INTERFACE INNOVATION, ABSURD ANIMATION Shorts Programs Screen with Rooftop Films, Now thru 6/15

Rooftop Films is committed to showcasing the best films in short form, so much so Rooftop is dedicating an entire week to shorts! Check out innovative new short films tonight, June 12 in Brooklyn at MetroTech Commons, short documentaries on New York subjects at the Open Road Rooftop in the Lower East Side on Friday, June 14, and absurdly amazing animation on Saturday, June 15, also in the Lower East Side. Following each screening at Open Road Rooftop there will be an after-party sponsored by Red Stripe at Fontana's. More details are below!

Wednesday, June 12 - Free screening!
Interface Innovation (Short Films)
Rooftop Films presents a collection of new short films featuring datamoshed moments and postmodem lifestyles, accompanied by new interactive works from the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center and the CITE Game Innovation Lab, both at NYU-Poly.
Venue: MetroTech Commons, 5 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn

8:00PM Doors open
8:30PM Live music
9:00PM Films begin

The Films:
Datamosh (Yung Jake | 5')
Remember Carthage (Jon Rafman | 13')
RPG OKC (Emily Carmichael | 9')
#PostModem (Jillian Mayer & Lucas Leyva | 13')
Happy Birthday (Rhio Unt | 12')
Magnetic Reconnection (Kyle Armstrong | 13')

More info and tickets: www.rooftopfilms.com/2013/schedule/interface-innovation-short-films.

Friday, June 14
New York Non-Fiction (Short Films)
"It's your city. Take a look." Whether you walk into "the city," or stay in the outer boroughs (or further, in obscure and dangerous places), New York can be an overwhelming place, packed with people hurrying, hustling, huckstering. These daring shorts tells the stories of the people who make up this great city.
Venue: On the roof of New Design High School, 350 Grand St. @ Essex (Lower East Side, Manhattan)

8:00PM Doors open
8:30PM Live music
9:00PM Film begins
11:30 PM Afterparty sponsored by Red Stripe at Fontana's (105 Eldridge St. @ Grand St.)

The Films:
How to Walk to Manhattan (John Wilson | 10')
Two Islands (Jan Ijas | 6')
Synesthesia: The Space Between (Drew Henkels & Chelsea Moze | 8')
The Birdman (Jessie Auritt | 11')
Childhood Sale (Casimir Nozkowski | 9')
We Will Forget (Garret Harkawik | 14')
Frankenstorm: From Across The East River (John Mattiuzzi | 5')
Mondays at Racine (Cynthia Wade | 39')

More info and tickets: www.rooftopfilms.com/2013/schedule/new-york-nonfiction-short-films

Saturday, June 15
Absurd Animation (Short Films)
Outlandish animated creatures in outrageous situations, Rooftop brings absurdly amazing animated short films to the roof.
Venue: On the roof of New Design High School, 350 Grand St. @ Essex (Lower East Side, Manhattan)

8:00PM Doors open
8:30PM Live music by Wires.Under.Tension.
9:00PM Film begins
11:30 PM Afterparty sponsored by Red Stripe at Fontana's (105 Eldridge St. @ Grand St.)

The Films:
Wires.Under.Tension. - "Landscape Architecture" (St. John McKay Smith | 5')
Boogodobiegodongo (Peter Millard | 4')
and/or (Emily Hubley | 6')
Move Mountain (Kirsten Lepore | 11')
The Shrine (Sean Pecknold | 8')
Thank You (Pendelton Ward, Tom Herpich | 11')
Anomalies (Benjamin Cady | 15')
Not About Us (Michael Frei | 5')
Crossover (Fabian Grodde | 6')
Last Breath (Ying Ping Mak | 8')
Sharaf (David Aronowitsch, Hanna Heilborn | 12')
Marcel, King of Tervuren (Tom Schroeder | 6')

More info and tickets: www.rooftopfilms.com/2013/schedule/absurd-animation-short-films.