BICS Upcoming schedule

Every first and third Monday of the month Traveling cinema presents
the BROOKLYN INDEPENDENT CINEMA SERIES. Curated by Joe Pacheco.

AN ALL SHORTS PROGRAM.
BOBBY BIRD:THE DEVIL IN DENIM. 9 min • 2005 • US. Aging rock musician Bobby Bird explains the origins of his many tattoos.directed by Carson Mell
www.carsonmell.comK-7. 18 min • 2006 • US. An ordinary job interview becomes a battle for life or death when Vincent Kincaid rates a 'K-7' on his psychological profile. But what does 'K-7' mean? directed by Christopher Leone

TEAM QUEEN. 4 min • 2006 • US. The new girl in school is thrown into a topsy-turvy madhouse of high school hellcats. music by Triple Creme. directed by Leah Meyerhoff

PATTERNS. 9 min • 2005 • Canada • Pauline waits for a phone call, misses the phone call, gets the phone call and regrets the phone call in this stylized allegory of innocence and experience. directed by Jamie Travis.

BY MODERN MEASURE. 6 min • 2006 • USA • French/English Subtitles • B&W. An amateur French sociologist observes the lives of two young Americans. directed by Matthew Lessner

THE TOURIST. 15 min • 2005 • USA • English • Color/B&W. A woman afraid to leave her Brooklyn apartment makes a puzzling discovery as she struggles with her dreams, memories and the mundane.
directed by James Israel & Jeff Israel

MOTT MUSIC. 30 min • 2005 • US. Once a part of Mott Iron Works in the 1880’s, Beethoven Pianos is now a place of piano restoration. Listen to the philosophies of a crew dedicated to a craft on the threat of extinction as they speak out in a world absorbed with technology and electric instruments. directed by Jarred Alterman

• Additional Shorts TBA •

Every first and third Monday of the month Traveling cinema presents
the BROOKLYN INDEPENDENT CINEMA SERIES. Curated by Joe Pacheco.

Feature Program
FREE LISI: FEAR & LOATHING IN DENVER. 74 min • 2007 • US. Free Lisl: Fear & Loathing in Denver explores the most significant achievement of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's last years - the freeing of Lisl Auman who was sentenced to life without parole at the age of 21 for the murder of a Denver police officer. After receiving a letter from prisoner Lisl in 2001, Hunter enlisted the support of the nation's top criminal defense lawyers, held a rally on the steps of the Colorado State Capitol, and co-wrote an article for Vanity Fair subtitled "Lynching in Denver" - all in an attempt to free Lisl from life in prison. directed by Wayne Ewing
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Short Program
BOLERIUM. 23 min • 2006 • US. ColorBolerium captures a day in the life of one of the most important bookstores in America devoted to preserving the history of the world's social movements, and follows its owners as they direct their staff of activist historians and interact with a colorful parade of booksellers and collectors. produced by Nathan Kensinger, directed by Keary Kensinger.

 

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THE LAST OF TRAVELING CINEMA.
After four years and close to 200 films screened, Traveling Cinema is taking a break.

DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN BUYS. 1947. US. A film made up of seven dreams crafted by a who's who of the 40's avant garde: 1)"Desire" by Max Ernst; music Paul Bowles; 2)"The girl with the prefabricated heart" by Fernand Léger; 3) "Ruth, roses and revolvers" by Man Ray; music, Darius Milhaud; 4)"Discs" by Marcel Duchamp; music by John Cage; 5 & 6)"Circus" and "Ballets" by Alexander Calder; music by David Diamond; 7)"Narcissus" by Hans Richter; music by Louis Applebaum. Directed by HANS RICHTER

DAGUERREOTYPES (1974) France. 80mn. Varda is one of the few New Wave veterans still making personal and relevant films. Her "Gleaners and I," shot in DV, set the tone for a new generation of filmmakers. Daguerreoptype, shot in 16mm (the dv of its time) is a documentary about rue Daguerre where the director has lived for forty years. She interviews the shop-owners on her block - cafe, hair salon, accordion store, butcher etc.....most of whom have been in business since the 50's. She focuses on the rituals of everyday life, compares life stories and, without a hint of patronizing or pretension, manages somehow to articulate a silent commentary on social life that seems to spell universal truths. Humanism at its best - not to mention one of the best portrayal of the Paris of the 70's. Most of the stores have since vanished, except for the accordion store....and Varda's production company which is housed in one of the old storefronts. Directed by AGNES VARDA.

FOREST OF BLISS. (1986) US. 99 min. An extraordinary documentary by a master of the genre. Robert Gardner leads us through Benares, fascinated by the way death permeates both the mundane and the sacred. The film unfolds without voiceover or subtitles, letting images of daily life tell their own stories and using editing and juxtapositions to articulate his wordless commentary . Seamus Heaney said of the film " It is hard to distinguish the beauty of this film's technical means from the strength of its subject matter, which is always a sure sign of achieved artistic purpose. Robert Gardner transmits the sensation of the deep and literate gaze, and does so with an intensity that passes from the documentary into the visionary." Directed by ROBERT GARDNER.

SALT OF THE EARTH. US. 1954. (94 min). Produced at the height of the McCarthy hysteria by a team of blacklisted filmmakers, the film is the hardly fictionized story of a 15 months strike by Mexican American zinc miners in New Mexico. Produced with the help of the union using non-professional actors it was considered so controversial at the time that it only ended up being shown in 13 theaters across the country. Repeatedly portrayed as an evil communist propaganda vehicle, the film was hardly seen for years but has since become a classic based both on its content and its unique esthetic - it even got official recognition when it was included in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Directed by HERBERT J. BIBERNAN.