|
[The
Dark City]
Thursday,
April 19, 2007 at 7pm. Free
Featuring Robert Polito & Todd Colby. Films by Ry-Russo
Young, Steven K. Tsuchida & Gabe Ibanez. Jonathan
Shorr Gallery, 109 Crosby St. (off Prince St.) in
SOHO, NYC
Robert
Polito is the author of Savage Art: A Biography
of Jim Thompson, which received the National Book
Critics Circle Award and an Edgar; Doubles (a
book of poems); and others. He is the editor of the
Library of America volumes Crime Novels: American
Noir of the 30s and 40s and American Noir of the 50s.
He is Director of the Writing Program at The New
School.
Todd
Colby
is the author of Riot in the Charm Factory: New
and Selected Work and more recently, Tremble
& Shine (Soft Skull Press) and the editor of Heights
of the Marvelous: A New York Anthology (St.
Martins Press). He was the lyricist and vocalist for
the now-legendary New York band Drunken Boat.
Maquina.
Gabe Ibanez's remarkable urban horror film
giving illusions to the work of Shinya Tsukamoto.
A lonely young girl is surgically fitted with a sexual
contraption that makes her the deadliest instrument
to men. Won top prize at the Potenza International
Film Festival.
|
A
Ninja Pays Half My Rent follows the story of a young
man who learns to deal with a ninja as a roommate. Barry's
roommate suddenly passes away from eating a grapefruit.
Unable to pay the entire rent for his apartment, Barry
must find a roommate. Mysteriously, a ninja appears
in his apartment and the crazy and comical story unfolds
in Steven K. Tsuchida's short film. Provided
by Filmmovement.com
Director
Ry Russo-Young presents a film-as-art projection
that puts a personalized and distinctly modern spin
on the Hitchcock classic Psycho. Three separate
women play Marion Crane -- now immortalized
by Janet Leigh and a certain shower scene-in three
different scenes. Official selection Tribeca Film
Festival and won Best Experimental Film at 2005 Chicago
International Film Festival and 2006 SXSW Film Festival.
|
