The 30th Annual New Jersey International Film Festival

Schedule:

In-Person Only at 7:00 p.m.

Mike Kovacs Audio-Visual Concert
We have started a new concert series with a moving image component as part of our Film Festivals with the hope of reawakening the mostly dormant New Brunswick Music Scene. On September 15, 2023, guitar virtuoso Tim Motzer performed to an experimental film. That was the first true audio-visual concert we put on. Acclaimed singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler also did an amazing concert with her own movie projections on June 15, 2024. Noise-Ambient musician Jim Haynes came from California and did a concert on October 18, 2024 with accompanying projections of experimental films by Marjorie Conrad, Anita LaBelle and Al Nigrin. On February 21, 2025, acclaimed singer-songwriter Renee Maskin did an audio-visual concert to videos created by Al Nigrin. On June 13, 2025, Mike Kovacs will do an audio-visual concert as well supported by Chris Zadravec on cello as well as Mary Ann Wilson, Dottie Gallop, and Dorothy Dobkowski on back-up vocals. Mike Kovacs is a guitarist, composer, teacher, and multimedia artist born, raised, and working in Central New Jersey. His first multimedia work, "sacred/dirty katie" debuted in New Brunswick in the Summer of 1995. His collaboration with New Jersey artist Vladimir Aituganov, "crescendo", debuted at the Ukrainian Institute in NYC in February of 2004. Following the death of dear friend and bandmate, he returned to music and film with a video for his song "Someday beautiful" and the multimedia rock opera, "After the Valentines" which debuted at The George St Playhouse in the summer of 2009 and in NYC at the NYC Poetry Club in late November of 2010. He then formed the spoken word and music ensemble, "The Fractal Ensemble" playing the NYC Poetry Festival two years in a row, as well as a sold-out benefit show with spoken work legend Buddy Wakefield in Jersey City in February of 2015. Presently he is working on another multimedia project and will be debuting a new piece featuring dancer/choreographer Josie Coyoc who spent many years dancing with both the Bill T Jones and Pilobolus dance companies.

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