New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2024 Short Film Q+A with Rough Blazing Star Director Christopher Wiersema, Joey Skaggs BioPEEP Directors Judy Drosd, Joey Skaggs, WHAT IS HAPPENING? ART IN THE LIFE OF GERTIE FRÖHLICH Director Marieli Fröhlich as well as Festival Assistant Director Anita LaBelle and Festival Director Al Nigrin.
See more info on these films below which are screening at the Fall 2024 New Jersey Film Festival Online for 24 Hours on their show dates and In-Person at either 5PM or 7PM! in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ.
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Sunday, September 8, 2024 – Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 5PM!
Rough Blazing Star - Christopher Wiersema (Montpellier, Vermont)
An experimental documentary film which examines anarchism, local history and memory, Emma Goldman’s writing, and a shared love of flowers. Told through a poetic inquiry and response to the text and research - beginning with a visit to the Old Labor Hall in Barre, Vermont - the social center of the Italian anarchist and socialist community in the early 1900’s. Interviews with 105-year-old Italian elder, Alba Rossi, and Giuliano Cecchinelli, renowned Italian stone carver - both longtime residents in Barre, Vermont. 2023; 30 min.
Friday, September 20, 2024 – Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 7PM!
Joey Skaggs BioPEEP – Judy Drosd, Joey Skaggs (New York, New York)
In 1997, BioPEEP, a top-secret corporate research protocol designed to genetically alter and irreversibly addict human beings to specific products, creating “consumer junkies,” is appropriated by the government to create a new weapon, paving the way for targeted gene-ocide. That is until, in 1998, the plan is foiled by Joseph Howard (a.k.a. Joey Skaggs), a corporate whistleblower. When he leaks the information, international protests against genetic research-gone-rogue are held in Australia and the U.S., bringing attention to the plot and causing alarm in... Slovenia. This is the 10th film in the oral history series, "Joey Skaggs Satire and Art Activism, 1960s to the Present and Beyond", for which Skaggs unveils this epic international conspiracy. Is it science fiction or a vision of the future? 2024; 20 min.
WHAT IS HAPPENING? ART IN THE LIFE OF GERTIE FRÖHLICH Marieli Fröhlich (Vienna, Austria)
In 2018, director Marieli Fröhlich began to film the life story and artistry of her 88-year-old mother, Gertie Fröhlich. The creation of a singular narrative made up of edited interviews of Fröhlich's contemporaries (a virtual who's who of filmmakers, artists, and writers, including her partner Peter Kubelka), the documentary tells the story of a woman whose life was defined solely by art and her resilience within the restrictive parameters of the art world and society of the era from which she emerged. Within a historical context, her achievements are highlighted by her key role when her partner Peter Kubelka founded the Austrian Film Museum and by her curation, vision, and behind-the-scenes instigation of the seminal Galerie Sankt Stephan in 1954 in the former rooms of the legendary Neue Gallerie by Otto Kallir, to name just two. Throughout the documentary Fröhlich amplifies the artist's voice through recollections from her contemporaries, Gertie Fröhlich's diaries and voice-over, and the tenacious American researcher and art historian Julia Jarret, who chose Fröhlich for her published academic thesis. Stylistically Surreal montages and dreamlike footage complement the otherworldly style of Gertie Fröhlich's oeuvre. Confronting the contradictions surrounding female creativity, Gertie Fröhlich's timeless imagery of Goddesses offers solace and protection to guide future generations. By exploring this dynamic, the documentary unveils the systemic biases and challenges faced by women artists striving for recognition and agency. Moreover, "What's Happening?" delves into Gertie's reinterpretation of Greek myths, offering a profound analogy for her vision of a revitalized matriarchal psyche in a society where the objectification of women and the myriad of methods to have their voices silenced. In 2023, the first retrospective of Gertie Fröhlich's work opened at the Museum of the Applied Arts in Vienna, co-curated by Marieli Fröhlich. 2024; 30 min.
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