Colony Sleepless Night November 3 2007

On November 3, 2007, the City of Miami Beach is presenting its own version of Sleepless Night, an all night event of dance, music, theater, film etc. previously launched in Paris, Madrid, Rome, Brussels, Riga, Toronto and Montreal.

I was invited to contribute a film program for this event so I present to you an "all nighter" celebrating romance in film at the historic
Colony Theater on Miami Beach. When was the last time you got to see Casablanca on the big screen? Program details are below. Have fun!

In addition to the film program, two video installations made by local and talented artists specifically for this event will be projected on the exterior of the Colony the entire night. One of the installations is shot on 16mm and the other is interactive, covering two very different exploratory film and video formats.

Please check out their website for ALL INFORMATION. www.sleeplessnight.org


Thank you and have a fantastic night,
rhonda mitrani buchman
still dreaming pictures



"Classics at the Colony Theater"

10:pm Casablanca (1942) is an Oscar-winning romance film set in the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca. The film was directed by Michael Curtiz and stars Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine and Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund. It focuses on Rick's conflict between, in the words of one character, love and virtue: he must choose between his love for Ilsa and doing the right thing, helping her and her Resistance leader husband escape from Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis.
Running Time: 102 minutes

11:45pm Annie Hall (1977) is an Academy Award-winning, romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a script he co-wrote with Marshall Brickman. It is one of Allen's most popular films: it won numerous awards at the time of its release, and in 2002 Roger Ebert referred to it as "just about everyone's favorite Woody Allen movie"[1]. Allen had previously been known as a maker of zany comedies; the director has described Annie Hall as "a major turning point",[2] as it brought a new level of seriousness to his work, in addition to consolidating his signature cinematic style, which includes long, realistically-written scenes of conversation, often shot in uninterrupted takes, and an equal thematic investment in both hilarity and heartbreak.
Running Time: 93 minutes

2:30am Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) is an Academy Award-winning American romance film by director Michel Gondry. The film uses a science fiction element to explore the nature of memory and love. It is directed by Michel Gondry, who worked on the story with Charlie Kaufman and Pierre Bismuth, a French performance artist. Kaufman and Bismuth won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2005. The film stars Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. The movie's title is taken from the poem Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope which was the story of a tragic love affair.
Running Time: 103 minutes


Installations on the exterior of The Colony Theater:

Artists: Clifton Childree and Nikki Rollason
This installation titled "Nighty Night" is an original work for Sleepless in Miami is a two side-by-side projections in 16mm of a man and a woman each in their own bed. The images together will create a room with two beds. The films will be looped insomnia sagas to be projected on the side of a building. Combining dance and stop-motion animation, we will explore that dreamy state between awake and asleep. With overhead views of the beds and superimposed close ups on the periphery, the visual relationship will be different with each viewing and new meaning will be created.

Artist: Ivan Ma tinez
The project entitled "My Generation's Legacy, Anxiety and Complacency", consists of digital projections transmitting live and pre-designed content. As the title suggest, the piece will create a visual survey between the two mind-sets shaped as a result of our current era. Participating viewers on the street will play an integral role to the art's progression and atmosphere. There will constantly be two main images battling for attention, the "anxiety" and the "complacent". The software being used allows for the artist to become an interactive DJ, mixing and intertwining videos. At different moments by walking across the camera's sight, the viewer will be able to control environmental elements surrounding the main images.