Rated: NR    Runtime: 71 mins.
AN EVENING OF UTTER BALLOONACY
THE BLACK BALLOON – While trying to move forty kids six blocks in New York City alone, a stressed man accidentally loses a bouquet of a hundred balloons. In that bouquet, a lone black balloon scurries free. It dies and comes back to life, returning to the city cruising for a companion. (Film by Josh & Benny Safdie USA, 2012, 35mm, 21 mins.) SHOWN WITH Albert Lamorrise’s classic THE RED BALLOON (France, 1954, 35mm., 34 mins.), a perfect example of the power of visual storytelling, in which a young boy finds a red balloon on the streets of Paris and spends the day exploring the City of Lights ALSO PLAYING When a young man decides to visit a local amusement park, he inadvertently stumbles on top of a rapidly ascending hot air balloon in Buster Keaton’s THE BALLOONATIC (USA, 1922, 35mm, 22 mins.) Complete program starts at 7pm!