MONO NO AWARE INC
302 Bedford Avenue 303, Brooklyn, NY 11249 mononoawarefilm.com

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Organizations Filed Purposes: 1. To Create a Community of Working Individuals of commensurate interests concerning cinema, its histories, its practices, its technologies and its possibilities. This is a community broadly appreciative of the cinematic art-form and its variant spanning generations. It is hoped that Mono No Aware will constitute a haven and a resource for the exploration, practice and preservation of the cinematic arts. 2. To offer affordable and accessible public workshops, lectures, seminars and film screening that foster an appreciation of the cinmatic experience, its importance in society and relationship to the visual culture. 3. To operate and maintain facilities that provide education and access to the necessary technologies and resources used in the practice of analog filmmaking, cinema, preservation and the study of its varying forms. 4. To promote and exhibit, in general, art forms with a cinematic sensibility that foster and admit a broad interconnectivity between human beings. 5. To introd

With our main mission of connectivity through cinema, MONO's goal is to to foster a community of individuals across various fields who are interested in creatively exploring the moving image or furthering its development as an art form.

Film Processing & Sales, Part of our mission is to support continued practice within the discipline of moving image arts. We do this through an equipment rentals program. Every tool learned through our educational initiatives is accessible outside of the classroom setting. The rates are very competitive, and in most cases we are the only entity renting this specialized equipment, Auricon Optical Sound recording camera, Underwater housing and camera for 16mm filmmaking, High-speed slow-motion camera capable of filming at speeds of 20,000 frames per second. To make this work, artists and filmmakers need the material of film in all its formats, Super 8mm, 16mm and 35mm film. We are the only distributor of moving image film in Brooklyn, we offer the film at list price, with no minimums. We are the nations first non-profit motion picture lab as noted by the NYTimes and the only motion picture lab in Brooklyn New York supporting the art form. In March of 2020 we launched a Film Care Package Initiative providing film material and lab services through the USPS with zero-contact to support over 400 artists whose prac- tice was affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Of the recipients who provided demographics, 51% identify as BIPOC, 37% identify as members of the LGBTQIA+ community and 40% identify as female. The work generated by this initiative is now coming to the surface through social media and online exhibition platforms. Mx. Felicita Felli Maynard (@photofelli) is a recipient of this support. They used the MONO issued Care Package to document their home and create a self portrait. These images were shared through their social media and re-posted through the MONO InstaGram account. Initially selling prints online to support themselves, later in this year Mx. Felicita offered to make archival prints of the images to raise funds for, Black Trans Travel Fund and For the Gworls under the #supportblackartists.

Equipment Access & Equipment Preservation

Workshops - MONO NO AWARE organizes affordable workshops in traditional filmmaking for the public. All ages, Accessible and open to the public, these instructional sessions are offered below hard cost thanks to partnerships, sponsorships and grant support. In 2020 we were able to offer 12 live in person workshops in Brooklyn to over 300 participants before the Covid-19 lock down. Through the Pandemic, we offered FREE streaming seminars, lecutres and demonstrations to thousands of viewers. The in-person workshop experience is all inclusive with film material, equipment access, developing and scanning lab services done in-house at our preservation lab, Online streaming sessions were offered for free with the option to donate for materials to be shipped with zero contact through the mail to our community members. At the end of each month, ALL the films premiere on film projected in a free screening program hosted by Anthology Film Archives which was postponed until the end of 2021. The films are available digitally through our Vimeo page where they are also archived. We teach off-site workshops as well, in 2020 we provided ZOOM learning sessions with Duke University, Lafayette College, Brooklyn College amongst many others. These initiatives foster an appreciation for the moving image art form.

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