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September 05, 2006
Two For Tuesday: 59 Seconds Video Festival and Illegal Cinema
The big-hearted calendar crawlers at Blank Screen tip readers to a million and one NYC film events over the next few nights, but a couple in particular snagged my interest. First up, in, oh, about three-and-a-half hours at the Pioneer Theater, the 59-Second Video Festival kicks off with--wait for it--a program comprising 59 films by 59 international filmmakers, lasting 59 seconds each and screening around the world as a collection 59 times. The creators can explain it better; check out their Web site and let me know if/where I went wrong, and make the trip to the East Village for a little hometown crowd support.
Meanwhile, Brooklynites not feeling the commute love might consider Galapagos' Para-Cinema series, which unspools an "Illegal Cinema" program tonight promising "a very special super-secret screening of lost classic film that features a prominent director's version of the life of a 70s pop star with an eating disorder. Yeah, that one." As Louis Armstrong said: If you have to ask, you will never know. But if you do not have to ask... wow. Tough call tonight. Flip a coin, I guess.
Posted by stvanairsdale at September 5, 2006 03:08 PM
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