The RPM Festival presents “America,” a program featuring seven short films by Brian L. Frye on May 17th 2PM at The Brattle Theater, Cambridge, MA. The entire program will be screened on 16mm prints, showcasing films created between 1999 and 2002.

Brian L. Frye is a filmmaker, writer, and law professor whose work explores the relationships between history, society, and cinema through archival and amateur images. His films have been exhibited at prestigious venues including the Whitney Biennial, the New York Film Festival’s “Views from the Avant-Garde,” and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His short films are held in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum and distributed by the Filmmaker’s Coop.

In addition to his filmmaking, Brian is an accomplished writer whose work has appeared in publications such as October, Film Comment, and the Village Voice. He holds a J.D. from NYU School of Law, an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute, and a B.A. from UC Berkeley. His current research focuses on intellectual property and charity law, with a particular emphasis on artists and arts organizations.

Filmmaker in Person and Post-screening Q&A with Brett Melican

Program:

Across the Rappahannock | 2002 | 9 minutes

The War is Beautiful in Springtime | 2002 | 6 minutes

Kaddish | 2002 | 11 minutes

Lachrymae | 2000 | 3 minutes

Oona’s veil | 2002 | 9 minutes

Robert Beck is Alive & Well | 2002 | 3 minutes

The Anatomy of Melancholy | 1999 | 10 minutes

The Letter | 2001 | 11 minutes

Please visit revolutionsperminutefest.org for more information.

Revolutions per Minute Festival (RPM Fest) is dedicated to short-form poetic, personal, experimental film, essay film, animation, documentary, video and audiovisual performance, and is co-hosted by Art and Art History Department and Cinema Studies at UMass-Boston, Brattle Theatre in Cambridge & Harvard FAS CAMLab.

Brattle Passes Accepted