The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 features music and commentary by our friend Questlove. The film is compiled from footage by Swedish journalists found languishing in a dusty archive. If you’re in Portland, you can catch this epic document you can catch it on spinning reels at Cinema 21 through November 3.
Stills from PARIS IS BURNING — we’ll be screening this gem poolside Friday night, November 4 at HANDS ON. A document of NYC’s gay ball culture in the 1980s, it explores gender, race, polyester and total realness and leaves you feeling indescribably inspired.
Levi’s and Urban Outfitters present shorts from the Bicycle Film Festival, as curated by festival founder and director, Brendt Barbur, this Sunday at Ace Hotel New York. After being hit by a bus while riding his bike in NYC, Brendt felt compelled to start the festival as a platform to celebrate bicycles through music, art and film. He’ll be at the screening and staying after for a Q&A.
The screening is part of a whole weekend celebrating the saddle and wheel at Ace New York, and a larger cross-country tour with Levi’s beginning at Ace NYC and ending at Ace Portland, including a mobile, pop-up bike shop where you can tune up your bike with the best of them — the shop appears at Ace NYC this weekend on Friday and Sunday.
While you’re here, check out our gallery show with New York-based artist Michael Kim, Bicycles, up today through August 9, presented by Levi’s. For several years, Michael has collected photographs of bicycles from daily newspapers around the world being put to use for work and play by everybody under the sun. The images remind us that bicycles are inextricably part of our daily lives — pulled out of context, they’re highlighted as almost extra appendages in the machinations of our lives, and as a symbol of commonality among all people.
As part of the project, we’re happy to announce that Ace NYC and Ace PDX will be receiving four custom, hand-built bikes by Thomas Callahan of Brooklyn’s Horse Cycles and Jordan Hufnagel of Portland’s Hufnagel Cycles, respectively. These fine steeds are being crafted exclusively for Ace and will be available for guests to use. Stay tuned for more.
All images collected in Michael Kim’s Bicycles exhibition in our gallery.
Gasland screens tonight for free in Liberty Hall at Ace Hotel New York.
When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for natural gas drilling, he embarks on a cross-country journey uncovering a trail of secrets, deceit and contamination. Part travelogue, part exposé and part mystery, GASLAND delves into just how unsafe hydraulic fracturing is. Q&A with Dave Publow from United for Action and giveaways to follow the screening.
Next Tuesday, we’re hosting our semi-monthly ExPac — a party for Pacific Northwest expats and friends at Ace Hotel New York. Highlife-via-Brooklyn band King Expressers are performing at 9pm — their guitarist, Mikey Hart, made this short documentary about BMX culture in Accra, Ghana. It’s pretty dope.
Come see King Expressers live on Tuesday night if you’re in the neighborhood. We’ll be double-fisting drink specials from The Breslin and telling war stories about tubing the Clackamas River.
From Mikey about the film, on AfroPunk:
Why was it important to tell this story?
It’s important to me for a few reasons:
—To show that the desire to live by your own rules for your art, skill, whatever you want to call it, is universal.
—To show a film set in Africa that showcases how dope African culture is, completely independent of the commonly held notion that Africa is just the sum of its problems.
—To show a seriously swagged out street style of biking that, to me, is unique to Ghana and incorporates music, dance, and acrobatics to a great degree.
Full Bleed did a collage in room 1022 at Ace Hotel New York right in time for Go Skateboarding Day — and right around the same time Shut Skateboards (one of NYC’s purveyors of Full Bleed and an all around rad skate shop) screened Deathbowl to Downtown, shot on Super 8 and narrated by Chloë Sevigny, for our free Sunday night movie series, Liberty Hall Screenings. For posterity, the flyer and some shots from the screening:
Photos by Taji Ameen
Kathleen Hanna greets you from her lakehouse with Sini Anderson — she’ll be at tonight’s free screening of Who Took the Bomp: Le Tigre on Tour to answer questions when the lights go up — Liberty Hall at Ace Hotel New York, doors at 7 and reels spin at 7:30. Stay posted for our interview with Kathleen next week, and more info about Sini’s film, The Punk Singer.
INTERVIEW : MELISSA OSBORNE, DIRECTOR OF CHANGE
We’re excited to announce the kick-off of AfterFest at Ace Palm Springs — we’re hosting DJs, late night screenings and really, really late night dining at King’s Highway all throughout the Palm Springs International ShortFest. We’ll also feature interviews with some of the festival’s directors over the next week or so. First up: Melissa Osborne, director of the short film Change, which screens Friday, June 24 at 5:30pm.
Change is a about a gay Black teenager on the eve of Obama’s election and the success of Prop 8, wherein California voters banned state-sanctioned gay marriage. Can you talk about the film’s inception and how much the final cut reflects your intentions?
The film came about because I wanted to make a short film that I hoped would do more than entertain -– that would get people thinking. I was astounded by the irony on November 4th when Obama was elected and Prop 8 passed and I knew I wanted to tell that story. So I started imagining what that day might have been like for a black, gay teen. What did we — older and “wiser” adults — teach teenagers on that day? I was also aware of my blind faith that Prop 8 wouldn’t pass. I naively assumed that because we lived in California — a “liberal” state -– there was no way the voting residents would let the prop pass. I was wrong. So, those points became the starting blocks for the script CHANGE.
Saturdays NYC and NYC Surf Film Festival present LEAVE A MESSAGE Sunday night in Liberty Hall at Ace Hotel New York. Six shredders represent a new generation of women surfers in Nike 6.0’s jaw-dropping entrée to surf cinema. This is a performance surf film, with an emphasis on performance. But beyond the ground-breaking aerials and long barrels is a message that transcends well beyond the lineup; they enjoy what they do and do it to the fullest. Unintentionally, they’ve written a new script for women’s surfing. As star Carissa Moore puts it, “Girls are doing airs and huge moves and everyone is noticing.” So they are.
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