The Brick & BrickFlix Present:
Container Film | Strange Woman | Madge Love
at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave
April 28, 2025
Doors 7PM, Screenings 7:30PM
Running Time: Screening 50 minutes, plus Q&A
BrickFlix invites you to an evening of experimental cinema that explores the act of containment—of memory and intimacy, —through film, theater, and poetic narration. Featuring Container Film by Dena Kopolovich, Strange Woman by Amina Gingold, and Madge Love by Genee Coreno, this screening highlights three works deeply invested in the ways stories are carried, framed, and experienced.
Though distinct in form, these films share a structural and thematic dialogue: both investigate how personal and collective histories are held within bodies, objects, and landscapes. Each work embraces theatricality, layering visual, textual, and sonic elements to construct immersive worlds where materiality and memory intertwine. These films embrace cinematography and editing to help shape their evocative visual language.
-About the Films-
Container Film (dir. Dena Kopolovich, 2024)
Container Film delves into the primal origins of storytelling. By contemplating the symbolism of carrying, this experimental short draws from a blend of anthropological, religious and artistic sources to offer a unique lens through which to access human history and experience.
Strange Woman (dir. Amina Gold, 2020)
DV, Color, Sound
A hypnotic meditation on memory and presence, Strange Woman moves through a series of visceral spheres where women exist in whispers, textures, and the echoes of untold stories. Secrets linger in the air, tingling sounds brush against the senses, and forgotten histories take on a tactile presence. Through a dreamlike interplay of sound and image, the film evokes the intangible—offering a sensory experience where the past is felt as much as it is seen.
Madge Love (dir. Genee Coreno, 2021)
Madge Love is an interactive theater-film hybrid created by Fringe and Fur, a theater company founded by writer and director Genée Coreno. The production combines lyrical monologues and voiceovers to narrate the story of two teenagers, Sissy and Madge, living in a small riverside town. Madge, who enjoys speaking French and keeping secrets, is deeply cherished by Sissy, who is willing to do anything to protect her. Together, they navigate life and love through a blend of fantasy and near-death experiences. The project was developed during Theater Mitu’s Artists-at-Home Residency and premiered at The Exponential Festival. It was presented as an interactive experience on the EKO platform, allowing audiences to engage with supplemental video content during the performance. The creative team included Dena Kopolovich (cinematography, animation, and editing), Kelsey Lurie (assistant director), Coco Walsh (sound), Arden Winant (voiceover direction), Cara Cinicone and Samm Lynch (stage managers), Lilja Owsley and Arden Winant (performers), Marika Kent (lighting design), and Emily Grecco and Marika Kent (set design). Madge Love received recognition for its innovative approach, including a review in The New York Times and the Best LGBTQ award at the Paris Film Festival. Special Thanks to Toney Brown, Leadership, Staff and Community at The Brick, Theresa Buchheister, Theatre Mitu, Nic Adams & the team at the Exponential Festival.
-About the Artists-
Genée Coreno (she/her) is the Artistic Director of WAM Theatre and Founder of Fringe and Fur. She is a director, theater-maker, and arts administrator dedicated to bold, socially engaged, cross-disciplinary storytelling. Selected Theatre Credits Elsewhere: The New York Times-reviewed Madge Love (Theater Mitu’s Artists at Home Residency & The Exponential Festival), described as “a good-looking production… about the connection between sex, violence, and female suffering at the hands of men.” The Hopelessly Hopeless Story of All Good Girls (The Brick Theater), Is This Clear Enough? (The Poetry Project), a workshop of Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party (Harlem Repertory), Dutchman by Amiri Baraka (UnUrban Cafe), The Future is in Eggs by Eugene Ionesco (A.R.T. NY workshop), and 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane (Purchase College). Additional Artistic Credits: Genée served as Company Manager for The Public Theater’s first national Mobile Unit tour of Sweat by Lynn Nottage, as well as for Twelfth Night (Under the Radar Festival, Mobile Unit) and the Brooklyn College Play Festival. Her company management work also includes projects with Big Dance Theater, such as Short Form (American Dance Institute, Fusebox, The Kitchen), This Page Left Intentionally Blank (Mass MoCA, CounterCurrent Festival), Cage Shuffle (American Realness Festival, Poet’s House), and 17c. (American Realness Festival). Other: Additionally, she worked in Development at Every Mother Counts, Artistic Associate and Line Producer for Ripe Time’s The World Is Round (BAM Fisher) and a Marketing Intern for Third Rail Projects’ Then She Fell (Art Mill Residency, Art@Renaissance). Selected Training: Genée holds an M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU and a B.A. in Drama Studies from Purchase College. She has trained with Theater Mitu, Song of the Goat, and SITI Company. Connect: www.fringeandfur.org
Dena Kopolovich (she/her) is a multimedia artist & filmmaker from New York. Her recent work uses past and present aesthetics to investigate the origins and continuity of meaning. She is interested in using cinematic forms to explore the derivation of instinctive human rituals & objects. In 2022-2023 Dena completed artist programs at The Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Center and LABA NYC. She is a teaching artist and community member of the cinema-arts non-profit Mono No Aware based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her education from the Purchase College Conservatory of Theater Arts and the Integrated Media Arts MFA program at Hunter College.
Amina Gingold is a photographer, filmmaker, and bookmaker based in New York, NY. Her work explores gut instincts, misremembering, and the complexities of uncovering the truth. She earned her BFA in Photography and Video from the School of Visual Arts and recently completed the one-year Matte Institute Free School of Photography (2023–2024). Her work has been shortlisted for the Palm Photo Prize (2022) and featured in Lenscratch. She has screened and exhibited at venues including Millennium Film Workshop, Bulegoa Z/B, Documenta Madrid, Mono No Aware, SoMad, Flat Earth Cinema, SVA Gramercy Gallery, and 10 14 Gallery. She has participated in artist residencies at Brooklyn Darkroom, WORTHLESSSTUDIOS, and is currently an artist-in-residence at Gowanus Darkroom.
BrickFlix, a periodic screening & performance series was created by Filmmaker/Two Boots owner Phil Hartman in January 2020. At BrickFlix, we bring together independent filmmakers, live performance, and food to create a vibrant art loving community. The series is currently programmed by Toney Brown (@toneymovies).
CW: nudity, SA, incest, violence, references to death
