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{{short description|US cinema-arts non-profit organization}}
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{{Infobox organization
| name = MONO NO AWARE
| name = MONO NO AWARE
| image = Mono_No_Aware_Logo.jpg
| image = Mono_No_Aware_Logo.jpg
| image_size = 125px
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| formation = 2007, [[New York City]]<ref name="mononoawarefilm.com">{{cite web|url=http://mononoawarefilm.com/about/|title=The organization|website=Mono No Aware|accessdate=13 August 2017}}</ref>
| formation = 2007, [[New York City]]<ref name="mononoawarefilm.com">{{cite web|url=http://mononoawarefilm.com/about/|title=The organization|website=Mono No Aware|access-date=August 13, 2017}}</ref>
| founder = Steve Cossman<ref>Kathryn Ramey, ''Experimental Filmmaking'', Taylor & Francis Group, 2015 p. 36.</ref>
| founder = Steve Cossman<ref>Kathryn Ramey, ''Experimental Filmmaking'', Taylor & Francis Group, 2015 p. 36.</ref>
| type = [[Non-Profit]]
| type = [[Non-Profit]]
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'''Mono No Aware''' is a cinema-arts [[non-profit organization]]. Founded in 2007, its mission entails the advancement of “connectivity through the cinematic experience.”<ref name="bedfordandbowery.com"/> The organization is named after the Japanese concept [[mono no aware]] (物の哀れ), which expresses the [[impermanence]] of [[being]] and [[beauty]].<ref>Franco Gatti, ''Rethinking Japan: Literature, Visual Arts & Linguistics'', Psychology Press, 1990, p. 82.</ref>
'''Mono No Aware''' is a cinema-arts [[non-profit organization]]. Founded in 2007, its mission entails the advancement of “connectivity through the cinematic experience.”<ref name="bedfordandbowery.com"/> The organization is named after the Japanese concept [[mono no aware]] (物の哀れ), which expresses the [[impermanence]] of [[being]] and [[beauty]].<ref>Franco Gatti, ''Rethinking Japan: Literature, Visual Arts & Linguistics'', Psychology Press, 1990, p. 82.</ref>


Mono No Aware is based in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]] and organizes artist screenings, [[analog recording|analog]] filmmaking workshops, equipment rentals, and [[film stock]] distribution. Film artists [[Bill Brand (film artist)|Bill Brand]] and [[Leslie Thornton]] serve on its Advisory Board.<ref name="mononoawarefilm.com"/> Since its founding, the organization has hosted an annual film festival, exhibiting expanded cinema works from around the world that utilize both analog technologies and live performance. Following the completion of the tenth festival, a month-long series of exhibitions, Mono No Aware undertook the construction of the first non-profit [[motion picture laboratory]] to operate in the United States.<ref name="Mala 2017">{{cite web | last=Mala | first=Elisa | title=A Brooklyn Film School Where the Digital Revolution Didn’t Happen | website=[[The New York Times]] | date=July 11, 2017 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/nyregion/a-brooklyn-film-school-where-the-digital-revolution-didnt-happen.html | access-date=August 13, 2017}}</ref>
Mono No Aware is based in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]] and organizes artist screenings, [[analog recording|analog]] filmmaking workshops, equipment rentals, and [[film stock]] distribution. Film artists [[Bill Brand (film artist)|Bill Brand]] and [[Leslie Thornton (filmmaker)|Leslie Thornton]] serve on its Advisory Board.<ref name="mononoawarefilm.com"/> Since its founding, the organization has hosted an annual film festival, exhibiting expanded cinema works from around the world that utilize both analog technologies and live performance. Following the completion of the tenth festival, a month-long series of exhibitions, Mono No Aware undertook the construction of the first non-profit [[motion picture laboratory]] to operate in the United States.<ref name="Mala 2017">{{cite web | last=Mala | first=Elisa | title=A Brooklyn Film School Where the Digital Revolution Didn't Happen | website=[[The New York Times]] | date=July 11, 2017 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/nyregion/a-brooklyn-film-school-where-the-digital-revolution-didnt-happen.html | access-date=August 13, 2017}}</ref>


== Annual film festival ==
== Annual film festival ==
In 2007, the first Mono No Aware film festival was held in the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn. It was free to attend and free to submit and the same holds true today.<ref name="Bennett 2011">{{cite web | last=Bennett | first=Bruce | title=Putting the 'Film' In Film Festival | website=[[The Wall Street Journal]] | date=November 30, 2011 | url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204449804577068622786003752 | access-date=August 13, 2017}} {{paywall}}</ref> In 2016, the organization, in celebration of its tenth anniversary, organized MONO X, a 21-event film spanning three boroughs in New York City. It presented the work of 150 artists to an audience of more than 5,000. Works included sculpture, expanded cinema, and installation art incorporating the moving image on film and/or video. Presenting sponsors included [[Kodak]], [[Brooklyn Brewery]], and [[Technicolor]].<ref>{{cite web | title=The Brooklyn Film Organization Bringing Analog Back to the Masses | website=Vice | url=https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/the-brooklyn-film-organization-bringing-analog-back-to-the-masses/584f0f243d8095724ccdaf1e | access-date=August 13, 2017}}</ref>
In 2007, the first Mono No Aware film festival was held in the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn. It was free to attend and free to submit and the same holds true today.<ref name="Bennett 2011">{{cite web | last=Bennett | first=Bruce | title=Putting the 'Film' In Film Festival | website=[[The Wall Street Journal]] | date=November 30, 2011 | url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204449804577068622786003752 | access-date=August 13, 2017}} {{subscription required}}</ref> In 2016, the organization, in celebration of its tenth anniversary, organized MONO X, a 21-event film festival spanning three boroughs in New York City. It presented the work of 150 artists to an audience of 5,000. Works included sculpture, expanded cinema, and [[installation art]] incorporating the moving image on film and/or video. Presenting sponsors included [[Kodak]], [[Brooklyn Brewery]], and [[Technicolor]].<ref>{{cite web | title=The Brooklyn Film Organization Bringing Analog Back to the Masses | website=Vice | url=https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/the-brooklyn-film-organization-bringing-analog-back-to-the-masses/584f0f243d8095724ccdaf1e | access-date=August 13, 2017}}</ref>


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|+ class="nowrap" style="text-align: left;" | Exhibition History<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mononoawarefilm.com/annual-exhibition/|title=MONO NO AWARE: Cinema Arts Festival|website=Mono No Aware| | access-date=May 29, 2018}}</ref>
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=== Exhibition History<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mononoawarefilm.com/annual-exhibition/|title=MONO NO AWARE: Cinema Arts Festival|website=Mono No Aware| access-date=May 29, 2018}}</ref> ===
|-
|-
! Year !! Film !! Format(s) !! Artist(s)
! Year !! Film !! Format(s) !! Artist(s)
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| Fireworks Film || 16mm & Live Sound || Austin Willis
| Fireworks Film || 16mm & Live Sound || Austin Willis
|-
|-
| #472 A || 35mm & Live Sound || Nastya Osipova, Lea Bertucci, Ed Bear
| #472 A || [[35mm format|35mm]] & Live Sound || Nastya Osipova, Lea Bertucci, Ed Bear
|-
|-
| Happy Holidays || 16mm & Live Sound || Steve Cossman & Matt Morandi
| Happy Holidays || 16mm & Live Sound || Steve Cossman & Matt Morandi
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| Blush || Super 8mm || Sam Dishy
| Blush || Super 8mm || Sam Dishy
|-
|-
| Mekanikdolls || 16mm, Super 8mm, Live Sound, Performance || Seyhan Muaoglu & Jess Ramsay
| Mekanikdolls || 16mm, Super 8mm, Live Sound, [[Performance art|Performance]] || Seyhan Muaoglu & Jess Ramsay
|-
|-
|rowspan="6"| 2009 || El Ojo, La Boca, El Ano || 16mm, 35mm Slide, Live Sound, Performance || Juan David Gonzalez Monroy & Julio Monterrey
|rowspan="6"| 2009 || El Ojo, La Boca, El Ano || 16mm, 35mm Slide, Live Sound, Performance || Juan David Gonzalez Monroy & Julio Monterrey
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| Safe & Sound || Super 8mm & Live Sound || Rachael Rene Abernathy
| Safe & Sound || Super 8mm & Live Sound || Rachael Rene Abernathy
|-
|-
|rowspan="10"| 2010 || The Chinese Nightingale || Magic Lantern, Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, Performance || Bradley Eros, Lary Seven, Joel Schlemowitz, Victoria Keddie
|rowspan="10"| 2010 || The Chinese Nightingale || [[magic lantern|Magic Lantern]], Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, Performance || Bradley Eros, Lary Seven, Joel Schlemowitz, Victoria Keddie
|-
|-
| Youkali || 16mm & Live Sound || Noe Kidder, Jessica Goldring, Mark Gallay
| Youkali || 16mm & Live Sound || Noe Kidder, Jessica Goldring, Mark Gallay
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| Errata.Cinema || 16mm, Live Sound, Performance || Thomas Dexter
| Errata.Cinema || 16mm, Live Sound, Performance || Thomas Dexter
|-
|-
| This Gives Me Fever at Night ... || 16mm & Performance || Luis Arnias & Kim Ferero-Arnias
| This Gives Me Fever at Night || 16mm & Performance || Luis Arnias & Kim Ferero-Arnias
|-
|-
| UFO Evidence || 16mm & Live Sound || Jason Martin
| UFO Evidence || 16mm & Live Sound || Jason Martin
|-
|-
| You Know They Want to Disappear ... || Super 8mm & Live Sound || Stephanie Gray
| You Know They Want to Disappear || Super 8mm & Live Sound || Stephanie Gray
|-
|-
| Spalms || 16mm & Performance || Sarah Halpern & Matt Wellins
| Spalms || 16mm & Performance || Sarah Halpern & Matt Wellins
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| Expansion Contraction || 16mm || Miro Hoffmann
| Expansion Contraction || 16mm || Miro Hoffmann
|-
|-
| Bike-Cycle || Zoetrope & Installation || Jodie Mack
| Bike-Cycle || [[Zoetrope]] Installation || Jodie Mack
|-
|-
| Measures || Super 8mm & Performance || Tara Nelson
| Measures || Super 8mm & Performance || Tara Nelson
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| The Birds of Chernobyl || 16mm & Live Sound || Margaret Rorison
| The Birds of Chernobyl || 16mm & Live Sound || Margaret Rorison
|-
|-
| Will o' the Wisp || 16mm, Live Sound, Performance || Kate Fleming, Sean Hanley, Charlie Adams, Leslie Guyton, Rachel Garis, Matt Bovee, Sara Dobrinich, Kevin Jones, Laura Murphy, Angel Ortiz, Benjamin Robert, Carrie Walsh, Samantha Owens
| Will o' the Wisp || 16mm, Live Sound, Performance || Kate Fleming, Sean Hanley, Charlie Adams, and others
|-
|-
| Jahiliyya Fields || Live Sound || Matthew Morandi
| Jahiliyya Fields || Live Sound || Matthew Morandi
|-
|rowspan="16"| 2013 || Laser/Water || [[Light art|Light Installation]] || Juliette Dumas
|-
| Infinitas Vias || Light Installation || Charlotte Becket
|-
| Skinner #3 || 16mm Installation || Jae Song
|-
| Light Box Collages || 35mm, 16mm, [[Medium format (film)|Medium Format]] Photographic Installation || Mark Street
|-
| Camera Paintings || 16mm Installation || Joel Schlemowitz
|-
| Let Your Light Shine || 16mm || Jodie Mack
|-
| Second Hermeneutic || 16mm & Live Sound || Mike Morris
|-
| The Telepathy Sessions || 16mm, Live Sound, Performance || Brittany Gravely & Kenneth Linehan
|-
| Tastefully Taut Against Germanium Satin || 16mm & Live Sound || Bruce McClure
|-
| Tape Measure Film || 16mm Installation || Mary Stark
|-
| RGB Fan || Light Installation || Johnny Rodgers
|-
| SXO || Super 8mm, 35mm Slide, Live Sound || Chris Berntsen & Nick Klein
|-
| 52 Died ||16mm & Live Sound || Eliseo Ortiz
|-
| Rediscovering German Futurism || 16mm, Live Sound, Performance || Kurt Ralske, Miriam Atkin, Daniel Carter
|-
| Meshes || Super 8mm, Live Sound, Performance || Laura Bartczak, Paige Fredlund, Mark Demolar
|-
| Zephyr || 16mm & Live Sound || Sylvain Chaussée & Adrian Cook
|-
|rowspan="17"| 2014 || Crystal Image || Light Installation || Emmanuelle Negre
|-
| Spore Film Loop Series || 16mm Installation || Anna Scime
|-
| Beyond a Shadow of a Form || Light & Sculpture Installation || Layne Hinton
|-
| Cymantic Sun || Light Installation || Lachlan Turczan
|-
| Island Arcadia || 16mm & Live Sound || Emilie Lundstrom & Hunter Simpson
|-
| Relieving the American Dream || 16mm || Jodie Mack
|-
| Second Hermeneutic || 16mm & Live Sound || Charlotte Taylor & Robert Edmondson
|-
| Chiratsuki || 35mm Slide & Live Sound || Tomonari Nishikawa, Jeremy Young, Jesse Perlstein, Ian Temple
|-
| Technicolor N.G. || Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm Slide, [[Digital media|Digital]] Installation || Tara Nelson & Gordon Nelson
|-
| -+=OO. || 16mm|| Livia Santos, Andrei Moyssiadis, Dream Seed Group
|-
| Bruce's Borders || 16mm || Scott Fitzpatrick
|-
| City 3 || 16mm & Live Sound || Sam Hoolihan & John Marks
|-
| The Fish with Two Legs ||16mm & Live Sound || Brian HK Oh, [[Maya Kuroki]], Alexis Farand
|-
| Memo || 16mm & Live Sound || Krittin Patkuldilok, Hoshika Tachibana, Gabriela Gyorgeva, Alexandra Kocheva
|-
| Surface Copernicus || Super 8mm & Live Sound || Kyle Corea, Patrick Scanlon, Stone Dow, Clint Hartzell
|-
| Kannon, Goddess of Mercy || [[3D film|3D]] 16mm || Joel Schlemowitz
|-
| Third Hermeneutic || 16mm & Digital || Mike Morris
|-
|rowspan="15"| 2015 || Drifter || Light Installation & Sculpture || Charlotte Becket
|-
| Still Life with Fries || 16mm Installation || Rebecca Erin Moran
|-
| The Clouds are not Like Either One || 16mm Installation || Viktoria Schmid
|-
| Eye Spoke Chorus || 16mm & Live Sound || Timothy David Orme & Kir Jordan
|-
| Grant Park || 16mm & Live Sound || Robbie Land, Robert Pepper, Michael Durek, Amber Brien, Jon Worthley
|-
| Harbour City || 16mm & Live Sound|| Simon Liu, Ben Hozie, Warren Ng
|-
| Holland, Man. || 16mm & Live Sound || Aaron Zeghers
|-
| Vista || 16mm & Live Sound || Sylvain Chaussé & Adrian Cook
|-
| Faces || 35mm Slide & Live Sound || Michael Newton & Vito Ricci
|-
| Dreaming || Super 8mm & Performance || Stephanie Gould & Brighid Greene
|-
| Two Aries || Super 8mm || Josh Weissbach
|-
| Second Star || 16mm & Live Sound || Scott Fitzpatrick
|-
| Reflectors ||16mm & Live Sound || John Marks, Crystal Myslajek, Sam Hoolihan
|-
| Dog Year || 16mm & Live Sound || Craig Scheihing, Christian Bach, Justin Fox, and others
|-
| Night Visions || 16mm & Live Sound || Zoe Kirk-Gushowaty
|-
|rowspan="16"| 2016 || The Circle, The Triangle, The Rectangle and the Crossing || 3D 16mm Installation || Antonio Castles & Lucas Maia
|-
| S1/S7 || 35mm Photographic Installation || Olya Zarapina
|-
| Them Apples || 16mm Installation || Adam Levine
|-
| BadTransfer(ence) || 16mm, Live Sound, Performance || Thomas Dexter
|-
| Plane Wave || 16mm || Daniel Robert Kelly
|-
| Frente a Frente || 16mm || Caitlin Diaz
|-
| Se Busca (Missing) || 16mm & Performance || Annalisa Quagliata
|-
| Metamorphosis #1: Medusa's Children || 16mm || Athena Washburn & Eli Neuman-Hammond
|-
| Thisquietarmy x Philippe Leonard || 16mm & Live Sound || Thisquietarmy & Philippe Leonard
|-
| Even Silence is Cause of Storm || 35mm slide & 16mm || Adriana Vila Guevara, Luic Macias, Alfredo Costa Montiero
|-
| Mom's Tiger Lilies || Super 8mm || Kellie Bronikowski
|-
| Red Wing, Black Bird || 16mm & Live Sound || Erika Jane Barrett
|-
| Change ||16mm & Live Sound || Lily Jue Sheng & Michael Sidnam
|-
| Spectrum States || 16mm & Live Sound || Joshua Churchill, Paul Clipson, John Davis
|-
| Highview || 16mm & Live Sound || Simon Liu, Warren Ng, Ben Hozie
|-
| Zone Four || 16mm & Live Sound || Noe Kidder & Mark Gallay
|-
|rowspan="24"| 2018 || Birthday || Super 8mm & Performance || Nikki Calonge, Michael De Angelis, Eva Peskin
|-
| Appetite || Super 8mm & Performance || Laurel Atwell
|-
| Evenings || Super 8mm & Performance || Stephanie Gould
|-
| Chasing Trains || Super 8mm & Performance || Jason Bernard Lucas
|-
| Lung-ta of Film, The Face of the Other, In Beauty May You Walk || 16mm, 35mm, Video, Installation, Performance, Live Sound || Manoshi Chitra Neogy, Xuezi Zhang, Scott Endsley
|-
| Fire (RGB) || 16mm Installation || Viktoria Schmid
|-
| Exquisite Corpse, Movement in Five Parts || 16mm Installation || Trevor Tweeten
|-
| Untitled Still Life || 16mm Installation || Rebecca Erin Moran
|-
| Parasitic Oscillation || Super 8mm & Live Sound || Bryan Ratigan & Edward Paul Quist
|-
|Cine間(ma)-Absence Triggered by a Third Body || Super 8mm & Performance || Tetsuya Maruyama
|-
| Lydon || 16mm || Lucy Kerr
|-
| Hamood in America || 16mm & Performance || Saif Al-Sobaihi, Moe Kamal, Ryan Hance
|-
| Solo Duet || Super 8mm & Performance || Laura Bartczak
|-
| 63 Acres: Dear Danny Lyon || Super 8mm & Live Sound || Stephanie Gray
|-
| From Day to Night || 16mm & Live Sound || Robert Orlowski & David Shapiro
|-
| Golem Rite || 16mm & Performance || Mary Lewandowski & Nilson Carroll
|-
| Desaparcer / Disappear || 16mm & Performance|| Elena Pardo, Manuel Trujillo, Javier Lara
|-
| Stasis & Motion || 16mm & Performance || John Marks, Crystal Myslajek, Sam Hoolihan
|-
| Lovemoon Battlefield || 16mm & Performance || Alex Cunningham
|-
| A Chorus of Black Voids Sings in Rays of Unseeable Light || 16mm & Performance || Michael Morris
|-
| Rapt || 16mm & Live Sound || Melissa Cha
|-
| Who You Give Your Heart To || 16mm & Live Sound || Phoebe Collings-James
|-
| What's the Meaning of This? || 16mm & Live Sound || Pimo
|-
| Motion at a Distance || 16mm & Live Sound || Lindsay Packer & Andrew Kong Hoon Lee
|-
| rowspan="24" |2022
|The Meadows
|16mm Animation
|Maya Edelman
|-
|For Cynthia
|16mm Animation
|Nora Rodriguez
|-
|Stepping into the Frame
|16mm Tripple Projection
|Lauren Noelle Oliver
|-
|Beam
|16mm Dual Projection
|Blinn & Lambert
|-
|Birthday Song
|16mm Installation
|Erica Sheu
|-
|Coal
|16mm Installation
|Janika Herlevi
|-
|Three Faces Scratched in Cloth
|16mm Tripple Projection
|Peaches Goodrich
|-
|And so She Works...From Home...As Does She
|16mm Dual Projection
|Simone Barros
|-
|Three Cities Winter '19
|16mm Projection & Live Sound
|Connor Kramerer
|-
|Dust in The Wind
|35mm Slide Projection & Live Sound
|Hsuan-Kuang Hsieh
|-
|The Folly
|16mm Projection & Live Sound
|Hasabie Kidanu
|-
|Pulsos Subterraneos/Underground Pulses
|16mm Multi Projection & Live Sound
|Elena Pardo, Millie Wissar & Misha Marks
|-
|The Mushroom Archive
|16mm Multi Projection & Live Sound
|Optipus
|-
|Touching the Rumble of Melting
|16mm Projection
|Nung-Hsin Hu
|-
|Everything Comes Full Circle
|16mm Installation
|Lilan Yang
|-
|Into the Night
|Kinetic Sculpture
|Ray Chang
|-
|Mere Dil Mere Musaafir
|16mm Projection & Live Sound
|Julia Zanin De Paula & Iman Selachii
|-
|When the Seeds say Enough
|S8mm Dual Projection & Live Sound
|Dominick Rivers
|-
|Nowadays
|Multi Format Multi Projection
|Tessa Hughes-Freeland & Mark Abramson
|-
|Devotion
|16mm Projection & Live Sound
|Sara Scur & Hugo Wai
|-
|The Lovesick Serpent
|16mm Projection & Live Sound
|Chae Yu
|-
|Content Warning
|16mm Projection & Performance
|Ayanna Dozier
|-
|The Seven Sins of Memory
|16mm Multi Projection & Performance
|IEVA BALODE & MAKSIMS ŠENTEĻEVS
|-
|Deprivation
|16mm Film
|Caity Arthur (Director)
|}
|}


== Educational Initiatives ==
== Educational Initiatives ==
Mono No Aware runs workshops in Brooklyn year-round, and collaborates with institutions throughout North America, to teach students analog filmmaking techniques. Workshops include non-toxic [[film processing]] with coffee and beer, hand-making [[photographic emulsion]], 2D and 3D analog [[animation]], [[optical printing]] and [[contact printing]], and [[Super 8mm]], [[16mm]], and [[35mm]] [[filmmaking]].<ref name="BBC News 2014">{{cite web | title=The filmmakers keeping film 'alive' | website=BBC News | date=June 12, 2014 | url=http://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-27801983/the-filmmakers-keeping-film-alive | access-date=August 13, 2017}}</ref>
Mono No Aware runs workshops in Brooklyn year-round, and collaborates with institutions throughout North America, to teach students analog filmmaking techniques. Workshops include non-toxic [[film processing]] with coffee and beer, hand-making [[photographic emulsion]], 2D and 3D analog [[animation]], [[optical printing]] and [[contact printing]], and [[Super 8mm]], [[16mm]], and [[35mm movie film|35mm]] [[filmmaking]].<ref name="BBC News 2014">{{cite web | title=The filmmakers keeping film 'alive' | website=BBC News | date=June 12, 2014 | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-27801983/the-filmmakers-keeping-film-alive | access-date=August 13, 2017}}</ref>


== See also ==
== See also ==

Latest revision as of 23:08, 29 July 2023

MONO NO AWARE
Formation2007, New York City[1]
FounderSteve Cossman[2]
TypeNon-Profit
PurposeFilm Advocacy, Preservation, Distribution, Exhibition[3]
HeadquartersBrooklyn, New York
Website

Mono No Aware is a cinema-arts non-profit organization. Founded in 2007, its mission entails the advancement of “connectivity through the cinematic experience.”[3] The organization is named after the Japanese concept mono no aware (物の哀れ), which expresses the impermanence of being and beauty.[4]

Mono No Aware is based in Brooklyn, New York and organizes artist screenings, analog filmmaking workshops, equipment rentals, and film stock distribution. Film artists Bill Brand and Leslie Thornton serve on its Advisory Board.[1] Since its founding, the organization has hosted an annual film festival, exhibiting expanded cinema works from around the world that utilize both analog technologies and live performance. Following the completion of the tenth festival, a month-long series of exhibitions, Mono No Aware undertook the construction of the first non-profit motion picture laboratory to operate in the United States.[5]

Annual film festival

[edit]

In 2007, the first Mono No Aware film festival was held in the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn. It was free to attend and free to submit and the same holds true today.[6] In 2016, the organization, in celebration of its tenth anniversary, organized MONO X, a 21-event film festival spanning three boroughs in New York City. It presented the work of 150 artists to an audience of 5,000. Works included sculpture, expanded cinema, and installation art incorporating the moving image on film and/or video. Presenting sponsors included Kodak, Brooklyn Brewery, and Technicolor.[7]

Exhibition History[8]

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Year Film Format(s) Artist(s)
2007 We are the Divided United 16mm & Live Sound Huong Ngo & Emcee C.M.
Light Sleep Walks Super 8mm & Live Sound Paul Clipson & Joshua Churchill
Fireworks Film 16mm & Live Sound Austin Willis
#472 A 35mm & Live Sound Nastya Osipova, Lea Bertucci, Ed Bear
Happy Holidays 16mm & Live Sound Steve Cossman & Matt Morandi
2008 Prenotions in Red, White, and Blues 16mm, Super 8mm, Live Sound Fern Silva & Doron Sadja
Architecture of the Sun 16mm & Live Sound Brittany Gravely, Jennifer Pipp, The Glass Shivers
Blush Super 8mm Sam Dishy
Mekanikdolls 16mm, Super 8mm, Live Sound, Performance Seyhan Muaoglu & Jess Ramsay
2009 El Ojo, La Boca, El Ano 16mm, 35mm Slide, Live Sound, Performance Juan David Gonzalez Monroy & Julio Monterrey
Etching With Light Super 8mm & Live Sound David Mason & John Davis
Honeybed Super 8mm, Live Sound, Performance Syni Pappa, Myrto Karapiperi, Anna Maria Rammou
Lunar Flare Super 8mm & Live Sound Julie Buck & Levi Rubeck
Spillway Study/Carpe Diez 16mm & Performance Ross Nugent
Safe & Sound Super 8mm & Live Sound Rachael Rene Abernathy
2010 The Chinese Nightingale Magic Lantern, Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, Performance Bradley Eros, Lary Seven, Joel Schlemowitz, Victoria Keddie
Youkali 16mm & Live Sound Noe Kidder, Jessica Goldring, Mark Gallay
Errata.Cinema 16mm, Live Sound, Performance Thomas Dexter
This Gives Me Fever at Night 16mm & Performance Luis Arnias & Kim Ferero-Arnias
UFO Evidence 16mm & Live Sound Jason Martin
You Know They Want to Disappear Super 8mm & Live Sound Stephanie Gray
Spalms 16mm & Performance Sarah Halpern & Matt Wellins
Untitled Super 8mm, 16mm, Performance Jeremiah Jones, Ann Meisinger, Zane Starr, Kerry Farias
Grandflower 16mm, Live Sound, Performance Joshua Lewis, Danica Pantic, Joseph Stankus
Catharsis 16mm Installation Tara Nelson
2011 A Northern Portrait 16mm & Live Sound Lindsay McIntyre
Genesis 16mm & Live Sound Edward Merton Casey
The Proximity of Standing Stones Super 8mm, 16mm, Live Sound Monica Baptista & Robert Aki Aubrey Lowe
The Colors of Spring Super 8mm, 35mm Slide, Live Sound, Performance Joey Huertas, Patricia Ordonez, Morgan Nance
Half the Available Light in a Space Performance Luke Munn
Monkey 16mm & Live Sound Eric Ostrowski
Glitch Envy 16mm & Performance Jodie Mack
Through the Headlights Live Sound & Performance Jasa Baka, Julia Thomas, Tyr Jami
Under the BQE Super 8mm & Live Sound Alex Mallis & Hunter Simpson
Tranquility #2 New York 16mm & Live Sound Theodore King & Jordan Stone
Still Already There 16mm & Live Sound Alex Cunningham
Harvest Moon Super 8mm Amanda Long
2012 IV Phases 16mm & Live Sound Robert Howsare
Selected Scenes Woven From Star Wars IV & V Super 8mm & Installation Mary Stark
Expansion Contraction 16mm Miro Hoffmann
Bike-Cycle Zoetrope Installation Jodie Mack
Measures Super 8mm & Performance Tara Nelson
Je Ne Sais Plus (What is the Feeling) 16mm, Live Sound, Performance Kristin Reeves
Watershed / Surface Patterns 16mm, Live Sound, Performance Mike Bonello & Man Forever
Crusher 16mm, Live Sound, Performance Steve Cossman & Ryan Marino
Richard Gamble Live Sound Richard Gamble
Ganzfeld Test 16mm & Sculpture Amanda Long
B-90 Noir 16mm & Live Sound Johnny Rodgers
Francesca Woodman's Aunts 16mm & Live Sound Elina Brotherus
Cementage Super 8mm, 16mm, Live Sound Masha Mitkov
Where's the Child? Super 8mm, Slide 35mm, Performance Joey Huertas & Suzana Stankovic
The Birds of Chernobyl 16mm & Live Sound Margaret Rorison
Will o' the Wisp 16mm, Live Sound, Performance Kate Fleming, Sean Hanley, Charlie Adams, and others
Jahiliyya Fields Live Sound Matthew Morandi
2013 Laser/Water Light Installation Juliette Dumas
Infinitas Vias Light Installation Charlotte Becket
Skinner #3 16mm Installation Jae Song
Light Box Collages 35mm, 16mm, Medium Format Photographic Installation Mark Street
Camera Paintings 16mm Installation Joel Schlemowitz
Let Your Light Shine 16mm Jodie Mack
Second Hermeneutic 16mm & Live Sound Mike Morris
The Telepathy Sessions 16mm, Live Sound, Performance Brittany Gravely & Kenneth Linehan
Tastefully Taut Against Germanium Satin 16mm & Live Sound Bruce McClure
Tape Measure Film 16mm Installation Mary Stark
RGB Fan Light Installation Johnny Rodgers
SXO Super 8mm, 35mm Slide, Live Sound Chris Berntsen & Nick Klein
52 Died 16mm & Live Sound Eliseo Ortiz
Rediscovering German Futurism 16mm, Live Sound, Performance Kurt Ralske, Miriam Atkin, Daniel Carter
Meshes Super 8mm, Live Sound, Performance Laura Bartczak, Paige Fredlund, Mark Demolar
Zephyr 16mm & Live Sound Sylvain Chaussée & Adrian Cook
2014 Crystal Image Light Installation Emmanuelle Negre
Spore Film Loop Series 16mm Installation Anna Scime
Beyond a Shadow of a Form Light & Sculpture Installation Layne Hinton
Cymantic Sun Light Installation Lachlan Turczan
Island Arcadia 16mm & Live Sound Emilie Lundstrom & Hunter Simpson
Relieving the American Dream 16mm Jodie Mack
Second Hermeneutic 16mm & Live Sound Charlotte Taylor & Robert Edmondson
Chiratsuki 35mm Slide & Live Sound Tomonari Nishikawa, Jeremy Young, Jesse Perlstein, Ian Temple
Technicolor N.G. Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm Slide, Digital Installation Tara Nelson & Gordon Nelson
-+=OO. 16mm Livia Santos, Andrei Moyssiadis, Dream Seed Group
Bruce's Borders 16mm Scott Fitzpatrick
City 3 16mm & Live Sound Sam Hoolihan & John Marks
The Fish with Two Legs 16mm & Live Sound Brian HK Oh, Maya Kuroki, Alexis Farand
Memo 16mm & Live Sound Krittin Patkuldilok, Hoshika Tachibana, Gabriela Gyorgeva, Alexandra Kocheva
Surface Copernicus Super 8mm & Live Sound Kyle Corea, Patrick Scanlon, Stone Dow, Clint Hartzell
Kannon, Goddess of Mercy 3D 16mm Joel Schlemowitz
Third Hermeneutic 16mm & Digital Mike Morris
2015 Drifter Light Installation & Sculpture Charlotte Becket
Still Life with Fries 16mm Installation Rebecca Erin Moran
The Clouds are not Like Either One 16mm Installation Viktoria Schmid
Eye Spoke Chorus 16mm & Live Sound Timothy David Orme & Kir Jordan
Grant Park 16mm & Live Sound Robbie Land, Robert Pepper, Michael Durek, Amber Brien, Jon Worthley
Harbour City 16mm & Live Sound Simon Liu, Ben Hozie, Warren Ng
Holland, Man. 16mm & Live Sound Aaron Zeghers
Vista 16mm & Live Sound Sylvain Chaussé & Adrian Cook
Faces 35mm Slide & Live Sound Michael Newton & Vito Ricci
Dreaming Super 8mm & Performance Stephanie Gould & Brighid Greene
Two Aries Super 8mm Josh Weissbach
Second Star 16mm & Live Sound Scott Fitzpatrick
Reflectors 16mm & Live Sound John Marks, Crystal Myslajek, Sam Hoolihan
Dog Year 16mm & Live Sound Craig Scheihing, Christian Bach, Justin Fox, and others
Night Visions 16mm & Live Sound Zoe Kirk-Gushowaty
2016 The Circle, The Triangle, The Rectangle and the Crossing 3D 16mm Installation Antonio Castles & Lucas Maia
S1/S7 35mm Photographic Installation Olya Zarapina
Them Apples 16mm Installation Adam Levine
BadTransfer(ence) 16mm, Live Sound, Performance Thomas Dexter
Plane Wave 16mm Daniel Robert Kelly
Frente a Frente 16mm Caitlin Diaz
Se Busca (Missing) 16mm & Performance Annalisa Quagliata
Metamorphosis #1: Medusa's Children 16mm Athena Washburn & Eli Neuman-Hammond
Thisquietarmy x Philippe Leonard 16mm & Live Sound Thisquietarmy & Philippe Leonard
Even Silence is Cause of Storm 35mm slide & 16mm Adriana Vila Guevara, Luic Macias, Alfredo Costa Montiero
Mom's Tiger Lilies Super 8mm Kellie Bronikowski
Red Wing, Black Bird 16mm & Live Sound Erika Jane Barrett
Change 16mm & Live Sound Lily Jue Sheng & Michael Sidnam
Spectrum States 16mm & Live Sound Joshua Churchill, Paul Clipson, John Davis
Highview 16mm & Live Sound Simon Liu, Warren Ng, Ben Hozie
Zone Four 16mm & Live Sound Noe Kidder & Mark Gallay
2018 Birthday Super 8mm & Performance Nikki Calonge, Michael De Angelis, Eva Peskin
Appetite Super 8mm & Performance Laurel Atwell
Evenings Super 8mm & Performance Stephanie Gould
Chasing Trains Super 8mm & Performance Jason Bernard Lucas
Lung-ta of Film, The Face of the Other, In Beauty May You Walk 16mm, 35mm, Video, Installation, Performance, Live Sound Manoshi Chitra Neogy, Xuezi Zhang, Scott Endsley
Fire (RGB) 16mm Installation Viktoria Schmid
Exquisite Corpse, Movement in Five Parts 16mm Installation Trevor Tweeten
Untitled Still Life 16mm Installation Rebecca Erin Moran
Parasitic Oscillation Super 8mm & Live Sound Bryan Ratigan & Edward Paul Quist
Cine間(ma)-Absence Triggered by a Third Body Super 8mm & Performance Tetsuya Maruyama
Lydon 16mm Lucy Kerr
Hamood in America 16mm & Performance Saif Al-Sobaihi, Moe Kamal, Ryan Hance
Solo Duet Super 8mm & Performance Laura Bartczak
63 Acres: Dear Danny Lyon Super 8mm & Live Sound Stephanie Gray
From Day to Night 16mm & Live Sound Robert Orlowski & David Shapiro
Golem Rite 16mm & Performance Mary Lewandowski & Nilson Carroll
Desaparcer / Disappear 16mm & Performance Elena Pardo, Manuel Trujillo, Javier Lara
Stasis & Motion 16mm & Performance John Marks, Crystal Myslajek, Sam Hoolihan
Lovemoon Battlefield 16mm & Performance Alex Cunningham
A Chorus of Black Voids Sings in Rays of Unseeable Light 16mm & Performance Michael Morris
Rapt 16mm & Live Sound Melissa Cha
Who You Give Your Heart To 16mm & Live Sound Phoebe Collings-James
What's the Meaning of This? 16mm & Live Sound Pimo
Motion at a Distance 16mm & Live Sound Lindsay Packer & Andrew Kong Hoon Lee
2022 The Meadows 16mm Animation Maya Edelman
For Cynthia 16mm Animation Nora Rodriguez
Stepping into the Frame 16mm Tripple Projection Lauren Noelle Oliver
Beam 16mm Dual Projection Blinn & Lambert
Birthday Song 16mm Installation Erica Sheu
Coal 16mm Installation Janika Herlevi
Three Faces Scratched in Cloth 16mm Tripple Projection Peaches Goodrich
And so She Works...From Home...As Does She 16mm Dual Projection Simone Barros
Three Cities Winter '19 16mm Projection & Live Sound Connor Kramerer
Dust in The Wind 35mm Slide Projection & Live Sound Hsuan-Kuang Hsieh
The Folly 16mm Projection & Live Sound Hasabie Kidanu
Pulsos Subterraneos/Underground Pulses 16mm Multi Projection & Live Sound Elena Pardo, Millie Wissar & Misha Marks
The Mushroom Archive 16mm Multi Projection & Live Sound Optipus
Touching the Rumble of Melting 16mm Projection Nung-Hsin Hu
Everything Comes Full Circle 16mm Installation Lilan Yang
Into the Night Kinetic Sculpture Ray Chang
Mere Dil Mere Musaafir 16mm Projection & Live Sound Julia Zanin De Paula & Iman Selachii
When the Seeds say Enough S8mm Dual Projection & Live Sound Dominick Rivers
Nowadays Multi Format Multi Projection Tessa Hughes-Freeland & Mark Abramson
Devotion 16mm Projection & Live Sound Sara Scur & Hugo Wai
The Lovesick Serpent 16mm Projection & Live Sound Chae Yu
Content Warning 16mm Projection & Performance Ayanna Dozier
The Seven Sins of Memory 16mm Multi Projection & Performance IEVA BALODE & MAKSIMS ŠENTEĻEVS
Deprivation 16mm Film Caity Arthur (Director)

Educational Initiatives

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Mono No Aware runs workshops in Brooklyn year-round, and collaborates with institutions throughout North America, to teach students analog filmmaking techniques. Workshops include non-toxic film processing with coffee and beer, hand-making photographic emulsion, 2D and 3D analog animation, optical printing and contact printing, and Super 8mm, 16mm, and 35mm filmmaking.[9]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "The organization". Mono No Aware. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  2. ^ Kathryn Ramey, Experimental Filmmaking, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015 p. 36.
  3. ^ a b Disser, Nicole (September 23, 2016). "Mono No Aware Aiming to Bring Motion Picture Film Lab to the Masses". Bedford + Bowery. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  4. ^ Franco Gatti, Rethinking Japan: Literature, Visual Arts & Linguistics, Psychology Press, 1990, p. 82.
  5. ^ Mala, Elisa (July 11, 2017). "A Brooklyn Film School Where the Digital Revolution Didn't Happen". The New York Times. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  6. ^ Bennett, Bruce (November 30, 2011). "Putting the 'Film' In Film Festival". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved August 13, 2017. (subscription required)
  7. ^ "The Brooklyn Film Organization Bringing Analog Back to the Masses". Vice. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  8. ^ "MONO NO AWARE: Cinema Arts Festival". Mono No Aware. Retrieved May 29, 2018.
  9. ^ "The filmmakers keeping film 'alive'". BBC News. June 12, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
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