Wait Until Dark Film Series on the Lawn Begins July 9^th at Waterfall Arts

Wait Until Dark, a cool new program for warm summer nights in Belfast, begins Friday, July 9^th at Waterfall Arts in Belfast.  Movies by Maine filmmakers will be projected onto a large screen made by Moss Inc. on an outside wall at 256 High Street. The series of relaxed evening events are scheduled for July 9, August 6 and September 3, beginning at dusk.

The Wait Until Dark series will give Maine filmmakers, videographers and photographers an opportunity to show their work to a wide audience. To kick off the series on the 9th, work by Walter Ungerer of Camden and Abbott Meader from Oakland, two members of the New Media Artists Maine (NMAM) will be featured. NMAM is an association of filmmakers who produce artwork created with new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, animation and other computer, robotic, and interactive technologies.  Members of NMAM represent a variety of exploratory disciplines in the creative realm of media art. The films they produce can challenge, provoke, confuse, outrage, entertain but may not always be easily understood.  Just how the films affect viewers might not be immediately apparent as new media art, as all art, is mysterious. Ultimately they can only be experienced and Waterfall Arts is proud to present these unique films.

Meader and Ungerer will be present at the screening and Shannon Brown, a film and sculpture student at Smith College and Waterfall Arts’ summer intern will add her stop-motion original film to the mix.  The filmmakers will talk briefly about their work during the program, and participate in a salon-style chat at the end of the show.

Prior to the screening, an opening reception for “Gearheads”, the new exhibit in Waterfall Art’s Clifford Gallery, will be held from 5 to 7 pm. The lawn outside the building will be open at 7:45 pm. Admission to the screening is $5 and refreshments will be available for sale.  Bring a blanket, lawn chair and jackets and enjoy an evening of creative media art on the wall.  As Belfast’s Friday Night Art Walk winds down, there will only be a short “Wait Until Dark” for the film to commence, creating an extended summer night art offering.  Opening remarks will begin around 8:20 pm and the films will begin to roll around 8:30.

The film series is funded in part by an Artists in Maine grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Waterfall Arts is celebrating its tenth year of classes, exhibitions, residencies and events at its Belfast and Montville locations. For more information on classes and the film series, visit www.waterfallarts.org or call 207.338.2222.

Outdoor Movies at waterfall Arts - Walter Ungerer's Epitath