Nitehawk tells the Legend of the 1995 Kung Fu film THE BLADE. A 35mm presentation!
After the master of the Sharp Manufacturer saber factory abdicates and appoints On, his least popular worker, as his successor, On, unwilling to lead his surly colleagues, embarks on a quest of revenge to kill the evil, flying, tattooed kung fu master who killed his father.
Part of Nitehawk’s January THE LEGEND OF 90S KUNG FU midnites.
Nitehawk’s MUSIC DRIVEN presents a one nite screening of Video Music Box with Ralph McDaniels & DJ Red Alert.
Post screening Q&A with Video Music Box creator Ralph McDaniels moderated byDJ Red Alert. Ralph will also be presenting his top 5 hip hop music videos of all time!
Look back on over 30 years of Ralph McDaniels’ Video Music Box. Featuring rare and unseen live-footage of Nas, Notorious BIG, Kool Moe Dee, Run DMC, Boogie Down Productions, Jay Z, Wu Tang Clan, and many more. Ralph will also be presenting his top 5 hip hop music videos of all time.
Nitehawk presents two special midnite screenings of the once lost DANGEROUS MEN!
Dangerous Men has many characters…like Mina whose life is shattered when two bikers with rape on their minds attack and kill Daniel, her fiancé. Driven by grief, she embarks on a killing rampage, wreaking vengeance upon all the menthat she seductively lures into her trap. In her twisted world, cops and killers are all the same – David, Daniel’s brother, is a cop who relentlessly pursues the killers, while facing a nest of drug dealers, followed by the FBI and the police SWAT team, also in hot pursuit. Mina, a victim of violence, carrying a twisted obsession for justice, is caught between opposing forces in a world of dangerous men.
In this Yuletide spectacular, comedian KEVIN MAHER welcomes guests to obsess over the holidays with a two-hour video variety show full of laughs and weird film clips.
Guest Segments include:
An assassin accepts a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in 7th century China.
Back with his first film in 8 years, legendary Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien wowed this year’s Cannes Film Festival (where he won Best Director) with his awe-inspiring THE ASSASSIN – a wondrous take on the traditional wuxia film. The story is simple, if elusive – in 9th-century China, Nie Yinniang is a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth as an exceptional assassin, with orders to kill her betrothed husband-to-be. She must confront her parents, her memories, and her long-repressed feelings in a choice to sacrifice the man she loves or break forever with the sacred way of the righteous assassins. Rich with shimmering, breathing texture and punctuated by brief but unforgettable bursts of action, THE ASSASSIN is a martial arts film like none made before it.
The third annual Nitehawk Shorts Festival is excited to introduce the debut MUSIC DRIVEN category this year screening music videos at midnite!
This screening includes an introduction by John Woods (Nitehawk Cinema), Sacha Jenkins (Mass Appeal) and filmmakers.
In this Music Driven screening at the Nitehawk Shorts Festival, we take a look at the early days and current state of the music video. Featuring the selected works of festival participants, the screening also focuses on on the time period before the emergence of big budget video directors such as Russell Mulcahy, Steve Barron, and Diane Martel. These early examples the music video genre were made with little or no record company support and, in some cases, before MTV or any other regular outlet existed. Even bands on bigger labels created memorable music videos despite time and budget limitations by devising a loose concept and shooting almost documentary style. We’ve chosen a small selection of early “clips” as they were known to illustrate some of the origins of what can still be a vital art form inside and outside the mainstream.
Accompanying the contemporary music videos selected from submission, Mass Appeal, who remains one of the biggest supporters of new music videos, will present some of the more recent original and groundbreaking clips they’ve featured. While this is a diverse program on many levels, the continuing innovation and creative execution of the music video remains the common thread.
LIMB & NECK (Crown the Invisible)
Theodore Collatos | 2015 | 3 minutes
CANAL (Ratking)
Eric K. Yue | 2015 | 3 minutes
Vintage selection from the formative time of the music video
1982 | 2 1/2 minutes
DIM THE LIGHTS (Wild Ones)
Montana Wildhack (Calvin Waterman and Peter Kearney) | 2015 | 4 1/2 minutes
RUBY (Charly Bliss)
Andrew Costa | 2015 | 2 1/2 minutes
CLOSE YOUR EYES AND COUNT TO FUCK (Run the Jewels)
A.G. ROJAS | 2015 | 5 minutes
ORION’S BELT
Megan Clement | 2015 | 4 minutes
Vintage selection from the formative time of the music video
1987 | 4 minutes
HIGH ROAD (Mastadon)
Roboshobo | 2014 | 4 minutes
DOUBLE HELIX (KNTRLR)
Matthew K. Esolda & Daniel Bowhers | 2015 | 5 minutes
Vintage selection from the formative time of the music video
1982 | 3 1/2 minutes
ARIGHT (Kendrick Lamar)
Colin Tilley | 2015 | 7 minutes
NO WILL (White Hills)
Ego Sensation | 2015 | 4 minutes
LONER (Kali Uchis)
Kali Uchis | 2015 | 4 1/2 minutes
Vintage selection from the formative time of the music video
1976 | 4 minutes
FIREWORKS (Josef Henry)
Megan Smith | 2015 | 2 1/2 minutes
LIKE ME (Joey Badass)
Nathan R. Smith & Joey Bada$$ | 2015 | 5 minutes
Vintage selection from the formative time of the music video
1979 | 3 minutes
BLAZING STAR LODGE (Jim Lopezzo)
Jim Lopezzo | 2015 | 4 1/2 minutes
I LOVE YOU TOO (Darlings)
Ricardo Villavincencio | 2015 | 2 1/2 minutes
Vintage selection from the formative time of the music video
1983 | 4 minutes
HILLSIDE (Lost Children)
Richard Joneleit | 2015 | 6 minutes
THARSIS SLEEPS (Throne)
Nicos Livesey & Tom Bunker | 2014 | 4 1/2 minutes
Program is subject to change.
Prize sponsorship provided by Heard City, a boutique audio post-production facility, and Nice Shoes, the full service, artist-driven design, animation, visual effects and color grading studio specializing in high-end commercials, web content, film, TV and music videos. One filmmaker will receive 14 hours (2 days) of Sound Design and/or Mix with one Sound Designer/Mixer courtesy of Heard City as well as 20 hours of color grading with a night colorist (valued at $16k) from Nice Shoes. The winner is selected by festival organizers and invited guests.
The third annual Nitehawk Shorts Festival is excited to have our MIDNITE category again this year! Co-programmed with Sam Zimmerman (Shudder), this program features short films by international filmmakers most appropriately viewed after the clock strikes midnite.
Screening includes an introduction by Caryn Coleman (Nitehawk Cinema) and filmmakers.
YOU’RE INVITED! Filmmakers Gathering pre-party in our downstairs bar, Lo-Res, from 10pm – 12am!
SON
Judd Myers | 2015 | USA | 14 minutes
New York Premiere
A sheltered kid cons his way into a sick day. Left alone for the first time, he stumbles upon a sinister family secret.
RAT TAIL
Adam R. Brown | 2014 | USA | 3 minutes
A young couple learns that pranks in the nude never end well.
VIOLENT FLORENCE
Jaime Snyder | 2014 | Australia | 12 minutes
New York Premiere
Florence rescues a stray cat. After taking the feline to an isolated building, her true intentions emerge.
TRAUMA
Ethan Young | 2013 | USA | 12 minutes
New York Premiere
Proving that there’s nothing menacing in the attic of her abandoned childhood home is the only thing standing between Isabelle and freedom. But even with her doctor’s insistence, something still seems amiss.
THE CHICKENING
Nick DenBoer and Davy Force | 2015 | Canada | 5 minutes
New York Premiere
This is a theatrical trailer for a fictional film in which Stanley Kubrick’s classic film The Shining has been artfully transformed into a new, poultry-infused comedy adventure by digitally altering the film to create a new narrative.
PSYCHOTIC!
Maxwell Frey and Derek Gibbons | 2015 | USA | 7 minutes
In the Bushwick area of Brooklyn, a serial killer sneaks into a girl’s apartment only to find himself hiding out with the other guests of a surprise birthday party.
THE SUBSTITUTE
Nathan Hughes-Berry | 2015 | UK | 23 minutes
New York Premiere
A young teacher takes a job at an unusual private school where she soon discovers that the boys have a sinister power over the girls.
LARRY GONE DEMON
Matthew John Lawrence | 2015 | USA | 14 minutes
New York Premiere
A frenetic, punk-rock nightmare centering on one asshole of a roommate.
Program is subject to change.
Prize sponsorship provided by Heard City, a boutique audio post-production facility, and Nice Shoes, the full service, artist-driven design, animation, visual effects and color grading studio specializing in high-end commercials, web content, film, TV and music videos. One filmmaker will receive 14 hours (2 days) of Sound Design and/or Mix with one Sound Designer/Mixer courtesy of Heard City as well as 20 hours of color grading with a night colorist (valued at $16k) from Nice Shoes. The winner is selected by festival organizers and invited guests.
Nitehawk welcomes THE IRON MULE SHORT COMEDY FESTIVAL to the Nitehawk Shorts Festival!
After 13 years in Manhattan, the Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival comes to Williamsburg with a lineup of seven new films, featuring short comedy films from China, England, Russia, and… Brooklyn! Filmmakers will be in attendance and the screening will be followed by an after-party in Lo-Res where the audience and filmmakers can mingle.
The Iron Mule is New York’s only monthly short comedy film series, screening narrative, documentary, animated and experimental comedies from around the world. In their 13+ years they have presented more than 1,100 films, including early work from many celebrated filmmakers and comedians such as Stephen Colbert, Seth Macfarlane, Lena Dunham and Aziz Ansari.
Each screening features a guest judge from the world of film, comedy, television, or the New York art scene. Hosts Jay Stern and Victor Varnado interview attending filmmakers during the show, and each screening is followed by an after-party. In addition, Iron Mule produces the “Wanna Be a Star” contest, in which an audience member is chosen to star in a new film directed by an Iron Mule filmmaker to be shown at the following month’s screening.
NIGHT SHIFT
Written and directed by Richard Higson | 2014 | UK | 15 minutes
Lenny and Chris head to a mysterious manor house for a special job. But they haven’t reckoned on just who they’re there to kidnap, and who else might have had the same idea…
SHOE
Written and directed by Eric Fisher | 2014 | USA | 7 minutes
Soldiers in the American Revolution fight to survive. And to inherit a shoe. They mostly fight about the shoe.
PORTFOLIO
Written and directed by Nikita Tamarov | 2015 | Russia | 16 minutes
A body has been buried, but the relatives want to make a change. Funeral contractors have a messy job to do, all while staying “within the budget.”
MIXED UP
Written by Ian Lassiter, directed by Jeffrey Glaser | 2015 | USA | 14 minutes
A young, mixed-race jazz musician finds he has no African DNA, and struggles to figure out how the eff he will make sense of his life…
PANTY FAIRY
Written and directed by Juanwei Chen | 2014 | China | 2 minutes
In the midst of chaos, a hero emerges to save the day. Young teenage girls are constantly being robbed of their belongings and only one true fairy can pave the way towards a happily ever after.
He is known as…Panty Fairy.
DOIN’ EVERYTHIN’
Written and directed by Jacob A. Ware and Kate Dearing | 2014 | USA | 5 1/2 minutes
One of the only 10,000 part how-to tutorial series.
TERMINATOR 6
Part of our “Wanna Be a Star” contest, which stars a member of our previous show’s audience chosen at random! Written and directed by Jay Stern and Victor Varnado.
The third annual Nitehawk Shorts Festival continues with our DAY TWO brunch screening of documentary and narrative fiction shorts.
Screening followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers and festival programmers.
YOU’RE INVITED: Official closing party celebration at Lo-Res (2pm – 4pm) where we will announce the festival winner!
QUINTAL (BACKYARD)
André Novais Oliveira | 2015 | Brazil | 20 minutes
Another day in the life of an elderly married couple in the suburbs.
THE TRIAL OF BARNABY FINCH
Sorrel Brae and Sam Stephens | 2013 | USA | 2 ½ minutes
To swat or not to swat? That’s the question an errant fly poses to our hapless hero, Barnaby Finch, at the penultimate moment of his job interview.
MONDAY SOCCER
Marina Loducca | 2015 | Brazil | 4 ½ minutes
A fictional story centered around a married man in Brooklyn, NY who leads a seemingly normal life.
DOMESTIC BLISS
Craig Friedman and Courtenay Cholovich | 2015 | USA | 11 minutes
World Premiere
A defiantly non-narrative experimental film on interior life.
GAME OF PRETEND
Christopher Bagnall | 2015 | USA | 7 minutes
A profile on an eccentric car mechanic who has spent years constructing his very own KITT car from his favorite TV show, Knight Rider.
THEIR SON RYAN
Noah Cohen | 2015 | Canada | 12 minutes
World Premiere
A dark comedy about a quarrel between a divorced couple over the ashes of their recently-deceased son.
IF YOU’RE READING THIS IT’S TOO LATE
Christopher Cole | 2015 | USA | 4 ½ minutes
This is the story of a Drake fan.
THEREFORE I AM
Peter McCoubrey & Luke McCoubrey | 2015 | USA | 6 ½ minutes
New York Premiere
A mysterious encounter between a man who claims to be from the future and the man who he claims is his former self.
BRIDGE
Danny Dwyer | 2014 | USA | 14 minutes
New York Premiere
An aging dancer at the end of her rope decides to cut her time short, but her plans are disrupted by a disturbing turn of events. A strange vagrant and a mysterious photograph bring her face-to-face with her choices.
Program is subject to change.
Prize sponsorship provided by Heard City, a boutique audio post-production facility, and Nice Shoes, the full service, artist-driven design, animation, visual effects and color grading studio specializing in high-end commercials, web content, film, TV and music videos. One filmmaker will receive 14 hours (2 days) of Sound Design and/or Mix with one Sound Designer/Mixer courtesy of Heard City as well as 20 hours of color grading with a night colorist (valued at $16k) from Nice Shoes. The winner is selected by festival organizers and invited guests.
The third annual Nitehawk Shorts Festival continues with our DAY ONE brunch screening of documentary and narrative fiction shorts.
Screening followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers and festival programmers.
PETIT FRERE (LITTLE BROTHER)
Remi St-Michel | 2014 | Canada | 14 minutes
Antoine, a problematic teenager 14 year old, spends a day with his tutor. For one last time before the latter’s departure for Russia, the two “brothers” mess around in the city streets.
TRUTH WITH WINE
Theodore Collatos | USA | 2015 | 17 minutes
New York Premiere
A personal documentary about the filmmaker’s family and, specifically, his relationship with his step-father.
TEST
Jay Lifton | 2014 | USA | 10 minutes
A seemingly unremarkable man spends a day taking a bizarre test at a mysterious facility.
CHICKENS
Susan Huyett | 2015 | USA | 2 minutes
Word Premiere
Chickens meet Herzog in this blended short.
PROCESS
Rob Silcox | 2015 | USA | 7 minutes
Two process servers have to deliver a subpoena by any means necessary.
RI THORAI (THE KING OF TORY ISLAND)
Eoin Mcaughlin | 2015 | USA/Ireland | 8 minutes
World Premiere
Patsy Dan Rodgers is the king of 100 people as he governs a tiny island off the northernmost tip of Ireland, in a tradition dating back well over 1,000 years.
UNFIT TO PRINT
Mark Lungariello & Liam McKiernan | 2014 | USA | 11 minutes
An earnest, and sometimes clueless, career changer is schooled in unorthodox journalism methods by a slimy, blowhard editor for a community weekly.
APHASIA
Luke LoCurcio | 2015 | USA | 11 minutes
A short film about the price of plugging in.
Program is subject to change.
Prize sponsorship provided by Heard City, a boutique audio post-production facility, and Nice Shoes, the full service, artist-driven design, animation, visual effects and color grading studio specializing in high-end commercials, web content, film, TV and music videos. One filmmaker will receive 14 hours (2 days) of Sound Design and/or Mix with one Sound Designer/Mixer courtesy of Heard City as well as 20 hours of color grading with a night colorist (valued at $16k) from Nice Shoes. The winner is selected by festival organizers and invited guests.
