COSMIC RAY SIGHTINGS: SEARS + SOLONDZ + STEPHENS +
We’re psyched to collaborate with our sister microcinema project on the Other side of the country, Cosmic Rays, which has established a much-need node of experimental-film exhibition in the Chapel Hill, NC area! Bill Brown, Sabine Gruffat, and John Winn not only curate their cutting-edge Festival of new regional–and international–art-films, but are now also circulating must-see tours of the very Best of their Fest! And that’s what’s streaking across our screen tonight: Kelly Sears‘ speculative animation Phase II, Joshua Solondz‘ tapestry of shredded celluoid NE Corridor, Courtney Stephens‘ mother’s wail for reproductive rights Lesser Choices, Wenhua Shi‘s social-media weave Because the Sky Is Blue, Nicolas Gebbe‘s claustrophic Lockdown Dreamscape, Waime Haddad‘s suspended-time Hors Titres, Camila Moreiras‘ post-plutonium poem Sine Dies, Alina Taalman’s strange dream Pre-Arranged Signal, Merette Mueller‘s prison experiment Blue Room, and Pere Ginard‘s underwater inventory Sightings. PLUS some local cine-spices sprinkled on top of this special movable feast! $10
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OC: BEST OF FEST FEAST
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THE GREAT FILM CLUB: SHORT FILM OPEN MIC!
This is a short open mic film club event. It is an approximate 2 hour program of short films and then a 1 hour meet and greet with fellow filmmakers to connect and create community.
SUBMIT YOUR SHORTS RULES: We encourage all short films submissions to be under 10 min long. Any films that exceed up to 10 mins can still be up for consideration as long as they are incredibly great but for a higher chance of showing that night it’s best to have it under 10 mins. No short films over 30 minutes. Any film that is clearly offensive and shows no artistic integrity or inappropriate will not be considered.
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR SHORT: Email a downloadable link of your short film to thegreatfilmclub@gmail.com in order to be considered. IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR EMAIL WRITE: BA MAR OPEN MIC SHORT SUBMISSION + the title of your film.
In your email please include your contact information and social media handles so we can stay connected and create community. All filmmakers will be notified if their short was accepted into the open mic by MAR 20th that way there’s enough time and opportunity to invite friends and other filmmakers who will like to watch. If we have an outstanding amount of submission we will add on another open mic night within the month.
It is free to submit but to attend admission fee is 20 dollars for everyone. Since this is fairly a new club still it’s just to cover projection and venue cost so we can do more events like these in the future. We’ll have wine, beer, and concessions for an awesome night!
thegreatfilmclub@gmail.com
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OC: SISTERS’ PICTURES
HUGHES + GRUFFAT + SACHS/WATERS/GUEVARA-FLANAGAN +
Utterly inspiring are the creative responses by US women artists–both individually and collectively– to last year’s deplorable dismantling of Roe Vs. Wade. Now, the opening half of our annual SisPix show is proud enough to boast a diverse selection of resonant pieces from contemporary female makers on a variety of women’s issues, tho we’re equally honored to dedicate the evening’s latter half to the initial group screening of the Abortion Clinic Film Collective‘s righteous howls of rage! So, in the first 40 mins. of (mostly) new work we’ll be treated to Salise Hughes‘ Big Daddy Learns a Lesson, Sabine Gruffat‘s Move or Being Moved, Christina Ibarra‘s Dirty Laundry, Kate Novack‘s Hysterical Girl, and more! Then our second block sets out to amplify the angry voices and visions of of a newly developing network of fierce feminists producing protest pieces to rally our will to resist the retrograde forces raiding our hard-won rights. Among that cadre is Lynne Sachs, Sasha Freyer Waters, Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Ray Rea, Doan Hoang Curtis…and more coming in! $10-100 fund-raiser for the Ntl. Network of Abortion Funds non-profit.
