Film
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MACHINE CINEMA The daylong Machinima Film Festival presents screenings of animated movies created using the software engines and imagery of video games. The technique, developed in the mid-1990s to let players of the game “Quake” memorialize their best moves, combines aspects of computer animation, game development, puppetry, graffiti, fan fiction, and improvisational theater. The festival offers screenings of current award-winning work, discussions with leading machinimators, new technology demonstrations, and panel discussions that examine the genre’s wider cultural, legal, and aesthetic ramifications. Saturday, 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, 718-784-0077, $10 general, $7.50 students and seniors, $5 children ages 5-18, free for members. For a complete schedule, go to www.movingimage.us.
INDEPENDENT WOMAN BAM cinematek honors the actress Gena Rowlands with a screening series, An Independent Spirit. This weekend, Ms. Rowlands introduces a screening of “Opening Night” (Saturday, 6 p.m.), in which she plays a troubled Broadway star. Like many of the films to be screened, it was directed by her husband, John Cassavetes. Ms. Rowlands’s son, Nick Cassavetes, directed her in “Unhook the Stars” (1996), in which she plays a woman unprepared for aging (Thursday, 7:30 p.m.). Series: Through Sunday, November 20, days and times vary, BAM Rose Cinemas, Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Ave., between St. Felix Street and Ashland Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, 718-636-4100, $10 general, $7 students, seniors, members, and children under 12. For a full schedule, go to www.bam.org.
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