DIAMOND SCREEN FILM FESTIVAL
Temple University's annual Diamond Screen film festival showcases the exceptional undergraduate and graduate student work produced during the year. Winners of the 2008 festival include David Miranda Hardy (Persistence of Memory, Best Picture-Graduate & Best Cinematography), Timothy McDermott (Call Waiting, Best Picture-Undergraduate), Matt Shichtman (Family Puzzle, Best Narrative & Best Screenplay), Jonathan Olshefski (The Scrapper, Best Documentary), Kristian Ostergaard (Xie’te, Best Experimental Film), Jon Barr (Erotoscope-Best Animation), Karl-Rainer Blumenthal (The Library and Joe, Best Editing), Roman SantaCroce (Brotherhood, Best First Film), and Max Margulies (God of Tears, Audience Award). For more information and photographs of the event please visit www.diamondscreenfestival.com.
NEXTFRAME INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL
Sponsored by the University Film and Video Association (UFVA), and based at Temple University, NextFrame is the world’s premiere touring showcase of international student film and video, emphasizing new approaches to visual media and connecting student filmmakers with a global audience.
NextFrame is pleased to announce the film program for 2009. This year, we received 238 exemplary student films from around the world. Eleven countries are represented in the program, including three films from Temple University: The Scrapper by Jonathan Olshefski (Documentary), A Little Sleep by Katya Gorker (Experimental), and the award winner for best narrative film, Derailed by Scott Calvert. For more information about the festival and this year’s selected program, please visit www.temple.edu/nextframe
Professor Eran Preis was chosen as the Ohio University School of Film's Distinguished Alumnus award recipient.
September is the last month to catch Prof. Roderick Coover's interactive installation OUTSIDE/INSIDE at the American Philosophical Society Museum at Independence Hall, 5th and Chestnut, Philadelphia. The commissioned installation is in the exhibition UNDAUNTED and it is free.
For more information visit the APS Website: www.amphilsoc.org/museum/
Prof. Roderick Coover's video THE THEORY OF TIME HERE plays Sept 19 at the Antimatter Film Festival, Vancouver, CA. For more information visit http://www.antimatter.ws/home08.html
Peter d’Agostino’s video / photo / text installation, comings and going: PARIS (Metro) is featured in the California Video exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, March 15-June 8, 2008. “Over the past four decades, video has played an increasingly central role in artistic production throughout the world. California Video highlights the unique sensibilities of West Coast video, while providing the first major survey of video art produced in California.” California Video: Artists and Histories is published by Oxford University Press.
The exhibition includes restorations of d’Agostino’s comings and goings projects:
PARIS ( Metro ) 1977 / 2008
San Francisco ( BART ) 1978 / 2008
Washington ( METRO ) 1979 / 2008
The comings and goings installations have been exhibited at: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art; the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; and, the Washington Project for the Arts.
The 1977-79 videos are
included in several international collections and distributed by the
Electronic Arts Intermix video archive [eai.org ] “In this
three-part work, d'Agostino focuses
on the complex infrastructure
of urban mass transit systems, drawing linguistic parallels to the
visual image to investigate signs and their relation to structures of
communication. Surveillance and control systems are juxtaposed with the
human element -- pockets of life moving through the massive, intricate
organism of these systems.”
Information about this and other works at www.peterdagostino.net
Contact: pdasite@aim.com
THE MAID selected to the Cannes Film Festival's Cinefondation.
MFA alumna Heidi Saman's thesis film, The Maid, will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this May and will compete in the Cinefondation.
It will also screen at Philadelphia's own Black Lily Film and Music Festival at the International House.
The Maid examines the moments in which we are forced to understand that other people are real in the same way that we are. Rasha is an Egyptian house maid who is not so skilled at her job. When her suspicions of her employers are confirmed, Rasha must come to terms with her perceptions of trust, duty and her place within the family household.
The Paradigm Shift in the Main Line Film Festival
The short film The Paradigm Shift
– which was directed by Temple undergrad Jon Barr – was recently
accepted to screen at the Main Line Film Festival at the Clearview
Anthony Wayne Theatre in Wayne, PA. The short has previously screened
at the Show Off Your Shorts Film Festival in Hollywood, CA back in
February, and will kick off the inaugural Main Line Film Festival on
Saturday, April 26th at 1:30 p.m.
The Paradigm Shift
The Main Line Film Festival
Watch new videos created by graduate videography students for Termite TV. Click to play:
Elisabeth Subrin's new film/video installation, Sweet Ruin, is showing in New York at PARTICIPANT, Inc.
Gaby Hoffman in Sweet Ruin (2 channel HD video projection, sound) January 20 - March 2, 2008
Wed- Sun, 12pm - 6pm
PARTICIPANT, INC.
NEW ADDRESS
253 East Houston Street
New York, NY 10002
Special guest Bruce Yonemoto
Mon Feb 4 Lecture @ 12:45-2:30 rm TL 306
Open discussion @ 3– 4:30 rm TL 4
Bruce Yonemoto’s imaginative and theoretically-informed media
artworks explore the interconnectedness of cinema and
politics, and the key role that visual culture plays in both
describing and executing the colonization of non-Western
cultures. Through film, video and objects, Yonemoto plays with
the conventions of Hollywood and Post-War American
iconography, incorporating narrative, kitsch, and formal
experimentation. Yonemoto is renown as a pioneering media
artist and leader in Asian-American cultural circles,
particularly for twenty years of collaborative practice with
his brother, Norman Yonemoto.
Yonemoto's work has been exhibited internationally, including
individual exhibitions at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo; Blum &
Poe, Los Angeles; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art,
Kansas City, MO; the Institute of Contemporary Art,
Philadelphia; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH;
and the Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA. His work has been
included in numerous biennials, including the Corcoran
Biennial (2002); Fukui International Video Biennale (1993);
the Whitney Biennial (1993, 1987). In 1999, the Japanese
American National Museum in Los Angeles presented a
retrospective exhibition of Bruce and Norman Yonemoto’s work.
Recent exhibitions include Exile of the Imaginary at the
Generali Foundation, Vienna (2007) and In Other Words at Bard
College's Center for Curatorial Studies (2006).
Tom Quinn awarded Slamdance Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature
The New Year Parade
by MFA student Tom Quinn was chosen as the Grand Jury Narrative
Feature winner at the 14th annual Slamdance Film Festival. Read the
press release:
slamdance.org