Upcoming Screenings of FROM DEEP

YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS (San Francisco)
Part of the series BASKETBALL JONES: HOOPS ON SCREEN
7:30pm Thursday, May 14, 2015
http://www.ybca.org

YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY (Youngstown, OH)
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
http://www.ysu.edu

HALLWALLS CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER (Buffalo)
7pm Tuesday, April 7, 2015
http://www.hallwalls.org

3S ARTSPACE (Portsmouth, NH)
8pm Saturday, April 4, 205
http://www.3sarts.org

CAL ARTS (Valencia, CA)
Presented by The Collective
4pm Thursday, February 19, 2015
http://calarts.edu

CINEMATHEQUE QUEBECOISE (Montreal)
7pm Thursday, February 12, 2015
http://www.cinematheque.qc.ca

WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Columbus, OH)
7pm Tuesday, January 20, 2015
http://wexarts.org/film-video/deep

NYC Premiere!
UNIONDOCS CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY ARTS (Brooklyn, NY)
7:30pm Saturday & Sunday, January 10 & 11, 2015
http://www.uniondocs.org

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY (Syracuse, NY)
2pm Tuesday, November 18 (FREE)
@ Shaffer Art Building, Shemin Auditorium
http://vpa.syr.edu/transmedia

3 RIVERS FILM FESTIVAL (Pittsburgh, PA)
2pm, Sunday, November 16 (FREE)
@ Braddock Carnegie Library Gym, pick-up basketball to follow!
http://3rff.com

OBERLIN COLLEGE (Oberlin, OH)
7pm, Monday, November 10 (FREE)
@ Dye Lecture Hall, 119 Woodland Street
http://calendar.oberlin.edu

ANTIMATTER FILM FESTIVAL (Victoria, BC)
9pm, Thursday, October 30
@ Deluge Contemporary Art, 636 Yates Street
http://antimatter.ws

West Coast Premiere!
OTHER CINEMA (San Francisco)
8:30pm Saturday, October 25
@ Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street
http://www.othercinema.com/calendar/index.html

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE 
7pm Monday, October 7 (FREE)
@ Union Theatre, Peck School of the Arts
http://psoacal.uwm.edu/?tribe_events=brett-kashmeres-from-deep

VIA FESTIVAL OF MUSIC & NEW MEDIA (Pittsburgh, PA)
7pm Thursday, October 2
@ Row House Cinema, 4115 Butler Street
http://via2014.com/people/screening-from-deep

International Premiere!
MILANO FILM FESTIVAL (Milano, Italy)
September 4-14
http://bit.ly/1urB4Rp

NOTHING TO SEE HERE (Denver, CO)
8pm Saturday, August 16
@ The Sidewinder, 4485 Logan Street
http://www.nothingto-seehere.com/from-deep
In connection with GAME CHANGER exhibition at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, which includes artwork by Brett Kashmere, Catherine Opie, Kehinde Wiley, and others.

Western Canadian Premiere!
GIMLI FILM FESTIVAL (Gimli, Manitoba)
2pm Sunday, July 27
@ Lady of the Lake Theatre
http://www.gimlifilm.com/films-archive/2014/from-deep

FROM DEEP featured in Pittsburgh City Paper

Brett Kashmere's new film From Deep examines basketball, race, hip hop and popular culture 

"One of the goals I had was to present both sides of the sport: the entertainment spectacle and the everyday game."

By Al Hoff

The provocative new docu-essay FROM DEEP – Pittsburgh-based director Brett Kashmere likens it to a mixtape, combining professional basketball, street ball, hip hop, fashion, race and popular culture – makes its Pittsburgh premiere this week. Kashmere talked to CP via email about some of the issues of race and basketball that the film raises.

Read the interview here: http://bit.ly/1o9kQfZ

FROM DEEP World + Canadian Premieres, March-April

World Premiere!
ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL
5pm Saturday, March 29
@ Michigan Theater (Main Auditorium)
http://aafilmfest.org/52/events/from_deep

Canadian Premiere + Closing Night Film!
IMAGES FESTIVAL (Toronto, ON)
9pm Saturday, April 19
@ Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario
http://www.imagesfestival.com/calendar.php?event_id=1265&month=n

Artist Talk: Jennifer Chan + Brett Kashmere 
IMAGES FESTIVAL (Toronto, ON)
3pm Thursday, April 17 @ 401 Richmond Street Bldg
http://www.imagesfestival.com/calendar.php?event_id=1244&month=n


From the IMAGES FESTIVAL catalogue:

Brett Kashmere’s cultural history of basketball is woven together from hundreds of clips from movies, music videos, television and video games alongside his own footage of neighborhood street and playground games. Shifting, as Kashmere describes it, “between essay and mixtape,” the film balances exhaustive research with immensely entertaining pop culture source material. The film traces the game’s evolution from its invention in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891 (by Canadian expat James Naismith) through its transformation to the urban game it is today. Kashmere ties this history to his own – growing up as a white kid in the Canadian Prairies, an outsider to the sport but one drawn to the culture surrounding the game.

At the film’s centre is the parallel ascent of hip hop and basketball in the 1980s highlighted in songs like Kurtis Blow’s Basketball and Run-DMC’s My Adidas. Kashmere traces these threads as independent yet symbiotic cultural phenomena, as forces that have shaped American life today, as windows through which we can perceive American society. From Deep is both an appreciation of the game, its history and aesthetics and an incisive analysis of its culture–ranging from the economic system of star players as commodities and brands to the complexities of race in the game’s popularity and marketing and the tremendous influence of the game on so many facets of American life in the last generation.