SUNDAY, AUGUST 4
7:45PM music, 8:30PM films
Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm
Rooftop Farm Shorts
Directors Yolonda Ross, Teresa Pereira and Valerie Bischoff in attendance!
Live music on the roof from the Spookfish! Healthy treats, beer, fresh roast coffee via COFFEED & Brooklyn Grange!
Line Up:
Breaking Night.
Dir. Yolonda Ross. 10min. Narrative. 2012.
New Orleans & St. Charles Parrish, LA.
The experience of playing a documentary filmmaker on the HBO series “Treme” led actress Yolonda Ross (“Go for Sisters”, “The Phil Spector Biopic”) to step behind the camera herself to create this 70s-style music video drama.
For Silence.
Dir. Hans Christian Berger. 7min. Narrative. 2013. Cody, B.C., Canada.Part-documentary and part-fiction, Berger presents a hybrid storytelling experiment about the phenomenon of silence, featuring an existing ghost town and merging it with a fictional character.
Still Here.
Dir. Tyler Evans. 22min. Narrative. 2013. Crossville, TN.
John survives alone in the woods, living in what he believes to be a post-apocalyptic world. He broadcasts daily emergency messages – sometimes more as a radio journal than in an earnest attempt to contact fellow survivors. Little does he know, several local hikers are listening on the other side of his broadcasts.
Nest-Cams.
Dir. Sam Easterson. 3min. Exp./Doc. 2012. U.S.A.
Cameras in and around the nests of black-capped chickadee, red squirrel, house wren, horned lark, red-breasted nuthatch, black tern, brook trout, and song sparrow. Easterson has over a decade of experience collecting wildlife imagery from unique POVs for museums, web and TV.
Crops.
Dir. Gerco de Ruijter. 3min. Exp. 2012. SW U.S.A., Google Earth.
Dutch filmmaker de Ruijter captured over 1,000 still images of circular patterns in Google Earth. These circles fit precisely within the irrigation grid constructed by the U.S. Public Land Survey system – sections of one sq mile, 640 acres – ‘alien-looking’ man-made designs on our planet.
Most of May / Some of June.
Dir. Teresa Pereira. 23min. Exp. 2012. U.S.A.
An 8,000-mile journey of U.S. landscapes via country roads, small towns, city lights, national parks, empty deserts, quiet rivers, and 70s land art — wanderlust indulgence through mobility and immediacy.
Derby Kings.
Dir. Valerie Bischoff. 12min. Narrative. 2012.
Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation & Yerington, NV.
Native American brothers collide as hardworking Jim struggles to get demolition derby die-hard Ace to attend his court date, or be thrown in jail.
Marcel, King of Tervuren.
Dir. Tom Schroeder. 6min. Animation. 2012. Tervuren, Belgium.
St. Paul, MN based animator Tom Schroeder draws up a sort of animated documentary about his friend’s pet rooster, who survives the bird flu, alcohol, sleeping pills, and the Oedipal assault of his son, Max.
