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Ernest Goes to Camp John R. Cherry III, 1987, 105 min
The Fuzzystar Organization is proud to present the "Fuzz'd Up" version of Ernest Goes to Camp. Join the Fuzzystar crew for a very special screening of this 1987 comedy classic. The evening will feature new scenes, live skits, and even a badger attack!
Screening starts at 10pm, with a short reception to follow.
Hit Me With Music Miquel Galofre, 2011, 74 min.
30 years after Bob Marley’s death Jamaica continues to be on top of the world-wide music scene. Reggae has evolved to produce a new genre, Dancehall. Hit Me With Music is the first comprehensive documentary about the Jamaican dancehall scene, giving dance, style and fashion an equal treatment to its music. Through the protagonists of this documentary we get to know Dancehall and what it is about. A diverse group of individuals - dancers, dj's, producers, artists, school children and ghetto youth talk of the context in which these songs are born and what the phenomena represents in their life and the lives of many supporters. The film doesn't shy away from the problematic aspects of dancehall culture and nightlife - violent lyrics, the Gully – Gaza clash between supporters of Vybz Kartel and Mavado, the controversial subject of “Daggering”, the exploitation of women in the Go-Go, and the reasons why people bleach their skin, are all explored in this documentary. The film remains open about the issues without coming to a didactic conclusion, inviting enjoyment and discussion.
AFTER THE SCREENING: Q&A with director Miquel Galofre!
Friday,
Feb. 3rd,
7:30 pm
Blacks in Experimental Film Lost & Forgotten Images of Blacks on Film. Curated by 8mmAnonymous
Shown in Reg. 8mm & Super8(Sound) only! All New Program! Never Seen Before!
Blacks in Experimental Film attempts to bridge the gap/fill in the space of what is left behind and out. This evening seeks to explore how our perceptions of ourselves have evolved or not evolved based on these representations. We will explore whether its "racist" to show this stuff or even worse to sweep it under the rug and deny it ever existed. Materials shown are likely to include an excerpt from Ralph Bakshi's Coonskin, a minstrel show from the 1939 World's Fair in San Francisco, Little Black Sambo, Bert Williams performance footage, excerpts from African Pygmy Thrills and Our Gang, footage of the Harlem Globetrotters, Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson and Muhammad Ali and Duke Ellington's Black and Tan Fantasy and mid-century Black home movies and travelogues (Europe! Paris!).
An audience led discussion will follow the screening
Talking Landscape: Early Media Work, 1974-1984 (2012) Dir. Andrea Callard, 2012, 80 min., World Premiere
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jenny Holzer, Kiki Smith, Christy Rupp and Jack Smith were among the artists who filled a ex-massage parlor with artwork from top to bottom for The Times Square Show, a legendary exhibit co-organized by Andrea Callard as part of the 1970s powerhouse collective Colab. (Keith Haring even painted the air conditioner). Callard, whose own work will not long remain one of New York's best-kept secrets, includes her never-before-seen documentation of that event in Talking Landscape, her first feature film. This compendium of short pieces (including 11 thru 12, Fluorescent/Azalea, Flora Funera (for Battery Park City) and Lost Show Blues) here making its world premiere, was culled from a decade of her playful and strikingly innovative cinematic experiments. Dry wit and personal perception infuse Callard's colorful, existential documentary interventions. Whether climbing a seemingly endless series of ladders in her downtown loft apartment; creating quirky, private games to play with the camera; or ruminating on the clover, Ailanthus trees, and azalea bushes sneakily colonizing New York's parks and vacant lots, she casts a thoroughly original gaze on the city around her. Callard even visits New York's U.S. Customs House, now the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, though a series of ten hand-colored print collages overlaid with text.
Q&A discussion with director Andrea Callard, moderated by curator Livia Bloom, will follow the screenings on Thursday, February 16, and Saturday, February 18.
Callard's original prints will be on exhibit at The Maysles Cinema from February 1-March 1, 2012.
Future Documentary in Bloom programs include: Oki's Movie dir. Hong Sang-soo (April 16-22, 2012) and Tahrir dir. Stefano Savona (June 11-17, 2012).
Monday,
Feb. 20th
at 7:30pm
A Black History Month Special Presentation:
Remembering Black Wall Street 90 Years Later A portion of the evening's proceeds will go to the Tulsa Project,
which is dedicated to the the battle for reparations for the survivors and
descendants of the the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot.
Before They Die!: The True Story of the Survivors of the 1921
Tulsa Race Riot and the Quest for Justice
Reggie Turner, 2008, 92 min.
This is the story of what is perhaps the the worst race riot in the history of the United States that many people have never even heard of. On May 30th, 1921, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in less than 24 hours, the prwosperous African-American section of Greenwood, also known as "Black Wall Street," was completely destroyed. An estimated 300 killed, and over 10,000 people displaced overnight as a 42 square block area of their homes and businesses were burned to the ground by a white mob that had been deputized by the sheriff. This is the story of the survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and their quest for justice. This is the story of the struggle for the soul of America and the efforts to right a wrong that is long past due. Justice is the subject of the night's film.
After the Screening: Q&A with director Reggie Turner
Oki's Movie Dir. Hong Sang-soo, 2010, 80 min. U.S. Theatrical Premiere
Documentary and narrative filmmaking elegantly merge in Oki's Movie, a quartet of interlocking vignettes by Korean auteur director Hong Sang-soo and one of the most elegant films of his oeuvre. A young woman hikes Seoul's Mount Acha twice, accompanied by different boyfriends: one a fellow student, the other a professor. She documents the trips and then edits together corresponding locations on the mountain: the parking lot, a small pavilion, a wooden bridge; her juxtapositions are revelatory, both of her relationship with each and of the power of cinema.
Future Documentary in Bloom programs include: Tahrir dir. Stefano Savona (June 11-17, 2012).
Tahrir Dir. Stefano Savona, 2011, 90 min.
U.S. Theatrical Premiere
In one of the most powerful documentaries to emerge from the Arab Spring, archaeologist Stefano Savona carries viewers beyond the headlines and into the heart of the popular Egyptian revolution that overthrew President Mubarak and touched off revolutions throughout the Middle East: Tahrir Square. Captured with only a small digital camera and sound recorder, his portrait of the seething, chanting crowds and electric protest speeches is anchored by fluid exchanges with a handful of individual protesters. A highlight of the New York, Locarno, and Venice film festivals, Tahrir documents history in the making.
343 Malcolm X Boulevard / Lenox Avenue (between 127th and 128th Streets)
Suggested Admission: $10 (unless otherwise noted). The box office is open 12 - 6pm, Monday - Friday and one hour before all showtimes until event end.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
