Listen With Your Eyes Video Festival

Nov. 10-17, 2006

presenting two events, an installation & a microcinema:

LOOK@ROSENDALE

a video installation at No_Space Gallery,
Nov. 10-17
449 Main St. , Rosendale, NY
 Opening Fri., Nov. 10, 6-9 pm
 Featuring work by Angela Alston, Mark Bernard, Dick Crenson, Carrie Dashow and Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg, Joanna Gangemi, Shoshanna Lakshita Gleich and Miana Grafals, Betty Greenwald, Dani Leventhal, and Eric Zechman.

If you're coming by No_Space, the best place to park is the municipal lot behind the Rosendale Theatre, 330 Main St. Be sure not to park in the theater's lot.

and

Sex, Death & Everything in Between

a microcinema with short works by varied artists
Sat., Nov. 11, 8 pm, $8
 at Rosendale Cafe, 434 Main St., Rosendale, NY



Coming from out of town? Williams Lake Resort is offering a special B&B rate for the festival weekend. Just mention "Rosendale Video Festival" when you contact them.




2005 Festival: Our Daily Bread

Films by Bresson & Dvortsevoy

Nov. 11 & 12, 2005
Rosendale Theatre

  • Nov. 11, 7 pm
    Bread Day & Paradise     by Sergey Dvortsevoy, with an introduction by special guest, filmmaker Andrei Zagdansky, and reception at No_Space Gallery

  • Nov. 12, 7 pm
    Au Hasard Balthazar     by Robert Bresson

  • Nov. 12, 10 am-5 pm
    “Body as Camera”    , a day-long contemplative arts workshop combining theater exercises, video making, and meditation

    • Advance tickets available at the Rosendale Theatre. Or purchase tickets online for a small surcharge. for the Friday night, Dvortsevoy documentaries or Saturday night, Au Hasard Balthazar.

    Details

    The lyrical and hypnotic Paradise (1995) records a nomad family's life on the wind-beaten steppes of southern Kazakhstan. Filled with intimate, unforgettable images and flashes of humor, the film provides a window onto life in a part of the world seldom seen by the West.

    Bread Day (1998) captures a portrait of a group of elderly pensioners living in isolation near St. Petersburg, Russia. Once a week a train passes the village, leaving behind a freight car carrying bread then pushed by hand to the village. Unflinching yet relieved by Dvortsevoy's charming attention to domestic animal life, the film is a remarkable record of rural poverty, traditional life, and old age at the close of the 20th century.

    Sergey Dvortsevoy makes classic documentary films that find the poetry and dignity in the everyday lives of his subjects. Eschewing narration and other external structural elements, he presents breathtaking yet unadorned images of actual events that unfold to their own rhythms and reveal the delight of patiently looking. His films have garnered awards at festivals around the world. The New York Times has described Dvortsevoy's work as "slow and elegant" and "astonishingly intimate." The Chicago Tribune writes: "Dvortsevoy is a remarkable filmmaker with a keen eye, and Bread Day adds to his burgeoning international reputation."

    Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) is arguably the richest, most complex film realized by Robert Bresson, a master of French cinema. The film follows the fortunes of the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, experiencing all manner of kindness and cruelty. But for his occasional raw braying, Balthazar bears silent witness to the cruelty, loneliness, and nobility of being alive. Bresson’s unconventional approach to composition, sound, and narrative shapes a seemingly simple story which becomes a moving parable of purity and transcendence. "Heart-breaking and magnificent... the supreme masterpiece by one of the greatest of 20th-century filmmakers. Bringing together all Bresson’s highly developed ideas about acting, sound, and editing, as well as grace, redemption, and human nature, Balthazar is understated and majestic, sensuous and ascetic, ridiculous and sublime. It would be a masterpiece for its soundtrack alone... No one has ever made better use of close-ups, more precisely delineated off-screen space, or so flawlessly established a dramatic rhythm... Bresson’s narrative hints at an immense story involving betrayal, theft, even murder. But its real concern is the state of being."
    – J. Hoberman, Village Voice

    Au Hasard Balthazar is being presented with the support of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the French Embassy.



    Listen With Your Eyes Festival 2004

    Celebrating the films of Nathaniel Dorsky

    September 24 & 25
    Rosendale, New York