Saturday & Sunday, February 9 & 10, 2 pm reception, 4:30 pm film
screenings
FREE
PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION - 2pm Closing Receptions,
"Living For The City: Street Photographs Of Boston and New York,
1977-1992," by Richard Sandler.
Renowned NYC photographer & filmmaker Richard Sandler will be present
at his closing reception for his exhibit of New York black and white
photography at Outpost. Reception @ 2 pm.
FILM SCREENINGS
Saturday, 9 Feb., 4:30 pm
At 4:30pm we will present a showing of his award-winning documentary
feature film "The Gods of Times Square", on the occasion of its dvd
release by Brink Films.
Sunday, 10 Feb., 4:30 pm
At 4:30 pm, we will present his other films, as follows:
Brave New York, (2004, 57min)
SWAY, (2006, 33min)
Intermission
6:30pm:
Everybody Is Hurting, (2006, 55min)
Aka Martha's Vineyard (12min.)
RICHARD SANDLER (b. 1948)
Richard Sandler began shooting pictures on the streets of Boston in
1977 during a heyday for Boston photographers. He crashed a photo
class at Harvard with Ben Lifson and studied briefly with Garry
Winogrand at the New England School of Photography.
Sandler moved to New York in 1980 and intensively photographed on the
streets there until 1992, the year he began shooting street video. His
photographs are in the collections of the New York Public Library, The
Brooklyn Museum and The Museum of Fine Art, Houston.
Sandler's videos and films are, "The Gods Of Times Square" (1999),
"Brave New York" (2004), "Sway" 2006, "Everybody Is Hurting" 2006,
"The Rocks Of Eternity: Conversations with Satish Kumar" 2007, and a
film, (in progress) "Aka Martha's Vineyard." Sandler has received two
New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships in photography(1992,
1998) and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship for filmmaking in 2006.
"The Gods Of Times Square" has won a number of festival awards
including "best documentary" at the '99 Chicago Underground Film
festival and the '99 Rotterdam Film Festival.
OUTPOST DIRECTIONS:
186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Square, Cambridge, near cr Prospect,
opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big '186' on R side. Follow walk at
Left to gallery in back.
FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Saturday, February 9
The Gods Of Times Square, (1999, 112:00) is about religious zealots in
the fabled square and about the grotesque process of "Disney-fication
there. "Gods" chronicles the last days of the old Times Square and
it's traditional function as a place of freer speech. "The Gods of
Times Square" has won a number of film festival awards including "best
documentary" at the 1999 Chicago Underground Film Festival.
Sunday, February 10
Brave New York, (2004, 57:00) is a free form documentary that loosely
chronicles the last 12 years of intense change in the East Village
"hood." From the reopening of a newly curfewed Tompkins Square Park
and Wigstock in '92, to the destruction of the cherished Loisaida
Community Gardens, to the yuppie invasions of the dot com years, to
the present era, indelibly stamped with post-9/11 grief, this durable,
lusty neighborhood survives in spite of a real estate gold rush that
has excluded all but the well-to-do. The movie's main voices are those
of the artists and street people whose wisdom and commentaries upon
the dominant culture give us pause amidst the speedy approach of a
"Brave New World."
SWAY, (2006, 33:00) is a free-form documentary about the underground
portion of the NYC subway system; edited from 12 years of daily
shooting on the trains and on the platforms.
Intermission
Everybody Is Hurting, (2006, 55:00) is a documentary about the day of
9/11/01 in NYC, and the muscular debate and soul-searching that raged
in Union Square Park in the days and weeks after the attacks. The
piece ends with a coda of contextual video of the World Trade Center
towers from the previous 10 years.
'Aka Martha's Vineyard" (12min.)
A powerful giant as big as a mountain, has a pet frog as big as an elephant.
They live on an island called NOEPE, which means "A PLACE OF REFUGE."
This is the island now known as Martha's Vineyard.
In a dream the giant, whose name is MOSHOP, saw that Europeans were
coming and he mourned,
then he split from the scene, knowing that these people were truly
un-hip, and would not "get" the beauty that subsumed their world and culture.
MOSHOP dreamed that the shit was about to hit the fan, so he turned
his pet frog into a stone.
The European people arriving on "floating islands" (sail boats) would
cause them terrible harm,
in the form of small pox, Christianity and outright genocide.
But, their world, though seriously injured, would survive.
Fast forward to today where 350 people form the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay
Head/Aquinnah.
"Aka Martha's Vineyard," (shot on super-8 films) is a study for a
feature documentary and a first glimpse through that giant
stone-frog's eye.
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"Living For The City: Street Photographs Of Boston and New York, 1977-1992," by Richard Sandler.__Renowned NYC photographer & filmmaker Richard Sandler presents his New York black and white photography at Outpost. Reception @ 2pm. At 4:30pm he will present a showing of his award-winning documentary feature film “The Gods of Times Square”, on the occasion of its dvd release by Brink Film.
