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Some links and news of filmmakers working with 8mm film.
June 2006 Check out the great new website from Sanjiban, our solid gold, solo, existential filmmaker friend in the Berkshires. He is streaming clips of his many early Super 8 films for your inspiration.
http://www.SanjibanFilms.com/
May 2006 Jim Higgins wrote " our film, Ephemera was just accepted at Underground Film - see below for link. Please help us with feedback by visiting Underground and expressing your opinion about the film. Also, if you want to send the link along to others that might appreciate the film, then please do so!
thanks,
Jim"
See EPHEMERA live on undergroundfilm. The direct link is:
http://www.undergroundfilm.org/films/detail.tcl?wid=1028251
March 2006 Mario Pinzon writes
"Immaculate Perception" wins Best Short Drama Award at the Kent Film Festival. More at:
http://www.3eyeproductions.com
As regional character disappears and corporate culture spreads, it's increasingly hard to tell where you are. In CHAIN, malls, highways, ranchises and corporate centers across the globe are joined into a "superlandscape." Footage was gathered over the last six years in locations ranging from Florida and Dallas to Berlin and Melbourne. Documentary merges with narrative as stories and current events filter through the landscapes. The installation is the first release in a series of CHAIN projects that will culminate in a feature film.
This CHAIN is in five sections, and plays continuously. It includes original soundtrack music by Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Also note: Jem Cohen's LOST BOOK FOUND will be broadcast on the Sundance Channel:
December 5 at 10:20 pm
December 9 at 8am
December17 at 1:45 pm
December 25 at 3 pm
December 27th at 10pmc
December 21 (time to be determined)
LITTLE FLAGS will also have its broadcast premier on the Sundance channel Nov. 8th at 9 pm, with re-broadcasts to follow.
Congratulations Mario Pinzon and Vora Vor for being chosen a finalist with your new film "Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms." Check out Mario and Vora's website, thirdeyemediaworks.com
We also see Sanjiban Sellew making the finalist list with a short gem from his prolific filmmaking career. CONGRATS!
Look at this? The Guggenheim fellowships booklet shows not one but three Super 8 filmmakers are fellows this year! Congratulations Jem Cohen, Joe Gibbons and Anne C. Robertson!
Jytte Jensen at MoMA and Steve Anker at SF Cinematheque deserve a wild round of applause for many years of work. The last ten programs in the series Big as Life: An American History of 8mm Films screen Thursdays Jan-April 2001 at MoMA.
Lynn Shelton's documentary The Clouds that Touch Us Out of Clear Skies, seen at Olympia, Northwest and Shorts Film Festivals.
An anonymous flyer marked Tom Church film screenings-underground Super 8 from S.F. says they will be shown at Anthology, NYC, Seattle, Vancouver. Anyone spotted them elsewhere?
Tim Wright hardly finds time to work on his new documentary on credit cards in America while he is teaching at cityscapefilm.com There he is conducting the team which will document the behind the scenes work on the new Roger Corman film. See Tim at Jamaica Plain Newsreel
Rich Pontius send us this about a recent screening: The name of the show was "Roll Call," and it took place at the Abbey Lounge in Inman Square Cambridge November 19, 2000. Filmmakers from San Francisco, New York and Boston included Luther Price, Saul Levine, Mark Lapore, Joe Gibbons, Kerry Laitala, Brian Frye, Adrianne Jorge, John Quackenbush, Paul Turrano, George Lewis, Katya Gorker, Paul Turano, Carl Fuerman, Brian Coffey, Chris Colt, Aaron Scott, Brian Frye, Rich Pontius and Betsy Nichols.
Mail from Singapore about a solo show of Ken Paul Rosenthal's work at The Blinding Light in Vancouver. His film Blackbirds was screened at the Rotterdam Int'l Film Fest and at the Ann Arbor Film Fest. He curated the 3rd annual Texture of the Gesture, a program of hand processed films for the San Francisco Cinematheque. Currently, he is teaching filmmaking in Singapore where he curated a program of experimental documentaries by San Francisco makers for the Singapore Int'l. Film Festival.
Steven and Joetta Osborne's amazing Reel Image (Issue #9, summer 2000) carries Jim Maloy's account of outdoor screenings in Austin, Texas with a couple of great photos. Families can cool down from the heat of the day at Splash Night watching movies on a screen while chilling with the children in the spring fed pool at Zilker Park. Chris Cottrill seems to be writing regularly in the magazine.
Applause for John Petros in Burbank, the most prolific volunteer reviewer of lab services: 18 cards since the last newsletter.
Henry Ferrini has screenings of his new film Lowell Blues: the Words of Jack Kerouac at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston February 1 and 24, 2001.
Seems people like flickers. Thanks Angie, Norwood, Jim, James....Visit flicker.org for links to screenings in Durham, NC, Los Angeles, CA, Richmond, VA, Jersey City, NJ, Austin, TX and Bordeaux, France. All flickers acknowledge common parentage in Athens, GA. Write Norwood Cheek, flicker@mekons.com for the 2000 v.1 issue of flicker guide.
"Instrument" Jem Cohen's portrait of the band Fugazy is being released on DVD. Jem has a retrospective Feb. 2-7, 2001 at the National Film Theatre in London, just before "Benjamin Smoke" opens there on Feb. 9. Last summer "Benjamin Smoke" a documentary film made by Jem and Peter Sillen, debuted at The Screening Room in NYC. "This highly unorthodox documentary follows the crooked path of "Benjamin" a drag-queen, speed-freak, all-around renegade living in Atlanta, Georgia in a hidden neighborhood called "Cabbagetown."
Dedicated filmmaker and community activist Richard Broadman is missed by the Boston documentary community. He died before his last film Brownsville Black and White had a premiere in November 2000 at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA. It was followed by a panel discussion: "Moving on After Brownsville: Black/Jewish Relations in a New Era." Susi Walsh of the Center for Independent Documentary did a lot of leg work for Richard's premiere, and gave sspecial attention to Deann's and Jane's works too.
Dragonflies, the Baby Cries, a new film by Jane Gillooly with live accompaniment by the Alloy Orchestra was shown at the Coolidge Corner Theater, Brookline, MA, November 11, 2000
Deann Borshay Liem presented First Person Plural at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and on TV as part of the new season of P.O.V. on PBS. This "compelling first-person account" (Variety) investigates her 1966 adoption from Korea by an American family, leading both viewer and filmmaker on an astounding journey straight to the heart of family and identity. Her father's 8mm home movies include the moment she steps off the plane and lots of other telling details with her siblings.
Bravo cet homme qui surface partout! Al Nigrin took Super 8 films to 14 places in the last year, from MoMA and Millenium to sites in NJ, WV, PA, VA, MN, and he was elected to the Executive Board of NAMAC, assuring a small gauge film sensibility will be represented.Check out the action at his NJMAC's Film Festival.
Poli Marichal is mounting a show of her prints and paintings from 16 February to 15 March 2001 at the Gallery Espresso Mi Cultura in East Los Angeles.
Fumbling with the remote, we spied a feature film on TV directed by Guy Ferland, who made astonishing Super 8 films in his youth. Go, Guy!
A program called Memento Mori: The Films of Jim Hubbard is screening at dumba in Brooklyn. tel: 718.670.371 Jim Hubbard has been hand-processing films since 1974. He is a co-founder of MIX: The New York Lesbian/Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival. He recently curated "Fever In The Archive: AIDS Activist Video & Film" at the Guggenheim.
Quite a span of years: film/videomaker Taka Iimura had his 1962 film "Ai (Love)" shown at MoMA Big as Life on the 1/25/01 program with short films by Michael Johnson, Joe Gibbons, Stan Brakhage, Gary Adlestein, Vito Acconci and Lewis Klahr. That day, Taka's 1998 b&w video "Observer Observed" was an award winner and screened at the N.Y. Exposition of Short Film and Video.
NewYorker/Parisienne Vivian Ostrovsky sent in some lab names in Europe and added the intriguing note “P.S. I am on my way to Brazil with a S8 camera.” New England winter dreams are made of this....
Danny Plotnick is spicing up the Bay Area with Super 8 action. He teaches Super 8 all the time at FilmArts.org.
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