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Series Pass: Live at the Film Forum 2011-12
September 15, 2011 8:00 PM
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Live At The Film Forum artists seem to be drinking some truth telling serum in our third commissioned series expanding the field of film and video art from the single screen to multi-screen, immersive, performance-based live-projections. |
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My Reincarnation
February 24, 2012 7:00 PM - March 01, 2012 9:00 PM
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The film follows the renowned reincarnate Tibetan spiritual master, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, as he struggles to save his spiritual tradition, and his Italian born son, Yeshi, who stubbornly refuses to follow in his father's footsteps. |
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TLC Presents: Off The Rez
February 25, 2012 5:00 PM
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The story of a family that leaves the Umatilla Indian Reservation in pursuit of the American dream. |
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Okie Noodling II
February 26, 2012 8:00 PM
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A documentary sequel? You read correctly! Bradley Beesley follows up his beloved portrait of "noodling," the world's wildest sport, returning home to Oklahoma to see how the sport has evolved over the last decade. |
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The Extraordinary Voyage
February 28, 2012 7:00 PM - February 28, 2012 9:00 PM
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In Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon, the first science fiction movie ever made, six academics undertake an expedition that will take them to the Moon. |
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To Catch A Dollar
February 29, 2012 7:00 PM
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This inspiring documentary by Gayle Ferraro follows Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Yunus as he brings his unique and revolutionary microfinance program to the US. |
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Sex+Money: A National Search for Human Worth
March 01, 2012 7:00 PM
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This is a documentary about domestic sex trafficking of minors and the modern-day abolitionist movement fighting to stop it. |
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Windfall
March 02, 2012 7:00 PM - March 08, 2012 9:00 PM
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The realities of modern rural life, energy production and the environmental movement clash in unexpected ways. |
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California Company Town
March 02, 2012 8:00 PM
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Over the past 125 years, dozens of corporations such as Occidental Petroleum, Sierra Pacific and Borax Energy have bought huge parcels of land to establish their private operations, which included stores, schools and homes for their workers. |
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SERIES PASS! A Landscape of Memories: The Films of Lee Anne Schmitt
March 02, 2012 8:00 PM
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Lee Anne Schmitt's filmmaking falls into two categories, film essay and landscape cinema. Her work has been compared to that of James Benning and Thom Andersen. |
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BATTLE ROYALE
March 02, 2012 11:00 PM - March 30, 2012 11:00 PM
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Battle Royale is a jarring, jaw-dropping look at a future Japan where a group of 42 largely delinquent ninth-graders are chosen through a governmental lottery to kill each other off. |
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Short Films of Lee Anne Schmitt: Program 1
March 03, 2012 6:00 PM
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Program includes: The Wash; Three; Bower's Cave; Las Vegas |
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Short Films of Lee Anne Schmitt: Program 2
March 03, 2012 8:00 PM
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Program includes: Awake And Sing (Lee Anne Schmitt, 2003, 16mm, 42 min); Nightingale (Lee Anne Schmitt, 2002, 16 mm, 14 min). |
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The Last Buffalo Hunt
March 04, 2012 8:00 PM
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This documentary is the result of a five-year observation of the last wild buffalo herds in the south of Utah. |
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Have You Ever Had a Beard?
March 05, 2012 7:00 PM
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Like a title weight bout, raucous music writer Chris Estey goes "toe to toe" with cagey music maverick Calvin Johnson about important subjects such as beards and other mysteries of life. |
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From the Back of the Room
March 06, 2012 7:00 PM - March 08, 2012 9:00 PM
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Deconstructing myths of the Utopian quality of alternative cultures, From the Back of the Room confronts punk patriarchy. |
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Dreileben Trilogy
March 09, 2012 7:00 PM - March 11, 2012 7:00 PM
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Two years after the wonderful British crime series Red Riding Trilogy comes another trilogy of intersecting crime stories from overseas. This time we take you to Germany. |
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How to Make a Book with Steidl
March 09, 2012 7:00 PM - March 15, 2012 9:00 PM
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) For those of us who love the sensuality of a physical book How to Make a Book with Steidl is a timely celebration of a fading art form |
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Jack Hitt: Making Up the Truth
March 15, 2012 8:00 PM - March 17, 2012 8:00 PM
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Making Up The Truth weaves stories together with the latest findings in contemporary brain science to answer the question, "Why do these things always happen to me?" |
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Adventures in Plymptoons!
March 16, 2012 7:00 PM - March 22, 2012 9:00 PM
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Alexia Anastasio, who's been making films since she was 11, trains her lens on Bill Plympton, the Oscar-nominated animator (for Your Face) whose frantically hilarious cartoons have been busting guts for over 40 years. |
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SERIES PASS: EXPERIMENTAL MEMORIA
March 20, 2012 7:00 PM
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This special series commemorates the work of three notable experimental and underground filmmakers who left us in 2011. Films screen in their original 16mm format. |
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The Devil's Cleavage
March 20, 2012 7:00 PM
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George Kuchar (Aug. 31, 1942Sept. 6, 2011), with his surviving twin brother, Mike, practically invented the campy, no-budget, anti-professional, tasteless, gender-bending underground style later embraced by John Waters and others. |
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Jeonju Digital Project
March 21, 2012 7:00 PM - March 22, 2012 7:00 PM
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Every year the Jeonju Digital Project, initiated in 2000 by the celebrated South Korean Jeonju International Festival, commissions three filmmakers to make a digital short. |
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Gainsbourg, the Man Who Loved Women
March 23, 2012 7:00 PM - March 25, 2012 9:00 PM
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The French icon tells his own story in this new docudrama. Accompanied by interviews from former muses and lovers, a parallax portrait emerges. |
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Gerhard Richter Painting
March 23, 2012 7:00 PM - March 29, 2012 9:00 PM
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Gerhard Richter Painting offers rare insights into the artist's process with a quiet, fly-on-the-wall perspective. |
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Kati with an I
March 30, 2012 7:00 PM - April 05, 2012 9:00 PM
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For his first documentary feature, Robert Greene shares with us an intimate portrait of his half-sister Kati. |
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The Christening
March 30, 2012 7:00 PM - April 05, 2012 9:00 PM
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The film is loosely based on the real story of a man from the Polish provinces who, after operating as a criminal in his hometown, finds himself in Warsaw. |
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Sci-Fi Cheap Date
March 30, 2012 11:00 PM
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This 90-minute program will delight nerds of all genders and possibly be worthy of taking notes. Trailers include Space Amoeba, Funky Forest: The First Contact, Xtro 2, Dark Breed, Screamers, Super Inframan and Alien Intruder. |
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Occultural Film Series: Magick in Cinema
April 05, 2012 7:00 PM
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Artist, writer and filmmaker Brian Butler presents a program that explores the occult as depicted in avant garde and experimental film. |
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
April 06, 2012 7:00 PM - April 12, 2012 7:00 PM
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The plot of this co-winner of the 2011 Cannes Grand Prix is simple: a group of men search for a corpse. But the story is not so straightforward. |
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Laura
April 06, 2012 7:00 PM - April 12, 2012 9:00 PM
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Otto Preminger's first acknowledged feature (he disavows everything that came before) is a masterpiece of American movies. |
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This is Not a Film
April 13, 2012 7:00 PM - April 19, 2012 9:00 PM
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Smuggled out of Iran on a USB drive hidden inside a cake, This is Not a Film protests its nature for good reason. |
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MUSIC-CRAFT featuring FRANK ZAPPA, TALKING HEADS AND THE KINKS
April 13, 2012 10:00 PM
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A 60-minute program of Frank Zappa in Stockholm in 1973, Talking Heads in Rome 1980 and The Kinks on BBC 1972 and on Rockpalast 1982. |
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Visions in Motion: A Memorial Retrospective, 1954 to 2000
April 18, 2012 7:00 PM
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. This special program features 16 of Breer's short films, spanning his entire career and including award-winning and rarely-shown gems |
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Lauren Weedman: Denny's World
May 17, 2012 8:00 PM - May 19, 2012 8:00 PM
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Writer, performer and comedian Lauren Weedman takes us to the world of Single Room Occupancy; a place of lawn care, electric guitars, the same dinner every night, old horror movies, and sex. |
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Hallelujah the Hills
May 23, 2012 7:00 PM
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Hallelujah The Hills is a lighthearted surreal comedy in which two men vie for the love of Vera, played by two different actresses to capture the suitors' visions of the ideal woman. |
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