8:00 - Live Music by The 303s
8:30 - Live Music by Brand New Willie Mae Rock Camp Bands!
9:00 - The films.
TRT: 1:34:00
On the lawn at Open Road Park | DIRECTIONS
E. 12th Street between 1st Avenue & Avenue A
In the event of rain, the show is under cover at the same location. We have tents, but bring an umbrella if the skies are threatening.
Rebel Girls
Two dynamic New York City arts organizations, Rooftop Films and the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls, are teaming up to host an outdoor concert and film screening highlighting the work of up and coming women filmmakers and musicians. The music is by brand new bands, comprising pre-teen and teenage girls, fresh out of Rock Camp. These girls really rock, and their enthusiasm and talent is something to behold.
The films are a fun and diverse blend of films about being a girl who bucks the system. The program was co-curated by Rooftop Films and the girls of the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls in an innovative collaboration.
THE FILMS: Willie Mae Rock Camp 2006 Highlights
(Shirley Braha | New York, NY | 3:00)
The Smudge (Lower Eastside Girls Club | New York, NY | 2:00)
Chaos in chemistry class in this adorable animation.
Heavy Pockets (Sarah Cox | Bristol, England | 5:00)
A dazzling mix of live action and animation about a girl who is plagued by the ability to fly.
Zezils World (Catherine Asmussen | Copenhagen, Denmark | 35:27)
Zezil is a 15-year-old Danish girl. At her school in Copenhagen, she is the only indigenous Danish student. "In a way you could say that I'm the foreigner in the school." She is inseparable from her Arab friends Tanja and Mia; in class, in the gym, at the fun fair, or while surfing dating sites on the Internet. But when she actually has an Internet date, problems arise between Zezil and her two friends. With occasionally rapid edits and words that are set to music like rap lyrics, the film offers a glimpse into Zezil's multicultural world.
The Love Train (Eva Bennett | Bristol, England | 8:00)
A lonely dragon takes a journey to find love. But can the perfect mate be found for such a hot blooded woman? Told using 2D hand-drawn animation, and set in a mythical, Northern snowy landscape in the age of steam.
Daikon Ashi (Ru Kuwahata | Sunnyside, NY | 1:30) Daikon Ashi is a Japanese term that means legs that look like white radish. The main character starts off poking fun at her mother's daikon ashi. Before long, this character realizes that she too is going to grow up and look exactly like her mother, daikon ashi and all.
Natasha (Jen Ashlock | Chapel Hill, NC | 13:00)
Julia, Andrea, and Anne are Natasha, an all-female band in high school. Borrowing instruments from their school, writing their own songs, and distributing their music dubbed over cheap cassette tapes from thrift stores, this DIY band became a hit act in the town of Durham, North Carolina. While completing their junior and senior years, the gals in the band publicly negotiate feminism, sexuality, and what being a "girl band" really means, eventually going on to open for nationally known punk band, the Butchies.
Little Spirits (Cecilia Condit | Milwaukee, WI | 8:30)
In Little Spirits, two little girls explore beyond Grandmother's limits, coming face to face with their own emerging animal natures.
Sleep With the Fishes (Belle Miller | East Sussex, England | 4:27)
A flotilla of intricately imagined vessels glide across a bright blue sea, struggling to stay afloat. Pen and ink animation paints an absurd tragedy set to the melancholic sounds of the Tiger Lillies.
Dont Fuck With Love (Rachel McIntosh | Brooklyn, NY | 2:40)
A cautionary tale in three fantastical dimensions, Two star-crossed lovers flirt their way through a magical and luscious 1920s paper pop-up New York City.
Spooky Doll Kids in: "What's Eating Brownie?"
(Roseline Lau | Perth, Australia | 6:45)
A quirky, dark, yet amazingly cute stop-motion animation about three friends, Brownie the gingerbread girl, Taboo the Voodoo doll, and Scribble the Paperkid cut-out, as they run about in the nooks and cranny of a house to try and find out, what's been eating Brownie.
Where Paper will Touch the Skin
(Claire Fowler | Bristol, England | 1:00)
A paper dress, as fragile and transient as the skin it touches. The title is taken from the sewing instructions that informed the making of the dress.
Suckerfish (Lisa Jackson | Vancouver, BC | 8:00)
When she was ten, Lisa Jackson fled Toronto to live with relatives in Vancouver to escape her mother's depression, alcoholism and prescription drug abuse—legacies of the residential school experience. Now, sifting through her memories and her mother's letters, she constructs a portrait of a mother whose drive to love her daughter triumphed over her demons of addiction. Animation, childhood photographs and stylized recreations add the young child's whimsical voice to this moving, at times humorous, look at the director's relationship to her mother and native identity.
THE MUSIC: 8:00 PM - The 303s: Electronics, rock, ephemera, and mood make this ingenious band a compelling combination
of transformers evoking surreal emotional traversing. One of the founders of Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls, Ingrid
Dahl, leads the band's reverb-eclectic sounds. The 303s' music and live performances overflow with powerful yet
sweet aural dialogues that can't hide the band's attraction to anger, love, inquiry, and death. Each song is a discovery,
as though music has become their only means of communicating. Their debut album, Lines of Parallel Minds, amplifies
the interchanging structure, quixotic beats, and strategic layers of diverse sounds.
8:30 PM - Brand new all-girl rock bands fresh from the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls. Not to be missed! Ever
hear of Petrified Toenails? What about Zolivedget? How about the Red Rockers or Phonetik Soul? You're about
to. These are just three of the bands that have formed this week at Rock Camp for Girls. And now at Rooftop Films,
you'll get a chance to hear them play live! These young girls will perform their original songs and know no fear (well,
maybe a little, for the older ones) for you and other adoring, supportive adults!
THE SNACKS:
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