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Bryan Konefsky

Historia

Bryan Konefsky is the founder and director of Experiments in Cinema international film festival and the president of Basement Films. Konefsky's creative work has been supported by organizations such as The National Endowment for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Humanities and The Trust For Mutual Understanding and has lectured about experimental cinema and screened his own films in countries such as Russia, Korea, Serbia, Germany, Italy, France, Cuba and Morocco.

Películas

Exquisite Moving Corpse

Director

The Surrealist, "Exquisite Corpse" was a French Café parlor game. "Exquisite Moving Corpse" is more of an artist chain letter. 60 artists participated over a two-year period, beginning in March 2020. Each invited artist made a one minute video in response to the last frame of the previous minute.

Teatro Principal

Director

A portrait of the Teatro Principal in Camagüey, Cuba. In making this film Konefsky thought about Conchita (the house manager of the theatre) and how maternal and nurturing her chair folding gesture was. Thinking about this film now, the artist hopes there is a thread of empathy embedded in the film –empathy for all the many, many theatres around the globe that are now closed due to Covid-19.

Moya Sestra

Director

Simone Simon is one of my film "heroes." Here, she plots to kill her therapist in one of the final scenes from Jaques Tourneur's 1942 film, Cat People. I guess you could say of my manipulation - it's not a good idea to let your pets gain access to furniture, it never ends well.

Chicken Delight

Director

Bryan Konefsky's meditation on the United States' ongoing courtship with radioactivity & the FDA's decision to serve irradiated meat in their School Lunch Program.

I Yam What I Yam

Director

Bryan Konefsky's inspired doc starts in 1929 when monocular vision was not limited to the gaze of telescopes (Edwin Hubble) or movie cameras (Dziga Vertov). 1929 was also the year that the one-eyed, “strong to the finish” sailor named Popeye was first introduced to the United States as a comic strip character. And, even after 75 years and 234 movies, Popeye’s rebel yell for the common good, “I yam what I yam” still resonates with the hope and conviction of his visionary colleagues.