Molly Barnes Art Discussion Series (Video Archieve 9/22/11 and 9/23/11)
Posted on 22. Sep, 2011 by Birdsong in Arts, Community, Events, Uncategorized
Thursday – Marilyn Church – Artist, Court Reporter, and author of: “The Art of Justice”. The Library of Congress has acquired 4,000 of her courtroom drawings including Gotti, Woody Allen, Bernie Madoff, P. Diddy, and Norman Mailer.
Friday – Henry Adams – Art Historian and Writer with books on Pollack, Bellows and Benton, will talk about his new book about the “Kokoon Arts Club”, which existed in Cleveland, from 1912 to 1938 featuring a modernist approach to producing art which created an artistic revolution.
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Cinémonde: Amazing food. Unforgettable films. Great company. Tue Sept 27 @RSHotel
Posted on 14. Sep, 2011 by Birdsong in Events, Hotel, Uncategorized
Check out this video from the last Cinémonde @RSHotel.
The Roger Smith is a hub for social media in #NYC. People. Art. Food. Wine. For 10% off our best available rooms rate: bit.ly/RSrooms
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January 9th 2011: Second Sundays Classical Guitar Concert with The Back Bay Guitar Trio
Posted on 19. Jan, 2011 by danikadruttman in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Events
Roger Smith Arts and The New York City Classical Guitar Society present The Back Bay Guitar Trio, formed in 2002 and have performed throughout New England, from Dartmouth College and Longy School of Music to Berklee College and The House of Blues. The Back Bay Guitar Trio have also been featured artists at the world renowned Boston Hatch Shell, the Boston Classical Guitar Society concert series, and have opened for guitarist Al Dimeola at the Lebanon (NH) Opera House.
The program will include works by Paulo Bellinati, Astor Piazzolla, John Mason and Frank Wallace.
The Second Sundays Classical Guitar Concerts Series takes place on the second Sunday of every month in The Solarium on the sixteenth floor of the Roger Smith Hotel. Co-curated by composer and musician Frank Wallace, and musician and president of the New York City Classical Guitar Society John Olson, the SSCCS series presents musicians performing in styles ranging from the Segovia Tradition to the rock inspired, from flamenco to modern art song. Click here for concert schedule.
Roger Smith Arts is a multi-disciplinary arts-production company providing cultural entertainment as a way to promote dialogue within and between the leading disciplines of the New York and global art worlds. The company’s mission is to establish itself as a pre-eminent and sought-after cultural institution to the city of New York. Recognizing dialogue as the backbone of any cultural organization, RSA embraces variety as a means to foster the exchange of creative ideas. RSA produces concerts, readings, performances, installations, and lectures, all with leading creative intellectuals.
For further information please call 212.339.2092 or rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
LISTINGS INFORMATION
The Second Sundays Classical Guitar Concert
Presented by Roger Smith Arts and The New York Classical Guitar Society
The Solarium at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, 47th and Lexington (Map)
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
January 9th 2011, 4pm
Price: $15 includes Wine and Cheese (pay at door, cash only)
Reservations: 212.339.2092 or rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
For more information: http://rogersmithlife.com/art/art-at-rsh/second-sundays-classical-guitar-concert-series-20102011-schedule
LOBBY SERIES #18: IHEART VARIATION 003
Posted on 11. Oct, 2010 by danikadruttman in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Events
AT THE ROGER SMITH HOTEL : PRESENTED BY ARTWELOVE & ROGER SMITH ARTS
OCTOBER 4TH 2010 – JANUARY 9TH, 2011
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INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE
YOU ARE INVITED EVERY TUESDAY, AS WELL AS EVERY SECOND AND FOURTH SUNDAYS OF EACH MONTH AT 6PM FOR THE DURATION OF THE EXHIBITION, TO COME RE-MIX AND RE-INTERPRET SETH’S WORK YOURSELF, IN THE ROGER SMITH HOTEL LOBBY.
October 10th, 12th, 19th, 24th, 26th
November 2nd, 9th, 14th, 16th, 23rd, 30th
December 7th, 12th, 14th, 19th, 21st, 28th
January 4th
Your variations will be logged at:
http://rogersmithlife.com/hotel/lobbyseries18_log
and
http://artwelove.com/insights/archives/2010/11/04/variations-we-love-from-lobby-series-18/
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ArtWeLove, the online art gallery that makes fine art finally collectible, and Roger Smith Arts, the multi-disciplinary arts-production company, are thrilled to present Lobby Series #18: iheart variation 003 by New York-based artist Seth Indigo Carnes at The Roger Smith Hotel.
Following the overwhelming online success of Seth Carnes’s iheart variation 003, this exhibition marks the first presentation of ArtWeLove’s print series in a public venue. This show will also introduce a set of collaborative variations between Carnes and fellow artists such as Molly Dilworth and Douglas Rushkoff.
Carnes describes the iheart projectas “an exploration of symbolic language; a love affair with representation.” It consists of five prints: iheart, heart, splat, pill, and camera.
In a nod to Milton Glaser’s famous I♥ NY logo, Carnes has turned this common phrase on itself by substituting the now-traditional pictogram for their actual English-language equivalents. The four other prints are pictographic.
These five prints can be arranged, displayed, and sequenced in numerous ways, conveying different ideas, feelings, and themes, making owners of these prints artists in their own right.
To demonstrate this concept, the public is being invited to visit The Roger Smith Hotel lobby corridor, which will be lined with a grid of 15 framed prints. There, individuals will be welcomed to re-mix, re-arrange, and re-sequence the pieces to their hearts’ content every Tuesday, as well as the second and fourth Sundays of each month at 6pm, for the duration of this exhibition.
For those who can’t make it, time-lapse photography, documenting this evolutionary and transformational public-art phenomenon, will be available as a work in progress throughout the time of the exhibition at the following websites:
http://iheartvariation.tumblr.com
http://artwelove.com
http://rogersmithlife.com/hotel/lobbyseries18_log
The prints will also be available for purchase, individually or as a set, through www.shop.artwelove.com. Prices are:
8×8 inches, edition of 250 for $25 each
8×8 inches, set of 5 prints for $100
24×24 inches, edition of 25 for $400 each
According to Laurence Lafforgue, ArtWeLove’s founder, “ArtWeLove’s mission is to make fine art finally accessible to everyone. We usually do this by creating affordable prints of works by collectible artists. Now, by partnering with Roger Smith Hotel, and its commitment to showcasing radical works of art outside traditional gallery settings, we’re hoping to engage the public in another fun new way.”
For further information about Lobby Series #18: iheart variation 003 keep your eye on #variation on Twitter or contact Danika Druttman on 212.339.2092 or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
ABOUT ARTWELOVE
Founded in 2008, ArtWeLove is the brainchild of long-time collectors, tech geeks, and art publisherswhose dreams were to make fine art part of everyone’s life, easily, enjoyably, and affordably. ArtWeLove’s online store offers exclusive, museum-quality art editions by today’s most inspiring artists-not just any artists but rather those whose works can be found in top galleries and museums (like the MoMA), leading art events (like the Venice Biennale), and (of course) private collections around the world. New editions debut weekly, all priced affordably, from $15 to $600, and all numbered with signed certificates of authenticity.
ABOUT ROGER SMITH ARTS
Roger Smith Arts is a multi-disciplinary arts-production company providing cultural entertainment as a way to promote dialogue within and between the leading disciplines of the New York and global art worlds. The company’s mission is to establish itself as a pre-eminent and sought-after cultural institution to the city of New York. Recognizing dialogue as the backbone of any cultural organization, RSA embraces variety as a means to foster the exchange of creative ideas. RSA produces concerts, readings, performances, installations, and lectures, all with leading creative intellectuals.
ABOUT SETH INDIGO CARNES
New York-based artist Seth Indigo Carnes is a conceptual artist whose works focus upon the experience, expression, and engineering of emotion. Carnes’s works often refer to moving images, cultural symbols, communication technologies, public opinion, street art, performance, and music.
Just as Carnes juxtaposes his own past and present, his work tends to explore boundaries that permeate contemporary society such as: high/low, private/public, self/group, and nature/machine.
His tendency to explore and continually present different angles is perhaps best illustrated through a rich history of collaboration with other artists, including Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky), Shepard Fairey, The Roots, Thierry Geoffroy, David Ellis, Polar, and Ali Hossaini.
Past exhibitions include PS1 (NYC), The Museum Of Contemporary Art (Chicago), White Box (NYC), Emily Harvey Foundation (NYC), Witzenhausen Gallery (NYC), Fountain Art Fair (Miami), Lund 2014 (Sweden), The Drop (NYC), The Luggage Store (San Francisco), Martin Showroom (Napa Valley), and 39 Hotel (Honolulu).
QUICK INFORMATION:
LOBBY SERIES #18: IHEART VARIATION 003
By Seth Carnes
Presented by Roger Smith Arts and ArtWeLove
October 4th 2010-January 9th 2011
The Lobby at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, 47th and Lexington (Map)
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
Every Tuesday, as well as the second and fourth Sundays of each month at 6pm, for the duration of this exhibition.
October at The LAB: All Intellectual Animals Are Dangerous, by Yeon Jin Kim
Posted on 27. Sep, 2010 by danikadruttman in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Events, LAB Gallery
By Yeon Jin Kim Curator: Joel Carreiro
October 7-29th, 2010
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is pleased to announce their October show, All Intellectual Animals are Dangerous is a multi-media installation offering the viewer a more intimate experience than usually found with public art projects. The windows of the gallery will be whited-out except for several small apertures, which will reveal various room interiors constructed out of paper and graphite, depicting an array of characters and events. Like Hitchcock`s Rear Window, each opening will give the audience a glimpse into different lives, however in All Intellectual Animals are Dangerous some rooms are inhabited by animals, some by people and one by an enormous spider. They are all presided over by a giant “Alice in Wonderland” –like character. Several of the interiors are small and present intimate, three–dimensional static tableau, and in a scale jump, two of them open onto larger spaces with narrative video projections, which are made by filming paper and graphite models. Passers-by may experience the piece as a cross between the viewing holes cut in a construction wall and the window displays on Fifth Avenue at Christmas time. On the busy streets of mid-town, this piece provides a voyeuristic experience of a fantastic realm populated by unusual and anthropomorphic creatures, all governed by a dream logic.
Yeon Jin Kim was born in Seoul, Korea, receiving her BFA from Seoul National University and MFA from Hunter College. She has shown work at the Islip Art Museum (Long Island), the Anne Street Gallery (Newburgh NY), the Storefront Artists Project (Pittsfield, MA), the Catskill Art Society, and Times Square Gallery (New York City). Kim’s videos have been screened in Seoul, Egypt, Germany and New York City. She has recently completed residencies at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs NY), the Saltonstall Foundation (Ithaca NY), BRIC/BCAT (Brooklyn) and the Islip Art Museum. Kim is a recipient of awards from both the Tony Smith Fund and the Ahl Foundation, and is currently an artist in residence at Henry Street Settlement. She teaches at the Ashcan Studio in Manhattan.
Joel Carreiro is based in New York City and directs the MFA Program at Hunter College. He has shown nationally and internationally and currently has a solo exhibition at Fairfield University in Connecticut, which will travel next year to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and then to Muehlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He is also currently showing work in Seoul, Korea. As an independent curator he has organized exhibitions for the Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn, the Rockland Center for the Arts and the Hopper House Art Center in Nyack, New York, and the Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College, as well as the Intar Gallery in New York City. He is currently co-curating, with Brett De Palma, an exhibition for the Catskill Art Society in Livingston Manor, New York called “Utopia and Wallpaper.
For further information about All Intellectual Animals Are Dangerous or The LAB please contact Danika Druttman at 212.339.2092 or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is a New York based, converted storefront turned fishbowl producing 30+ fast paced performance art and installation exhibitions annually. Aimed at furious midtown foot traffic, The LAB’s programming is designed to confront modern relationships between art and audience and seeks to force interaction between high energy, “outrospective” exhibitions and nearly 25,000 daily passersby. THE LAB is located on the North East corner of 47th and Lex and is a Roger Smith Collaboration.
QUICK INFORMATION:
All Intelligent Animals Are Dangerous
An Installation by Yeon Jin Kim, Curated by Joel Carreiro
The LAB (for installation + performance art)
501 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, 47th and Lexington
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
October 7-29, 2010
All works of art in The LAB are shown within the confines of the gallery , and are viewed by the audience from the sidewalk. This event is free
Ph: 212-339-2092
www.thelabgallery.com
www.facebook.com/thelabgallery
www.twitter.com/thelabgallery
A full schedule for Fall 2010 can be found on www.thelabgallery.com/calendar
All Intellectual Animals Are Dangerous
Video: John Birdsong
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Photos: Adam Wallace
Second Sundays Classical Guitar Concert Series: 2010/2011 Schedule
Posted on 20. Aug, 2010 by danikadruttman in Art at Roger Smith, Community, Events, Hotel
Concerts take place in The Solarium at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Ave, at 47th Street, New York NY 10017 (map)
It’s Wednesday. Here’s Your Roger Smith Short.
Posted on 30. Jun, 2010 by Birdsong in Arts, Hotel, Uncategorized
In on the rocks, two dudes are confronted with the task of scoring ice for drinks for their dates. What happens to them on this journey is both destructive and life affirming. The protaganists are faced with a grisly task in order to get the ice cold redemption which they seek. We are faced with the question: Will this experience put their friendship “on the rocks” or will it strengthen their resolve?
Director: Sean Cunningham 2009
Soundstorm: A Kinetic Installaion
Posted on 24. Jun, 2010 by danikadruttman in Arts, Events, Hotel, LAB Gallery, the LAB
By Daniel Rothbart and Maia Anthea Marinelli
July 9-30th, 2010
June 15th, 2010 The LAB (for installation + performance art) is pleased to announce ‘Soundstorm’, a kinetic installation by Daniel Rothbart and Maia Anthea Marinelli. This work intends to create a dialogue between art and nature, using sculptural elements that move according to the barometric pressure in New York City, at any given time. Isobars are represented by a shifting motorized web of pulleys and ropes that envelope the gallery and produce metallic noise. These sounds will be piped outside the gallery to complete the tableau vivant.
Daniel Rothbart’s work looks at the relationship between nature, urban postmodern identity and metaphysics. Rothbart holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University and won a Fulbright grant to Naples, Italy in 1990. His work can be found in public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Recent projects include exhibitions at the Andrea Meislin Gallery, Exit Art and the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill. His latest European exhibition took place at Galerie Depardieu in Nice in June 2010.
Maia Anthea Marinelli’s work explores themes of women in relation to their cultural environment through conceptual strategies with sculpture, land art, photography, performance and interactive installations.Marinelli holds a B.F.A. from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence Italy, and an M.F.A. from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Her work has been exhibited at the Biennale of Mediterranean Artists, the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Genoa, Italy.
For more information please contact Danika Druttman on 212.339.2092 or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is a New York based, converted storefront turned fishbowl producing 30+ fast paced performance art and installation exhibitions annually. Aimed at furious midtown foot traffic, The LAB’s programming is designed to confront modern relationships between art and audience and seeks to force interaction between high energy, “outrospective” exhibitions and nearly 25,000 daily passersby. THE LAB is located on the North East corner of 47th and Lex and is a Roger Smith Collaboration in Art. www.thelabgallery.com
Soundstorm: Video Interview with Daniel Rothbart
Soundstorm: Video Interview with Maia Anthea Marinelli
The Traders’ Ball: An Installation, June 11 – July 2, 2010
Posted on 28. May, 2010 by Editor in Arts, Hotel, LAB Gallery, the LAB
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is pleased to announce ‘The Trader’s Ball’, an installation by French artist Fred Forest. With his trademark over the top irony, Forest rubs salt in the wounds of the free market banking industry , mocking their response to the financial crisis that has shaken the world. The installation will include corporate mannequins dancing the night away in The LAB and parallel scenes of jovial ignorance taking place via Second Life on large screens in the gallery. The action will take place to music by New York rapper Jamalski, who will orchestrate the movements of the dancers to a syncopated beat based on the real time fluctuation of the financial markets. To see the project’s website go to: www.thetradersball.com/
This piece will be in conjunction with a piece based around Forest’s Second Life avatar, Ego Cyberstar, that will be showing at The Science Fair at Flux Factory, June 5th- 13th.
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Photos: Adam Wallace
Fred Forest is a French new media artist. He is the holder of a state doctorate in the humanities from the Sorbonne and has also taught on the faculty of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art, Cergy-Pontoise and University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. Forest has taken part in the Biennale of Venice (1976) and the Documenta of Kassel (1977, 1987) and his work has won awards at the Bienal do São Paulo (1973) and the Festival of Electronic Arts of Locarno (1995). In 2004, Forest’s archives, including his video works, were added to the collection of the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel of France and a retrospective of his work was held at the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia in 2007. Beginning in 2008, Forest launched a new series of performances in the environment of Second Life.
For more information please contact Danika Druttman on 212.339.2092 or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is a New York based, converted storefront turned fishbowl producing 30+ fast paced performance art and installation exhibitions annually. Aimed at furious midtown foot traffic, The LAB’s programming is designed to confront modern relationships between art and audience and seeks to force interaction between high energy, “outrospective” exhibitions and nearly 25,000 daily passersby. THE LAB is located on the North East corner of 47th and Lex and is a Roger Smith Collaboration in Art. www.thelabgallery.com
The Traders’ Ball Second Life Video
Roger Smith Shorts – the story…
Posted on 21. May, 2010 by Editor in Arts, Events, Hotel
The Roger Smith Shorts Series started in 2009 as a short film festival / workshop and was designed to facilitate filmmaking opportunities for up and coming directors. The Roger Smith Hotel has become the backdrop for filmmakers as they put their creative talents to the test. The 2010 Roger Smith Short Directors are John Knowles, John Birdsong, Aleks Degtyarev, Melissa Gonzalez and Abianne Prince.
Title: CHECK MATE
Directed by: Abianne Prince
Written by: Robyn Day
Running Time: 3min 30 seconds
Premiere Status: World Premiere
Cast: Robyn Day, Lars Gerhard
Crew: Screenplay by: Robyn Day & Abianne Prince – Executive Producer: John Knowles – Producers: Abianne Prince – Line Producer: Cedric Youngelman – Director of Photography: John Birdsong – Lighting Design: Pete Eilenberg – Sound Director: Pete Eilenberg – Editor: Abianne Prince
Email – abiprince@gmail.com
Website: www.rogersmithsshorts-myshorts.tumblr.com/
Synopsis:
This short experimental film explores one woman’s active imagination and how it keeps her mate in check.
About the Director When Abi was 6 years old her Uncle Bob told her that life wasn’t worth living if she didn’t find a passion and follow it no matter what. Once Abi discovered photography and filmmaking she realized that she had found her vocation. As a Producer, Director, Editor & Director of Photography, Abi has seen all sides of filmmaking. Her experience spans from live television production to commercials, documentaries and webisodes. Her passion is storytelling.
Abianne started her professional career at Plum TV as a “preditor” (producer/director/editor) and continued to practice all the tricks of the trade with Panman Productions in New York City. Her recent endeavors also include working with the art news website RogerSmithLife.com, as well as projects with Voluntary Instinct Productions. V.I. is a non-profit media company, whose purpose is to enhance public awareness of under-represented social and environmental issues. When not making films, she enjoys swimming in the ocean, lost causes and painting.
Film Title: THE COUNTERPANE FAIRY
Director: John Knowles
Running Time: 15 minutes
Premiere Status: World Premiere
Cast: Justin Hall, Lauren Frances, Aleks Degtyarev, Betsy Holt, Craig Russell , John Knowles, Phoebe Knowles
Crew: Assistant Director: Melissa Gonzalez – Directors of Photography: Adam Wallace and Abianne Prince – Editor: John Knowles – Line Producer: Cedric Youngleman – Special Effects Supervisor: Aleks Degtyrev – Sound: Aleks Degtyarev – Set Design: Peter Eilenberg – Light Design: Peter Eilenberg – Assistant Set Design: Lucinda Lin -Production Assistant: Rex Leung – Costume design /Hair and Makeup: Joel Yapching – Hair: Katie Arbore – Makeup: Denise Mojica – Wardrobe: Veronica Zhou
Email: jknowles@panmanproductions.com
Website: www.thecounterpanefairy.tumblr.com
Synopsis:
Teddy (played by Justin Hall), an 11 year old boy left alone in a hotel, decides to wander after his parents go out for the evening. In an empty penthouse he encounters The Counterpane Fairy (Lauren Frances) who takes him on a storybook adventure. He is put to the heroic task of saving an enchanted princess while freeing her from a spell that has been cast on her by a little gray spider (Aleks Degtyarev).
In the real world, the adults around him are constantly trying to box him into a conformed norm. His adventure reminds us that a child’s imagination is pure. The Counterpane Fairy is a modern day fairy tale that takes place at the Roger Smith Hotel.
The story of the Counterpane Fairy is an adaptation from the “The Counterpane Fairy” by Katherine Pyle.
About the Director
John Knowles is the CEO of Panman Productions, an interactive production company based out of New York City that focuses on live broadcasting, film, fashion, art and social media. Panman Productions consists of a five member team that operates collectively with the understanding that ours is a company where “All of your dreams come true.”
After being introduced to Live production at Plum TV, John worked to adapt the Live production model to his endeavors online. In the last several years, John has worked in collaboration with the Roger Smith Hotel on a number of projects. He helped to create and build the Roger Smith Social Media program and was the executive producer of the 2009 Roger Smith Shorts Film Festival which generated six original short films.
Title: THE END
Director by: John Knowles & Melissa Gonzalez
Running Time: 10 minutes
Premiere Status: World Premiere
The End Trailer from Panman Productions on Vimeo.
Cast: Starring: Melissa Gonzalez, Jerome Richards & David Henry Gerson
Crew: Screenplay by: Melissa Gonzalez & Michael G. Richards – Executive Producer: John Knowles -Producers: Melissa Gonzalez & Abianne Prince – Line Producer: Cedric Youngelman – Assistant Director: Lucinda Lin – Director of Photography: Aleks Degtyarev – Lighting Design: John Birdsong – Sound Director: Pete Eilenberg - Editor: John Knowles – Costume Design: Veronica Zhou – Production Assistant: Rex Leung – Makeup: Denise Mojica – Hair: Katie Arbore
Email: Melissa Gonzalez, Lion ‘esque Productions mg@lionesqueproductions.com
Website: www.theendfilmblog.tumblr.com
Synopsis:
In the mid 1940s Sam Clarke fell madly in love with a young woman named Clare Hayes. It was WWII in Europe, a time of heightened emotion and adventure. Their time together lived in his heart forever and inspired the project of his lifetime. With hope and doubt, he hires actress Alex Keyes to assist in his endeavor.
Will Alex be able to embody the woman who stole Sam’s heart half a century ago? “The End” is a screenplay adaptation of the novel “A Century of Dust” by Michael G. Richards.
About the Director Melissa Gonzalez
Melissa Gonzalez: Creator, Producer, Performer.
Melissa is no stranger to the camera or producing. Melissa, former co-host of Latin Beat on BET, has made numerous television appearances on NY shows including Chappelle’s Show, SNL and the FOX Pilot NY-70. In addition she produced and starred in the indie feature Spanglish Girls and Broken Hearts which premiered at LAIFF. Currently you can catch Melissa online hosting Homemade BFF’s and uncovering new fashion icons onwww.rspopshop.com.
Film Title: HAIR BALL
Directed by : John Birdsong
Made in the United States at the Roger Smith Hotel in New York City. 2010
Premiere Status: World Premiere at the Brooklyn International Film Festival.
Category: Short Comedy
Format: Canon DSLR
Running Time: approximately 10 minutes
hair-ball: a roger smith short (teaser #1) from Panman Productions on Vimeo.
Cast: Brett Siddell, Bari Hyman, Matt Semler, Mala Wright, Wayne Soares, Fanny (Cat), Tomas Terstad
Crew: Written by Morgan-Jo Teller and John Birdsong Director, Producer, DP, and Editor: John Birdsong – Executive Producer: John Knowles – Producer: Melissa Gonzalez – Assistant Camera: Abianne Prince – Sound Designer: Aleks Degtyarev – Wardrobe: Morgan-Jo Teller – Boom Operator: Victor Reznik
Email: john.birdsong@yahoo.com
Blog(trailer): http://hair-ball.tumblr.com
Synopsis:
The only thing Louis loves more than being a bellboy is dancing. He makes the most of guests’ unattended rooms and personal possessions, practicing dance moves for nights at the club. Using a stranger’s toothbrush or sleeping in their bed was a victimless crime till now. Could a lude act with a suitcase send him back to prison? Can you taste another man’s mouth by sharing his toothbrush? Hair-ball is loosely based on a phone call from “Car Talk” on NPR.
About the Director
John Christopher Alexander Michael Birdsong was born March 19th, 1981 in Brooklyn and raised in Texas and the Hamptons. His first job was as a counter boy at a Chinese take-out restaurant. John is not Chinese. He studied photography before interning and working as a Producer/Director/Editor for Plum TV. John’s passions include looking for the end of the internet, smelling things, and staying up late. John works with Panman Productions in midtown and lives with his girlfriend Morgan-Jo Teller in Brooklyn with their cat Fanny and an unnamed school of goldfish.
Title: MOTHER TERESA’S HIATUS
Directed by: Abianne Prince
Written by: Robyn Day
Running Time: 2min 30 seconds
Premiere Status: World Premiere
Cast: Staring Kana Sato Supporting cast: Jay Cutler, Anwar Uddin, Dennis Lowell, Chad Miller,Sunjay Mishra,Chris Cotten, Rocco George, John Knowles, Roni Mazumdar, Dan Chen, Klive Robinson
Crew: Screenplay by: Robyn Day – Producer: Abianne Prince – Line Producer: Cedric Youngelman – Assistant Director: Melissa Gonzalez – Director of Photography: Aleks Degtyarev – Lighting Design: John Birdsong – Editor: Abianne Prince – Sound Director: Victor Reznik – Costume Design: Lucinda Lu – Art Direction: Lucinda Lu – Production Assistant: Susanna Lewitt – Makeup: Denise Mojica – Hair: Katie Arbore
Email: abiprince@gmail.com
Website: www.rogersmithsshorts-myshorts.tumblr.com/
Synopsis:
A woman’s epiphany about the role she plays in the lives of the men that surround her.
About the Director
When Abi was 6 years old her Uncle Bob told her that life wasn’t worth living if she didn’t find a passion and follow it no matter what. Once Abi discovered photography and filmmaking she realized that she had found her vocation. As a Producer, Director, Editor & Director of Photography, Abi has seen all sides of filmmaking. Her experience spans from live television production to commercials, documentaries and webesodes. Her passion is storytelling.
Abianne started her professional career at Plum TV as a “preditor” (producer/director/editor) and continued to practice all the tricks of the trade with Panman Productions in New York City. Her recent endeavors also include working with the art news website RogerSmithLife.com, as well as projects with Voluntary Instinct Productions. V.I. is a non-profit media company, whose purpose is to enhance public awareness of under-represented social and environmental issues. When not making films, she enjoys swimming in the ocean, lost causes and painting.
Title: SHOE FITS
Directed by: Aleks Degtyarev, aka Marlo L. Brown
Running Time: 21 minutes
Premiere Status: World Premiere
The Original Hooligans are back. Shoe Fits Trailer! from Panman Productions on Vimeo.
Cast: Aleks Degtyarev, Kelly Jo Johnson, John Larmor, Lucinda Lin, Frank Martinelli, Brett Siddell, Rich Staab
Crew: Written by: Aleks Degtyarev – Executive Producer: John Knowles – Line Producer: Cedric Youngelman – Assistant Director: Lucinda Lin – Director of Photography: Abianne Prince – Script Supervisor: Melissa Gonzalez – Casting Director: Melissa Gonzalez – Lighting Design: John Birdsong – Sound Director: Pete Eilenberg – Costume Design: Veronica Zhou – Boom-Pole Operator: Vic Reznik – Choreographers: Alex Smith and Eric Jacobson – Graphic Art: John Larmor – Special Effects and post production: John Chiarelli
Email: floatingopera@gmail.com
Website: www.shoefits.tumblr.com/
Synopsis:
The Original Hooligans are back. Another shoe fit another dolla! This time Marlo Lovely Brown has missplaced his dancing shoes. Confidant and partner in deviance, Pipe Adams is back on the scene to help Marlo locate his magical footwear. Marlo’s lover LuLu beckons from another dimension, while friend, and maddened inventor Bradrian W. Tangaurey laments at Camp Villain. Will Marlo be able to navigate his way through this fever dream to find the shoes or will humanity be doomed forever? If the Shoe Fits…
About the Director - Written by Pipe Adams
Born into a family of fur traders working their way through the Aleutians and the Bering Strait in the late 16th century, Marlo Leelan Brown was not always destined to make films. His name, literally translated, means the universal, or invincible prince. Young Marlo’s conception was nary cause for celebration, and his gestation and eventual birth a mere insurance policy to guard against the stark, endless Siberian winter. Just another maw to feed and, with hope, hands that would eventually grow strong enough to tear and render the priceless flesh from countless seals to add to the meager family coffers.
Time however, was on Marlo’s side and so Marlo danced the earth, a being reflected in the eyes of G-D, but yet a dead man inside, until the mid 90s. It was at this time that Marlo fell in with a bunch of like minded gents. Not immortals per say, but timeless characters nonetheless. For posterity’s sake, we shall call them the Original Hooligans. It was with the hooligans that Marlo discovered his true passion. Slowly, the hidden embers inside his mind, cold with age, began to warm, to glow. A fire was ignited inside of him. No longer the dancing dead, little Marlo Leelan was born anew. And the vehicle that brought young old Marlo back from the dead: Making Films.
But as he discovered his new found passion, changes began to occur. Each time Brown would look through his viewfinder a wrinkle would appear, a gray hair would sprout. Marlo Leelan Brown the foreverman, was now becoming just man.
Over the past decade Marlo has aged. Less like a fine cheese and more like a rusting washing machine in a dewy Bedford-Stuyvesant project courtyard, Marlo has forsaken eternal life for mortality to join the ranks of the Original Hooligan brotherhood and make films.
