The Dactyl Foundation screening room provides a venue for non-commercial works that communicate wide and deep experiences. Discussions with the filmmaker follow all screenings to help foster larger more informed audiences. All screenings will be free and open to the general public. Our SoHo space can accommodate seventy-five to one hundred people. The screening room features innovative shorts, animation, documentary or experimental films.Videos may be mailed, with self-addressed stamped envelope, resume, and synopsis, to: Screening Room, Dactyl Foundation, 64 Grand St. NYC 10013.
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NYC 1949. Rockets Redglare was born Michael Morra and addicted to heroin. An opiate added to his formula to ease the pain of heroin withdrawal began the first of countless detoxes during his lifetime. After his father, a career criminal, was deported to Italy and his mother was murdered, Michael became Rockets Redglare. Rockets went on to explore his tragic beginnings in stand-up comedy, partnering with Steve Buscemi in "The Rockets Redglare Taxi-Cabaret." He was bodyguard and drug dealer to Sid Vicious and Jean Michel Basquiat. Rockets appeared in over 30 films, including Stranger Than Paradise, In The Soup, Down by Law, Desperately Seeking Susan, Mystery Train, Animal Factory, Talk Radio, Big, and Trees Lounge.
Rockets Redglare! uses interviews and archival footage to resurrect the irreverent comedy and lust for life that were Rockets' triumph and downfall. De la Reguera's film is an important document of the downtown performance scene in the 1970's & 80's and a striking memorial to a man who traveled through NYC's darkest underworlds to find humor and dignity within.
Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.
Chosen for the 2003 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
Luis Fernandez de la Reguera, originally from New
Orleans, Louisiana, survived a Catholic reformatory
and
left home at the age of 17. In 1984 Reguera relocated to New York City
to play in a Punk rock band. He went on to
perform stand-up comedy, own Big Plate Recording
and work for musician Lou Reed. His misspent
youth in a pre-gentrified Lower East Side exposed
him to many of the unique people, places and times, including
the inimitable Rockets Redglare, that appear in Reguera's documentary. For more information, please visit RocketsRedglare.tv
Curated by Tara Anderson RSVP Tara@DactylFilms.com
A suspense thriller - just how much pressure can a couple take?
For more information, please visit www.blackwinethemovie.com
RSVP Tara@DactylFilms.com
Wednesday,
"Rockets Redglare!" (89 minutes)
A documentary by Luis Fernandez de la Reguera
6:30pm Screening, discussion with the filmmaker to follow.
ROCKETS REDGLARE; GARY RAY;
MATT DILLON; WILLEM DAFOE;
JIM JARMUSCH; STEVE BUSCEMI;
JULIAN SCHNABEL; NICK ZEDD;
RENE HERAS; INDIAN LARRY;
ALEX ROCKWELL; RACHEL AMADEO;
DONALD BAECHLER; M. HENRY JONES;
ELIZABETH ENGLISH; MOLLY GRIFFTH
Reguera has also performed at
clubs throughout New York City and was a cover story
in CMJ magazine. His first short film "Differently
Able" which he wrote, directed and acted in, is
featured on Undergroundfilm.com
Wednesday,
"Black Wine"
A feature-length film by Ryan Rossell and Saucon Films
Written and Directed by Ryan Rossell
With: Jennifer Ross, Anson Scoville, Bily Cook, Roland Sands and Donovan Patton
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