10th Anniversary Special Presentation:
Best of New York Non-Fiction - Brooklyn
It's your city—take a look.
***BUY TICKETS***
Friday, July 14th, 2006
8:30 - Live Music by Key (click for details)
9:00 - Showtime
TRT: 1:30:00
On the lawn of Automotive High School | CLICK for DIRECTIONS
50 Bedford Ave, between N. 12th and Lorimer, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
In the event of rain the show is indoors at the same location.
New York Non-Fiction
THE FILMS: Billy and the Birds (Jennifer Rupnik | Bushwick, Brooklyn | 3:00)
Billy, a life-long birder, explains the differences between his pigeons and the flying "park rats" one sees on the street.
Under the Roller Coaster
(Lila Place | Coney Island, Brooklyn | 15:00)
There are places in New York that are magic to millions, and there are obscure niches that only a New Yorker could call home. Mae Timpano inhabited both simultaneously, living within the belly of an icon, the Coney Island Thunderbolt Roller Coaster. This stirring story mixes myth, history and charming personal anecdotes.
Barbara Leather (Seth Lind | East Village, Manhattan | 10:00)
While making a pair of leather sandals in her cluttered East Village shop, pioneer NYC craftswoman Barbara Shaum muses on her craft, her gender-barrier-breaking sip of ale, and her pickiest client ever—Chiki the llama.
Eggs and Hamburgers
(Diana Logriera | Greenpoint, Brooklyn | 5:00)
Not long ago, Williamsburg and Greenpoint were dominated by small manufacturers, and supported by dozens of family-run businesses. At least one such business, the luncheonette at the corner of Nassau Ave and N. Henry Street, is still run by the family that founded it. Of course, there's a down side of the "good old" days—the 6am to 10pm shift, 7 days a week, slinging the same meals year after year.
This Morning (Lucy Molloy | East Village, Manhattan | 10:00)
"Watch me. You break my toy, I'll ruin your friendship." In this startlingly raw and intimate documentary, a pre-teen boy goes steadily berserk while his family makes awkward, feeble and bored attempts to appease and control him. Vindictive as he is, one has to sense the bitter melancholy in the boy's behavior, and wonder about his future.
Bike Kill (Nick Golebiewski | Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn | 3:00)
Every Halloween, in the heart of Brooklyn, the Black Label Bicycle Club hosts a lawless, wild party, celebrating the madness of riding two wheels in the streets of New York.
Messenger (Daniel Leeb | all over New York City | 16:00)
A gritty and graceful portrait of one of NYC's fastest and freshest, Alfred Bobe Jr. Featuring interviews while cruising through traffic, this documentary is as daring as the rider himself.
Bump, Tick, Scratch (Micah Perta | New York, NY | 2:15)
This short documentary explores the musical side project of John Pough—drummer from famed New York underground dance/punk band !!! (chk, chk, chk). John takes old records and uses razor blades and scissors to cut, scratch and wreck them with mathematical precision, creating textures on the vinyl. Played through retrofitted record players, he creates dirty, gritty, low-fi rhythms wholly different from the original.
The Boys Are Back in Town
(Moira Tierny | Harlem, Manhattan | 1:32)
On Dec. 15, 1979, in the McMillin Theater, be-bop percussionist Max Roach played a now legendary set with free-jazz pianist Cecil Taylor. In June, 2004, the two met up again in the same neighborhood, and Moira Tierny's slice from the crowd reveals the frantic power and energy of the duo.
The Naked Cowboy
(Matthew Pond | Times Square, Manhattan | 7:10)
"I'm the epitome of success in the absence of talent." So says the so-called
Naked Cowboy, a guy who, after 49 arrests in 49 States, finally found fame,
a calling and a place at the table right in the middle of Times Square.
THE MUSIC: KEY is the lead singer from JOHNNY FAVORITZ. He plays and screams in NY subway late at night. If you see him on the platform, Drop him a smile!
