This evening IndieScreen will be playing host to “Northside Shorts – This Point in Time”, a collection of short films show as art of the Northside Festival. Quite a mouthful but the slate looks quite promising. For one thing they have all been directed by New York filmmakers, a number from Brooklyn itself. While Rooftop Films is not technically running the show —the screen has not been moved up to the theater’s roof as far as I am aware— their imprint is on the screening and the event is on their calendar. What follows is the evening’s line up!
Welcome to Pine Point (Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons of The Goggles | Canda | 14 min.)
Imagine your hometown never changed. Part book, part film, part family photo album, Welcome to Pine Point unearths a place frozen in time and discovers what happens when an entire community is erased from the map. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada. interactive.nfb.ca/#/pinepoint
Broad Channel (Sarah J. Christman | Brooklyn, NY | 13 min.)
Over the course of four seasons, nuances of everyday activity are examined along one narrow stretch of public shoreline on New York City’s Broad Channel Island. Moments of recurrence and change cycle through an ecosystem rooted in migration.
Door Man (Andrew Goldman and Andrew Blackwell | Brooklyn, NY | 5 min.)
Block (Chadd Harbold | Brooklyn, NY | 12 min.)
A young actress living in Brooklyn discovers how profoundly her hostile environment has affected her.
Love Lockdown (Nadia Hallgren | Bronx, NY | 19 min.)
Love Lockdown is a short documentary inspired by the impassioned phone calls and shout-outs made to prisoners on Lockdown Love, a popular late-night radio show in New York City. The film tells the story of Shoshanna, a young mother from the Bronx as she waits to learn the fate of Felix, the father of her children, who is incarcerated and faces a 10 year sentence. Dialing tirelessly, waiting hours on hold, Shoshanna’s phone calls tell an unconventional story of love and commitment, as she works to realize a life with or without the man she loves.
Train (Darius Clarke Monroe | Brooklyn, NY | 7 min.)
Carl just wants a quiet ride home to Brooklyn at the end of the day.
The Voyagers (Penny Lane | New York, NY | 16 min.)
In the summer of 1977, NASA sent Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 on an epic journey into interstellar space. Together and alone, they will travel until the end of the universe.
