A festival of Romanian film wrestles with political instability back home, and emerges anew:
A Romanian film festival, affected by political instability back home, redefines itself and keeps the flame of Romanian cinema alive.
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It wasn't certain that this year's festival, now in its seventh incarnation, was going to run at all. Its former sole funding and organizational body—the Romanian Cultural Institute of New York—cut its funding months before the festival was scheduled to take place. The RCINY's former director, Corina Suteu, her deputy Oana Radu, and their long-time colleague Mihai Chirilov, are now independently running the festival. In collaboration with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, they're pulling together a showcase of the latest films from what’s become a cinematic powerhouse. More
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on November 28th, 2012 11:15am"Every artist is connected to Brooklyn in some way," Longmyer said. Many of them—Nick Catchdubs, Lauren Flax and Mess Kid—are longtime Brooklynites or, like ShadowBox, recently moved to the borough. Trouble & Bass, Mixpak, and Fade to Mind are among the Brooklyn-based labels hosting stages or bringing their signed artists to the festival. "It's the opposite of stress," Drop the Lime (Luca Venezia), the native New York producer and D.J. who's playing BEMF for the first time his year, said. "I rarely get to play my hometown. It's a great energy and vibe because you've got your fans there but also you have your friends." More
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on November 9th, 2012 4:12pmThe days without power had drawn on long enough that, for some, new rituals, not entirely unpleasant, were suddenly about to disappear (until the next time?) More
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on November 4th, 2012 1:06pmWendy tried her best to cool down the crowd, Wendy being Matthias Hollwick and Marc Kushner’s huge courtyard installation and winning entry of the museum's annual Young Architect’s Program. The giant blue starburst structure, encased in a cube of scaffolding, dwarfed the whitewashed stone square at the front of the outdoor space. Every five minutes, from one of its top spikes, water dumped onto the crowd below, providing welcome relief to the 92-degree humidity. A brave few stood mid-stream and got completely drenched, while most looked on and laughed. More
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on July 9th, 2012 3:09pmCelebrating a birthday at Le Poisson Rouge is nice enough, but probably nothing to write home about; playing to a sell-out crowd, however, is more likely to be one for the scrapbook. Electronic musician Bonobo, Simon Green, took to the decks on Thursday night in the Bleecker Street venue, celebrating his 36th birthday and the launch of his latest remix album. More
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on April 2nd, 2012 10:58am
