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Trapped Inside the Machine
Self-fulfilling prophecies and inescapable stories.
Beautiful, funny and weird short films about falling
toward your fate.
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FRI., JUNE 29, 2007
8:30 - Live Music by A
Three Ring Circus (details)
9:00 - Movies Begin
11-1AM -After Party: Open Bar at Bar
Matchless
(557 Manhattan Avenue @ Driggs)
Courtesy of Dewar's Scotch Whisky and Martin Miller's
Gin
On the lawn of Automotive High School
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for DIRECTIONS
50 Bedford Ave, between N. 12th and Lorimer, Williamsburg,
Brooklyn
In the event of rain the show is indoors at the same
location.
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Drive at All Automotive Shows:
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bar at Bar
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in partnership with - IFC.com, New York magazine, MNN
& Automotive High School.
Trapped Inside the Machine
You wake up in the morning -- the same empty room, the
same dull coffeemaker, the same boring outfit day after
day. But you've got a growing sense that there's more
to life than this monotony. There's a glow piercing
the walls of sameness (Startle Pattern; Haysha Royko),
a sting on your neck where a hideous new tattoo has
appeared (Bobby Bird), and an ache inside of you that
screams out, "I am an intergalactic superhero!" (Code
7).
You want to tear off these shabby clothes (t.o.m.),
smash false idols and hoard precious jewels (Rabbit),
return to your rapidly fading future (La Ruta Natural).
Come with us in this stunning short film program as
we flea our fate, escape the crush of the machine, and
enter worlds where hand puppets rule the hands that
don them (Puppet), where the clouds are filled with
sheep (Niebla) and where the Tooth Fairy is more than
a myth (The Truth About Tooth). Like a ball of jagged
metal and broken glass hurtling down a desert highway
(Bobby Bird), there's no escaping your fate. But these
wonderful and wicked films will make the trip worth
the while.
THE FILMS:
Code 7 (Nacho Vigalondo | Spain | 10:00)
An epic trilogy of starship battles and crumbling realities,
set in a kitchen in Madrid. The ultimate adaptation
of Philip K. Dick's works, from the Oscar-nominated
(and Rooftop veteran) director Nacho Vigalondo.
Startle Pattern (Eric Patrick | Greensboro,
NC | 12:47)
Funded in part by the Rooftop Filmmakers' Fund. An interior
space of a puppet becomes increasingly reflective, revealing
the artifice of his own creation, and leaving his form
tattered and decayed.
Haysha Royko (Miranda July | Portland, OR |
4:00)
In Haysha Royko, three people sit nonchalantly in airport
chairs, while their different-colored auras, or something
much like auras, shape shift, overlap, and compete.
Through These Trackless Waters
(Elizabeth Henry | New York, NY 12:20)
Courtesy of MNN and
Eye Am: Women
Behind the Lens
The ecology
of the planet connects with the ecology of our minds.
In the waking dream, all is juxtaposed and, as Kuleshov
discovered, all is related.
Puppet (Patrick Smith | New York, NY | 7:00)
A young man fabricates a simple sock puppet, not knowing
the abuse the entity will soon inflict upon it’s creator.
Through an escalating series of torture, the possessed
puppet takes on the embodiment of fear, chaos, and willful
self-destruction.
t.o.m. (Tom Brown & Daniel Gray | United Kingdom
| 3:00)
Winner of the Honorable Mention at the 2007 Sundance
Film Festival. The animated journey of a young boy with
an affinity for a little extra exposure.
Bobby Bird: The Devil in Denim
(Carson D. Mell | Pasadena, CA | 7:00)
Aging rock musician Bobby Bird explains the origins
of his many tattoos, with the aid of animated flashbacks.
Tales of Mere Existence II: Things I Have Worried
About
(Lev | San Francisco, CA | 2:20)
Neo-neurotic animator Lev returns to Rooftop to tell
us his fears, from childhood till the present.
Niebla (Fog) (Emilio Ramos | Spain | 7:30)
Led by the words of an old man, we will witness the
extraordinary, magical event that changed the life of
a village forgotten amid the fog.
Rabbit (Run Wrake | London | 8:30)
When a boy and a girl find an idol in the stomach of
a rabbit, its magical abilities lead to riches, but
for how long?
The Truth About Tooth (Hazel Baillie | Scotland
| 10:00)
A true insight into the meticulous world of the Tooth
Fairy, exploring the importance of myth and lies in
escaping the tedium of everyday life.
La Ruta Natural (Alex Pastor | Spain | 11:30)
David wakes up after an accident to find himself lost.
His home, his supposed wife... everything is unknown
to him. Maybe the answers he needs lie in the past.
The
Touch (Vanessa Woods | New York, NY | 2:50)
Courtesy of MNN and
Eye Am: Women
Behind the Lens
A visual interpretation
of Anne Sexton’s fateful poem of the same name. "And
all this is metaphor. / An ordinary hand -- just lonely
/ for something to touch / that touches back."
Check
out great films on Eye
Am: Women Behind the Lens
on
MNN in Manhattan
First
Sunday of every month
9:30-10:30
PM
Time
Warner channel 34
RCN channel
82
Online
live at MNN.org
Music:
A
Three Ring Circus
Ross Lipton
sounds like ten one-armed men playing the same piano.
William Spritzler sings in a broken warbly voice about
broken warbly things. With standup bass, keys, drums,
and violin, A Three Ring Circus is the modern music
equivalent of an olde time sideshow.
Book
Drive for Automotive High School
As part of
the their ongoing efforts to improve the educational
environment for their students, this year Automotive
High School is making efforts to substantially expand
their library. Of course, the most important thing in
the library is the books, so if you want to help out
a public high school that is chronically short of funding,
drop off your old books at any Rooftop show
at Automotive High and they will be added to
the library's collection. Pretty much any and every
book is useful, but remember that these are high
school students, so your graduate school text books
might not be that useful to them! But novels, age-appropriate
textbooks, non-fiction and historical books and just
about everything else is very useful and would be much
appreciated.
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