LIVING STARS

  • 2016 Rooftop Films FREE Lineup Incl. GIRL ASLEEP, THE FITS, SONITA

    [caption id="attachment_13852" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]Girl Asleep Girl Asleep[/caption] Rooftop Films will show over 30 FREE outdoor screenings, many of which are new, independent films that will screen as part of the 20th Annual Summer Series. Highlights include a sneak preview of Anna Rose Holmer’s Sundance Film Festival hit and Rooftop Films/Brigade Marketing Grantee THE FITS, a danceathon screening of Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat’s Living Stars, a special silent screening of Patrick Shen’s In Pursuit of Silence, during which the audience will listen to the film on headphones, and a Cinema Ramble at Storm King Art Center with multiple screens set up across the park. 2016  ROOFTOP FILMS FREE SUMMER PROGRAM: Rooftop Films and lululemon athletica Various Locations May 31 Elevated Acre, Financial District, Manhattan THE FITS (Anna Rose Holmer) A tomboy’s desire for a dance team’s acceptance warps when its members fall prey to mysterious spasms. Presented in Partnership with: Oscilloscope Laboratories. In theaters June 3rd. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNZc3Vr1Oy4 June 25 Solar One, Kips Bay, Manhattan LIVING STARS (Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat) Free screening. Free Dance Party! No script, no plot, just music and gyrating bodies. Living Stars is a sixty-minute dance party and everyone’s invited! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhEP_bVDD0k July 30 Waterfront Plaza at Brookfield Place, Financial District, Manhattan IN PURSUIT OF SILENCE (Patrick Shen) A meditative exploration of our relationship with silence, sound, and the impact of noise on our lives. August 13 Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY CINEMA RAMBLE AT STORM KING ART CENTER A special night of short films sited among the sculptures and meadows of the Storm King Art Center. Rooftop Films and The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership All Screenings take place at Metrotech Commons, Downtown Brooklyn June 10 SUNDANCE SHORT FILMS Highlights from Sundance 2016 include these wild, weird and wonderful short films. June 15 TIES THAT BIND: SHORT FILMS ABOUT FAMILIES Family, for better and for worse: the protagonists of these films are the people we wish our family would be and sometimes are. June 24 DANGEROUS DOCS: SHORT DOCUMENTARIES Thrilling and unsettling and frighteningly true. Rooftop Films and Roosevelt Island All Screenings take place at Firefighters’ Field, Roosevelt Island, Manhattan June 11 TERRITORY: SHORT FILMS ABOUT TURF WARS Stories of the (sometimes) shared (sometimes) human space. Rooftop Films and the River to River Festival All Screenings take place at Liberty Plaza, Manhattan June 22 RIVER TO RIVER PRESENTS: OLGA BELL’S KRAI Olga Bell’s Krai is an audio‐visual performance concerned with the rest of the map: the wilderness, the towns, the inhabitants and their stories. Presented by: The River to River Festival Rooftop Films and Arts Brookfield All Screenings take place at Waterfront Plaza at Brookfield Place, Financial District, Manhattan July 28 ANIMATION BLOCK PARTY Experience some of the year’s best animated short films at the incomparable Animation Block Party! July 30 IN PURSUIT OF SILENCE (Patrick Shen) A meditative exploration of our relationship with silence, sound, and the impact of noise on our lives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64c_1MtQUlM Rooftop Films and Outdoor Cinema at Socrates Sculpture Park All Screenings take place at Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, Queens July 20 SONITA (Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami) 18-year-old rapper Sonita looks for a better life outside Iran in this complex and layered doc. Presented in partnership with Women Make Movies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B47MbpPuz7A August 3 GIRL ASLEEP (Rosemary Meyers) Greta’s bubble of obscure loserdom is burst when her parents throw a surprise 15th birthday party with her whole school! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meN61FD9Wak Presented in partnership with Oscilloscope Laboratories Rooftop Films and Coney Island Flicks on the Beach All Screenings take place Mondays on the beach at West 10th Street. Dates TBA JURASSIC WORLD (Colin Trevorrow) STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (J.J. Abrams) INSIDE OUT (Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen) AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (Joss Whedon) LABYRINTH (Jim Henson) CREED (Ryan Coogler)

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