[Frameworks] Standby Program 30th Anniversary Benefit Screening & Party

[Bill Seery]

Just a quick reminder:

Standby Program 30th Anniversary Benefit Screening & Party
Friday Oct 25th @ 7:30 pm
Anthology Film Archives, 2nd Ave & 2nd St NYC

A celebration of 30 years of The Standby Program with sample of works
created and preserved by prolific artists and Standby members Jem Cohen,
James Nares, Emily Armstrong and Pat Ivers, followed by a wine and cheese
party and a silent auction to support Standby.
Jem Cohen, James Nares, Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong will be in attendance.

Tickets: $25 in advance / $30 at the Door
http://standbyprogram.bpt.me/
Admission includes One FREE Drink

The Standby Program is a non-profit, media arts service organization in
New York City. Since 1983, Standby has provided services to independent
film and video artists on a wide range of projects, including
documentaries, video art, installations, sound mixes, film-to-tape
transfers and video preservation.

The evening’s featured works focus on NYC’s downtown art and music scene
featuring excerpts from Emily Armstrong and Pat Ivers’ Nightclubbing
Archive, which documented the NYC punk rock scene of the 70s and 80s, and
features performances by Bad Brains, the Cramps, the Dead Boys, and the
Lounge Lizards.

Jem Cohen’s "NYC Weights and Measures" (2006), chronicles a city that
exudes noise and bustle, balanced with beauty and tranquility. A
compendium of street footage, the video shows a ticker-tape parade, street
musicians, and the subways.

Long for the City is a short portrait of Patti Smith in the city where she
lives. Patti recites the very first poem-song she ever wrote, and then a
later one, "Prayer", from the early 1970s.
Night Scene NY Chance observations of New York's Chinatown. "A
sleepwalker's circumnavigation of one of the less homogenized parts of the
city."

Four works by artist James Nares: the New York premiere of To Make A
Prairie, 2011, 16mm (12.5 mins.), Game, 1976, video (Billy will
re-transfer) (3 mins.), Roof, 1975, ½” video (6 min excerpt), Drip, 2007
(2 mins.)

Globe, 2007 (43 mins.) music by Phil Kline (During reception) Nares even
devised a special lens

Silent Auction items by artist: Emily Armstrong, Chris Burke, Su
Friedrich, Lovett/Codagnone, Ligarano/Reese, Mark Street, MIX Festival,
Jim Hubbard, Zahra Partovi, Sarah Schulman, Alex Roshuk legal services

The benefit continues into November with an online auction of experiences
with and works by Alan Berliner, Lynne Sachs, Kathy High, Jem Cohen, James
Nares, Elliot Landy, Damian Catera,  Judith Barry, Pat Iver & Emily
Armstrong & The Dead Boys, and the Santa Claus of Brooklyn.