Rooftop Films | The Big Muddy
Event Information
Description
Float down the winding Mississippi with short cinematic travelogues exploring the preoccupations of the Delta.
Date: Monday, June 24th
Venue: MetroTech Commons
Address: 5 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201
8:00 PM: Doors Open
8:30 PM: Live Music from Frog
9:00 PM: Films Begin
10:30 PM: Q&A
"“One cannot bar [the Mississippi River’s] path with an obstruction which it will not tear down, dance over, and laugh at.”
― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
In 1803, the Louisiana purchase ushered in a period of westward expansion that would become fundamental to establishing the American identity. 216 years later, the great river acquired in that deal remains the spiritual headwaters of American culture. This program of new short films features snapshots of modern life along the storied waterway: traveling down the river, one man explores the politics and fascinating mechanisms of how a river is used and by whom; in a gentrifying ward of New Orleans, Mardi Gras Indians celebrate their Indigenous and African heritage in elaborate Fat Tuesday spectacles; a new enrollee at a school for Lost Boys must overcome bullying to find himself; and online, YouTube creationists muddy the waters of anthropocentrism. Through all the films, the Big Muddy keeps flowing, fertilizing and reflecting the soul of America: the good, the bad, the feathered, and the sublime.
FILMS:
All on a Mardi Gras Day
Michal Pietrzyk | USA | 22
Feathers
A.V. Rockwell | USA | 20
Life On The Mississippi
Bill Brown | USA | 28
Little Lower Than the Angels
NEOZOON | Germany | 13
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IN THE EVENT OF RAIN, SHOW WILL BE RESCHEDULED AT THE SAME LOCATION. NO OUTSIDE ALCOHOL IS PERMITTED.
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Organizer Rooftop Films
Organizer of Rooftop Films | The Big Muddy
At Rooftop Films we believe film can be so much more than just watching a movie, so we curate unique events that combine great music, quality film, and some of the most beautiful locations that New York has to offer. By thinking beyond the screen, we help to bring communities together and change the way that film, music, art, and ideas interact with the city around us.
Rooftop Films’ mission is to engage and inspire diverse communities by showing movies in outdoor locations, supporting the production of new independent films, helping local organizations to produce screenings and events, and renting equipment at low-cost to artists and nonprofits. Rooftop Films is more than a film festival. We are a community. We are a collective collaboration between filmmakers and festivals; between audience members and artists; between venues and neighborhoods. Our goal is to nurture a vibrant independent filmmaking and film-going community not only by exhibiting the work of emerging filmmakers, but also by providing essential support systems for those who otherwise have none.
