Rockaway Film Festival #7
August 17-25, 2024
Arverne Cinema + Annex Cinema
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ANNEX CINEMA INSTALLATION
WAKING UP (FOR THE FIRST TIME) by Jamil McGinnis & Pat Heywood. 2024. Multi-screen installation. *on view August 17-25.
An audiovisual experiment that reconsiders footage of a film-in-progress as a place-based installation. In striking, dreamlike impressions of everyday city life, the Brooklyn-based artists explore practices of spirituality and reflect on meaning-making with reverence for the quotidian observations that make up our ordinary lives.
ARVERNE CINEMA LOOPING WINDOW
REPOSE. 2024. 4 hr. *on view August 17.
To celebrate the tenth annual Beach Sessions Dance Series, this documentation looks back at the 2021 commission choreographed by Moriah Evans which borrowed from the choreographies inherent to the beach—imposing on, and blending into, the beach’s elemental composition, landscape, and communities.
TO OPEN A WINDOW by Craig Scheihing. 2023. 2 min loop. *on view August 18-21.
In a dazzling flurry of 16mm images, a mirrored window makes a suggestion.
BIOGENETIC BLOOMS by Karen Ingram. 2024. Loop. *on view August 22-25.
A collaborative bio art animation using microbes engineered to display the same vibrant colors that exist in the DNA of sea creatures like jellyfish, sea anemone, and coral. This piece showcases the designs from a community workshop held on opening day of the festival, August 17.
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.