MONO NO AWARE PRESENTS: WHITE ROUGHAGE by Steve Cossman
As part of the OPEN AIR SCREENING SERIES.

Dusk on FRIDAY SEPT 4th until Dawn SATURDAY SEPT. 5th &
Dusk on SATURDAY SEPT. 5th until Dawn SUNDAY SEPT. 6th.
OPEN AIR SCREENING SERIES presents 16MM films on LOOP visible from a distance from dusk until dawn every weekend.
72 ROCKWELL PLACE, Brooklyn, New York 11217 - Between BRIC Media Arts Center and BAM Rose Cinemas.
A printed program will be available on location. FULL DETAILS BELOW.
This screening directly benefits through suggested donations at a sliding scale.

PROGRAM INCLUDES

WHITE ROUGHAGE by Steve Cossman
The work presented is a reflection on humanity’s ecological relationship. The violent pulse speaks with a sense of urgency and chaotic struggle while the hypnotic arrangement keeps us in blinding awe us to its condition. - SVC

Steve Cossman is Founder and Executive Director of Mono No Aware (est. 2007); a non-profit cinema-arts organization whose annual cinema-arts festival exhibits the work of contemporary artists that incorporate live film projections and altered light as part of a performance, sculpture or installation (Expanded Cinema).  For the 10th edition of the annual festival in 2016, MONO presented the work of over 150 artists for 22 nights at 18 institutions across New York (Electronic Arts Intermix, Center for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, Alice Austen House, Ace Hotel,  and more) to an audience of over 5,000.  In 2009 he helped the organization establish a series of film making workshops that has grown to educate 700 participants a year locally with an outreach program servicing another 1000 internationally. In support of continued practice, the organization maintains an equipment rentals program and imports / distributes a variety of film stocks out of their Brooklyn home office.  Through the organization, Cossman curates an in-person screening series entitled Connectivity Through Cinema presenting the work of contemporary moving image artists.  His efforts within the organization have earned the attention of Art In America, the BBC World News, The Brooklyn Rail, The NY Times, ViceTV and GQ magazine.  In 2015 he oversaw the acquisition of a Dallas-based film lab allowing the organization to expand upon the small wet-lab facilities and build the nations first 501c3 motion picture laboratory dedicated to filmmakers and artists of the photo-chemical moving image, now located in Downtown Brooklyn New York.

His first major work on film, TUSSLEMUSCLE, earned him Kodak’s Continued Excellence in Filmmaking award and has screened at many festivals and institutions around the world. He has completed residencies at MoMA PS1 as part of Expo 1, at the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto and Brooklyn Magazine named Cossman one of the ‘Top 100 most Influential persons of Brooklyn Culture.’   He has been a visiting artist at Beijing Film Academy (Beijing, China), CAFA (Chinese Academy of Fine Art), The Len Lye Foundation (New Plymouth, New Zealand), Cooper Union, Brown University, Dartmouth, Yale, SAIC, the University of Pennsylvania.  His second work on film, W H I T E C A B B A G E, a collaboration with Jahiliyya Fields of L.I.E.S., had its U.S. premiere at Anthology Film Archives.  RELAY, an experimental form documentary shot in Japan with the musician Ei Wada had its premiere at the JAPAN CUTS festival at the Japan Society of New York.

Cossman holds a graduate certificate in Film Production with a focus on Animation from The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague or FAMU Prague, Czech Republic. He has participated in non-matriculating studies at FIT, Pratt, The New School, The University of Hartford, and International Center of Photography.

Steve Cossman currently lives and works in Brooklyn as a filmmaker, educator and activist.

With this series we ask that each presenting artist identify a non-profit they wish to bring attention to and support through this screening. Steve has selected The American Red Cross in Beirut to support their efforts healing those victims of the devastating blast.

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MONO NO AWARE 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 from MONO to support their practice. Each artist is asked to select a non-profit for a portion of the proceeds to benefit, to which MONO will make a donation 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.