Experimental Film Programs at Tribeca Film Festival, April 20 – May 1, 2011

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Experimental Film Programs at Tribeca Film Festival, April 20 – May 1, 2011

Jon Gartenberg has programmed experimental and avant-garde films for the Tribeca Film Festival since 2003.   This year’s four programs consist of two new features, by Marie Losier and Bill Morrison, and two shorts programs, "Impressions of Memory" and special program celebrating the preservation work of the Women’s Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT).                              

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

[BALLA] 

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Feature Documentary,

2011, 70 min 

Directed by: Marie Losier 

Filmmaker and TFF alum Marie Losier, who has created engaging short films on avant-garde artists like George Kuchar and Guy Maddin, makes her feature documentary debut with a mesmerizing and deeply romantic love story between pioneering musician and performance artist Genesis P-Orridge and soul mate Lady Jaye. Breaking new ground in its depiction of gender identity,

 Ballad

 chronicles the physical and spiritual merging of two beings into one.

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Public Screenings

Mon, Apr 25, 7:00PM

AMC Loews Village 7 - 2

Wed, Apr 27, 9:00PM

SVA Theater 2 Beatrice

Thu, Apr 28, 3:00PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 7

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The Miners' Hymns

[MINER] 

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Feature Documentary

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2011, 52 min 

Directed by: Bill Morrison

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Experimental filmmaker and frequent TFF alum Bill Morrison combines newly shot aerial scenes that he filmed himself with historic found-footage images of the mining communities of Northeast England that he culled from the British national archives. Morrison creates a moving and formally elegant tribute to this vanished era of working-class life, enriched by an original score by avant-garde Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson.

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Public Screenings

Fri, Apr 22, 7:00PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 5

Mon, Apr 25, 7:30PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 9

Thu, Apr 28, 12:45PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 8

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Shorts: Impressions of Memory

[SIMPR] 

Short Film Program

Program

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2011, 69 min  

These talented artists address, in both thematically and stylistically distinct ways, the manner in which images evoke memory. This is achieved through the use of text, the presence of previously filmed "found" footage, a scenic train ride bleeding into digital pixels, single frame printing devices, evocations of 9/11, a tribute to a deceased filmmaker, peripheral vision, recall of sleep via animation, seascape imagery folding back on itself in time, and bittersweet remembrances of now-extinct Kodachrome film stock.Read More

Public Screenings

Thu, Apr 21, 7:30PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 9

Sun, Apr 24, 10:30PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 9

Fri, Apr 29, 2:30PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 4

Sun, May 01, 11:00AM

Tribeca Cinemas Theater 1

Independent Women: 15 Years Of NYWIFT-Funded Film Preservation

[NYWIF]

Tribeca Talks

Program

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2011, 84 min 

Dating from 1950 to 1984, these 11 short films contain experimental narratives, personal documentaries, and abstract animation from the likes of Mary Ellen Bute, Storm de Hirsch, Faith Hubley, and Marie Menken, as well as contemporary voices of living female artists. Asserting the contributions of women filmmakers in the canon of the American experimental avant-garde, this program also celebrates 15 years of direct financial support for preservation of historically under-recognized films by women through the Women's Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film & Television. 

Special thanks to Academy Film Archive, Anthology Film Archives, Emily Hubley, The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film, Cecile Starr, and the individual filmmakers for their participation. 

Tribeca Talks: Join us for a conversation with an eclectic group of women filmmakers who helped shape avant-garde cinema. Panelists to include: directors Liane Brandon, Lisa Crafts,Barbara HammerJane AaronBette GordonCaroline Mouris, as well as Bute films curator/collector Cecile Starr, animator Emily Hubley, and Tribeca's experimental film programmer Jon Gartenberg. Moderated by Drake Stutesman, Co-Chair of The Women's Film Preservation Fund and editor of Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media.Read More

Public Screenings

Sat, Apr 30, 7:00PM

SVA Theater 1 Silas