Mono No Aware (organization)

MONO NO AWARE
Formation2007, New York City[1]
FounderSteve Cossman[2]
TypeNon-Profit
PurposeFilm Advocacy, Preservation, Distribution, Exhibition[3]
HeadquartersBrooklyn, New York
Website

Mono No Aware is a cinema-arts non-profit organization. Founded in 2007, its mission entails the advancement of “connectivity through the cinematic experience.”[3] The organization is named after the Japanese concept mono no aware (物の哀れ), which expresses the impermanence of being and beauty.[4]

Mono No Aware is based in Brooklyn, New York and organizes artist screenings, analog filmmaking workshops, equipment rentals, and film stock distribution. Film artists Bill Brand and Leslie Thornton serve on its Advisory Board.[1] Since its founding, the organization has hosted an annual film festival, exhibiting expanded cinema works from around the world that utilize both analog technologies and live performance. Following the completion of the tenth festival, a month-long series of exhibitions, Mono No Aware undertook the construction of the first non-profit motion picture laboratory to operate in the United States.[5]

  1. ^ a b "The organization". Mono No Aware. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  2. ^ Kathryn Ramey, Experimental Filmmaking, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015 p. 36.
  3. ^ a b Disser, Nicole (September 23, 2016). "Mono No Aware Aiming to Bring Motion Picture Film Lab to the Masses". Bedford + Bowery. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  4. ^ Franco Gatti, Rethinking Japan: Literature, Visual Arts & Linguistics, Psychology Press, 1990, p. 82.
  5. ^ Mala, Elisa (July 11, 2017). "A Brooklyn Film School Where the Digital Revolution Didn't Happen". The New York Times. Retrieved August 13, 2017.