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NEOKAST 

It is my pleasure to keep you in the loop with each exciting new phase of Neokast. For those of you who aren't too familiar with the company, please take a moment to read the announcement below and feel free to contact me with any questions or ideas you may have. Neokast Productions is currently looking for video works to contribute to the foundation of the next generation media distribution network on the Internet.




NEOKAST Productions Call for Submissions - April 8th, 2007

Neokast is the next generation media distribution network on the Internet. Neokast offers a fully automated, deployable, user-generated, real-time streaming broadcast platform. Through its unrivaled capacity to cheaply and easily broadcast live media content in any level of quality, including HD, Neokast will be the most powerful video distribution service ever offered. Neokast gives anybody the opportunity to become a professional content provider by streaming continuous live videos to an unlimited number of viewers, free of charge.

We are currently looking for the following categories of films to contribute to the growth of this revolutionary film outlet: Narrative Feature, Narrative Short, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, Animated Short, Experimental Short, Video Art, and Music Video. We are also open to other categories that are out there, or ones that you may invent.

Neokast is designed for Independent filmmakers who want to share their work with a global audience on a high quality player for free. Filmmakers also have the option to charge admission to viewers.

Neokast Productions LLC is a division of Neokast focused on outreach and sponsorships to help independent filmmakers like you to get high quality exposure of your films and guidance through self-distribution. Take advantage of the endless opportunities that Neokast can provide by creating your own online video network! If you have questions about ways to generate revenue with Neokast, or if you want to learn more about getting your work on the Neokast Media Network, please email sara@neokast.com. You can also check out the Neokast blog for news, updates and how to sign up for beta testing here.

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Sara Mora Ivicevich
SaraMora Productions
President, NEOKAST Productions LLC
419 N. Larchmont Blvd. #246
Los Angeles CA 90004
310.500.7272


MAK Center Seeking Getty Foundation Multicultural Summer Intern 

Please pass this posting along to any qualified undergraduate students who might be interested in a paid internship at the MAK Center this summer. The deadline for applications is May 4th.

Getty Foundation Multicultural Summer Internship at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture


The MAK Center is currently accepting applications for a unique summer internship sponsored by the Getty Foundation at this international exhibition space for art and architecture located in West Hollywood.

The Getty internships are designed to increase diversity in professions related to the visual arts and are intended for outstanding students who are members of groups currently underrepresented in these professions: individuals of African American, Asian, Latino/Hispanic/Chicano, Native American and Pacific Islander descent. In addition, the candidate must be a currently enrolled undergraduate having completed at least one semester of college by June 2007. S/he will not graduate before December 2007, and s/he must be a resident of or attend college in Los Angeles County.

The internship is a full-time, consecutive 10-week position beginning no earlier than June 4, 2007 and ending no later than August 24, 2007. Salary for the entire 10-week period is $3,500. The intern will be required to attend meetings and events sponsored by the Getty Foundation and to submit a report to the Foundation at the end of the 10-week period. The MAK Center’s office hours are 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Interns will be expected to work some evenings and weekends for special events but will receive compensatory time off.

MAK Public Programs/Communications Intern

Based at the historic Schindler House in West Hollywood and the Mackey Apartments in the Mid-Wilshire district, an intern will join the MAK Center staff to tend to the general daily operations of the Center and assist the
Director and Program Coordinators with production of summer programs and planning for fall programs. Preparations for fall include planning for the Final Projects exhibition for the international artists and architects in residence, planning the fall exhibition of work by artist Victor Burgin, and organizing the annual architecture tour of modernist homes and buildings. The intern will participate in assessing the needs of the organizers and contributing to these summer events, and will interact with the artists and architects in residence.

On a daily basis the intern will work to gather and disseminate materials for press releases, communicate with volunteers, assist with event execution, and prepare reports. They will also assist in updating and maintaining the MAK Center archive, an extensive collection of materials documenting all of the creative output of the MAK Center. The intern will assist in the organization of the archive materials both digitally and physically. Other duties will include responding to phone calls, emails and other communications; handling admissions and book sales and assisting staff with special projects.

The ideal candidate should posses more than a general knowledge of art and/or architecture. Good communication, written and verbal skills are necessary for dealing with a diverse population, as is a flexible schedule and an interest in all aspects of event planning from project development to site set-up and clean-up. An aptitude in Macintosh computers is required (with a solid working knowledge of such programs as FileMaker Pro, Microsoft Office and Photoshop), as are organizational skills and a good attitude.

Please visit www.makcenter.org
http://www.makcenter.org for more
information on the MAK Center.

To apply: Please submit a resume, cover letter explaining how you meet the requirements for the position, and two letters of recommendation or contact information for two references to Mary More:

MAK Center for Art and Architecture
835 N. Kings Road
West Hollywood
California 90069
mmore@makcenter.org
323 651 1510 phone
323 651 2340 fax

Selected applicants will be contacted for an interview.

Deadline: Friday, May 4, 2007


Please note that students who have previously served as Getty multicultural summer interns at the MAK Center or who have served as such at more than one other organization are not eligible for consideration. Staff members and relatives of board members are not eligible for these internships.

-- MAK Center for Art and Architecture
at the Schindler House
835 North Kings Road
West Hollywood, CA 90069
323 651 1510 phone
323 651 2340 fax
visit: www.MAKcenter.org
contact: office@makcenter.org

LARRY GOTTHEIM AT LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM 



At the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd at Las Palmas.

see: www.lafilmforum.org for ticket & venue information

The program will include:

Tree of KnowledgeElective Affinities IV
(1981, 16 mm, 58 min.)
It started with filming the tree. Something was released in that manner of filming seemingly farthest removed from the procedure of the early films. I first thought a simple ordering of this rich material might be enough... But the essential feelings and meanings of that filming held themselves back. So I pursued sounds of comparable texture and richness, from which material the 'deaf bar"… and stockyard sounds… attached themselves to the work. But the film only came into its form-life with the idea of linking this deep-rooted and far-outreaching tree material with that film on paranoia that had fascinated me for many years. – L. G.

Machete/Gillette ... Mama
(1989, 16mm, 45 min.)

Rapid, disjunctive images and sounds from aspects of life in the Dominican Republic - a film dealing with representation itself, within ritual, within cinema, within history, within narrating. The title is a Dominican song, based on a Haitian song, meaning a razor-sharp machete; it is… a complex metaphor within the cultures from which it comes, but also within the film, extending my longstanding interest in edges, borders, horizons, into material of documentary [nature]. – LG

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TWO PROGRAMS OF FILMS BY LARRY GOTTHEIM, LA FILMFORUM, SUNDAY APRIL 29 AND REDCAT MONDAY APRIL 30 


FILM AT REDCAT PRESENTS

A Quest of Origins:
Films by Larry Gottheim
in collaboration with Los Angeles Filmforum



Mon Apr 30 | 8 pm | $8–6
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series

This program surveys the trailblazing career of one of America’s foremost avant-garde masters. Best known for the cycle Elective Affinities, a series of four feature-length films started in the early 1970s and completed in 1981, Gottheim has carried out an absorbing exploration of the relationship of images to sound and time, examined issues of racial, cultural and personal identity, and considered the theme of nature in art. He is also the founder of the influential Department of Cinema Studies at SUNY Binghamton

In person: Larry Gottheim

Gottheim's Cinema is a quest of origins. The films elaborate a response to the fictions of our world, the construction of images and sounds, the repeating cycles of life and nature. The profoundness of Gottheim’s art is to elaborate a body of work outside of fashion and within a search for an authentic language of cinematic discourse.”– John Hanhardt

[There will be a screening of different films by Larry Gottheim at LA Film Forum on Sunday, April 29
– see information below].

Detailed Program for Monday April 30 at REDCAT

Blues (1969, 8 ½ min., silent, 16mm, 16fps.)
A bowl of blueberries in milk, changing light radiant on the berries and on the glazed bowl, the ever more radiant orb of milk transforming into glowing light itself, with a brief shadow coda answering the complex play of shadows. The regular pulses of light framing the looser rhythmus of the spoon, itself a frame. A charging of each of the frame's edges with its own particular energy. Within and without, whites and blues, lines and curves. The pulses of vision, the simple natural processes, lift the spirit. – L. G.

Mouches Volantes – Elective Affinities, Part II
(1976, 69 min., color and b&w, sound, 16mm)
Elective Affinities is a series of four feature-length films Gottheim started in the early 1970s and completed in 1981 with Tree of Knowledge; the series explores not only images and their relationship to sound and time (a recurring theme in his work), they also examine issues such as family, psychology, education, freedom, and the theme of nature in art.
In Mouches Volantes… three elements… were brought together: the suggestive title….; a narration by Angelina Johnson of the story of the life of her husband, Blind Willie Johnson; and groups of visual material, light fragments from my own personal world of occupations…. As in all my films, the basic processes of cinema, the exposing of film stock to light, here the stringing together of linear patterns of sound and image, become metaphors, embodiments of acts of coming to feel, coming to know. – L. G

Mnemosyne Mother of Muses
(1986, 18 min., 16mm)
A mirrored form in counter-movement, dense with emotion-charged memory - a rapidly sparking dynamism of image and afterimage, swirling resonant words/music, juxtaposing loss, my father's stroke, Toscanini, Siodmak's The Killers, the Red Robin Diner…. I seem to be quickening. – LG

Your Television Traveler
(1991, 17 min., 16mm)
The history of space, the place of mystery, the mystery of trace, the space of history.—L.G.

The Opening
(2005, 8 min., video)
(excerpt from Chants & Dances for Hand, work-in-progress)
This is the first section to be released from a large work constructed from material made in Haiti, mostly on Hi-8 video. Hand is my son. He’s now 12. The initial production was partially supported by a grant from the Jerome Foundation. My venture in Haiti was to some extent inspired by Maya Deren. I was searching for traditional forms that related to the structures of my previous films. And something else.—L.G.

Born 1936, Larry Gottheim taught himself 16mm filmmaking in the 1960s and became one of America’s leading avant-garde filmmakers. From his late-1960s series of sublime “single-shot” films to the dense sound/image constructs of the mid-1970s and after, his cinema is the cinema of presence, of observation, and of deep conscious engagement. While addressing genres of landscape, diary and assemblage filmmaking, Gottheim’s work properly stands alone in its intensive investigations of the paradoxes between direct, sensual experience in collision with complex structures of repetition, anticipation and memory.
Gottheim developed the Department of Cinema in Binghamton, N.Y. and taught there for more than three decades. This extremely influential department attracted the most talented artists, academics, and filmmakers of the day including Ken Jacobs, Hollis Frampton, Peter Kubelka, and Ernie Gehr among many others. In the 1990’s Gottheim has also served for a brief time as director of the Filmmaker’s Co-op in New York.
Larry Gottheim’s films are in the collections of museums and archives throughout the world, and a program of his restored early films premiered at the 2005 New York Film Festival.

Filmography

First Period: Blues (1969)
Corn(1970)
Fog Line (1970)
Doorway (1970)
Thought (1970, re-titled 1980)
Harmonica (1971)
Barn Rushes (1971)
Second Period: “Elective Affinities”
Horizons (1971-73)
Mouches Volantes (1976)
Four Shadows (1978)
Tree of Knowledge (1980)
Third Period: Natural Selection (1983)
“Sorry/Hear Us” (1984)
Fourth Period:
Mnemosyne Mother of Muses (1986)
The Red Thread (1987)
Machete/Gillette ... Mama (1989)
Your Television Traveler (1991)
Fifth Period: gathering material in Haiti for a long video project, Chants and Dances for Hand (1991-now)

The Jack H. Skirball Screening Series is curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud
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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Nam June Paik exhibition at AndrewShire Gallery 

Nam June Paik
Selected Works
April 21–May 12, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 21, 6–8:30PM

ANDREWSHIRE GALLERY
3850 Wilshire Blvd #107, Los Angeles, CA 90010
Director, John Souza
213-389-2601
E-mail,
souza@andrewshiregallery.com
Web site, http://www.andrewshiregallery.com

Hours, Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm
Please direct e-mail inquiries about the exhibition to the gallery’s address (above); DO NOT use “Reply” button, it will send to ArtScene.
To view formatted version of this announcement online:
http://artscenecal.com/Announcements/0407/AndrewShire0407.html


Chapter One Is Better Than Chapter Eleven
1988 / 1990, antique television cabinet, acrylic paint, glass, phonograph horn, 20” GE television, 9” Zenith television, Sony Watchman television, Laser Disk player Model # MDP33, original Paik laser disk
TV Tulip (computerized one hundred flowers)
1998, ink jet prints (100 different images) each 32 x 42 cm, on paper rolls, affixed to the wall, and antique television console. Installation size according to the wall, TV's vary in model (dating from the 30's to 50's) and dimensions; installation size according to the wall. Limited to 15 installations, signed and numbered certificate

AndrewShire Gallery presents NAM JUNE PAIK: Selected Works, an exhibition of artworks by Korean-American artist Nam June Paik whose video art objects and installations offer a glimpse into the life of one of our most treasured artists. Considered the “father of video art” by some, Paik was a composer, performance artist and member of the legendary sixties neo-Dada international avant-garde Fluxus movement and the Happening scene in New York.

The exhibition will consist of a wall-sized installation of 100 images of tulips transformed into wallpaper editions with a vintage television set, plus video-based works and multiples constructed from laserdiscs, CDs, vinyl recordings and other found objects. Black and white photographs by Lim Young Kyun who documented Nam June Paik’s performances, events and activities for twenty years will also be shown.

Nam June Paik died on January 29, 2006. His presence lingers in the surprising array of ideas and artworks he left behind. These works signal the contribution the artist made to contemporary art and culture. Paik’s often whimsical compositions, video-objects and installations are studied portraits wherein the artist himself seems to look out across the distance from the work to a point inside each of us. These artworks, already held in preservation, are perpetually connected to us while appearing suspended in time due to their vintage look. They serve as elucidations in which the artist and his countless viewers are portrayed and linked even as their mutual search for meaning is in flight. In his absence, Paik somehow still lives out the revelations he experienced in the bounds of the work which endlessly reproduces his era and his vision.

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Curator Lecture Notes On-Line 

Dear Friends,

Wow. Evidently, we struck a nerve...

Nearly 100 artists showed up @ Armory Northwest on Wednesday evening
to hear SIXSPACE owner Caryn Coleman talk about "What Do Curators
Want?"

We've received MANY emails from artists who couldn't make it (many,
many emails). So, by popular demand, we've posted Caryn's lecture
notes on line:

http://www.sidestreet.org/gallery_hints.pdf

This is probably the most honest and pretense-free two pages you're
ever going to see on this topic.

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**UPCOMING FREE LECTURES FOR ARTISTS**

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> Copyrights & Contracts for Individual Artists (with Sarah Conley)
Wednesday, May 2nd (7-9pm @ Armory Northwest)

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> Grantwriting & Proposals for Individual Artists (with Judith Teitelman)
Wednesday, May 16th (7-9pm @ Armory Northwest)

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Side Street Projects is a 501(c)(3) non-profit visual arts organization.
All donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

Become a member now: http://sidestreet.org/membership

:: Mailing Address ::
Side Street Projects
c/o The Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103

:: Headquarters ::
@ Armory Northwest/965
965 North Fair Oaks Avenue
(Just north of the 210 Freeway @ Mountain Ave)
Pasadena, CA

:: Contact ::
(626) 798-7774
(626) 798-7747 (fax)
http://www.sidestreet.org


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FREEWAVES is offering two paid internships for undergraduates 

FREEWAVES Multicultural Undergraduate Summer Internships 2007 are for 2 positions, Web/Archive Intern and Administrative/Marketing Intern, both for 10-weeks, full-time, $3,500 gross salary. The central project will be setting up next festival on Hollywood Blvd. !!!

In accordance with The Getty Grant Program, candidates must be:

* members of underrepresented groups, particularly individuals of African American, Asian, Latino/Hispanic, Native American, and Pacific Islander descent;

* currently enrolled as undergraduates, who will have completed at least one semester of college by June 2007, and will not graduate before December 2007;

* residents of or attending college in Los Angeles County. Students who have previously served as interns for this program more than twice are not
eligible for this internship.

*****

Overview: From mid-June through mid-August, The Getty Multicultural Undergraduate Interns will undertake a variety of tasks, all entailing a high degree of computer literacy. All of the tasks will be part of Freewaves long time initiative to disseminate the new media arts.


Location: Both internships are located at Freewaves' Office at LACE (6522 Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood CA)

Administrative/Marketing Intern



Administrative/Marketing Intern Responsibilities: Provides program support on fundraising, 2008 festival planning, web site and marketing projects.
- Research (online and via phone).
- Image and video compression.
- Online marketing and optimization of Freewaves' web page.
- Developing, editing and preparing documentation (artist bios and info, correspondence, press announcements, information summaries, fundraising materials).
- Database maintenance (admin, video archive and PR).


Requirements for Administrative/Marketing Intern:
- Good writing skills
- Detail oriented, accurate, and thorough.
- Knowledge of media arts preferable.
- Good computer skills (will need to use/learn Word, FileMaker, Photoshop, the internet and possibly Dreamweaver).
- Ability to work in a small, busy office with concentration.
- Ability to work independently.

Web/Archive Intern



Web/Archive Intern Responsibilities: Projects relate to both the existing Freewaves web site as well enhancements planned for 2007:
- Assist with the restructuring of the Freewaves website from an online festival venue to a media arts archive.
- Work with Freewaves staff, technical advisors, programmer and designer to develop enhanced site pages and perform technical troubleshooting.
- Assist with site documentation.
- Compress artist videos.
- Prepare images.
- Produce written and visual materials for web site and related marketing efforts.
Requirements for Web/Archive Intern:
- Knowledge of html, Dreamweaver and Flash preferred.
- Ability to code highly desirable though not required. (Java, Javascript, My SQL and/or PHP).
- Good writing and communication skills.
- Ability to work diplomatically in a team environment (in meetings, via email and on the phone).
- Detail oriented, accurate, and thorough including ability to troubleshoot own work for errors and functionality.
- Knowledge of media arts preferable.
- Knowledge of both Mac and PC environments required.
- Ability to work independently.




Freewaves strives to offer summer interns practical work experience and a range of assignments. Interns will be trained by and work under the supervision of Freewaves Director Anne Bray and Assistant Director Charlene Boehne.
In past years, Freewaves interns have developed skills in numerous software programs including:
- Filemaker
- Dreamweaver/HTML
- Excel and Word (advanced features)
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Video compression programs

How to Apply for this Internship:

First familiarize yourself with areas within Freewaves’ web site. If the
site and Freewaves interests you, forward a resumé and cover letter explaining reasons for interest and addressing how you meet the eligibility guidelines for the internship set by the Getty. If you are applying for the web/archive internship, please send us url’s of your work (sites designed or worked on). We will start interviewing in late April, and will contact you for an appointment if we are interested.

Email your application materials to:
Charlene Boehne - Assistant Director, at charlene@freewaves.org
<mailto:charlene@freewaves.org>
By Wednesday April 25, 2007.

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Freewaves' at LACE
6522 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
www.freewaves.org

an online media arts magnet

FREEWAVES is offering two paid internships for undergraduates 

FREEWAVES Multicultural Undergraduate Summer Internships 2007 are for 2 positions, Web/Archive Intern and Administrative/Marketing Intern, both for 10-weeks, full-time, $3,500 gross salary. The central project will be setting up next festival on Hollywood Blvd. !!!

In accordance with The Getty Grant Program, candidates must be:

* members of underrepresented groups, particularly individuals of African American, Asian, Latino/Hispanic, Native American, and Pacific Islander descent;

* currently enrolled as undergraduates, who will have completed at least one semester of college by June 2007, and will not graduate before December 2007;

* residents of or attending college in Los Angeles County. Students who have previously served as interns for this program more than twice are not
eligible for this internship.

*****

Overview: From mid-June through mid-August, The Getty Multicultural Undergraduate Interns will undertake a variety of tasks, all entailing a high degree of computer literacy. All of the tasks will be part of Freewaves long time initiative to disseminate the new media arts.


Location: Both internships are located at Freewaves' Office at LACE (6522 Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood CA)

Administrative/Marketing Intern



Administrative/Marketing Intern Responsibilities: Provides program support on fundraising, 2008 festival planning, web site and marketing projects.
- Research (online and via phone).
- Image and video compression.
- Online marketing and optimization of Freewaves' web page.
- Developing, editing and preparing documentation (artist bios and info, correspondence, press announcements, information summaries, fundraising materials).
- Database maintenance (admin, video archive and PR).


Requirements for Administrative/Marketing Intern:
- Good writing skills
- Detail oriented, accurate, and thorough.
- Knowledge of media arts preferable.
- Good computer skills (will need to use/learn Word, FileMaker, Photoshop, the internet and possibly Dreamweaver).
- Ability to work in a small, busy office with concentration.
- Ability to work independently.

Web/Archive Intern



Web/Archive Intern Responsibilities: Projects relate to both the existing Freewaves web site as well enhancements planned for 2007:
- Assist with the restructuring of the Freewaves website from an online festival venue to a media arts archive.
- Work with Freewaves staff, technical advisors, programmer and designer to develop enhanced site pages and perform technical troubleshooting.
- Assist with site documentation.
- Compress artist videos.
- Prepare images.
- Produce written and visual materials for web site and related marketing efforts.
Requirements for Web/Archive Intern:
- Knowledge of html, Dreamweaver and Flash preferred.
- Ability to code highly desirable though not required. (Java, Javascript, My SQL and/or PHP).
- Good writing and communication skills.
- Ability to work diplomatically in a team environment (in meetings, via email and on the phone).
- Detail oriented, accurate, and thorough including ability to troubleshoot own work for errors and functionality.
- Knowledge of media arts preferable.
- Knowledge of both Mac and PC environments required.
- Ability to work independently.




Freewaves strives to offer summer interns practical work experience and a range of assignments. Interns will be trained by and work under the supervision of Freewaves Director Anne Bray and Assistant Director Charlene Boehne.
In past years, Freewaves interns have developed skills in numerous software programs including:
- Filemaker
- Dreamweaver/HTML
- Excel and Word (advanced features)
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Video compression programs

How to Apply for this Internship:

First familiarize yourself with areas within Freewaves’ web site. If the
site and Freewaves interests you, forward a resumé and cover letter explaining reasons for interest and addressing how you meet the eligibility guidelines for the internship set by the Getty. If you are applying for the web/archive internship, please send us url’s of your work (sites designed or worked on). We will start interviewing in late April, and will contact you for an appointment if we are interested.

Email your application materials to:
Charlene Boehne - Assistant Director, at charlene@freewaves.org
<mailto:charlene@freewaves.org>
By Wednesday April 25, 2007.

What Do Curators Want? 

Side Street Projects Presents:

What Do Curators Want?
An Evening with Caryn Coleman

So, how DO you approach curators and galleries without shooting
yourself in the foot in the process? Caryn Coleman, owner of Culver
City's highly-successful sixspace gallery and editor of
art.blogging.la, will give you some practical advice on this topic at
free, public presentation on April 18th. This is an invaluable
opportunity for artists to get some really useful information on a
delicate subject that is rarely discussed in a casual, open forum
like this. A light reception will precede and follow. This event is
free and open to the public. Donations are appreciated.

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Date:
Wednesday, April 18th

Time:
7pm-9pm (doors open @ 6:30)

Location:
Armory Northwest
965 North Fair Oaks Ave
Pasadena, 91103

Parking:
FREE & plentiful

For complete details, visit:
http://www.sidestreet.org/services/

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Side Street Projects' Meet the Experts Public Lecture Series is made
possible by a grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation's
Marketplace Empowerment for Artists program. Special thanks to the
City of Pasadena and the Armory Center for the Arts.

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Side Street Projects is a 501(c)(3) non-profit visual arts organization.
All donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

Become a member now: http://sidestreet.org/membership

:: Mailing Address ::
Side Street Projects
c/o The Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103

:: Headquarters ::
@ Armory Northwest/965
965 North Fair Oaks Avenue
(Just north of the 210 Freeway @ Mountain Ave)
Pasadena, CA

:: Contact ::
(626) 798-7774
(626) 798-7747 (fax)
http://www.sidestreet.org


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Killer of Sheep screening at the Nuart 



Killer of Sheep


The Los Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s is seen through the eyes of Stan (Henry Gayle Sanders), a sensitive dreamer growing detached and numb from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse. Frustrated by money problems, he finds respite in moments of simple beauty: the warmth of a coffee cup against his cheek, slow dancing with his wife (Kaycee Moore) to the radio, holding his daughter. Writer/director Charles Burnett offers no solutions, but merely presents the reality of African-American life—sometimes hauntingly bleak, sometimes filled with transcendent joy and humor. Combining lyrical elements with a neorealist documentary style, the family portrait he paints is deeply compassionate.


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Screenings for the week April 6 - 12 

Filmforum returns April 22 with a screening that will include Los
Angeles premieres of new works by Ken Jacobs, Bruce Conner, Jennifer
Reeves, and more! But in this email I'd like to highlight two other
screenings.

First, Jon Jost's newest film LA LUNGA OMBRA (THE LONG SHADOW) will
screen at the UCLA Film & TV Archive at the Hammer Museum on April 15.
Jon Jost will be there in person. Last time Jost was in town in
October 2004, it was for the US premiere of OUI NON at Filmforum, with
a full house. So we know that some of you are Jost fans, and I'm sure
all of you are thinking that there is no better way to celebrate
taking care of taxes with a good Jon Jost film.

But even better, the UCLA Archive is offering a limited number of free
tickets for this screening to readers of the LA Filmforum list. To
request free tickets, please send an e-mail to <archive@ucla.edu>,
mentioning that you saw the offer in this e-mail and specifying
whether you would like one or two tickets. And that's it!

There's no Filmforum on the 15th, so no conflict there either.

Sunday April 15 2007, 7:00PM

LA LUNGA OMBRA (THE LONG SHADOW)
(2006, Italy/United States) Directed by Jon Jost
In this improvised feature shot in Italy, two women try to comfort a
third, whose husband has left her. As much tone poem as narrative, LA
LUNGA OMBRA reflects the disquiet that pervaded Europe in the wake of
September 11, 2001.

Cast: Agnese Nano, Eliana Miglio, Simionetta Gianfelici. Presented in
Italian dialogue with English subtitles. DV, 77 min.
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Next, continuing all week (until April 12) at the Laemmle Grande is
the new documentary OPERATION HOMECOMING: WRITING THE WARTIME EXPERIENCE.

Yours truly Adam Hyman is the co-producer of this feature. We just
won a Special Jury Prize at the Florida Film Festival for Innovative
Documentary Storytelling. I'll be present after the 5:45 and 7:45 pm
screenings tonight (Saturday), and Tuesday 4/10 for Q&A, and drinks,
and conversation.

Directed by Richard E. Robbins and co-produed by Adam
Hyman (director of Los Angeles Filmforum) and Kristin Lesko, OPERATION
HOMECOMING is a unique documentary that explores the firsthand
accounts of American troops through their own words. Unlike any
documentary yet to emerge from Iraq, OPERATION HOMECOMING takes you
inside the minds of the troops on the front lines. We

Laemmle's GRANDE 4-PLEX
345 S. Figueroa St.
Downtown Los Angeles, 90071
213-617-0268

Here is the Laemmle's webpage with map, and the showtimes starting
April 6.
http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=10
Showtimes:
Fri: 5:45 7:45 9:45
Sat-Sun: 1:45 3:45 5:45 7:45 9:45
Mon-Thur: 5:45 7:45

The film is built upon the Operation Homecoming initiative created by
the National Endowment for the Arts to gather the writing of soldiers
and their families who have participated in the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan. The film transforms selections from this collection of
writing into a deep examination of the experiences of the men and
women who are serving in America's armed forces. At the same time it
provides depth and context to these experiences through a broader look
at the universal themes of war literature. It uses a full panpoly of
visual strategies to illuminate each of the pieces of writing included
in the film - a virtual guide to documentary filmmaking techniques.

At the core of the writing in OPERATION HOMECOMING is a deep desire by
all those who have served in war to come to terms with their
experiences. Throughout the film the soldiers, young and old, express
a profound hope that people will listen to their stories and try to
understand what they have seen. As with all of the great war writers,
the soldier writers of OPERATION HOMECOMING are trying to find meaning
in the chaos and brutality of war. The film is a deeply humanizing
look at those who suffer the de-humanization of war.

For more information:
www.operationhomecomingthemovie.com
Here's a trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsglD_S1iiY
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And don't forget:

-- Monday April 9, 8 pm - FILM AT REDCAT PRESENTS Kevin Jerome Everson
and his film CINNAMON

-- The Restored KILLER OF SHEEP by Charles Burnett at the Nuart
Theatre, April 6-12






Bordwell web site 

Hi Everyone,

here is an interesting article about counting frames in film and video, we all knew it here it is explained.

http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/?p=230

joe


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