Month: June 2014

Tuesday, July 15th at 8pm
BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St., Asheville

Home is a Memory: Films by Lisa Danker and Georg Koszulinski

Que Se Acuerdes De Mi /Please Remember Me  (2011, 19 min)
Dir. Lisa Danker
This personal documentary is about Javier Navarrete, arrested in Cuba as a political prisoner in 1962 and who remained in prison for 18 years, told by his granddaughter, the filmmaker. Javier’s letters from prison to his exiled family in Miami are read over contemplative, carefully composed images of present-day Miami. Interviews with family members explore the hardships of exile in Miami; recreations of old photographs raise questions about the impact of permanent uprooting and of Javier’s extended absence from the family.

Last Stop, Flamingo (2014, 55 min)
Dir. Georg Koszulinski
The third installment of Georg Koszulinski’s Florida trilogy, Last Stop, Flamingo explores early visions of Florida, from the early 20th-century Koreshan utopian community, founded by Cyrus Teed in the swamplands of Florida, to the world’s largest planned subdivision—Golden Gate Estates—which projected a population of over 400,000 residents. Imagined landscapes give way to mythological creatures, from the Florida Skunk Ape to the mermaids who perform daily at Weeki Wachi Springs. Exactly 500 years after Ponce de Leon’s European discovery of Florida, Last Stop, Flamingo reflects on the many ways in which Florida’s landscapes have been irreversibly shaped by human desires.  This documentary was awarded the Best Documentary Feature prize at the U.S. Super 8 Film & Digital Video Festival.

Tuesday, June 10th

Doors 8:30PM | Films 9PM

Toy Boat Community Art Space

101 Fairview Rd., Asheville, NC 28803

$5 suggested donation

Experimental animators Kelly Gallagher, Lauren Cook, and Charlotte Taylor take to the road with their handcrafted films, bringing their award winning works across the east coast summer 2014. The lineup features short experimental animation on 16mm & video, and includes no less that TWO films in 3D!

Lauren Cook’s Films:

PXXXL (3 min/35mm/video) – Using century-old technology, PXXXL creates digital glitch from analogue process. It was animated directly on the celluloid without a camera in a darkroom using lights, objects, and handmade lenses shown in Rainbow Depth 3D.

Altitude Zero (5 min/16mm) – A feminist palimpsest of cinematic representation.

Handmade (3 min/35mm) – In stark contrast to video, Handmade, focuses on the grain of the celluloid and the organic nature of emulsion. It was created by contact printing images with a flashlight in a darkroom without the use of a camera, labs, digital editing, or any type of sound equipment.

Kelly Gallagher’s Films:

The Herstory of the Female Filmmaker (14min/video) – An eccentric, animated documentary on the “herstory” about some of motion picture’s greatest (and often overlooked) contributors.

Pen Up the Pigs (12 min/video) – A handcrafted, collage animation that explores connections between slavery and present-day institutionalized racism and mass incarceration.

Charlotte Taylor’s Films:

The Edge of Summer (4 min/16mm) – A stereoscopic, silhouette animation about a girl who falls in love with the sun. Shot on a handmade animation stand, using a custom designed 3D optical system.

Secrets (3min/16mm) – Shadows and photograms hand-processed and contact printed with found optical sound.

Leaf (3 min/16mm) – A leaf is place on a glass plate… found footage and direct animation.

Aurora and the Sea (1min/video) – The animated story of a girl and her journey to the sea.