A friend of mine, Erika Yeomans, is showing some of her short films on February 4 at the Galapagos Arts Space in Brooklyn. I produced one of these shorts ("Grand Gorge"). I plan to be in attendance and hope you will be too and help us fill the giant space. To buy tickets, click here.
LONG SHORTS/SHORT SHORTS An entertaining night of films & videos:
Erika Yeomans, Ilya Chaiken, Andrea Staka & Meredith Drum.
GALAPAGOS ARTS SPACE
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 at 8 pm Tickets $10.00
Tel: 718.222.8500 |16 main street | brooklyn
Featuring: Juliana Francis-Kelly, Holly Ramos, Kristin DiSpaltro,Casey Spooner, Michael Abbott Jr, Jenny Bass, Cosmo Pfeil, Mot Filipowski, Ben Greenman, Tom Gorman, Julie Strong, Vesna Stanojevic and Nebojsa Glogovac
Erika Yeomans pairs a night of her films with some of her favorite female directors. The program showcases engaging experimental narratives and compelling, edgy narrative work. The shorts are alternately funny, dark, melodramatic, absurd, poetic and personal.
Program Line up & Running time approx 88 minutes
- Chubby Buddy (Home Movie, Super 8, 13 minutes 2003). Meet Francis Howard, who gives up a career and a marriage to act upon some peculiar impulses.
- Boo (Horror, HD, 4 minutes 2008). A suspenseful Halloween tale about a young man who gets roped in by a cat lady.
- Grand Gorge: No God But Me (Melodrama/Western HD, 12 minutes 2008). A pastiche of western clichés; where white men seek redemption and revenge in a cyclical fashion.
- Fragments of Death Comes for Britney Spears! the Musical (Musical, HD, 8 mins, 2008). Based on McSweeney & New Yorker contributor Ben Greenman's "ripped from the tabloid headline" newsicals.
- Bunny Boy (Music Video, Beta, 5 mins, 1995). A woman becomes a glittered man to the tune of 10-CC's I'm not in Love.
Erika Yeomans, Program Curator/Filmmaker
Over the years, Yeomans has created an extensive body of work in theater, mixed media and film. Formerly the Artistic Director of the experimental group DOORIKA (Chicago and New York), she has focused on video and filmmaking since 1999. Her work has screened at film festivals and art institutions around the world, including: London's ICA, Lincoln Center's New York Video Festival, LA Freewaves, Berlin's Transmediale, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Silver Lake Film Festival, Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, Cinematek at the Danish Film Institute and New York's Anthology Film Archives. In 2006, she was awarded a New York State Media Arts Grant for her debut feature film POSE DOWN (90 mins, Super 16, 2007). In 2008,Yeomans completed 3 new video projects that continue to explore different film genres: Fragmentsfrom Death Comes for Britney Spears the Musical! (Musical, HD, 8 minutes, 2008), Boo! (Horror, HD 4minutes, 2008) and Grand Gorge: No God But Me (Western, HD, 12, 2008). She lives in New York City.
