International Film and Video Festival
dal 21/1/2005 al 30/1/2005
Segnalato da
21/1/2005
International Film and Video Festival
Russian Hill campus, San Francisco
The event features 24 shorts from independent filmmakers based in England, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Italy, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Scotland, and the U.S. ''The entries this year were drawn from over 150 submissions, and they showcase all genres'' says SFAI Film Department Chair Janis Crystal Lipzin.
San Francisco Art Institute's 12th International Film and Video Festival will take place on the two weekends of January 22 - 23 and January 29 - 30 next month. The most adventurous film and video festival in the Bay Area, the event features 24 shorts from independent filmmakers based in England, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Italy, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Scotland, and the U.S. It will be screened at 8 pm each evening at the school's Russian Hill campus at 800 Chestnut St. in San Francisco.
"The purpose of the festival is to present a showcase for bold and challenging works from around the world," says SFAI Film Department Chair Janis Crystal Lipzin. "The entries this year were drawn from over 150 submissions, and they showcase all genres, including fiction, narrative, nonfiction/documentary, animation, found footage, experimental/avant-garde, and home movies."
The curators of the show-students drawn from Lipzin's Curatorial Practicum class at the school-have grouped the films into four categories. On the first weekend a program of films showing the wide range of contemporary approaches to the moving image will be shown as well as a program of films that might be described as entering a kind of "twilight zone." On the second weekend, viewers will be treated to a program of works exploring how the camera and the screen affect perception and a program focusing on imagination and memory.
This year, there will be special panel discussion after the screenings on January 22 by the six filmmakers whose works will be shown that evening. They are Kim Miskowicz from Oakland, California, Ellen Zweig, Sarah Sophie Flicker, and Maximilla Lukacs from New York City, Roger Deutsch from Berkeley, California, and Sow Yee Au from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. There will also be a reception with live music preceding the opening night show.
The formats viewers will be able to experience cover the gamut: 16 mm film, super-8 film, miniDV, DVD, VHS, and film performance mode.
"This unique festival provides proof that courageous vision and artistic integrity still flourish in the face of increasing domination of the media by powerful mercenary interests," says Lipzin. "Here, audiences will undoubtedly see films that they will not see in other festivals!"
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Program 1 January 22 (SAT) 8pm [Panel Discussion with tonight's filmmakers follows the screening]
Sculpting Time & Light: Contemporary Approaches to the Moving Image
These works embark upon a curious land without end and flow through passages of longing, curiousity, and the enigmatic.
Coast Starlight Kindling by Kim Miskowicz [Oakland, CA] (Super 8 film stock & processing prize from Dwayne’s Photo plus $50 cash prize donated by SFAI Student Union)
Kill Your Darlings by Sarah Sophie Flicker/ Maximilla Lukacs [New York, NY]
Mario Makes A Movie by Roger Deutsch [Berkeley, CA] ($250 cash prize donated by Kodak)
Winter Light by Sow-Yee Au [Malaysia, made in San Francisco, CA] ($150 cash prize donated by SFAI Student Union)
Precarious by Ellen Zweig [New York, NY]
Program 2 January 23(SUN) 8pm
Twilight Zone
The sublime and the brilliantly mundane coalesce to electrify the senses.
Half Life by Matt Hulse [United Kingdom]
Light Quanta by Karen Johannesen [Chicago, IL] (Winnter of, $250 cash prize donated by Kodak; also for her film Oscillate)
Electrocute Your Stars by Marie Losier [Brooklyn, NY]
Me, Myself and I by Kelly Spivey [Flushing, NY] (Winner of $250 Kodak camera stock award for animation) Convertible by Wah-Hei Au [Hong Kong, made in San Francisco, CA]
Two Short Pieces by Ken Wood [Milwaukee, WI ](Winner of $150 cash prize from SFAI Student Union)
Oscillate by Karen Johannesen [Chicago, IL ](Winner of $250 cash prize donated by Kodak also for her film Light Quanta)
Housesitting by Tony Gault [Englewood, CO] (Winner of $500 Kodak camera stock award for non fiction)
Program 3 January 29 (SAT) 8pm
This is a Camera
The yearning gaze and the mirroring mind entangle and create tangible snapshots out of the unknown.
Flowergirls by Robert Todd [Boston, MA]
Animal Cut Up Cakes by Elizabeth DiGiovanni [San Francisco, CA]
Water Water by Nicky Hamlyn [United Kingdom] (Awarded Honorable Mention)
For the Record by Carolyn Faber [Chicago, IL]
Flower by Tetsuya Hiroshima [Japan]
Observer/Observed by Takahiko Iimura [Japan]
Program 4 January 30 (SUN) 8pm
Involuntary Memory
Reminiscent of things past, a voyage into the entwining path of the remains and the imaginary.
Altitude Zero by Lauren Cook [Iowa City, IA]
Post- Partum by Marie-Josee Saint-Pierre [Canada]
Glass Crow by Steven Subotnick [Providence, RI]
Looking Forward To by Wen-Chun Wu [Taiwan] (Winner of $150 cash prize donated by SFAI Student Union)
Gravity by Sheri Wills [Providence, RI](Awarded Honorable Mention)
Anderswo by Achim Neufeld [Germany, made in San Francisco, CA]
The 12th San Francisco Art Institute International Film & Video Festival will be presented two weekends, January 22, 23, 29, 30, 2005, 8pm at SFAI's historic Russian Hill campus.
Tickets: Sliding scale $5-20 (FREE for SFAI students)
Tickets sold at the door ONLY.
info: 415-749-4558
Produced by the Film Department’s Curatorial Practicum class taught by Film Department Chair, Janis Crystal Lipzin
Awards Jury: Steve Polta, film programmer / filmmaker, Jeanne Liotta, filmmaker, Ruth Gumnit, filmmaker
School's Russian Hill campus at 800 Chestnut St. in San Francisco