Join curator Willy Hartland for this sun-filled sampler of animated films set at the beach.

Program

1. Michaela Müller “Miramare” 2010 8 mi

2. Dave Fleischer “Betty Boop’s Lifeguard” 1934 6 min

3. Malcolm Sutherland “Tourists” 2002 7 min

4. Willy Hartland’s “Wham Blam Thank You Clam!” 1982 2 min

5. Bill Plympton’s “Deep End” 2014 4 min

6. Bill Plympton’s “Summer Bummer” 2012 1:49 sec

7. Kirsten Lepore’s “Hi Stranger” 2016 2:43 min

8. Xeth Feinberg’s “Bulbo in Surf n Turf” 2004 1 min

9. Xeth Feinberg’s “Our pal Bulbo in Back to Nature” 2004 1 min

10. Anthony Gross & Hector Hoppin’s “LA JOIE DE VIVRE” 1934 9 min

11. Louis Netter “Paradise Beach” 2009 2:11 min

12. John Morena “Piss & Vinegar” 2017 30 sec

13. John Morena “Home: A Portrait of New York City” 2017 30 sec

14. Bruno Bozetto “Mister Rossi at the Seaside” 1964 10:35

15. Kirsten Lepore’s “Bottle” 2011 6 min

16. Pes “The Deep” 2010 1:34 sec

New Wave: Dare To Be Different: How a small Long Island radio station became the “voice of a generation”

August 1982. Bands like the Ramones, the Clash, U2, the Smiths, the Cars, the Police, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Blondie, Tears For Fears, Elvis Costello, Duran Duran, and the Cure are redefining a fresh new music scene. But to the disenfranchised youth weaned on bland Top 40 and corporate rock, these artists might have escaped notice were it not for a small, independent radio station broadcasting from Long Island, NY. This was WLIR.

For a brief, but startling, five year period, this wildly influential station battled the FCC, faced financial struggles, competed with signals far stronger than theirs and faced shutdown at a moment’s notice. But none of that stopped ‘LIR from doing what no other station would or could. It spotted musical trends from Europe, discovered new and intriguing artists and was responsible for breaking many of these bands in America. ‘LIR nurtured a local club scene and created a heritage that’s since spawned hundreds of tribute sites and message boards.

Curated by a staff of like-minded and adventurous personalities, ‘LIR spoke a new language to its audience. It was the social network of its day and its fans quickly became family.

Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Sonny Tufts

In the midst of a summer heat wave, New Yorker Richard Sherman ships his wife and their son off to Maine for vacation. Left alone to work back in Manhattan, Richard encounters a gorgeous blonde model who has moved into the apartment upstairs, and becomes immediately infatuated. While pondering infidelity, Richard dreams of his beautiful new neighbor — but will his fantasies about her become a reality?

Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Diane KEaton, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Talia Shire

Francis Ford Coppola’s epic masterpiece features Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family. Director Coppola paints a chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan’s rise and near fall from power in America, masterfully balancing the story between the Corleone’s family life and the ugly crime business in which they are engaged. Based on Mario Puzo’s best-selling novel and featuring career-making performances by Al Pacino, James Cann and Robert Duvall, this searing and brilliant film garnered ten Academy Award nominations, and won three including Best Picture of 1972.

Starring: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Jackie Gleason

All he wanted was some Coors! Get ready to tear up the highway with the Bandit (Burt Reynolds), a fun-loving, fast-talking trucker who takes on his craziest haul yet – delivering 400 cases of beer from Texarkana to Atlanta in just 28 hours. With Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason) hot on his trail and eager to teach him some respect for the law, the Bandit joins forces with good ol’ boy, Cledus (Jerry Reed) and runaway bride Carrie (Sally Field). Gear up for huge laughs, pedal-to-the-metal action, and some of the wildest car crashes ever filmed!

Starring: Elle Fanning, Alex Sharp, Nicole Kidman, and Ruth Wilson

Enn (Alex Sharp) is a shy suburban London teenager in 1977, sneaking out with his best friends to after-hours punk parties. One night they stumble upon a bizarre gathering of sexy teenagers who seem like they are from another planet. In fact, they are from another planet, visiting Earth to complete a mysterious rite of passage. That doesn’t stop Enn from falling madly in love with Zan (Elle Fanning), a beautiful and rebellious alien teenager who, despite her allegiance to her strange colony, is fascinated by Enn. Together they embark on a delirious adventure through the kinetic punk rock world of 1970s London, inadvertently setting off a series of events that will lead to the ultimate showdown of punks vs. aliens, and test the limits of how far each of them will go for true love.

Starring: Susanne Sachße, Viva Ruiz, Kembra Pfahler

When an injured male leftist on the run discovers the remote stronghold of the Female Liberation Army — a radical feminist terrorist group whose mission is to usher in a female world order — one of the members takes pity on him and hides him in the basement. However, the man in the basement is just one of many secrets threatening to disrupt the FLA’s mission from within. Balancing sharp social commentary and salacious popcorn entertainment, iconic filmmaker Bruce LaBruce has created an experience that’s a blast to watch and just as much fun to dissect afterwards.

Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, Kim Cattrall, Chris Noth, Jessica Giesenkirchen, Jennifer Hudson

Four years after the earlier adventures of Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and her best gal pals, she and her intermittent lover, Big (Chris Noth), are in a committed relationship. Samantha (Kim Cattrall), having survived cancer, has a monogamous relationship with Smith Jerrod. Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and her husband live on Park Avenue, and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), now in Brooklyn, feels the pressure of family life.

Starring: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Albert Brooks, Steve Zahn

Meet Jack Foley, the most successful bank robber in the country. On the day he busts out of jail, he finds himself stealing something far more precious than money … Karen Sisco’s heart. She’s smart. She’s sexy, and unfortunately for Jack, she’s a Federal Marshal. Now, they’re willing to risk it all to find out if there’s more between them than just the law.

A Note from The Eyeslicer co-creator Dan Schoenbrun:

“This past December I started work on A SELF-INDUCED HALLUCINATION, my first feature documentary as a director. It was a project I had been obsessing over for years, and finally, the time had come for it to leave my brain. So in a manic burst of creative energy that lasted the seemingly endless New York winter, I transformed it from a dream into a film.

I’m still tinkering with the cut, but I’ve decided to give myself a deadline and world-premiere A SELF-INDUCED HALLUCINATION this June at Brooklyn’s Nitehawk Cinema. I’ve also decided to keep basically everything about the film a secret until the moment the lights go down in the theater. I like the idea of premiering my first film as a complete mystery to the world. I like the idea of an audience having no clue what they’re about to see as something I’ve spent countless hours working on plays for the first time. Maybe that’s all pretty silly and ill-advised, but it feels like a fun experiment to me and I hope you’ll come be a part of it.

All I’ll share about A SELF-INDUCED HALLUCINATION is this: it’s about the internet, and it’s quite strange.

I’ve invited Chris Osborn from D E E P to open the show with a program of experimental shorts about the internet. If you’re not familiar with D E E P, it’s an amazing series that collects the best experimental shorts, web videos, and art pieces unearthed from the darker side of the internet. So – come out on June 13th to see some incredible D E E P shorts about the internet, and then stay for my strange “mystery” first feature, also about the internet.

I hope to see you there.
Dan”