Light Industry, a new film series in a huge old manufacturing complex next to the BQE, makes its premiere next week. Thomas Beard and Ed Halter, both of whom are veteran film programmers—Beard worked for Ocularis and Halter used to oversee the New York Underground Film Festival—are running the series. Light Industry will have weekly Tuesday night screenings over the next few months in an empty studio space at Industry City, a 6-million-square-foot complex on 33rd Street between 3rd Avenue and the river that rents studios to artists. A different artist, critic or curator is going to organize each event. “The idea is that there are all these different groups in New York, and we want to explore that range,” says Halter. The first screening next Tuesday is called “The Blazing World,” and it’ll feature a series of 16mm films “that ponder the vicissitudes of utopian scheming and the search for new ground,” according to the organization’s website.
Light Industry Website GMAP