Good Morning Frameworks! The yearlong experimental film series, THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT, happening at Maysles Documentary Center, comes to a close this month with the final screening from The Futurism Is Ours section and the final showcase at the end of the month. We hope to see you at one of these screenings and invite you to stay after for the filmmaker Q&A or roundtable discussion happening after each program.
*Wednesday, February 5th | 7:30pm * *The Futurism Is Ours: The New Negress Film Society* Afronauts (Nuotama Bodomo, 2014, 14 min.) Pain Revisited (Dyani Douze and Nontsikelelo Mutiti, 2015, 14 min.) Fucked Like a Star (Stefani Saintonge, 2018, 8 min.) Ecstatic Experience (Ja'Tovia Gary, 2015, 6min.) NNFS is a core collective of black women filmmakers whose priority is to create community and spaces for support, exhibition and consciousness-raising. The group is formed by Chanelle Aponte Pearson, Nuotama Bodomo, Dyani Douze, Ja'Tovia Gary, Stefani Saintonge and Yvonne Michelle Shirley. *Post-screening discussion with members of the New Negress Film Society (NNFS)* *Thursday, February 27th | 7:30pm* *getting at //... the very idea of how images are - made-* Country Ball 1989-2012 (Jacolby Satterwhite, 2012, 12:38) Chronicle from a Lying Spirit (BY KELLY GABRON) (Cauleen Smith, 1992, 6 min.) Pictures from Dorothy (Kevin Jerome Everson, 2003, 5:30 min.) Strategies for the development of/ redefining the purpose served/ Art in the age of... A.K.A. the Making of the Towering Inferno (Lawrence Andrews, 1989, 23 min.) The American Experiment Final Showcase (Feb 27–29, 2020) reflects on and synthesizes themes we’ve explored over the past year of experimental programming. The filmmakers featured in the Final Showcase challenge and expand genre, ethnography-making, imagined futures, and internet-era moving images. This shorts program showcases the multitudes of and natural overlaps between cultural production, alternative art spaces, and black experiences. *Followed by a roundtable discussion* *Friday, February 28th | 7:30pm* *The Complete Works of Ed Owens* Private Imaginings & Narrative Facts (Ed Owens, 1966, 6 min.) Remembrance a Portrait Study (Ed Owens, 1967, 6 min.) Tomorrows Promise (Ed Owens, 1967, 44 min.) Autre Fois Ji'ai Une Femme (Ed Owens, 1966, 22 min.) The four masterpiece works created by experimental filmmaker Ed Owens in 1960's Chicago & New York are shown together on one of the first occasions since their restoration last year. Owens creates delicate dreamscapes using a mesmerizing combination of light, rhythm and portraiture. * Post-screening discussion with Melissa Lyde and Ed Halter * *All programs are happening at * *Maysles Documentary Center * *343 Malcolm X Blvd* *NY, NY 10027* *Tickets are available and at the door for a $12 suggested donation. *
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