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NY Underground: Our Moms are Friends


Hi everybody,
please come out to support Ocularis, NY Underground Film Festival, single mothers, and me this coming Sunday. Also, a chance to see some festival shorts you wish you hadn't missed. Come by, bring a friend, say hi.

Ocularis
at Galapagos Art Space
70 North 6th Street
Brooklyn
www.ocularis.net

Sunday, May 22 at 7:00 PM
Our Moms Are Friends
Selections from the 12th Annual New York Underground Film Festival
www.nyuff.com
Ticket Price $6

If Ocularis and the New York Underground Film Festival had moms, they would be indeed be friends. After all, we kind of grew up together,
albeit in differentn eighborhoods. So the oldest and longest running underground festival, now a budding tween, takes a trip on the L train for another play-date in Williamsburg. Expect some cute animals.

Grand Luncheonette (Peter Sillen 4:47)

"The closing of one of Times Square's unforgettable lunch counters Fred Hakim's 42nd Street hot dog stand marks the final phase of the
much-publicizedg entrification of the area." - P. Sillen

Here After (Patrick Jolly, Rebecca Trost, Inger Lise Hansen, 12:00)

Shot in Ballymun, Irelands largest public housing project, Here After documents the lyrical destruction of items left behind by former residents: an array of mattresses, an out-dated chesterfield, an armchair, lace curtains, shelves, a computer monitor, dishes, carpeting, books, papers and other debris.

Folk Music and Documentary (Seth Price 5:00)

"Both folk music and documentary are traditional 'Left' art
forms--or, let's say, the popular-culture Left in America, as opposed to the more aristocratic Trotskyist Left (wait for laughter)." S. Price

Living a Beautiful Life (Corinna Schnitt 13:00)

During a three-month stay in Los Angeles, Schnitt visited
different schools and asked the kids the question: "how do you imagine a beautiful life?" Their statements are the source for this trip to a new Eden.

Neighbors (John Rose 5:11)

"A darkly comical confrontation between an angry New Yorker with a camcorder and the sneaky passive-aggressive neighbor who's been stealing
his newspaper." - J. Rose

The Bear Hunter (Mary Robertson 13:43)

"Each November for 44 years Bob Chase has cleaned his gun, donned an orange cap, and set out into the Pennsylvania woods hot on the trail of the black bear. Each year hes come home empty-handed, until now. The Bear Hunter is an intimate portrait of one man and the complications that come with success." M. Robertson

It Could Happen to You (Elizabeth Henry 8:45)

"The great divorce: What we're left with. What haunts us. An experimental collage piece using vintage footage that is so well-crafted that it flows and creates rhythms and meanings effortlessly, engaging us before we realize it." Ms. Films Festival

PYT (Tara Mateik 3:00)

Gender dysphoria or pop-music euphoria? Michael Jackson and Mateik head to Never Never Land for an ass-shaking collision of post-binary gender roles and adult fantasies of pretty young things.

Boxes, Jesus and Sandwiches (Jennifer Matotek 1:00)

"I just found this really bitchin record with a doomsday cult recording from the 80s, and thought about the 80s, and the whole weird conservative thing that was happening, which is happening now, and I just thought, fck it, let's throw some stuff together." J. Matotek

Sans Simon (Cory Arcangel 5:00)

Arcangel re-writes musical history with a wave of his hand.

Will be performed live by Arcangel impersonators!

Programmed by Mo Johnston

TRT: 72 minutes.

DISCUSSION

Fascinating story about internet journalism and the mayor of Spokane


Not sure if this really applies, but it is an amazing story about the Mayor of Spokane using internet chat rooms to meet young gay men and offer them gifts and services in exchange for sex, and the strategies the newspaper used to expose him.

If you don't know Spokane, it's an extremely right-wing community, and this guy, Jim West, rose in political ranks in part for his hard-line conservative views, specifically on gay issues. Just an interesting "expose" I guess and look into this strange tortured community of politicians that seems to be growing.

http://spokesmanreview.com/jimwest/


EVENT

New York Underground Film Festival - Friday Lineup


Dates:
Fri Mar 11, 2005 00:00 - Sat Mar 05, 2005

For complete descriptions, check out www.nyuff.com

For (more) free beer and cheer, as well as info about the evening's afterparty, check in at the theatre--Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave @ 2nd Street

6:15pm
THE FOREST FOR THE TREES: JUDI BARI V. THE FBI
by Bernadine Mellis, Documentary.
http://www.nyuff.com/2005/index2.php?p=arc&s=res&fid

7:30pm
WHAT IT WAS LIKE
Documentaries by Takeshi Inamura, Christine Khalafian, and Joel Schlemowitz
http://www.nyuff.com/2005/index2.php?p=arc&s=res&fid,20,21&program=What+It+Was+Like&switch=1

8:00pm
IN THE STARS
Experimental Shorts by Kate McCabe, Elizabeth Henry, and Bobby Abate, and a documentary about the 2003 Columbia shuttle crash by Michael Welt.
http://www.nyuff.com/2005/index2.php?p=arc&s=res&fid",23,24,25&program=In+The+Stars&switch=1

9:15pm
JK!!!
Hilarious shorts by John Bryant, Michael Lucid & Amanda Barrett (Pretty Things), Ted Passon, Courtney Egan, Clare Rojas, John Rose, Keith Wilson, Andrew Semans, and special presentations by the Found Footage Festival
http://www.nyuff.com/2005/index2.php?p=arc&s=res&fid&,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36&program=JK!!!&switch=1

9:45pm
THE BIRDPEOPLE
By Michael Gitlin, 16mm Documentary, 2004
http://www.nyuff.com/2005/index2.php?p=arc&s=res&fid7

11:00pm
CAPTAIN MILKSHAKE
By Richard Crawford, 35mm Feature, 89min, 1970
NEW YORK PREMIERE
http://www.nyuff.com/2005/index2.php?p=arc&s=res&fid8

11:30pm
LUCKY 7
Roberta Beck Memorial Cinema
Works by Eros, Frye, Losier, Shaneen, Fogel, Dennis, Schlemowitz; with special guests Lary Seven and Peggy Ahwesh
http://www.nyuff.com/2005/index2.php?p=arc&s=res&fid9


EVENT

New York Underground Film Festival - Thursday Line-up


Dates:
Thu Mar 10, 2005 00:00 - Sat Mar 05, 2005

For complete descriptions, check out www.nyuff.com

For free beer and cheer, as well as info about the evening's afterparty, check in at the theatre--Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave @ 2nd Street

6:15pm - -+-+FREE+-+- dvd release screening
GETTING NOWHERE FASTER by Tiffany Morgan, Nicole Morgan, Lori Damiano & Lisa Whitaker, Skateboard Video, 2005
http://www.nyuff.com/2005/index2.php?p=arc&s=res&fid=2

7:30pm
EXIST
MERCENARIES by Robert Banks, 35mm, 3min, Experimental
EXIST: NOT A PROTEST FILM by Esther Bell, Video, 80min, Feature
http://www.nyuff.com/2005/index2.php?p=arc&s=res&fid=3,4&program=Exist&switch=1

8:00pm
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Short documentaries by Rebecca Conroy, Bobby Langlais, and Gina Levy & Eric Johnson
http://www.nyuff.com/2005/index2.php?p=arc&s=res&fid=5,6,7&program=No+Place+Like+Home&switch=1

9:15pm
CODE 33 by David Beilinson, Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley & Zachary Werner, Video, Feature Documentary
Follows the 3-month investigation into the largest serial rape case in Florida history.
http://www.nyuff.com/2005/index2.php?p=arc&s=res&fid=8

9:45pm
IN YOUR BACKYARD
Short documentaries by Lauren Madow, John Ayala & John Furgason, Jenny Stark & Mark Yzaguirre, and Sarah Prior & Monica Bigler
http://www.nyuff.com/2005/index2.php?p=arc&s=res&fid=9,10,11,12&program=In+Your+Backyard&switch=1

11:00pm
PFFR: LEGACY 2
http://www.nyuff.com/2005/index2.php?p=arc&s=res&fid

11:30pm
THE STUDENT NURSES by Stephanie Rothman, 16mm, 85min, Feature, 1970
Also features shorts by Rose Dabbs, Rosy Boyer, and Sarah Kuhn
Curated by Arella J. Ben-Dov of the MadCat International Film Festival, San Francisco
http://www.nyuff.com/2005/index2.php?p=arc&s=res&fid,15,16,17&program=The+Student+Nurses&switch=1