February 2-8
> Tuesday, February 3, 6pm, Free
Leonard Lopate Show Film Screening of Frank Capra’s American Madness
Please join us for a special cocktail hour at 6pm before the movie. Screening starts at 7pm.
It’s FREE but please RSVP at Projections@wnyc.org
The Leonard Lopate Show film series returns on Feb 3rd with a special screening of this rarely seen Frank Capra classic. American Madness tells the story of a progressive bank President whose solution to the Great Depression is to loan money to everyone—sound familiar? There’s also intrigue, a bank robbery and a pre-Hays Code romantic subplot that’s bound to scandalize!
Leonard will be talking about American Madness and other movies dealing with the financial system on his show the day of the screening from 1:30-2:00pm on 93.9 FM WNYC. Afterwards, join us for a special cocktail hour at 6pm and the screening at 7pm at Galapagos!
www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate
> Wednesday, February 4, 8pm, $10
Long Shorts/Short Shorts
An Entertaining Night Of Films & Videos by Erika Yeomans, Ilya Chaiken, Andrea Staka and Meredith Drum
Erika Yeomans pairs a night of her films with some of her favorite female directors. The program showcases engaging experimental narratives and compelling, edgy narrative work. Funny, dark, personal, eccentric: Program running time 88 minutes.
Highlights of the program:
Variety Magazines's Ten Best Directors of 2007 and 2006 Locarno Golden Leopard winner Andrea Staka's rarely seen shorts. Hotel Belgrade and Daleko make a special screening.
"Chubby Buddy is very cleverly shot and edited like a collage of grainy home movies, broken up into short chapters ending with awkward blackouts that feel almost like hiccups in the overall film. Filipowski is fascinating as the mopey obsessive at the centre, and Yeomans shows considerable skill both visually and thematically." Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall
"During one of Britney's earlier life-crises, writer Ben Greenman imagined just that, and wrote a little somethin'-somethin' called "Fragments from Death Comes For Britney Spears! The Musical" for Gawker. (Has to be more entertaining than Spring Awakening, yo.) Filmmaker Erika Yeomans adapted said work into a short film…which resulted in this little gem" - Nerve
"Ilya Chaiken's short film Blackout is a funny, genuinely unsettling look at an unfortunate hookup in the midst of the big power outage of 2003.... This short captures the bizarre electricity (ahem) in the air during a brief, similarly uncertain time"--Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine
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> Thursday, February 5, 8pm, Free (donation)
Bird’s views, videoplanets and Japanese living sculptures.
By Katja Loher and her team
Galapagos Art Space resident Artist Katja Loher has created “Videotellurium" - a grand, human scale sculptural representation of a solar system, to be installed in March, in Beijing, China.
"Videotellerium" is made from weather balloon "Videoplanets" and their orbiting video projectors that suggest satellites or moons The "Videoplanets" and their moons orbit a sun located in the centre of the room, at different speeds and in different directions. http://www.katjaloher.com/videotellurium.htm
The night presents Soari Tsukada's choreography: living sculptures! featuring the costumes for Katja's new movie-project designed by the two emerging Japanese fashion designers, Norico Matsuzaki & Yasuda Nozomi with live music by Asako Fujimoto.
> Friday, February 6, 9pm, $12
For the Love of Art Party
Artists in the fields of film, dance, music, and technology ambush the senses with sound, color, and motion.
Live performances every hour and interactive art installations running throughout the evening.
Come see Live: Hip Hop Dance! Video and Sound Installations! DJ! 3D Videos! Short Films! Acrobatics!
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> Saturday, February 7, 10pm, $10
Gato Loco de Bajo
Gato Loco de Bajo plays Cuban son from the early 21st century. Described as "a woman dancing with a tarantula in slow motion", de Bajo is just as as delicate and tender as it is sexy. Comprised of an arrangement of bass sax, tuba, baritone guitar, bass and congas, the band has been called "the ULTIMATE low-end band" (lucidculture.com). Playing modern arrangements of classic cuban music by such great composers as Arsenio Rodrigues, Chano Pozo, and Ignacio Pinero, this group makes you feel the music before you feel it.
www.myspace.com/GatoLocoNYC
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