September 30, 2011, 7pm

105 Metropolitan Avenue (map)

Itziar Barrio‘s Blue Wall Project is a public video installation that explores the sense of time, history and place by converting an ordinary blue construction fence into a live blue screen. It examines the impermanent and historical notions of the city as well as New York’s constantly shifting landscape as a physical manifestation of impermanence.

The project deals with the temporality of the city landscape as well as our daily interaction with the urban fixtures as well as the fine line between public and private space.

A site specific video has been created for the project that generates a new fiction based on the historic memory of the place and the plans for the future of the space.

Seven different versions of Blade Runner have been shown.

The ending title sequence in the theatrical cut of the Blade Runner contains unused footage from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.

These were extra shots of the main title sequence, although none of the shots contain the road that was seen in The Shining.

Architectural and Plan Renderings: MDIM Arquitecture
Text: Mark Hage
Music: Jamuel Saxon
Lighting: Paul Clay
Video Editor: Hector Bragado
Production Assistant: Erin Smith

Sponsored in part by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC) and Etxepare, Basque Institute

In collaboration with MDIM Architecture

Special thanks to Rami Metal, Councilmembers Steven Levin & Diana Reyna, and Ayton Performance.

September 11, 2011, 7pm

3rd Ward (map)

Somewhere between the serene stand-still and the turbulent turns of life lie these two masterworks. Blue Muse Dance‘s The Other Side and Nathan Punwar‘s Prologue to a Cyclops explore the two sides of the every day thoughts that rattle around our heads. Both artists will be on hand for a delicious after screening q and a.

Featuring

The Other Side by Blue Muse Dance with Hyunsuk Kim, Kyoungin Jung,  & Peter Lew

In everyday life, when facing certain situations, conflicts occur in the head-we’re swimming between common sense and insane, between calm and chaos. The Other Side mixes dance, sound, and video to create a landscape of the mind.

Prologue to a Cyclops by Nathan Punwar

First created for Moviehouse in 2010 as a silent film to be scored by three composers, Prologue to a Cyclops has now been passed on the many more musicians each creating their own unique soundtrack for the film. In it, Francis, a modern-day cyclops embarrassed of his single eye, hides away from the world until he is lured out of seclusion by Lina Rae, delivery girl and photographer extraordinaire. Inspired by her camera, he becomes obsessed with creating a two-eyed device to make him appear normal, but it threatens to sacrifice his unique vision.