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25 FPS / The 6th Edition

Marcos Ortega — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:49:56 +0000

25 FPS is looking for works that explore conceptual and technological possibilities of the medium; works that relate to the tradition of experimental and avant-garde film making in an innovative way; works that reveal new forms of the moving image.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Submission deadline: JUNE 1, 2010
Selection results: Mid JULY 2010 on the festival website
Entry fee: none
Preview format: DVD (PAL or NTSC)

REQUIREMENTS
Films completed after: January 1, 2008
Max running time: 20 minutes
Country of production: All countries
Festival screening format: 35 mm, 16 mm, Digital Betacam PAL, Betacam SP PAL, HDCAM (PAL ONLY!)
Genres accepted: Experimental
Online submissions: www.shortfilmdepot.com

25 FPS VIDEOLIBRARY
All preview DVDs submitted for the Competition will automatically be available at the video library for the professionals. If the author doesn't want his/her work to be available in the library, he/she has to specify it at the end of the printed and signed application form.

ADDRESS
25 FPS
Nova Ves 18
10000 Zagreb
Croatia

E-mail: info(at)25fps.hr
Tel/Fax: +385 1 457 22 03

Directors Lounge 2010 - Media Art Festival

Klaus W. Eisenlohr — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:48:30 +0000

From 12th until 21th February 2010, daily from 6 pm with open end.
Opening: Sunday, 11. February at 8 pm
Location: Meinblau e.V., Pfefferberg, Christinenstr. 18/19, D-10119 Berlin, Germany

Web: http://www.directorslounge.net

At the same time as Berlinale reaches their 60th year, Directors Lounge celebrates her 6th anniversary this February, in 2010. Starting off in 2005 as a spontaneous self-organized place for friends of experimental media arts and for stressed-out film ticket hunters, the small festival has grown to an international platform for exceptional film and media shows. Directors Lounge has presented artists and their works on fairs and exhibitions, features single artists in monthly screenings in Berlin and presents selected works on the web. However, the media art festival in February still is the very heart and core of Directors Lounge, and should not be missed.

Steina and Woody Vasulka: Latent Perceptions

Marcos Ortega — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:03:34 +0000

Steina and Woody Vasulka: Latent Perceptions
Saturday 20 February 2010, 19:30
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
Bankside, London SE1 9TG

Major figures in the history of video art and electronic media, the Vasulkas have contributed enormously to the evolution of digital aesthetics through a prolific body of work exploring the malleability of vision, the manipulation of electronic energy and the interrelation of sound and image.

This programme will highlight single-channel video works created in the 1970s in conjunction with a presentation by the artists about their current work.

The Vasulkas' investigations into analogue and digital processes and their development of electronic imaging tools, which began in the early 1970s, place them among the primary architects of an electronic vocabulary for image-making.

All of their work is in some way connected to a fundamental agenda: to interrogate the intrinsic properties of the machine as cultural code and the latent or overt perceptual changes that emerge.

Programme duration 90 min

Please note that this programme is not suitable for people sensitive to flashing images.
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended

Pacific Film Archive: Four by Nathaniel Dorsky

Marcos Ortega — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:42:01 +0000

Pacific Film Archive: Four by Nathaniel Dorsky
Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2625 Durant Avenue #2250
Berkeley, CA 94720-2250, USA

Two Premieres. Nathaniel Dorsky in Person

“The films of Nathaniel Dorsky blend a beauteous celebration of the sensual world with a deep sense of introspection and solitude. They are occasions for reflection and meditation, on light, landscape, time, and the motions of consciousness. Dorsky’s films reveal the mystery behind everyday existence, providing intimations of eternity” (Steve Polta, San Francisco Cinematheque). Dorsky writes of Sarabande, “Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande.” And of Winter: “San Francisco’s winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal.” Describing his two most recent films, Compline and Aubade, he writes, “Compline is a night devotion or prayer, the last of the canonical hours, the final act in a cycle. This film is also the last film I will be able to shoot on Kodachrome, a film stock I have shot since I was ten years old. It is a loving duet with and a fond farewell to this noble emulsion. An aubade is a poem or morning song evoking the first rays of the sun at daybreak. Often, it includes the atmosphere of lovers parting. This film is my first venture into shooting in color negative after having spent a lifetime shooting Kodachrome. In some sense, it is a new beginning for me.”

- Sarabande (2008, 15 mins, PFA Collection).
- Winter (2008, 21.5 mins, PFA Collection)
- Compline (2009, 18.5 mins, From the artist).
- Aubade (2010, 11.5 mins, From the artist).

• (Total running time: 67 mins @ 18 fps, Silent, Color, 16mm)

Videoart.net - Video Art & Experimental Film Festival

Marcos Ortega — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:27:08 +0000

Videoart.net - Video Art & Experimental Film Festival

Deadline: April 14, 2010

Call for Artists:

Videoart.net, the international network for underground video art & experimental film is excited to announce a call for entries for its first annual festival, "Video Art & Experimental Film Festival"

We invite video artists and filmmakers from all over the world to submit their work. How to submit?

About the Festival:

The Video Art and Experimental Film Festival 2010 will offer a wide spectrum of contemporary video art and experimental films. the event will take place on May 22nd, 2010 at “Tribeca Cinemas,” 54 Varick Street, New York , NY.

The much anticipated festival promises to be a watershed event towards the development of this art form, pushing it free from its traditional home in galleries and museums and lifting it to its rightful place in today’s digital revolution.

"A new generation has to create its new strategies to show, to represent, distribute. And I think it can happen in galleries! Outside of galleries! In museums! Outside of museums! And that is part of what I think the future holds." click here for full interview

-John G. Hanhardt the former senior curator of film and media arts, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum-

Oporto apresenta #18: What is the sound of one hand clapping?

Marcos Ortega — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:48:03 +0000

"What is the sound of one hand clapping?" by Liliane Lijn
16 mm film, color, sound, 14', 1973
Camera : Roger Coward and Pip Benveniste; Editing : Liliane Lijn; Sound: Rolf Gehlhaar
Saturday, February 6, 2010, 11 pm

Liliam Lijne could be considered as a "kinetic wizard" for her persistent research on the fluid matters of time and space.
The film "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" is a natural follow up for her kinetic experiments done during the sixties. The piece is based on the phonetic resemblance between the words "Koan" and "Cone" and could be seen as a "conic mantra". Several early sculptures, preliminary studies for her monumental work "The white Koan", were portrayed spinning. The rotating movement liberates inner resonances that were captured by the camera as ontological matter.

“A timely experiment on perpetual vision”- Alexandre Estrela

Oporto is a studio and a non-profit screening room located in Lisboa. Occupying the former Merchant Sailors Union headquarters, Oporto projects from time to time a single unique experimental video or film. The programme is exquisite and extremely slow.The selection of the pieces screened is made, not only on the basis of the work itself, but also on an overall idea of an exquisite corpse . The space is directed by artist Alexandre Estrela, in cooperation with designers and associate program managers Antonio Gomes and Claudia Castelo a.k.a. Barbara Says and artist Miguel Soares. Sponsored by GAU- Gestão de Audiovisuais.

Transfera TV #38: Mutaciones del entorno

Marcos Ortega — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:35:39 +0000

Tras la celebración de MADATAC y del paréntesis festivo, Transfera, un espacio televisivo independiente de arte audiovisual contemporáneo referente en su género que se emite desde Madrid a las 21:00, vuelve a las andadas.

El programa del próximo viernes 5 de febrero 2010 es el siguiente:

- El encarnador de sueños (Javier De Juan-Creix, España/Spain, 2009, 9' 13")
- La bestia (Jorge Garcia Velayos, España/Spain, 2009, 5' 20")
- Alone (Gerard Freixes, España/Spain), 2008, 3’ 06”)
- Remix Station (Paulo R.C.Barros, Brazil, 2008/09, 7'00”)
- The boy, the bike and the apple (Robin Whenary, Reino Unido/U.K., 2001/2007, 4'30")

Podéis acceder a la información completa en: http://www.transfera.es/programa38.html

Parakino: Witold Krymarys

Marcos Ortega — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:45:00 +0000

Witold Krymarys
Thursday, February 11th, 2010, at 6pm.
Centrum Sztuki Wspólczesnej Laznia
ul. Jaskólcza 1, 80-767, Gdansk, Poland

Witold Krymarys (b. 1948) has been active in the artistic field since 1972. In the 1980s he took interest in structural video and started to penetrate fields bordering on photography and video. He created the series "Fotomocje" ("Photomotions"). These were blurred photos taken at lower shutter speed, which deprived the image from the resemblance to reality up to the point of being illegible. As the author claims, that point or border was crucial to him. The photographic series found its conclusion at the exhibition "E-MOTION" at the Gallery of Lódz Photographic Association in 1978, and inspired the following video works. By the 1990s, Krymarys recorded a couple of dozens of short films, often documentaries based on the themes from local artistic life.

Curator: Michal Brzezinski

Incite!: Takahiko Iimura

Marcos Ortega — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:45:29 +0000

La revista digital Incite! continua con su sección de entrevistas Back & Forth con Takahiko Iimura, entrevistado por el cineasta y fundador de Close-up Damien Sanville.

Una entrevista con Matthias Müller y Christoph Girardet

Marcos Ortega — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:24:02 +0000

La última edición del Festival International de Cine de Gijón dedicó una retrospectiva a los cinetas experimentales alemanes Matthias Müller y Christoph Girardet, un tándem artístico, que en la mayoría de su obra utiliza la técnica del metraje encontrado o 'found footage' para descifrar la ideología masculina dominante en el cine clásico. Esta entrevista realizada para Blogs&Docs es el resultado de una breve charla con los artistas durante el festival, ampliada posteriormente a través de correo electrónico.