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NOCTURMINAL A CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Nocturminal
Artists and Models #20
Saturday, June 2, 2007
9:00 pm to 2:00 am
Central Terminal
Buffalo, NY
In the past 19 incarnations of Hallwalls' Artists & Models Affair, a
multitude of Buffalo sites have served as the locus for temporary
artistic expressions and controlled insanity: the Broadway Market,
abandoned factories, warehouses, auto showrooms, roller rinks,
deserted downtown malls and department stores, the Tri-Main Center,
and the Buffalo Convention Center. This year's event—officially, the
20th version of A&M—will take place at none other than the Central
Terminal, architectural landmark, emblem of Buffalo's glorious past,
moniker for Buffalo's phoenix future. Visible from miles away, the
Central Terminal will, for one evening, become the hub for
NOCTURMINAL—a location, a state of being, a condition, an apparition,
a temporary psychosis, an inevitably...
Nocturminal embraces things, entities, animals and situations that
only occur at night.
Nocturminal blooms in darkness.
Nocturminal may lead us down the road to final demise—but what doesn't?
Nocturminal houses those with undeniable conditions and ailments.
Nocturminal could be the extreme point or limit of….something.
Nocturminal only lasts for a limited duration.
Nocturminal constitutes the end—but of what?
Nocturminal is the dark locus for ambiguous transportation—to and
from unknown realms.
Nocturminal is the shadowy conduit that transmits energy.
Hallwalls is currently accepting proposals from visual artists for
temporary one-night installations to be a featured element of
NOCTURMINAL. Only a limited number of installations will be included,
so preference will be given to the dynamic, the compelling, the
arresting, the creatively deranged, and the thematically-apt. Your
proposed installation may be dark—thematically or actually—or it could
glow in the dark. It's a big venue, so big proposals are encouraged.
Your proposal could include sculpture, painting, video, performance,
but whatever it is, it should be devised for maximum impact. It should
leave people wondering what hit them.
Your Nocturminal proposal should include:
1) your name, address, phone, email
2) a detailed description of your idea (max. 250 words) with any
accompanying photos/sketches
3) an indication of the minimum space required to realize your installation
4) a list of your technical/equipment needs (if any)
Proposals for roaming performative works will also be accepted.
Participating installation artists will receive an artist's fee to
offset expenses.
Participating artists will have between 5-7 days of installation time.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, March 16, 2007
Email submissions to BOTH:
John Massier, Visual Arts Curator, john@hallwalls.org
Carolyn Tennant, Media ArtsCurator, carolyn@hallwalls.org
OR mail submissions to BOTH:
John Massier, Visual Arts Curator
Carolyn Tennant, Media Arts Curator
341 Delaware Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14202
Call 716-854-1694 for more information.
SHORT FILMS BY BILL MORRISON
| REDCAT: MONDAY MARCH 5 @ 8:00 PM FILMFORUM: SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 7:00 PM |
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BILL MORRISON’S
THEATER OF DECAYING MEMORIES
in collaboration with Los Angeles Filmforum
Noted for his poetic reworking of decaying archival footage, the Alpert Award winner shows a selection of shorts, ranging from the early Footprints (1992) to The Highwater Trilogy (2006)—a collage of ancient newsreel footage of storms, floods and icebergs. The program also includes The Film of Her (1996), in which archival footage is reinterpreted through fictional elements to evoke “an unrequited celluloid romance”; Light Is Calling (2004), widely recognized as a masterpiece; the exhilaratingly rhythmical Outerborough (2005); the mysterious short fiction film Ghost Trip (2000); and the reconfigured narrative The Mesmerist (2003) (TRT: 105 min).
Mon Mar 5 | 8 pm | $8–6
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
In person: Bill Morrison
Program funded in part by a generous grant from The Herb Alpert Foundation.
There will be a screening of different shorts by Bill Morrison at LA Film Forum on Sunday, March 11.
see information below
“Over the past fifteen years, Bill Morrison has created a remarkable series of found-footage films that highlight the ravages of time and decay on the filmed image. These are as much celebrations of the sometimes-frightening beauty of decomposing film as laments for vanishing relics of cinema’s origin.” –Senses of Cinema
Detailed Program for Monday March 5 at REDCAT
Footprints
(1992, 6 min., b/w and color, 16mm)
The evolution of cinema as the evolution of modern man. Sound design by Jim Farmer.
The Film of Her
(1996, 12 min., b/w, 35mm)
Unseen films, and unsung lives: An unrequited celluloid romance is consummated in the vaults of the Library of Congress. And primitive cinema is saved from oblivion. Music by Henryk Gorecki and Bill Frisell.
Ghost Trip
(2000, 23 min., b/w, 35mm)
A man is shown his car, which he drives until it can be driven no more. Sound design by Michael Montes.
West Coast Premiere
The Mesmerist
(2003, 16 min., color, 35mm)
A melting revision of James Young’s The Bells (1926) starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff. Music by Bill Frisell.
West Coast Premiere
Light Is Calling
(2004, 8 min., color, 35mm)
”A contrastingly ecstatic film, in which bodies and movements dissolve in swirling waves of golden light, the film’s decay radiating as a glorious self-immolation.” – Senses of Cinema. Music by Bill Frisell.
Outerborough
(2005, 9.5 min., 35mm)
A trolley trip across the Brooklyn Bridge in 1899 becomes a unit for measuring time.
West Coast Premiere
The Highwater Trilogy
(2006, 31 min., 35mm)
i) Before I Enter
ii) How to Pray
iii) What We Build
Ancient newsreel footage of storms, floods and icebergs produce a combination of anxiety and awe when viewed in the wake of recent meteorological disasters.
Los Angeles Premiere
Born in Chicago, IL, November 17, 1965, Bill Morrison obtained a BFA from Cooper Union School of Art (NY) – where he studied with the animator Robert Breer in 1989. Eight of his titles are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (New York). His films have been screened at cinematheques, museums and concert halls worldwide, including BAM, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, MoMA, Anthology Film Archive (New York), the Hirshhorn Museum, the National Gallery of Art (Washington DC), the Tate Modern, Royal Festival Hall, the ICA (London England) and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires, Argentina), among others. They have accompanied live performances by The American Composers Orchestra, The Bang On A Can All-Stars, The Brooklyn Philharmonic, Bill Frisell, The London Sinfonietta, and Wilco.
Bill Morison has been invited to international film festivals such as Sundance, Tribeca, San Francisco, Margaret Mead Film Festival, Black Maria Film Festival, Rotterdam, the Viennale, Forum des Images in Paris and Cork Film Festival in Ireland. His projected set work with the acclaimed performance ensemble Ridge Theater has been recognized with two Bessie awards for excellence in theatrical design, and an Obie Award for collaborative design. Decasia, his feature length collaboration with composer Michael Gordon, has been performed live with a 55-piece orchestra surrounding audiences in Basel, at St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, and in Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Concert Hall. Morrison has received an Alpert Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, and an award from the Foundation for Contemporary Art, as well as production grants from Creative Capital, NYSCA, NYFA, and the NEA.
The on-line film journal Senses of Cinema is devoting two articles to Bill Morrison in issue No 42 (Oct-Dec 2006). Click on www.sensesofcinema.com
Filmography
Who By Water (2007)
The Highwater Trilogy (2006)
How To Pray (2006)
Outerborough (2005)
Gotham (2004)
Light Is Calling (2004)
The Mesmerist (2003)
East River (2003)
Decasia (2002)
Trinity (2000)
Ghost Trip (2000)
City Walk (1999)
Another Sky (1997)
The Film of Her (1996)
Nine Days North (1996)
Vigneti (1996)
Moda (1996)
Nemo (1995)
The World Is Round (1994)
The Death Train (1993)
Footprints (1992)
Photo Op (1992)
Lost Avenues (1991)
The Night Highway (1990)
REDCAT, CalArts’ downtown center for innovative visual, performing and media arts, is located at the corner of W. 2nd St. and S. Hope St., inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex. Tickets are $8 for the general public, $6 for students with valid ID. Seating is general admission. Tickets may be purchased at the REDCAT box office—located at the corner of 2nd and Hope Streets, or by calling 213.237.2800, or at www.redcat.org
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BILL MORRISON AT LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM
SUNDAY MARCH 11, 7:00 PM
At the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd at Las Palmas.
see: www.lafilmforum.org for ticket & venue information
Detailed Program
Photo Op
(1992, 5 min., b/w 16mm)
Small town news images and WWII newsreels are bracketed by footage of
the Desert Storm victory parade. Music by Conrad Cummings.
Trinity
(2000, 12 min, b/w, 35mm)
Reducing to discrete intervals that which remains elusive as a whole. Sound design by Michael Montes.
City Walk
(2003, 6 min, b/w, DVD)
A trip up Brooklyn’s Flatbush Avenue to Manhattan. Music by Michael
Gordon.
East River
(2003, 5 min., color, DVD)
A swim, by proxy.
Gotham
(2004, 25 min., DVD)
New York continually rebuilds itself on top of itself, layering over the past eras and ushering in newly minted ones. Music by Michael Gordon.
Porch
(2005, 9 min., DVD)
Summer evenings and lemonade
A time when the whole town knew each other and said "hello"
First came screens against the bugs
Then came glass against the chill
Then came walls against the winter
The street became so loud with cars and trucks
Passersby diminished
Inside there is air-conditioning and TV
Libretto by Deborah Artman, Music by Julia Wolfe
Who By Water
(2007, 18 min., DVD)
Ship passengers are depicted staring wordlessly into the camera’s
lens. All of their numbers have by now been called. And in staring
back at them, we contemplate our own fate. Music by Michael Gordon
In Person: Bill Morrison
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UPCOMING FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS AT REDCAT
WINTER-SPRING 2007
Thur-Sun Mar 8-11: Where Did Our Love Go?
A series of films directed by women organized in conjunction with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, on the occasion of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution.
Mon Mar 19: An Evening with Su Friedrich
Mon Apr 9: Kevin Jerome Everson: Cinnamon
Mon Apr 23: The Intimate Distance: A Tribute to Mark LaPore
Mon Apr 30: A Quest of Origins: Films by Larry Gottheim
Mon May 7: Danièle Huillet: The Last Resistance
Class Relations: Amerika
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Cool new website internship opportunity
http://cutlab.org/about.html
and I just noticed that they’re looking for interns. This would be a good place for our student’s involvement.
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Alternative film & video events of note - late February/early March
-- Flicker ATTACK! at the Echo Park Film Center, Feb 22 at 8 pm
-- The Los Angeles Abstract Movie Workshop will meet on Friday, March
2, at 7:30 pm at the Museum of Jurassic Technology
-- Screenings at the Echo Park Film Center
-- Italian director MARIO MONICELLI at the University of Southern
California, on Thursday, February 22nd at 6:00PM in Lucas 108
Details:
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Flicker ATTACK! at the Echo Park Film Center
Screening 17 Super 8 films made for the Attack in LA, Halifax NS, and
Adelaide Australia.
Each film was shot on one 50 foot cartridge of super 8 film.
The results are quite super!
Where? Echo Park Film Center - 1200 n. Alvarado
echoparkfilmcenter.org
When? Thursday, Feb 22 at 8pm
Who?
Steve Daniels ³The Flying Squirrel²
Amy Duncan ³Roots²
Kevin Sukho Lee "Karappo City Blues"
Tiffany Simms ³The Photo Shoot²
Megan Donovan and Stacy Kiehl "Jungle Jam"
David Palmer ³Clean²
Jonathan Daw ³The Seagull²
Joe Nankin ³RUSH²
John Cannizarro ³50 Feet that shook the world²
Erik Deutschman "Tea Time"
Eva Madden "maximum 50"
Norwood Cheek ³Re:Collections²
Kathleen Lawler ³DUEL²
Josh Greenbaum ³this is Howie Rowle²
Brenton Culshaw ³Far Trak²
Chris Wagganer "What Are Colors"
Meredith Jenks ³Ruffles Have Ridges²
Flickerla.com
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FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY!!!
The Los Angeles Abstract Movie Workshop will meet on Friday, March 2, at
7:30 pm
We'll meet at our usual place:
The Borzoi Kabinet Theater
Museum of Jurassic Technology
9341 Venice Blvd.
Culver City, CA
Bring your new works and works-in-progress. If you are planning to bring
work, especially if it's not on DVD, show up early to help set it up.
The Los Angeles Abstract Movie Workshop is for film and video artists
working in abstraction. We meet monthly to encourage and inspire the
creation of the Art. Modeled after writers' workshops, it is a time
when artists congregate to share new works and works-in-progress, and to
discuss goals, techniques, aesthetics and ideas. It is a forum for
constructive criticism, so check your egos at the door. Theory is part
of what happens at the workshops, but only as it folds into practice.
Bold claims must be backed up with action! Each attendee should be
engaged in the creation of works. (That's your homework!) If you are
not currently making Art... well, maybe the workshop can help you out!
* Try to feel comfortable showing works-in-progress, as the workshop is
not open to the public as a showcase.
* It is not a place to come to be adored.
* The workshop is not affiliated with any organization.
* Opinions expressed at the workshop are the sole responsibility of the
source.
* These workshops are for fun and inspiration; there's no obligation,
nothing to join.
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Echo Park Film Centre Screenings
Come watch a beautiful images dance upon a screen in your own
neighborhood. Shows begin promptly @ 8PM and are $5 (unless otherwise
noted).
1200 N. Alvarado (at Sunset)
www.echoparkfilmcenter.org
Thursday, March 1 – Black Dahlia – 8 PM
Not to be confused with Brian Di Palma's flop, this film by Ramzi Abed
is an unforgettable journey into the darkness and mystery of
Hollywood's most famous unsolved murder case. When the beautiful Lisa
Small (Kristen Kerr) gets the chance to play the tragic victim of the
crime, Elizabeth Short, an entire dream world awakens all around her.
All the while, a killer is on the loose collecting women and killing
them in time for the 60th anniversary of the original murder. [Note:
This show is not appropriate for those under 21.] FILMMAKER & CAST IN
ATTENDANCE!
Thursday, March 8 – All Things Celluloid – 8 PM
EPFC co-founder Ken Fountain presents 16mm & Super 8 oddities from our
private collection. Projected on film in all its glory
Thursday, March 15 – Experiments in Immediacy – 8 PM
East Coast video-maker and performance artist Julie Perini will
discuss and screen the results from her performance-video-mail
project, Experiments in Immediacy, an exploration of the concept of
"immediacy" in this mediated culture. To explore this concept, Julie
created a series of short videos documenting private immediate
moments. In her search for immediacy Julie broke various social
norms, engaged in public antics and left the camera on. FILMMAKER IN
ATTENDANCE.
Friday, March 16 – Political Film Night – 7 PM
The Union of Progressive Iranians presents an evening of riveting
political cinema and community discussion. This month's selection is
Darwin's Nightmare, a documentary by Hubert Sauper about humans
between the North and the South, about globalization, and about fish.
www.darwinsnightmare.com
Thursday, March 22 – Love Man Love Woman – 8 PM
This film by Nguyen Trinh Thi explores how effeminate and gay men in
highly conformist Vietnam find community and expression in the
country's popular Mother Goddess Religion, and how globalization is
changing their life. The filmmaker follows Master Luu Ngoc Duc, one of
the most prominent spirit mediums in Hanoi, and his vibrant community
through their rituals and everyday life. These men are called `dong
co' – meaning "princess spirit's mediums" - a term originated from the
indigenous religion that has come to be used generally in Vietnam to
refer to effeminate and gay men. FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE!
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The School of Cinematic Arts and Cinematheque 108 proudly welcome one
of Italy's most prolific filmmakers, MARIO MONICELLI, to the
University of Southern California, on Thursday, February 22nd at
6:00PM in Lucas 108.
Monicelli, whose remarkable career spans over six decades of Italian
cinema, will participate in a Q&A immediately following a screening of
his 1958 Academy Award®-nominated classic BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET
(I SOLITI IGNOTI), starring Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman,
Claudia Cardinale and legendary Italian comedian Totò.
Following the Q&A, Monicelli will be presented with an Outstanding
Achievement Award, commemorating and
celebrating a lifetime of profound and enduring contributions to
global cinema and culture.
Monicelli made his official debut as a director in 1949, with "Totò
cerca casa". His career includes some of the
masterpieces of Italian cinema, including "La Grande Guerra" (The
Great War), generally regarded as his finest work, for
which Monicellli was awarded a Golden Lion at the Venice Film
Festival, as well as an Academy Award® nomination for
Best Foreign Language Film in 1959. Monicelli received two additional
nominations for screenwriting with "I
compagni" (The Organizer) in 1965 and "Casanova '70" in 1966, followed
by another Best Foreign Language Film
nomination with "La ragazza con la pistola" (The Girl with the Gun) in
1969. Other key works include "L'Armata
Brancaleone" (1966), "Amici miei" (1975), "Un borghese piccolo
piccolo" (1977), and "Il Marchese del Grillo" (1981).
More than any other director, Monicelli is considered to be the great
auteur of the famed Commedia all'Italiana genre,
crystallizing the many trademark characteristics of this particularly
Italian form of black comedy and satire, which
lampoons the many hypocrisies of the church and state, the dangerously
outdated partriarchal social sturcture and the
egocentrism of the chauvanistic "Latin lover", elements that continue
to remain central to the representation of Italian
society.
Monicelli collaborated and sometimes launched all of the most
important Italian actors of the 20th century, including
Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti,
Claudia Cardinale, Anna Magnani, Giancarlo
Giannini, Stefania Sandrelli, Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren and Gian
Maria Volonté.
He received a Golden Lion for his Career at the 1991 Venice Film Festival.
This event is brought to you by Cinematheque 108 and by "Los Angeles,
Italia: The Italian Film, Fashion and Art Fest", a
week-long festival of free Italian film screenings at Grauman's
Chinese 6 Theatres from Sunday, Feb. 18th - Saturday,
Feb. 24th.
Wedding Videographer Needed
Do you know a student or friend (or yourself) that would video a wedding for a $500 fee? I have an alumna looking for someone. Let me know!
Many thanks,
Sarah
Sarah Russin
Director of Alumni Relations
Phone 310-665-6937
Email otisalum@otis.edu
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Artists and Models #20
Saturday, June 2, 2007
9:00 pm to 2:00 am
Central Terminal
Buffalo, NY
In the past 19 incarnations of Hallwalls' Artists & Models Affair, a
multitude of Buffalo sites have served as the locus for temporary
artistic expressions and controlled insanity: the Broadway Market,
abandoned factories, warehouses, auto showrooms, roller rinks,
deserted downtown malls and department stores, the Tri-Main Center,
and the Buffalo Convention Center. This year's event—officially, the
20th version of A&M—will take place at none other than the Central
Terminal, architectural landmark, emblem of Buffalo's glorious past,
moniker for Buffalo's phoenix future. Visible from miles away, the
Central Terminal will, for one evening, become the hub for
NOCTURMINAL—a location, a state of being, a condition, an apparition,
a temporary psychosis, an inevitably...
Nocturminal embraces things, entities, animals and situations that
only occur at night.
Nocturminal blooms in darkness.
Nocturminal may lead us down the road to final demise—but what doesn't?
Nocturminal houses those with undeniable conditions and ailments.
Nocturminal could be the extreme point or limit of….something.
Nocturminal only lasts for a limited duration.
Nocturminal constitutes the end—but of what?
Nocturminal is the dark locus for ambiguous transportation—to and
from unknown realms.
Nocturminal is the shadowy conduit that transmits energy.
Hallwalls is currently accepting proposals from visual artists for
temporary one-night installations to be a featured element of
NOCTURMINAL. Only a limited number of installations will be included,
so preference will be given to the dynamic, the compelling, the
arresting, the creatively deranged, and the thematically-apt. Your
proposed installation may be dark—thematically or actually—or it could
glow in the dark. It's a big venue, so big proposals are encouraged.
Your proposal could include sculpture, painting, video, performance,
but whatever it is, it should be devised for maximum impact. It should
leave people wondering what hit them.
Your Nocturminal proposal should include:
1) your name, address, phone, email
2) a detailed description of your idea (max. 250 words) with any
accompanying photos/sketches
3) an indication of the minimum space required to realize your installation
4) a list of your technical/equipment needs (if any)
Proposals for roaming performative works will also be accepted.
Participating installation artists will receive an artist's fee to
offset expenses.
Participating artists will have between 5-7 days of installation time.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, March 16, 2007
Email submissions to BOTH:
John Massier, Visual Arts Curator, john@hallwalls.org
Carolyn Tennant, Media ArtsCurator, carolyn@hallwalls.org
OR mail submissions to BOTH:
John Massier, Visual Arts Curator
Carolyn Tennant, Media Arts Curator
341 Delaware Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14202
Call 716-854-1694 for more information.
HALLWALLS CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER
341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202 www.hallwalls.org
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