ReadingFilm announces festival winners
Plus more local arts and culture news
ReadingFilm has announced the student award winners from its 5th Annual Five Minute FilmFEST, an annual challenge for Berks County high school students. The awards were presented by Emmy-nominated actress Janeshia Adams-Ginyard and ReadingFilm Executive Director Cammie Harris during a ceremony at Albert and Eunice Boscov Theatre at Goggleworks Center for the Arts.
These were the winners:
• First place: “Heroes of BCTC,” influencer short film produced by Harmony Sutherly with Ryan Stuber, MaKayla Drey, and Harmoni Stoudt, submitted by Jim Del Conte, Berks Career & Technology Center
• Second place: “Home,” short narrative film by Sophia Paige Horowitz, Gov. Mifflin High School
• Third place: “The Resurgence of Vinyl,” documentary short by Evangeline Crossley, Fleetwood High School.
In addition to awards
and cash prizes, the first place winner will be shown at the StudentFEST during the 9th Annual ReadingFilmFEST, being held Oct. 26-29.
••• ReadingFilm is partnering with Albert and Eunice Boscov Theatre at Goggleworks Center for the Arts for a “Throwback Thursday” film series celebrating the iconic director Stanley Kubrick.
Kubrick started off his career in entertainment as a photographer before moving into filmmaking in the 1950s. He helped create the Film Foundation, which sought to preserve film and
promote restoration in the 1990’s with filmmakers including Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese
Being shown May 18 at 7 p.m. is “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968), rated G. An imposing black structure provides a connection between the past and the future in this enigmatic adaptation of a short story by revered sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke. When Dr. Dave Bowman and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission, their ship’s computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly strange behavior, leading up to a tense showdown between man and machine that results in a mind-bending trek through space and time.
Being show May 25 at 7 p.m. is “A Clockwork Orange” (1971), rated R. In an England of the future, Alex and his “Droogs” spend their nights getting high at the Korova Milkbar before embarking on “a little of the old ultraviolence,” while jauntily warbling “Singin’ in the Rain.” After he’s jailed for bludgeoning the Cat Lady to death, Alex submits to behavior modification technique to earn his freedom; he’s conditioned to abhor violence. Returned to the world defenseless, Alex becomes the victim of his prior victims.
Art
The GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Reading, will host a Second Sunday open house next Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. Artists of the Month on the third floor will be Charley Farrell and Barbara Thun.
Farrell uses the conventions of figurative art to depict the unexpected and uncanny events. Each painting presents a unique behavioral scene, an exercise in visual thinking, wrestling metaphorically with the mysteries of a complicated world. In his most recent work, he has been experimenting with less realistic forms of depiction, departing from strict figurative realism to investigate abstract forms and colors.
Thun seeks to engage the viewer’s mind beyond the image to ask what is the meaning of the work. The message may be abstract and present more questions than knowledge. She would like her work to bring a thoughtfulness or meditative approach. Her process begins with an image, phrase or question. From there it moves to possibilities; in mediums, combinations of forms, color and always “How might it be otherwise?”
Exhibit
The Reading Science Center, 645 Penn St., in partnership with PBS39, will unveil its latest exhibit, “Science Superhero School,” on May 20 at 2 p.m. The center will be offering free admission that day through its partnership with Remake Learning Days.
“Science Superhero School” is an interactive exhibit designed to exercise visitors’ superpowers of science alongside “Hero Elementary” stars Lucita Sky, AJ Gadgets, Sara Snap and Benny Bubbles. The exhibit will feature interactive displays and hands-on activities for visitors of all ages, providing them with an opportunity to compare scientists from different fields, test their observation skills with science tasks, and predict what their very own superhero might look like as they investigate the world of science.
PBS39 and Reading Science Center share and encourage a love and appreciation of science through hands-on and experiential STEM education. “Science Superhero School” exemplifies the goal to expose Reading area’s young learners to the diversity of real-life scientists.
For more information, see readingsciencecenter. org.
Lecture
In advance of the May 20 Reading Symphony Orchestra concert at the Santander Performing Arts Center, the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture in cooperation with the Reading Symphony Orchestra League will present a Know Your Symphony Lecture on Wednesday, May 17, at 7:30 p.m. at The Highlands, 2000 Cambridge Ave., Wyomissing. The lecturer will be Dr. Daniel Immel, professor of music at Kutztown University.