Two great events tonight at Videology – first up, Northside Film Festival will be screening their 2 winning films from the Northside DIY Competition, at 7:30pm, followed by “TV on the Fritz” at 10:30pm. You can go for one or the other, both events are free to the public, and there will drink specials offered all night long.

Northside DIY Competition Winners Screening @ 7:30pm
Free Screening of Northside Film’s DIY Competition’s 2 Winning Films: Joanna Arnow’s winning feature,i hate myself 🙂 and Andrew Ellis’ winning short, Eleanor Ambos Interiors. The Filmmakers will be present for Q&A after the films. http://www.videology.info/blog/events

TV on the Fritz @ 10pm
A night of live performance, mixed with media (video), mass marshmallow dancing, and thrown tomatoes! TV on the Fritz is the a whole new world of entertainment. A whole new model for the future. And a new hole in the edifice of normality and safety booties!
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Head over to Socrates Sculpture park to watch the film from the grass along the river at sundown; an idyllic summer evening.

The Deadly Ponies Gang (This screening will be the film’s international premiere) Clint and Dwayne are two of a kind – the kind that start a pimped-out pony gang (ponies replete with glitter, oversized sunglasses, and bling) on the edges of rural New Zealand. Riding through town, the duo deals some drugs, tries to snuggle up to some ladies, and attempts a fundraiser for new teeth while learning the lengths people will go for their mates. Directed by Zoe McIntosh.

EIGHT-WEEK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CELEBRATING THE CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF QUEENS
Wednesdays at 7pm, JULY 2 – AUGUST 20, 2014
Pre-screening performances at 7 PM, films begins at sundown

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Camera Obscura’s long-awaited return to the US includes tonight’s date at Music Hall of Wiliamsburg. Their latest album, Desire Lines (“a career best”-NPR), was released early last summer, and was followed by a US tour, which included support dates with She & Him.

Opener Laura Cantrell has toured extensively in the United Kingdom, Europe and Ireland, and was a favorite of pioneering British disc jockey John Peel, who called her 2000 album “Not The Tremblin’ Kind” “my favorite record of the last ten years, possibly my life.”

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Let the marathon begin! The premise of today’s marathon screening is that no one who was rejected from the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival this year is denied screen time for at least one of their works. Admission is free for the entire 9 hours of films. Here we stand, here we screen. What was once a solitary experience of rejection has become, through a funny faux pas, a building of community.

A few months ago I received another rejection from a film festival via email. This particular letter, from the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (M.U.F.F.), like most of the others, was a generic stock-email. The kind whose cut-copy-paste, all-too-familiar template phrasing made one’s heart preemptively sink, not having read the lines we’ve all read too many times, but already knowing what they will say.

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Back from Europe for only a few weeks, film portrait artist Marie Losier invites her friends to share the screen with her in this evening of experimental short works to celebrate her return. The evening includes: Marie Losier, New surprise work! Peaches + Jesper Just (a film not yet seen!), and Hermaphrodite.

Losier is a portraitist of avant-garde artists, including filmmakers Guy Maddin and The Kuchar brothers, theater director Richard Foreman, and composer / filmmaker Tony Conrad. She is the director of The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, the story of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV founder
Genesis P-Orridge, which won the 2011 Berlin Film Festival Teddy Award for Best Documentary.

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