Want a way to have your cake and eat it too? Well, the Brick Theater in Williamsburg is ready to give you a fork to dig in with because the progressive theater has kicked off it's Film Festival: A Theater Festival spectacle (May 30th to June 29th). This fest combines the best of both worlds by presenting work that incorporates both film and theater elements into one interactive, very cool package. There are films based on plays, there are performances that center around audience-particiaption and cell phone/iPod interaction, and just generally films that explore new mediums and break the boundaries of what the film going experience should be like. It's experimental film at its finest, and even touches on concepts discussed in a previous interview with filmmaker Elise Kermani on this very site. It looks like theatrical film is becoming more commonplace, eh?

Some films of [my] note include LOL (a non-scripted, nonprofessional look at man's submission to technology), Bring Me the Head of John Ford (a "one-man, one-act production that uses video projection and live performance to examine the effects of isolation"), Kill Me Like You Mean It, Suspcious Package (a noir piece that involves portable electronics used by audience members to drive the story), The Melon of the Sky, and A Paranoid's Guide to History.

You should go to their site for schedules of specific films and details of the festival.