35th Black Maria Film and Video Festival to be held at Trabant Theatre

1:45 p.m., March 3, 2016--The 35th Black Maria Film and Video Festival will be held from 5-7 p.m., Tuesday, March 8, in the Trabant University Center Theatre on the University of Delaware campus in Newark.

This special screening features award-winning short films, including animation, documentary and narrative from the 2016 juried competition. 

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Festival director Jane Steuerwald will be present to introduce the films and lead a discussion with the audience. The event is free and open to the public.

The Black Maria Film Festival was founded in 1981 as a tribute to Thomas Edison’ s development of the motion picture at his laboratory, dubbed the “Black Maria” film studio, the first in the world, in West Orange, New Jersey. 

The festival attracts and showcases the work of independent filmmakers internationally, and is known for its support of experimental, spirited, cutting edge and otherwise singular films. 

In 2015, the Black Maria Festival was awarded the New Jersey State Council on the Arts’ Citation of Excellence for the eighth consecutive year. 

The festival is a project of the Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium, an independent non-profit organization in residence at New Jersey City University’s Department of Media Arts. Each year Black Maria tours to museums, cultural centers, colleges and universities throughout the United States and abroad.

This year’s selection includes shorts created by independent filmmakers hailing from New York to Amsterdam: Across the Tracks, Words They Said to Her, Nighthawks, Emergent Phenomena, The Typist, The Lost Mariner, Matilda and Joe, Nuthouse Drawings, Teeth, Footage, Two Landscapes, Lockdown, Ripple, Animal Landscape, On Beat, and Dreaming of Peggy Lee.

Those with questions can email the University’s Department of Art and Design at artdepartment@udel.edu.