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Inwood Art Works 2024 INWOOD FILM FESTIVAL

Check Please, directed by Victor Mignatti, Scott T. Hinson

Check Please, with its playful nod to silent comedies, is a very short short that recounts an IRL flirtation gone the way of the dating app.

Self Love
Self Love, directed by Montgomery Sutton

Based on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 62, a celebrity explores the extremes of her own self-love on a journey to discover what truly matters to her.

The Pillow Case
The Pillow Case, directed by Elias R Connolly

Two roommates struggle to sleep in the middle of the night, oblivious to the nefarious presence that is among them.

Hairpiece
Hairpiece, directed by Jamie Ruddy

Two kids knock off their father’s toupee in a pillow fight and believe they murdered him. Based on a true story about a dysfunctional family in 1983.

Bald
Bald, directed by Andrew Sanford

Is there a connection between hair and identity? Bald is a short film about one woman’s journey of self-acceptance.

The Late Set
The Late Set, directed by Bren Patrick Burke

In the wake of the pandemic, a jazz musician struggles to win back the affections of a former bandmate who’s life and career have moved on.

Josh and Lyla go to Dinner
Josh and Lyla go to Dinner, directed by Dylan Tuccillo

Their first date begins like any other, but ends in a free-for-all of embarrassing truths.

This is Inwood
This is Inwood, directed by Carlos V Lample

A born and bred New Yorker takes you on a personal and historical tour of the Inwood/Washington Heights neighborhoods of NYC.

Solitude
Solitude, directed by Yuyun Xiaoping MacAllister, Iryna Ignatenko

A study on paranoia goes awry, leading to a sinister delve into the thoughts and anxieties of the subject.

The Duplicate
The Duplicate, directed by Hamilton Beck

While taking a stroll in the rain, a woman is followed by a familiar face.

Inwood Art Works 2024 INWOOD FILM FESTIVAL

Seminar: Budgeting, or Telling Story of your Film through Numbers

Saturday, 12:05pm (Pay-what-you-can). Appropriate for beginners and professionals.
Before you make your movie, you need make a budget! Do you know how to tell the story of your film through numbers? Join Founder and Executive Producer of Inwood Art Works, Aaron Simms, as he shares the essential financial considerations all filmmakers need to account for before they shoot their first frame.

 

Long Shorts: Dancing Beyond the Boundaries of Realty | Saturday, 1:35pm

(45 minutes total screening time, plus a special post-screening filmmaker conversation)

Resurrection
Resurrection, directed by Anna Tan

Filmed in J. Hood Wright Park located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, this film portrays the jarring reality of integrating back into society in a search to find “normalcy” after isolating and quarantining during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. What was once mundane and routine may suddenly feel uncomfortable and unsettling, especially in navigating boundaries in both the public and private spheres. Nevertheless, this piece also seeks to provide a sense of hopefulness and optimism in that our communities will continue to be resilient and thrive.

Opening Ceremony
Opening Ceremony, directed by Manon Manavit

An experimental dance film that invites viewers to interpret it as if it were a dream. It revolves around a chance encounter between a dancer and a businessman in New York City, a portal that opens them to new experiences, and the bizarre characters they encounter along the way, inspired by the free-wheeling and spontaneous style of French New Wave cinema. Starring Rishi Mukherjee and Sloka Iyengar, with an original musical score by Matt Burkett. Dance director: Julia Bengtsson. Get ready for a wild ride!

The Gorgon Cycles
The Gorgon Cycles, directed by Miles Inada, Devyn McConachie, Tessa Brinckman

The Gorgon Cycles is an animated fever dream – an intricately layered invocation for the return of the long-banished visionary, Medusa. Built around a mesmerizing original score for alto flute and electronica, with a supporting cast of fish, snakes, dinosaurs, a cat, a monkey, and a magician, The Gorgon Cycles is a statement of violent optimism –- a contemplation of life on the brink of global catastrophe.

Stay With Me
Stay With Me, directed by Ben Stamper

Inspired by Internal Family Systems therapy, this film follows one urbanite encountering their disassociation, anxiety, workaholism, and depression personified. This individual draws near to each hurting part through the award-winning lens of film-maker Ben Stamper.

Inwood Art Works 2024 INWOOD FILM FESTIVAL, Seminar

Seminar: SAG-AFTRA Contracts for the Indie Creator

Friday, 4:00-4:45pm (Pay-what-you-can).
Learn the contracts available to you through SAG-AFTRA to empower you to make your film. Members of the SAG-AFTRA New York Local offer their expertise in everything contracts, budgeting, and creation. Q&A to follow.

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Inwood Art Works 2024 INWOOD FILM FESTIVAL, Opening Night

Opening Night Benefit featuring a special feature presentation of acclaimed documentary film, The Boys of Kingsbridge, and a post screening conversation with filmmaker Thom MacNamara, plus the “boys” Brendan Carroll, Danny McNally, and Mike Hussey and Inwood Art Works’ Founder and Executive Producer, Aaron Simms. Delicious food and beverages will be provided by Kingsbridge Social Club and Dyckman Beer Company.

Inwood Art Works presents: BIG TENT

Featuring Jerome Kitzke, Steve Rust, and Harvey Sorgen

Friday, April 5, 2024
8:00pm Doors 7:45pm

Holy Trinity Church Inwood (FIRST CONCERT HERE!)
20 Cumming Street, New York, NY 10034

Minimum Suggested Donation of $20. Pay online or at the door.

Enjoy a community concert of beat poetry and jazz improvisation performed by Big Tent. All are welcome!
They are not a political party, but given all the different musical points of view brought to bear by these three veteran improvisers, a delicious Big Tent in sound is created when drummer/percussionist Harvey Sorgen, bassist Steve Rust and pianist/vocalist Jerome Kitzke come together. The resulting music is possessed of raw energy or delicate filigree and everything in between, all delivered with a passionate verve rooted in broad deep emotions that are served beautifully by the prodigious technique each player possesses. Electric twists and turns abound in these pieces that sound at once spontaneous and composed. The use of poetry brings a tight formal cohesion to some of the cuts, so when you hear Kitzke reading Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s I Am Waiting with intermittent ringing piano chords over a stanza by stanza ranging bass line by Rust, joined at just the right moment by Sorgen’s insistent snare and kick drum cadence, you know you are not hearing your average improv band. When they are ferocious, the roar is also quirky and when they are tender, the tears that form will most likely come with a smile. Big Tent: endorsing bipartisan listening since 1998.

Get Tickets Here!