Saturday, August 28, 2010
August 28: Warm Up with Big Freedia, DJ Rusty Lazer, DJ Rashad, GHE20 GOTHIK DJs Venus X and Brenmar and Traxx
Saturday, August 28, 2010
2:00 PM to 9:00 PM
August 28th
Big Freedia / New Orleans Sissy Bounce, New Orleans (live)
DJ Rusty
Lazer / New
Orleans (DJ set)
DJ Rashad
/ Juke Trax/Movel Trax/Ghettophiles, Chicago (DJ set)
GHE20
GOTHIK DJs Venus X and Brenmar / Brooklyn, New York (DJ set)
Traxx (DJ set, Nation Records, Chicago)
August 28: GNY: Cinema, Screening and conversation with Ronald Bronstein
Saturday, August 28, 2010
3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Description:
Frownland Ronald Bronstein, 2007 (35mm, 106 mins)
Shot on 16mm with a miniscule budget over a span of two years, Ronald Bronstein’s arrestingly bleak Frownland focuses on one Keith Sontag, a stuttering, balding outer-borough schlub (played with uncomfortable veracity by Dore Mann) who scrapes together a life hawking coupon packages door-to-door for a shady organization claiming to be a multiple sclerosis charity. Chronically inarticulate, constantly shifting his weight from side to side, Sontag is a sweating mass of post-traumatic social ineptitude, repeatedly rejected by even those few individuals closest to him, like his abusive hipster roommate, Charles (Paul Grimstad), and his equally neurotic acquaintance Laura (Mary Wall). Filmed with grimy myopia in a stained palette of dark yellowish-browns, Frownland shuffles Sontag through his internal labyrinth of pain with a glowering anti-humanism on par with David Lynch’s Eraserhead or Daniel Clowes’s Eightball. There is little redemption in Bronstein’s universe, save for the astonishing existence of Frownland itself, a brilliant character study whose unforgiving commitment to this noisome emotional stew is nothing less than a miracle in an age dominated by starry-eyed independent entertainments.
Screening followed by a conversation with Bronstein and Amy Taubin.
August 28: "Body & Pole" Performance Series
Saturday, August 28, 2010
2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
In conjunction with the MoMA/MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program installation Pole Dance, designed by the architectural firm Solid Objectives - Idenburg Liu (SO - IL), a series of performances created by choreographer Kyra Johannesen will take place in the MoMA PS1 courtyard August 28 at 2:30 p.m. The performance series, Body & Pole, will further expand the interactive qualities presented in the architectural installation Pole Dance.