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August 8, 2014 ANIMAL

Here are some art, film, music and other things happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 83° LOW 67° In theaters: The Dog documentary about John Wojtowicz, the real-life inspiration for Dog Day Afternoon (screening with Q&A at the Lincoln Film Center this weekend); Web Junkie documentary (filmmaker in […]

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July 21, 2014 Marina Galperina

As part their local filmmaker series, Rhett Jones’ The Villains is screening this evening at Videology in Williamsburg. Earlier this year, ANIMAL profiled the independent film inspired by the proliferation of DIY media and Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise, with Marshall McLuhan theory standing in for ideologies of Mao.   A group of students form a political micro-collective in their shared apartment. They are on a […]

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May 21, 2013 Marina Galperina

New York-based, internationally-sprawling Aboveground Animation collective is showing new work at MOCA at the end of the month, presented by MOCAtv. Casey Jane Ellison’s crew consistently produces solid, varied work that pushes media boundaries and fucks your brain into a different dimension. The latest commissioned works from Kathleen Daniel, Barry Doupe, Erin Dunn, Lauren Gregory, Jacolby Satterwhite and […]

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May 8, 2013 Julia Dawidowicz

Next week, Eyebeam Art+Technology Center — shout out Eyebeam! — will present video_dumbo’s eight annual moving image art festival. The ongoing exhibition will feature work from 106 international contemporary artists, including fourteen video screenings and eight works that make up the concurrent installation — Re-Return to Sender.  The collection explores the history and metamorphosis of moving image as an artform, from […]

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April 16, 2013 Marina Galperina

So, this one time, notorious contemporary artists Eva and Franco Mattes showed a couple of people the most horrible videos ever made, dug out of the internet, still embedded in the volunteers brains, goddammit. Their YouTube-style reaction videos were edited into Emily’s Video. It’s a brilliant, devastating 15-minute work of video art. Last seen at the Moving Image […]

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