Northside Film presents THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE as part of its 2015 festival.

Suspecting that those around him are actually malevolent shape-shifters, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.

Northside Film presents THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT as part of its 2015 festival.

A psychological thriller based on the notorious true story, Billy Crudup stars as Stanford University professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who, in 1971, cast 24 student volunteers as prisoners and guards in a simulated jail to examine the source of abusive behavior in the prison system. The results astonished the world, as participants went from middle-class undergrads to drunk-with-power sadists and submissive victims in just a few days.

Winner of two awards at the Sundance Film Festival, including Best Screenplay, and created with the close participation of Dr. Zimbardo himself, The Stanford Prison Experiment is a chilling, edge-of-your-seat thriller about the dark side of power and the effects of imprisonment.

Northside Film presents EDEN as part of its 2015 festival.

Eden is an affecting trip into the 90s Parisian electronic dance movement experienced through the eyes of DJ groups Cheers and Daft Punk who, together with their friends, plunge into the ephemeral nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.

Northside Film presents DEVIL TOWN as part of its 2015 festival.

A young woman’s sets out on a quest through Brooklyn to find her missing sister, enlisting the help of a motley crew of New York weirdos.

Northside Film presents ABBY SINGER/SONGWRITER as part of its 2015 festival.

Director Onur Tukel will be in attendance for a Q&A

In Abby Singer/Songwriter, Jamie Block – a divorced stockbroker has-been who was once an indie-rock star signed to Capitol Records – meets Onur Tukel, a hapless middle-aged filmmaker who has just moved to Brooklyn. In this coming-of-middle-age story, Onur persuades Block to sink his money into a series of increasingly absurd music videos to promote his comeback as a musician. Desperate to impress his two beautiful, nonchalant teenaged daughters, Block casts them in the videos, which then play on multiple screens throughout this hallucinatory film. As tension mounts between director and musician Block’s bank account and grip on reality dwindle.

Who will survive the attack of the giant, radioactive ants in THEM!?

Fear of nuclear winter wasn’t the only modern anxiety ushered in by the atomic age, there was also fear of radiation and what these glowing mystery particles might do to poor, innocent mother Earth. Like… say, transform a colony of ants into eight-foot-long killing machines. Bursting from the nuclear testing grounds of New Mexico, the giant ants of Them! go on the war path against the United States of America, terrorizing our women and killing our best and brightest gas station attendants. When the ants establish a colony right below Los Angeles, only our boys in uniform can save us from the terror, horror, excitement and mystery of Them!

Part of Nitehawk’s July ANIMAL ATTACKS! midnite and brunch series.

ART SEEN presents THE FUTURE IS WHATEVER, a selection of short film and video curated by artist Andrea McGinty. From narrative to experimental, relatable to weird, The Future is Whatever takes a humorous look at what it means to be present.

Featuring works by:
James Bayard
Al Bedell
BFFA3AE
Allison Brainard
Sean J Patrick Carney
Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw
Sam Cooke
Petra Cortright
Leah Dixon
Ben Dowell
Fake Injury Party
Nandi Loaf
Emily McMaster
Dominique Palladino
Birgit Rathsmann
Siebren Versteeg
May Waver

Proceeds from the screening will be donated to benefit the Bruce High Quality Foundation University, New York City’s freest art school, a learning experiment where artists work together to manifest creative, productive, resistant, useless, and demanding interactions between art and the world. The Future is Whatever is part of a full day of Williamsburg community events hosted by BHQFU, beginning with a picnic in the park and ending with an after party following the screening. Details will be posted here shortly!

ART SEEN is in partnership with frieze.

The Brooklyn Film Festival presents BUT NOT FOR ME with introduction and Q&A with director Ryan Carmichael and actors from the film.

But Not For Me combines hip-hop and spoken word performance with stories of self-realization and love. Will is a young writer living in the big city, and barely scraping by on his copywriter’s salary. When he meets Hope, his beautiful and enigmatic new neighbor, he is certain he has found the inspiration and the validation he’s been seeking. But as he struggles to find his way, Will learns he must reconcile his youthful vision of life with the complexities of the real world in order to find true fulfillment.

The Brooklyn Film Festival presents ABBY SINGER/SONGWRITER, with introduction and Q&A with director Onur Tukel and members of the cast.

In Abby Singer/Songwriter, Jamie Block – a divorced stockbroker has-been who was once an indie-rock star signed to Capitol Records – meets Onur Tukel, a hapless middle-aged filmmaker who has just moved to Brooklyn. In this coming-of-middle-age story, Onur persuades Block to sink his money into a series of increasingly absurd music videos to promote his comeback as a musician. Desperate to impress his two beautiful, nonchalant teenaged daughters, Block casts them in the videos, which then play on multiple screens throughout this hallucinatory film. As tension mounts between director and musician Block’s bank account and grip on reality dwindle.

A two-hour video variety show of rare footage and pop culture commentary.

Comedian Kevin Maher presents an obsessive look at the Animal Attack genre: from recent CGI beasts to the nature-gone-wrong films of the Drive-In era. This two-hour multi-media show includes dozens of film clips featuring crazed cats, angry bears, giant spiders, Freudian snakes, killer cockroaches, a racist dog and much more. With special guest presentations by Jon Abrams (Editor-in-Chief, Daily Grindhouse), Wendy Mays (creator of SPACE CAT) Matt Glasson (co-host, Kevin & Matt Geek Out About Zombies) and Tom Blunt (film blogger and variety show host)  

Plus Kevin hand-picked some of his favorite scenes from the genre, including: the most pretentious animal incident, best gratuitous animal attack, and cinema’s fakest reptile (hint: it’s not DinoCroc).