Sarah Rich as Rosie in #Like, which was filmed in Bearsville. British-born, New-York-based writer-director-producer Sarah Pirozek splits her time between Brooklyn and Bearsville the latter is the moody setting for her noir-feminist, indie thriller
#Like. The film released in 2019 and shown recently at the Woodstock Film Festival, is Pirozek s feature debut, though she s no stranger to directing. Since film school, Pirozek has directed documentaries, music videos, and commercials, but always wanted to make narrative feature films. I was put on this Earth to tell stories about women, she tells me during our phone conversation.
#Like, a step toward that, is written, directed, and produced by Pirozek. It follows Rosie (Sarah Rich), a teen mourning the first anniversary of her younger sister s suicide, as she attempts to find the man whose online abuse led to her death. When the police refuse to help, she dec
Game Changer, Susan Copich Decay and mortality in America s Rust Belt, child labor, women depicting women, and the intersection of rigid graphics and lyrical line work in this month s round-up of Hudson Valley art exhibits.
Susan Copich at Windham Fine Arts Set in Youngstown, Ohio, Copich s latest work, then he forgot my name, is a self-portrait photography series examining decay and mortality in America s Rust Belt. The series emerged over three years while Copich shuttled between her hometown in Ohio and upstate New York, and spending time with her father, who was battling dementia. Using a rundown family-owned building in downtown Youngstown as a backdrop, she set out researching the structure s history and re-imagining past occupants. Copich s photography illuminates a psychological landscape through the pain of living, the continuum of decay, and the struggle for change while reflecting on the collective awakening of female
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! This week, as we honor King’s work, life, and legacy and celebrate the inauguration of a new administration that includes America’s first African American vice president, we offer this list of alluring local activities.
Paul Bermanzohn Presents “King Was a Revolutionary” | January 18
At 4pm on January 18, Dr. Paul Bermanzohn will host “King Was a Revolutionary,” a Zoom talk sponsored by the Library at the A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Center in Kingston. The presentation discusses two of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s most famous speeches: his celebrated “I Have a Dream” speech and “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” an anti-Vietnam War and pro-social justice speech. Bermanzohn, a Poughkeepsie psychiatrist, is a survivor of the 1979 Greensboro, North Carolina, attack on civil rights marchers by Ku Klux Klan and Nazi assailants that left five dead. The talk is free, but registration is required.
View of the Earth from GOES-16 Thankfully in these tense times, art and activities abound in the Hudson Valley although of course most of them are taking place online. Feed your soul with this week’s bespoke roundup of creative happenings.
Here GOES Radiotelescope at Wave Farm | ongoing Newly installed at the Wave Farm experimental broadcast arts center in Acra is
Here GOES Radiotelescope, an artist-run DIY ground station set up to receive the transmissions of GOES-16, a NASA/NOAA weather satellite. Visitors to the sculptural station can sit within it and look through the “telescope” to view live images of Earth as they’re being received from the satellite. A live generative audio stream sonically “interprets” the interactions of the sun’s energies with Earth’s magnetosphere, creating audio imagining of the satellite’s environment. Although visits to the site are limited due to the COVID-19 situation, remote visitor
Taylor Swift at Long Pond, Aaron Dessner s Columbia County studio and residence. In September, Swift, Jack Antonoff, and Dessner assembled there to tape Folklore: The Long Pond Sessions, a documentary about the making of Swift s multiple-Grammy-nominated lockdown album. Welcome again to Mixed Media, wherein we showcase cultural news from within and around the Hudson Valley during these times of COVID-19. Although the impact of the virus has necessitated putting in-person events on hold, artists and arts organizations continue to make and present new work online and in other creative new ways. As we all anticipate the re-emergence of more in-person events, here is some of what has been going on recently in the regional arts community.