The Rooftop Films 2009 Summer Series

A bike ride across the bridge to Manhattan and back takes the form of a love letter to Brooklyn.

Closing Weekend of Rooftop Films 2009 Summer Series. “New York Non-Fiction,” one of our long-standing most popular shows, at last begets a natural partner . . . or rival. With these short films, Brooklyn’s here to represent. It’s your borough. Take a look.

Presented outdoors at a solar energy center, this exciting documentary follows a young man’s quest to start a local business building solar panels in his homeland of Mali—the first of its kind in the sun drenched nation.

A subtly horrifying, naturalistic contemporary sci-fi dystopian film about an organ harvesting company, the media attention that surrounds it, and the banality of ethical squirrelliness.

Lured to space by the promise of action, adventure and glory, Coulier now battles space travel’s greatest obstacle: boredom. This sly comedy is kind of like Barbarella without the sex. captaincoulier.com

As we watch films in the open air one last weekend this year, this lovely experimental portrait explores the poetry of the sky, a space of fascination and contemplation. www.britfilms.com

Ecology and philosophy of children with sadness and humor.

Chop Off exposes the dark, fearful recesses of the human psyche by filming the body modification of performance artist R.K. Literally risking "life and limb," R.K.'s body is his medium, and amputation is his art. The very act of filming him often stimulates a cascading range of emotions, from disgust to fear to dread.

Tracing cement from its birth deep in the bowels of the earth, this visual essay provides a fresh look at an element of our world that is so ubiquitous we almost don't see it.