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AIPAD Photography Show: Interior Spaces & Worldwide Galleries
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- Published on Thursday, 28 March 2019 15:02
- Written by Brad Balfour
One of New York and America’s biggest exhibitions of photographers and their work, the Photography Show Presented by AIPAD returns to New York's Pier 94 (711 12th Ave.). Running April 4 to the 7th, this is the 39th edition of the show and will feature nearly 100 photography galleries with work including contemporary, modern, and 19th century photographs, photo-based art, video, and new media.
Exhibitors include:
- Alan Klotz Gallery
- Arnika Dawkins Gallery Photographic Fine Art
- Atlas Gallery
- Augusta Edwards Fine Art
- Barry Singer Gallery
- baudoin lebon
- BOCCARA ART
- Bruce Silverstein Gallery
- Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
- Candela Gallery
- Catherine Courturier Gallery
- Catherine Edelman Gallery
- Charles Isaacs Photographs Inc.
- ClampArt
And many more.
The AIPAD Talks segment of the show features lectures and panel discussions that include subjects such as queer photography after Stonewall, art and representation, US/Mexico relations expressed through photography, and a series of discussions with artists. AIPAD will have a special exhibition called A Room For Solace: An Exhibition of Domestic Interiors, presented by Alec Sloth and will feature domestic interiors that speak to the possibility of finding refuge during turbulent times.
To learn more, go to: https://www.aipadshow.com/
The Photography Show Presented by AIPAD
April 4 - 7, 2019
Pier 94
711 12th Ave.
New York, NY 10019
Queens World Film Fest: Voices from Around the World on Film
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 March 2019 03:50
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Diverse and international, the Queens World Film Festival brings a world of perspectives to the Museum of the Moving Image and the historic Kaufman Astoria Studios. Running March 21 to the 31st, the Queens World Film Festival organizes its films into socially relevant blocks. This includes films on how the digital age affects daily live (Livescream), LGBTQ+ youth (Like Glass), diaspora (Faryad), animation (Equinox), and more.
Artistic Director Don Cato states that “We selected 200 incredible films from 31 nations with 16 world premieres and a groundbreaking 79 films by women. We are also screening 14 LGBTQ themed films, 15 films by Asian filmmakers and 11 films by kids for kids - we literally have something for everyone."
To learn more, go to: https://www.queensworldfilmfestival.com/
Queens World Film Festival
March 21 - 31, 2019
Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Avenue
Astoria, NY 11106
Kaufman Astoria Studios - Zukor Screening Room
34-12 36th Street
Astoria, NY, 11106
Hail Satan, What The Fest!? is Back!
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 March 2019 00:25
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Putting a spotlight on the strange, bizarre, and shocking, the What The Fest!? at the IFC Center returns March 20 to the 24th. The opening night film is Larry Fessenden’s Depraved, a modern day re-invention of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The closing night film is Kirill Sokolov’s Why Don’t You Just Die!, and this film of crime, corruption, greed, dysfunctional families, and unrequited love is preceded by stand up from Last Comic Standing’s Harrison Greenbaum.
The Go Straight to Hell sidebar of the fest features the World Premiere Restoration of Ray Laurent’s 1970 documentary Satanis: The Devil's Mass, a look inside the infamous “Black House” in San Francisco, where the Church of Satan was established; a talk by author Grady Hendrix about the heavy metal “Satanic Panic” of the 80s, based on his book We Sold Our Souls and followed by a book signing, and the NY Premiere of Penny Lane’s Sundance hit documentary Hail Satan? with subject Lucien Greaves in-person.
Along with the expected panels is a special discussion entitled FEMALE TROUBLE: FEARLESS WOMEN LEADING THE WAY IN HORROR, FANTASY, AND SUSPENSE, with speakers Meredith Alloway (Film Journalist, Independent Filmmaker), Roxanne Benjamin (Director of Body at Brighton Rock), Emma Tammi (Director of The Wind), and Jenn Wexler (Producer, Depraved).
To learn more, go to: http://www.whatthefestnyc.com/
What The Fest!?
March 20 - 24, 2019
IFC Center
323 6th Ave.
New York, NY 10014
ReelAbilities Film Festival New York Will Take the Mind Where Minds Can't Usually Go
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- Published on Friday, 15 March 2019 22:28
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ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York is dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with different abilities. The 11th installment of the festival will be running April 2 to 9 at venues across NYC.
The festival will open on April 2 with Irene Taylor Brodsky’s film Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements, hot off the heels of it’s premiere at Sundance. The film is a deeply personal portrait of three lives, and the discoveries that lie beyond loss: a deaf boy growing up, his deaf grandfather growing old, and Beethoven the year he was blindsided by deafness and wrote his iconic sonata. The closing night film on April 9th is The Drummer and the Keeper, directed by Nick Kelley. In the film, Gabriel is a drummer in a promising band, desperate to hide his bipolar diagnosis from his exasperated band mates. At a therapeutic mixed-ability soccer game he’s obliged to attend, Gabriel meets Christopher, a teenager with Asperger Syndrome, and the two are forced to “make friends.”
Special events at the festival include a comedy night, workshops, panels, dance performances, puppet films, and more on top of the plethora of films.
To learn more, go to: https://reelabilities.org/newyork/
ReelAbilities Film Festival New York
April 2 - 9, 2019
Various Venues
