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Thursday, September 13th,
2007
FREE SHOW, just RSVP on Going.com--Use This Link!
Rooftop Films and The Independent
Film Channel present
DARKON
Feature-length
documentary directed
by Luke Meyer & Andrew
Neel
Produced by Tom Davis and
Ethan Palmer
New York Sneak Preview
Travel deep into the woods of Maryland to
the world of Darkon, a parallel universe in which cafe
clerks become armored warriors and stay-at-home dads
lead rebellions against despotic emperors.
Watch
the Amazing Trailer | Official
Website | MySpace
Page
RSVP HERE!
8:30 - Live Music by Jonah
Rapino
9:00 - Movie Begins
11:00-1AM -After Party at Bar
Matchless
Free Show! RSVP
HERE!
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.
Book
Drive at All Automotive Shows:
Donate
your old books to the Automotive library! Details HERE
Presented
in partnership with - IFC.com, Going.com & Automotive
High School.
Darkon (Luke Meyer and Andrew Neal | New York/Maryland
| 1:30:00)
Warriors from the realm of Darkon will battle LIVE
on the lawn before the show and the filmmakers will
be present for the screening and a Q and A after the
film.
Come out to the lawn of Automotive High School to see
a New York Sneak Preview of this extraordinary new documentary
before it begins its New York theatrical engagement at
Cinema Village and its broadcast premiere on IFC in October.
DARKON is a feature documentary that follows
the real-life adventures of an unusual group of weekend "warrior
knights," fantasy role-playing gamers whose live
action "battleground" is modern-day Baltimore,
Maryland, re-imagined as a make-believe medieval world
named Darkon. These live action gamers combine the
physical drama of historical re-enactments with character-driven
storylines inspired in part by such perennial favorite
fantasy epics like the legends of King Arthur, Lord
of the Rings, and the saga of Conan the Barbarian.
As role players, they create alter-egos with rich emotional,
psychological, and social lives. They costume themselves
and physically act out their characters exploits both
in intimate court intrigue and campouts and in panoramic
battle scenarios involving competitive strategies,
convincingly real props, and full contact "combat." Because
real life so often gets in the way, its easy to understand
these players motivations. Everybody wants to be a
hero.
Darkon is truly one of the most entertaining documentaries
that Rooftop Films has ever screened (watch the trailer
here and you will get some sense of how much fun it
is). But Darkon is also a genuinely thoughtful and
accomplished film produced by a crew of talented young
filmmakers.
So go to this page on Going.com, and RSVP to get in
free!
 
If you miss the film at the Rooftop show (or
if you are
dying
to
see
it
again)
you can
check
out the New
York Premiere:
Friday September 14th, 2007 (Two Weeks Only)
Cinema Village
22 East 12th Street
New York, NY 10003
Music: Jonah
Rapino
Before the film, composer Jonah Rapino will
perform music from the Darkon soundtrack live as Darkon
warriors battle each other live on the lawn. Listen
to clips from the score on his MySpace page
or on CD
Baby
Book
Drive for Automotive High School
As part of
the their ongoing efforts to improve the educational
environment for their students, this year Automotive
High School is making efforts to substantially expand
their library. Of course, the most important thing
in
the library is the books, so if you want to help out
a public high school that is chronically short of funding, drop
off your old books at any Rooftop show at Automotive
High and they will be added
to the library's collection. Pretty much any and every
book is useful, but remember that these are high
school students, so your graduate school text
books might not be that useful to them! But novels,
age-appropriate
textbooks, non-fiction and historical books and just
about everything else is very useful and will be much
appreciated.
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