Jersey Shore Appearance!

25 09 2011

Click here for Festival WebsiteOK, now that I’ve got your attention I have to confess that I’m not going to be sharing the screen with America’s favorite Jerseyites — it’s actually something much cooler.  Deconstructing Dad is being shown at the ATP festival on October 2nd in Asbury Park, NJ — which is of course an ultra famous Jersey shore town known for it’s music scene.

ATP stands for All Tomorrow’s Parties — and they know how to throw great ones — this UK based clan stages festivals throughout the UK and for the last couple of years has sponsored events in the USA.  Rolling Stone magazine has called ATP event “The Perfect Rock Festival.”  And several of my UK friends have let me know how very special these relatively intimate events are.

The  legendary UK trip-hop group Portishead are the co-curators of the festival and the film section is being curated by the equally legendary Criterion Collection.  The film is being shown at 11:30 am at The Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel, 1401 Ocean Avenue in Asbury Park.  Admission is free as it is to all films in the program which include a lot of classics, such as my friend Bob Downey‘s Putney Swope, Belle de Jour, 12 Angry Men, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas many more — good company to be in for my film!  And me as well, as I will be there introducing my film, and then doing a brief Q&A.  Hope to see you there!

—Stan Warnow





FREE Screening at Unsound Festival — NYC April 10th

4 04 2011

Unsound Festival

In a refreshing change for me, the film is being shown this Sunday close to home, at the very cool Unsound Festival in Manhattan.  This is a cutting-edge electronic music festival now in its second year that has already made a major impact on the NYC cultural scene.

Unsound was established in 2003 in Krakow, Poland, as a festival of advanced music. Starting out as an underground event, in recent years the festival has grown in size and scope.  Unsound currently produces an annual festival in Krakow at the end of October each year and now has expanded with the New York event.

THE NEW YORK TIMES said the NY edition, claims a shrewdly amorphous domain: a zone in a virtual Europe where electronics, arty, multimedia experiments, chamber-music meticulousness, punk impulses and DJ dance beats may all appear amid clouds of noise. This festival’s aesthetic: high-tech, allusive and not to be pinned down.” But one thing that can be pinned down is the time and place of the screening: Sunday April 10th, 3 pm at the Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building, 5 East 3rd Street, just east of the Bowery.  Here’s a Google map link as well.  And this is a FREE screening.  I’m attending — hope to see you there.

Also, the festival, which is produced in tandem with the Polish Cultural Institute, has lots of other appealing events — here’s a link to the main website. Definitely worth checking out…

—Stan Warnow





Free Screening — Soundasaurus in Calgary Tonight!

6 01 2011

A quick reminder to all in the Calgary area about the free screening at the Soundasaurus festival at the EPCOR centre tonight, January 7th at 7:30 pm.  This event will be truly unique as the Clavivox, Raymond Scott’s early proto keyboard synth will be on exhibit.  As far as anyone knows, this is the sole remaining example of that instrument (I think only four were built).

The first version was built around a Theremin assembled by Robert Moog.

I’ve arrived in Calgary today, and will be there tomorrow, so if by chance you live in that part of the world, hope to see you  there.

And the event is FREE! Click here for info

Stan Warnow-Calgary January 7, 2010





Library of Congress Screening

16 02 2010

More good news! The film has been selected for screening at the Library of Congress’s Jazz Film Series in Washington DC. How cool is that?! The date is April 12th.   And…it’s free! (your tax dollars at work, so if you can get tickets, you won’t be cutting into what you need to send to the IRS on the 15th) . Reservations may be made by phone, beginning one week before the show. Call (202) 707-5677 during business hours (Monday-Friday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm).   Here’s a link to their website listing for the series, http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/concert/0910-jazzfilm.html.  I’ll be there for a Q&A after the film, if you live in the DC area I hope you can make it!