7/6 Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series presents: SEAVIEW + LOST WORLD *NY Premieres* FREE! July 6, 2009

FIRST MONDAY of Every Month @ 7pm - FREE !

Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series
Barbes - 376 9th St (at Sixth Ave)
Park Slope, Brooklyn
subway: F to Seventh Ave
www.brooklynindependent.com


MONDAY, JULY 6 @ 7pm


Curated by Danielle DiGiacomo

Shorts Program

LOST WORLD
Directed by Gyula Nemes

* New York Premiere*

20 min - 2008 - Hungary - Color

The life, demolition and reconstruction of the Kopaszi dam between 1998 and 2007. A mostly black & white 35mm documentary shot over ten years in a forgotten landscape in the center of Budapest. People living in houseboats and wooden houses, struggling against flood, snow and investors who want them to evict. The second part of The Dike of Transience.Two Mennonite sisters (Rachel Korine & Raven Dunn) travel through the south with the body of their dead grandmother in the back of their pickup truck.


Feature Program

SEA VIEW
Directed by Paul Rowley and Nicky Gogan

* New York Premiere *

82 min - 2007 - Ireland - Color

An hour north of Dublin beside the sea is a bizarre looking collection of grey cement buildings with brightly painted doors, and rusting fairground rides. This is Mosney - Ireland’s Coney Island. A former Butlin’s holiday camp, Mosney was once a world fully equipped for entertainment, with arcades, fairground rides, holiday chalets. It was a place where Irish families would escape the daily grind of work in order to relax, to dance, enjoy themselves.

A visit to Mosney today presents a radically different picture, but still a picture of escape. This former holiday camp is now a camp of another kind, a holding center for asylum seekers from all corners of the globe. Here new residents wait years for the results of their asylum claims.

Over three years, the filmmakers lived in Mosney, gaining the trust of the residents. Intensely close conversations reveal their individual stories, from the epic to the everyday. From Congo, Kurdistan, Nigeria, Somalia, Sri Lanka, we hear why people are forced to leave everything they have and move to a country where they are total strangers. And we learn of the trauma of waiting – living in fear in this bizarre no-mans-land.







FIRST MONDAY of Every Month @ 7pm - FREE !

Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series
Barbes - 376 9th St (at Sixth Ave)
Park Slope, Brooklyn
subway: F to Seventh Ave
www.brooklynindependent.com

Official Website: http://brooklynindependent.com