Monday, October 31, 2011
Art / Film / News BAM Commissions Sesquicentennial Documentary
Posted by Mark Asch on Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:01 PM
The film is currently in production, announced Sladek's production company, Plug Ugly Films; it will feature "behind-the-scenes footage of the 2011/2012 season," talking-head spots from many of the theater artists who've staged works at BAM, and a bit of history.
BAM's film programming is a comparatively new element of the Academy, but it's frequently one of their most direct engagements with the immediately surrounding culture. So BAM has programmed a yearlong Brooklyn Close-Up series, surveying The Seventh Art's depiction of the County of Kings. (Brooklyn's long cinematic history is given tribute in the series poster, above, and with its accompanying drawings here, by Nathan Gelgud.) Everything begins tonight, with a spotlight on Coney Island, and an entirely Halloween-appropriate film about people in costumes wandering through New York City: The Warriors.
The screenings will be held every few weeks or so until next winter; The Playlist already put up BAM's press release running down the included films and the neighborhoods depicted.
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