Antimatter Call For Entries
Antimatter Underground Film Festival
Sept 21-29, 2007 Victoria, BC, Canada
Entry Deadline: May 31/07 (final).
Tenth annual international festival seeks imaginative, volatile, entertaining
and critical films and videos. Dedicated to the exhibition and nurturing of film
and video as art, Antimatter is the premier showcase of experimental cinema in
the west, encompassing screenings, installations, performances and media
hybrids.
Criteria: Independent productions, completed after Jan 1/05. Any style or genre.
Max 30 mins.
Formats: 16mm, Super 8, MiniDV, DVD, VHS.
Preview on DVD (NTSC/PAL) or VHS (NTSC/PAL).
Entry Fees: $10 (early); $20 (final).
Also accepting proposals for expanded cinema and media-based performance.
Complete entry form:
http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=142575880&u=1365881
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[lafilmforum] Alternative film & video events of note - late May/early June
Greetings all. The next Filmforum show is June 3, with a Cinematic Tribute to
the late composer James Tenney. I'll be sending more details, but the show will
include several classic films by Stan Brakhage and Carolee Schneemann, with
music composed by or appearances by James Tenney, Please join us for thsi
special event. In the weeks after, Filmforum will host the following:
June 3: James Tenney on Film - A Cinematic Tribute
June 10: Documents and documentaries - films by Laura and Blue
Kraning, including "American Parade" and "Blasted!!!"
June 17: F Is for Phony: Documentary Film and Truth's Undoing - "The
Watermelon Woman" directed by Cheryl Dunye, with Dunye and producer
Alexandra Juhasz in person
June 24: F Is for Phony: Documentary Film and Truth's Undoing -
various works, with co-editors Alex Juhasz and Jesse Lerner in person
2 weeks
July 1: David Cohen and Sandy Ding
July 8: Barbara Hammer
And here is more going on around town.
-- Found Footage Festival at M-Bar, May 24-26
-- THE FOLLIES OF DR. PLACEBO: A Shadow Play w/o Dialog, May 26-27
-- Film at the Echo Park Film Center, including PXL This 16 on May 24,
and Joel Tauber on May 31
-- Dance Camera West Festival, various locations, June, starting at
REDCAT on June 1 & 2
-- "Women of Vision: 18 Histories in Femnist Film & Video" directed by
Alexandra Juhasz, at UCLA Film & TV Archives at the Hammer Museum, June 3
-- Silent Films at the Silent Movie Theatre on Thursdays
-- The films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul at REDCAT, including
"Blissfully Yours" and "Tropical Malady", June 4, 6, and 8
-- Guy Maddin's Brand on the Brain, at the Egyptian Theatre, June 8-14
-- Seven Masterpieces by Kenji Mizoguchi, June 8-23 at LACMA
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FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL
Thur 5.24 - Sat 5.26 (8pm)
M-Bar (1253 N Vine St, Hollywood, 323.856.0036)
$15
Reviving abandoned home movies from the thrift stores, garage sales,
and warehouses across the country, Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher
present a slew of video oddities for a night of authentically
underground film. This is the real Mystery Science Theater 3000. (JF -
Flavorpill)
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THE FOLLIES OF DR. PLACEBO:
A Shadow Play w/o Dialog Inquiring into Future Healing Gone Awry
Starring Jason Bagley, Erin Barnes, Cory Beers,
Kraig Grady (director) , Sophia Grady, Amy Pigg, Ben Rojas, Neil
Starrett,
Tara Tavi, and Amy Wolkins
Additional support by Roger Mexico (Narrator), Laura McMurray, Spencer
Savage, Maile Colbert
THE FOLLY BOWL. ALTADENA (LOS ANGELES)
SAT MAY 26 & SUN MAY 27. 2007 8:30pm
1601 East Loma Alta Dr. Altadena, CA 91001
General Info: 323 258 3260
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ECHO PARK FILM CENTER
1200 N. Alvarado Street LA CA 90026
PH# (213) 484-8846
www.echoparkfilmcenter.org
Come watch beautiful images dance upon a screen in your own
neighborhood. Shows begin promptly @ 8PM and are $5 (unless otherwise
noted).
Thursday, May 24 - PXL THIS 16! – 8PM
"Gerry Fialka's PXL THIS festival snaps, crackles and pops off the
screen with the funky, user-friendly energy of real first-person
cinema. Goofy, gorgeous, and altogether groovy, his provocative
program of pieces produced with the Fisher-Price PXL 2000 toy video
camera is not only downright entertaining, but more, its blipping and
buzzing black 'n' white picture-bits coalesce into a veritable
inspiration to all those who cherish the playful, spontaneous gestures
and low-cost of electronic folk art." -Craig Baldwin.
Thursday, May 31 – Videos by Joel Tauber – 8PM
Joel Tauber explores elemental philosophical questions about our
relationships to nature and the environment in an often quixotic
approach. In a 12-channel video installation and a series of
photographs, Tauber chronicles how he first fell in love with this
tree and then embarked on a quest to improve its living conditions, to
build a museum in its honor underneath its canopy, and finally, to
help it reproduce. Joel Tauber will be screening a number of the
videos from the 12 channel video installation.
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June 1-2, 2007 and continuing through June
DANCE CAMERA WEST FESTIVAL
Screendance: New Visual Language
http://www.dancecamerawest.org/
Fri 6.1.07 8:00 pm REDCAT
Sat 6.2.07 6:00 pm REDCAT
Sat 6.2.07 8:00 pm REDCAT
http://redcat.org/season/0607/dan/dcw.php
Opening night screening and party on Friday followed by two different
programs on Saturday. An international collection of dance on screen
focusing on the collision of movement and cinema, these three programs
showcase the most innovative examples of this new visual language of
dance on screen from around the world.
See www.DanceCameraWest.org for detailed program information.
Other shows include:
DCW AT CHEVIOT HILLS RECREATION CENTER
Saturday, June 9, 8 pm
Local Makers – LA Choreographers and Directors
DCW AT AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE
MAX PALEVSKY THEATRE AT THE AERO
Sunday, June 10, 5pm
Vers Mathilde – Claire Denis documentary on Mathilde Monnier
DCW AT THE HAMMER MUSEUM
Saturday, June 16, 7 pm
Pina Bausch on Screen
DCW AT THE 18TH STREET ARTS CENTER
Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 20, 7 – 10 pm
Artist Talk 7:30 p.m; Installation runs June 20 – 30
Men in the Wall by Liz Aggis & Billy Cowie
DCW AT THE REDCAT
Saturday, June 23, 8 pm
Thierry DeMey presents films featuring William Forsythe
and AnneTeresa DeKeersmaeker
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Sunday June 3 2007, 7:00PM
UCLA Film & Television Archives
WOMEN OF VISION: 18 HISTORIES IN FEMINIST FILM & VIDEO
(1998, United States) Directed by Alexandra Juhasz
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/public/calendar/calendar_f.html
This documentary illustrates the history of feminist filmmaking from
its beginnings in the 1950s through its apex in the 1970s and on to
the 1990s, as told by many of the pioneering artists. This evening's
program will include in-person appearances by some of the filmmakers
who appear in the video and a screening of some of the unedited oral
history interviews recorded for the documentary.
Beta-SP, 80 min.
In person: Alexandra Juhasz, Susan Mogul, Eve Oishi, Constance Penley,
Victoria Vesna
This screening is presented in conjunction with the exhibition WACK!
Art and the Feminist Revolution, on view at The Geffen Contemporary at
the Museum of Contemporary Art in Little Tokyo, March 4 - July 16,
2007. For more information, please visit [moca.org/wack].
Outfest members receive $1.00 off admission at the box office. Please
present your membership card to receive the discount.
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THE SILENT MOVIE THEATRE
611 N. Fairfax Avenue - Los Angeles, California 90036
323.655.2520
http://www.silentmovietheatre.com/
Unless otherwise noted, all films are accompanied with a live
soundtrack and cost $10.00.
For more information please call 323.655.2510 or mail
events@silentmovietheatre.com
Thursday MAY 24 at 8pm - Alfred Hitchcock's
The Pleasure Garden in 35mm (1925) with Menilmontant (1924) and The
Londale Operator (1911)
Thursday MAY 31 at 8pm -- Twelve Miles Out in 35mm (1927) with
Mabel Normand in Anything Once! in 35mm (1927) and Ice Cold Cocos in
35mm (1926)
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June 4, 6, and 8 at 8 pm
The films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Along with his installed video show
Unknown Forces
April 18 -- June 17, 2007
http://redcat.org/gallery/0607/weerasethakul.php
Internationally recognized for his work in experimental and narrative
cinema such as Mysterious Object at Noon (2000), Blissfully Yours
(2002), Tropical Malady (2004) and Syndromes and A Century (2006),
Apichatpong Weerasethakul presents his first solo exhibition in the
United States. Weerasethakul's films explore perception, impermanence
and the imaginary, cultivating fanciful potential within the mundane.
His abstract interchanges interrogate conventions of cinematic
narrative while exploring desire, reality and a kind of melancholy
perhaps peculiar to our times.
In anticipation of the Los Angeles Film Festival premiere of Syndromes
and a Century, REDCAT will present a selection of Weerasethakul's
films. Screenings include Mysterious Object at Noon, Blissfully Yours,
Tropical Malady, and Worldly Desires and other shorts selected by the
artist.
Mon, June 4: Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
Wed, June 6: Blissfully Yours (2002)
Fri, June 8: Recent short works:
Anthem (2006, 35mm, 5 min.)
FAITH (2006, video, 11 min.)
Ghost of Asia (2005, video, 8:30 min.)
Worldly Desires (2005, video, 40 min.)
Luminous People (2007, video, 15:22 min.)
Sat, June 9: Tropical Malady (2004)
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Guy Maddin's BRAND UPON THE BRAIN!
Limited Engagement!
http://www.americancinematheque.com/archive1999/2007/BrandUponTheBrain_2007.htm
At teh American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre
June 8-14, some live, some pre-recorded shows
The latest Cinema Spectacular, BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! from director Guy
Maddin (THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD, TWILIGHT OF THE ICE NYMPHS).
In an unprecedented act of faith in the enduring power of the
theatrical experience, BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! is being presented as an
expansive live event in select cities, featuring an 11-piece "live"
orchestra, a 3-person "Live" Foley (sound effects performed onstage)
team, and a "live" celebrity narrator, and onstage Castrato
supplementing the filmic image, to comprise a one-of-a-kind cinematic
spectacle.
Filmmaker Guy Maddin is appearing In-Person to present the film during
these exclusive live engagements in select historic movie palaces in
Chicago (The Music Box), New York (The Village East) and Los Angeles
(The Egyptian Theatre).
Following presentations of this unique stage production, the feature
film BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! will continue at the Egyptian as a regular
film run (with a pre-recorded soundtrack including narration by
Isabella Rossellini) until June 14th.
Official Website: www.Branduponthebrain.com
BRAND UPON THE BRAIN, 2006, The Film Company/Vitagraph Films, 96 min.
Dir. Guy Maddin. Whatever are young "Guy Maddin's" parents really up
to in their lighthouse home/orphanage on a chilly remote island?
Overbearing Mother (Gretchen Krich) tracks her son's (Sullivan Brown)
every move, bellowing for him to come home over the "Aerophone" just
as something interesting is about to happen! And poor Sis (Maya
Lawson), his older sister (who is rapidly blossoming into a young
woman) -- Mother will never let her have any fun! The intrigue
continues as deranged Mother, hellbent on restoring her youth and
sinister Scientist-Father (Todd Jefferson Moore) who is sequestered
night and day in his basement laboratory, engage in diabolical, secret
experimentation. When new parents of recently adopted children from
the orphanage notice strange wounds on the youngsters' necks, a pair
of teen sleuths, Wendy (Katherine E. Scharhon) and her brother Chance,
known as "The Lightbulb Kids," appear on the island to investigate --
and in the process, inspire Guy's first crush and Sis' first love
affair. The lurid family secrets that unfold arepositively shocking!
Narrators to be announced!
Live Show Times & Prices:
Friday, June 8 - 7:30 PM
Saturday, June 9 - 7:30 PM
Saturday, June 9 - 10:00 PM
Sunday, June 10 - 7:30 PM
Advance Tickets:
$25 General, $22 Students & Seniors; $20 Cinematheque Members.
Tickets at the Door:
$30 General Admission. Other prices remain the same.
Film Engagement!
Prices & showtimes for shows with pre-recorded soundtrack (no live
accompaniment)
Monday, June 11 - Thursday, June 14 7:30 PM and 9:30 PM daily
$10 General, $8 Seniors and Students, $7 Cinematheque Members.
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June 8 - June 23
Seven Masterpieces by Kenji Mizoguchi
"With the death of Mizoguchi, Japanese film lost its truest creator."
—Akira Kurosawa
at LACMA
http://www.lacma.org/programs/FilmSeriesSchedule.aspx#1173718278786
Kenji Mizoguchi began his career in the silent-film era and quickly
became known for his vehement independence and uncompromising
artistry. His works spanned many genres, from contemporary melodrama
and historical epic to social realism and domestic tragedy, along with
the occasional biography, ghost story, or samurai tale. He directed
dozens of films, many of which were lost during World War II. Those
that remain make up one of the most beautiful bodies of work in any
art, of any time. Classics such as Ugetsu, Sansho the Bailiff, Story
of the Late Chrysanthemums, and The Life of Oharu are unequaled in
their pictorial and narrative richness and emotional force. It is
little wonder that critics the world over have chosen Mizoguchi as one
of the greatest directors in the history of cinema.
The seven films in this series were selected from among the Mizoguchi
titles in the Janus Films library by James Quandt, senior programmer
of the Cinematheque Ontario and organizer of the 1996 retrospective
"Mizoguchi the Master." Our thanks to Mr. Quandt for the introduction
and film descriptions, and to Sarah Finklea and Janus Films for making
the films available in new 35mm prints.
June 8 | 7:30 pm Ugetsu
June 8 | 9:20 pm Sisters of the Gion
June 9 | 7:30 pm Sansho the Bailiff
June 15 | 7:30 pm Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
June 16 | 7:30 pm The Life of Oharu
June 22 & 23 | 7:30 pm Utamaro and His Five Women
June 22 & 23 | 9:15 pm Street of Shame
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Projections Annual Artist's Competition in Pasadena
"Projections" @ Shops on Lake Avenue
Annual Artist's Competition
Call for Entries
Projections is a library of silent artists-made videos, films and still images
from
which will be drawn works to create nightly wall-projected programming as part
of the 1% for Art Program for the Shops on Lake development. Each year, 5 awards
will be given of $1000 each, one to an artist under the age of 18, for work of
high
merit to be included in the Projections library of work. A 5-person panel of
arts
professionals will judge the submissions. The chosen works will be shown at a
reception for the artists and enter the library of works.
June 18th Projections Regular Programming Launch
July 27th Submission Deadline
August 20th Winners Announced
September 13th Artists Reception / Premier screening
The transient setting and varied texture of the programming dictate that
primarily
short, time-based media works as well as still images are most appropriate.
However,
work with rich content of any duration, which can be appreciated in passing as
well as
studied at length will be considered. The work can be narrative or abstract,
but needs
to be sensitive to local community standards of decency for public art.
The projected images are cast directly on the wall at 415 South Lake Ave
adjacent to
the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. The projection surface measures approximately
15 X 20 feet in size. A website carries the schedule of that day's programming
with a brief
description of the work and short artist's bio. An outdoor LCD panel located
near the projection
displays a webpage for immediate information about what is on view at any given
time. The
schedule varies nightly throughout the week, so that the program appears fresh
to the regular
viewer.
Work will be shown in MPEG2 video format, in various resolutions, up to 720p HD.
Final versions will be accepted in other computer digital file formats such as
Quick Time or AVI and encoded as MPEG2. Non-copy protected DVDs are
acceptable; tape formats are not. If accepted, digital file format files should
be as uncompressed as possible. FTP access is preferred.
Works which are submitted that contain sound will be considered with the
understanding that the visual component should stand on its own, and that the
audio should not be integral to the piece, as it will not be included in the
installation.
To submit works for consideration for inclusion in the "Projections" library:
You may provide links to a streaming version on the Internet
-or-
Email compressed representations no larger than 5 megabytes to
db@projectionsonlake.com.
All submissions must include:
A short artists' biography and curriculum vitae and a short, one paragraph
narrative description
of the work.
Mailed submissions will not be returned unless accompanied by a self-addressed,
stamped
envelope.
For more information, please visit:
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David Bradshaw, Curator
Projections
2658 Griffith Park Blvd #386
Los Angeles, Ca. 90039
db@projectionsonlake.com
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MAK Center Seeking Getty Foundation Multicultural Summer Intern
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 theDirector 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
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
The program will include:
Tree of Knowledge – Elective 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
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
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
Link
FREEWAVES is offering two paid internships for undergraduates
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
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
Link
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
Link
Freewaves Filter
FREEWAVES FILTER
19 mar 2007
www.freewaves.org
contents:
1. OPEN CALL: Video as Urban Condition
2. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Two merit scholarships
Working with Objects, Space and Video
3. OPEN CALL: Pocket Films Festival
4. OPEN CALL: Antimatter Underground Film Festival
5. OPEN CALL: 2007 MARGARET MEAD FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL
6. BRING THE MEAD TRAVELING FESTIVAL TO YOUR COMMUNITY~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. Video as Urban Condition: how video shapes urban experience
The Video as Urban Condition "Video-pool" archive is a mobile collection of
moving images reflecting the mutability of video as it shifts between fact
and fiction, entertainment and persuasion, urban fantasy and reality-TV, art
and activism, surveillance and control.
The archive will be open to the public at Lentos Museum of Modern Art (in
Linz, Austria), 19 April-27 May 2007. The Video-pool installation will form
the environment and a constellation of points of reference for a series of
events on the themes "Public Space and Personal Media-politics", "Model
Cities, Wish Images and Playgrounds", "Voyeurism, (Self-)Control and TV".
Add your point of view!
We welcome your video contributions and compilations. Videos received before 19 April will take part in the Video-pool $1000 Prize Draw!
more about the project http://video-as.org/project
how to contribute http://video-as.org/videopool
upcoming events http://video-as.org/news
Lentos Museum http://www.lentos.at/en/index.asp
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2. Two Merit Scholarships Available
Shaped Video: Working with Objects, Space and VideoCall for Applications: Two Merit Scholarships available for emerging or mid-career artists to take a
two-week course with artists E.G. Crichton and Susan Working at Anderson
Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado. The course will take place
August 13-24, 2007.
These awards are designed to help artists interested in combining video with
objects and space. Students will learn about the technologies behind creating
embedded video works and video installation and will discuss a critical
context that informs these works. Scholarships include: Full tuition, lodging
and three meals a day for the duration of the course. Winning applicants must provide for their own travel and studio fees.
Concept: What happens when artists take the ephemeral medium of video and shape it within sculptural space? For over four decades artists have defied limitations of time and material through experiments with embedded monitors, shaped screens, and projections onto objects and/or within constructed spaces. In this workshop the investigation will continue with an emphasis on simple constructed shapes, altered found objects, planned camera work, and simple video editing. You may read a complete description online at www.andersonranch.org.
Course title: Shaped Video: Working with Objects, Space, and Video(P1123)
Dates: August 13 24, 2007
Location: Anderson Ranch Art Center, Aspen/Snowmass Colorado
Faculty: E.G. Crichton and Susan Working
E.G. Crichton is a professor of art at the University of California Santa Cruz
where she has taught courses in intermedia and digital imaging for 12 years.
Her work spans the mediums of video, photography, installation and
performance, with a special emphasis on collaboration. She has created public projects in New York, Philadelphia, Lancaster, England and throughout
California, and had solo exhibitions in Norway and California.
www.arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/Eg
Susan Working is director of the wood program at Anderson Ranch. Previously a furniture designer and educator in San Francisco, she received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her current work focuses on combining wood with other media such as painting and digital media and on the collaborative process. www.susanworking.com
To apply: Send resume, examples of work, and a brief statement that answers the following questions: What is your current work about? Why do you want to take this course and how do you see it effecting your development as an artist? You may apply by mail or e-mail. Applications must be received by March 21, 2007.
E-mail applications to kconnerly@andersonranch.org mail to:
Attn: Susan Working/Krista Connerly
Re: Program Excellence Scholarship
Anderson Ranch Art Center
Post Office Box 5598/ 5263 Owl Creek Road
Snowmass Village, CO 81615
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, located 10 miles outside of Aspen Colorado, is an artists' community offering workshops and residencies. Anderson Ranch's wood program offers classes in furniture design, sculpture and woodturning. The newly expanded digital media program offers classes in video, digital imaging, animation, interactive media, and physical computing. Summer workshop faculty are professionals in their field and include nationally and internationally renowned artists. Residencies are also available for emerging artists wishing to experiment and establish new directions of growth in their work. Please contact wood program director Susan Working (sworking@andersonranch.org) or digital media program director Krista Connerly (kconnerly@andersonranch.org) with any questions
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3. PARTICIPATE IN THE POCKET FILMS FESTIVAL !
June 8, 9, 10, 2007 in Paris, France
The 3rd edition of the POCKET FILMS FESTIVAL is opening it’s call for entries worldwide. Shorts and features, fiction, documentaries, clips, experimental films - all types of films, exclusively shot with a cellular telephone, are now being accepted.
The selected films will be shown during the POCKET FILMS FESTIVAL on June 8, 9, 10, 2007 at the Georges Pompidou Center - the largest center for contemporary arts in Europe.
In 2005, the Forum des images launched the first edition of the POCKET FILMS FESTIVAL, a major event devoted to films made exclusively with cellular telephones. Our goal was to explore and initiate a better understanding of the impact of this new audio-visual tool, the video camera, included in the latest generation of mobile telephones. The first two editions of the POCKET FILMS FESTIVAL explored the creative uses of this tool and offered the presentation of new works by French video and graphic artists, writers, filmmakers, students of art and film schools and the general public, in major movie theaters. The Festival received more than 1,000 films which were made exclusively for the Festival, 200 of which were selected by a jury and screened at the Forum des images and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France. Many films have gone on to be shown in other international films festivals : Locarno, Melbourne, Rio de Janeiro, Kiev and at the International Critic’s Week, at the Festival de Cannes.
The Forum des images is a major cultural institution in Paris, dedicated to the exploration of the relations between cinema, technologies and society through screenings, workshops, and the organisation of films festivals. The Forum des images is also a major French film archive with Paris as its theme.
SEND US YOUR FILM SHOT EXCLUSIVELY WITH A CELLULAR TELEPHONE BEFORE MARCH 30, 2007.
For more information : www.festivalpocketfilms.fr
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4. Antimatter Underground Film Festival
Sept 21-29, 2007 Victoria, BC, Canada
Entry Deadline: April 15/07 (early); May 31/07 (final).
Tenth annual international festival seeks imaginative, volatile, entertaining and critical films and videos. Dedicated to the exhibition and nurturing of film and video as art, Antimatter is the premier showcase of experimental cinema in the west, encompassing screenings, installations, performances and hybrid media experiments.
Criteria: Independent productions, completed after Jan 1/05. Any style or genre. Max 30 mins.
Formats: 16mm, Super 8, MiniDV, DVD, VHS.
Preview on DVD (NTSC/PAL) or VHS (NTSC/PAL).
Entry Fees: $10 (early); $20 (final).
Also accepting proposals for expanded cinema and media-based performance.
Contact: Antimatter, 636 Yates Street, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 1L3
250 385 3327; info@antimatter.ws; www.antimatter.ws
Complete entry form is attached as a pdf file. Also available on our website at http://www.antimatter.ws
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Antimatter Underground Film Festival
636 Yates Street, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 1L3
(250) 385-3327 info@antimatter.ws
http://www.antimatter.ws
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5. 2007 Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival Call for Entries now open
Organized by the Museum’s Public Program Division in the Department
of Education, the Festival will be held in November 2007.
SUBMISSION DATES: Now-May 31, 2007
ELIGIBILITY: The Festival only considers documentary films and videos,
including shorts, experimental non-fiction films, animated non-
fiction, and “new media” non-fiction. Production year must be 2005-2007. No resubmissions.
ENTRY FEE: NONE
PREVIEW FORMATS: 1/2” VHS (Clearly mark NTSC or PAL on the tape)
or DVD (Multi-zone or Zone 1, North American only)
For more information: http://www.amnh.org/mead
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6. BRING THE MEAD TRAVELING FESTIVAL TO YOUR COMMUNITY
The Margaret Mead Traveling Festival is now available for booking. This year, program themes include worker rights in China, Mexican-American
migration, protecting international journalists, the intelligent design
debate, and more.
The Traveling Festival is comprised of six thematic programs, each
program approximately between 1.5 and 2 hrs, depending on length of films. Venues have the option of renting a full package (six programs, $1800) or a half-package (three programs, $900); this includes background and promotional information on titles, still images, preview videos for publicity purposes, and a guide for conducting film festivals and screenings. The presentation format is in video, in either VHS or DVD.
The Traveling Festival can be rented for a weekend marathon or for up to
six weeks.
If you are interested in hosting the Traveling Festival, or have any
questions, please contact travelfest@amnh.org.
Info is available on our website: www.amnh.org/mead
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Freewaves
An online magnet for the media arts, Freewaves is a grassroots yet global arts organization connecting innovative, relevant, independent new media from around the world.
For more information contact Heidi Zeller: heidi@freewaves.org
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DAS International Residency 2007
August - September 2007
DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL 29th MARCH 2007
DAS (Digital Arts Studios) at QSS (Queen Street Studios) initiated an International Digital Residency Program in 2006. There are four residencies a year, each lasting approximately 8 weeks. The Residency will offer studio rental, accommodation, stipend and artists' fee. (Participating artists' will have to self-fund travel to and from Northern Ireland.)
The International Digital Residency Program will enable artists' to come to Northern Ireland in order to develop their artistic practice in a productive, supportive and dynamic environment. DAS will also endeavour to provide the visiting artists' with an opportunity to present their work through exhibition.
The residency will provide participants with 24 hours studio access. A personal G5 Macintosh computer with broadband Internet and relevant software is provided (Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Macromedia etc.). Technical support, specialised training, information, opportunities and access to wide range of Digital Still, Video & Sound Recording equipment are on offer.
Artists' living and working in Ireland and the UK are not eligible.
Applicants must apply directly to QSS using the application form and guidelines.
Applicants must also include:
- A proposal with a project description
- Artists Statement
- Current CV
- Support material
Application form and guidelines are available by downloading from the QSS website
http://www.queenstreetstudios.net/digital_studios/international_residency.html
or on request by contacting the Digital Studios Administrator
Ruth McCullough
Digital Studios Administrator
Queen Street Studios
37-39 Queen Street
Belfast, BT1 6EA
Tel: 028 9031 2900
Fax: 028 9033 9010
E-mail: ruth@queenstreetstudios.net
www.queenstreetstudios.net
www.queenstreetstudios.net
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