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Light Industry is an American

Brooklyn, New York
. Its programming focuses on obscure and unusual works.

History

Halter and Beard met through the New York Underground Film Festival, which Halter ran.[1] They started Light Industry in 2008, inspired by Amos Vogel who ran the Cinema 16 film society and co-founded the New York Film Festival.[2] After opening in Industry City, they moved to a storefront in Downtown Brooklyn and later offered itinerant programming at other venues such as Anthology Film Archives and ISSUE Project Room.[3]

Light Industry found a new permanent location in Greenpoint in 2011. The space had a simple design, with folding chairs and a small projection screen. They eventually built a wooden projection booth named after director Chantal Akerman, who had previously criticized the layout when presenting a film by Michael Snow.[2] Halter and Beard co-curated film and video programs for the 2012 Whitney Biennial.[4]

In 2017 Light Industry partnered with Anthology Film Archives to republish Stan Brakhage's Metaphors on Vision, with annotations by P. Adams Sitney.[5] In 2020 they republished Michael Snow's 1975 artist's book Cover to Cover with Primary Information.[6] Beard turned the back room into Monday Night Books, a pop-up store for secondhand books.[7]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Light Industry established the Cinema Worker Solidarity Fund with Screen Slate to provide financial assistance for local theater workers.[2] It had its final show at the Greenpoint location in April 2023, before reopening shortly after in Williamsburg.[8]

Programming

A scene from a collaborative show in 2008, where participants recreated Plan 9 from Outer Space

Light Industry generally holds one screening each week, specializing in obscure and unusual works.

avant-garde film, underground film, international art film, video art, and new media.[4] Light Industry has often programmed works of queer cinema, which Halter described as understanding "the inestimable value of spaces that allow like-minded people to come together for a shared experience, a shared understanding."[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Disser, Nicole (April 1, 2015). "Greenpoint's Light Industry, Illuminating the Obscure for Cinephiles and All the Rest of Us". Brooklyn Magazine. Retrieved March 11, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d Williams, Conor (August 25, 2022). "A Schoolhouse for Cinephiles: In Praise of Light Industry". Filmmaker. Retrieved March 11, 2024.
  3. ^ Rakes, Rachael; Goldsmith, Leo (September 2011). "CINEMA AS AN EVENT: An Interview with Light Industry's Ed Halter". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved March 11, 2024.
  4. ^ a b Lim, Dennis (September 4, 2011). "Choosing Cinematheque Over Cineplex". The New York Times. p. 6. Retrieved March 11, 2024.
  5. ^ Balsom, Erika (January 2018). "Stan Brakhage's Metaphors on Vision". Artforum. Vol. 56, no. 5. Retrieved March 11, 2024.
  6. ^ Stephens, Chuck (December 22, 2020). "Exploded View | Michael Snow's Cover to Cover". Cinema Scope. No. 85. Retrieved March 11, 2024.
  7. ^ Fry, Naomi (February 14, 2022). "Book Sale". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 11, 2024.
  8. ^ Kenigsberg, Ben (May 14, 2023). "New York's Movie Theaters, From Art-House to Dine-In". The New York Times. Retrieved March 11, 2024.

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