After 11 years of residence in Greenpoint, co-founders Ed Halter and Thomas Beard are moving their microcinema, Light Industry—dedicated to screening film and electronic art in Brooklyn since 2008—to Williamsburg. Ed and Thomas found inspiration for Light Industry in Amos Vogel, who founded the New York Film Festival, pioneered early alternative film spaces such as Cinema 16 and once wrote that “the avant-garde’s delight in the unpredictable, its insistence on the deconstruction of ossified codes, its probing of the unacceptable, signify gestures of freedom in an increasingly commercialized cinema.” I would repeat this remark, word for word, about the indispensable […]
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The post A Schoolhouse for Cinephiles: In Praise of Light Industry first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 8/25/2022
- by Conor Williams
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSWe're thrilled to announce Notebook magazine, a new biannual print-only publication dedicated to the art and culture of cinema, with original contributions by film artists, writers, curators, and archivists about a unique and eclectic array of cinematic subjects. Inside our pilot Issue 0 you'll find Apichatpong Weerasethakul reflecting on his personal journey and Wes Anderson on The French Dispatch and The New Yorker; explorations of moviegoing and odes to movie magazines; conversations between the cinema exhibitors of Milan's Cinema Beltrade and Dubai's Cinema Akil, as well as between directors Emma Seligman and Mike Leigh; movie posters from a milestone MoMA exhibition; sheet music handwritten by Nino Rota; new translations of writings by Yasujiro Ozu; and much more. This issue is printed in a limited edition and available for pre-order to Mubi subscribers only—get yours now,...
- 10/27/2021
- MUBI
A Go Fund Me campaign to raise money for New York City movie theater workers who have been laid off or furloughed due to the coronavirus pandemic has reached its goal. The Cinema Workers Solidarity Fund has racked up $74,587 in donations, surpassing the $74,000 it set out to raise. The initiative was launched a week and a half ago by Light Industry, Screen Slate, and other community partners.
“Cinema workers are finding themselves in a situation that millions of workers of all kinds are going through,” said Thomas Beard, founder and director of Light Industry, and a programmer at large at Film at Lincoln Center. “Their livelihood has evaporated overnight…We hope that this can serve as a stop-gap measure to help with grocery money and other essentials.”
The fund will help 350 people who applied for assistance by giving them $200 apiece. It attracted 1,400 individual donations, most of them in the $50 range.
“Cinema workers are finding themselves in a situation that millions of workers of all kinds are going through,” said Thomas Beard, founder and director of Light Industry, and a programmer at large at Film at Lincoln Center. “Their livelihood has evaporated overnight…We hope that this can serve as a stop-gap measure to help with grocery money and other essentials.”
The fund will help 350 people who applied for assistance by giving them $200 apiece. It attracted 1,400 individual donations, most of them in the $50 range.
- 3/24/2020
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
"Leave [Britney Spears] alone!" Jonas Mekas exclaims, in this excerpt from his 365 Films Project in 2007. The project, all of which can be found on Mekas's website for free, records the filmmaker's daily interactions with mundane artifacts , including the tabloids surrounding Britney Spears after she'd shaved her head. Spears's plight strikes Mekas as a sign of the impossibility for an artist to be truly "normal." As Ed Halter points out, Jonas Mekas's video-blog entry (published in January) comes "months before Chris Crocker," whose video "Leave Britney Alone!" echoes Mekas in its front-facing camera and strong defense of the pop star. When returning to many of Britney Spears's music videos one also notices that she, like Mekas, remolds dimensions of personal experience to explore grander notions of the self in the world.Three months following his analysis of Britney Spears and the disparaging press, Mekas films this encounter with a young Harmony Korine,...
- 5/12/2019
- MUBI
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