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
Saturday, April 15, 2017 (5)
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
Tilt Kids Festival - Cuisine & Confessions by The 7 fingers at NYU Skirball center for the Performing Arts
- Apr 10, 2017 to Apr 16, 2017
- Location: NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
- Description:
“An unfailing recipe of rock circus-dance-theater that warms our stomachs”—Le Monde
Cuisine & Confessions, the newest creation by Montreal-based circus company The 7 Fingers, the company behind Traces and Broadway’s Pippin, combines culinary arts with circus high jinks. The company’s awe-inspiring acrobats combine kitchen appliances, food, and recipes with elaborate choreography, jaw-dropping acrobatics and pulsating music to heighten audiences’ most visceral senses.
- Created by: Suzanne Buracas
HEAL THE LIVING
- Apr 13, 2017 to May 26, 2017
- Location: Quad CInema
- Description:
Cohen Media Group is proud to announce the release of HEAL THE LIVING, rising French director Katell Quillévéré’s deeply affecting study of human interconnectedness. Written by Quillévéré and frequent André Téchiné collaborator Gilles Taurand (Thieves, Wild Reeds), HEAL THE LIVING’s César-nominated screenplay is based on Maylis de Kerangal’s internationally acclaimed novel The Heart, and is scheduled to open in New York on April 14 at the Quad Cinema followed by a national roll out.
Charting with unusual sensitivity and hope how disparate lives are touched by a tragedy, HEAL THE LIVING follows how a car accident settles into motion a chain of events that affects everyone from the parents of the 17 year-old brain-dead teenage boy, to the hospital staff to a mother of two (Anne Dorval) in need of a heart transplant. Quillévéré weaves together the multi-strand narrative with consummate grace, abetted by a remarkable ensemble cast (including Emmanuelle Seigner as the boy’s mother and Tahar - Created by: Aimee Morris