2024

Series

Rockaway Film Festival #7

August 17-25, 2024

DUNES IN THE DUNES

July 19, 20 + 21

Rockaway Chamber Music 2024

June 16, July 14, August 25

Individual Events

Sunday
,
Sep 29
,
2024
7:00 pm
The Block

by Robert Sarnoff. 2023. 57 min.

Part of
4:30 pm
SHREDDED

by Adam Michael + Makayla McIntosh. 2024. 105 min.

Part of
Saturday
,
Sep 28
,
2024
6:00 pm
A CHAPLAIN IN DISGUISE

by Iulios Kouroupis. 2024. 70 min.

Part of
3:30 pm
The Wrong Movie

by Keren Cytter. 2023. 96 min.

Part of
Saturday
,
Sep 28
,
2024
2:00 pm
Local Filmmakers' Showcase: SHORTS

new shorts from local talents

Part of
Saturday
,
Sep 21
,
2024
8:30 pm
Mrs William Horsley’s Vexations

a 16mm film and projection performance co-presented by PICTOBEACH.

Part of
Sunday
,
Aug 25
,
2024
7:00 pm
GABRIEL

Agnes Martin's anomalous only completed and rarely-screened film with a live score performed by Rockaway Chamber Music.

Part of
6:00 pm
SHORTS: HARBOR OF MYTH

In otherworldly rituals and inventive parables, these coastal mythologies offer alternate visions of the future.

Part of
Saturday
,
Aug 24
,
2024
7:00 pm
SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN

A fresh and clever comedy of misunderstandings, this film explores how people become connected or separated on the basis of language. U.S. premiere. Plus a live music performance.

Part of
5:00 pm
SHORTS: FAITHFUL COMPANIONS

A collection of documentary portraits, fictional narratives, and philosophical fables about our unusual relationships and desired closeness to the animal world.

Part of
Saturday
,
Aug 24
,
2024
3:00 pm
CHILDREN’S CINEMA

Light Industry’s ongoing program for kid cinephiles returns for a special edition with Marie Menken's DWIGHTIANA and Charlie Chaplin's THE GOLD RUSH.

Part of
1:00 pm
STOP MOTION ANIMATION WORKSHOP

A free, all-ages stop-motion animation workshop led by Buena Onda Collective in partnership with Materials for the Arts.

Part of
Friday
,
Aug 23
,
2024
7:00 pm
AS THE TIDE COMES IN

A gorgeous and sweeping portrait of the two dozen remaining inhabitants of the tiny Danish island of Mandø and their reckoning with the rising tides. New York premiere.

Part of
5:00 pm
RISING UP AT NIGHT

Congolese director Nelson Makengo documents his hometown’s remarkable resilience and resourcefulness in a surreal nocturnal portrait that locates alternate sources of light.

Part of
Thursday
,
Aug 22
,
2024
8:00 pm
SHORTS: PIXEL PORTALS

Reaching across real and virtual worlds, our digital devices become modes of connection and mirrors of perception. These shorts fall into wormholes of self-presentation and online identities, blurring the line between performance and reality.

Part of
8:00 pm
SHORTS: DATA PASSENGER

Sci-fi visions collapse into dystopian realities in these shorts exploring alternate algorithms of navigation on the open road.

Part of
Thursday
,
Aug 22
,
2024
6:00 pm
THE AFTERLIFE OF IMAGES: ORAIB TOUKAN

Two films exploring the way we look at—or look away from—images of suffering.

Part of
Wednesday
,
Aug 21
,
2024
8:00 pm
ECSTATIC PLASMATIC

Our annual independent animations program guest-curated by Jonah Primiano.

Part of
5:00 pm
A HUMAN YEAR IS 7 EARTH YEARS

Honduran-American video essayist Adrian Quetzal Randall traces the origins of radio and television across military histories, global politics, and into the human psyche.

Part of
Tuesday
,
Aug 20
,
2024
7:00 pm
JETTY

An observational process story of the installation of new coastal infrastructure in the Rockaways. Live music performance by Deakin & Geologist of ANIMAL COLLECTIVE before screening.

Part of
5:00 pm
YOUR FINAL MEDITATION

A girl enters a guided simulation to ease her growing anxiety. In psychedelic sequences combining scripted scenes, found footage, and AI-generated imagery, Baltimore artist Corey Hughes considers virtual space as a site for technological transcendence.

Part of
Monday
,
Aug 19
,
2024
7:00 pm
FAITH HUBLEY CENTENNIAL

A collection of shorts by trailblazing animator whose joyful and stunning free-form creations marked a new era of independent animation. Live music performance before screening

Part of
5:00 pm
NEW NARRATIVE SHORTS

These new shorts from emerging voices explore impulses of escape, zooming in on moments of clarity from outsiders teetering on the edge.

Part of
Sunday
,
Aug 18
,
2024
7:00 pm
MY FIRST FILM

An ultra-meta autofictional account of Zia Anger's experience creating and abandoning her first film. Live music performance before screening.

Part of
5:00 pm
REPORT FROM HOLLYWOOD

Visionary cinematographer Ed Lachman provides a behind-the-scenes account of Wim Wenders’ production of THE STATE OF THINGS.

Part of
Saturday
,
Aug 17
,
2024
7:00 pm
ALICE IN THE CITIES

With the opening sequence shot on the Rockaway boardwalk, we present one of the most breathtaking road movies of all time on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Live music performance before screening.

Part of
5:00 pm
SHORTS: BELONG WHERE

A collection of intergenerational memories, these personal poems linger in a limbo between places of belonging.

Part of
Saturday
,
Aug 17
,
2024
4:00 pm
BIO-ART WORKSHOP

led by Karen Ingram.

Part of
Saturday
,
Aug 10
,
2024
8:00 pm
WE RIDE

a documentary that follows the lives of Black surfers in New York City, centering on a surf shop in Far Rockaway that fostered a diverse community of surfers that became an aquatic tribe.

Part of
Friday
,
Jul 26
,
2024
8:30 pm
FLIGHT

Anonymous Ensemble presents a film created live across continents: Rockaway, NY ◦ Hawaii ◦ Venezuela ◦ Australia.

Part of
Sunday
,
Jul 21
,
2024
8:30 pm
JODOROWSKY'S DUNE

a window into the visionary Chilean provocateur's psychedelic space opera that never was.

Part of
Saturday
,
Jul 20
,
2024
6:00 pm
DENIS VILLENEUVE'S DUNE: PART TWO

the sci-fi saga continues in this year's dark and colossal blockbuster starring Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya.

Part of
Friday
,
Jul 19
,
2024
8:30 pm
DAVID LYNCH'S DUNE

the cult classic and first cinematic adaptation of Frank Herbert's famous 1965 novel.

Part of
Sunday
,
Jul 14
,
2024
8:30 pm
NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT

by Chilean master Patricio Guzmán, with stargazing courtesy of the Amateur Astronomers Association.

Part of
7:00 pm
ROCKAWAY CHAMBER MUSIC

performing classical pieces by Michael Nyman, Paul Wiancko, and Arnold Schoenberg.

Part of
Saturday
,
Jul 13
,
2024
8:30 pm
JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION: BLACK CHARIOT

a newly restored lost gem of American independent cinema, co-presented by ALFREDA'S CINEMA.

new date!
Part of
Sunday
,
Jun 16
,
2024
8:30 pm
VOLUPTUOUS SLEEP

by Betzy Bromberg. 2011. 95 min. Co-presented by Prismatic Ground.

Part of
7:00 pm
ROCKAWAY CHAMBER MUSIC

performing music by Caroline Shaw, Benjamin Britten, and Antonín Dvořák.

Part of
Saturday
,
Jun 15
,
2024
8:30 pm
PETITE MAMAN

by Céline Sciamma. 2021. 72 min.

Part of
Saturday
,
Jun 8
,
2024
8:30 pm
TARPON

by Guy de la Valdene & Christian Odasso. 1973. 52 min. Presented in collaboration with SURFRIDER.

Part of
Sunday
,
Jun 2
,
2024
8:30 pm
HOLDING BACK THE TIDE

at the RETI Center barge in Red Hook.

sold out!
Part of
Saturday
,
Jun 1
,
2024
8:30 pm
VARIETY

co-presented by HELL GATE

Part of
Saturday
,
May 25
,
2024
8:30 pm
FORAGERS

by Jumana Manna. 2022. 64 min.

Part of
Sunday
,
May 19
,
2024
8:30 pm
DALMAS

co-presented by SCREEN SLATE.

Part of
Saturday
,
May 4
,
2024
8:00 pm
STAR WARS: The Empire Strikes Back

plus a short film by experimental innovator Pat O'Neill, who helped design STAR WARS' visual effects.

postponed due to weather!
Part of
Sunday
,
Apr 21
,
2024
8:00 pm
Earth Day Celebration: THE BLUE PLANET

SHORELINE CLEANUP AND FREE SCREENING

Part of