Seen & Heard: Film festival getting ready

IN THE HEIGHTS AT BATTERY PARK CITY
J. sent this picture of the scaffold going up for the first showing at Brookfield for the opening night show: In the Heights, showing at 7p at the festival’s outdoor locations across the city including The Battery. (I’m seeing it the old fashioned way next Tuesday at Regal BPC.)

LET GO OF THOSE USELESS THOUGHTS
The artist D. Borkel has transformed six rooms at 359 Broadway (the site of Blood Manor) into an interactive show that “explores the concept of overthinking and how we are able to climb out of the dangerous depths of our minds with music and the cathartic role it plays for us.” Participants wear 3-D glasses for extra effects and the project eventually leads viewers through the CBGB bathroom for a trip down memory lane (at least for me, though I think it’s the boys bathroom…). The show is open until July 30. More info here.

IF YOU’VE NEVER DONE THE STATUE…
The Downtown Alliance had a recent post noting that if you ever want to get out to the Statue of Liberty, now is the time to do it. I logged on and there are tickets all this weekend. The last time I went out, about three years ago, you needed tickets weeks in advance…


SAY THEIR NAMES
UN(RE)SOLVED, a multi-platform project directed by award-winning filmmaker Tamara Shogaolu, will open tomorrow in Battery Park as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. The film memorializes the lives of victims of 151 racially motivated murders between 1934 and 1978, the majority of which remain unsolved. UN(RE)SOLVED will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival as part of their Immersive and Juneteenth programming; the outdoor show will be open to the public.

 

3 Comments

  1. That looks like the CBGB’s bathroom after it was maybe cleaned once. Which never happened.

  2. Is it just me or is the Tribeca Film Festival basically in venues not in Tribeca anymore? I think there’s only one – I thought this was to help businesses in the Tribeca area?

    • The festival is now huge — much more so than when it was founded 20 years ago. But many of its local venues — most notably BMCC — are still closed for the pandemic. This year we have two local outdoor stages: The Battery and Brookfield.

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