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schedule of events While we’re not officially open just yet - we will be in a few weeks – as a new neighbor we wanted to say hello to DUMBO and invite you over for a film. We’re launching a new film series, partnered with New Yorker Films, called CineBella (with an exclamation point; Cinebella!) and we’ll be showing films the next two weekends before the series moves to Sundays. One of the upcoming films is partnered with WNYC. Please feel free to stop by, see what we’ve built, have a look at our new venue and say hello. We’d love to meet you. We can talk about the new DUMBO Kite Flying Society (first Saturday of every month in the Brooklyn Bridge Park, and the upcoming dance on film series “Frameworks”.
July 2008
CineBella! featuring: In Williamsburg we started our programming with Ocularis, our in-house, independently curated film series that ran for a decade. We loved Ocularis, it helped us define who we were, it taight us all about film, and sitting in the space wearing jackets, scarves and hats before we had heat was fun. In a nod to Ocularis, a series that spawned programmers who now work across the city and as far away as Istanbul and Berlin, we present CineBella!, the best of everything we learned from Ocularis about presenting film. Burnt by the Sun was the Academy award winner 1995, Best Foreign Film. “With its Chekhovian sense of a brutal future encroaching on an elegant, dying world, "Burnt by the Sun" matches the enduring power of Mr. Mikhalkov's best works” - Caryn James, The New York Times Preceded by the short film “Drink Me” > Saturday July 19th, 8pm One of the most beautiful - and one of the strongest - films I’ve ever seen. Set in Albania just after the fall of the Soviet Union, two Italians set out to bilk a country of stumbling and blinking citizens dazed by the loss of a hierarchical system that dictated their every move. A raw, evocative film that explodes change and leaves its character struggling to hold onto what they mistakenly assumed was their birthright in being members of an ‘advanced’ western civilization. If you’re asking yourself what you could judge the new Galapagos Art space by, judge us by this. Come see this film and if we disappoint, you can throw rocks at our front window. "...the streets are strewn with rubble and the populace is volatile and anarchic. It is either a scene of devastation or a land or opportunity, depending on one's point of view. Mr. Lo Verso once again shows himself to be a touchingly naive everyman, a mournfully handsome actor whose face seems effortlessly revealing. His carefully shaded performance melds the arrogance of new prosperity with the broadening, unwanted emergence of a wider world view." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times As on Friday, L’america is also preceded by the short film “Drink Me” > Saturday July 26th, 8 pm Frameworks featuring films by Greg Catellier and Jeff Curtis Mira Peck Janice Lancaster and For more information visit
> Saturday August 2nd, 9am, Brooklyn Bridge Park. Galapagos~kids! founds the first ever DUMBO Kite Flying Society! (That's the City Park at the foot of Main Street, not the State Park, the State Park has rules and they won’t let you fly a kite. We told them to go fly a kite.) Don’t ask our members the secrets to building the world’s best kites. We think most of them will be under ten years old and might be flying their first kite, and besides, no one’s telling. If we told you, you’d miss the fun. Besides we’re not founding the grandest society to ever plaster itself across the DUMBO sky for nothing. Introducing: the DUMBO Kite Flying Society. DKFS members arise on the first Saturday morning of every month to ascend and soar between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, glide over the East River, and vie for the titles of biggest kite, smallest kite, worst kite, longest flying kite and most improved kite. DKTS members salute innovative kite engineers of all skills provided they possess the will and fortitude of kite fliers who have come before; such as Alexander Graham Bell, Benjamin Franklin, the Wright Brothers, and Submarine Spies, mariners who lofted antennas into the sky to talk to the folks back home. Second only to birds (poor Icarus!), kites were the first inspiration to explore reality of lifting man into the sky. Come fly a kite! Starter kites provided! Certificate of membership and kite flying license’s will be issued, by us.
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Gianni Amelio, 1995, Italy, 116 minutes
