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[title]Photoville
Friday 22–July 1
Kings County exhibition producer United Photo Industries takes over Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 3 to create a 60,000 square-foot pop-up village honoring the art of picture taking. Peruse the 35 shipping containers, providing venues for curated gallery installations and interactive workshops, as well as panel discussions with photographers, editors and publishers. Wander from Pier 1 to Pier 3 past a 1,000-foot-long fence displaying large-form prints made out of photographic mesh. Pet lovers and owners and their furry companions can admire similarly fashioned pics of canine subjects along the borders of a photo dog run. Or walk through a room-sized camera obscura for a more cinematic view of the pups in the park. Analog specialists from Lomography will install an NYC LomoWall, adorned with shots of the city taken on film. Meanwhile, the Magnum Foundation features Bruce Gilden’s 2010 photo essay about the housing crisis, “No Place Like Home: Foreclosures in America,” and Sim Chi Yin’s “China’s Rat Tribe,” a series she began in 2010 depicting Beijing’s migrant workers who live underground. In between container-hopping, recharge your batteries at a beer garden serving Brooklyn Brewery suds ($5) and browse the brigade of food trucks offering noshes such as Colombian-style arepas ($5–$8) at Palenque, and crispy fish tacos ($4.50) from Mike ’N’ Willies. Afterward, head to the Camera Greenhouse, where artist-gardener André Feliciano has planted 3,000 tulips, sunflowers, lilies, and other varietals with pink blooms in the shape of cameras. Enter at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1, Old Fulton St at Water St, Dumbo, Brooklyn (718-215-9075, photovillenyc.org). Times vary; free.
Tropfest New York
Saturday 23
Thousands of cinéastes will descend on Bryant Park for the first full American staging of this Australian import. Started in 1993, the fest helped launch the careers of actors and filmmakers such as Avatar star Sam Worthington, Joel Edgerton of the 2011 boxing flick Warrior and Alister Grierson, who helmed 2011’s Sanctum. For the inaugural NYC edition, directors were asked to make a seven-minute film that incorporates our favorite local breakfast food: the bagel. The top 16 finalists will screen their entries outdoors and in front of a panel of industry bigwigs. Entertainer extraordinaire and host Hugh Jackman will then moderate as the insiders—including Rose Byrne (Bridesmaids), Judah Friedlander (30 Rock) and Film Society of Lincoln Center associate programming director Scott Foundas—choose Best Actor and Actress and award the grand-prize winner $20,000. Performances by singer-songwriters Alexi Murdoch and Doveman and Brooklyn band Milagres kick off the event. Bryant Park, Sixth Ave between 40th and 42nd Sts (tropfest.com/ny). 3–11pm; with reservation free.