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ou won’t find them on Fandango or in the multiplexes, but the region’s independent filmmakers, festival organizers and DIY art house reps have a lot to say about the wide world outside of Hollywood—and they have a rich lineup of winter events.
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Erica French plays a doe in Ravendoe, the Third Coast Dance Festival’s first Reno-made film.
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reel it in Independent film series and festivals make February a good time to enjoy the great indoors
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There were already major, long-standing dance film festivals like the Dance On Camera Festival in New York and Dance Camera West in Los Angeles, but Rosie Trump, a dance professor at University of Nevada, Reno, noticed they were missing something. “I wasn’t seeing artists like myself being presented,” she said. She wanted to see more work by local filmmakers and more work by women. So, in 2010, while living in Houston, she started the Third Coast Dance Film Festival. “Whenever dance is taken off of the stage and captured in film, all these possibilities become available,” Trump said—manipulation of speed and time, for example, jump cuts instead of fixed viewpoints, the ability to undo the laws of gravity with a camera. In some cases, this all adds up to having the freedom to mix up reality and fantasy. In Ravendoe—the festival’s first Reno-made film, by Erica French and Shaila Holihan—the two dancers play animals meeting in a forest. Third Coast Dance Film Festival screens at 6 p.m., Feb. 9 at the Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St. Tickets are $5-7. Organizers recommend purchasing tickets in advance, as the festival has sold out in recent years. For tickets, visit www.nevadaart.org. For info, visit thirdcoastdancefilmfestival. wordpress.com. To see the trailer, visit vimeo. com/187416351.
Flicks in FallOn Churchill Arts Council Film Series On the night of a concert, if you try to enter the Barkley Theatre with a beer in your hand, a friendly usher will instruct you to abandon it at the door. This venue, located inside Fallon’s Oats Park Art Center, is too classy to tolerate sticky floors. During the less frequent movie screenings, which attract a dedicated but
smaller crowd, however, they’ll let you bring your drink right in. The programming leans toward vintage films but also shows newer work. “Sometimes we do thematically related series,” said program director Kirk Robertson. “We do ’50s sci-fi. We do film noir. We’ve done later sci-fi.” There’ve also been romantic comedies and showcases of “little-known or overlooked films” by particular actors. Once it was Nicole Kidman. This month, it’s Burt Lancaster. The theater is primarily a music venue, and Robertson said that when he shows films there, “The sound is very good because we run it through the house speaker system.” The art center’s galleries are open during film showings, and the bar opens an hour before show time. The two remaining showings in the “Three With Lancaster” series are The Swimmer, Feb. 10 and Atlantic City, Feb. 17. Both films start at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 or $7 for members. For information, visit www. churchillarts.org.
art hOuse DiY Artemisia Moviehouse Artemisia Moviehouse isn’t exactly a movie house. It’s an iteration of the former Great Basin Film Society that’s been showing classics, animation, foreign films and the like in Good Luck Macbeth’s 50-some-odd-seat theater for a few years. The group has established a few fun traditions for film lovers. “We introduce the movie, talk about directors, certain things to look out for, little insights, without giving away the plot or the ending,” said organizer John McCarthy. And sometimes the hosts offer insider trivia. Before a recent screening of a French comedy, Mon Oncle, which features a pack of street dogs, viewers learned that the director eventually found homes for his orphaned canine actors. Other things you should know about Artemisia: “If a film is short, we’ll show cartoons,” said McCarthy. Admission is payable only by cash. And there’s free popcorn. Artemisia Moviehouse shows films at Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St., most Sundays at 6 p.m. Admission is $7, $6 for students and seniors, and $5 for members. The next film is Phantom Boy, March 5, a French/Belgian animation with Audrey Tautou. For more information visit http://artemisiamovies.weebly.com/.
