Still from Sean Pecknold's Tennis, Oranges!
This Friday, October 4 the Fall 2024 New Jersey Film Festival will screen the Best of the 2024 New Jersey International Film Festival. Some of the prize-winning films from this past June’s 2024 New Jersey International Film Festival will be shown online only on this date for 24 hours. Films include: Tennis, Oranges – Sean Pecknold (Winner Best Animation); INFINITY! – Benjamin To (Winner Best Short) and FILM IS DEAD. LONG LIVE FILM! – Peter Flynn (Winner Best Documentary). Here is more info on these below.
Tennis, Oranges – Sean Pecknold (Los Angeles, California)
A robotic vacuum suffering from burnout quits its job at a hospital and sets out to find community and a greater purpose on a quiet street where two lonely rabbits are stuck in perpetual loops. 2023; 11 min.
INFINITY! – Benjamin To (Chino Hills, California) A famous Japanese-American ballroom dance duo must choose between their passion or their lives as WWII concentration camps begin to rise in the U.S. 2023; 12 min.
FILM IS DEAD. LONG LIVE FILM! – Peter Flynn (Wakefield, Massachussets) FILM IS DEAD. LONG LIVE FILM! explores the vanishing world of private film collecting—an obsessive, secretive, often illicit world of basement film vaults, piled-high with forgotten reels, inhabited by passionate cinephiles devoted to the rescue and preservation of photochemical film. Condemned as pirates and hounded by the FBI, film collectors have long lurked in the shadows. Yet their efforts have resulted in the survival of countless films that would otherwise have been lost to history. Archives and studios now look to private hands for long-lost titles and many collectors have begun restoring and releasing films themselves. As analog film fades from memory, the basement-dwellers and bootleggers of old are finally being given their due. FILM IS DEAD. LONG LIVE FILM! is a lively tribute to the private film collector, a celebration of the fetishistic subculture of pre-video movie-love, and a timely reminder of the glories of analog film. 2024; 102 min.
Also, the Fall 2024 New Jersey Film Festival will be presenting a FREE 50th Anniversary screening of 3 Days On Big City Waters in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ beginning at 5PM . This environmental documentary documents a trip taken Labor Day Weekend 1973 by Rutgers University Emeritus Professors Michael Rockland and Charles Woolfolk, who traveled by canoe from Princeton, N.J. to Manhattan. There will be a Q+A after the screening with Prof. Rockland.
The 43rd Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival will be taking place on select Fridays and Sundays through October 18, 2024. The Festival will be a hybrid one as it will be presented online as well as doing in-person screenings at Rutgers University. All the films will be available virtually via Video on Demand for 24 hours on their show date. VoD start times are at 12 Midnight Eastern USA. Each General Admission Ticket or Festival Pass purchased is good for both the virtual and the in-person screenings. Plus, acclaimed electronic music artist Jim Haynes will be doing an audio-visual concert on Friday, October 18 at 7PM! The in-person screenings and the Jim Haynes Concert will be held in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ beginning at 5PM or 7PM on their show date. General Admission Ticket=$15 Per Program; In-Person Only Student Ticket=$10 Per Program. The Sunday, October 6 screening is FREE! General Admission Jim Haynes Concert Ticket=$25. To buy tickets go here.
