Good News
-- visit Youtube for an immediately accessible low-quality transfer -- Part One -- Part Two
premiered May 26th, 2007 at
The Lower East Side Festival of the Arts
Film and Video Festival
at
Theater for the New City
programmed by Joaquin Delapuente
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Joaquim's 12th Annual Lower East Side Arts Festival Film Screening Program -- running from noon to midnight!
noon- "New Science" dir. Gary Brackett (42min., video, 2006) An experimental video document of an experimental proto-Marxist, quasi-situationist theater meditation on the contemporary global war culture. "New Science sets out to recount the overall apocalypse/apotheosis of Any Metropolis, U.S.A., using a flood of visual, sonic and tactile aids to depict this rise and fall." -Jim Feast
12:50pm- "Silent Cries of a Child" dir. Iris Goodwin (7min., video, 2007) A seeming Brooklyn prince charming turns out to be something else entirely.
1pm- "Looking for Mr. America, (Portrait of a Sex Addict)" dir. George Birimisa (42 min., video, 2007) A documentary portrait of a Brooklyn born, abuse survivor, sex addict, acclaimed playwright and champion bodybuilder.
1:45pm- "Money" dir. Henry Hills (15 min., 16mm, 1985) "Money" must be experienced to be believed. It is a hyperkinetic sound and visual monument that packs a huge cast and every art discipline imaginable into a 15 minute montage on the desperate 1985 reality in downtown New York. Starring: John Zorn, Diane Ward, Carmen Vigil, Susie Timmons, Sally Silvers, Ron Silliman, James Sherry, Peter Hall, David Moss, Mark Miller, Christian Marclay, Arto Lindsay, Pooh Kaye, Fred Frith, Alan Davies, Tom Cora, Jack Collom, Yoshiko Chuma, Abigail Child, Charles Bernstein, Derek Bailey, and Bruce Andrews. "Henry Hills's superspliced effort is MONEY, a speedy think-piece on cash and chaos in post-capitalist New York. -- It'll titillate your retina." -- Katherine Dieckmann
2pm- "Tompkins Square Police Riot, Aug. 1988" dir. Clayton Patterson (60 min., video, 1988) Clayton Patterson in person! Coinciding with the release of Clayton Patterson's new book "Resistance, A Radical Political and Social History of the Lower East Side", screening is one of the only existing videos that document the long boiling tensions between people pushed to the edge of poverty and the forces wishing to turn the East Village into the Yuppie playground it has become as they finally exploded in a massive battle in the streets. It's the cops vs. the people of the lower east side when the police attempt to close Tompkins Square Park. The controversial video that has been the focus of a court battle between authorities and its maker. Patterson said, "I want to show the tape to the public so that the People would be the Grand Jury." A basic document in the recent history of urban civil strife in the U.S. "This was a military action on the streets of NYC and you can see that" Sharon Broussard, NY Daily News. -brickhaus.com
3:30pm- "Freie Arbieter Stimme" (Free Voice of Labor, The Jewish Anarchists) dir. Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher (55 min., video, 1980) A documentary revealing some of the participants in the more than a century long tradtion of anarchism in New York. "Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists," made by Pacific Street Films, is a wonderful evocation of the radical political past and what has become of its activists in their old age. It takes it's name from the Yiddish anarchist newspaper, which finally died in 1987 at the age of 87...They speak with humor of demostrations, picket lines, battles of long ago. They speak as Jews, but secular Jews whose visions were of an unbossed universality."-New York Times
4:45pm- "Operation Lysistrata" dir. Micheal Patrick Kelley (81 min,.video, 2006) cast and crew in person! A documentary film about The Lysistrata Project - the first "Worldwide Theatrical Act of Dissent". In January 2003, two women in New York City, Kathryn Blume and Sharron Bower, thought to organize readings of the ancient Greek play by Aristophanes, Lysistrata, as a protest of the imminent preemptive war on Iraq...On March 3, 2003 over 1,000 simultaneous productions of Lysistrata were performed in 59 countries around the globe.With Howard Zinn, F. Murray Abraham and Kevin Bacon!
6:30pm- "Cuba, Island of Music" dir. Gary Keys (80 min., video, 2006) Acclaimed music documentarian Gary Key's travelogue and inquiry on how in "totalitarian" Cuba can such vitality and freedom exist in the world of afro-cuban music and culture. The answer is played out in the streets, santeria temples, bars and factories of Cuba (and New York).
8pm- "Item Return" dir. Griffith Iffith (15 min., video 2007) Griffith Iffith in Person! Griffith Iffith documents a lycanthropic worker for the "Department of Item Return" receiving orders in his dumpster office at the bottom of a quarry, to return his items to "the end of the world" at a recycling center near a former nazi rail turnabout. Brecht meets James Benning.
8:30pm- "The Brig" dir. Jonas & Adolfas Mekas, (68 min, 16mm, 1964) Coinciding with The Living Theater's new production of The Brig, showing is Jonas and Adolfas Mekas' film document of the original production from 1963. Written by a veteran who survived incarceration in a U.S. Marine Corps Brig during the Korean War, The Brig is a chilling portrait of the brutality of military prisons that prompted the U.S. Congress to investigate the conditions in Marine Corps prisons as a result of it's acclaim. The Brig, won the Leone D'Oro for Best Documentary at the Venice Film Festival the following year. The prominence of U.S. Military Prisons in various locations around the world at the beginning of the 21st century gives new relevance to this play.
9:45pm- "Once and Future Queen" dir. Todd Verow (77 min., video, 2000) With star of the film, Philly! Philly as "Antimatter" is a homeless, penniless, pill popping, alcoholic slut and aging singer for the band "Eager Meat" trundling her way through the harsh and disgusting realities of urban life as a under appreciated Queen. "You may leave Todd Verow feature feeling vaguely unclean, but if you haven't been entertained, it won't be for the lack of effort of Verow and New York scene queen Philly. If you're not glued to your seat as Antimatter drinks, ####s and pill-pops here way across the Lower East Side, you'll be running for the door." - LA Weekly
11:15pm- "Good News" dir. Micheles & Dizozza (12 min., video, 2007) Playwright Micheles & musician/playwright Dizozza try their hand at unscripted video making on the streets of NYC with interesting and humorous results.
11:30pm- "What a Bum" dirs. George Romano & Joe Quatararo(25min., video, 2006) with cast and crew in person! A homeless man finds a billion dollars and turns into a corporate mogul that creates a solution to homelessness the whole time yearning for his former lifestyle.
sponsored by The Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds Program which is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts
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Good News (2007) New Title - Add Plain Title: Good News Type: film Sub-Type: short Status: released Year: 2007 Source: ...a member of the cast/crew
Release Dates - Add Country: USA Date: 28 May 2007 Attribute: (Lower East Side Festival of the Arts)
Miscellaneous Link - Add Type: MSC Url: http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net/lesfilm.htm Desc: L.E.S. Film and Video Festival Schedule
Type: MSC Url: http://www.thereeler.com/nyc_film_festivals/the_lower_east_side_of_the_sto.php Desc: The Reeler
Country of Origin - Add USA
Languages - Add English
Color / Black & White - Add Color
Genres - Add News
Documentary
Short
Budget - Add Currency: USD Amount: 10
Official Sites - Add Type: OFF Url: https://www.cinemavii.com/projects/GoodNews.htm Desc: Cinema VII's "Good News" Project Page
Distributors - Add Company: Cinema VII Attribute: (2007) (worldwide) (all media)
Production Companies - Add Company: Cinema VII
Composers - New Name (this section) Name: Dizozza, Peter
Composers - Add Name: Dizozza, Peter
Cinematographers - New Name (this section) Name: Dizozza, Peter
Cinematographers - Add Name: Dizozza, Peter
Editors - New Name (this section) Name: Dizozza, Peter
Editors - Add Name: Dizozza, Peter
Running Times - Add Country: USA Time: 16
Filming Locations - Add Washington Square Park, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
East Village, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Sound Mix - Add Stereo
Aspect Ratio - Add 1.33 : 1
Taglines - Add Playwright Micheles & musician/playwright Dizozza try their hand at unscripted video making on the streets of NYC with interesting and humorous results.
Plot Summaries - Add Text: Maria looks in the mirror, sees herself and Peter, and announces the commencement of a film by two playwrights. She and Peter walk up East 12th Street to Manhattan Theatre Source to sign up Maria for a playwrights event, talking to people along the way and stopping by an ATM. When they cannot decide whether to attend a play (for which Peter made reservations), or a party (which Maria thought was already over but is still going strong), they instead go to the park (Washington Square Park). Toward the end, Maria acknowledges that she will attend the play with Peter, noting "the guy wins." Various cameos consider a variety of topics, including used books found in the street. At the end of the movie, graffiti, shown freshly painted that day (April 21st, 2007), is shown as being painted over (on April 28th, 2007). Author: Peter Dizozza
Keywords - Add real-time
Trivia - Add The movie "Good News" was one of three collaborations by Micheles (Theater for the New City Playwright) and Dizozza for the 2007 Lower East Side Festival of the Arts. They also performed in Peter Dizozza's short play, "A Couple of Fairly Odd Retired Old Electric Train Engineers," and Peter wrote music for "Don't Cry for Me, America" from Maria's "New Miss (The Miss UnAmerica) Pageant".
Thanks - New Name (this section) Name: de la Puente, Joaquin
Thanks - Add Name: de la Puente, Joaquin Occupation: acknowledgment
Filming Dates - Add From_date: 21 April 2007 To_date: 28 April 2007
Camera - Add Sony Digital 8 DCR TRV 350
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