New Filmmakers Host Su Friedrich and Feature Laid Off 5/19

On Wednesday, May 19th NewFilmmakers presents pioneer feminist filmmaker Su Friedrich gets and then gets LAID OFF.The NewFilmmakers NY Series screens at Anthology Film Archives on the Lower East Side at 32 Second Avenue & 2nd Street.

Admission is $6 for the whole evening and tickets are available at the Anthology Box Office the night of screening.

More information on NewFilmmakers.com

6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Rebecca GwynNe YoU DON't HAVE TO LOVE ME (2009, 3 Minutes, Video
Don Hamilton THE BIG SAYONARA (2009, 15 Minutes, Video)
Julian Semilian DEVOTEES OF THE PRECIPITATE (2009, 36 Minutes, Video)

7:05PM NEWFILMMAKERS SPECIAL PROGRAM

NEW WOMEN FILMMAKERS GROUP
Curated by Victoria Kereszi

Su Friedrich, the feminist film pioneer, will join the New Filmmaker's Series tonight showing a selection of her work that spans four decades. Friedrich's work has inspired both new and experienced filmmakers, and has helped define feminist, queer, and experimental cinema.

Su Friedrich COOL HANDS, WARM HEART (1979, 16 Minutes)
The film begins with a series of events on a crowded outdoor market street. Women on stages perform "private" rituals: shaving legs and armpits, fixing their hair, etc. A woman tries to disrupt their "work." She struggles to set herself apart from them, to resist the forces of habit, but gradually becomes more involved than she is willing to admit.

Su Friedrich THE TIES THAT BIND (1984, 55 Minutes)
An experimental documentary about the filmmaker's mother, who was born and lived in southern Germany from 1920-1950. Through a mixture of personal anecdote and social history, she describes the rise of Nazism, the war years, and the Allied occupation, during which she met her future husband, an American soldier.

Su Friedrich RULES OF THE ROAD (1993, 31 Minutes)
This film tells the story of a love affair and its demise through one of the objects shared by the couple: an old beige station wagon with fake wood paneling.

Su Friedrich SEEING RED (2005, 27 Minutes)
In Seeing Red, three elements run parallel, overlap, diverge, lock horns and in various other ways give voice to the notion that a color, a melody, or a person has multiple characteristics that cannot be grasped by, or understood within, a simple framework. One element is purely visual. One is very verbal and minimally visual. One is purely musical.

9:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION

John Launchi LAID OFF (2009, 96 Minutes. Video)
Mike Lagante, a disgruntled recent graduate with a mundane office job and a difficult girlfriend, is torn between dealing with the pressures of growing up and hanging on to his irresponsible Glory Days. Upon getting laid off from his job and subsequently dumped by his girlfriend, Mike, influenced by his less-than-motivated best friend, Jimmy Ryan, decides to use his severance package to fund one last summer of freedom.

Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue @ 2nd Street