The Blackout Film Festival is an “event-inspired” annual festival on a changing topic that is meaningful to New Yorkers.
Originally inspired by the New York City blackout in the summer of '03, this festival explores how a changed world affects and connects people sharing a common struggle.
For 2009 the festival centers on “The Great Recession,” exploring the concept as “a story, a theme, a backdrop, or simply an inspirational force.”
Featuring many original films, and premiering even more, the films delve into topics such as how the economic downturn has been a boon to local filmmakers as the costs of filming in places like Fort Greene, Brooklyn have become so much more economical than Hollywood. Other films chronicle the changing American landscape during a time when jobs are scarce, or how economic conditions can affect two stores on the same block in such drastically different ways.
Blackout describes the compilation of films as “surprisingly lighthearted,” a welcome description given the subject matter.
The one-day festival has three showings of the films at 3pm, 5pm, and 7pm this Saturday, Sept. 19th. at the SVA Visual Arts Theater at 333 West 23rd Street.
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