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>> R E S a l e r t * * * O c t o b e r 2 6 , 2 0 0 0 o RESFEST 2000: New York, New York! o RES REPORTS: New Cinema/New Media: Montreal Rocks! o 4U2C: You Haven't Seen it All: Bjork's New Webeo o IN PRINT: Just Like a Shadow: Home Movies From Jonas Mekas o UPCOMING EVENTS: Shift/Ctrl; Mix Tape; LA Freewaves o DEADLINES: Funding and Festivals o RESFEST: 2000 Tour Dates o RES MAGAZINE: Fall Issue Coming Soon! o ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITIES o SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE o CONTACT US ------------------------------------------ >> R E S F E S T 2 0 0 0 ------------------------------------------ o RESFEST in New York Opening night of RESFEST in New York found the Chelsea West Theater, near the new RES offices in the Starrett Lehigh building, absolutely packed. The venue, a traditional theater, is a new one for RESFEST, and while a bit more conventional than usual, viewers seemed to at least relish the popcorn. Stragglers off the street, hoping to see "Dr. T and the Women," were disappointed or completely confused. "How can you show 23 movies in one day?" one particularly baffled man kept asking. The party afterwards was at Chaelra, where scantily clad Skyy Vodka party hosts desperately tried to keep the huge crowd happy, pouring alcohol with abandon. Lots of people had their cameras cranking, including Carol Michelson, responsible for the dreamy jellyfish images in the RESFEST lobby projections. She stopped by the office the next day to show the footage -- lovely abstract images in candlelight and strangely distorted slo-mo shots of dancers and other party mayhem. Beauty out of chaos. Night two was at the Tishman auditorium where DJ Qbert was once again manning the turntables before the sold-out screening of "Wave Twisters." Onstage afterwards for a quick Q+A were Qbert and Kid Koala. "Do you think you guys will ever collaborate?" asked an intrepid fan. "What do you think, Kid?" asked Qbert. Kid Koala seemed interested, and that was enough to whet most appetites. Parties and screenings continued every night, and seen in the crowds were the guys from MK12 and Manhattan Transfer, as well as David Byrne. On the Internet Cinema panel on Saturday, Jamie Levy revealed that the finished episodes of "Cyberslacker" have been compiled to make a feature. "We're waiting to hear from Sundance -- it will be the first Flash feature ever," she said. On the Future of Filmmaking panel, Fisher Stevens lamented the difficulties of getting a feature into theaters, and noted that his new film mixes snippets of animation with live action, a trend, we guess, for many films which are increasingly harnessing the array of new filmmaking options. ------------------------------------------ >> R E S R E P O R T S ------------------------------------------ o New Cinema, New Media The International Festival of New Cinema/New Media in Montreal proved to be as stellar as anticipated. A dazzling series of live sound and video performances -- by Hexstatic, for example -- kept the Media Lounge busy every night, and a solid collection of digital features, including new ones from Agnes Varda and Arturo Ripstein, brightened the film schedule. RES was also well received, finding Montreal a haven for cutting edge programming in music and new media, and a home to many filmmakers exploring digital tools. There was also a bevy of articulate critics of the digital scene, and Montreal cinephiles are nothing if not dramatic in their opinions. On the way to the airport, for example, driver Pablo Diconca reported that the night before, an outraged viewer of the provocatively titled "Rape Me" stormed into the projection booth, wrenched the reel from the projector, and threatened to bomb the theater if the film screened again. He pedaled away on his bike with footage spooling out behind him. "It's good that art can still provoke," noted Diconca, who's a choreographer from Uruguay working on several experimental dance videos using his new Canon Xl1 and Mac G4. http://www.fcmm.com ------------------------------------------ >> 4 U 2 C ------------------------------------------ o You Haven't Seen it All! If you've already seen "Dancer in the Dark" but want more Bjork, check out MTV's webeo (an interactive music video) by Floria Sigismondi featuring the diminutive singer. In the piece, Bjork emerges through a delicate iris frame encumbered with a glistening mask. Though you vaguely hypothesize some back story of capture, you'll quickly be entranced with the tear bubbles that dissolve into blooming textures and float across the screen like pixie dust. The iris frame, periodically cut with what look like blades, elegantly re-opens like a blossoming camera lens. The complete interactive webeo similarly operates on a threshold between sumptuous beauty and gothic erotics. While this incarnation of Bjork isn't the character Selma from "Dancer in the Dark" exactly, it is a character true to Selma. "Bjork really wanted to retain the character's humility," explains Sigismondi. So while they were going for an overall concept that was "stylish and modern yet humble," they also unwittingly seized on an ideal aesthetic approach sensitive to the memory constraints of the webeo format. The mask sparked a few practical concerns. Sigismondi, known for her macabre sensibility and a long list of outstanding music videos, had to figure out how Bjork would emote without using her facial features. "We had to shoot with a really pronounced attention to body language and nuances of softness, like the warmth of a minute movement of the shoulder." See these subtle nuances of softness at http://www.mtv.com/sendme.tin?page=/mtv/tubescan/vma00/webeo/ (Karen Voss) ------------------------------------------ >> I N P R I N T ------------------------------------------ o Just Like a Shadow Steidl Publishers "I just have to film. If I don't film I get sick. It's madness. I am being pulled into it by an irresistible force." So says one of the founders of contemporary independent film, Jonas Mekas, in a striking new collection of frame enlargements titled "Just Like a Shadow." The book is almost all pictures, capturing the filmmaker's captivating home movie sensibility as it merges with the sublime. The book includes an interview with Jerome Sans from February of this year. ------------------------------------------ >> U P C O M I N G E V E N T S ------------------------------------------ o Some Kind of Loving: "All Night Long" October 27, 8:00PM Northwest Filmforum at the Little Theater 608 19th Avenue E at Mercer, Seattle Portland underground performance artist and videomaker Miranda July returns to Seattle with a work-in-progress excerpt from her new performance, "The Swan Tool" with live music by DJ Zac Love. Also in town will be New York film curator Astria Suparak, presenting selections from the latest Joanie 4 Jackie Co-Star tape, Some Kind of Loving. The fun continues on Saturday with past video chain-letters from the Joanie 4 Jackie (formerly known as Big Miss Moviola) lady-made movie network phenomenon, including July's own amazing shorts, "Atlanta," "The Amateurist" and "Nest of Tens." Screenings at 5:30, 7:30 & 9:30PM. Info: 206-675-2055 http://www.wigglyworld.org/littletheatre/index.html o Mix Tape November 3 - December 30 Atlanta Contemporary Art Center 535 Means Street Atlanta, GA 30318 Mix Tape is an installation inviting viewers into a living room environment to watch a "mixed tape" of music videos created by various artists from skaters-turned-musicians and painters wielding Super 8 and digital cameras to film directors immersed in music scenes. Artists include fascia, Lakuna/Kraig Jordan, Qbert/Syd & Eric, REM/James Herbert, Scanner/D-Fuse, and Tommy Guerrero. The music ranges from the technokenetics of Scanner to the lush, ethereal ambiance of fascia and visually ranges from retro sci-fi animation of Syd & Eric to the sensual mystery of James Herbert's video for REM's "Low." Also, an exhibition of paintings, film stills, and film and video work by James Herbert. Info: 404-688-1970. http://www.thecontemporary.org o Shift/Ctrl Through December 2, 2000 Tuesday - Saturday, 12:00 - 5:00PM Beall Center for Arts and Technology 300 Arts, Irvine, CA 92697-2775 The University of California at Irvine is hoping to become a center for digital media, and boasts an undergraduate digital media population of more than 600 students. To feed these kids, the university's inaugural show at the new Beall Center for Arts and Technology is Shft/Control, a multi-media exhibition devoted to the art of gaming, curated by Antoinette LaFarge and Robert Nideffer. Artists include Rebecca Allen, Adrien Jenik, Mark Hurry and more. http://beallcenter.uci.edu/ o Archaeology of Multi-Media November 2 - 4 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island It was bound to happen -- digital media is now a topic for traditional academic film conferences. At this particular conference, theorists like Thomas Elsaesser and Mary Ann Doane reflect on modes of identification and "language/systems." http://www.modcult.brown.edu/amm o LA Freewaves The spectacular and effusive LA Freewaves returns to Los Angeles this year with Air Raids, a festival of film and video programmed in a multitude of screenings, live events and television broadcasts. There are too many events to list here, but the upcoming show titled "Altered" features several lovely digital pieces, including "Flutter," by Emil Novak, which brings together a discordant jazz score, nifty compositing, very effective image manipulation and a threatening razor blade to muse on the body's physical limitations. It's a prime example of the beautiful use of digital tools and illustrates a burgeoning digital aesthetic. But that's just one video! There are hundreds more. If you are in LA, check the site -- you can see new work every night of the week! http://www.freewaves.org ------------------------------------------ >> C A L L S F O R E N T R I E S ------------------------------------------ o Outer Limits Outer Limits is a collaboratively organized series of independent short experimental, documentary, animation and independent narrative films and videos, with an emphasis on work from far geographic and cultural reaches. The Spring 2001 series will focus on three areas of global experience: global tourism; individualism, eccentrics and vernacular culture; and time and distance (with a special program of shorts under five minutes). Contact: [email protected] http://www.videolounge.org o The Bit Screen, a showcase for Internet shorts, is currently seeking submissions for the Winter/Spring 2001 line-up. Send your URL, or mail your Internet short on a CD-ROM in QuickTime or MPEG. http://www.thebitscreen.com o The Images Festival of Independent Film and Video Dubbed a "polymorphous annual escapade in the exhibition of artists' film, video and new media," the Images Festival seeks visionary, eccentric, critical and transcendent projects for the festival in Toronto, April 12-21, 2001. Deadline: November 17, 2000. Contact: 416-971-8405. http://www.interlog.com/~images o Hot Docs: Canadian International Documentary Festival The 8th edition of the International Documentary Festival in Toronto will take place April 30-May 6, 2001. Dedicated to documentary filmmaking both in Canada and internationally, the festival presents more than 80 films each year, and the Documentary Forum offers a place for filmmakers to meet potential buyers. Deadline: December 14, 2000. Contact: 416-203-2155. http://www.hotdocs.ca o International Short Film Festival Oberhausen The Oberhausen festival will take place May 3-8, 2001, and is seeking short films in the categories of fiction, animation, children's films, documentary, dance, experimental and music video. Deadline: January 15, 2001. Contact: +49 (0)208-825-2652. http://www.kurzfilmtage.de o alt.SHO.com Alt.SHO.com, a Showtime Networks venture that launched September 20, 2001 is seeking submissions for its first Alternative Media Festival. Original content from digital artists, animators, directors, and programmers is sought for competition to be judged by a panel of members from the fields of technology and entertainment based on the criteria of artistic merit and innovative use of technology. For further information on the rules and regulations visit http://alt.SHO.com/content/sub_rules_reg.cfm. To enter visit http://alt.SHO.com <http://www.alt.SHO.com. Deadline, November 15th. ------------------------------------------>> R E S F E S T : Best of RESFEST now on sputnik7 ------------------------------------------ View full-length versions of some of RESFEST's most popular films from the past three years now on sputnik7. 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