Mono No Aware (organization)
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| Formation | 2007, New York City[1] |
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| Founder | Steve Cossman[2] |
| Type | Non-Profit |
| Purpose | Film Advocacy, Preservation, Distribution, Exhibition[3] |
| Headquarters | Brooklyn, New York |
| Website | |
Mono No Aware is a cinema-arts non-profit organization. Founded in 2007, its mission entails the advancement of “connectivity through the cinematic experience.”[3] The organization is named after the Japanese concept mono no aware (物の哀れ), which expresses the impermanence of being and beauty.[4]
Mono No Aware is based in Brooklyn, New York and organizes artist screenings, analog filmmaking workshops, equipment rentals, and film stock distribution. Film artists Bill Brand and Leslie Thornton serve on its Advisory Board.[1] Since its founding, the organization has hosted an annual film festival, exhibiting expanded cinema works from around the world that utilize both analog technologies and live performance. Following the completion of the tenth festival, a month-long series of exhibitions, Mono No Aware undertook the construction of the first non-profit motion picture laboratory to operate in the United States.[5]
Annual film festival
In 2007, the first Mono No Aware film festival was held in the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn. It was free to attend and free to submit and the same holds true today.[6] In 2016, the organization, in celebration of its tenth anniversary, organized MONO X, a 21-event film spanning three boroughs in New York City. It presented the work of 150 artists to an audience of more than 5,000. Works included sculpture, expanded cinema, and installation art incorporating the moving image on film and/or video. Presenting sponsors included Kodak, Brooklyn Brewery, and Technicolor.[7]
| Year | Film | Format(s) | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | We are the Divided United | 16mm & Live Sound | Huong Ngo & Emcee C.M. |
| Light Sleep Walks | Super 8mm & Live Sound | Paul Clipson & Joshua Churchill | |
| Fireworks Film | 16mm & Live Sound | Austin Willis | |
| #472 A | 35mm & Live Sound | Nastya Osipova, Lea Bertucci, Ed Bear | |
| Happy Holidays | 16mm & Live Sound | Steve Cossman & Matt Morandi | |
| 2008 | Prenotions in Red, White, and Blues | 16mm, Super 8mm, Live Sound | Fern Silva & Doron Sadja |
| Architecture of the Sun | 16mm & Live Sound | Brittany Gravely, Jennifer Pipp, The Glass Shivers | |
| Blush | Super 8mm | Sam Dishy | |
| Mekanikdolls | 16mm, Super 8mm, Live Sound, Performance | Seyhan Muaoglu & Jess Ramsay | |
| 2009 | El Ojo, La Boca, El Ano | 16mm, 35mm Slide, Live Sound, Performance | Juan David Gonzalez Monroy & Julio Monterrey |
| Etching With Light | Super 8mm & Live Sound | David Mason & John Davis | |
| Honeybed | Super 8mm, Live Sound, Performance | Syni Pappa, Myrto Karapiperi, Anna Maria Rammou | |
| Lunar Flare | Super 8mm & Live Sound | Julie Buck & Levi Rubeck | |
| Spillway Study/Carpe Diez | 16mm & Performance | Ross Nugent | |
| Safe & Sound | Super 8mm & Live Sound | Rachael Rene Abernathy | |
| 2010 | The Chinese Nightingale | Magic Lantern, Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, Performance | Bradley Eros, Lary Seven, Joel Schlemowitz, Victoria Keddie |
| Youkali | 16mm & Live Sound | Noe Kidder, Jessica Goldring, Mark Gallay | |
| Errata.Cinema | 16mm, Live Sound, Performance | Thomas Dexter | |
| This Gives Me Fever at Night | 16mm & Performance | Luis Arnias & Kim Ferero-Arnias | |
| UFO Evidence | 16mm & Live Sound | Jason Martin | |
| You Know They Want to Disappear | Super 8mm & Live Sound | Stephanie Gray | |
| Spalms | 16mm & Performance | Sarah Halpern & Matt Wellins | |
| Untitled | Super 8mm, 16mm, Performance | Jeremiah Jones, Ann Meisinger, Zane Starr, Kerry Farias | |
| Grandflower | 16mm, Live Sound, Performance | Joshua Lewis, Danica Pantic, Joseph Stankus | |
| Catharsis | 16mm Installation | Tara Nelson | |
| 2011 | A Northern Portrait | 16mm & Live Sound | Lindsay McIntyre |
| Genesis | 16mm & Live Sound | Edward Merton Casey | |
| The Proximity of Standing Stones | Super 8mm, 16mm, Live Sound | Monica Baptista & Robert Aki Aubrey Lowe | |
| The Colors of Spring | Super 8mm, 35mm Slide, Live Sound, Performance | Joey Huertas, Patricia Ordonez, Morgan Nance | |
| Half the Available Light in a Space | Performance | Luke Munn | |
| Monkey | 16mm & Live Sound | Eric Ostrowski | |
| Glitch Envy | 16mm & Performance | Jodie Mack | |
| Through the Headlights | Live Sound & Performance | Jasa Baka, Julia Thomas, Tyr Jami | |
| Under the BQE | Super 8mm & Live Sound | Alex Mallis & Hunter Simpson | |
| Tranquility #2 New York | 16mm & Live Sound | Theodore King & Jordan Stone | |
| Still Already There | 16mm & Live Sound | Alex Cunningham | |
| Harvest Moon | Super 8mm | Amanda Long | |
| 2012 | IV Phases | 16mm & Live Sound | Robert Howsare |
| Selected Scenes Woven From Star Wars IV & V | Super 8mm & Installation | Mary Stark | |
| Expansion Contraction | 16mm | Miro Hoffmann | |
| Bike-Cycle | Zoetrope & Installation | Jodie Mack | |
| Measures | Super 8mm & Performance | Tara Nelson | |
| Je Ne Sais Plus (What is the Feeling) | 16mm, Live Sound, Performance | Kristin Reeves | |
| Watershed / Surface Patterns | 16mm, Live Sound, Performance | Mike Bonello & Man Forever | |
| Crusher | 16mm, Live Sound, Performance | Steve Cossman & Ryan Marino | |
| Richard Gamble | Live Sound | Richard Gamble | |
| Ganzfeld Test | 16mm & Sculpture | Amanda Long | |
| B-90 Noir | 16mm & Live Sound | Johnny Rodgers | |
| Francesca Woodman's Aunts | 16mm & Live Sound | Elina Brotherus | |
| Cementage | Super 8mm, 16mm, Live Sound | Masha Mitkov | |
| Where's the Child? | Super 8mm, Slide 35mm, Performance | Joey Huertas & Suzana Stankovic | |
| The Birds of Chernobyl | 16mm & Live Sound | Margaret Rorison | |
| Will o' the Wisp | 16mm, Live Sound, Performance | Kate Fleming, Sean Hanley, Charlie Adams, and others | |
| Jahiliyya Fields | Live Sound | Matthew Morandi |
Educational Initiatives
Mono No Aware runs workshops in Brooklyn year-round, and collaborates with institutions throughout North America, to teach students analog filmmaking techniques. Workshops include non-toxic film processing with coffee and beer, hand-making photographic emulsion, 2D and 3D analog animation, optical printing and contact printing, and Super 8mm, 16mm, and 35mm filmmaking.[9]
See also
References
- ^ a b "The organization". Mono No Aware. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
- ^ Kathryn Ramey, Experimental Filmmaking, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015 p. 36.
- ^ a b Disser, Nicole (September 23, 2016). "Mono No Aware Aiming to Bring Motion Picture Film Lab to the Masses". Bedford + Bowery. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
- ^ Franco Gatti, Rethinking Japan: Literature, Visual Arts & Linguistics, Psychology Press, 1990, p. 82.
- ^ Mala, Elisa (July 11, 2017). "A Brooklyn Film School Where the Digital Revolution Didn't Happen". The New York Times. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
- ^ Bennett, Bruce (November 30, 2011). "Putting the 'Film' In Film Festival". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved August 13, 2017. (subscription required)
- ^ "The Brooklyn Film Organization Bringing Analog Back to the Masses". Vice. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
- ^ "MONO NO AWARE: Cinema Arts Festival". Mono No Aware. Retrieved May 29, 2018.
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