Stardust to become a true metacafé
I just got word of an exciting development over at Stardust Video & Coffee, the former film-school-nerd haven-turned-hipster-lounge with some DVDs on the walls: Local Doers of Many Things Pat Greene and Greg Liebowitz are hoping to bring some film culture back to the O.
Typically, this would be the part where I decry the lack thereof, especially from the sources we’ve come to expect film culture from but maybe haven’t been living up to the charge, but this is good news for once and I’m not gonna sully it.
Beginning Oct. 20 and, they hope, continuing on a bi-weekly basis, Greene and Liebowitz will host free, early (7:30-8ish) screenings of movies “about contemporary art, architecture, design or anything else that is a part of or an influence in contemporary art,” says Greene. He says the early start time is meant to encourage teens to absorb some art without breaking their curfew.
The most encouraging part is the opening film, Orson Welles’ 1973 classic F for Fake, a meta-exploration of art’s validity and our perception of it. (The premise was further explored in Lasse Hallström’s excellent 2006 film The Hoax.) Greene says the choice was inspired by Banksy’s doc Exit Through the Gift Shop, which recently played at Enzian. Greene thought there were some choice parallels between the two films worth exploring. (He’s not the only one.)
Here’s hoping others will follow their lead and help build a real cineast community in Orlando.
