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Spend Your Weekend with Rooftop Films

July 8: "Soft For Digging"
On the lawn at Automotive High School in Williamsburg
50 Bedford Avenue (at N. 13th st.), Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Doors at 8:00, Music at 8:30, Films at 9:00

About "Soft For Digging": (JT Petty / Brooklyn, NY / 1:15:00)
This eerie, quiet horror film is fast becoming a new cult classic. An old man, nearly alone in the woods, stumbles upon a gruesome scene: the murder of a young girl. But suddenly the evidence disappears, and further investigation indicates that there may be more malignant forces at work than it first seemed.

Inspired by the archetypal darkness of old fairy tales and classic silent films, but also by intensely visual action films such as George Miller's Road Warrior films, Petty tells this horrifying tale with hardly a word uttered throughout- though the film does include quite a few screams. The story unfolds seamlessly and the dread emotions are evoked by the lonely eyes of the old man and not by hackneyed horror film dialogue. Completed on a budget of less than $6,000, Soft for Digging terrorizes its audience via fine storytelling and creatively creepy craftsmanship, right up through its frantic surprise ending.

July 9: "Nick Peterson and the Clouds"
On the roof of The Old American Can Factory in Gowanus/Park Slope
32 Third Street, Gowanus/Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Doors at 8:00, Music at 8:30, Films at 9:30

About: "Nick Peterson & the Clouds"
Nick Peterson is a hot young auteur from Portland, Oregon, and on this night at Rooftop Films we'll give the East Coast premiere to a handful of his films. Peterson's short movies about love, loneliness, and the unusual community of the Pacific Northwest have a singular cinematic vision, displaying a stunning range of black comedy, drama, and experimentation. Gus Van Sant said: "I would like to say that [Nick Peterson] is one of the best young filmmakers I have come across in a long time. His unity of vision is rare and gives me hope for the next generation of American filmmakers."

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