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Rooftop Films Lands on Governors Island This Saturday

Join Rooftop Films on July 16, at 8:30pm, for a swashbuckling, startling, stunning batch of films that are "Lost at Sea," on an island that's been lost to the public for over 200 years.

Our show is the opening night of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's wonderful month-long arts exhibit Set and Drift, so come see the art during the day, live music at dusk, and films at night.

DRESS WARMLY DRESS WARMLY DRESS WARMLY
It's colder on an island with few buildings than on the streets.

Rain date: August 13, closing day of the exhibit.

Directions, tickets, rain info, etc. at www.rooftopfilms.com.

THE FILMS
Return I Will to Old Brazil (Alexsey Budovsky)
A boatload of fun starring a boatload of pirate monkeys, from Russia's top pop animator Aleksey Budkovsky

Roswell (Bill Brown)
Bill Brown drifts through New Mexico trying to find out what caused that lonely spacecraft to crash land in a tiny town in American desert half a century ago.

Miles Above (Michael Welt)
Stunning behind the scenes footage of the last moments of space shuttle Columbia.

Moonraker (Fran Krause)
A beautiful and mysteriously amusing animation about a content but lonely astronaut stranded on a haunted moon.

Here After (Patrick Jolly, Rebecca Trost, Inger Lise Hansen)
This combination of stop-motion animation and live action destruction gives life to the detritus of a decaying housing project in Ireland, with crashing mattresses, imploding couches, dancing floor tiles and more.

Sub! (Jesse Schmal)
Perhaps a metaphor for the decline of the Soviet Empire, perhaps a treatise on the vulgarization of mass culture and the decline of religiosity, or perhaps simply a surreal short about the crew of a miniature submarine attempting to save their captain from being splattered about the ground of a European plaza.

Egg (Benh Zeitlin)
A rollicking high seas adventure featuring a mixture of sophisticated animation and live action chicken-creatures, with an egg beater Ahab going down the giblet to a gastronomical demise.