Love can be painful to swallow. In this blacker than black comedic treatment of a lost romance, director Daniel Brothers touches on more than just pain caused by lost love. Coping is just half the battle.
Directed by Daniel Brothers
Roger Smith Shorts Film Festival Workshop 2009
Cast: Bryant Sullivan, Serene Aandahl, Cameron Mayo, Anna Bauer, David Green Crew: Executive Producer: John Knowles, Brendan Crane – Associate Producer: Thomas Henwood – Assistant Director: Joseph E. Torres – Camera: Mitchell Frye, Daniel Brothers – Editor: Janna Hochberg – Sound Mix: Anton Kreisl
About the Roger Smith Shots
With support from Ghetto Film School, Brooklyn Brewery and the Roger Smith Hotels patronage to the arts, the Roger Smith Shorts 09 (Festival Workshop) was conceived. The concept was envisioned as a collaboration of creativity and ingenuity among visual storytellers and those who form the structure behind it.
A whimsical reinterpretation of mistaken identity, Director Dmitry Povolotsky explores this classic subject matter focusing his comedic vision on a hotel maid, a diva actress, and her lover.
DP: Christina Voros – Art Direction: Julia Cairo – Asst. Director: Rebecca Conroy – Sound Recordist: Marcin Tyszka – Editor: Julia Kots
About the Roger Smith Shorts
With support from Ghetto Film School, Brooklyn Brewery and the Roger Smith Hotels patronage to the arts, the Roger Smith Shorts 09 (Festival Workshop) was conceived. The concept was envisioned as a collaboration of creativity and ingenuity among visual storytellers and those who form the structure behind it.
In, “On the rocks”, two dudes are confronted with the task of scoring ice for drinks for their dates. What happens to them on this journey is both destructive and life affirming. The protaganists are faced with a grisly task in order to get the ice cold redemption which they seek. We are faced with the question: Will this experience put their friendship “on the rocks” or will it strengthen their resolve?
Directed by Sean Cunningham
Roger Smith Shorts Film Festival Workshop 2009
Cast: Joe Cummings, Brett Siddell, Dirk Keysser, Jillian Federman, Michal Freier, Brittany Angley, Rafael Pimentel Crew: Written and Produced by Jonathan Monina & Sean Cunningham – Executive Producers: Brendan Crane and John Knowles – Assistant Director; Jonathan Monina – Production Coordinator: Leah Rose Damour – Production Assistant: Shon McGoy – Music by; Justin Vinokur, Adam Keller, Sean Cunningham, The Foot Clan – Set Design; Leah Rose Damour – Lighting; Jonathan Monina – Sound; Michael Parish – Director of Photography; Sean Cunningham – Editor; Sean Cunningham
Website; http://herostatusfilms.com/
About the Roger Smith Shots
With support from Ghetto Film School, Brooklyn Brewery and the Roger Smith Hotels patronage to the arts, the Roger Smith Shorts 09 (Festival Workshop) was conceived. The concept was envisioned as a collaboration of creativity and ingenuity among visual storytellers and those who form the structure behind it.
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#SMartCAMP introduces Molly Crabapple of Dr. Sketchy at the Roger Smith Hotel.
Molly Crabapple is an award-winning artist, author and founder of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School. She has been called “One of New York’s coolest denizens” by the NY Post, “a downtown phenomenon” by the New York Times, and “THE artist of our time” by comedian Margaret Cho. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Marvel Comics, and she has spoken at the Museum of Modern Art, South by Southwest Interactive, and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki. Molly calls New York her home, but travels internationally speaking, exhibiting art, and spreading the Sketchy’s gospel.
Dr. Sketchy’s in the Solarium @RShotel
The amazing Raquel Reed (@ihateraquelreed) in the Solarium of the Roger Smith Hotel.
These sketches were created by Ruth Kim, an aspiring artist residing in New York City.
With help from Panman A.K.A John Knowles & Abi Prince A.K.A Fire Monster FreakCast and Lulu will embark on their next live show venture @ Fresh Long Island.
We may all be living inside of what we refer to as an Electric Womb. This is both a negative as well as a positive space. To explain this we choose the allegory of the internet as one example of an abstraction that is both tangible and intangible at once: an ever evolving fabric, made of fibers, to create and over all expression that maybe as of yet impossible to shoot out from and see from all sides (at least for us). It has been regarded as a “world wide web” in which we live and communicate through, where we garner platitudes of sustenance from and find it evermore difficult to separate our lives away from this space (be it negative or positive.)
New generations are being born into this space every day and they, unlike our generation, may never know through actual experience what it is like without this fabric, this web.
What does this mean for us? This is the first question.
Science tells us that electricity exists. If you type in “electricity” into google the first response in the search will be the wiki entry for electricity.
It states: Electricity (from the New Latin ?lectricus, “amber-like”[a]) is a general term that encompasses a variety of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electric charge. These include many easily recognizable phenomena, such as lightning and static electricity, but in addition, less familiar concepts, such as the electromagnetic field and electromagnetic induction.
In general usage, the word “electricity” is adequate to refer to a number of physical effects. In scientific usage, however, the term is vague, and these related, but distinct, concepts are better identified by more precise terms:
Electric charge – a property of some subatomic particles, which determines their electromagnetic interactions. Electrically charged matter is influenced by, and produces, electromagnetic fields.
Electric current – a movement or flow of electrically charged particles, typically measured in amperes.
Electric field – an influence produced by an electric charge on other charges in its vicinity.
Electric potential – the capacity of an electric field to do work on an electric charge, typically measured in volts.
Electromagnetism – a fundamental interaction between the magnetic field and the presence and motion of an electric charge.
What is most interesting here could be that science (if science is an entity of knowledge) refers to electricity as a phenomenon. A meditation on this will lead any thinker to several smiling revelations. But that should not be vastly important. The fact remains, the human/animal body has always been induced by this phenomenon which has inevitably connected us to nature. Not to mention the notion of conduction. If the body may be about 60% water than we are perfect vehicles for the movement of this charge. We seem to reside in a space (such could be its property) that by this principle should be magnetized by this charge and so, we have all the capacity to control the fundamental interaction of polarity.
This seems to correspond with the philosophy of magick: the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will. And for whatever reasons the notion of 2012 has everyone talking, thinking outside the box, hypothesizing, people are charged up on this issue. There certainly seems to be a great polarity of how people feel about these impending circumstances. Time keeps on moving and the years keep changing.
In the spirit of communication evolution and the recognition of these circumstances. FreakCast and Happymooncake are prepared to run certain experiments in various spaces reserved for such work. If we recognize our current conditions as an electric womb, then by the laws of nature something must come of it.
A birthing, a miscarriage, an abortion, a spiritual marriage, another greater womb… All possibilities are possible and we would like to investigate and get a greater divined insight into those possibilities.
