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Hughes' Dream Harlem
Hughes' Dream Harlem
Darralynn Hutson's film, HUGHES' DREAM HARLEM, is a cine-poetic experience that celebrates Langston Hughes' legacy and the words that live on for many generations to come. (56 min.)
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Culture Jam
Getting Through to the President
Directors Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler document New Yorkers as they commandeered a payphone in Washington Square Park braving busy signals and excessive hold times to get their voices heard on topics such as the environment, healthcare, gay marriage, the war in Iraq, and much more. (7 min., 28 sec.)
Scent of a Robot
This is a fast-paced animated short, created by UVPHACTORY, about a robot that begins to contemplate its existence after making an unsettling discovery. (4 min., 4 sec.)
To Be Seen: Street Art
Alice Arnold's film looks at who is making street art and why; it examines the cultural and political significance of these expressions; and it investigates the public's perception of this work. (26 min., 40 sec.)
Urban Rhapsody
Shot as a documentary, Basia Winograd edited the film as a music video, URBAN RHAPSODY is a study of the attitudes and gestures of Brooklynites. The words of the Spoken Word group Second 2 Last provide the narration for this whirlwind tour through the diverse neighborhoods of the borough that inspires their poetry. (6 min., 30 sec.)
The Stork
This work is the centerpiece of Nina Paley's animated Fertility Cycle series about overpopulation and the environment, in which a serene natural landscape is bombed by bundles of joy. (3 min., 30 sec.)
Anthem
Cynthia Madansky's film is part an ongoing series of videos that speak out against the American invasion of Iraq and the act of war. Based on the format of public service announcements, the PSA Project interrupts a lulled media landscape to offer a startling, fast-paced, and color-saturated protest of the American war in Iraq. (3 min., 25 sec.)
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Familiar Haunts
Ghosts of Grey Gardens
This film is is a 30th anniversary homage to the groundbreaking 1957 documentary, GREY GARDENS, about mother-daughter relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie, the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The film's director, Liliana Greenfield-Sanders, interviews the original co-director, Albert Maysles, among others to capture the reason for GREY GARDENS' enormous impact on so many people. (31 min., 6 sec.)
Under the Roller Coaster
Filmmaker Lila Place examines the true-life experience of one woman and her unique relationship to Coney Island living under the famed Thunderbolt Roller Coaster. (15 min., 7 sec.)
Grand Luncheonette
Peter Sillen's work documents the final days of the Grand Luncheonette, one of 42nd Street's unforgettable hot dog/lunch counters. (5 min.)
Resonance
Video Artist Robin Koss creates a visual narrative about the process of remembering. Through environment and color, the film creates a fleeting impression of a moment in the past. (4 min., 27 sec.)
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Far From Home
Sangam
Filmmaker Prashant Bhargava creates a film about a recent immigrant from India and a disillusioned Indian-American who cross paths on a New York subway train where they must confront their concept of faith in the reality of the American Dream. (23 min.)
Chinese Dream
Victor Quinaz's film is about Country Boy (Qix Chen), a young Chinese dishwasher in a subterranean kitchen whose daily routine consists of work and sleep in a room he shares with two other co-workers. One night while watching a travel program on television Country Boy begins to harbor a dream of living in New York City. (16 min., 20 sec.)
Elevator Operator
In Jonathan Skurnik's film a New York City elevator operator, Eugene Sheiman, a Ukrainian Immigrant, was a journalist in Kiev and has published a novel in Russian. (7 min., 53 sec.)
Gaza Book of Longing
Directors Jessica Allee, Shane Flores, and Wago Kreider use the landscape of a botanical conservatory to drive the memory of dispossession as a woman yearns for the climate of her homeland. (2 min.)
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The Healing Gardens of New York
The Healing Gardens of New York
Alexandra Isles work chronicles gardens that have changed neighborhoods and transformed lives, making it clear that in New York the best gardens reach out. The film speaks to the importance of green spaces as a source of stability and emotional well-being which is often overlooked in a city dominated by steel, glass, jackhammers, and cranes. (55 min.)
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NYC Underground
One Track Mind
Jeremy Workman profiles Philip Ashforth Coppola and his extreme obsession with the design and decoration of New York's 496 subway stations. Coppola, a New Jersey printing press operator, has devoted all his free time in the last 30 years to cataloguing and archiving every station's, often unnoticed, cathedrals of mosaic, faience, terra cotta, tile, and steel. (30 min.)
Brooklyn Among the Ruins
Suzanne Wasserman's documentary visits the home of Brooklyn born and bred Paul Kronenberg, a 60 year-old subway buff who built a life-size replica of a 1930s motorman's subway cab in his tiny bedroom in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. (13 min., 58 sec.)
A Subway Siren
Vince Tocce creates a verité style portrait of a young Italian woman who wanders through the New York City subway system with her saxophone. Performance footage is juxtaposed with interviews and shots of various mosaics found on the platform walls. (12 min.)
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9/11 Fallout
Legally Blind
Filmmaker Ingrid Rojas's work is the story of Maria, a legally blind, Colombian immigrant, who lost her small candy store after the building that housed it, was shut down indefinitely due to its proximity to the World Trade Center. (30 min.)
Dastaar: Sikh Identity
Kevin Lee examines the response of New York's Sikh community to bias, hate crimes, and other injustices since 9/11. (11 min.)
Carla Cope
Aileen McCormack and Sheila McCormack's film follows Carla through the city as she looks back on all she has lost while grappling with the uncertainty of her future. (5 min., 20 sec.)
Soft Targets
Shalom Gorewitz's film is about being a street artist carrying a camera after 9/11 when everything seems like a soft target. (4 min., 58 sec.)
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Paying Tribute
Nam June Paik: Edited for Television (1975)
Nam June Paik illustrates a provocative self-portrait of the artist, his work, and philosophies. Taped in his Soho loft, with the multi-monitor piece Fish Flies on Sky suspended from the ceiling, this film features an interview of Paik by art critic Calvin Tompkins (who wrote a New Yorker profile of the artist in 1975) and ironic commentary by host Russell Connor. (28 min., 14 sec.)
Film Portrait: Jerome Hill (excerpt)
Completed in 1971, this film is an autobiographical film about the painter, filmmaker, and philanthropist, J. Jerome Hill. (21 min., 4 sec.)
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