The Rockaway Movie Pageant returns for its eighth yr to coastal New York Metropolis — that’s Rockaway Seaside when you’re unfamiliar — with a lineup of al fresco screenings and musical performances. IndieWire shares particulars solely under forward of the occasion happening August 20-24.
Highlights embrace the East Coast premiere of Hailey Gates’ conflict satire “Atropia,” starring Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner, and winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize on this yr’s Dramatic competitors. (Luca Guadagnino additionally counts among the many movie’s producers). Xander Robin’s SXSW Particular Jury Award-winning documentary “The Python Hunt,” produced by Lance Oppenheimer, additionally involves Rockaway. The eccentric nonfiction movie follows a crew of novice snake hunters over 10 days within the Florida Everglades.
The Rockaway Movie Pageant will even display stop-motion animation icons the Quay Brothers’ newest movie, “Sanatorium Beneath the Signal of the Hourglass,” their first characteristic in 20 years. Different movies embrace the North American premiere of Swiss filmmaker Alain Tanner’s new restoration of “Within the White Metropolis,” a 1983 movie aptly, for this competition, that follows a mariner. A group of William Wegman shorts for all ages, in the meantime, showcases the artist’s canine collaborators, lots of whom finally appeared on collection like “Sesame Avenue.”
This yr’s version concludes with two of Paul Clipson’s hardly ever screened works in 16mm with reside music by his shut collaborator Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. The San Francisco experimental filmmaker, who died in 2018, was greatest recognized for creating sensory cascades of double exposures that meld mild and shade.
Rockaway Movie Pageant is organized by co-directors Sam Fleischner, Courtney Muller, and Kathy Del Beccaro, and is proud to be sponsored by Istic Illic Footage, NYC Ferry, the Nationwide Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Metropolis Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr.
Courtney Muller, program director stated, “We view our competition as an entire, steady sequence the place one program flows into the subsequent and this yr we took inspiration from tales of renewal the place endings turn into beginnings.”
Sam Fleischner, creative director added, “I’m excited by the movies in our program that discover new methods and forecast future instructions of the film medium by shattering perceptions of artifice.”
Kathy Del Beccaro, managing director added, “The movies on this yr’s program really feel like true discoveries from around the globe, and I can’t watch for our viewers to search out one thing new of their dialogue.”
Rockaway Movie Pageant is a 501c3 non-profit that presents movie and different programming year-round on the Arverne Cinema, an outside house that expanded in 2024 to incorporate a scond, indoor theater.
For extra info and the total schedule, go to the Rockaway Movie Pageant web site.
