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Upcoming Screenings
WATERCOLORS and WATER FALLS, New York City will be screening in the program Water Works curated by the Film-Makers Coop and The Public Art Fund as part of the ongoing project No Swimsuit Needed which features films, performances, and sound installations in New York City’s public pools, drained after the summer season. The films shown all show different perspectives on water.
Saturday, September 21st, Hamilton Fish Pool, 128 Pitt Street, New York City
screening begins at sundown (about 8:00pm)
Film and video artworks will be accompanied by a live performance by sound artist Eli Keszler who will employ the films’ audio for his interventions. Water Works will feature films by Stan Brakhage, Dietmar Brehm, James Cagle, Mary Helena Clark, Ivan Ladislav Galeta, David Gatten, Helena Gouveia Monteiro, Vincent Grenier, Friedl vom Gröller, Ann Deborah Levy, Abinadi Meza, Youjin Moon, Mary Beth Reed, Dan Perz, Chick Strand, Gao Wei, and Joyce Wieland.
FREE event, registration encouraged: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/no-swimsuit-required-tickets-1000744051397
For more info: https://www.publicartfund.org/programs/view/no-swimsuit-required/
Recent Publications:
On The Train to Kutná Hora . . . and Back is one of five films discussed in the article, “Windowscapes, dreamscapes and screen texts: train travel as performative practice in experimental film,” by Kornelia Boczkowska appearing in the scholarly journal Text and Performance Quarterly, February 28, 2024
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10462937.2024.2320643
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:
Rain Painting screened in the program “Pyscho-Georgraphy2” at Other Cinema, San Francisco, 2024
Rain Painting screened 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 at UnionDocs, Queens, NY 2023
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.