CinéSalon: Agnès Varda: Life as Art
- Feb 28, 2017 at 2:30pm EST to Mar 21, 2017 at 6:00pm EDT
- Location: Florence Gould Hall
- Description:
Pioneering filmmaker Agnès Varda has spent more than 50 years making radical films and art installations at the intersection of fiction, documentary, and autobiography. This March, join us at CinéSalon for a special tribute to her perpetually influential and inventive work.
On February 28, in lieu of CinéSalon, Agnès Varda will be at FIAF for a special talk about her recent turn toward visual artist in advance of her first-ever exhibition in NYC. View Details
The rest of March will be dedicated to some rarely-screened works from her œuvre. The series will conclude with Jacques Demy’s—her late husband—debut film Lola, featuring an original song by Varda.
Please note, there will be no regular CinéSalon screenings on February 28 due to the special talk.Films in French with English subtitles unless otherwise noted.
- Created by: FIAF
Saturday, March 18, 2017 (9)
The Maids by Jean Genat
- Mar 2, 2017 at 2:00pm EST to Mar 18, 2017 at 3:00pm EDT
- Location: Mama theater
- Description: Les BonnesThe Maids by Jean Genet
in French, with English titles.
Directed by Oliver Henzler
Featuring Helene Godec, Laura Lassy Townsend* & Cloe Xhauflaire
March 02 - March 19, 2017
Thursday, Friday & Saturday at 7:30PM.
Sunday at 2PM
First Floor Theatre | 74a East 4th Street
25$ Adults
20$ seniors/students/groups
Tickets @ lamama.org/maids/ - Created by: Hélène Godec
Tilt Kids Festival - This Isn't Trash by Hervé Tullet at Invisible Dog
- Mar 3, 2017 to Apr 15, 2017
- Location: The Invisible Dog Art Center
- Description:
Wildly imaginative illustrator Hervé Tullet—best known for the beloved children’s book Press Here—opens the 2017 Tilt Kids Festival with the first-ever exhibition of his work in New York. School tours of the exhibit will be organized over the course of its run, guided by Teaching Artist Amélie Gaulier, who was trained by Tullet.
All agesFree and open to the public
- Created by: Suzanne Buracas
Tilt Kids Festival - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Kid by François Hébel at FIAF Gallery
- Mar 10, 2017 to Apr 26, 2017
- Location: FIAF Gallery
- Description:
Tilt Kids Festival goes old school with a tribute to the photobooth, precursor to the selfie, in the FIAF Gallery. Capturing the spontaneity of photography before the advent of the delete button, a hands-on workshop will teach kids how to compose a narrative in four frames.
A special jury will select workshop images to be displayed in large scale during the exhibition from March 18-April 26.
- Created by: Suzanne Buracas
FRANTZ directed by Francois Ozon
- Mar 14, 2017 to Apr 28, 2017
- Location: Lincoln Plaza Cinema and Film Forum
- Description:
Music Box Films is proud to announce the US release of FRANTZ, acclaimed French writer/director Francois Ozon’s elegiac and haunting tale of love and remembrance, starring Pierre Niney (Yves Saint Laurent) and rising star Paula Beer. Winner of the Best Cinematography Award at the 2017 César Awards, and a selection of the 2016 Venice, Telluride, Toronto and Sundance Film Festivals, FRANTZ is scheduled to open in New York on Wednesday, March 15 at Film Forum and Lincoln Plaza Cinema, followed by a national roll out.
Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, (1914-1918), FRANTZ recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war’s “lost generation”: Anna (21 year-old Paula Beer in a breakthrough performance), a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien (Pierre Niney, Yves Saint Laurent), a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, p - Created by: Aimee Morris
International Theater Artist Gay Marshall: "Gay's Paree"
- Mar 15, 2017 at 3:30pm to Apr 5, 2017 at 3:30pm EDT
- Location: Pangea
- Description:
International theater actress and singer, Gay Marshall, reprises her original show, Gay's Paree, at downtown's alternative supper club, Pangea, for four shows this spring: Wednesdays, March 15th through April 5th at 7:30pm. Marshall, who originated the role of Grizabella in the French production of CATS, and starred on Broadway in A Chorus Line, celebrates her real-life experiences of singing all over Paris, to varying degrees of adventure, delight and misery, through stories and songs by Charles Aznavour, Boris Vian, Francis Lemarque, Dave Frishberg Jacques Brel, and Edith Piaf.
“As dynamic as Paris itself, and also riotously funny." - New York Music Daily
“An enchanting performer who could be said to represent, well, France. To hear her sing with heart-stirring transparency is to experience Brel's art in its purest and most persuasive form." - Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
The show, in both French and English, features Marshall’s own English adaptations. From the streets, to div
- Created by: Betsyann Faiella
Tilt Kids Festival - Philosophy for Kids with Simon Critchley at FIAF Haskell Library and Brooklyn Public Library
- Mar 17, 2017 to Mar 19, 2017
- Location: FIAF Haskell Library and Brooklyn Public Library
- Description:
Bring your budding intellectual to explore some of life’s biggest questions!
Acclaimed scholar Simon Critchley and two of his PhD students from the New School, Hannes Charen and Joseph Lemelin, will lead a series of discussions at FIAF’s Haskell Library and the Brooklyn Public Library. Celebrating kids’ unabashed curiosity, he will invite them to engage in deep conversations about subjects ranging from friendships to society, and other key themes in philosophy. No parents allowed!
- Created by: Suzanne Buracas
Tilt Kids Festival - Snow White or the Fall of the Berlin Wall by La Cordonnerie at FIAF Florence Gould Hall
- Mar 17, 2017 to Mar 19, 2017
- Location: FIAF Florence Gould Hall
- Description:
Get a glimpse inside a magic mirror where fiction, history, and fantasy collide. Snow White has been transported into the 20th century—Berlin, 1989 to be exact. Set during the Cold War, this nuanced re-imagining of a timeless tale delves into the very real drama of being a teenager raised by a step-parent.
The French company La Cordonnerie brings their signature mix of film, music, and theater to New York for the first time. Sound effects, score, and narration are performed live in front of an original film, bringing the magic of theater-making center stage.
Performed in French with English supertitles.
- Created by: Suzanne Buracas
Snow White or the Fall of the Berlin Wall Blanche Neige ou la chute du mur de Berlin
- Mar 18, 2017 from 10:00am to 11:30am EDT
- Location: Florence Gould Hall
- Description:
Get a glimpse inside a magic mirror where fiction, history, and fantasy collide. Snow White has been transported into the 20th century—Berlin, 1989 to be exact. Set during the Cold War, this nuanced re-imagining of a timeless tale delves into the very real drama of being a teenager raised by a step-parent.
The French company La Cordonnerie brings their signature mix of film, music, and theater to New York for the first time. Sound effects, score, and narration are performed live in front of an original film, bringing the magic of theater-making center stage.
Performed in French with English supertitles.
With the support of the SPEDIDAM. La Cordonnerie receives funding from the Region of Auvergne – Rhône Alpes and the Ministry of Culture and Communications / DRAC Auvergne – Rhône – Alpes
- Created by: FIAF