Events
Gallery Aferro Independent Film Series
2/26 and 2/27
Gallery Aferro and the Cape May Film Society are very pleased to present the first two day event in the new Gallery Aferro Independent Film Series.
On February 26th and 27th, all are invited to the New Media Room for critically-acclaimed short and feature length independent films including "The Yes Men Fix the World." Several of the filmmakers and at least one subject will be present to take questions.
Visit the retro concession stand for popcorn, organic, fair-trade hot chocolate and other classics. Full lineup on films to be posted soon!
Feb 26: 7 PM Strongman, Zachary Levy, Winner of “Best Feature Documentary” at the 2009 Slamdance Film Festival, Strongman has been described as “strangely beautiful,” by Variety’s John Anderson. The film follows the hopes and dreams of New Jersey’s own "Stanless Steel"--the only man alive who can bend pennies with his fingers--as he tries to gain control of a world that seems constantly beyond his grasp.
Feb 27:
3 PM This one-hour session features the work from the Cape May Film Festival’s Young Filmmakers programs and other works from emerging filmmaking students including Have You Heard: The Trouble with Gossip, created by Woodbine Elementary School based on an age-old problem, and Dream Day of the Dead, a zombie film.
4 PM:
Shoebox Redhead (Matthew Lawrence)
For a Few Marbles More (Jelmar Hufen)
Kid (Miguel Alvarez,)
One Soul (Arun Vaidyanathan)
Yanling’s Oranges (Connie Yen)
Girls, Robots and Digital Cameras (Richard Law)
Plane Face (Adam Brown)
Paper Dreams (Mike Marino)
The Yes Men Fix the World, (Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno) A true story about two political activists (Bichlbaum and Bonanno) who pose as top executives of giant corporations. They lie their way into big business conferences, major network news telecasts, and other high profile events to pull off the world's most outrageous pranks. It opened to a packed house at Sundance, and was the winner at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival.
Hosted in conjunction with the Cape May Film Festival
Next program in the series: April 23-24, 2010
Featuring the documentary “Unstrung” on the life of legendary jazz
guitarist Pat Martino (hosted as part of the Smithsonian Institute’s
“Jazz Appreciation Month”
Filthy Lucre Panel Discussion
Saturday November 7, 4PM
What is art without money?
Please join us as we continue to address this question.
Gallery Aferro is hosting a panel discussion as part of Filthy Lucre curated by Nancy Mahl.
Artist Jeanette Louie will moderate. Admission is of course free.
Panelists:
Nancy Mahl - visual artist/curator
Emma Wilcox - cofounder, Gallery Aferro
Robert E. Williams - visual artist
Paul Wirhun - visual artist
Terence Hunt - visual artist
Henry Sanchez - visual artist
Mary Anne Caton - writer
Sally O'Driscoll - writer
Filthy Lucre
Curated by Nancy Mahl of Progressive Culture Works
Main Gallery
Filthy Lucre examines the transformative power of valuation upon art and the people who make it. The artists, performers, and writers participating in the project have investigated the definitions and functions of art as a commodity and queried the practice of artmaking from inside and outside the realm of monetary exchange. The work, from the purely theoretical to the frankly hilarious, is by artists representing a broad spectrum of age, background, education, and commercial success. Particular focus is brought to unsalable art and what becomes of it, the effects of commercial success on artmaking practice, the spiritual function of art, defining the consumer of art, the difference between precious and valuable, the economic element in definitions of high, outsider, and folk art; and the ever-fraught relationship of artist and patron.
In Memorium: Red Sea Fuscus Triggerfish and Yellow Tang
The deaths of two actors featured in Andrew Demirjian and Zachary Seldess's Nitrogen Cycles installation have been confirmed. While alive, the two saltwater tropical fish garnered acclaim from the public, as well as a mention in Time Out New York. Send remembrances to ewilcox@aferro.org
The City is Dreaming
(ongoing)
