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 The Divers of St. Malo (2008)

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11/8/08-  Clouds and the Docklands .screened in London for The program The Other America on November 21  at the Calder.

10/23-10/26-Maryland Songs 1 screened at the Streaming Festival in The Hague, Netherlands -

10/25/08-Nanjing Sunday screened at the 4th annual Utopia Film Festival, Md

10/16/08-Nanjing Sunday, August, and Quebec Summer screened for Greenbelt's Art Walk details soon

6/1/08-Divers of Saint Malo at Artomatic as part of the Heritage film festival. Details here

6/1/08-On My Way to the Cinema and Divers of Saint Malo screened in the Greenbelt Art Gallery from 1-5.

5/22/08-On My Way to the Cinema and Divers of Saint Malo screened for Greenbelt, MD's Art Walk. Program here

5/10-5/14/08-Divers of Saint Malo at Artomatic as part of the Heritage Film Festival.. Program here-

4/5/08-Divers of Saint Malo screened at The Heritage Film Festival-Program Here

Eclectique Moving Image Series 1:  Landscape and Memory 2/21/08-AMC Academy 8 Theatres, Greenbelt, MD: Program:

1.Storm on Goldhill-mini dv Malia Murray-(5min)The Colorado Rockies are captured during an approaching storm in the middle of summer.
 

2.Observation of a Satellite by Andrew Busti and Layne Garrett (4 minutes)35mm. An homage to the enchanted wanderer, Joseph Cornell

3.Winter Woods (Nick Collins) 16mm. Multiple planes of winter in the forest of the Cevennes.

4.France 1(divers of St.Malo)(5min) mini dv Chris Lynn-

France 1: The Divers of St. Malo is an observer’s presentation of the natural world as an embodiment of human spirituality. Aural cues, visuospatial positioning and vibrant color schemes all contribute to the method by which the filmmaker has transformed beach-front images of merriment and relaxation into metaphors for more substantive human interaction and existence. Text Johnny Young

5.Iceland by Fabienne Gautier super 8 (4 minutes). Iceland's landsape seems to reflect a particular internalization of feeling. It speaks to the internal mind

6.ESB Sequence Robert Robertson-UK Super 8 film(3min)-A massive syringe penetrating the clouds catching fire at night.

7.Night Walk- super8(7min) An improvised walk through Paris at night.

8. Just Another Day -Makarah Mandela-Voice over narration is juxtaposed with images of landscapes and historical figures to bring awareness to a number of social issues that continue to plague society.    

9.Point of Beginning- Ryan Marino-17min 16mm-Portraits of three places in the U.S. Midwest are used in examination of history and its relationship to the present.

02/21/08-France 1(Divers of St.Malo)at Academy 8 in Greenbelt,MD. More soon

01/19/08- France 1(Divers of Saint Malo) London 4 and 5 at the Lighthouse 1421 Buchanan St NW Washington d.c. with live music.

12/9-Here is the program-
Atlanta, Georgia: Eyedrum
http://www.eyedrum.org
7:00 PM, 290 Martin Luther King Jr Dr Suite 8

 FILM LOVE #53: OPENINGS
  A gathering of Atlanta's finest improvisational
 musicians perform to
  silent experimental films. | The Atlanta Fourth Ward
 Improvisational
  Ensemble, led by Roger Ruzow, will perform newly
 created live
  soundtracks to short experimental films by local,
 national and
  international filmmakers. The film imagery ranges
 from abstract,
  hand-drawn animation to video "circuit-bending" to
 the grandeur of
  Madison Brookshire's landscape film Opening. | NOTE
 EARLY START TIME: 7
  PM! | Musicians: Roger Ruzow, Jeff Crompton, Ben
 Gettys, Ben Davis,
  Chris Case, Keith Leslie, Rob Mallard | Program:
 Oliver Smith (Atlanta,
  GA)videoFeed (2007), digital video, 6 minutes;
 Colorful imagery from
  circuit-bent video hardware. Peter Snowdon
 (Brussels, Belgium) tree
  stain man (hommage to stan) (2007), super-8mm and
 digital video
  (screened on DVD), 4 minutes WORLD PREMIERE; "An
 experimental round
  dance in three movements, composed using footage of
 trees taken in
  Oxford in spring 2001. My first ever roll of
 Kodachrome 40. A homage to
  the life-in-work of Stan Brakhage." Chris Lynn
 (Washington, DC) London 4
  – Clouds and the Docklands (2006), digital video,
 6 minutes London 5 –
  Unknown Year (2007), super-8mm (screened on DVD), 4
 minutes; Two
  portraits of the city. The grain and color of the
 super-8 film image
  contrasts with the digital video clarity of a rainy
 London day. Hugo
  Ball Room (San Francisco, CA) Suite for Face
 (excerpts), 10 minutes,
  digital video; Video clips "processed from scenes in
 feature films in
  which an actor or actress emotes wordlessly, using
 facial expressions
  and posture to represent the evolution of a feeling,
 a realization, or a
  breakdown. The videos are intended to provide a
 context for improvising
  musicians to interpret in solo or small-group
 settings." Maryam Kashani
  (Austin, TX) things lovely and dangerous still: a
 silent film for
  trumpet and drums (2006), 16mm, 12 minutes; A
 portrait in 16mm film,
  made by a filmmaker/DJ, and inspired by the poetry
 of June Jordan
  Caroline Koebel (Buffalo, NY) Sea Lion (2007), 16mm,
 3 minutes; "This
  hand processed Super 8 film marvels at the beauty of
 the movement of the
  sea lion. It reflects the fascination of the
 filmmaker's two-year-old
  son with this animal new to his world." Caroline
 Koebel hole or space
  (2006), 16mm, 3 minutes; "Pricks, gaps, dots,
 openings, hole or space
  takes its cue from contortionists of the early
 screen in spiraling out
  from conceptions of the body as whole. The film uses
 early cinema and
  avant-garde classics as its compositional notes."
 Madison Brookshire
  (Los Angeles, CA) Opening, 2007, 16mm, 25 minutes;
 This aptly titled
  work is a quiet but grand record of the contemporary
 American landscape.
  Robbie Land(Atlanta, GA) Greencameraless, 2007,
 16mm, 6 minutes WORLD
  PREMIERE; A recent work by the Atlanta film artist
 shows an inner
  landscape - a portrait in green, visual layers
 created by working
  directly on the filmstrip without a camera. |
 "Openings" is a Film Love
  event, programmed and hosted by Andy Ditzler for
 Frequent Small Meals.
  Film Love exists to provide access to great but
 rarely seen films, and
  to explore the history of experimental filmmaking.
 It was voted
  Atlanta's Best Film Series by the critics of
 Creative Loafing in 2006.
  More information on Frequent Small Meals music,
 film, and art events can
  be found at www.frequentsmallmeals.com

London 4 and 5 will screened December 9, 2007 at Eyedrum in Atlanta, Ga. Details here

10/22/07-This Saturday at noon-

A program of captivating and challenging experimental shorts by moving image artists from around the globe. The films include: 

Observation of a Satellite by Andrew Busti and Layne Garrett (4 minutes). An homage to the enchanted wanderer, Joseph Cornell.

Interstate (part one) by Cortlund and Halperin (6 minutes). A night surveillance artifact. Elephants and zebras move in circadian rhythm while traffic flashes across the stream in waves.

Iceland by Fabienne Gautier (4 minutes). Iceland's landsape seems to reflect a particular internlization of feeling.  It speaks to the internal mind.

London 6 by Chris Lynn (5 minutes). A typical Sunday near a London train station provides the backdrop to this meditative and transformative piece.

Premonition by Dominic Angerame (10 minutes). Influenced by the avant garde filmmakers of the 1920s-30s, this is a city symphony that is haunting, lyrical, and serene.

Berlin Warszawa Express by Caroline Koebel (19 minutes). A disappearance becomes a departure, but rather than attempting to reconstitute what is lost,the filmmaker follows the clues and signs framing the site with an anticipatory gaze.

Midden by David Dinnell (20 minutes). Shot in rural Japan, a video that documents the rapidily disappearing landscape near Mt.Tsukuba.

I'm Back by Robert Robertson (13 minutes). Spike Hawkins' poems are set to film in an attempt to capture what happens at the moment a poem is being written.

Screening Saturday, October 27 at 12:00 noon at the Greenbelt Municipal Building

Go here for more details-Utopia Film Festival - Program

9/24/07-London 6(lyrics remembered)- will be screened at the Utopia Film Festival on October 27, 2007. More details soon

Program in London, July 31, 2007-

RITESSACREDTRANSFOR MATIONSACREDRITE STRANSFORMATIONR ITES

THE OCATILLOARTSGROUP, IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE CALDER
BOOKSHOP THEATRE AT
51 THE CUT
LONDON SE1 TUBE WATERLOO

(£6, £4 concs)

PRESENTS AT 7PM TUESDAY 31ST JULY 2007
RITESSACREDTRANSFOR MATION (WITH SOME FILMS BY
LBArtists)

AN INTERNATIONAL SELECTION OF SHORT FILMS, SET IN
BALI, ICELAND, MARYLAND, FRANCE, HOLLAND, AND FILMED
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE OPERA ‘THE KINGDOM’ – THE STORY OF
THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION.

 

PROGRAMME

1. LES MUSICIENS (CHRIS BURKE, EDITOR: AGNES HAY)
     ‘Les Gigottos’ are life-size mechanical toys
 or
dolls which play in a band, under director and creator
Bruno Dehondt.  The verse is from Rimbaud’s poem
 ‘A la
musique’; the occasion was the anniversary of the
 link
between an English village in Kent (Shepherdswell) and
a French northern village (Godewaersvelde).

2. TWINNING 23 (YANA KRAEVA)
    The notion of Twinning came from Maithun
(Twinning) – the Tantric sexual ritual in which the
participants view each other as Shiva and Shakti
respectively.  The film follows the travels of the
characters Pig, Sheep, Yana and TJ, as they explore
and attempt to merge with each other, their selves and
their surroundings. 
Twinning 23 won the Grand Prix Award at the New York
Animation Festival in 2006, and has been screened at
various festivals in the United States and Russia.

3. JOURNEY: IMPRESSIONS OF A ROYAL CREMATION (NANCY
PETRY)
Thousands attended the cremation of Prince Tjokorda
Nigurah Sudartha, a spectacular and dramatic event
captured here by Nancy Petry in Bali.  Composer Eric
Tschaeppeler’s score uses gamelan, the sounds of
monkeys and insects, guitars and gongs, synthesised
sounds and strings to evoke tropical air, the five
elements, and a sense of floating above the mountains
to reach the heavens.

Nancy Petry is a visual artist working in a variety of
media who has exhibited widely in Europe and the
Americas.  Her travels are a key source of
inspiration, and Nancy divides her time between
Montreal and London.  JOURNEY has been screened at
numerous festivals internationally. 

4. MARYLAND 1 (CHRIS LYNN)
Messages in code which are sent to us in barely
registered events, sacred codes from vast ceremonies
preceding human presence.

Chris Lynn explores and evokes the poetry of
landscapes in his films, which have been screened in
Europe and North America.  This is one of his most
recent and most poetic films, set in Maryland, near
Washington DC, where Chris is from and where he lives.

5.  THE KINGDOM (ROBERT ROBERTSON, directed by RUFUS
COLLINS)
I have never liked traditional Western opera, with its
celebrity voices often overloaded with
melody-destroying vibrato, its choruses vibrating in
all directions, ruining harmonies.  Today’s operas
still drag behind them the two dead donkeys of 19th
century techniques: music which slows the action down
to a moribund pace, and large orchestral textures
through which singers scream to be heard.  I wanted to
compose a dynamic opera, not one frozen in the past,
an opera which is cinematic in pace, and one which
makes use of current technology when it is needed. 

I also wanted to compose an opera with a complete
unity of music, theatre and dance.  In spite of his
efforts to unite these art-forms in his music-dramas,
Richard Wagner had never really succeeded with dance.

To achieve this unity, including dance, I turned to
traditional African and Caribbean theatrical
traditions.  For the vocal writing my inspirations
were Mussorgsky’s operas (where solo voices emerge
from choral groups), and the choral tradition from
South Africa, admired throughout the continent and
beyond.

I found my subject in Alejo Carpentier’s short novel
The Kingdom of This World, his account of the Haitian
Revolution.   The history which is shown in his novel
and in The Kingdom begins in the 1750s and concludes
in the 1820s, a period during which French colonial
rule was overthrown and the first independent Black
republic in the Western hemisphere was born.

I spent a year researching Haitian music and culture,
and writing the libretto.  I went to Haiti to see the
historical sights featured in the opera, and was
invited to a religious ceremony during which the
famous Cérémonie du Bois Caïman is commemorated and
re-created: this also appears in the opera.  I also
studied with a master drummer in order to understand
the workings of the various complex polyrhythms in
Haitian dance, named after the ancient West African
kingdoms from where they had originated.  These dances
form the religious and dynamic backbone of the opera.

The Kingdom was produced at the Engelenbak theatre in
Amsterdam, after four months of workshops and
rehearsals, directed by Rufus Collins, formerly with
The Living Theatre - Andy Warhol featured Rufus in his
Couch, Kiss, and Screen Test  films. 

A special company had to be assembled, as no existing
group had the necessary cultural mix needed for the
opera.  Before the first performance rumours about the
rehearsals had been circulating in Amsterdam, and in
the words of a journalist ‘after one hour all
performances for the whole week were sold out.’  The
opera was taken on a tour of Holland, and according to
another journalist, ‘caused a veritable storm attack
at the box office.’  DNA, the music, dance and
 theatre
company, was set up from this production of The
Kingdom. 

These are edited highlights from the three-camera film
of the Amsterdam production

London 1-5 and Maryland 1 She Encountered Those Raging Gales was screened on May 18 at Artomatic.

LONDON 4 AND 5 WILL BE SCREENED ON FRIDAY 18 MAY at 7PM AT THE FOUNDRY, AT THE CORNER OF OLD STREET AND GREAT EASTERN STREET, LONDON

ENTRANCE FREE Artist, Jill Rock, within her solo show Tree Say, May 10th –May 20th, presents the Ocatillo Arts Group and the poet Spike Hawkins in BRAINPRISM:

 an international screening of short films with poetry and text filmmakers: Glauco Bermudez, Chris Burke, Nick Collins, Agnes Háy, Maureen Kendall, Chris Lynn, Nancy Petry/Hannelore Storm, Robert Le Ricolais Robertson, Matt Semel/Samuel Crow film projection : Richard Martin

‘The poetry of Spike Hawkins works at the point where everything is suddenly changed: impulse, image, grammar, thought - through the prism in the brain.’ The BRAINPRISM programme features two film settings of poems by Spike Hawkins. In ‘dialogue’ films the audience watch actors in a setting. In the films in BRAINPRISM there is no mediation through actors. The setting moves into the foreground and envelops itself round the audience, who as they watch and listen, become actors in the film. We, the audience are in the films. The subjective prism of the filmmaker’s brain is directly communicated to the audience’s prismatic brain. The refracted reality of the filmmaker is further refracted by the audience. Use your BRAINPRISM! Thank you Malevich and Eisenstein!

London 1-3( early versions) screened in the Second Life Gallery 24/7 until May 20, 2007. Go here to watch along with other Artomatic shorts.

London 4 and 5 and Winter Movement will be screened at Artomatic 2007 on April 19, 2007 at 8:45pm. Go here for details

London 5 Unknown Year will be screened at The Heritage Film Festival on Saturday March 31, 2007. Go here and here for info.

Primer Festival De Cine Experimental &Animation-Xalapa 2006. November 2, The Seasonal Quartet at 18:00 as part of the films on Water and Light.

The  Seasonal
Quartet was shown at a screening on November 23rd at
ANOTHER VACANT SPACE, Parliament St.,  Liverpool, as
part of this year's Liverpool Biennial

NEW YORK EXPERIMENTAL

November 19 @ 6:00

An evening of experimental films from around the globe, with scenes ranging from dancing plants and Norwegian forests to glimpses of autumn and meditations on industrial and emotional landscapes. This diverse program presents the world of organics, as reflected in seasonal changes and quirky botanical narratives, in contrast with representations of the contrived existence of urban life and the cult of theatricality. Each work, using unique devices, presents an intimate glimpse of a particular mental or physical space.

Featuring works by Yun Kim (US), Minou Norouzi (UK), Shanna Maurizi (US), Paul Masters (UK), Tina Willgren (NO), Rachel Urkowitz + Lisa Oppenheim (US), Gad Hollander (UK), Chris Lynn (US), and Rafaël (ES).

Go here for more info-The Tank - Space for Performing and Visual Arts in NYC

Utopia's Second Annual Experimental Film/Video Festival. Saturday, October 28, 2006 Time: 6:00 PM

Location-Greenbelt Maryland's Municipal Building. Go here for more details

Urban/Rural Landscapes explored in Video and Film

1.Boulder/Brooklyn (Nicole Koschmann) A correspondence
through images from Brooklyn, NY to Boulder, Colorado.

2. Flow (Scott NYERGES)-A meditation on the creeks and
rivers of Austin, Texas during the spring and summer
rendered in paint and pixels.
3.The Lights and Perfections (Paul Clipson) A bug's eye
view of the world, mysterious and wonderful-plant
studies and urban landscapes woven into soft focus
home movies.
4. Clouds and the Docklands (Chris Lynn)Vignette 4 in
the London series is an examination of the  of the
Docklands in London juxtaposed with rain and clouds.
5. Tide mills (Nick Collins)The poetry of the UK
seacoast on any given day.
6.(rock/hard place)(Roger Beebe)A film that attempts to
bring the Urban and rural landscape together in one
frame, so  the viewer can question the significance.
Shot in Morro Bay, California
7.The Taste of the South (Mar Solis) Shot in Spain this
is a vivid portrait of Easter week.
8. Translumination (Craig Herndon) An abstract journey
in sound and colour.

Program runs around 56 Minutes. Expect a few surprises.

The WPA\C Experimental Media Series


All nights will run from 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Location: Corcoran Gallery of Art's Armand Hammer Auditorium (New York Ave. entrance)
Address: 500 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006


Night 1 – Wed, September 27 - Curated by Peggy Parsons (Head, Department of Film Programs, National Gallery of Art)

Cowboys, Cliches, Codes, and Conspiracies –

Formal and narrative strategies in experimental and digital media --- recycling old formats, borrowing styles and symbols, mixing fact and fiction, playing off old and new storytelling devices, merging collage and animation, and augmenting texture and color --- will be examined in works featured in Night #1 of the WPA\C Experimental Media Series 2. A special appearance by performance/media artist Ben Coonley will kick off the evening.

Featuring:
Untitled – Lisa Blatt - Washington , DC
Digital Poem #1 – Paris Bustillos - Washington , DC
Figure in the Carpet – Jennifer Levonian - Philadelphia
Seasonal Quartet, Winter Movement – Chris Lynn - Maryland
Pushing Cowboys – Lilly McElroy - Chicago
ADAGIO - Roger Ngim - San Francisco
In Places – Erik Olofsen - Amsterdam
State of the Union – Randall Packer - Washington , DC
Oil: You Can Depend On It – Rob Parrish - Washington , DC
Shroud of Security – James Schneider - Washington , DC
Sigh – Ann Steuernagel - Massachusetts
Nature on a Leash – Gail Scott White - Virginia

Live Power Point performance & 3D video by:
Ben Coonley, New York
Remapping the Apparatus: Cinematographic Specificity and Hybrid Media [Otto Content Wizards]
Valentine for Perfect Strangers
3D Trick Pony
The Best Gifts  

         
Winter Movement 1 will be screened at the Corcoran Gallery of Art next week for the WPA\C Experimental Media Series, curated by Peggy Parsons.  This evening will be held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s Armand Auditorium from 7 – 9pm on Wednesday, September 27^th.  The title of the evening will be: "Cowboys, Clichés, Codes, and Conspiracies" (Designing narrative strategies and meanings in experimental media).

Screening Untitled Poem and London Vignettes 1-3 at London Biennale for the Migration and Exile show. August 14-September 4th 2006 in association with Ocatillo Arts. Location LONDON BIENNALE IN ARCADIA, The Stables Gallery, Orleans House, Twickenham Riverside, TW1 3DJ,  UK

Screening The Seasonal Quartet at London Biennale in Arcadia July 13-August 11, 2006 in association with Ocatillo Arts. Location-LONDON BIENNALE IN ARCADIA, The Stables Gallery, Orleans House, Twickenham Riverside, TW1 3DJ,  UK

Exploding the Frame screened at The Landscape and Art Gallery in London. June 13, 2006. More details soon.

Autumn Movement 1 screened at The Heritage Film Festival March 25-Go here for details

3/4/06-

4/12/06-Screening at The Landscape and Arts Gallery in London. Go here for details-Landscape and Arts Network-look under Diary Dates

2/11/06 -Another event at the nowuno gallery http://www.tiffanyarts.com/nowuno.html. 
This band will be performing there as well with visuals http://www.questionthetruth.com/noise/cutestpuppy/main2.html   

Screening The Seasonal Quartet at the NowUno Gallery, Washington D.C. January 21.

Screening The Seasonal Quartet at the Utopia Film Festival. November 11,12,13.

Details coming soon.

EXPLODING THE FRAME -     LANDSCAPE IN CONTEMPORARY FILM
7pm  Friday 24th June
Calder Bookshop
51 The Cut
Nearest tube: Waterloo
Entry £5  Members/concs £3
Early booking advised - 0208 446 6849

OCATILLO PRESENTS:
 
EXPLODING THE FRAME -     LANDSCAPE IN CONTEMPORARY FILM
 
Most films involve some sort of human interaction.  What happens when this interaction is with the landscape?  Editing patterns, camera angles, camera distances, framing, which are largely based on the ways we interact with others, are exploded.  These human-based methods are totally re-configured, and music and sound take on a new level of equality with the visual. 
 
This is what happens in this selection of contemporary films, where urban and rural landscapes, as natural as each other, are projected directly into the eyes and ears of the audience, a stream of ideas and impulses uninterrupted by the dominant presence of others.
 
7pm  Friday 24th June
Calder Bookshop
51 The Cut
Nearest tube: Waterloo
Entry £5  Members/concs £3
Early booking advised - 0208 446 6849

Fresh Films - Tue April 26th - 7pm for 8pm start - £3.00

Closing night of our Music & Film Festival.
Screenings of shorts/music videos interspersed with live performance.
Headlined by:

Tina Pinder (guitar/vocal and double bass duo): like a tuneful Tom Waits if
he was a woman.

+ Brazilian jazz duo + Steve Barbe + open mic.

Our open call for submissions generated much interest from both local and
international filmmakers. The lineup includes:

David Sant - "Alpha Street SE15"
Stuart Pound - "Postcard"
Rafael - "The Witch"
Chris Lynn - "Afternoon Song"
RA Friedman - "Peripetatic"
Red Leader - "Romance"
DrinkMe - "Manifesto"
Asylum - "Desolation Angels"
Carpetface - "Let the Harvest Commence"
C-Mon & Kypski - "ShittyBum"

£3.00 entrance. The Café is fully licensed and serves vegetarian food. Fair
Trade tea and espresso/ hot chocolate are available. Good cakes.
Films start at 8.00 café open from 7.00. Call Chris for more info: 07905 961
876. Or phone the café on: 020 8320 2317. Tickets can be bought in advance
from the café. Early arrival advised.

We can reserve a total of 10 tickets over the phone. To reserve tickets
phone 020 8320 2317 during café opening times Mon-Fri 9.30-6.00. Please note
we can only hold reserved tickets until half an hour before the screening
start time. Or, guarantee your place by coming to the Café and buying
tickets in advance.

Where is it? Café Crema, 306 New Cross Road. Close to New Cross and New
Cross Gate tube stations on the East London Line. Easy on the bus.
All events from Fresh Films London Ltd are not for profit.

This programme is generously supported by the National Lottery through the
UK Film Council and Film London Regional Investment Fund for England and New
Cross Gate New Deal for the Community.

http://www.freshfilmslondon.com