OPEN AIR SCREENING SERIES PRESENTS:

Temple Island
by Anto Astudillo

Dusk on FRIDAY September 17th until Dawn SATURDAY September 18th ** OPENING NIGHT **
Dusk on SATURDAY September 17th until Dawn SUNDAY September 18th

OPEN AIR SCREENING SERIES presents 16MM films on LOOP visible from a distance from dusk until dawn.
72 ROCKWELL PLACE, Brooklyn, New York 11217 - Between BRIC Media Arts Center & BAM Rose Cinemas.
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This screening benefits The Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP) &
Mariposas Sin Fronteras (MSF) via suggested donations at a sliding scale.

PROGRAM INCLUDES

Temple Island, 2020
by Anto Astudillo

Eddie Martinez is a dancer for Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. In 2009 Pina returned to Chile for her last residency before her passing that June. Eddie and I have continued our friendship ever since bonded by our love for Pina. In 2016, we collaborated on a short dance film. I told Eddie how I wanted to dance with the camera while he moved in the waters of Castle Island, MA. The film was shown as a 16mm projected loop for an expanded cinema event at the Boston Waterworks Museum. After that event I digitized the work print projected that night and created Temple Island, an ode to the body as our motor and our temple.

Anto (they/them) is a queer experimental filmmaker, curator and performance artist from Santiago, Chile, living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Rooted in physical theater, Anto explores dynamic interconnections between hybrid narrative, poetic documentary filmmaking and performance art. Anto is one of the founding members of the AgX Film Collective where they had a role programming 16mm film screenings. Currently, Anto works as an independent film curator and is the Program Coordinator at The Flaherty. Since January, 2020 Anto has been touring with "The People’s Revolt" a screening about Chile’s recent social uprising.

With this series we ask that each presenting artist identify a non-profit they wish to bring attention to and support through this screening Anto has selected both The Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP) & Mariposas Sin Fronteras (MSF)

Please consider making a donation to support these efforts.

OPEN AIR SCREENING SERIES:
The OPEN AIR SCREENING SERIES allows for 16mm film projection viewing with social and physical distance guidelines in place. 16mm film prints are projected, on loop, from dusk until dawn. Each artist receives an honorarium to support their practice. Each artist is asked to select a non-profit for a portion of the proceeds to benefit, a donation will be made in their name. And, YOU the audience are invited to enjoy the work, take part in the conversation and we ask that you consider making a donation as it directly supports the artist and the organization with which they share concern.
Curated by Steve Cossman, the OPEN AIR SCREENING SERIES is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.