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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> |
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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 |
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> |
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== Annual film festival == |
== Annual film festival == |
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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}} {{ |
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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| Formation | 2007, New York City[1] |
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| Founder | Steve Cossman[2] |
| Type | Non-Profit |
| Purpose | Film Advocacy, Preservation, Distribution, Exhibition[3] |
| Headquarters | Brooklyn, 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]
| 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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ a b "The organization". Mono No Aware. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
- ^ Kathryn Ramey, Experimental Filmmaking, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015 p. 36.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Franco Gatti, Rethinking Japan: Literature, Visual Arts & Linguistics, Psychology Press, 1990, p. 82.
- ^ Mala, Elisa (July 11, 2017). "A Brooklyn Film School Where the Digital Revolution Didn't Happen". The New York Times. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
- ^ Bennett, Bruce (November 30, 2011). "Putting the 'Film' In Film Festival". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved August 13, 2017. (subscription required)
- ^ "The Brooklyn Film Organization Bringing Analog Back to the Masses". Vice. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
- ^ "MONO NO AWARE: Cinema Arts Festival". Mono No Aware. Retrieved May 29, 2018.
- ^ "The filmmakers keeping film 'alive'". BBC News. June 12, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2017.