FANTASIA + FISCHINGER
Plus a live music performance by Rockaway Chamber Music.
7:00PM
PERFORMANCE: ROCKAWAY CHAMBER MUSIC
Tchaikovsky’s “Souvenir de Florence” performed by Adda Kridler, Alex Shiozaki, Will Hakim, Jocelin Pan, Emily Brausa, and Michael Haas.
8:00PM
FANTASIA + FISCHINGER
Rhapsodies of visual music by cine-magician Oskar Fischinger, whose groundbreaking animations changed the cinematic frontier. His early Study No. 8 was one of his films that led to the concept of Disney’s Fantasia and was among his films screened for the animation staff to teach them how to animate abstract images to classical music. Before we show Disney’s famous feature masterpiece, we present one of Fischinger’s later plays of light and sound, Motion Painting no 1, with a special live performance of the original Bach score by Rockaway Chamber Music.
STUDY NO. 8 by Oskar Fischinger. 1931, 4 min.
MOTION PAINTING NO. 1 by Oskar Fischinger. 1947, 11 min. *live performance of original Bach score by Rockaway Chamber Music
Walt Disney’s FANTASIA. 1940, 124 min.
Fischinger films courtesy and copyright Center for Visual Music, Los Angeles.
DJ SET by Eric Barroso at Rockaway Brewing Co.
Our Sponsors
Rockaway Film Festival would like to thank VBX™~Vernam Basin Terminal for generously hosting us at the Arverne Cinema in addition to BBX™~Barbadoes Basin Terminal for contributing to such.
RFF is proud to be sponsored by Blundstone®, Istic Illic Pictures, and NYC Ferry. Rockaway Film Festival made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Rockaway Film Festival is funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Art, and by the Howard Gilman Foundation administered by Flushing Town Hall. RFF receives additional support from Queens Borough President Donovan Richards.