Mono No Aware (organization)
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| Formation | 2007, New York City[1] |
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| Founders | Steve Cossman[2] |
| Type | Non-Profit |
| Purpose | Film Advocacy, Preservation, Distribution, Exhibition[3] |
| Headquarters | Brooklyn, New York |
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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.”[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
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 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.[7]
Exhibition History [1]
| Year | Film | Format(s) | Artist(s) | Country |
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| 2007 | We are the Divided United | 16mm & Live Sound | Huong Ngo & Emcee C.M. |  USA
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| Light Sleep Walks | Super 8mm & Live Sound | Paul Clipson & Joshua Churchill | USA
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| Fireworks Film | 16mm & Pop Rocks | Austin Willis | USA
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| #472 A | 35mm & Live Sound | Nasty Osipova, Lea Bertucci, Ed Bear | USA
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| Happy Holidays | 16mm & Live Sound | Steve Cossman & Matt Morandi | USA
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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.[8]
See also
References
- ^ a b c "The organization". Mono No Aware. Retrieved 13 August 2017. Cite error: The named reference "mononoawarefilm.com" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The filmmakers keeping film 'alive'". BBC News. June 12, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2017.