Partnering with various organizations and Harlem area parks throughout the summer, the Maysles Cinema brings its programming outdoors.
OUTDOOR SCREENINGS WILL RETURN IN THE SUMMER OF 2012!
All outdoor screenings are free of charge. Summer 2010 and 2011 screenings are brought to you with support from Target®
Wednesday,
July 8th
7:30 pm
FREE!!!
THE MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION:
A MUSIC FILM OUTDOOR PARKS SCREENING SERIES FREE!!!
@ Morningside Park (113th St. & Morningside Dr)
Presented by The Maysles Cinema and Reel Harlem
7:30 pm
Live Parliament-Funkadelic inspired DJ set
8:30 pm Parliament Funkadelic: The Mothership Connection 1976, 85 min.
On Halloween night, 1976 George Clinton and his band of soul and funk all-stars landed in the Houston Summit riding a $275,000 spaceship. The Mothership space-funk-opera bucked all convention, inspiring a whole new generations of musicians. Almost 90 minutes of utterly watchable and danceable funk featuring Bernie Worrell, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, Glen Goins and many more.
Rain Venue: Church of the Master, 86 Morningside Ave. (btw 121 & 122 st.)
Thursday,
July 9th
7:30 pm
FREE!!!
THE MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION:
A MUSIC FILM OUTDOOR PARKS SCREENING SERIES FREE!!!
@ Morningside Park (113th St. & Morningside Dr)
Presented by The Maysles Cinema and Reel Harlem
7:30pm Live Girl Group inspired DJ set
8:30 pm Girl Groups: The Story of A Sound
Steve Alpert, 1982, 65 min. Girl Groups traces the story of the dream girls, including The Ronettes, Martha and the Vandelles, the Shangri-Las, the Supremes and many more. Revealing interviews with female singers and the business people, songwriters and producers who packaged their sound is punctuated with original footage of girl groups performing 25 of their greatest hits.
Rain Venue: Church of the Master, 86 Morningside Ave. (btw 121 & 122 st.)
Phil Spector
Shangri-Las
Wednesday,
July 15th
7:30 pm
FREE!!!
THE MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION:
A MUSIC FILM OUTDOOR PARKS SCREENING SERIES FREE!!!
@ Marcus Garvey Park (Lawn B, northwest of the Pelham Fritz Recreation Center,
btw. Mt. Morris Park West & 124th St) Presented by The Maysles Cinema and Reel Harlem
King of Pop, Master of the Music Video: A Tribute to Michael Jackson (1958-2009)
MASS THRILLER DANCE!! JOIN THE CELEBRATION!!
7:30pm King of the Video Jukebox: A Tribute
8:30pm Making Michael Jackson's Thriller Dir. John Landis and Jerry Kramer, 1983, 60 min.
The late, great Michael Jackson's Thriller was broadcast on MTV three weeks before Christmas in 1983. It was the most expensive video of its time, costing $500,000, and according to the Guinness World Records remains the most successful music video of all time, selling over 9 million units. This is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of this pop masterpiece.
Rain Venue: Inside Pelham Fritz Recreation Center
Saturday
June 26th
FREE!
Screening: 8:30 pm
RAIN DATE: Wednesday, June 30th
8:30 pm
PAJAMAS AND A MOVIE! Young people's slumber party and movie screening under the stars.
@ Marcus Garvey Park Lawn
Located on Madison Ave side of park btw. 122nd & 124th St.
Madagascar Eric Darnell & Tom McGrath, 2005, 86 min.
At New York's Central Park Zoo, a lion, a zebra, a giraffe, and a hippo are best friends and stars of the show. But when one of the animals goes missing from their cage, the other three break free to look for him, only to find themselves reunited on a ship en route to Africa. When their vessel is hijacked, however, the friends, who have all been raised in captivity, learn first-hand what life can be like in the wild.
Brought to you by the Maysles Cinema, Target ®
And the Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Association.
Wednesday
July 7th
FREE!
Music:
7:00 pm
Screening: 8:30 pm
SUMMER OF MUSIC Music documentaries, musical performances, outdoor screenings & events, all summer long!
Morningside Park Lower Lawn: enter from Morningside Ave @ 114 St.
First Corinthian Baptist Church Choirs
&
Say Amen, Somebody Dir. George T. Nierenberg, 1982, 100 min.
This film documents the lives of since departed gospel stars, innovators of the genre from which soul, r&b, and even hip hop flowed. At center are "Professor" Thomas A. Dorsey and "Mother" Willie Mae Ford, who recall the conservative resistance they faced towards the rhythm and blues inflections of the "new" gospel music they wrote and performed. Say Amen, Somebody foretells the next cycle of growth exhibited by the evening's live performers - the energetic R&B infused choir of the First Corinthian Baptist Church. Yet "Say Amen, Somebody" transcends it's historical import as a masterful example of cinema verite: director George Nierenberg communicates personal and cultural histories by interweaving his subjects in informal conversation, recollection, listening to and performing music under the careful eyes of cinematographers Don Lenzer and Ed Lachman.
Brought to you by the Maysles Cinema, Target ®, and the Historic Harlem Parks Coalition.
Thursday
July 8th
FREE!
Music:
7:00 pm
Screening:
8:30 pm
SUMMER OF MUSIC Music documentaries, musical performances, outdoor screenings & events, all summer long!
@ Morningside Park Lower Lawn
Enter from Morningside Ave at 114 St.
Jazzmobile Presents:
Afro-Haitian Jazz with Buyu Ambroise
&
I Bring What I Love Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, 2008, 102 min.
Senegalese pop sensation Youssou Ndour has spent the last 20 years in the spotlight as a world-renowned musician and the iconic representative "voice of Africa." At the height of his career, Youssou became frustrated by the negative perception of his Muslim faith and composed Egypt, a deeply spiritual album dedicated to a more tolerant view of Islam. The album's brave musical message was wholeheartedly embraced by Western audiences but ignited serious religious controversy in his homeland of Senegal. The film chronicles the difficult journey Youssou must undertake to assume his true calling.
Brought to you by the Maysles Cinema, Target ®, and the Historic Harlem Parks Coalition.
Wednesday
July 14th
FREE!
Music:
7:00 pm
Screening:
8:30 pm
SUMMER OF MUSIC
NEW RAIN LOCATION: Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church on Mount Morris Park West and 122nd
The National Jazz Museum All-Stars This five piece intergenerational band will present instrumental variations on the compositions made famous by the inimitable jazz vocalist, Nina Simone. &
Nina Simone Great Performances: College Concerts and Interviews Dir. Andy Stroud, 2009, 60 mins.
Rare film of this legendary artist performing at Amherst and Morehouse College. Includes interviews with Simone on her opinions on the role of the artist and race relations.
Brought to you by the Maysles Cinema, Target ® and the Historic Harlem Parks Coalition.
Nina Simone Great Performances Mount Morris Ascension Presbetyrian Church
Saturday
Aug. 21
FREE & Outdoors!
Music:
3:00 pm
Screening:
7:30 pm
FREE!!! Outdoor Screening: The Annual 153 Street Block Party Brought to you by Jazzmobile and Maysles Cinema
with support from Target @ St. Nicholas Park: 135th St. Plaza & St. Nicholas Ave,
Take B or C trains to West 135th St.
Performing live: Jazzmobile
Jazzmobile has been presenting free outdoor summer concerts since it was founded in 1964 with the mission to "present, preserve, promote and propogate Jazz, America's classical music".
In the Senior's Garden: I Remember Harlem Dir. William Miles, 1980, 60 min.
A 60 minute, condensed version of this seminal four-hour series tracing Harlem's 350-year history, evoking one of America's most vibrant and volatile communities. As a visual counterpart to the oral histories in the film, Miles unearthed old photographs and motion picture films and newsreel footage, much of it rare and never before seen on television. In early 1982, one year after it was broadcast, I Remember Harlem won an Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia University Citation and an American Film Festival Award.
The Block party is an all day event that begins at 10am and ends at 10pm, with pony rides and more!
Tuesday
Aug. 24
FREE
9:00 pm
FREE!!! Outdoor Screening Co-sponsored by Tools of War, Maysles Cinema, and Mochilla
with support from VTech & Target @ St. Nicholas Park: 135th St. Plaza & St. Nicholas Ave,
Take B or C trains to West 135th St.
Live Megamix of TIMELESS Films by J Rocc!!
Tools of War, Maysles Cinema and Mochilla have joined forces to present an outdoor screening that unifies the power of film with the art of the DJ. Tools of War puts on "Digger's Delight Park Jam" each Tuesday in August, from 5:00-9:00pm. The Tuesday, August 24th Jam features legendary DJs, Bobbito, Lean Rock, Jazzy Jay and just added - J Rocc of the World Famous Beat Junkies. At 9:00 pm, J Rocc will transition his set from music to film - using vinyl on turntables and the latest Serato technology to blend, juggle and manipulate the three films of Mochilla's TIMELESS Series into a live Megamix. TIMELESS documents of three concerts where the compositions of J Dilla, Arthur Verocai & Mulatu are each performed by a full symphony orchestra. Special guests show up through out the films, including Ma Dilla, De La Soul and Talib Kweli.
Digger's Delight Park Jams, brought to you by Tools of War are held in association with the Friends of St. Nicholas Park in Harlem and kicks off at 5:00 pm sharp.
Wednesday, July 6th
Reel Harlem:
10th Annual Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival
Marcus Garvey Park
(Richard Rodgers Amphitheater: Behind Pelham Fritz Recreation Center,
Mt. Morris Park West at 122nd St.)
DJ Laylo and Eli Efi
Jamel Shabazz: Street Photographer
7:00pm
Music: DJ Laylo and Eli Efi (Hip Hop, Classics, and Soul)
8:30 pm
Jamel Shabazz: Street Photographer Dir. Charlie Ahearn, 2011, 74 min
In the infancy of hip-hop, Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz documented the pioneers of music and style that would initiate an unstoppable worldwide phenomenon. Ahearn, director of the classic Wild Style, pays tribute to both Shabazz and those who defined hip-hop before it had a definition. More than just vintage shots of kids rocking Puma Suedes, Kangols, and pin-striped Jordaches in Times Square or all-city, Shabazz’s photographs have hundreds of stories behind them, and Ahearn gives voice to these images with dozens of interviews with Shabazz himself, graffiti pioneer and hip-hop historian Fred “Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite, legendary rapper KRS-One, Bobbito Garcia and more.
The Maysles Cinema's Outdoor Screening Series brought to you with support from Target®
Thursday,
July 7th
Reel Harlem: 10th Annual Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival
Marcus Garvey Park
(Richard Rodgers Amphitheater: Behind Pelham Fritz Recreation Center,
Mt. Morris Park West at 122nd St.)
Major Damage
Calypso Dreams
7:00 pm
Music: Major Damage (Live Calypso and Soca)
8:30 pm
Calypso Dreams Dir. Geoffrey Dunn and Michael Horne, 2004, 85 min
Calypso Dreams is an intimate portrait of some of the true Calypsonians in Trinidad and Tobago, in performance and in conversation. Shot over 3 years in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the documentary includes such legendary calypsonians as Lord Pretender, Lord Kitchener, The Mighty Bomber, Relator, Lord Superior, Brigo, Mystic Prowler, Calypso Rose, The Mighty Sparrow, Terror, Valentino, Blakie, David Rudder, Regeneration Now, The Mighty Duke, Conqueror and many others.
The Maysles Cinema's Outdoor Screening Series brought to you with support from Target®
Wednesday,
July 13th
Reel Harlem:
10th Annual Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival
Jackie Robinson Park
Bandshell, 148th St. & Bradhurst Avenue
The National Jazz Museum All Stars
From Mambo to Hip Hop
7:00 pm
The National Jazz Museum All Stars (Latin Jazz Tribute)
8:30 pm
From Mambo to Hip Hop Dir. Henry Chalfant, 2006, 56 min
From Mambo to Hip Hop packs into one hour the incredible history of a community that, despite the odds, fuelled a musical revolution. Anyone with a passion for the music that’s emerged from the cultural melting pot that is New York will devour Henry Chalfant’s film. Chalfant also directed the seminal graffiti documentary Style Wars. It’s a privilege and a genuine treat to have access to this footage and these interviews. From Mambo to Hip Hop delivers a terrific insight into the post war jazz and mambo era and traces the evolution of music from salsa to disco to hip hop. This is a story rooted in the South Bronx and it’s a tale told with both pride and passion.
The Maysles Cinema's Outdoor Screening Series brought to you with support from Target®
Sunday,
July 24th
The Friends of Morningside Park Present:
Sundae Sermon (Good Music for Good People)
Morningside Park
Morningside Drive @ 113 Street
3:00 pm
"Girl Power Day"
Mentoring Programs for Women
Hosted by Michaela Angela Davis
and in celebration of the anniversary of her program "Salon Du Shine" - Dj Kamala
- Dj Reborn
- Dj Beverly Bond
7:00 pm
Dj Stormin' Norman
8:15 pm
Maestro Dir. Josell Ramos, 2003, 89 min Maestro tells the story of how a group of people found refuge and jump started the nascent club movement in post-Stonewall 70s New York City. What evolved was a scene that set the ground work for what was to come in dance music culture worldwide. This film provides a rare insight into the early days of the underground dance scene in New York City. Included in the film are pioneer dance music DJs and producers, "founding fathers", its center being Larry Levan, as well as high-profile DJs of today. Includes appearances by Larry Levan, David Mancuso, Frankie Knuckles, Nicky Sciano, Francois K, Francis Grasso, Jellybean Benitez, Danny Tenaglia, Tony Humphries, Tee Scott, Dimitri From Paris, Danny Krivit, Pete Tong, Joe Claussell, Little Louie Vega, Keith Haring and many, many incredible dancers from the Loft, Paradise Garage days.
The Maysles Cinema's Outdoor Screening Series brought to you with support from Target®
Thursday, August 11th
In Honor of the Centennial of Romare Bearden's birth,
September 2, 1911
The Studio Museum in Harlem In Collaboration with the Maysles Cinema Presents:
@ The Courtyard at the Studio Museum
144 West 125th Street
7:00pm
Music: DJ Ski Hi (100 years of music)
8:30 pm
Screening: Bearden Plays Bearden Dir. Nelson E Breen, 1981, 60 min.
Features conversations with Ntozake Shange and Joseph Campbell, among others, about Romare Bearden and his legacy as well as Bearden's own observations and time with him in his studio. A painter, collagist, muralist, and set designer whose influence reverberates still, Romare Bearden, one of the founders of the Studio Museum and a featured artist in the current exhibition Spiral: Perspectives on an African-American Art Collective, is widely recognized as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Food and drink will be available for purchase in the Atrium Cafe
Museum Website: www.studiomuseum.org>
The Maysles Cinema's Outdoor Screening Series brought to you with support from Target®
Thursday, August 18th
Jazzmobile and The Friends of Morningside Park Present:
@ Morningside Park
Morningside Drive @ 113th Street
7:00pm
Music:
Jazzmobile Presents: Will Calhoun
(Live Jazz)
8:30 pm
Screening: Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser Dir. Charlotte Zwerin, 1988, 90 min.
Filmmakers Bruce Ricker and Charlotte Zwerin utilize Michael and Christian Blackwood's 1968 footage of modern jazz innovator, Thelonious Monk, to create a singular portrait of this Jazz master's life both onstage and off. Charlotte Zwerin brings her editing genius (Gimme Shelter, Salesman) to the fore as she weaves new interviews, archival photos and music through the Blackwoods' verité footage to deliver a comprehensive biography while maintaining the open, meditative space that characterizes Monk's compositions. Of the films she made with Albert and his brother David Maysles, Al says, "Charlotte is gone now, but she is still the best editor I know of."
The Maysles Cinema's Outdoor Screening Series brought to you with support from Target®
8:00 pm
(Doors at 6pm,
Seating at 7pm,
Performance at 8pm)
Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates
Original score by Wycliffe Gordon
A Jazzmobile Commission
In Collaboration With Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts and the Maysles Cinema
RSVP
Recommended
Jazzmobile commissioned and will present acclaimed jazz
trombonist and composer Wycliffe Gordon who has composed
a 78 minute score to Within Our Gates, a film by
Oscar Micheaux—one of the most prolific and innovative African
American filmmakers of the early 20th Century.
Screened and performed with an 18 piece big band and
2 guest vocalists, Gordon picks up the baton and masterfully
captures the essence, culture, and historical significance of
the film in stunning composition while seeking to interpret our
past, define the present, and imagine the future.
A talk-back with Wycliffe Gordon follows the performance
RSVP recommended: 212-866-4900 ext 307
The Maysles Cinema's Summer of Music Series brought to you with support from Target®
Sunday,
Sept. 25th
Harlem Music and Screening Series
The Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church
16-20 Mount Morris Park West
(Southwest corner of West 122nd Street) (Rescheduled from Aug. 27th date due to Hurricane - originally meant to coincide with the Mount Morris Block Party which was cancelled.)
Mount Morris Ascension Presbetyrian Church
4:00pm
Music:
The First Corinthian Baptist Church Choir
4:30pm
The Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church Choir
5:00 pm
Screening: Rejoice and Shout Dir. Don McGlynn, 2010, 115 min.
"Theologians and clergy members of every religious stripe may debate the existence of God until the cows come home.
But as demonstrated by “Rejoice and Shout,” Don McGlynn’s documentary history of African-American gospel
music, reasonable arguments are nothing compared with the power of voices lifted in song to invoke the Holy Spirit.
Your religion or lack of one doesn’t matter. At some point while watching the film, you may feel that music is God,
or if not, a close approximation of divinity." --
Stephen Holden, The New York Times, June 2, 2011
The Maysles Cinema's Outdoor Screening Series brought to you with support from Target®
Thursday,
Oct. 13th
Harlem Outdoor Screening Series
The Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Association and the Maysles Cinema Present:
BECAUSE OF THE HIGH LIKELYHOOD OF RAIN THIS SCREENING HAS BEEN MOVED INDOORS:
NOW @ The Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church
16-20 Mount Morris Park West
(Southwest corner of West 122nd Street)
6:30pm
The Best of The New York International Children's Film Festival
and
Animae Caribe and the CariBBeing Film Festival's Animated Shorts Strictly for the Young and the Young at Heart!!!!!!
The Best of the New York International Children's Film Festival
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Dir. Dean Fleischer-Camp, 2010, 3 min.
An up-close and personal interview with Internet video star Marcel, a tiny shell with one eyeball, two shoes, and a really great personality!
Don't Go Dir. Turgut Akacik, 2010, 4 min.
Awesome, thumpy, electronic disco music propels this non-stop chase
scene of a movie – as a cute, pink-bellied, one-eyed CGI bunny gets
chased around an apartment by a live action black cat.
Gravity Dir. Renaud Hallee, 2009, 2 min.
Falling objects are synchronized to produce rhythms and patterns.
Johnny Dir. Malena Modéer, 2010, 4 min.
Colorful stop motion, goofy live action, surreal homemade sets, and a
ridiculous pigeon costume come together to humorous effect in the
story of Johnny – a hilariously narrated, tongue-in-cheek fable about
what happens to little boys who don't drink their milk!
Book Girl and Cabinet Girl Dir. Jane Wu, 2010, 3.5 min.
Two girls realize the value of their friendship after a journey of
broken hearts, torn pages and reconciliation.
Pixels Dir. Patrick Jean, 2010, 2.5 min
Old-school video game icons take over New York City (and the world) in this music
video for French techno-pop band Naïve New Beaters.
The Lost Thing Dir. Andrew Ruhemann/Shaun Tan, 2010, 15.5 min.
A
boy encounters a strange creature on a beach and decides to find a home
for it in a world where everyone believes there are far more important
things to think about. This beautifully animated film comes from Passion
Pictures, producers of past NYICFF favorites City of Paradise and Dog
Who Was a Cat Inside.
Ormie Dir. Rob Silvestri, 2010, 4 min.
Ormie is a Pig, in every sense of the word. Pig see cookie. Pig want
cookie. But they are out of reach... or are they?
The Deep Dir. PES, 2010, 2 min.
Metallic objects come to life in the depths of the sea, in the newest
film from New York's brilliant stop-motion artist PES – whose past
NYICFF selections include Western Spaghetti, Dogs of War, and Game
Over.
The Best of Animae Caribe and the CariBBeing Film Festival's Animated Shorts
Jerk Chicken Dir. Samuel Stewart, 2010, 6 min.
Jerk Chicken is an animated comedic short that explores the work day
of a Jamaican jerk chicken chef named Ron. However, Ron's passion for
his craft is short lived as the frustrations of the chicken eventually
emerge.
How Anancy Became Famous Dir. Andrew Davies and Ananse Animation Project, 2010, 4:41 min.
Most times Anancy, without working hard, without playing by the rules, comes out on top. He has a way of getting into scrapes and a wonderfully cunning way of getting out of them. Anancy also represents the resilience and survival instinct of a people who can come through any situation.
Kina Sky Dir. Corretta Singer, 2009, 6:13 min.
A robot girl trapped on a floating island longs for freedom and finally her dream comes true after a stroke of inspiration.
Krik Krak Anansi Dir. Camille Selvon Abrahams, 2010, 7 min.
Anansi is not amused when he hears Brer Monkey announce that there is a shortage of Bananas. This is by far his favorite food and he cannot stand to have to share. But as usual he concocts a mischievous plan. Pretending to be selfless and caring Lil Anansi tricks his friends into giving him quarter of each of their Bananas. Little does Anansi know that what goes around comes around.
The Maysles Cinema's Outdoor Screening Series brought to you with support from Target®
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
Calypso Dreams
