Following the lineups from Slamdance and Sundance, an early look at 2023 in cinema has come into further focus with the announcement of the competition lineup for the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Taking place January 25 through February 5, the festival will open with Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken’s Munch, an experimental biopic of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. Along with the Tiger and Big Screen competition, seen below, the festival will also Steve McQueen’s latest artwork Sunshine State, a two-channel video projection.
Check out the lineup below via THR.
Opening Film
Munch, dir. Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken
Tiger Competition
100 Seasons, dir. Giovanni Bucchieri
Gagaland, dir. Teng Yuhan
Geology of Separation, dirs. Yosr Gasmi, Mauro Mazzocchi
Indivision, dir. Leïla Kilani
Letzter Abend, dir. Lukas Nathrath
Mannvirki, dir. Gústav Geir Bollason
Munnel, dir. Visakesa Chandrasekaram
New Strains, dir. Artemis Shaw, Prashanth Kamalakanthan
Notas sobre un verano, dir. Diego Llorente
Numb, dir. Amir Toodehroosta
Nummer achttien, dir.
Check out the lineup below via THR.
Opening Film
Munch, dir. Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken
Tiger Competition
100 Seasons, dir. Giovanni Bucchieri
Gagaland, dir. Teng Yuhan
Geology of Separation, dirs. Yosr Gasmi, Mauro Mazzocchi
Indivision, dir. Leïla Kilani
Letzter Abend, dir. Lukas Nathrath
Mannvirki, dir. Gústav Geir Bollason
Munnel, dir. Visakesa Chandrasekaram
New Strains, dir. Artemis Shaw, Prashanth Kamalakanthan
Notas sobre un verano, dir. Diego Llorente
Numb, dir. Amir Toodehroosta
Nummer achttien, dir.
- 12/19/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Munch.International Film Festival Rotterdam have announced the lineup for their 52nd edition, which will take place between January 25 through February 5. The festival will be held in-person for the first time since 2020.Opening FILMMunch (Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken)Tiger COMPETITION100 årstider (Giovanni Bucchieri)Gagaland (Teng Yuhan)Geology of SeparationIndivision (Leïla Kilani)Letzter Abend (Lukas Nathrath)Mannvirki (Gústav Geir Bollason)Munnel (Visakesa Chandrasekaram)New StrainsNotas sobre un verano (Diego Llorente)Numb (Amir Toodehroosta)Nummer achttien (Guido van der Werve)La Palisiada (Philip Sotnychenko)Playland (Georden West)Le spectre de Boko Haram (Cyrielle Raingou)Thiiird (Karim Kassem)three sparks (Naomi Uman)Big Screen COMPETITIONAvant l’effondrementBefore the Buzzards Arrive (Jonás N. Díaz)Copenhagen Does Not Exist (Martin Skovbjerg)Drawing LotsEndless Borders (Abbas Amini)Le formiche di Mida (Edgar Honetschläger)Four Little Adults (Selma Vilhunen)La hembrita (Laura Amelia Guzmán Conde)Joram (Devashish Makhija)Luka (Jessica Woodworth)My Little Nighttime Secret (Natalya Meshchaninova...
- 12/19/2022
- MUBI
‘Munch’ to open first physical Rotterdam film festival since 2020; Tiger, Big Screen titles unveiled
It will be artistic director Vanja Kaludjercic’s first full physical event since being appointed three years ago.
Norwegian director Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken’s Munch will open the 2023 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), taking place from January 25-February 5 in the Netherlands. It is the first in-person festival following two online pandemic events and the first physical one for festival director Vanja Kaludjercic since taking over from Bero Beyer after the 2020 event.
Munch, which will screen out of competition, explores the life of the tortured Norwegian artist, celebrated for his painting of ‘The Scream’, and who endured mental turmoil throughout his life.
Norwegian director Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken’s Munch will open the 2023 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), taking place from January 25-February 5 in the Netherlands. It is the first in-person festival following two online pandemic events and the first physical one for festival director Vanja Kaludjercic since taking over from Bero Beyer after the 2020 event.
Munch, which will screen out of competition, explores the life of the tortured Norwegian artist, celebrated for his painting of ‘The Scream’, and who endured mental turmoil throughout his life.
- 12/19/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
This year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled the 16 films selected for its flagship Tiger Competition. Scroll down for the full list.
As always, the competition selection is a global affair, with features from Sweeden to Sri Lanka. The 2023 jury will grant three prizes: the Tiger Award, plus two special jury awards. On the jury are: Alonso Díaz de la Vega, Anisia Uzeyman, Christine Vachon, Lav Diaz, and Sabrina Baracetti.
Running from January 25 to February 5, the fest is set to return for its first full-scale physical edition since the pandemic. The event will open with Munch, an experimental feature biopic of the Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch by Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken (Returning Home).
The honorary Robby Müller Award will go to French cinematographer Hélène Louvart. Louvart is best known for her work with Claire Denis, including the 1999 classic Beau Travail. Louvart has also worked with directors such as Wim Wenders,...
As always, the competition selection is a global affair, with features from Sweeden to Sri Lanka. The 2023 jury will grant three prizes: the Tiger Award, plus two special jury awards. On the jury are: Alonso Díaz de la Vega, Anisia Uzeyman, Christine Vachon, Lav Diaz, and Sabrina Baracetti.
Running from January 25 to February 5, the fest is set to return for its first full-scale physical edition since the pandemic. The event will open with Munch, an experimental feature biopic of the Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch by Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken (Returning Home).
The honorary Robby Müller Award will go to French cinematographer Hélène Louvart. Louvart is best known for her work with Claire Denis, including the 1999 classic Beau Travail. Louvart has also worked with directors such as Wim Wenders,...
- 12/19/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
While the pilot of the Amazon series “I Love Dick,” created by Jill Soloway and Sarah Gubbins, has been available to screen since last summer, the streaming service isn’t the only way to watch the show — at least, if you happened to be in Los Angeles recently for a full-day binge of the upcoming series.
Read More: Jill Soloway on the Audacity of ‘I Love Dick,’ and How It Might Create ‘Radical Feminist Sleeper Cells’
“I Love Dick,” based on the book by Chris Kraus, is an intense examination of what it means to be both a woman and a creator, seen through the lens of a female filmmaker named Chris (played by Kathryn Hahn) as she falls under the thrall of a stoic artist named Dick (Kevin Bacon). How this disrupts her marriage and her work is only one strand of the series, which features an eclectic ensemble...
Read More: Jill Soloway on the Audacity of ‘I Love Dick,’ and How It Might Create ‘Radical Feminist Sleeper Cells’
“I Love Dick,” based on the book by Chris Kraus, is an intense examination of what it means to be both a woman and a creator, seen through the lens of a female filmmaker named Chris (played by Kathryn Hahn) as she falls under the thrall of a stoic artist named Dick (Kevin Bacon). How this disrupts her marriage and her work is only one strand of the series, which features an eclectic ensemble...
- 5/5/2017
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Mubi is presenting the global online premiere of Peter Tscherkassky's short film, The Exquisite Corpus, running June 11 - July 10, 2016. The film will play at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York on July 1 and 3, and at Cinefamily in Los Angeles on July 1, 2 and 6.While Peter Tscherkassky was arranging pornographic film strips into his latest found-footage phantasmagoria, The Exquisite Corpus, Eve Heller reminded him, "Don't you forget about men! I want to have my fun too, not just watch women." This is advice from one experimental filmmaker to another, but also a request from one spouse to another (the two are married). The Exquisite Corpus premiered at the 2015 Quinzaine des réalisateurs, but the film's raw materials come from disreputable, disposable skin flicks and stag films. While Tscherkassky continues his working method he calls "manufracture" (named after his 1985 film) that pulverizes and reconfigures just about every assumption of cinematic...
- 7/1/2016
- MUBI
Peripheral Produce, the Portland, Or based underground film DVD distributor is having a major sale this summer, offering many of their discs for just $10.
Most of Peripheral’s products are compilation DVDs featuring the work of either a single artist or multiple filmmakers. Some of the discounted offerings include:
Naomi Uman: Milking and Scratching
Includes films: Leche, Mala Leche, Private Movie, Removed, and Hand Eye Coordination.
Matt McCormick: From Tugboats to Polar Bears
Includes films: Towlines (2004), Grounded (2004), American Nutria (2003), Past and Pending (2003), The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal (2001), Going to the Ocean (2001), The Vyrotonin Decision (1999) and Sincerely, Joe P. Bear (1999).
Deborah Stratman: Something Like Flying
Includes films: In Order Not To Be Here, Kings of the Sky, and From Hetty to Nancy.
The Auto-Cinematic Video Mix Tape
Includes films: Truth in Advertising by Negativland, Atlanta by Miranda July, Battles on the Astral Plane by Jon Raymond, Slow...
Most of Peripheral’s products are compilation DVDs featuring the work of either a single artist or multiple filmmakers. Some of the discounted offerings include:
Naomi Uman: Milking and Scratching
Includes films: Leche, Mala Leche, Private Movie, Removed, and Hand Eye Coordination.
Matt McCormick: From Tugboats to Polar Bears
Includes films: Towlines (2004), Grounded (2004), American Nutria (2003), Past and Pending (2003), The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal (2001), Going to the Ocean (2001), The Vyrotonin Decision (1999) and Sincerely, Joe P. Bear (1999).
Deborah Stratman: Something Like Flying
Includes films: In Order Not To Be Here, Kings of the Sky, and From Hetty to Nancy.
The Auto-Cinematic Video Mix Tape
Includes films: Truth in Advertising by Negativland, Atlanta by Miranda July, Battles on the Astral Plane by Jon Raymond, Slow...
- 7/18/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Aug. 4
7:00 p.m.
Hollywood Theatre
4122 Ne Sandy Boulevard
Portland, Oregon 97212
Hosted by: Peripheral Produce
Peripheral Produce, one of the leading purveyors of experimental and avant-garde film and video, has boldly re-released their seminal Auto-cinematic Video Mix Tape and will be celebrating said release with a massive screening at Portland’s Hollywood Theatre on Aug. 4. The screening will include work from the DVD by local artists such as Matt McCormick, Miranda July, Vanessa Renwick and Jon Raymond, as well as modern videos by Orland Nutt, Ben Popp, Ashley Lee Collinson and way more.
The Auto-cinematic Video Mix Tape was originally released on VHS way back in 1998 and has been out of print for way too long. However, it has been completely re-mastered for DVD and is currently available on the Peripheral Produce website. Portland, Oregon has long been a hotbed of great experimental media makers and the Mix Tape gathered...
7:00 p.m.
Hollywood Theatre
4122 Ne Sandy Boulevard
Portland, Oregon 97212
Hosted by: Peripheral Produce
Peripheral Produce, one of the leading purveyors of experimental and avant-garde film and video, has boldly re-released their seminal Auto-cinematic Video Mix Tape and will be celebrating said release with a massive screening at Portland’s Hollywood Theatre on Aug. 4. The screening will include work from the DVD by local artists such as Matt McCormick, Miranda July, Vanessa Renwick and Jon Raymond, as well as modern videos by Orland Nutt, Ben Popp, Ashley Lee Collinson and way more.
The Auto-cinematic Video Mix Tape was originally released on VHS way back in 1998 and has been out of print for way too long. However, it has been completely re-mastered for DVD and is currently available on the Peripheral Produce website. Portland, Oregon has long been a hotbed of great experimental media makers and the Mix Tape gathered...
- 8/3/2012
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
The fourth annual Migrating Forms media festival, which will run May 11-20 at the Anthology Film Archives in NYC, is a compelling mix of political films, pop culture explorations, ethnographic exposés and collections of new media art.
The fest begins and ends with political films directed and curated by Eric Baudelaire. His latest work, The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years without Images, opens the festival on May 11; while a pair of films – Masao Adachi & Kôji Wakamatsu’s Red Army/Pflp: Declaration of World War and The Dziga Vertov Group’s Ici et Ailleurs closes it on May 20.
Some of the special events sprinkled throughout the event include Ed Halter‘s survey of faux experimental films made for mainstream movies and TV shows that should prove to be an amazingly entertaining and enlightening discussion; a retrospective of the highly influential animation by Chuck Jones; the interactive...
The fest begins and ends with political films directed and curated by Eric Baudelaire. His latest work, The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years without Images, opens the festival on May 11; while a pair of films – Masao Adachi & Kôji Wakamatsu’s Red Army/Pflp: Declaration of World War and The Dziga Vertov Group’s Ici et Ailleurs closes it on May 20.
Some of the special events sprinkled throughout the event include Ed Halter‘s survey of faux experimental films made for mainstream movies and TV shows that should prove to be an amazingly entertaining and enlightening discussion; a retrospective of the highly influential animation by Chuck Jones; the interactive...
- 4/26/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Calgary’s $100 Film Festival is a celebration of film. Not “film” as a concept, but of actual celluloid. This year, their 19th, is three nights of strictly 8mm and 16mm films — No Video! — screening at the historic Plaza Theatre on March 3-5.
Each night starts off with a real bang: A unique live film and music performance by local musicians and filmmakers. Thursday features the combination of blues musician Erin Ross and a film by Farrah Alladin and Nathan Taylor; Friday is experimental indie band Axis of Conversation and a film by Alex Mitchell; and Friday is musician Kris Ip Ryzak and a film by Ben Tsui.
Also on Friday, mixed in with the regular lineup of films, is a mini-retrospective of Montreal-based experimental filmmaker Alexandre Larose, featuring four of his films — Artifices, 930, Ville Marie and Brouillard. Then, after all films have screened for the night, Larose will host a...
Each night starts off with a real bang: A unique live film and music performance by local musicians and filmmakers. Thursday features the combination of blues musician Erin Ross and a film by Farrah Alladin and Nathan Taylor; Friday is experimental indie band Axis of Conversation and a film by Alex Mitchell; and Friday is musician Kris Ip Ryzak and a film by Ben Tsui.
Also on Friday, mixed in with the regular lineup of films, is a mini-retrospective of Montreal-based experimental filmmaker Alexandre Larose, featuring four of his films — Artifices, 930, Ville Marie and Brouillard. Then, after all films have screened for the night, Larose will host a...
- 2/17/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Calgary’s $100 Film Festival has announced the films selected to screen at their 19th annual event that will run on March 3-5 at the Plaza Theatre. The lineup includes 45 films by 39 filmmakers, including a retrospective of the work of Montreal-based Alexandre Larose.
What’s extra special about the $100 Fest is that, in this increasingly digital age, this event remains a steadfast celebration of celluloid. All films screening over the three days will be on film, either Super 8 or 16mm. In addition, Larose, whose work involves manipulating camera equipment and hand film processing, will be in attendance for an artist talk and an advanced workshop on optical printing.
Several of the movies screening have been reviewed previously on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film and are highly recommended for those interested in attending the fest. They include Naomi Uman & Lee Lynch’s wonderfully disorienting Tin Woodman’s Home Movie...
What’s extra special about the $100 Fest is that, in this increasingly digital age, this event remains a steadfast celebration of celluloid. All films screening over the three days will be on film, either Super 8 or 16mm. In addition, Larose, whose work involves manipulating camera equipment and hand film processing, will be in attendance for an artist talk and an advanced workshop on optical printing.
Several of the movies screening have been reviewed previously on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film and are highly recommended for those interested in attending the fest. They include Naomi Uman & Lee Lynch’s wonderfully disorienting Tin Woodman’s Home Movie...
- 2/3/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Sept. 14
7:30 p.m.
Light Industry
177 Livingston Street
Brooklyn, New York 11201
Hosted by: Electronic Arts Intermix
Back in 1977, Anthony Ramos created About Media, a deconstruction of the evening news that focuses on President Jimmy Carter granting amnesty to Vietnam War draft dodgers as well as Ramos’ own stint serving time for conscientious objection. For his “crime,” Ramos was incarcerated for 18 months.
The video compares Ramos’ unedited interview footage, which shows a patronizing attitude and line of questioning by reporter Gabe Pressman and his crew, with the final report that eventually made it onto the news. The goal of the piece is to break down the illusion of the news’ alleged objective approach to storytelling.
At the time, criticism of the media from the left was something of a rarity. While the right had long complained about the mainstream media’s alleged “liberal bias,” About Media shows how the news skews...
7:30 p.m.
Light Industry
177 Livingston Street
Brooklyn, New York 11201
Hosted by: Electronic Arts Intermix
Back in 1977, Anthony Ramos created About Media, a deconstruction of the evening news that focuses on President Jimmy Carter granting amnesty to Vietnam War draft dodgers as well as Ramos’ own stint serving time for conscientious objection. For his “crime,” Ramos was incarcerated for 18 months.
The video compares Ramos’ unedited interview footage, which shows a patronizing attitude and line of questioning by reporter Gabe Pressman and his crew, with the final report that eventually made it onto the news. The goal of the piece is to break down the illusion of the news’ alleged objective approach to storytelling.
At the time, criticism of the media from the left was something of a rarity. While the right had long complained about the mainstream media’s alleged “liberal bias,” About Media shows how the news skews...
- 9/11/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
Now looking for entries is Toronto’s long-running Images Festival, which is traditionally skewed towards very experimental work. For example, last year they screened Kevin Jerome Everson‘s Erie, a feature-length meditation on race, community and history, plus lots of short films and videos by artists such as Naomi Uman, Phil Solomon, Laida Lertxundi, plus a retrospective of the films of Tom Chomont.
If those names don’t totally ring a bell, or if you’re not completely familiar with what “experimental film” is, I think the festival has a really nice description of what they’re looking for — even though that description explicitly says they’re wide open to a variety of styles. The festival says:
We are interested in screening films and videos, in any category, that have an inventive, aesthetically unconventional approach in terms of form, content, story and structure. We look for the inspired and the critical,...
If those names don’t totally ring a bell, or if you’re not completely familiar with what “experimental film” is, I think the festival has a really nice description of what they’re looking for — even though that description explicitly says they’re wide open to a variety of styles. The festival says:
We are interested in screening films and videos, in any category, that have an inventive, aesthetically unconventional approach in terms of form, content, story and structure. We look for the inspired and the critical,...
- 9/3/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
It might still be summer, but it’s not too early to start thinking sending your films in for next year’s underground film festivals. Two major fests being held in the early part of 2011 are already looking for films: Florida’s Flex Fest and the Boston Underground Film Festival. Deadlines, entry info and more is below.
Flex stands for Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, which alternates years between a competitive and a curated festival. 2011 will be their fourth competitive festival to be held in Gainsville, Fl. So, what is Flex looking for? They don’t know — and that’s a good thing! As they say on their website:
Flex doesn’t want to know in advance what experimental means. We’re interested in work that challenges generic designations (including the traditional “avant garde” or “underground”ones). Work may also draw on documentary, narrative, animation or any other tradition –- or no tradition at all.
Flex stands for Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, which alternates years between a competitive and a curated festival. 2011 will be their fourth competitive festival to be held in Gainsville, Fl. So, what is Flex looking for? They don’t know — and that’s a good thing! As they say on their website:
Flex doesn’t want to know in advance what experimental means. We’re interested in work that challenges generic designations (including the traditional “avant garde” or “underground”ones). Work may also draw on documentary, narrative, animation or any other tradition –- or no tradition at all.
- 8/4/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
July 13
7:30 p.m.
Light Industry
177 Livingston Street
Brooklyn, New York 11201
Hosted by: Light Industry
A Burning Star is Japanese filmmaker Onishi Kenji’s feature length experimental documentation of his father’s funeral. But, rather than a sentimental tribute, Kenji films the cold reality of death by undressing his father’s corpse on camera and filming the body’s cremation.
The film was made in 1995 and, in 1999, it had its U.S. premiere for a one-night only screening that was reviewed by Light Industry’s Ed Halter for the NY Press. Halter positions the film in the tradition of other “scandalous” Japanese avant-garde works as wells as traditional American underground filmmaking:
Despite [Kenji's] scandal-mongering rhetoric and extreme subject matter, his approach has more in common with the arty abstract narratives of Hollis Frampton or Stan Brakhage than with the attitudinal Cinema of Transgression or mainstream-friendly post-Tarantino artsploitation.
Kenji’s films rarely screen in the U.
7:30 p.m.
Light Industry
177 Livingston Street
Brooklyn, New York 11201
Hosted by: Light Industry
A Burning Star is Japanese filmmaker Onishi Kenji’s feature length experimental documentation of his father’s funeral. But, rather than a sentimental tribute, Kenji films the cold reality of death by undressing his father’s corpse on camera and filming the body’s cremation.
The film was made in 1995 and, in 1999, it had its U.S. premiere for a one-night only screening that was reviewed by Light Industry’s Ed Halter for the NY Press. Halter positions the film in the tradition of other “scandalous” Japanese avant-garde works as wells as traditional American underground filmmaking:
Despite [Kenji's] scandal-mongering rhetoric and extreme subject matter, his approach has more in common with the arty abstract narratives of Hollis Frampton or Stan Brakhage than with the attitudinal Cinema of Transgression or mainstream-friendly post-Tarantino artsploitation.
Kenji’s films rarely screen in the U.
- 7/10/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
April 10
7:00 p.m.
Brooklyn Knitting Factory
361 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hosted by: Drew & The Medicinal Pen
The poppy post-punk quartet Drew & The Medicinal Pen will be performing a live show set against projections of their music videos and new films made especially for this show. There will also be giant homemade stage props (see below), a singalong, special guest HorHay from The Streets Will Run Red With Gringo Blood and lots more fun and surprises.
The “Drew” in the band name belongs to Drew Henkels, who originally began this music project as a solo act, but eventually grew it to include three other members: Anna Morsett, Missy Liu and Zach Arlan. Their new album is called Heavy Head and it totally effin’ rocks. I’m not much of a music critic, but I highly recommend Drew’s style of happy, poppy music with a strain of melancholy running through it.
7:00 p.m.
Brooklyn Knitting Factory
361 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hosted by: Drew & The Medicinal Pen
The poppy post-punk quartet Drew & The Medicinal Pen will be performing a live show set against projections of their music videos and new films made especially for this show. There will also be giant homemade stage props (see below), a singalong, special guest HorHay from The Streets Will Run Red With Gringo Blood and lots more fun and surprises.
The “Drew” in the band name belongs to Drew Henkels, who originally began this music project as a solo act, but eventually grew it to include three other members: Anna Morsett, Missy Liu and Zach Arlan. Their new album is called Heavy Head and it totally effin’ rocks. I’m not much of a music critic, but I highly recommend Drew’s style of happy, poppy music with a strain of melancholy running through it.
- 4/8/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
April 6
7:30 p.m.
Light Industry
177 Livingston Street
Brooklyn, New York 11201
Hosted by: Light Industry
Now this sounds like an awesome evening. Media artist Paul Slocum presents two very special projections of two cult favorites: One pretty much straight-up and the other a slight remixing.
First up, anybody who was a devoted follower of Doctor Who broadcasts on PBS in America know that the singular most frustrating thing about being a fan was that many episodes from its early years in the 1960s were disposed of after their initial broadcast by the BBC. The network simply threw the tapes away or erased them in a short-sighted bid to save on storage costs.
Personally, I know that I used to have a checklist in a comic book fan magazine that listed every episode of Doctor Who ever made and I diligently checked off each one after viewing it. And it just...
7:30 p.m.
Light Industry
177 Livingston Street
Brooklyn, New York 11201
Hosted by: Light Industry
Now this sounds like an awesome evening. Media artist Paul Slocum presents two very special projections of two cult favorites: One pretty much straight-up and the other a slight remixing.
First up, anybody who was a devoted follower of Doctor Who broadcasts on PBS in America know that the singular most frustrating thing about being a fan was that many episodes from its early years in the 1960s were disposed of after their initial broadcast by the BBC. The network simply threw the tapes away or erased them in a short-sighted bid to save on storage costs.
Personally, I know that I used to have a checklist in a comic book fan magazine that listed every episode of Doctor Who ever made and I diligently checked off each one after viewing it. And it just...
- 4/5/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
The latest edition of Toronto’s mighty Images Festival will unspool on April 1-10. The full lineup of films screening at this event is listed below and, even though that looks quite extensive as it is, it’s only a small portion of everything that’s going on during the entire event.
In addition to film screenings, Images has partnered with 15 galleries and museums across the greater Toronto area to display 32 media art installations by both Canadian and international artists. Plus, there will be eight live performances that blur the edges of cinema, sound, music and installations. And, on top of all that, there will be several panel discussions with artists and other media folk, parties, award ceremonies, tours and more. This is more art and film than should be allowed in any one city, yet Images manages to squeeze it all in into just 10 days somehow.
The film lineup...
In addition to film screenings, Images has partnered with 15 galleries and museums across the greater Toronto area to display 32 media art installations by both Canadian and international artists. Plus, there will be eight live performances that blur the edges of cinema, sound, music and installations. And, on top of all that, there will be several panel discussions with artists and other media folk, parties, award ceremonies, tours and more. This is more art and film than should be allowed in any one city, yet Images manages to squeeze it all in into just 10 days somehow.
The film lineup...
- 3/30/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 48th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival is another exciting celebration of underground film past and present, featuring two retrospectives of two master filmmakers and dozens of short films and features from some of the most gifted talents working today.
For the retrospectives, first, Kenneth Anger will be in attendance at the festival for two programs of his classic work, including Fireworks and Scorpio Rising. Plus, for the first Anger screening, the filmmaker will be joined on-stage by film critic Dennis Lim for a discussion of his work and career. The second retrospective is of the work of the late Chick Strand, who sadly passed away in 2009. Strand’s Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966) will actually open the entire festival, then there will be two retrospective screenings of her work, the first of which will be presented by film scholar Irina Leimbacher.
The rest of the Aaff lineup reads like a...
For the retrospectives, first, Kenneth Anger will be in attendance at the festival for two programs of his classic work, including Fireworks and Scorpio Rising. Plus, for the first Anger screening, the filmmaker will be joined on-stage by film critic Dennis Lim for a discussion of his work and career. The second retrospective is of the work of the late Chick Strand, who sadly passed away in 2009. Strand’s Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966) will actually open the entire festival, then there will be two retrospective screenings of her work, the first of which will be presented by film scholar Irina Leimbacher.
The rest of the Aaff lineup reads like a...
- 3/8/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
There were no surprises at the 25th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards, held on March 5, with Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire running away with virtually the entire ceremony, taking home awards for Best Feature, Best Director, Best First Screenplay, Best Female Lead and Best Supporting Female.
The rest of the awards went to the odds on favorites, from Jeff Bridges winning Best Male Lead for Crazy Heart to Lynn Shelton’s much-buzzed Humpday taking home the John Cassavetes Award for best film made under $500,000.
Here’s the full list of winners:
Best Feature
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, dir. Lee Daniels
Best Director
Lee Daniels
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Best First Feature
Crazy Heart, dir. Scott Cooper
Best Screenplay
Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
(500) Days of Summer
Best First Screenplay
Geoffrey Fletcher
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire...
The rest of the awards went to the odds on favorites, from Jeff Bridges winning Best Male Lead for Crazy Heart to Lynn Shelton’s much-buzzed Humpday taking home the John Cassavetes Award for best film made under $500,000.
Here’s the full list of winners:
Best Feature
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, dir. Lee Daniels
Best Director
Lee Daniels
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Best First Feature
Crazy Heart, dir. Scott Cooper
Best Screenplay
Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
(500) Days of Summer
Best First Screenplay
Geoffrey Fletcher
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire...
- 3/6/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
March 2
7:30 p.m.
Light Industry
177 Livingston Street
Brooklyn, New York 11201
Hosted by: Light Industry
It’s two programs for the price of one! Ben Rivers has curated a retrospective of the work of British underground filmmaker Jeff Keen, plus a screening of the classic 1932 Bela Lugosi horror film White Zombie, which Keen has described as “possibly the most beautiful film ever.”
Keen has been making films since the Sixties. However, his work is relatively unknown, especially here in the U.S. There is a DVD available of his work, but it’s only available through the British Film Institute (BFI).
Also last year, it was revealed that Keen is in ill health and was in the process of being evicted from his home. Although, I haven’t been able to find any updates to this terrible situation.
Below is a partial list of Keen’s films that Rivers will be showing.
7:30 p.m.
Light Industry
177 Livingston Street
Brooklyn, New York 11201
Hosted by: Light Industry
It’s two programs for the price of one! Ben Rivers has curated a retrospective of the work of British underground filmmaker Jeff Keen, plus a screening of the classic 1932 Bela Lugosi horror film White Zombie, which Keen has described as “possibly the most beautiful film ever.”
Keen has been making films since the Sixties. However, his work is relatively unknown, especially here in the U.S. There is a DVD available of his work, but it’s only available through the British Film Institute (BFI).
Also last year, it was revealed that Keen is in ill health and was in the process of being evicted from his home. Although, I haven’t been able to find any updates to this terrible situation.
Below is a partial list of Keen’s films that Rivers will be showing.
- 2/28/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
Feb. 16
7:30 p.m.
Light Industry
220 36th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenue), 5th Floor
Brooklyn, NY
Hosted by: Light Industry
For the past four years, American underground filmmaker Naomi Uman has been living and making films in the Ukraine. At this special event, she will screen three short works and one hourlong film produced over this time period. The screening will then be followed by a conversation between Uman and Nellie Kellian, co-director of the Migrating Forms film festival.
Before turning to filmmaking, Uman was a personal chef to Gloria Vanderbilt, Malcolm Forbes, and Calvin Klein. After creating a substantial body of experimental 16mm work while living in California and Mexico, she headed out to the Ukraine, the country from which her great-grandparents emigrated all the way back in 1906.
Unfamiliar with the language and the culture, Uman settled in the remote village of Legedzine and began documenting life in the land of her ancestors,...
7:30 p.m.
Light Industry
220 36th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenue), 5th Floor
Brooklyn, NY
Hosted by: Light Industry
For the past four years, American underground filmmaker Naomi Uman has been living and making films in the Ukraine. At this special event, she will screen three short works and one hourlong film produced over this time period. The screening will then be followed by a conversation between Uman and Nellie Kellian, co-director of the Migrating Forms film festival.
Before turning to filmmaking, Uman was a personal chef to Gloria Vanderbilt, Malcolm Forbes, and Calvin Klein. After creating a substantial body of experimental 16mm work while living in California and Mexico, she headed out to the Ukraine, the country from which her great-grandparents emigrated all the way back in 1906.
Unfamiliar with the language and the culture, Uman settled in the remote village of Legedzine and began documenting life in the land of her ancestors,...
- 2/15/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
Feb. 15
8:00 p.m.
Glasslands Gallery
289 Kent Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hosted by: Sarah Jacobson Film Grant
This special event honoring the late, great Sarah Jacobson is both a celebration of her pioneering work as a Diy filmmaker and a fundraiser for the Sarah Jacobson Film Grant, which awards money to independent women filmmakers.
There will be screenings of some of Sarah’s early short films, plus samples from winning filmmakers who were awarded the grant in previous years. There will also be short video tributes from Sarah’s fans and friends, such as Kathleen Hanna, Allison Anders, Tamra Davis, Michelle Handelman, George Kuchar, Sam Green, and Craig Baldwin. Lastly, Barbara Hammer and Sarah’s mother Ruth will introduce a screening of Sarah’s punk classic Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore.
Sarah Jacobson was a tireless advocate of Diy filmmaking, having produced, directed and self-distributed two feature films, I...
8:00 p.m.
Glasslands Gallery
289 Kent Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hosted by: Sarah Jacobson Film Grant
This special event honoring the late, great Sarah Jacobson is both a celebration of her pioneering work as a Diy filmmaker and a fundraiser for the Sarah Jacobson Film Grant, which awards money to independent women filmmakers.
There will be screenings of some of Sarah’s early short films, plus samples from winning filmmakers who were awarded the grant in previous years. There will also be short video tributes from Sarah’s fans and friends, such as Kathleen Hanna, Allison Anders, Tamra Davis, Michelle Handelman, George Kuchar, Sam Green, and Craig Baldwin. Lastly, Barbara Hammer and Sarah’s mother Ruth will introduce a screening of Sarah’s punk classic Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore.
Sarah Jacobson was a tireless advocate of Diy filmmaking, having produced, directed and self-distributed two feature films, I...
- 2/14/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
The 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival is set to run on March 23-28 and while the specific lineup hasn’t been announced yet, the fest has released information on two separate programs: The Special Programs and the Free Programs.
The Special Programs are a trio of curated events featuring the work of three different filmmakers:
In 2006, filmmaker Naomi Uman moved to the Ukraine — the country of her great-grandparents — and settled into the village of Legedzine. Unfamiliar with the language or the culture, Uman documented her gradual understanding of both in several 16mm short films collectively titled the “Ukranian Time Machine,” which will screen at Ann Arbor., Austria’s Viennale and the Sundance Film Festival.
Nicky Hamlyn, a British filmmaker will screen a selection of his work. His short, silent 16mm films are created one individual frame at a time and focus on rural and urban landscapes and domestic interiors. From Montreal,...
The Special Programs are a trio of curated events featuring the work of three different filmmakers:
In 2006, filmmaker Naomi Uman moved to the Ukraine — the country of her great-grandparents — and settled into the village of Legedzine. Unfamiliar with the language or the culture, Uman documented her gradual understanding of both in several 16mm short films collectively titled the “Ukranian Time Machine,” which will screen at Ann Arbor., Austria’s Viennale and the Sundance Film Festival.
Nicky Hamlyn, a British filmmaker will screen a selection of his work. His short, silent 16mm films are created one individual frame at a time and focus on rural and urban landscapes and domestic interiors. From Montreal,...
- 2/11/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Jan. 15
8:00 p.m.
Chicago Filmmakers
5243 N. Clark
Chicago, Il
Hosted by: The Film Culture
The Windy City is in for a real tasty treat when Mike Plante’s legendary Lunchfilm short film series screens at Chicago Filmmakers. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the concept, the recap:
Writer/curator/festival programmer Plante buys a filmmaker lunch. The filmmaker must then make a short film that costs the same amount of the lunch and include a few topics discussed during the meal. Plante has curated around 50 short films, but this screening will only include a selection of them.
Personally, I’ve seen two separate Lunchfilm screenings — one at the Echo Park Film Center and one at the AFI Film Festival — and I can say this is an event not to be missed. Below is the list of filmmakers whose work will be included at this particular screening,...
8:00 p.m.
Chicago Filmmakers
5243 N. Clark
Chicago, Il
Hosted by: The Film Culture
The Windy City is in for a real tasty treat when Mike Plante’s legendary Lunchfilm short film series screens at Chicago Filmmakers. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the concept, the recap:
Writer/curator/festival programmer Plante buys a filmmaker lunch. The filmmaker must then make a short film that costs the same amount of the lunch and include a few topics discussed during the meal. Plante has curated around 50 short films, but this screening will only include a selection of them.
Personally, I’ve seen two separate Lunchfilm screenings — one at the Echo Park Film Center and one at the AFI Film Festival — and I can say this is an event not to be missed. Below is the list of filmmakers whose work will be included at this particular screening,...
- 1/13/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
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