CONVENTO (film)

MINAS pt1: Scorched Earth a kinetic installation by Christiaan...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:01:00 -0400

MINAS pt1: Scorched Earth

a kinetic installation by Christiaan Zwanikken/ a short film by Jarred Alterman

The documentary CONVENTO is now up on iTunes

“Godard nailed it once and for all: ‘At the cinema,...

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:39:40 -0500

“Godard nailed it once and for all: ‘At the cinema, you raise your eyes to the screen; in front of the television, you lower them’. Out of the two hours you spend in a movie theater, you spend one in the dark. It’s the nocturnal portion that stays with us, that fixes our memory of a film”- Chris Marker

CONVENTO is now available on iTunes! You can also rent/buy my...

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 14:40:00 -0500

CONVENTO is now available on iTunes! You can also rent/buy my film on Amazon, XBox, Vudu, Playstation- if you are a fan spread the gospel! Perfect stocking stuffer just in time for the holidays!

It was a hazy Saturday afternoon in Berne, New York and a motley...

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:20:17 -0400

It was a hazy Saturday afternoon in Berne, New York and a motley crew of filmmakers holding shotguns, aimed at the sky, surrounded me. My mouth was dry and I felt the minds eye going black while gripping my barrel. “What the hell am I doing here and who are these strangers?” Well, I was asked to join a small group of filmmakers to shoot skeet and talk shop (and sadly, not form a militia). This past year was a whirlwind tour with my first feature art/documentary, Convento, which premiered …read more

Factory25 presents the Los Angeles premiere of the doc/art film...

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 07:57:00 -0400

Factory25 presents the Los Angeles premiere of the doc/art film CONVENTO at The Downtown Independent Movie Theater for 1 week starting July 27th.

Friday 7:30pm the avant-gardist, filmmaker and comedian Eric Wareheim (Tim and Eric Billion Dollar Movie, Awesome Show Great Job) will host both screenings and moderate the Q & A with director Jarred Alterman. Support Indie Cinema & Get your tickets here: Purchase Tickets Here and Help Support Indie Cinema

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“SXSW Presents” a Factory Twenty Five limited...

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:33:00 -0400

“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...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:07:00 -0400

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...

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:56:00 -0500

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...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:54:00 -0500

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...

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:01:00 -0500

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)

http://convento.eventbrite.com/

CONVENTO JOINS FACTORY 25 FOR THEATRICAL RELEASE MARCH...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:47:00 -0500

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...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:40:12 -0500

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...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:19:48 -0500

‘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!

CONVENTO: Best films of 2011 @Documentary Blog

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:13:00 -0500

CONVENTO: Best films of 2011 @Documentary Blog:

We are thrilled to announce ‘Convento’ made the list of Top Documentary Films of 2011 on The Documentary Blog. We are joined by ‘Fake it So Real’, ‘The Interrupters’, ‘Senna’ and many more. Special thanks to my crew!!

Stay tuned for more screenings and exhibitions! check out...

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:20:00 -0500

Stay tuned for more screenings and exhibitions!

check out www.christiaanzwanikken.com for info about the artist

DINOSAURS VS ROBOTS!! Dear Earthling, My childhood dream of...

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:29:00 -0400

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...

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:57:00 -0400

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

SWALLOW NEON is from a series of video installations I am...

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:11:00 -0400

SWALLOW NEON is from a series of video installations I am showing at CIFF 2011

(an on going collaboration with Christiaan Zwanikken )

CONVENTO is the closing night film of the festival Check out the full line up here

CONVENTO REVIEW- Ain't it cool News

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 08:40:00 -0400

‘CONVENTO’ has been described as Documentary..Art..Cine-Poem.. but Horror??!!!

We are huge fans of Ain’t it Cool News, so its an honor to be reviewed; even if we are sandwiched between “Caesar & Otto’s Summer Camp Nightmare” and “Inbred”.

Check out the review here: CONVENTO Review - Ain’t it Cool News

And ‘CONVENTO’ will be the closing night film at CIFF at the end of the month- if you are in Maine or traveling to the festival here are the details.

Mike Tully from Hammer to Nail gives Jarred Alterman...

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:07:00 -0400

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