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The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground, and documentary features.
Films begin at 7:30 pm sharp.
Tickets are $5 (at the door only)
The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series is proud to present DUBICEL, the work of animator, writer and director Yashira Jordan. Yashira was an inaugural participant in the Crosstown Arts Residency program. DUBICEL (12 minutes) is a cosmic child who lives in a galactic dome alone and wants to open the walls that imprison him to discover what is beyond and to discover the stars. Despite having the gift of materializing mysterious objects of his dreams, he cannot find the one what allows him to open the window of his dome, until one of them gives him the key to be able to reach what he needs. But this one is not an object. It is a living being. This short film was made by Ecological art recycling.
One of the most immersive and rarefied experiences in the history of cinema, Andrei Tarkovsky’s STALKER (161 minutes) embarks on a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic post-apocalyptic landscape. A hired guide — the “Stalker” of the title — leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumored to fulfill one’s most deeply held desires. Adapting a science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and making what would be his final Soviet feature, Tarkovsky created a challenging and visually stunning work, his painstaking attention to material detail and sense of organic atmosphere further enriched by this vivid new digital restoration. At once a religious allegory, a reflection of contemporary political anxieties, and a meditation on film itself—among many other interpretations—Stalker envelops the viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings.
About Yashia Jordan:
Yashira Jordán was born in La Paz (Bolivia) in 1985. Shem made her first short film when she was 12. She studied Fine Arts in UNLP Argentina, specialized in Film 2010. She is a BERLINALE TALENT 2007 Universidad del Cine (Film University of Buenos Aires) – BAFICI and a BERLINALE TALENT 2008 from Berlin International Film Festival. Winner of “IBERMEDIA Project Scholarship” for Ecuador and Venezuela.
Selected for Producers Network- Marche du Film- Cannes in Ventana Sur, Buenos Aires two times. Director, writer, and producer of the film DURAZNO, with which she has participated in various Major and indie festivals and other film events around the world, such as the European Film Market of the Berlinale Film Festival, Rencontres du Toulouse-France, Guadalajara, Morelia, Mexico; Visions du Reel, Switzerland, Latin side of the Doc, Hot Docs, Canada, Girona cinema, Barcelona, Alianza Francesa, Buenos Aires, Argentina.BR LAB, Brazil. among others.
Co-founder of the Animation Studio CELESTE since 2011, where she became Executive Producer of animation in BELISARIO -a Full-dome series won 2019 Quirino Awards in Tenerife for Best Innovate Animation together with the Planetarium of the City of La Plata, Argentina, and the production company Cut to the Chase in Argentina. Creator of the Latin American Stop Motion Workshop (Taller Latinoamericano de Stop Motion, TLSM) with the support of Festival international du film d’animation d’Annecy and Jamie Caliri’s Dragon Frame. TLSM which in its four versions hosted more than 500 participants from all over Latin America, and experts such as Alex Juhasz (The Little Prince, The Bababook), Mark Shapiro of LAIKA, Francesca Maxwell (Art Director of Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson), Juan Pablo Zaramella from Argentina, Veronique Ecrenaz and Folimage from France. Director and Producer of the stop-motion short film DUBICEL.
Director of DIAMANTE in development her second film, was selected to ISLAB, in la ISLA del SOL, LA PAZ Bolivia and in Volumetric Filmmaking Depthkit Though Works Arts – Art Residency in New York City 2019. During her career, she attended talks, meetings, and workshops with filmmakers like Werner Herzog, Win Wenders, Mike Leigh, Lucrecia Martel, Wim Wenders, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Lisandro Alonso, and Alex McDowell among others.
