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Kinetic Cinema presents:
The Ballerina and the Bum

a screening and discussion of the work of Eleanor Antin

Wednesday, May 8th 8pm @ Spectacle $5

I first saw Eleanor Antin’s ballerina persona on video at ICA Philadelphia’s Dance With Camera exhibition in 2009, and was captivated by the story behind her work. Antin herself had never studied ballet before but took lessons to embody a ballerina persona for a series of videos she made over many years. “Fake it till you make it,” is the ethos of the character and the process of making the work. “The Ballerina and the Bum”, made in 1974, is Antin’s first ballerina video. Like the character on screen, Antin herself was heading into the unknown with the role, discovering her quirks, her ambitions, and her motivations. Simultaneously video was a new medium at the time, and she wanted to explore its form, but also tell a compelling story. Thus, Antin’s videos are like intimate diaries, or documentaries of her various personas.

Later Antin would develop her ballerina persona into “Eleanora Antinova” the so-called black ballerina of Diaghalev’s Ballet Russes. This older, more refined character spawned a series of short films in the style of silent film that were compiled into “From the Archives of Modern Art.” Through all of these personas Antin delivers sharp and witty commentaries about the state of women in art, aging, breaking into a fiercely competitive field, and retaining one’s artistic integrity. Despite being almost 40 years old, “The Ballerina and the Bum” has the look and feel of an epic online video made today. Even the bum looks like a guy you know from Bushwick. The only difference between then and now is that the Ballerina would be trying to break onto the set of “So You Think You Can Dance”, and the bum would be a musician (or standup comedian).

At Kinetic Cinema we will be showing Antin’s “The Ballerina and the Bum”,  short excerpts from some of Antin’s other ballerina films, and a short by Rajendra Serber from the online film series “Dances Made to Order.”

Spectacle
124 South 3rd Street, between Bedford Avenue and Berry Street
Brooklyn, New York

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Pentacle’s Movement Media Project programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
KINETIC CINEMA is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Additional funding is provided by the generous contributions of individuals to Pentacle’s Movement Media Project.

In the fall of 2011, at the same time the Occupy movement took over Wall Street (and the world), choreographer, performer and multimedia artist, Adam Weinert, was given access to a building in Manhattan with nine empty apartments. He invited nine artists – musicians, film-makers, choreographers, and visual artists – to occupy each of the spaces and create videos about their experience. No one has seen these videos except for Weinert and the artists. They were intended to be source material for a new piece, but now Adam will show them publicly for the first time at Kinetic Cinema and discuss their significance in his recent work.

Wednesday April 10, 8:00 pm $5

Spectacle
124 South 3rd Street
Brooklyn, New York

L train to Beford
J,M,Z train to Marcy Ave.

Coming up next at Kinetic Cinema, our friend Kat Green will present an evening of films that follow the path of a dance filmmaker turning into a pyromaniac sculptor, and the unlikely ways that those things relate to one another. Starting with the challenges of color, light, and camera movement, Kat Green found herself going down a rabbit hole of cause and effect, leading her to play with the ideas of telling a story through minutia, cadence, and finally making inanimate objects dance.

Kat Green has been working in film, video, and live event production since 1997, and building interactive art since 2006. In that time, she has created documentaries, music videos, short films, web series, and visual art with the goals of finding untold stories, playing with physics, and generally making pretty things to look at.

Kinetic Cinema – The Scientist and the Show Girl

A screening and discussion with Kat Green

Wednesday March 20, 2013 8pm

Spectacle

124 S. 3rd St (near Bedford Ave)

Brooklyn, NY 11211

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At our next Kinetic Cinema, choreographer/director Yanira Castro will share the creative process behind her latest performance work, “The People to Come.” Each performance of the “People to Come” is built upon inspiration and source material contributed by the community. To make the submission process easy and accessible to all, Castro looked at how other artists and entreprenuers have developed similar projects using the crowd-sourcing capabilities of the web. For Kinetic Cinema she will show examples of works that inspired her, submissions she received from the audience community, and how those submissions have become part of the piece. Of particular interest to her is the blurring of lines between artist, performer, and audience that is occuring in this work, and what it means for the art form.

The People to Come will premiere in New York at Invisible Dog Art Center June 25-29, 2013. You can submit material to the project here, and get a sneak peak at the work at Kinetic Cinema on 12/12/12!

KINETIC CINEMA
screening and discussion with Yanira Castro
Dec 12th, 2012 at 8pm

Spectacle Theater
124 South 3rd Street
Brooklyn, New York
L train to Beford
J,M,Z train to Marcy Ave.
http://spectacletheater.com/
Admission: $5

In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, New Yorkers have become painfully aware of how climate change could effect our city and our lives. Australian-based intermedia artist, Suzon Fuks, has been exploring these topics for over a decade, and she will present a screening and workshop at Kinetic Cinema on November 14^th in Williamsburg that offers ways to respond creatively to Hurricane Sandy.

In the evening she will show excerpts of films, videos and recordings that inspired her to create Waterwheel, a collaborative online venue around ideas of water. She will explain how her fascination with water came about and discuss how artists can use her online platform to collaborate and present work with an international community of artists, activists and scientists.

Kinetic Cinema: 2D to Cyberspace & Waterwheel

Spectacle Theater
124 South 3rd Street
Brooklyn, NY
8:00pm
Admission: $5

In the afternoon Suzon will host a workshop at The Brick to introduce Waterwheel’s TAP video-mixing system, and allow participants to share their Sandy stories to a live online audience. Learn more about the TAP and gain the tools to create and host your own performances, presentations, and workshops. Register for the workshop in advance and receive free admission to the screening:

Workshop:

The Brick Theater
579 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
1:00-4:00pm

Admission: $18