Featuring a film program curated by Light Industry, visuals by Michael Bell-Smith, video games by Mark Essen, and DJ sets by Josh Kline, Ceci Moss, and others. Musical performances by The Tourettes and Tanlines.

7 p.m. film | 9 p.m. music
$3 drinks
http://www.gowanusstudio.org

Beer generously donated by Union Beer Distributors and Kelso.

Thomas Beard and Ed Halter of Light Industry present Reductions. Created for home viewing, digest films transformed theatrical features into short subjects, bumping down the originals from 35mm to Super-8, often stripping them of color and sound, and re-editing the narratives into a concise ten to fifteen minutes, in the process changing their meaning in subtle, strange, and surprising ways. This selection includes a range of miniaturized movies, including Jerry Lewis vehicles, horror films, kung-fu pictures, and ‘70s disaster epics.

Press release
Participants
  • Michael Bell-Smith is an artist and musician based in Brooklyn. His work has been exhibited and screened internationally, at venues including MoMA PS1, the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, and the Museum of the Moving Image, New York City; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the 2008 Liverpool Biennial; the 5th Seoul International Media Biennale; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; and Tate Liverpool. His work has been featured in Artforum, Art in America, and the New York Times. As a member of the punk band Professor Murder, Bell-Smith performed throughout the US and Europe.
  • Mark Essen makes video games. Since 2008, his work has been featured in group exhibitions at venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto, Canada and Light Industry, Brooklyn. His work is currently on view at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
  • Josh Kline had his first solo gallery exhibition at 47Canal in 2011. In 2014, his work “Skittles” was displayed along the High Line. In 2015, his installation “Freedom” was included in the New Museum Triennial, Surround Audience. In this work, Teletubbies stand in SWAT gear while a computerized version of Barack ’s 2008 Presidential inaugural address is played. The work gained widespread attention and acclaim from the press. In 2015, his piece “Cost of Living (Aleyda)” was included in America is Hard to See, the opening exhibition of the new Whitney Museum, which was composed entirely of works from the permanent collection.
  • Ceci Moss is a writer, musician, DJ, and curator. She plays bass in the band Cellular Chaos and records solo material as Mi Or and the Pedestals. She writes and edits the contemporary art and music blog A Million Keys and is senior editor for Rhizome. Moss also programs Radio Heart, a weekly show airing on East Village Radio. She is currently pursuing a PhD in comparative literature at New York University.
  • The Tourettes broke your heart nearly fifty years ago, when they came on the da-doo-ron-ron-core scene with their relatively flat hair and voices, and a boundless enthusiasm for a world you, as a sheltered and joyless Boomer teen, could have hardly imagined. Now that you’ve grown up, test the seams that you’ve carefully stitched around your heart as these surprisingly youthful-looking grandmas take the stage again, yelping and crunching and clapping through the wreckage of your adolescence.
  • Tanlines is Jesse Cohen (Professor Murder) and Eric Emm (Storm & Stress, Brothers production) playing electrified island sounds, synthesized live. Their first single, New Flowers, is out now on Young Turks.