Shorts in the Slope
A Film Event
October 13 – 14, 2017
Berkeley Carroll School Performance Space, 152 Sterling Place, between Flatbush and 7th Avenue
ABOUT US
Art Slope ’17 'Shorts in the Slope' film festival is an initiative of the Arts Committee of the Park
Slope Civic Council, which has sought to enhance the lives of Park Slope residents and visitors
since 1896. (For more information on the Civic Council’s many neighborhood activities, please
visit: parkslopeciviccouncil.org).
Wearable Art Walk - Kickoff Event for Art Slope 2016 - Photo by Eugene Kolb
The inspiration for this year’s film festival, our first, came out of last September’s popular 9-day
neighborhood-wide arts festival, 'Art Slope 2016,' which featured the work of over 150 artists
from across all disciplines, in over 50 venues, including 9 large installations in Prospect Park. Art
Slope 2016 attracted visitors from all over the City and beyond for music, dance, theater, visual
art in all media, literary readings, and art panels (Please visit the following link for more
information: http://www.artslope.nyc/2016/artists-1/).
One of Art Slope 2016’s most popular events was “Shorts in the Slope,” a 90 minute program
of 12 short films, many of which had been featured at prominent festivals, and which were
selected by filmmaker Bill Schaumberg. Shorts in the Slope was held at the new, state of the art
315-seat Marlene Clary Performance Space of the Berkeley Carroll School. For short biographies
of last year’s Shorts in the Slope filmmakers, please go to this link: http://www.artslope.nyc/2016-filmmaker-bios/
Photo from filmmaker Immy Humes' documentary-in-progress on seminal filmmaker, Shirley Clarke, "Portrait of Shirley," shown at 2016 "Shorts in the Slope" at the Berkeley Carroll theater. -Photo by Jeanette Lee
The Park Slope Civic Council is excited to be presenting this year’s film festival: Art Slope ’17 –
Shorts in the Slope over the weekend of October 13 and 14, again at the Berkeley Carroll
School’s Marlene Clary Performance Space at 152 Sterling Place, just off Flatbush Avenue.
We are very excited to announce that the awards ceremony and closing party for this year’s
Art Slope ’17 Shorts in the Slope, will be held immediately after the last screening on Saturday
October 14, at Shapeshifter’s Lab – an innovative music and arts space in the nearby Gowanus
arts district. For more information about the innovative programming taking place year round
at Shapeshifter’s Lab, please go to this link: http://www.shapeshifterlab.com/
We are currently in discussions on securing another space for a filmmakers’ Meet and Greet,
following the Friday night screening on October 13th. We will announce that here shortly.