SUMMER CINEMA SALON — FILM-MAKERS’ COOPERATIVE
Join the Film-Makers' Coop, Le Petit Versailles, and all their friends and neighbors for this warm late pre-summer screening. Enjoy works straight from the shelves of the Coop's collection! Featuring work by Tom Chomont, Katrina Del Mar, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Helen Hill, and Jim Hubbard! Program details below!Curated by Devon Gallegos.This is event is sponsored in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts
Summer Cinema Salon Lineup -- TRT: 92 min.Madame Winger Makes a Film:Filmmaking for the 21st CenturyHelen Hill2001, video, color, sound, 10 minMadame Winger wants you to make a film about something you love. She shows you her favorite low budget filmmaking techniques, from cameraless animation to processing your own film in a bathtub.Phases of the MoonTom Chomont1968, video, color, sound, 5 min“The other thing [Phases of the Moon] is about is the mechanical actions we do unconsciously. I had become very aware of them because of the typing I was doing. I had begun to feel like an extension of the machine at the office, rather than a person. Then I became aware of the little things that I did mechanically, on a robot level, in my room; my fear – and my longing, at the time – produced mechanical patterns of looking out the peephole. The whole film had to do in part with irrational things: mechanical movements in a way are not rational. They may have been in the beginning, but then they take over and are simply performed – out of context as easily as in context.” – Tom ChomontTwo MarchesJim Hubbard1991, video, color, sound, 8 min"In Hubbard's roving footage we follow the shifts in spirit, age and racial composition of the demonstrators and witness the growing organization of the protest spectacle, as ragtag bunches of rebellious marchers give way to marching bands and the unfurling of the Names Project AIDS Quilt. ... Yet his touch is always gentle, and deeply, if elusively, personal, from the opening shots of Hubbard embracing the late filmmaker Roger Jacoby to the beautifully choreographed hands of deaf people signing. Always working within a small scale and tightly focused format, Hubbard has developed an astonishingly varied and emotionally complex body of work over the years, a series of personal film essays of intertwined loss and liberation." - Liz Kotz, AfterimageL.E.S. (Lower East Side)Coleen Fitzgibbon1976, video, color, sound, 30 min“The story of the collapse of the problematic island of Manhattma, whose inhabitants worshipped the god of mamon, John Doe. Shot in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, NYC circa 1976. Filmed on Super-8mm with sound, summer 1976, shown on open reel videotape 1978 on Manhattan Cable Channel D, Collaborative Projects, Inc.’s Red Curtain show.”The World’s Smallest FairHelen Hill1995, video, color, sound, 5 minWhile in art school, I invited my fellow students to help create one square mile of cotton candy in fantastical shapes.Surf GirlsKatrina Del Mar2005, video, color, sound, 25 min“Surf Gang” is about the turf war that erupts when a gang of tough surfer girls travel out of their home territory of working class Rockaway Beach and arrive in the luxurious Hamptons. The Rockaway Ruffnecks, led by diminutive wildcat, Baby Rockaway, with their pirate flag flying and their rock n roll blaring, roll up into a world of ease and wealth made abrasive to outsiders. The local surfer girls call themselves the Ungratefuls, and are led by Blossom, an aging surfer girl who years ago reigned the seas, but who now lives in semi retirement and cocktail stupor in her gothic mansion overlooking the ocean. “Surf Gang” takes a satirical and sometimes slapstick view of class difference in a world of both natural beauty and fantastic embellishment.Dog Diary: Part 1Tom Chomont1996, video, color, sound, 9 min“The film diary questions the relation between reality and illusion in art. For instance, some viewers understand The Dog Diary (1996) as literal documentation. But while it is based on video material gathered during several days over a six week period, the original recordings run over five hours, and the finished tape is just twenty two minutes. Alongside montage and several video 'effects,' it also features superimposed sounds and pictures. In its finished version, it has a closer approximation to memory than the original footage. The largely erotic relationship with Dog was based on sexual fantasy, and the tape works to convert some of these moments into reflections on identity, power and representation. “ – Tom Chomont