SCREENVILLE: Disappearing Act IV (Undistributed European Films)

10 avril 2012

Disappearing Act IV (Undistributed European Films)

Disappearing Act IV is organized by the Czech Center, the Romanian Cultural Institute and the Group of European Cultural Institutes and Diplomatic Representations in New York. Sponsored by the EU Delegation to the UN. Curated and produced by Irena Kovarova.

The festival showcases 25 contemporary European films from Austria, the Wallonia-Brussels and Flanders regions of Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

Disappearing Act IV European film festival in New York presents films in three venues with an opening night event at the IFC Center on Wednesday, April 11; two days of screenings at Tinker Auditorium at the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF) on Friday, April 13 and Saturday, April 14; and in the digital cinema at Bohemian National Hall, from April 12-22.

Disappearing Act IV : European Contemporary Cinema at U.S. Universities
PANEL DISCUSSION (10 April 2012)
As every year, the Disappearing Act program includes a panel discussion about presence of contemporary European films on U.S. screens.

The discussion will relate to all venues available for European cinema’s presence at universities, not only in university courses, but also through screening series organized by students and film societies functioning at universities; visiting filmmakers, and support provided to universities by various institutions. The festival this year also opens itself as an educational resource providing an opportunity to students of New York University’s cinema studies program to introduce several films and they will be present to share their experience.

With : Julia Solomonoff (Director and producer, teaching Film Direction at Columbia University’s Film Department), Anne Kern (Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, SUNY Purchase), and Richard Suchensky (Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts, Bard College)

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The previous panel discussions were videotaped and are available online:

Disappearing Act I : EUROPEAN CINEMA FROM NEW WAVE TO NEW WAVE (17 April 2009) 1h16'
Disappearing Act II : THE NEW WORLD OF DISTRIBUTION FOR SUBTITLED FILMS (12 April 2010) 1h26'
Disappearing Act III : SUBTITLED CINEMA INITIATIVE (11 April 2011) 1h12'
Disappearing Act IV : video coming online soon hopefully...