Saturday, June 25th, 2005
8:30 - Live music by Gerard
9:00 - The Films
AFTER PARTY: Jelly at Southpaw (125 5th Ave., Brooklyn)
Live music by 33hz, rock DJs
Bring your Rooftop program and get free t-shirts and jell-o shots
On the roof of The Old American Can Factory
232 Third Street, Gowanus/Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Dress warmly (it's cooler on the roof than in the streets).
In the event of rain the show is indoors at the same location.
RURAL ROUTE FILMS: Tall tales, fast cars, slow food and slow talkers
THE FILMS:
Ed Goes Home (Jason Halperin / Milwaukee, WI / 3:00)
Westless American (Erik Nelson / New York, NY / 5:05)
An exhilarating document of one nature nut«s manic shirtless sprint through all the great national parks of North America.
Sobre La Tierra (Maria Florencia Alvarez / New York, NY / 8:00) Sobre La Tierra traces the path of two boys crossing the Puna Jujena, a desert in northwest Argentina. Each carrying a bag, the boys enter an abandoned house from two different roads and collapse from exhaustion. The next morning they meet, and to their surprise the two bags have become one. The gritty nature of their argument is reflected in the texture of the Super 8 cinematography. Winner of Best Short at Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival and First Mention at the Milan Film Festival.
This is Our Slaughterhouse (Matthew Boerman / New York, NY / 23:00)
A family-made documentary about a family-run poultry processing plant, this heartening film shows the way meat food should be slaughtered. It also instructs you on the quickest way to chop off your own finger.
A Season on the Move (Cindy Stillwell / New York, NY / 13:00)
A meditation on two agricultural traditions and the seasons in which they occur, A Season on the Move gives us an up close look at wheat cutting and sheep shearing in the North Central United States. Juxtaposing beautiful color and rich black and white photography, and alternating the sounds of combines, weather forecasts, shearing combs, and sheep voices, the film creates a portrait of these distinct agricultural lifestyles. The cycle of seasons takes us from the wheat harvest of late summer to the shearing season in early spring. Filmmaker Cindy Stillwell teaches at Montana State in Bozeman, where she has also been producing and shooting local TV ads. Sound designer Jeff Arnsten is a Bozeman musician who has done work for NPR, films, and commercials.
The Bear Hunter (Mary Robertson / TK / 12:00)
4-Cylinder 400 (Garret Savage, Bray Harlo & John Finn / New York, NY / 24:00)
The most popular spectator sport in America isn't baseball or football or basketball. It's car racing. And that's sure in evidence in upstate New York when a family builds a dirt track around their barn and holds a race every year where the only rules are that cars have to have a 4-cylinder engine (i.e. small) and cost under $300. The race begins at noon; the drinking begins at 8 AM.
Painter of the Land (Joel Fendelman / Brooklyn, NY / 8:00)
The Tale of the Goat (Max Cohen / Saratoga Springs, NY / 5:38)
