Second Saturdays from May til September, Join Athens Cultural Center for a free movie screening. July 9th Screening will take place indoors as a part of the Athens Street Festival.
July 9: A Trip to The Moon
Hosted by Denny Daniel with 16mm projection
Featuring a Live Score by Jef Brown
at the Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street
There will be two screenings of this short film, 2pm and 3:30pm.
Meet special guest Denny Daniel of The Museum of Interesting Things to learn film history tidbits alongside a display of zoetropes, kinetoscopes, camera obscuras and other artifacts.
Daniel will project Georges Méliès’ A Trip to The Moon on 16mm projector. Méliès was known for the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour. He was also one of the first filmmakers to use storyboards. A Trip to the Moon (1902) involves a strange, surreal journey in the style of Jules Verne, and is considered among the most important early science fiction films.
Featuring a live score by Jef Brown
Jef Brown is a multi instrumentalist, composer and producer who plays guitar, bass and saxophone. He has played an integral role in the bands Gospel of Mars, Evolutionary Jass Band and JOMF. Originally from Columbia, Maryland, he’s lived in Baltimore, Portland Oregon, Los Angeles, Brooklyn New York. His list of credits as a musician includes Parquet Courts, Kyp Malone (Rain Machine), Fergus and Geronimo, David Sitek (Maximum Balloon) and he has composed for dance companies MGM Grand and Dark Porch Productions. In 2006 he released his first solo album “Change has got to Come” on Community Library. In 2007 he started his own label, Jaffe Records and released his second LP of solo improvised saxophone and guitar works “Dreams.”
He currently resides in Kingston NY where he teaches guitar and is working on his third solo LP, a collection of compositions for classical guitar.