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Upcoming Screenings

Rain Painting will screen as part of Lost Highways, Embodied Travels,” curated by Kornelia Boczkowska from films included in her recent book of the same title on road movies in experimental cinema.

Works are included by Stephen Arthur, Jessica Bardsley, Bill Brown, Michaela Grill, Sky Hopinka, Ken Kobland, Ann Deborah Levy, Bill Morrison, Eric Patrick, Peter Rose and Jon Behrens (RIP) and even more rarities in this diverse program of animated, handmade, found footage, narrative and structuralist films, diaries, multi-screen video installations and remakes of Hollywood classics that expand the idea of what a road movie can be.

Thursday, December 7, 2023

Doors open at 7:30pm / Program begins at 8:00pm

UnionDocs, 352 Onderdonk Ave, Ridgewood, NY

Directions by subway from Manhattan:  Take the L train to DeKalb Avenue, then walk 4 blocks North on Dekalb Ave. to Onderdonk Ave.  UnionDocs is on the SE corner with its entrance on Onderdonk Ave.

Tickets and more info:  https://uniondocs.org/event/lost-highways-embodied-travel-2023-12-07s/

Other recent news:

Rain Painting has been included in the recently published book, LOST HIGHWAYS, EMBODIED TRAVELS; the Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video, by Kornelia Boczkowska:  https://brill.com/display/title/64181

 

Interviews and Press:

 

WATER FALLS, New York City reviewed by Francesca Rusalen in the blog L’Emergere del Possibile (The Emergence of the Possible), March 17, 2020:

https://emergeredelpossibile.blogspot.com/2020/03/water-falls-new-york-city.html

For the English translation

Video/Oxford Film Festival Red Carpet Interview:

Interview with Ann Deborah Levy in Oxford Film Festival Blog:

 

Past Screenings:

Journey(s) the Personal Cinema of Ann Deborah Levy a retrospective of her short films screened along with a photo exhibition, curated from her digital photographic series “Through Glass,” at Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NY 2023

Journey(s) screened in the program “Portals” at the Athens International Film + Video Festival, Athens, Ohio, 2023

Journey(s) screened in the program “Luz Anónima” (Anonymous Light) at Postales a Lumière (Postcards of Light) Film Festival, Caracas, VENEZUELA, 2022

Journey(s) received an Honorable Mention, and screened at Beyond Border International Film Festival, Kolkata, INDIA, 2022

WATER FALLS, New York City, screened at Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, Oklahoma City, 2022.  https://wideopeneff.wixsite.com/my-site

WATER FALLS, New York City: screened in the 8th annual “New Year / New Works” a virtual screening event of the Film-Makers’ Coop, New York City, 2021

WATER FALLS, New York City: Girona Film Festival, Girona, Spain 2020.

WATER FALLS, New York City: in “Fragments of a Whole,” curated by Tomonari Nishikawa, Transient Visions Festival of the Moving Image, Johnson City (Binghamton), NY,  2019 http://www.transientvisions.org/2019tv.html

On the Train to Kutná Hora…and Back: “Listening to Landscapes,” a program, curated by Chris Lynn, on how audiovisual artists engage with urban and rural landscapes and how sound can be a central component for exploration and discovery. Silver Spring, MD, 2018

Rain Painting, On the Train to Kutná Hora…and Back,  Spectator(s), and Watercolors screened along with films of the late Gary Goldberg in the inaugural program of the new experimental screening series, Hijack, curated by Joey Huertas.  Brooklyn Community Foundation, Brooklyn, NY, 2017

Rain Painting, On the Train to Kutná Hora…and Back, Spectator(s) and Watercolors: “ Ann Deborah Levy and Chris Lynn; Travelers with Cameras,” Port Washington Public Library, Port Washington, NY, 2016

Rain Painting: “Experimental Documentaries,” curated by Tova Beck-Friedman, Cellular Cinema, Minneapolis, MN, 2016

Rain Painting:  “New Year, New Works,” curated by Joel Schlemowitz, The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York City,  2016

Spectator(s): Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, Johnson City (Binghamton), NY, 2015. http://www.transientvisions.org/

Rain Painting: Bideodromo International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao, SPAIN, 2015.  http://www.bideodromo.com

Rain Painting: Kraljevski Filmski Festival,  Kraljevo, SERBIA, festival, 2015.  http://www.kff.rs/index.html

Rain Painting: Female Eye Film Festival, Toronto, CANADA, 2015. http://www.femaleeyefilmfestival.com/

Spectator(s): Moviate Underground Film Festival, Harrisburg, PA, 2015.   http://moviate.org

On the Train to Kutná Hora…and Back and Rain Painting: Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH, 2015.  http://athensfilmfest.org/ 

Rain Painting: International Video Art Festival, Camaguey, CUBA, 2015.

On the Train to Kutná Hora…and Back: “We’re Part of the Landscape,” curated by Lili White, Another Experiment by Women Film Festival (AXWFF), New York City, 2015.  http://anotherexperimentbywomenfilmfestival.com/

On the Train to Kutná Hora…and Back: “The Best of the Oxford Film Festival,” Ocean Springs, MS, 2015.

On the Train to Kutná Hora…and Back: Oxford Film Festival, Oxford, MS, 2015.  http://oxfordfilmfest.com

Rain Painting: “Parameter of a Day, Boundary of a Mind” curated by Tomonari Nishikawa, at Moving, an experimental film festival, Kyoto, JAPAN, 2015.  http://www.moving-kyoto.jp/program/#sec02

Spectator(s), On the Train to Kutná Hora…and Back, and Rain Painting: “Experimental Documentaries,” curated by Tova Beck-Friedman, Anthology Film Archives, New York City, 2015.

Rain Painting: “Shorts Program,” curated by Duana Butler/NYWIFT, Anthology Film Archives, New York City, 2014.

Rain Painting: honorable mention, James River Shorts, Richmond, VA, 2014. 

On the Train to Kutná Hora…and Back: James River Shorts, Richmond, VA, 2014.

Rain Painting: “Urban/Rural Landscapes 8,” curated by Chris Lynn, Utopia Film Festival, Greenbelt, MD, 2014.   http://www.utopiafilmfestival.org/

Rain Painting: “Moving Along a Line, Yesterday and Tomorrow,” curated by Tomonari Nishikawa, Transient Visions, Festival of the Moving Image, Johnson City (Binghamton), NY, 2014. http://www.transientvisions.org/

Watercolors: in film program curated by Chris Lynn to accompany concert by cellist/composer Janel Leppin “Her Tail was Cut in Two,” Artists Television Access (ATA), San Francisco, 2013. Click Here to see the film still and review

Watercolors: “Urban/Rural Landscapes 6,” curated by Chris Lynn, Utopia Film Festival, Greenbelt, MD, 2013.

Watercolors: “Endless Plain,” presented by Moving Image Art (MIA), The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, 2012.

Watercolors: “Summer of Flora & Fauna,” Another Experiment by Women Film Festival (AXWFF), New York City, 2012.

Watercolors: James River Shorts, Richmond, VA, 2011.

Watercolors: “Near and Dear,” curated by Lorenzo Gattorna, UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY, 2011.

Waterscape: illusions and Watercolors: “Mythic Realities: Ann Deborah Levy and Lili White,” Anthology Film Archives, New York City, 2010.

Waterscape: illusions and Watercolors: Port Washington Public Library, Port Washington, Long Island, NY, 2009.

Waterscape: illusions: honorable mention, Fargo Film Festival, Fargo, North Dakota, 2008.  “beautiful cinematography … subtle sense of humor, very funny” — the Fargo Film Festival jury

Watercolors: official selection, Lucca Film Festival, Italy, 2007.