Living Free NYC Big City, Small Pockets, No Problem! 
Where:On the lawn of Automotive High School
50 Bedford Ave. @ North 13th St.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Time:8pm
Cost:$ 9 Online
8:00PM: Doors open
8:30PM: Live music presented by Sound Fix
9:00PM: Films
11:30PM-1:00AM: After-party: Open Bar at Matchless (557 Manhattan Ave. @ Driggs) Courtesy of Radeberger Pilsner
Three of the films from this program will be featured on Reel 13, and starting on Saturday you can go to their website and vote for your favorite. The winner will be broadcast on wnet (Channel 13) next weekend.
Every year Rooftop hosts a program of Home Movies—discovering the forgotten, unmediated moments of people’s lives, unfiltered and as they live them. The films reveal textures, patterns, feelings that might go unnoticed, fleeting incidents that would otherwise pass without thought, but when captured on film or video provide an insight into the lives captured, or those recording.
This year’s program includes a wide range of techniques and storytelling strategies, displaying the varied forms that biographical documentary (and pseudo-documentary) can take. Filmmakers parse through mysteriously painful childhood memories (Bloomfield or a Childhood Memory; My Rabbit Hoppy); trace their family history ( Ten for Grandpa); work through their issues relating to failed romances and short-lived affairs (Men With Girlfriends Later; I Slept With a Cookie Monster); and capture the fleeting impact of politics on the moments of their lives (Hotel Diaries). The details change and the narrative devices are diverse, but the goal of each film remains the same: to express through film or video what happened in that moment, what it meant to the filmmaker, what it felt like to be there.