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03/19/2019

Gift Horse: Inside New York Art

03/19/2019

Secrets of Inner Space Film Festival (New York City and Berkeley)

OPEN CALL FOR SHORT FILMS! Secrets of Inner Space seeks your short film. Submission details and rules are at Film Freeway: https://filmfreeway.com/SecretsofINNERSPACE

The Secrets Film Festival is an annual event in NYC, Brooklyn, and Berkeley featuring short films centered around a common theme. Over the past five years, ...

03/11/2019

Secrets of Inner Space Film Festival (New York City and Berkeley)

OPEN CALL FOR FILMS: Secrets of INNER SPACE will accept your short (5-10) minute film about mind, body, blood and/or spirit through the end of 2019 for a festival in NYC, Brooklyn, and at the Berkeley Video and Film Festival in 2020. Please share with a filmmaker you love.https://filmfreeway.com/SecretsofINNERSPACE

The Secrets Film Festival is an annual event in NYC, Brooklyn, and Berkeley featuring short films centered around a common theme. Over the past five years, ...

02/12/2019

The Syndicate's film, "Getting Out of Bed with Richard Foreman," will be screened this Thursday, February 14 at 8:00pm. Secrets of the Heart is a program of ten short films about love culled from 340 international submissions. Film Noir Cinema (122 Meserole Ave, Greenpoint, Brooklyn). Tickets are $15 and includes a complimentary choice of beverage (wine, beer, water, soda, seltzer). 21+ w ID.

01/27/2019

Secrets of Outer Space is a festival of short films about space, extra-terrestrial life and alternative dimensions. It features ten short films selected from over two hundred international submissions. The festival will premiere at the Gene Frankel Theatre (24 Bond Street, Manhattan) on Jan 29 and will subsequently screen at Film Noir Cinema on February 9th and at the Berkeley Video and Film Festival later this year. Here's a choice write-up our last festival received in Film Threat: http://filmthreat.com/features/secrets-of-the-deep-film-festival-as-traveling-sideshow/

01/04/2019

Official selections for Secrets of Outer Space will soon be announced. Event to be held on January 29th at the Gene Frankel Theatre (Manhattan), Film Noir Cinema (Brooklyn) on February 8th, and at the Berkeley Video and Film Festival later in 2019.(Additional locations and dates to be announced.) (

09/26/2018

Secrets of Outer Space will explore SPACE TRAVEL, TIME TRAVEL, EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL LIFE, and ALTERNATIVE DIMENSIONS. Ten films, each between 5 and 10 minutes long, will be selected among narrative, music video, documentary, animated, and experimental submissions. ANY GENRE CONSIDERED. All submissions are welcome.

Film Threat has now run a feature article on the Secrets series: http://filmthreat.com/features/secrets-of-the-deep-film-festival-as-traveling-sideshow/

As featured in The Culture Trip: https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/new-york/articles/experience-dream-life-films-new-yorks-gene-frankel-theatre/

And in Cold Lips Magazine from England: https://coldlips.co.uk/2018/02/18/%F0%9F%92%A5cold-lips-iii-nyc-%F0%9F%92%A5/

01/11/2018

Secrets of the Deep will screen dream-infused films by: Douglas Hart (Jesus and Mary Chain), British vocalist She Rocola, Joe Whitney (Flaming Stars), Kirsty Allison* (Cold Lips Mag, UK), Scottish rocker Gil de Ray* (Vagrant Lovers), twice Emmy Award nominated actor Emily O’Brien, Stephen Rutterford* (NYC), Vincius Santos (Brazil), Liz Tabish* (Texas), Russian animator Olga Guse (Berlin), record producer (Strokes, Regina Spektor) Gordon Raphael (Berlin), and Jeffrey Wengrofsky* (NYC). Secrets of the Deep at the Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond St, NYC, Thursday, January 25 at 8:00pm, $15 tickets to BENEFIT the Gene Frankel. (* director in attendance)

12/09/2017

The Forty-Year Polaroid by Jeffrey Wengrofsky

Cold Lips Magazine has just published a review of Gail Thacker's exciting photography show at Daniel Cooney Fine Art (508 W 26th St, New York, NY 10001). The show is up until December 22nd. Check it out: https://coldlips.co.uk/2017/12/09/the-forty-year-polaroid-by-jeffrey-wengrofsky/

“If you ask me, I think everything happened in 1980, but a lot happened in a short period of time,” muses Thacker, whose own recollections are a bit mottled by having lived through it all. Gail Tha…

12/06/2017

Secrets of the Deep: Dreams on Film

Over the past week, Secrets of the Deep: Dreams on Film, has received 140 films via FilmFreeway and 50 films via WIhtoutabox. Here are the Film Freeway stats:
Last 7 Days 139 Total This Season 163
Secrets of the Deep will be accepting your most dreamy 5-10 minute short film submissions thru January 2, 2018. The festival will be on January 25, 2018 at the historic Gene Frankel Theatre in lower Manhattan.

A third of our lives is lost in sleep. Whether understood as a form of foreknowledge, a portal to a metaphysical plane, or a domain of psychological desubli...

09/13/2017

SECRETS of the Deep: DREAMS ON FILM seeks 5 to 10 minute films about dreaming, featuring dreams, or films that are dream-like. Many genres are accepted - animation, documentary, narrative, experimental, music video. Submissions are accepted NOW thru the end of 2017 via FilmFreeway with this blessed event set to occur at the Gene Frankel Theatre New York City in January 2018.
Please SHARE THIS with an independent filmmaker you love. https://filmfreeway.com/festival/DREAMSONFILM
NOW ALSO on withoutabox
https://www.withoutabox.com/…/03t_…/03t_fin_fest_01over.php…

08/13/2017

Jim Sclavunos – Soho Radio London

GIFT HORSE/HUMAN FEATURES Film director Jeffrey Wengrofsky is going to be interviewed by James A Sclavunos (Nick Cave, etc.) on his vastly informative and monstrously entertaining program on SOHO RADIO this Monday afternoon. You can listen live or hear it anytime as a podcast for FREE, so prick up your ears! http://www.sohoradiolondon.com/presenters/jim-sclavunos/

Multi-instrumentalist, producer and writer Jim Sclavunos has been a member of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds since 1994. Alongside Lydia Lunch, he was an integral part of the NY No Wave scene in the late 1970s in bands Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, Beirut Slump and 8 Eyed Spy, before joining Sonic Youth to…

08/02/2017

humanfeaturesfilm.com

What does HUMAN FEATURES FILM have in common with Alien, Blade Runner, and Doctor Strange? Framestore.
Human Features Film director Jeffrey Wengrofsky will screen short films and a sample from The Song of Hiawatha at London’s FRAMESTORE PREVIEW THEATER on Friday, August 11, 2017. Framestore has won Oscars. Tell your spies in London! http://humanfeaturesfilm.com/news/

05/12/2017

The directors whose films have been selected for SECRETS of the INTOXICATED LIFE 2017 includes GIFT HORSE hosts Jeffrey Wengrofsky and Leslie Hodgkins as well as Nika Drandrova, Matthew Kohn, Keith Hopkins, Truus de Groot, Lena Marquise, Joe Whitney (starring Billy Childish!), Noora Albright, and Bradley Eros. This blessed event will occur on Saturday, May 20th, 8-11pm, at Sunview Luncheonette (221 Nassau Ave, Brooklyn). Complimentary whiskey- and vodka-based beverages will be served before and between films. $10 w/21+ ID.

03/01/2017

Attention Independent Filmmakers (and their admirers)! Here is an opportunity to have your work screened in NYC. SECRETS of the INTOXICATED LIFE seeks 5 to 10 minute films on how getting wasted enhances the human condition by, for example, bringing us spiritual enlightenment, inspired creativity, or rendering us better looking or more charming. Other takes on the benefits of intoxication will be also sloppily embraced. Deadline is the end of April. Please SPREAD THE WORD to filmmakers you know who want to have their work screened in New York City. To enter, register here: https://www.withoutabox.com/03film/03t_fin/03t_fin_fest_01over.php?festival_id=14608

02/09/2017

Jeffrey Wengrofsky and Leslie Hodgkins of GIFT HORSE are participating directors in a film screening! On Valentine's Day, the Gene Frankel Theatre (24 Bond St, NYC) is screening the Secrets of the Heart - 10 ferocious films about love selected from 340 international submissions. The directors: Jennifer Boles, Marie Chauvin, Bradley Eros, Leslie Hodgkins, Lena Marquise Robin Queree Christoph Rainer Isabelle Vossart Jeffrey Wengrofsky Mike Wilson Admission is $15 and comes with complimentary wine served between films. This event is sponsored by the 24 Bond Arts Center.

02/03/2017

Jeffrey Wengrofsky and Leslie Hodgkins of GIFT HORSE are participating directors in a film screening! On Valentine's Day, the Gene Frankel Theatre (24 Bond St, NYC) is screening the Secrets of the Heart - 10 ferocious films about love selected from 340 international submissions. The directors: Jennifer Boles, Marie Chauvin, Bradley Eros, Leslie Hodgkins, Lena Marquise Robin Queree Christoph Rainer Isabelle Vossart Jeffrey Wengrofsky Mike Wilson Admission is $15 and comes with complimentary wine served between films. This event is sponsored by the 24 Bond Arts Center.

05/21/2016

The Song of Hiawatha

GIFT HORSE host Jeffrey Wengrofsky's feature film, the Song of Hiawatha, is having a fundraising concert in Michigan and an Indiegogo campaign with gifts from Jim Sclavunos (Nick Cave), the World/Inferno Friendship Society, The Cult Heroes, Cheetah Chrome (Dead Boys), Negative Approach and more: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-song-of-hiawatha/x/9368490#/

Help make a documentary about Hiawatha Bailey, one of the first black hippies and black punks. | Crowdfunding is a democratic way to support the fundraising needs of your community. Make a contribution today!

04/22/2016

GIFT HORSE host Jeffrey Wengrofsky's three-part film residency at Howl! Happening concludes with "Dreaming is Free," an evening of psychedelic delights, on April 29 at 7 pm SHARP.

The night begins with a screening of Wengrofsky's short film "Marti Domination in the Life of Dreams," a meditation on how the cinematic experience is akin to dreaming featuring Marti Domination (Cremaster I, Black Lips Performance Cult, Beaut). The soundtrack for the film was created by Beaut and engineered by Anohni (Antony Hegarty).

The film will be followed by a performance by THE GODZ, an original NYC psychedelic band, who will perform on the 50th anniversary of their first LP. The performance will be accompanied by projections from East Village fractal mathematician Adam Alexander.

It will be a night to remember, although if you do it right, that might not be easy.

03/08/2016

Secrets of the Heart Film Festival is dedicated to getting past the propaganda about that most sacred sentiment - love. Ten short films will be screened, including Jeffrey Wengrofsky's film, "Getting out of Bed with Richard Foreman," about the downtown NYC playwrite. Secrets of the Heart will occur at the HOWL! Happening (6 East 1st Street, NYC) on Saturday, March 19, 2016 at 8pm. FREE.

12/17/2015

Today GIFT HORSE interviews Tish Bellomo and Eileen Snooky Bellomo. They are sooooo monstrously cute that I'm even jealous of myself !

Stay tuned for season two of GIFT HORSE: INSIDE NY ART...trotting over to you in 2016.

11/22/2015

THANKS to everyone who came out to In Vino Veritas: Secrets of the Intoxicated Life !! Surely we are all a bit wiser than we were before. The next program will be SECRETS of the HEART. Details forthcoming !

11/19/2015

In Vino Veritas: SECRETS of the INTOXICATED LIFE, a program of 9 short films revealing truths inaccessible to the sober, will be screened on Saturday, November 21, from 8pm to midnight. In addition to cinematic pleasure, your eight dollars will grant you unlimited whiskey or vodka. All of this action will occur at the Sunview Luncheonette (221 Nassau Avenue, Greenpoint, NYC). Hope to see your smiling face!
GIFT HORSE: INSIDE NEW YORK ART will begin to air its second season soon. Stay tuned !!

11/02/2015

In Vino Veritas: SECRETS of the INTOXICATED LIFE, a program of 9 short films revealing truths inaccessible to the sober, will be screened on Saturday, November 21, from 8pm to midnight. In addition to cinematic pleasure, your eight dollars will grant you unlimited whiskey or vodka. All of this action will occur at the Sunview Luncheonette (221 Nassau Avenue, Greenpoint, NYC). Hope to see your smiling face!

GIFT HORSE: INSIDE NEW YORK ART will begin to air its second season soon. Stay tuned !!

08/27/2015

The injunction to avoid gazing in the mouths of horses is among the most enduring and popular clichés, and yet doing so would certainly have saved the ancient Trojans a good bit of grief. GIFT HORSE: INSIDE NEW YORK ART, a new, weekly podcast series delves deeply into the arts to find unique voices and perverse visions in New York City and beyond. Our guests include a wide range of artists from the past and present: sculptors, designers, radio dramatists, actors, directors, musicians, painters, photographers, wrestlers, witches, poets, curators, impresarios, writers, and more. Stay tuned! WE ARE ON VACATION, GRAZING and COLLECTING MORE EPISODES. See you in a few weeks !!

08/19/2015

Secrets of the Intoxicated Life is seeking submissions of short films (five to ten minutes in duration) about how getting wasted can elevate the spirit, enhance our creativity, make us wiser or more charming, deliver us onto freedom or otherwise improve our all-too human condition. All formats - documentary, experimental, animation, and narrative film – will definitely be considered. The screening will occur in NYC in the fall 2015. DEADLINE is Sept 6, 2015. Send all on-line submissions and address all inquiries to: [email protected]
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08/18/2015

GIFT HORSE will be gently grazing for a few weeks. Even ponies need to take a break sometimes. Will return in September with new episodes.

08/04/2015

Secrets of the Intoxicated Life is seeking submissions of short films (five to ten minutes in duration) about how getting wasted can elevate the spirit, enhance our creativity, make us wiser or more charming, deliver us onto freedom or otherwise improve our all-too human condition. All formats - documentary, experimental, animation, and narrative film – will definitely be considered. The screening will occur in NYC in the fall 2015. DEADLINE is Sept 6, 2015. Send all on-line submissions and address all inquiries to: [email protected]
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07/18/2015

Secrets of the Intoxicated Life is seeking submissions of short films (five to ten minutes in duration) about how getting wasted can elevate the spirit, enhance our creativity, make us wiser or more charming, deliver us onto freedom or otherwise improve our all-too human condition. All formats - documentary, experimental, animation, and narrative film – will definitely be considered. The screening will occur in NYC in the fall 2015. DEADLINE is Sept 6, 2015. Send all on-line submissions and address all inquiries to: [email protected]
Please SHARE this post ! (Thanks !)

06/26/2015

GIFT HORSE host Jeffrey Wengrofsky, current guest MV Carbon, Bradley Eros, Jeff Frumess, Art Jones, Irene Moon, Lary Seven, and Mike Wilson will be showing short films about our tiniest neighbors TONIGHT at the Gene Frankel Theatre (24 Bond St, NYC), 8pm. SECRETS of the INSECT WORLD !!!

06/19/2015

On Friday, June 26th, eight human directors will peddle surreal cinema --- SECRETS of the INSECT WORLD at the Gene Frankel Theatre (24 Bond Street, NYC). 8pm-midnight. $10 with free booze (while supplies last). This screening will include a film by Jeffrey Wengrofsky's Syndicate of Human Image Traffickers. http://www.humansyndicate.com/index.html

06/16/2015

This week's guest on GIFT HORSE: INSIDE NEW YORK ART has been H E I D I L E E, a NYC-based artist and designer whose hats have featured in VOGUE, V, Visionaire, Dazed & Confused, MTV, SHOWstudio, NYT and The Creators Project. Current exhibitions include MOSI Museum’s “3D Printing the Future” and MAD Museum’s “MAD Biennial: NYC Makers”. Her clientele range from Anne Hathaway to G-Dragon to Lady Gaga. http://heidi337.com/
GIFT HORSE is eternally available via soundcloud for instant access: https://soundcloud.com/gift-horse-insidenyart-2
Photo by Mataeo_Park

04/27/2015

This week's guest on GIFT HORSE: INSIDE NEW YORK ART is photographer and gallerist Rafael Fuchs, whose portraits have received awards from Communication Arts, PDN Photo, American Photographic Arts, and the AP. His gallery, Fuchs Projects, helped launch the Bushwick art scene he is documenting in a new book titled “Bushwick Forever.” http://www.rafaelfuchscontemporary.com/ Rafael is preparing for the Select Art Fair in NY (May 13th.-17th.) and regularly features artists at his studio: fuchsprojects.com This episode is airing Wednesday (4/29) and Sunday (5/3) at 2pm NYC, 8pm in Lviv, Ukraine. (Photo by J. Wengrofsky)
LISTEN LIVE: http://www.i-artmedia.ml/radio/g-h-i-ny-art/
It will be saved thereafter for your eternal listening pleasure here:
https://soundcloud.com/gift-horse-2

04/25/2015

GIFT HORSE: INSIDE NY ART features EMPRESS CHI CHI VALENTI this week! Since 1980 she's participated in alternative nightlife as a producer and performer (Jackie 60, Click + Drag, Night of 1000 Stevies, Low [email protected]! Festival), journalist (Village Voice, Details, ID, Interview), venue owner (Mother), doorperson (The Mudd Club) and publisher (Verbal Abuse Magazine and motherboardsnyc.com). CHI CHI is currently planning the Night of 1000 Stevies 25th anniversary party at NYC's Irving Plaza (May 1, 2005) and also the HOWL! Festival of the Arts in NYC's Lower East Side/East Village. This episode is airing THIS Sunday 4/26 at 2pm NYC, 8pm in Lviv, Ukraine.
LIVE LINK: http://www.i-artmedia.ml/radio/g-h-i-ny-art/
All GIF THORSE podcasts are saved thereafter for your eternal listening pleasure here:
https://soundcloud.com/gift-horse-2