8/14 - HOME MOVIES (SHORT FILMS) - TRAILER

ROOFTOP FILMS and VERIZON FIOS present 

Short films and video about moments in time, capturing and imagining what it felt like to be there. 

OPEN BAR AFTER PARTY FOLLOWING THE SCREENING FOR ALL IN ATTENDANCE

   

Venue: On the lawn of Automotive High School Address: 50 Bedford Ave. @ North 13th St. (Williamsburg, Brooklyn) 

Directions: L to Bedford Ave. or G to Nassau Ave. 

Rain: In the event of rain the show will be held indoors at the same location 

8:00PM: Doors open 

8:30PM: Live music presented by Sound Fix Records 

9:00PM: Films 

10:30PM: Filmmaker Q & A 

11:30PM-1:00AM: After-party: Open Bar at Matchless (557 Manhattan Ave. @ Driggs) Courtesy of Radeberger Pilsner

Tickets: $9 at the door or online

Presented in partnership with: Cinereach, New York magazine, City Council Member David Yassky & Automotive High School

Every year Rooftop hosts a program of Home Movies--discovering the forgotten, unmediated moments of people's lives, unfiltered and as they live them. The films reveal textures, patterns, feelings that might go unnoticed, fleeting incidents that would otherwise pass without thought, but when captured on film or video provide an insight into the lives captured, or those recording.

This year's program includes a wide range of techniques and storytelling strategies, displaying the varied forms that biographical documentary (and pseudo-documentary) can take. Filmmakers parse through mysteriously painful childhood memories (Bloomfield or a Childhood Memory; My Rabbit Hoppy); trace their family history (Ten for Grandpa); work through their issues relating to failed romances and short-lived affairs (Men With Girlfriends Later; I Slept With a Cookie Monster); and capture the fleeting impact of politics on the moments of their lives (Hotel Diaries). The details change and the narrative devices are diverse, but the goal of each film remains the same: to express through film or video what happened in that moment, what it meant to the filmmaker, what it felt like to be there.

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