Jan. 24
7:30 p.m.
Maysles Cinema
343 Malcolm X Boulevard / Lenox Avenue (between 127th and 128th Streets)
New York, NY 10027
Hosted by: New York Film/Video Council
Launching the latest Jock Docs screening series at the Maysles Cinema, this time devoted to Race Car Driving, the New York Film/Video Council hosts a special, rare screening of the film On the Pole: Eddie Sachs, which will be followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers: Richard Leacock, Da Pennebaker and Albert Maysles.
On the Pole was produced by Drew Associates and originally aired on the CBS television network in 1960. The filmmakers followed Eddie Sachs, one of the most famous drivers in Indianapolis 500 history, as he prepared for the big race, from one week out all the way to the day after.
The Jock Docs: Race Car Driving series then continues on Jan. 25 with a screening of Asif Kapadia’s Senna (2001) at 7:00 and 9:00 p.
7:30 p.m.
Maysles Cinema
343 Malcolm X Boulevard / Lenox Avenue (between 127th and 128th Streets)
New York, NY 10027
Hosted by: New York Film/Video Council
Launching the latest Jock Docs screening series at the Maysles Cinema, this time devoted to Race Car Driving, the New York Film/Video Council hosts a special, rare screening of the film On the Pole: Eddie Sachs, which will be followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers: Richard Leacock, Da Pennebaker and Albert Maysles.
On the Pole was produced by Drew Associates and originally aired on the CBS television network in 1960. The filmmakers followed Eddie Sachs, one of the most famous drivers in Indianapolis 500 history, as he prepared for the big race, from one week out all the way to the day after.
The Jock Docs: Race Car Driving series then continues on Jan. 25 with a screening of Asif Kapadia’s Senna (2001) at 7:00 and 9:00 p.
- 1/23/2012
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
Erie, a compelling looking experimental film from long-time experimental filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson is playing tonight in NYC, Brooklyn specifically, at Bam Rose Cinemas as part of their ‘Migrating Forms’ series of avant-garde and experimental cinema and video. So, all the locals interested in such should check it out.
Quoted from the filmmaker himself…
Erie consists of a series of single take shots in and around communities near Lake Erie. The scenes relate to a Black migration in the USA, contemporary conditions, folks concentrating on the task at hand, theater and famous art objects.
The subject matter is the gestures or tasks caused by certain conditions in the lives of working class African Americans and other people of African descent. The conditions are usually physical, social-economic circumstances or weather. Instead of standard realism I favor a strategy that abstracts everyday actions and statements into theatrical gestures, in which archival footage is re-edited or re-staged,...
Quoted from the filmmaker himself…
Erie consists of a series of single take shots in and around communities near Lake Erie. The scenes relate to a Black migration in the USA, contemporary conditions, folks concentrating on the task at hand, theater and famous art objects.
The subject matter is the gestures or tasks caused by certain conditions in the lives of working class African Americans and other people of African descent. The conditions are usually physical, social-economic circumstances or weather. Instead of standard realism I favor a strategy that abstracts everyday actions and statements into theatrical gestures, in which archival footage is re-edited or re-staged,...
- 10/25/2010
- by Curtis the Media Man
- ShadowAndAct
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