Returning for its seventh version this 12 months, the 2024 Rockaway Film Festival kicks off subsequent weekend, going down August 17-25 and that includes a wealthy lineup of cinematic and inventive occasions. Highlights embrace Zia Anger’s My First Film, that includes a Q&A with star Odessa Younger and post-screening DJ set by Andrew Vanwyngarden of MGMT; the East Coast premiere of Ed Lachman’s new restoration of Report From Hollywood, his account on the set of Wim Wenders’ The State of Issues, that includes a Q&A with Lachman and Sean Worth Williams; a fiftieth anniversary screening of Wenders’ Alice within the Cities; a uncommon screening of Agnes Martin’s Gabriel with a stay rating; and rather more. Forward of the pageant, we’re happy to solely debut the trailer.
“Every year, our program emerges intuitively,” stated co-founders Courtney Muller and Sam Fleischner, “we choose films in consideration of the setting in which we’ll show them, and given the transient nature of Rockaway as both a unique community and a coastal environment right next to JFK airport, we are excited to include stories from across the globe that put forth imaginative visions for how we connect to our surroundings and to each other.”
Study extra concerning the pageant right here and take a look at the unique pageant trailer beneath, together with the newly unveiled trailer for Zia Anger’s My First Film, which arrives on MUBI on September 6 following its Rockaway Film Festival screening.
Festival Highlights:
Looping Installations
WAKING UP (FOR THE FIRST TIME) by Jamil McGinnis and Pat Heywood. 2024. Multi-screen set up.
An audiovisual experiment that reconsiders footage of a film-in-progress as a place-based set up. In putting, dreamlike impressions of on a regular basis metropolis life, the Brooklyn-based artists discover practices of spirituality and replicate on meaning-making with reverence for the quotidian observations that make up our unusual lives. On view August 17-25 within the Annex Cinema.
REPOSE by Moriah Evans. 2024. *on view August 17 in Arverne Cinema Window.
To have a good time the tenth annual Seashore Periods Dance Sequence, this doc seems to be again on the 2021 version choreographed by Moriah Evans, which borrowed from the social and bodily choreographies inherent to the seaside.
TO OPEN A WINDOW by Craig Scheihing. 2023. *on view August 18-21 in Arverne Cinema Window.
In a blinding flurry of 16mm pictures, a mirrored window makes a suggestion.
BIOGENETIC BLOOMS by Karen Ingram. 2024. Loop. *on view August 22-25 in Arverne Cinema Window.
A collaborative bio artwork animation utilizing microbes engineered to show the identical vibrant colours that exist within the DNA of sea creatures like jellyfish, sea anemone, and coral. This piece showcases the designs from a neighborhood workshop held on opening day of the pageant, August 17.
Saturday, August 17
4-6PM BIO-ART WORKSHOP led by Karen Ingram
Members create residing artworks from gene edited microbes in Petri dishes, to be incubated and photographed over the next days. The photographs will then be pieced collectively to make an animated clip of collaborative bio artwork that might be displayed within the Arverne Cinema set up window from 8/22-8/25.
5PM SHORTS: BELONG WHERE
A set of intergenerational reminiscences and definitions of house, these private poems linger in a limbo between locations of belonging.
BISAGRAS by Luis Arnias. 2024. 16 min.
BURNT MILK by Joseph Douglas Elmhirst. 2023. 10 min.
DAISY by Catalina Kulczar-Marin. 2023. 30 min.
SILENT CLINKING by Ayesha Bashir. 2022. 2 min.
MY HEART IS MY ONLY COUNTRY by Iva Gocheva. 2023. 12 min.
7PM MUSIC PERFORMANCE: Tim Keiper, Brian Marsell & Kaoru Watanabe.
8PM ALICE IN THE CITIES by Wim Wenders. 1974. 110 min.
A journalist looking for inspiration unwittingly embarks on a cross-country odyssey with a strong-willed nine-year-old lady in some of the breathtaking street motion pictures of all time. German auteur Wim Wenders usually refers to his fourth characteristic movie as his first, as a result of it was by way of making this movie that he felt he found his cinematic voice. With the opening sequence shot on the Rockaway boardwalk, we current Alice within the Cities on the event of its fiftieth anniversary.
Sunday, August 18
5PM REPORT FROM HOLLYWOOD by Edward Lachman. 1985. 48 min.
Visionary cinematographer Ed Lachman offers a behind-the-scenes account of Wim Wenders’ manufacturing of The State of Issues (1984), a movie concerning the difficulties of creating a movie. The solid and crew give interviews whereas driving a convertible between gasoline stations and motels in a putting doc of Los Angeles within the Eighties. East Coast premiere of recent restoration. Submit screening Q&A with Ed Lachman and Sean Worth Willams.
7PM MUSIC PERFORMANCE: Roche and Father.
8PM MY FIRST FILM by Zia Anger. 2024. 100 min.
Fifteen years in the past, Zia Anger made a micro-budget movie that by no means noticed the sunshine of day. My First Film is an ultra-meta, autofictional account of her expertise creating and abandoning it. Joyously chaotic and disarmingly honest, this un-making-of movie is a declaration of private company and a testomony to the ability of collaboration. Q&A with star Odessa Younger. Submit-screening DJ set by Andrew Vanwyngarden of MGMT.
Monday, August 19
5PM SHORTS: NEW NARRATIVE SHORTS
These new shorts from rising voices discover impulses of escape, zooming in on moments of readability from outsiders teetering on the sting.
BAD DRIVER by Antonia Grilikhes-Lasky. 2024. 6 min.
LIVING REALITY by Philip Thompson. 2024. 16 min.
BUBBLEGUM AND THE TEXAS BELT BUCKLE by Jordan Alexander. 2023. 13 min.
ISKRA by Snejina Latev. 2024. 20 min.
7PM MUSIC PERFORMANCE: Kevin Bewersdorf.
8PM FAITH HUBLEY CENTENNIAL
Religion Hubley was a trailblazing animator whose joyful and gorgeous free-form creations marked a brand new period of unbiased animation. To have a good time the centennial of the Oscar-winning artist—who lived in Rockaway from ages six months to 6 years—we current a group of her imaginative shorts, together with model new restorations. Submit-screening Q&A with Emily Hubley.
FAITHY, HEY by Emily Hubley. 2019. 4 min
WINDY DAY by John and Religion Hubley. 1967. 8 min.
VOYAGE TO NEXT by John and Religion Hubley. 1974. 8.5 min.
W.O.W. by Religion Hubley. 1975. 10 min.
TIME OF THE ANGELS by Religion Hubley. 1987. 9.5 min.
TALL TIME TALES by Religion Hubley. 1992. 10 min.
HER GRANDMOTHER’S GIFT by Emily and Religion Hubley. 1995. 4 min.
NORTHERN ICE, GOLDEN SUN by Religion Hubley. 2001. 6.5 min.
Tuesday, August 20
5PM YOUR FINAL MEDITATION by Corey Hughes. 2024. 52 min. World Premiere.
A lady enters a guided simulation to ease her rising nervousness. In psychedelic sequences combining scripted scenes, discovered footage, and AI-generated imagery, Baltimore artist Corey Hughes considers digital area as a website for technological transcendence. World Premiere. Submit-screening Q&A.
7PM MUSIC PERFORMANCE: Deakin and Geologist of ANIMAL COLLECTIVE.
8PM JETTY by Sam Fleischner. 2024. 55 min.
Patiently documenting the set up of recent coastal infrastructure within the Rockaways, this observational course of story was recorded on 16mm movie and options an unique rating by Animal Collective. World Premiere. Submit-screening Q&A with filmmakers and topics.
Wednesday, August 21
5PM A HUMAN YEAR IS 7 EARTH YEARS by Adrian Quetzal Randall. 2024. 83 min.
Honduran-American video essayist Adrian Quetzal Randall traces the origins of radio and tv throughout army histories, international politics, and into the human psyche.
8PM ECSTATIC PLASMATIC Visitor-curated by Jonah Primiano.
Animators have lengthy understood the irresistible energy of transformation. What could be onerous to enact on the planet, animators have little hassle bringing to life underneath their pencils. Characters change form, change our bodies — free to develop into this or that at any second. Recognizing this ease, Sergei Eisenstein dubbed this high quality of animation “plasmatic” and associated it to the potential for change in evolutionary biology. This program brings collectively movies from all through animation historical past that talk that high quality.
EGYEDEM-BEGYEDEM by Dóra Keresztes. 2005. 4 min
RED HOUSE by Barry Doupé. 2022. 3 min.
CHRONOSYNTHESIS by Katie Morris. 2024. 1 min.
MOTH by Allison Schulnik. 2019. 3 min.
RIDDLE OR: A CHILD’S BESTIARY OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS by Runfeng Qui. 2023. 3 min.
THE BEAD GAME by Ishu Patel.1977. 6 min
THE LONG BODIES by Douglass Crockwell.1895-1940. 6 min.
PLANE OF INCIDENCE by Sabrina Ratte. 2024. 4 min.
SAUSAGE CITY by Adam Beckett. 1974. 5 min.
MIMT by Ted Wiggin. 2024. 4 min.
VISIONS OF THE INVERTEBRATE by Edwin Rostron. 2011. 2 min.
A MAN AND HIS DOG OUT FOR AIR by Robert Breer. 1957. 2 min.
BETWEENNESS by Oliver Laric. 2019. 5 min.
SPIRITUAL CONSTRUCTIONS by Oskar Fischinger. 1927. 6 min.
GLAZING by Lilli Carré. 2021. 2 min.
MOON BREATH BEAT by Lisze Bechtold. 1980. 5 min.
Thursday, August 22
6PM THE AFTERLIFE OF IMAGES: ORAIB TOUKAN
Oraib Toukan explores the best way we have a look at—or look away from—pictures of struggling. This program highlights two of Toukan’s movies, every offering a sworn statement on violence, and on Palestine in several occasions and areas, pointing to the complexities of adequately representing such violence.
OFFING. 2021. 28 min.
VIA DOLOROSA. 2021. 21 min.
8PM SHORTS: DATA PASSENGER
Sci-fi visions collapse into dystopian realities in these shorts exploring alternate algorithms of navigation on the open street.
VO by Nicolas Gourault. 2020. 17 min.
RANDOM ACCESS by He Zike. 2023. 14 min.
DIRECTION OF THE ROAD by Janelle VanderKelen. 2023. 8 min.
9PM SHORTS: PIXEL PORTALS
Reaching throughout actual and digital worlds, our digital gadgets develop into modes of connection and mirrors of notion. These shorts fall into wormholes of self-presentation and on-line identities, blurring the road between efficiency and actuality.
THE MOON ALSO RISES by Yuyan Wang. 2024. 24 min.
CHRISTMAS, EVERY DAY by Faye Tsakas. 2024. 13 min
APPLICATION TO BE LARS VON TRIER’S “FEMALE GIRLFRIEND/MUSE” by Tomi Faison. 15 min.
Friday, August 23
5PM RISING UP AT NIGHT by Nelson Makengo. 2024. 95 min.
Downstream from the overflowing River Congo, the folks of Kinshasa have been flooded with water and swallowed in darkness. Because the nation prepares to construct Africa’s largest hydroelectric plant, close by neighborhoods have misplaced all energy. Wading by way of the evening, Congolese director Nelson Makengo paperwork his hometown’s outstanding resilience and resourcefulness in a surreal nocturnal portrait that locates alternate sources of sunshine.
8PM AS THE TIDE COMES IN by Juan Palacios & Sofie Husum Johannesen. 2023. 89 min.
The 2 dozen inhabitants of the tiny Nova Scotian island of Mandø cling steadfastly to their beloved homeland regardless of rising tides and a looming storm. In quietly poetic and infrequently humorous glimpses of their day by day routines, we observe them throughout attractive landscapes of windswept marshes and dunes as they confront their unsure future. New York premiere.
Saturday, August 24
1PM STOP MOTION ANIMATION WORKSHOP
A free, all-ages stop-motion animation workshop led by Buena Onda Collective in partnership with Supplies for the Arts. Study upcycled art-making methods whereas making a rhizomatic collective animation that mirrors ecosystems the place crops, animals, micro organism, and fungi work collectively to construct a magical, vibrant world. The completed piece will display on the finish of the session.
3PM CHILDREN’S CINEMA Visitor-curated by Gentle Trade.
Gentle Trade’s ongoing program for child cinephiles returns for a particular version starting with Marie Menken’s Dwightiana, an summary portrait of the artist Dwight Ripley rendered by way of swinging stop-action animation. Afterward we’ll cool off with a visit to the Klondike in Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush (Chaplin, because it occurs, was rumored to stay within the neighborhood, on Seashore 91st Road, and made his skilled debut in Rockaway, in a stage efficiency on the previous Morrison’s Summer time Theatre on Seashore 102 Road). His movie is the perfect introduction to the artwork of slapstick, a comedy basic that follows The Tramp as a prospector seeking to strike it wealthy, and discovering love alongside the best way.
DWIGHTIANA by Marie Menken. 1959. 4 min. Projected on 16mm.
THE GOLD RUSH by Charlie Chaplin. 1925/1942. 71 min.
5PM SHORTS: FAITHFUL COMPANIONS
A set of documentary portraits, fictional narratives, and philosophical fables about our uncommon relationships and desired closeness to the animal world.
IF FOUND by India Donaldson. 2020. 8 min.
NOT WASTING MY TIME by Derek Howard. 2022. 16 min.
PET STORE by Joanna Rothkopf. 2023. 16 min
TESTUDO HERMANNI by G. Anthony Svatek. 2023. 7 min.
THE COLLOQUY OF DOGS by Norman Nedellec. 2024. 28 min.
7PM MUSIC PERFORMANCE: Celia Hollander
8PM SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN by Nele Wohlatz. 2024.
A coastal metropolis in Brazil. Fu Ang, Kai and Xiaoxin not often meet on this quiet comedy of misunder- standings. However over the course of a scorching, sluggish summer season, delicate bonds develop between them, like islands in a sea stuffed with sharks. U.S. premiere. Director in particular person for Q&A.
Sunday, August 25
6PM SHORTS: HARBOR OF MYTH
In otherworldly rituals and ingenious parables, these coastal mythologies supply alternate visions of the longer term.
ANIMA, SILUETA DE COHETE by Ana Mendieta. 1976.
THE BOAT PEOPLE by Tuan Andrew Nguyen. 2020. 20 min.
SUYA DOKUN (TOUCH THE WATER) by Yusuf Demirörs. 2023. 8 min.
ON XERXES’ THRONE by Evi Kalogiropoulou. 2022. 15 min.
ADAPTATION by Josh Kline. 2022. 10 min.
8PM GABRIEL by Agnes Martin. 1976. 78 min.
Agnes Martin was some of the influential summary artists of the 20th century. Recognized for her meticulous work of horizontal and vertical strains, her anomalous solely accomplished movie is conversely unfastened and imprecise in its pursuit of perfection. Gabriel opens on slightly boy surveying the ocean, then follows him as he wanders freely by way of the desert landscapes of New Mexico. It’s a movie embodying happiness and innocence amid pure magnificence. Silent besides for a number of passages from Bach’s Goldberg Variations, we’re thrilled to current this rarely-screened movie with a stay rating carried out by Rockaway Chamber Music.
