Hoboken Historical Museum Hosts Black Maria Festival

The Hoboken Historical Museum is pleased to extend its relationship with the prestigious Black Maria Film Festival, now in its 33rd year as a juried competition of independent short film and video works.

Starting on Tuesday, Sept. 30, and continuing on the last Tuesday of the month, including Oct. 28 and Nov. 25, Museum Associate Ian Maxen will host an evening of diverse short films from the Festival collection – narrative, experimental, animation, and documentary – ranging from comedy to drama to the exploration of pure form in cinema, which exemplify the festival’s award-winning films.

Doors will open at 6:30 p.m., and the screening will commence at 7 p.m., followed by a facilitated discussion. A $5 donation at the door includes light refreshments.

Since 1981, the mission of the Black Maria Film and Video Festival has been to promote, illuminate, and advocate innovation in the art of the moving image. Named after the world’s first motion picture studio built by Thomas Edison, where he made all of his own short experimental films, the Festival has a long track record of commitment to short works. It encourages and seeks creative, insightful, sensitive, free spirited, expressive, poetic and experimental works in animation, narrative, documentary, and hybrid forms. Award-winning films typically address issues and struggles within contemporary society such as the environment, public health, race and class, family, sustainability, and much more.

For further information, contact the Hoboken Historical Museum at 201-656-2240, www.hobokenmuseum.org; or contact Black Maria Festival Director Jane Steuerwald, jane@blackmariafilmfestival.org, 201-200-2043. Program information is posted on the Black Maria Film Festival website under the Tour Schedule link:www.blackmariafilmfestival.org.