THOMAS EDISON FILM FESTIVAL ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES NEW YORK, NY May 16, 2024

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

THOMAS EDISON FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS NEW AMERICAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM AT ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES, THURSDAY MAY 16, 2024 - 7:30 PM

The Thomas Edison Film Festival (TEFF) presents 8 selected experimental shorts from the festival’s 2024 touring collection, curated by Nicole Pometti, artist/filmmaker and member TEFF Advisory Board.

Live in-person event Thursday May 16, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.

Maya Deren Theater, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave., corner of East 2nd Street.

NY, NY – Join the Thomas Edison Film Festival’s NYC premiere for a mind- bending showcase of cutting-edge films from accomplished and emerging experimental filmmakers.

The eight featured films include Flora by John Hawk, Agua Dulce, CA; A World in the Evening by Dan Boord and Luis Valdovino, Boulder, CO; Reversal by Diane Nerwen, Brooklyn, NY; Flutz by Ryan McCown, Brooklyn, NY; Fleshwork by Lydia Cornett, Brooklyn, NY; Island by Jack Cronin, Canton, MI; Our Bodies Like Dams by Sarah Finn, Brooklyn, NY; and Mirror Mirror (Double Vision) – by Johannes DeYoung and Natalie Westbrook, Pittsburgh, PA.

Q&A with featured filmmakers, curator Nicole Pometti, programmer Rolando Nieves, and festival director Jane Steuerwald will follow the screening.

The Thomas Edison Film Festival is an international juried competition celebrating all genres and independent filmmakers across the globe. For 43 years, the festival has been advancing the unique creativity and power of the short form by celebrating innovation, experimentation, and stories that shine a light on issues and struggles within contemporary society. The festival was founded in 1981 as the Black Maria Film Festival, originally named for Thomas Edison’s West Orange, New Jersey film studio dubbed the “black maria” because of its resemblance to the black-box police paddy wagons of the same name. Renamed in 2021, the festival’s relationship to Thomas Edison’s invention of the motion picture camera, the kinetoscope, and his experimentation with the short film is at the core of the festival.

Venues interested in scheduling a screening should contact Festival Director Jane Steuerwald at Jane@TEFilmFestival.org. The festival offers programming options ranging from custom-curated in-person programs to online film presentations by the festival director, including Q&A and dialog with the audience.

Thomas Edison Film Festival receives support from New Jersey State Council on the Arts; the Lewis Center for the Arts; the Charles Edison Fund – Edison Innovation Foundation; the Hudson County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs and Tourism; the Hoboken Historical Museum; Big Sky Edit; APM Music; Sonic Union; Lowenstein Sandler, LLP; the NBA; NJ Motion Picture and Television Commission; University of Delaware; Fairleigh Dickinson University; Digital Film East Brunswick Magnet School; Adobe Systems, Inc.; and Microsoft through TechSoup.org.

To learn more about the Thomas Edison Film Festival and Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium, visit www.tefilmfest.org.