WEDNESDAY APRIL 29, 2009

Underground Multiplex
The Bakery 1854 W 21st Place
8pm $3

The Underground Multiplex moves to Pilsen and the Bakery for an evening of video programs by our guest curators.

Program 1 8:15pm
Best of the Rotterdam VHS Film Festival

The Rotterdam VHS festival shows videoshorts from all over the world, and takes place in an artist run space called "Het Wilde Weten" located in a former convent in the center of Rotterdam. Every 6 months they put together a 1.5 hour videoprogram and show this to our evergrowing (inter)national audience. This year on teh heels of a fantastic program at last year's Version festival the Rotterdam VHS Film festival will screen a special compiled program with some of the very best videos from our archives.

Program 2 10:00pm

Bent Mirror curated by The Future www.thefuturefilms.com

The Future, an international traveling short film & video screening series, presents Bent Mirror, an eclectic mix of films that teeter from the poetic to the boisterous. Bent Mirror will feature works by filmmakers from the other side of the globe, such as Mikhail Kobakhidze (Georgia), Raida Adon (Palestine), Shoval Zohar (Israel), Nir Nadler (The Netherlands), Magnus Aronson (Sweden), and Krisma Music (Italy). Featured filmmakers from the U.S. will be Brooklyn's native Waverly Films, as well as Matthew Silver, Chris Sullivan, and selections presented by San Francisco's Wholphin DVD Magazine.

Bent Mirror is an extension of The Future's screening Recession Cookie which took place at Le Poisson Rouge this past February. This program features other works by many of the same artists and filmmakers, as well as incorporating new additions. Bent Mirror is Recession Cookie's slanted twin; glimmering and gleaming in a whole new way.

The Future is here to create a broad-based, public audience for the best unseen international film & video artists. By using ever-more-dynamic media websites as portals for creative exchange, invited artists contribute to an international collaboration of inspiration, criticism, and exposition. The Future pools, curates, and diffuses different, unusual, and from-the-heart works for screenings in different areas of the world. The goal is to reach and gather feedback from a broader, entertainment-seeking audience.