“SXSW Presents” a Factory Twenty Five limited release of CONVENTO at The Texas Theatre. This historic 350 seat theater is located in Dallas, TX and proudly serves David Lynch Coffee.  

Starting March 16th - March 22nd Purchase Tickets Here  

New York City: Support Indie Cinema! Tonight at The reRun Movie Theater, our last two screenings of CONVENTO will be at 7pm and 10pm. I’ll be there with a very special guest. The film will be shown on a new blu-ray followed by never-seen-before short films I made with the artist.

reRun Movie Theater-tickets/information

Convento is an unusual experimental film that conjures the free-floating aura of a dream, only without the stylized, hyper-symbolic imagery that we generally associate with films attempting to convey dream states. The director Jarred Alterman has, in fact, taken the opposite approach: His compositions are gorgeous and surreal in their plainness and rational tactility. Convento captures the casually reassuring pleasure, as well as the potentially disconcerting oddness, of seeing something commonplace anew.

Read the Slant Magazine review by Chuck Bowen

I sit down with Mike Tully of Hammer to Nail to discuss NY Times Reviews, mid-length docs and tough choices- over pancakes.  sorry about the f- bombs!  Hammer to Nail

The SXSW Film Festival and Factory 25 present CONVENTO, the phantasmagoric fave of SXSW, Edinburgh, and Rooftop Films that IFC News called “an unorthodox doc about an unorthodox family of artists.” Presented in a 68-minute extended cut featuring supplemental vignettes, Jarred Alterman’s directorial debut makes its NYC theatrical premiere with a week-long run, March 9 - 15.

SHOWTIMES: 
FRIDAY, March 9 (7pm, 10pm) * SPECIAL GUESTS IN PERSON *
SATURDAY, March 10 (10pm) * SPECIAL GUESTS IN PERSON *
MONDAY, March 12 (7pm)
TUESDAY, March 13 (7pm)
WEDNESDAY, March 14 (7pm)
THURSDAY, March 15 (7pm, 10pm)

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CONVENTO JOINS FACTORY 25 FOR THEATRICAL RELEASE MARCH 2012

What’s the deal with Factory 25

FACTORY 25: 
High and low concept films and music docs have a home at FACTORY 25, the new Brooklyn-based independent film + music label. Beginning in September 2009, FACTORY 25 has been releasing films, theatrically, digitally, and on DVD, and wcurates provocative limited edition DVD/Vinyl combination packages. Specializing in indie niche projects, FACTORY 25 is committed to delivering films and music in perfect analog or digital quality on DVD and vinyl in aesthetically interesting packaging.

The origins of the name Factory 25 came from the actual factory number in Virginia where the Honus Wagner T206 tobacco card was printed.  The Wagner T206 is one of the most fetishized and obsessed over pieces of ephemera of the 20th century.  Twenty five is also the Factory Records catalog number of the album Closer by Joy Division considered by many as being one of the best records of all time. 

What’s the deal with Factory 25

CONVENTO was invited to The Byron Bay Film Festival in Australia!! Aussies Unite and Support Independent Cinema!

‘Convento’ makes the list of top ten films of 2011 on The Documentary Blog.  We are joined by ‘Senna’, ‘The Interrupters’, ‘Fake it So Real’, ‘Bombay Beach’ and many others.. Special thanks to my crew- couldn’t have done it without you!

DINOSAURS VS ROBOTS!!

Dear Earthling,

My childhood dream of coexisiting with dinosaurs and robots has finally come true.

CONVENTO has been invited to the American Museum of Natural History to be a part of the 35th Margaret Mead Film Festival.  Friday November 11th at 8pm the film will screen at the Linder theatre, followed by an after party in the museum.

We will then launch a full attack on the prehistoric giants in the great halls, when Christiaan Zwanikken’s roboskeletal beasts will come alive and take over the museum.  Please join our army, we need you. Here is our FB event page

Friday, November 4th at 6pm CONVENTO will screen at Leeds Town Hall, Leeds UK. CONVENTO is part of the ‘Cinema Versa’ program, a collection of films inspired by “the underground festival aesthetic.. films that push the boundary of the conventional documentatry format”

For more information visit Leeds International Film Festival

Mike Tully from Hammer to Nail gives Jarred Alterman “FilmmakerPick of the Week”