INTERVIEW ME: Curry+Dillon

Photo: Laura Curry

Interview Me By Curry+Dillon
Interview Me is a new multidisciplinary work by Curry+Dillon, presented by the Northwest Film Forum to open its 2011 Live at the Film Forum season.

When: September 15 – 17, 8 pm
Lobby installation begins at 7:30 pm
Where: Northwest Film Forum,  1515 12^th Ave., Seattle WA 98122
Contact Information:
Laura Curry
Lori Dillon
curryanddillon@gmail.com

About Interview Me
Interview Me integrates public installation, multi-media performance, and dance theatre to explore the ways in which interviews function in our society.  Curry+Dillon exploit the drama and architecture of “the interview” in a highly interactive evening where the audience plays a significant role in the experience.  Drawing from historical references and contemporary social media, Interview Me forces an up-close investigation of America’s love affair, and contemporary culture’s fascination, with the interview.

Interview Me is supported in part by 4Culture, Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, Northwest Film Forum and other generous donors.

Ticket Information
Tickets available at Brown Paper Tickets, at Northwest Film Forum and at the door.

Filed under: Event, installation, performance, Screening, Laura Curry, Lori Dillon

DMS STUDENT SHOW

DMS Spring Student Show
When: Monday, May 2, 2011 @ 5 PM
Where: The Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Announcing a new format for the DMS Student Show!
The evening will include: a program of featured student work; a plenary session where DMS awards will be presented; and parallel exhibitions of student work in multiple rooms (see schedule below). The goal of these changes is to encourage co-mingling of people, ideas and media and to support the diversity of work that is produced in DMS.

Schedule
5:00: Room 112 Featured Student Work
5:20: Room 112 Plenary & Awards
5:40: Intermission & Food
Multiple Screening and Interactive/Installation Rooms
Rooms 112, 232, 235, 242, 246, 278, 286
6:00 – 7:20: Session 1
7:20: Intermission & Food
7:40 – 9:00: Session 2

We hope to see you at the plenary session!

Filed under: awards ceremony, class show, Event, exhibition, installation, presentation, Screening

FILMMAKER JOHN TERRY: Public Lecture and Screening

Tuesday, March 29, 2011
@ 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
UB North Campus
Center for the Arts Room 112 (Auditorium)

A very special opportunity to hear internationally recognized filmmaker John Terry speak about and present his films in person!

An independent filmmaker who has made more than 28 films, John Terry has taught at RISD, Yale, the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT he was instrumental in founding MIT’s documentary film/video program. He has been a Professor of Film/Animation/Video at RISD for more than two decades. In 1999 and 2004 Terry was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, and lectured there in 1975. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts. A capable administrator, he served as RISD’s acting associate provost in the late 1990s. He was department head Film Animation & Video from 1995-2001 and was been Dean of Fine Arts from 2002-2010.

Filed under: Event, Lecture, Screening, John Terry

EXCHANGE STORIES SYMPOSIUM at Hallwalls

Exchange Stories Symposium
A one-day symposium, free and open to the public

Sunday, March 20th from 3 – 6 pm
@ Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center
341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202

Exchange Stories:
Economics, Labor, and Interchange Explored in the Moving Image

How can we use make and use media to envision the ever-shifting connections of global economics?

Exchange Stories seeks to explore how current economies are being represented in contemporary European video and film. Incorporating the films of several artists, this seminar will examine different forms of economic practice as forms of cultural practice, raising questions such as how economic practice operates in contemporary cultures. The film program employs a wide range of approaches including experimental, documentary, auto-ethnographic and vérité strategies, which sometimes analytically, sometimes ironically deal with these topics. The presented films each individually try to activate new forms of understanding and “doing” or “thinking” economy.

Filed under: Event, presentation, Screening, anna scime, cayden mak, Discoteca Flaming Star, Gerhard Friedl, Jan Peter Hammer, Laura Horelli, Lisa Jane Davis, liz flyntz, Sophie Hamacher

ANALOG: A Film by John J. Fink

When: Sunday, April 10 · 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Where: Market Arcade Films and Arts Centre

Traversing the boundaries of imagination and fact, filmmaker John J. Fink presents a new semi-autobiographical short film, Analog, about a young Buffalo, NY couple. Wade, a long haul truck driver (Benjamin L. Newmark) and his wife, Diana (Tilke Hill) struggle to come to terms with an open secret they must break to their son (Ethan Dempsy).

Written & Directed by John J. Fink
Produced by Isaac DV Johnson & John J. Fink

Screening in Shorts Block E on Sunday April 10th, 2011 at 3PM, Theatre #1 at Dipson Theatres Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre.

For more information, please visit www.johnfinkfilms.com.

Filed under: Event, Screening, Benjamin L. Newmark, Ethan Dempsy, Isaac DV Johnson, john fink, Tilke Hill

PEEPSHOW 2011: It’s Complicated

PEEPSHOW 2011: It’s Complicated – Squeaky Wheel’s high-energy fundraising art party & art-stravaganza!
When: Saturday, February 26, 2011, 8:00 p.m. – 1:00a.m.
Where: DNIPRO Ukrainian Center (562 Genesee St.)
Price: $15 pre-sale and $20 at door price ($15 for students w/ ID)

Squeaky Wheel is at it again! On February 26th, this Buffalo based media arts center is hosting their annual fundraiser showcase this year at the Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center. This unique multi-level venue will be the jam-packed with works of art from over 40 artists, featuring a massive dose of live music performances, an art auction, and interactive art projects such as an auto-playing musical instrument consisting of 12 vibrating dildos by Brian Larson Clark, 50-foot-long kinetic sculptures crafted from flexible tubes containing intelligent lights that moves with the rhythm of the music by Joel Resnikoff and even a human mirror ball. Purchase your tickets today and become part of the fun and games this year.

For those of you interested to get the first crack at the art auction, get a ticket for the Peepshow PEEP! Pre-party from 7:00-8:00pm. Pre-party tickets are available online and include adjacent parking, first bid at the art auction, complimentary cocktails, authentic Ukrainian hors d’oeuvres, a VIP video screening at 8:00pm, and music by After Hours.

Advance tickets will be sold for $15 at Squeaky Wheel, Café Taza, Sweetness 7, Talking Leaves and online.

Filed under: Event, exhibition, installation, presentation, Screening, Aaron Oldenburg, Alice Alexandrescu, Alicia Paolucci, anna scime, Brian Larson Clark, Brittany Debole, Caitlin Cass, Chelsea Wagner, Dax Norman, Eric Souther, Jason Bernagozzi, Jeff Maciejewski, Jody Lafond, Joel Resnikoff, John Bono, john fink, John Knecht, jordan dalton, Josh Parkins, Katy Brown, Keir Nueringer, kyle butler, Lukia Costello, Marc Tomko, Mark Hursty, Mark Madden, Morgan Higby-Flowers, Nalani Latrish Williams, Nancy Parisi, Neil Ira Needleman, Patrick McElnea, Russell Chartier, Ruth Goldman, Stephen Ausherman, Steven Ansell, Susan Stefanski, tammy mcgovern, Tara Najd Ahmadi, Timothy Scaffidi, Tom Holt, Victoria Bradbury, Vince Mistretta, Vincent Ducarne

15th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL

The Fifteenth Annual International Women’s Film Festival
@ the Market Arcade 639 Main Street, Buffalo, NY
on February 17, 2011 – March 31, 2011

The festival is running for six consecutive Thursdays and gives film lovers from Western New York a rare chance to see some authentically underground films from all over the world.

The IWFF, which is sponsored by UB’s Gender Institute, consists mostly of little-known films made by un- or underfunded independent women filmmakers. Festival programmer Ruth Goldman, in her second year at the helm, says she likes to cast as wide a net as possible when scheduling the festival. “I believe the festival should provide viewers with the opportunity to see films by women that they would not otherwise have the opportunity to see in a theater,” Goldman says.

Although most mainstream moviegoers will not recognize the filmmakers in the lineup, Goldman, who is an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Media Study and a documentary filmmaker herself, says the point of the festival is not to give viewers something they are comfortable with. Instead, the festival should make viewers uncomfortable, it should make them think, and it should introduce them to new ways of seeing the movies. “As a programmer and educator,” Goldman says, “my intent is to provoke, in the best possible spirit of the word.”

To view the entire Spree Article: http://buffalospreemagazine.com/current/010211film.html

Channel 7 Clip: http://www.wkbw.com/programming/am-buffalo/video/Buffalo-Spree-Magazine—International-Womens-Film-Festival—January-20th-114305439.html

Film Fest Schedule:  http://genderin.buffalo.edu/filmfest.php

 

 

Filed under: Event, festival, Screening, Ruth Goldman

Küçük Sinemalar! – Experimental Cinema from Turkey

Sun., Jan. 16, 2011 at 3:00 p.m.
@ Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

$8 general, $6 students/seniors, $5 members

Küçük Sinemalar! (Little Cinemas) is a screening of new experimental shorts by a tight-knit of group film and video makers from Turkey, including Can Eskinazi, Eytan Ipeker, Yoel Meranda, Cengiz Yetken, Mustafa Uzuner and DMS MFA candidate Ekrem Serdar.

“Küçük Sinemalar! is a group of media artists, highly cognizant of ideas and aesthetics coming from the North American and European avant-garde, who together also operate the Turkish experimental cinema blog of the same name,” states curator Ekrem Serdar. “Hoping to provide a small survey of experimental practice originating from a continent-straddling nation, the screening will also provide an initial forum for discovery of Turkish avant-garde cinema with a screening of Cengiz Yetken’s 16mm film Of Eh (1968).” The screening is a follow up to “Formless”, a screening of experimental cinema which took place at Istanbul’s Pera Museum. For more information please visit kucuksinemalar.blogspot.com or hallwalls.org.

Filed under: Event, presentation, Screening, Can Eskinazi, Cengiz Yetken, Ekrem Serdar, Eytan Ipeker, Küçük Sinemalar!, Mustafa Uzuner, Of Eh, Turkish experimental cinema, Yoel Meranda

Reactionary Ensemble & Nimbus Dance: SURROUND: VISUAL

Surround: Visual
December 8th at Asbury Hall in Babeville
341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, NY

Surround: Audio/Visual is a brand new 2-part performance by the Reactionary Ensemble commissioned as part of Beyond/In WNY 2010. Reactionary Ensemble is a roving circuit of improvisational artists and musicians looking to merge sound and vision into an immersive, multidimensional experience. Fluid in nature, these sensory-based performances unleash streams of transitory sounds and visual images to stimulate a hypnotic, primordial, trance-like state of spontaneous free association.

Surround: Visual is the final performance of Beyond/In WNY. The show will feature a 40-ft diameter screen surrounding the audience designed by architect Brad Wales. The screen will have 8 different live mixed videos projected onto it mixed by 8 different video artists utilizing the same audio data from the instruments.

Reactionary is also working with dance company nimbus dance, following the successful collaboration radio/ACTIVE at this summer’s Infringement Festival. The dancers will wear Wiimotes to track their motion data, which will also be converted into visual data for the video artists to work with.

Surround: Visual will feature over 25 artists, including dancers Elyssa Bourke, Erin Bahn, Beth Elkins, Nancy Hughes, Laura Matteliano, Angela Lopez, Leanne Rinelli and Bonnie Jean Taylor, video artists Cory Gath, Courtney Grim, Liz Knipe, Carl Lee, Jeff Maciejewski, Tammy McGovern, Brian Milbrand and Vince Mistretta, and musicians Jim Abramson, Kathleen Ashwill, Steve Baczkowski, Michael Basinski, Gabe Beam, Kevin Obrien Cain, Jenece Gerber, Mike Kimaid, Keir Neuringer, KG Price and T. Andrew Trump and Stage Director Melissa Shanahan.

Filed under: Event, performance, Screening, Angela Lopez, Beth Elkins, Beyond/In WNY, Bonnie Jean Taylor, Brian Milbrand, Carl Lee, Cory Gath, Courtney Grim, Elyssa Bourke, Erin Bahn, Gabe Beam, Jeff Maciejewski, Jenece Gerber, Jim Abramson, Kathleen Ashwill, Keir Neuringer, Kevin Obrien Cain, KG Price, Laura Matteliano, Leanne Rinelli, Liz Knipe, Melissa Shanahan, Michael Basinski, Mike Kimaid, Nancy Hughes, nimbus dance, Reactionary Ensemble, Steve Baczkowski, T. Andrew Trump, tammy mcgovern, Vince Mistretta

HOLLOW SPACES: A film by JOHN J. FINK

MFA candidate John J. Fink will screen his film Hollow Spaces at the 2010 Hartford International Film Festival in Hartford, Connecticut. MFA & MArch candidate Adam Laskowitz also contributed music to the film.

Hollow Spaces is a narrative drama about a young man who after running away five years earlier must return home to confront a violent secret that threatens to consume his future.

The film will screen on Saturday November 6, 2010 at 7:30PM at the Screening Room at La Paloma Sabanera, 405 Capital Ave, Hartford, Connecticut.

View the Trailer for Hollow Spaces by John Fink on Vimeo.

More information and tickets are available at http://www.capitolcinema.org/.

Filed under: Event, festival, Screening, adam laskowitz, john fink