions about Chinatown
by SHELLY SILVER, HD video, 2010, 10 mins, sound
10 square blocks, past, present, future, time, light, movement, immigration, exclusion, gentrification, racism, history, China, America, 3 languages, 13 voices, 152 years, 17,820 frames, 9 minutes, 54 seconds, 9 questions, 5 lessons. Chinatown.
No Damage
by CASPAR STRACKE, video, 2002, 12:30 mins
No Damage is a composition made out of fragments from over 80 different feature and documentary films that show the architecture of New York City–its architectural presence as captured on film over eight decades. Lifted out of their original context and juxtaposed in groups, these scenes reveal their emotional implications: grandeur, glamour, the wake of modernism, post-modernism and, most recently, post 9/11 sentimentalism.
So Much
by KOKEN ERGUN, video, 2004, 11 mins, sound
During a residency in New York, the artist went out onto the streets to hand out fliers emblazoned with the message “there is so much love in the world.” This video records the reactions of passers by.
Man with a Video Camera
by PAUL GARRIN, video, 1988, 6 mins, sound
After an all-night session of editing Free Society, Garrin headed home with video-8 camera in-hand, only to happen upon the Tompkins Square riots. As police tried to enforce a curfew aimed at removing homeless people from the park, Garrin began gathering footage of cops beating up protesters. He was then attacked by police himself, as the camera continued to roll. The footage was subsequently incorporated into Free Society, in which the military myth of “protect and serve” is dismantled by first-hand experience.
This is a History of New York
by JEM COHEN, 16mm transferred to video, 1988, 22:36 mins, sound
A history of New York City from Prehistoric times through the Space Age, composed entirely from documentary street footage.
What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901
by KEN JACOBS, video, 2009, 13 mins. 40 seconds, silent
Ken Jacobs writes, “It was a set-up. A couple walks towards the camera, a sidewalk air-vent pushes the woman’s dress up. Layers of cloth billow and she is mortified. The moving-picture camera, already in place and grinding away, captures the event and her consternation becomes history.”
Available Properties
by MARY BILLYOU, 16mm transferred to video, 2011, 5 mins. 30 seconds, silent
A real estate film from the East Riviera.
Battery Tulips
by BRIAN FRYE, video, 2008, 1 min., silent
Lumiere video of a tulip bed at the cross of Broad & Water Streets.
Demolition (Brooklyn Style)
by ELLE BURCHILL, 2005, HD video, 9 mins., sound
Safety nets? Demolition permits? Why bother? The rents rise and one-by-one the little buildings fall–especially those with a view. The piece features footage shot from a window in August 2005 of an illegal demolition of a house in an Italian neighborhood in Williamsburg.
Greenpoint Garden Spot of the World
by MARTHA ROSLER, video, 1993, 20 mins, silent
This video is one element of an installation with computer animation, maps, books, photographs, and text handout. Rosler presents a tour of the history of toxic hazards in the artists’ home community in Brooklyn.
Thursday July 5, 2007
by JONAS MEKAS, from 365 Day Project, video, 2007, 6 mins, sound
the yearly
Mermaid Parade
takes place in
Coney Island
Sponsored by Northside Town Hall Cultural & Community Center, Video Data Bank, and Electronic Arts Intermix.
Thank you Elle Burchill, Brian Frye, Jonas Mekas, Martha Rosler, and Shelly Silver.
TRT: 2 hrs.
