Ocularis and Cinema Tropical proudly present Cine Movil - New York City’s first open-air film festival showcasing world-class Latin American films, food, culture and music. During the heyday of the U.S. drive-in, people drove to see movies on the big screen. In rural parts of Latin America the cine movil (mobile cinema) drove the cinema to the people, presenting outdoor screenings in plazas and parks. For four nights this August, Ocularis and Cinema Tropical, in collaboration with arts institutions and grassroots groups, will bring this popular tradition to New York City.
Cine Movil will feature:
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Classic & contemporary Latin American films (in Spanish or Portuguese with English subtitles)
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Ethnic cuisine provided by local restaurants and community food vendors
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Ambient lighting designed by Galapagos Art and Performance Space
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Latin musicians, drummers, and DJs will play prior to screenings as audiences set up blankets
Free Admission At All Screenings
For more information and rain updates, call (718) 388-8713. Click
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Sunday, August 11
P.S.1.
Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue
Long Island City, Queens
Noon-6pm
Cine Movil will take place as a part of Dia del Mar/By the Sea: A Day for Families, an all-afternoon event with activities organized by artists for kids and families. From noon until 8pm, Cine Movil video artists will lead a youth media workshop in which participants ages12-18 will direct, film, and edit a 5 minute video documentary that will be screened before the feature film that evening. For more information and to register for this free workshop, email lauren@ocularis.net or call 718-388-8713.
6-8:30: Food and music in the courtyard
DJ Candela from Cienpies spinning sizzling salsa with live percussion.
Salsa lessons for the early birds.
8:30pm feature film:
El Santo El Enmascarado de Plata
vs. La Invasión de los Marcianos / El Santo Against the Martian
Invasion
Alfredo B. Crevenna, Mexico, 1967,
100 min.
El Santo, Mexico’s famed silver-masked wrestler, saves Mexico
City and the planet from an extraterrestrial menace. A campy classic complete
with wrestling thrills, disintegration rays, and aliens in togas.
Wednesday, August 21
Socrates
Sculpture Park: On the Waterfront
Broadway at Vernon Boulevard
Long Island City, Queens
Pre-screening music TBA
8:30pm
Guantanamera
Tomás Gutiérrez-Alea & Juan Carlos Tabío, Cuba,
1997, 104 min.
A graceful, comic-romantic road movie about a group of friends and relatives
accompanying the body of a famous diva on a journey across Cuba to her
final resting place in Havana.
Preceded by:
Por la primera vez / For the First Time
Octavio Cortazar, 1967, 12min.
A cine movil crew from the Cuban Film Institute visits a remote
mountain village to show the people their first motion picture.
Presented in association with the Socrates Sculpture Park and the American
Museum of the Moving Image. The On the Waterfront film series runs Wednesday
Nights from July 10th-August 28th at Socrates Sculpture Park. For directions
and more information visit www.socratessculpturepark.org
or call 718.956.1819
Sunday,
August 25
Grand Ferry Park - Williamsburg
Grand Street, west of Kent Avenue, at the Waterfront
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Pre-screening music by La Chalupa
8:30pm
Labor of Love:
Recent Videos from Mexico and the Latin Diaspora
Meet struggling magicians, a strong café proprietor, communist
aliens, and the best chocolate milk maker in the tropics. Local filmmakers
will be in attendance.
Niko El Chocomilero / Niko The Chokomilk Man
Alex Rodil & Arcadi Palerm, 2000, 3
min.
Night Magic New
York premiere!
Bernardo Ruiz, 2002, 17 min.
Road Coffee
Ricardo Benet, 2000, 8min.
¿Quienes Son?
Alex Stikich, 2001, 8min.
followed by
Cine Mambembe
Lais Bodanzky & Luiz Bolognesi, Brazil,
1998, 56 min.
A delightful documentary made by two filmmakers who embark on a journey
to the interior of Brazil, screening Brazilian features and short films
to audiences in town plazas from the southern Bahia to the distant edges
of the Amazon. Their traveling cinema brings many spectators their first
encounter with cinema on the big screen.
Tuesday, August 27
Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn
(directions)
Enter at Myrtle Ave at South Portland Avenue
Presented in association with The
African Film Festival
Pre-screening music TBA
8:30pm
Orfeu Negro/Black Orpheus
Marcel Camus, 1959, 106 min.
On the eve of Carnival, Orpheus, a beloved samba singer from the
slums above Rio de Janeiro falls in love with Eurydice. This lyrical retelling
of the tragic Greek myth takes a journey through Afro-Brazilian ritual,
rhythm, and dance. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival,
Black Orpheus launched the bossa nova music craze in the United States.
Preceded by
Les Malles
Felix Samba N'Diaye, Senegal, 13 min.
Sunday, September 1st
Closing Party at
Galapagos Art & Performance Space
70 North Sixth Street Williamsburg, Brooklyn
9pm-1am
Get down with DJs Acidophilus and Juba, spinning la salsa dura with diasporic
pretensions, a musical homage to the '70s, all over the globe. That means
Gitanos with Afro picks, Trenchtown rockers, Colombian salsa rebels and
more.
Kinosonik (an Ocularis collective) goes Latin, serving up a spicy visual
collage of multi-layered film, video and slide projections.
Admission $5