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French Institute Alliance Francaise
22 East 60th Street
New York, NY 10022-1077
(212) 355-6100
An Interview with Cinematographer Raoul Coutard
and
A Rare Screening of Hoa-Binh, Coutard's 1971 Directorial Debut
"His skill helped change the whole conception of film." -- New York Times
The French Institute Alliance Francaise is pleased to announce two
events that have been added to the Cine-Club film series,
Cinematographer Raoul Coutard: The Light and Eye. On February 25th at
6:30 PM, Raoul Coutard will make a personal appearance and will be
interviewed, and on February 26th at 7:00 PM, he will be present at a
rare screening of Hoa-Binh, his directorial debut.
An Interview with Raoul Coutard
On Tuesday, February 25th at 6:30 PM, The French Institute Alliance
Francaise will screen La peau douce (The Soft Skin), directed by
Francois Truf faut in 1964, and filmed by Raoul Coutard. Following
the screening, Raoul Coutard will be interviewed by film critic Kent
Jones of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and will take questions
from the audience.
For the past forty years Coutard has realized the visions of many of
cinema's greatest filmmakers, while creating an endless list of
iconic images through his groundbreaking photography. Working with
equal adeptness in high-speed black and white or Technicolor, in the
small 1:33 ratio or Cinemascope grandeur, with hand-held camera or
gliding effortlessly on tracks, Coutard's career is a textbook of
cinematic innovations. Florence Guild Hall (55 East 59th Street,
between Madison and Park Avenues) $8.00 General Admission; Free for
FIAF Members. In French and English.
Rare screening of Hoa-Binh, Coutard's 1971 Directorial Debut
On Wednesday, February 26 at 7PM, Raoul Coutard will be present at a
rare screening of his 1971 directorial debut Hoa-Binh, awarded the
Prix Jean Vigo, the Cannes Film Festival Camera d'Or for Best First
Film, and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language
Film. The film has been seldom seen in the United States since first
released. Florence Guild Hall (55 East 59th Street, between Madison
and Park Avenues) $8.00 General Admission; Free for FIAF Members.***
In French, no subtitles. A synopsis will be available. ***
For Ticket Information call the box office at (212) 355-6160 or visit
www.fiaf.org
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From: Joost Rekveld <[log in to unmask]>
Sonic Light 2003
composed light, articulated space
Paradiso and de balie, 13th to 23rd February 2003
The ninth edition of the Sonic Acts festival will be held in Paradiso
and De Balie, Amsterdam, under the name Sonic Light 2003. The
festival will comprise a week of film presentations, a three-day
conference, a small exhibition and three evenings of live music and
light projections in a space specially designed for this purpose -
the 'Sonic Light Box'. The central theme of the festival is the
fascination held by artists for the creative possibilities offered by
giving musical form to light and space.
The vision of a 'music for the eye' is centuries old and forms an
important undercurrent in the recent history of art and the new
media: from the construction of the first colour organs, light
sculptures and the first use of coloured lighting in theatre, through
abstract film animation and synthetic video images, to the design of
interactive software to generate light and sound. The idea of a
musical light art to be presented in an environment specially
designed for that purpose becomes topical every time a new visual
medium appears on the horizon.
Among the present generation of computer artists a new type of visual
music is being created which can be performed live or made specially
for the Internet.
These 'light environments' would be inconceivable without some form
of immersive sound. For centuries composers have dreamt of being able
to compose and articulate a truly spatial kind of music. With the
arrival of electronic sound reproduction this dream received new
impetus from technology, which has led to the stereophonic and
surround systems which can now be found in most living rooms. In
electronic music it has become possible to minutely compose the
spatial aspects of sound by working with quadraphonic, hexaphonic
(Boulez), octophonic (Stockhausen) and dodecaphonic (Humon)
loudspeaker arrangements. Recent initiatives, like Naut Humon's
Recombinant Media Labs, encourage the new generation of sound artists
and electronic music producers to further investigate the huge
potential offered by a new spatial form of music.
see for full programme descriptions: http://www.sonicacts.com
Film programme
OpFilm No. 11: Sonic Light 2003
The OpFilm programme centres on three themes: the early experiments
with electronic images for 'experimental television', the work of a
number of filmmakers central to abstract filmmaking over the past
fifty years, and the relationship between film and kinetic art.
The programme will also include two science-fiction films with
special effects by two abstract filmmakers: Oskar Fischinger and
Jordan Belson. The programme includes several unique screenings of
films that are very rarely shown, especially the programmes on the
work of Jordan Belson, Nicolas Schöffer and Pierre Schaeffer.
Four video works will be shown continuously during the festival
projected on the facade of De Balie from dusk to midnight as part of
De Balie's ongoing 'Straal' project.
Thur.13, 20.00h
Illuminating Music - Dan Sandin, Bill Etra, Vasulka's, etc. Fri.14, 20.00h
Meditation for the Masses - Steven Beck, Eric Siegel, Skip Sweeney
Sat.15, 20.00h
Absolute Classics - Oskar Fischinger, Len Lye, etc. Sun.16, 20.00h
Motion Graphics - John & James Whitney
Mon.17, 20.00h
Text of Light - Stan Brakhage
Tue.18, 20.00h
Turn, Turn, Turn - Jud Yalkut
Wed.19, 20.00h
Luminodynamisme - Nicolas Schöffer
Thur.20, 20.00h
Through the Looking Glass - Jim Davis, Stan Brakhage Fri.21, 20.00h
Light - Jordan Belson
Fri.21, 21.30h
The Time Travellers - Ib Melchior, Oskar Fischinger Sat.22, 20.00h
The Right Stuff - Philip Kaufmann, Jordan Belson Sun.23, 20.00h
Groupe de Recherche Images - Pierre Schaeffer
Fri.14 - Wed.26, dusk
'Straal' - Bainbridge, Casady, Lia, Scroggins
Sonic Light 2003 Conference
The conference part of Sonic Light will take place on 21st, 22nd and
23rd February in De Balie. The subject of the Sonic Acts conference
last year was 'The Art of Programming', this year it is to be
'Composing Light, Articulating Space'. The conference gives a broad
overview of the art of 'composed light': the shaping in time of light
and colour in a way which is comparable to the way sound is given
form in music. A large part of the conference will consist of
presentations by artists who will explain something of the background
to their work, the techniques they use or may have devised and will
include presentations of fragments of their work. Another part of the
conference will comprise more theoretical and historical
presentations which place present-day developments in a broader
context.
To bring some order to the web of ideas and influences linking the
various contributions, the conference has been loosely structured
around three themes, coinciding with the three days. The first day
will centre on the links between light art, the visual arts and
architecture. The second day will be about strategies for making
image and sound compositions, focusing on computer animations in film
and for the web. The last day will deal with various approaches to
perform light and abstract images in real-time.
During the three days of the conference there will be a modest
exhibition in De Balie, consisting of two works. An amazing
'3d-lumia' box by Earl Reiback will be shown, a machine which
produces refined optically 'real' images that appear to float in the
space before it. There will also be a presentation on dvd of the
reconstruction of Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack's 'Farbenlichtspiele', made
in 2000 by a Viennese team of performers headed by Corinne Schweizer
and Peter Böhm.
Fri 21, 13:00h
Fred Collopy - The Contributions of Painters to the Development of
Visual Music Earl Reiback - My Work in Lumia
Eleonore de Lavandeyra-Schöffer - Luminodynamism in the work of
Nicolas Schöffer
Fri 21, 16:00h
Cees Ronda - New Technologies for Illumination Seth Riskin - Light Dance
Paul Friedlander - 3-D Light Forms
Fri 21, 20:00h
Robert Haller - The Films of Jordan Belson (film programme)
Sat 22, 13:00h
Frans Evers - A Dancer had a Dance: Synesthesia and the Unity of the
Arts Sylvie Dallet - Groupe de Recherche Images Larry Cuba - Form =
Movement
Sat 22, 16:00h
Bart Vegter - A Vast Space with a Narrow Entrance Chris Casady -
Instant Visual Music around the World Peter Luining - The Emergence
of the Sound Engine
Sun 22, 13:00h
Pascal Rousseau - Light Experiments in the Beginnings of Abstraction.
An Archaeology of Participative Art Peter Stasny - Light Art at the
Bauhaus, the 'Farbenlichtspiele' of Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack Michael
Scroggins - Absolute Animation Through Improvisation
Sun 22, 16:00h
Benton Bainbridge - Try This at Home: Analog Video Synthesis Fred
Collopy - An Instrument for Performing Real-Time Abstract Animations
Golan Levin - Interface Metaphors for Audiovisual Performance Systems
Sonic Light Box
The night programme of Sonic Light will take place in Paradiso,
Amsterdam, on February 21st to 23rd.
For this occasion the main auditorium of Paradiso will be transformed
into a 'Sonic Light Box', a space designed by Robin Deirkauf.
Essential to the concept of the 'Sonic Light Box' is the immersion of
audience and particpants in light and sound. This time the artists
responsible for these images and sounds will not be the centre of
attention themselves, but it will be their work that directly
communicates to the audience. In total 41 performers and collectives
producing image and sound will present solo pieces and collaborative
works specially prepared for Sonic Light.
The small auditorium of Paradiso will be dominated by Paul
Friedlander's kinetic light sculptures 'Wave Equation' and
'Hypersphere'. Students f the Interfaculty Image and Sound from The
Hague will present a daily programme of light and sound performances
here, DJs Christian Vogel (Friday) and KidGoesting (Saturday) will
provide a pleasant setting later in the night. Other light objects
and luminous interventions by the students of the Interfaculty Image
and Sound will find other places in the building of Paradiso.
In the 'Sonic Light Box' all light performances and projections will
take place on a gigantic light-object, as wide as it is high,
splitting the main Paradiso auditorium in two. This object can serve
as a projection screen but, more importantly, emits light of
continuously changing colour and intensity. It will be the sole
source of light for all events, together with the luminous and mobile
roof hovering above it.
The auditorium will also have no front and no back in terms of sound,
only a centre and periphery. Traditionally, all sound comes from the
direction of the stage, but during Sonic Light a spatial sound system
will be used in which the audience will be surrounded by six
independent loudspeakers on the floor and six hanging from the
ceiling. In this way it will be possible to compose the spatial
experience of both sound and light in the 'Sonic Light Box'.
As has become customary during the Sonic Acts festival, the programme
at the start of the evening will be aimed more at an audience
interested in the arts and will transform to a more dance-oriented
programme after midnight. The evenings will not be simply a
succession of performances according to a festival schedule, but will
have a modular structure. We have asked the invited artists to give a
number of short performances instead of playing one long set. For
example, an artist may be giving a short performance of pure sound
collage on Friday evening and play a dance-oriented set on Saturday.
The programme of each evening is designed to provide a maximum of
variety and contrast between successive sets.
We also asked the artists we invited to engage in various
collaborations. We have set these up to promote dialogue between the
different worlds of light art and sound art, and to show a wide
variety of approaches to the relationship between image and sound.
The programme offers a wide range of artists, from renowned composers
such as Amacher to young dogs such as Venetian Snares, from
projections of films by Oskar Fischinger to improvisations by Golan
Levin and Benton Bainbridge.
The exact time schedule of performances can be found two weeks prior
to the festival on www.sonicacts.com. There will also be a printed
schedule as guide for the evenings. Announcements will be made on
special displays in Paradiso.
The Friday evening starts at 23:00h with a programme until 4:00h. The
Saturday programme starts at 20:00h and ends at 4:00h. The Sunday
programme starts at 20:00h and ends at 3:00h.
Presences by:
@c, Maryanne Amacher, Scott Arford, Benton-C Bainbridge, Olivia
Block, COH, Sue Costabile, Fred Collopy, Richard Devine, Effekt, Dino
Felipe, Hazard, Hecker, Edwin van der Heide, Arnold Hoogerwerf, Naut
Humon, KidGoesting, Laminar, Golan Levin, Lia, Francisco Lopez, Lucia
di Monocordi, Peter Luining, Christian Marclay, Peter Max, Ikue Mori,
Numb, Robert Pravda, pxp, random k, Joost Rekveld, reMI, Seth Riskin,
Don Ritter, Otto von Schirach, Sutekh, tcw23, Telco Systems, Yasunao
Tone, Venetian Snares, Christian Vogel
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From: Paul Ward <[log in to unmask]> Subject: new Film Masters degree
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Hi All,
Just sending notice of a new MA in Film ('Film: Hollywood and
Beyond') that we are offering here at Brunel. We are looking to
recruit as many students as possible, and overseas students, as well
as those from the UK, are encouraged to apply.
Those interested can visit the webpage for the MA, at:
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/pfa/home.htm
then click on the link for Film and Television Studies, then the link
for Hollywood and Beyond. The page also includes details of each
module in the MA, a downloadable application form, details of the
teaching staff and other relevant information.
Any questions regarding the course can be directed to the Course
Convenor, Dr. Michele Aaron [[log in to unmask]], or the
Secretary for Performing Arts, Ms. Rachel Russell
[[log in to unmask]].
Please inform any students that you think might be interested.
Many thanks
Paul
Paul Ward
Lecturer in Film and Television Studies
Dept. of Performing Arts
Brunel University
Uxbridge UB8 3PH, UK
01895 274 000 ext 3956
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From: [log in to unmask]
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 04:46:54 EST
Subject: Talking Pictures
To: [log in to unmask]
Hi
I wonder if you could mention that my Talking Pictures website
(http://www.talkingpix.co.uk) now has a review by Alan Pavelin of
Ingmar Bergman's re-released Persona. There is also a review with
pictures of the 5th Bangkok International Film Festival by Nigel
Watson (http://www.talkingpix.co.uk/ArticleBangkok2003.html).
Cheers
Nigel Watson
For an intelligent look at film and television visit:
http://www.talkingpix.co.uk
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From: [log in to unmask]
UCC Instructors Collaborate on Film Website
KAMLOOPS-CanFilm, a dynamic new website dedicated to the study and
promotion of alternative films with a focus on Canadian films, will
be officially launched later this month.
The creators expect the site, conceived by instructors in the Visual
& Performing Arts and English & Modern Languages departments at The
University College of the Cariboo, will not only be an extended
supplement to existing courses, but will reach a broader audience by
acting as a hub of links and information that is intended to be
playful and provocative, as well as educational.
The project began as an idea to help students learn about film
history and Canadian film as part of a Visual Culture course taught
by Visual Arts instructor, Alan Brandoli. Finding that the film
component of the course did not provide students with enough exposure
to the complexities of film structure and the emerging Canadian film
industry, Brandoli sought to develop an online resource that could be
accessed by the general student population.
Working with fellow faculty member Andrew Wong, whose computer skills
gave the website its form, the two realized that the site could serve
a broader purpose than an educational supplement for just one course
and could become one of the few online resources on the subject. They
consulted with English instructor and Canadian Studies program
coordinator, Ginny Ratsoy, whose longstanding interest and enthusiasm
for Canadian film seemed particularly suited to the project, with its
potential to raise general awareness of Canadian film and also act as
a teaching tool in Ratsoy's own courses.
Soon the group was joined by Librarian, Christina Neigel and student,
Joel Bastedo. The group worked together to refine what had already
been done and to add links to other UCC resources. The site is
intended to be flexible and open to changes, ongoing revisions and
additions, including essays and reviews by students and faculty,
along with updates from the alternative and Canadian film sectors.
Along with resources from the University College of the Cariboo, the
group has also received generous support from the Kamloops Film
Society. The public is invited to attend the website's official
launch and reception on Thursday, January 30th from 11:00 am to 1:00
pm in the UCC Visual Art Gallery, adjacent to "Student Street" in the
Old Main Building.
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For more information, please contact Alan Brandoli at 828-5489 or
Ginny Ratsoy at 828-5238 or go to: www.cariboo.bc.ca and click on
"Canfilm" on the front page under "Highlights."
Bronwen Scott
Media Coordinator
Public Relations Dept.
The University College of the Cariboo
PO Box 3010, Kamloops, BC V2C 5N3
Phone: 250-371-5739
email: [log in to unmask]
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From: Marjolein Berger <[log in to unmask]>
28 February 1 March.
Time: 10:45 17:00 hours.
Location: Auditorium, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museumpark
18-20, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Admission: Ä 80,- for two days, Ä 50,- for one day, discount
(student, cjp, RotterdamPas, 65+): Ä 60,- for two days, Ä 40,- for
one day.
Lectures by:
Arjun Appadurai, Simon Conway Morris, Ingo G¸nther, Scott Lash, Winy
Maas, Brian Massumi, Sadie Plant.
Moderation by: Manuel DeLanda
The symposium is part of and deals with the theme of the Dutch
Electronic Art Festival ëDEAF03 Data Knittingí, organized by V2_,
Institute for the Unstable Media (25 February - 9 March 2003 in
Rotterdam)
The symposium will be in English.
Publication available: see text below.
Symposium ëInformation is Aliveí
'Information is Alive' focuses on archives as unstable, plastic,
living entities. Information storage, processing and transmission
take place on many levels: individually, in our memories;
collectively, in stories, rituals, laws, celebrations, games,
concepts, language, image and architecture; biologically, in fossils
and in bodies as living forms; and technologically, in archives and
databases. In the last 20 years information has been stored and
retrieved more and more by means of digital technologies.
Unlike more classical archive models, digital databases need not be
ordered hierarchically, for they are made accessible through highly
complex linking technologies which no longer need to work linearly,
as they did with old-style computers. Search engines can be designed
to find the proverbial needle in the haystack or even to create a
haystack where there are only needles. A digital archive, like the
human memory, need not be a static system. The value of what is
stored lies in how it can be used in the present, lies in it's
operationality instead of its meaning. Memory is a process that
functions in the present and is continually updated through that mode
of functioning.
Research into neurological, social, cultural and evolutionary
information storage lived archives of habits and practices,
continuously being broken down and rebuilt provides a model or tool
for understanding the possibilities of multilinear and nonlinear
archiving. The atomization of the archive in the database has made
the whole ëArt of Memoryí into a technological, interactive art that
suddenly becomes a highly urgent topic. First, for all those
institutions that feel the need to ëopen their archivesí, second for
all those who describe and study modes of being, third for all those
who design and use our new archives, be it books, websites, cities or
other forms. The theme of the symposium lies in the exploration of
unexpected developments that may arise through the storing, linking,
reprocessing, transforming and complexifying of what otherwise would
simply have remained as raw data.
ëInformation is Aliveí brings together a high profile and
interdisciplinary group of scientists, theorists, artists and
architects who will present and discuss their ideas and projects and
invite the audience to enter into active public dialogue.
Lectures by:
Arjun Appadurai (IND/USA), anthropologist, professor at Yale
University. His recent research focuses on ethnic violence and the
modern nation-state. Appadurai is writer of ëModernity at Large:
Cultural Dimensions of Globalizationí (1996).
Simon Conway Morris (GB), palaeobiologist, professor of Evolutionary
Palaeobiology at the University of Cambridge (GB). In 1990 he was
elected Fellow of the Royal Society. Conway Morris has done field
research in the most diverse places, such as China, Mongolia,
Australia and Greenland. He has published, among much else, ëThe
Crucible of Creationí (1998).
Ingo G¸nther (D), artist, journalist. In the early 1980s he evaluated
and publicized satellite data that dealt with political and military
hotbeds. Since 1989, G¸nther uses globes as a medium for his artistic
and journalistic projects.
Scott Lash (USA/GB), sociologist, author of Critique of Information
(2002). His interests include information society, global media,
continental philosophy, technology and culture, and the problem of
ëflowsí.
Winy Maas (NL), architect, co-founder of MVRDV, an office that
produces designs and studies in the fields of architecture, urbanism,
landscape design and design philosophy. With MVRDV he has published
many books, among which ëFARMAX: Excursions on densityí (1998) and
ëMetacity/Datatowní (1999).
Brian Massumi (CDN), philosopher, teaches at the University of
Montreal (CDN). Massumi is interested in the relationship between
technology, science and humanoria. His publications include ëParables
for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensationí (2002). Massumi is
translator of the works of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.
Sadie Plant (GB), philosopher, teaches philosophy at Manchester
University. She was director of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit
at Warwick University. Plant has published extensively in the field
of gender and technology, among which ëZeros + Ones: Digital Women
and the New Technocultureí (1997). She is one of the pioneers of
cyber feminism.
Moderation by:
Manuel DeLanda (MEX/USA), writer, filmmaker, media artist, programmer
and software designer. Author of among others ëPhylum: A Thousand
Years of Non-Linear Historyí (1997). DeLanda teaches at Columbia
University New York (USA) ëPhilosophy of History: Theories of
Self-Organization and Urban Dynamicsí, and ëPhilosophy of Science:
Thinking about Structures and Materialsí.
Program
Friday 28 February 2003
10.45: opening words V2_
11.00: introduction Manuel DeLanda
12.00: lecture Scott Lash
13.00: lunch break
14.00: lecture Simon Conway Morris
15.00: lecture Ingo G¸nther
16.00: tea break
16.15: panel discussion
17.00: end
17:15 Presentation of the ëDigital Depotí of the Museum Boijmans Van
Beuningen, free entrance for symposium participants
Saturday 1 March 2003
10.45: openings words Manuel DeLanda
11.00: lecture Brian Massumi
12.00: lecture Arjun Appadurai
13.00: lunch break
14.00: lecture Winy Maas
15.00: lecture Sadie Plant
16.00: tea break
16.15: panel discussion
17.00: end
You may register for the symposium by sending an e-mail to
[log in to unmask] or via the festival website http://deaf.v2.nl. For more
information on registration, phone: +31 (0)10 750.15.15
Payment procedure:
Your registration for the symposium becomes valid upon receipt of
payment. V2_ will confirm your registration when both reservation and
payment have been received. Your ticket(s) may then be collected at
the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen on the day(s) of the symposium. In
case of overbooking, V2_ reserves the right to cancel your
registration. Please forward your payment to account number 245 38 96
(Postbank) in favor of Stichting V2_, Rotterdam, The Netherlands,
mentioning your last name + 'symposium'. Alternatively, you may use
the Direct Payment method at the festival website http://deaf.v2.nl.
Publication ëInformation is Aliveí
V2_, in cooperation with NAi Publishers, will release a publication
'Information is Alive'; accompanying 'DEAF03 Data Knitting'. The book
features descriptions of the installations of the ëDEAF03í exhibition
and essays and interviews by Arjen Mulder, Manuel DeLanda, Brian
Massumi, Sadie Plant, Arjun Appadurai, Scott Lash, Simon Conway
Morris, Antonio Damasio, George Dyson, Winy Maas, Boris Groys,
Ryszard Kapuscinski and Ingo G¸nther. Price: Ä 22,50 (during the
DEAF03 festival Ä 20,-). This book is available at a discount in
bookshops on presentation of the action coupon (action number 00000
743-7371). This offer is valid from 25 February until 9 March, 2003.
ISBN 90-5662-310-9
More information can be found on ëDEAF03 Onlineí: http://deaf.v2.nl
ëDEAF03 Onlineí offers the possibility to view the symposium online
and to participate in various festival activities.
For educational programs and/or guided tours during DEAF03 please
contact Valentijn Webbers, [log in to unmask] or +31 (0)10 750 15 18
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From: Mark Jancovich <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Scope's new
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The following book and film reviews and conference reports can be
accessed via the link to the Institute of Film Studies at the bottom
of this email
Book Reviews
Section Editor: Lincoln Geraghty
Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film, By
Emanuel Levy, A Review by Christine Becker.
A Companion to Film Theory, Edited by Toby Miller & Robert Stam, Film
Theory: An Introduction, By Robert Stam, and Film and Theory: An
Anthology, Edited by Robert Stam & Toby Miller, A Review by Ernest
Mathijs
Contemporary Korean Cinema: Identity, Culture, Politics, By Hyangjin
Lee, A Review by Frances Gateward
Countervisions: Asian American Film Criticism, Edited by Darrell Y.
Hamamoto and Sandra Liu, A Review by Chi-Yun Shin
Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan In Hollywood and Out (Revised
Edition), By Slavoj Zizek, A Review by Chris Dumas
Postmodern Journeys: Film and Culture 1996-1998, By Joseph Natoli, A
Review by Kelly A. Ritter
Spanish Cinema. The Auterist Tradition, Edited by Peter William
Evans, A Review by Antonio Lázaro Reboll
Tenebre/Tenebrae, By Xavier Mendik, A Review by Leon Hunt
Thrillers, By Martin Rubin, A Review by Ronald W. Wilson
The Travelling Cinematograph Show, By Kevin Scrivens and Stephen
Smith, A Review by Ronald W. Wilson
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Film Reviews
Section Editor: Karen McNally
About a Boy, A Review by Juliette Wells
Asoka, A Review by Debanjan Chakrabarti
The Butcher Boy, A Review by Shirley Peterson
East is East and My Son the Fanatic, A Review Essay by Chi-Yun Shin
Josie and the Pussycats, A Review by Elizabeth Hale
Lara Croft Tomb Raider, A Review by Rayna Denison
The Man Who Wasn't There, A Review by Sabine Hikel and Andrew McAllister
Metropolis, A Review by Maria Ionita
Ocean's Eleven (1960) and Ocean's Eleven (2001), A Review Essay by
Karen McNally
Panic Room, A Review by Jon Wisbey
Pitch Black, A Review by David Greven
The Royal Tenenbaums, A Review by Gordon Reavley
Taxi Driver, A Review by Steve Shoemaker
Waking Life, A Review by Jamie Sexton
Werckmeister Harmonies, A Review by Zoran Samardzija
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Conference Reports
Section Editor: Rayna Denison
High Theory: Figuring Addictions/Rethinking Consumption conference,
4-5 April, 2002, Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster
University, A Report by Bruce Bennett
Hot and Cold: Film and Television Studies at the PCA/ACA in Toronto,
32nd Popular Culture Association and 24th American Culture
Association Annual Conference, March 13-16, 2002, The Toronto
Sheraton Centre Hotel, Toronto, Canada, A Report by Dr. Dennis
Cutchins
Places and Spaces in Women's Cultural Studies, The Women's Studies
Symposium: University of Memphis, October, 2001, A Report by Sharon
Monteith
Yours
Mark
--
Dr Mark Jancovich
Professor and Director
Institute of Film Studies
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, NG7 2RD
United Kingdom
Tel: 0115 951 4250
Fax: 0115 951 4270
email: [log in to unmask]
URL: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film
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From: Gerard Greenway <[log in to unmask]> Subject:
SPOON-ANN: ANGELAKI: In theory 1993--2003 -- 7.2, 7.3 Contents
ANGELAKI
journal of the theoretical humanities
Two issues of ANGELAKI were published at the end of last year, the
Special issue _Inventions of Death_ (7.2) and the 2002 General issue
(7.3). Please find the contents lists below.
This September sees the 10th anniversary of the journal. There is a
page at the website giving a chronological selection of 100 articles
from Volumes 1 to 8. Please click on 'In theory, 1993--2003' at:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/0969725X.html
At the end of last year the collection _The Question of Literature:
The Place of the Literary in Contemporary Theory_ was published in
the Angelaki Humanities book series (Manchester UP). Details of the
book can be found at:
http://catalogue.mup.man.ac.uk/acatalog/Angelaki_Humanities_.html
ANGELAKI is open for contributions for consideration for the 2003
General issue (ii) (8.3, December) until the end of March.
The journal is open to proposals for Special issues for publication
in 2004 and onwards.
Thank you
Gerard Greenway, managing editor
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volume 7 number 2 august 2002
INVENTIONS OF DEATH: literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis
issue editor: Roger Starling
CONTENTS
Editorial Introduction
-- Roger Starling
A Love That is Stronger than Death: Sacrifice in the Thought of
Levinas, Heidegger, and Bloch.
-- Robert Bernasconi
On The Border of Language and Death: Derrida and the Question of the Animal
-- Matthew Calarco
Derrida and the Holocaust: A Commentary on the Philosophy of Cinders
-- Robert Eaglestone
Death and Enlightenment in Twelve Brief Episodes -- Philip Goodchild
Time of Death
-- Benjamin Noys
The World is Not Enough
-- Leslie Hill
Literature in Secret: Crossing Derrida and Blanchot -- Ginette Michaud
Literally
-- Jean-Luc Nancy
A Meditation on Knell, Funeral Melancholia, and the Question of Self-
Reflexivity: "To Whom Would the Reflexive Be Returned?" -- Kyoo E. Lee
Addressing the Dead: Of Friendship, Community, and the Work of
Mourning -- Roger Starling
Freud, Hoffmann and the Death-Work
-- John Fletcher
Art, Death and the Perfection of Error
-- Robert Smith
Dying for a Smoke: Freudian Addiction and the Joy of Consumption --
Scott Wilson
Celebrating Catastrophe
-- Elisabeth Bronfen
Cold Sentimentality: Eroticism, Death, and Technology -- Marquard Smith
Deeper than the Day Could Read
-- Slavoj Zizek
volume 7 number 3 december 2002
GENERAL ISSUE 2002
issue editor: Pelagia Goulimari
Editorial Introduction
-- Pelagia Goulimari
Hating Katherine Mansfield
-- Andrew Bennett
Description of a Woman: For a Philosophy of the Sexed Other -- Gilles Deleuze
Deleuze _in Utero_: Deleuze--Sartre and the Essence of Woman -- Keith
W. Faulkner
Freedom and Dependence: A Psychoanlytical Contribution to the Problem
of Determination
-- Agata Bielik-Robson
The Ethical Claims of _il pensiero debole_: Gianni Vattimo, Pluralism
and Postmodern Subjectivity
-- David Edward Rose
The Living and the Dead -- Variations on _De anima_ -- Melinda Cooper
Derrida and the Ruins of Disinterest
-- Sean Gaston
Gestures Beyond Tolerance: Generosity, Fatality and the Logic of the State
-- Fiona Jenkins
Impersonal Existence: A Conceptual Genealogy of the "There Is" from
Heidegger to Blanchot and Levinas
-- William Large
Going Postal to Deliver Subjects: Remarks on a German Postal a priori
-- Geoffrey Winthrop-Young
Living Virtually in a Cluttered House
-- Eleanor Kaufman
... and ... and ...: Deleuze Politics
-- Alexander Garcia Duttmann
Annual Index (Volume 7)
Gerard Greenway
Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/0969725X.html
Angelaki Humanities
http://catalogue.mup.man.ac.uk/acatalog/Angelaki_Humanities_.html
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Issue 24 of
SENSES OF CINEMA
is online at
http://www.sensesofcinema.com
Spotlights include:
2002 Favourite Film Things
Australian film - The Tracker, The Quiet American Christopher Lee
Alfred Hitchcock
Fruit Chan, Alex Cox
Jon Jost on the 'creative' life
The Cinematographer: Jack Cardiff & Conrad Hall New releases:
Adaptation, Bowling for Columbine, 11'09"01- September 11
On DVD: Forest of Bliss
Plus:
GREAT DIRECTORS - Jean-Luc Godard, Orson Welles, Edgar G. Ulmer,
Kenneth Anger and others
TOP TENS / BOOK REVIEWS / FESTIVAL REPORTS / and much more!
Senses of Cinema http://www.sensesofcinema.com
General Editor - Fiona A Villella [log in to unmask]
Great Directors Editor - Michelle Carey [log in to unmask]
Web Designer/TTs - Chris Howard [log in to unmask]
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From: "Senses of Cinema" <[log in to unmask]> To:
"Film-Philosophy" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CTEQ
Annotations - Call for Contributions Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 17:46:16
+1100
X-Priority: 3
INTRO
The Melbourne Cinémathèque plays a vital role in local film culture
by screening important films from film history that otherwise would
not be theatrically screened before an audience. In order to provide
a critical context for these screenings, "annotations" on films have
traditionally been published in one form or another. Since April
2000, "CTEQ Annotations on Film" have been published electronically
in Senses of Cinema and in hard copy for those without Internet
access. The purpose of these annotations is to further appreciation
of a film by highlighting details of its history, providing a
"reading" of its aesthetic and so on.
INVITE
Senses of Cinema and CTEQ Annotations on Film invite writers to
contribute notes on the films listed below.
Articles should follow the guidelines set out by Senses of Cinema and
should be 800-1000 words in length.
We ask that you reply to this invitation with an expression of
interest in a film that you would like to write on as soon as
possible. Email Adrian Danks at [log in to unmask] We will
then match up writers with specific films (as there may be several
people interested in one film).
Annotations on the following films will be published in the next
issue of Senses of Cinema. The deadline for written material is
February 17th. Seven Men From Now (Budd Boetticher, 1956) Pat Garrett
& Billy The Kid (Sam Peckinpah, 1973) Thomas Graal's Best Film
(Mauritz Stiller, 1917) Cries & Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, 1972)
Summer With Monica (Ingmar Bergman, 1952) Black Sunday (Maria Bava, 1960)
The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher, 1968) The Headless Horseman
(Edward T. Venturini) 1922 Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel, 1950)
Pixote (Hector Babenco, 1981)
My Name Is Oona (Gunvor Nelson, 1969)
Schmeergunz (Gunvor Nelson, 1960)
Take Off (Gunvor Nelson, 1972)
An Actor's Revenge (Kon Ichikawa, 1963)
Utamaro & His Five Women (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1947) The Negro Soldier
(Frank Capra & Stuart Heisler, 1944) Basic Training (Frederick
Wiseman, 1971) Soldier Girls (Nick Broomfield & Julie Churchill,
1981) The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
So This Is Paris (Ernst Lubitsch, 1926)
The Italian Straw Hat (René Clair, 1927) Vacancy (Matthias Müller, 1998)
Sleepy Haven (Matthias Müller, 1993)
Home Stories (Matthias Müller, 1991)
Pensao Globo (Matthias Müller, 1997)
Divine Obsession (Volko Kamensky, 1999)
Vagabonding Images (Nicolas Humbert & Simone Fürbringer, 1998) Film
Ist (Gustav Deutsch, 1998)
The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955)
Railroaded (Anthony Mann, 1947)
Dillinger (Max Nosseck, 1945)
Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (Jacques Becker, 1953) Bob Le Flambeur
(Jean-Pierre Melville, 1955) Vivement Dimanche/Confidentially Yours
(François Truffaut, 1982) Garde à Vue (Claude Miller, 1981)
L'alibi (Pierre Chenal, 1937)
L'assassin Habite...au 21 (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1942) Alfred
Hitchcock Presents: Banquo's Chair (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959) Alfred
Hitchcock Presents: Wet Saturday (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956) Alfred
Hitchcock Presents: Mrs. Bixby & The Colonel's Coat (Alfred
Hitchcock, 1960)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Perfect Crime (Alfred Hitchcock, 1957)
The Last Hungry Cat (Friz Freleng, 1961)
Regards,
Fiona
For Senses of Cinema and CTEQ Annotations on Film
Senses of Cinema http://www.sensesofcinema.com
Fiona A Villella - General Editor [log in to unmask]
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UPCOMING SLOUGHT NETWORKS CALENDAR (PARTIAL LISTING)
http://slought.net/toc/calendar/display.php?date3=2003-01
PDF Attachment: "Screen Words" Press Release
Presenting: Krzystof Ziarek, Ewa Ziarek, Jean-Michel Rabaté Lecture
and Public Conversation: "On the Event in Art & Technology" Event
Date: 2003-02-22 / 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Presenting: Rodrigo Toscano, Jeff Derksen, Louis Cabri, Rita Wong,
Mark Nowak, Alan Gilbert, Kristin Prevallet, Laura Elrick, Joshua
Schuster, Carol Miracove, Jules Boykoff, Kaia Sand Symposium: "The
Social Mark (I): Poetry Readings" Event Date: 2003-02-28 / 6:30 pm -
8:30 pm
Presenting: Rodrigo Toscano, Jeff Derksen, Louis Cabri Symposium:
"The Social Mark (II): Poetry Talks" Event Date: 2003-03-01 / 3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
Presenting: Eduardo Cadava (Event ID:1138) Lecture & Dialogue: "palm
reading: fazal sheikh's handbook of death" Event Date: 2003-03-06 /
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Presenting: AES Group, Oleg Kulik, Leonid Tishkov, Olga Stolpovskaya,
Grisha Bruskin, Komar Vitalii, Melamid Alexander, Vladimir
Yankilevsky, Victor Pivovarov Exhibition Opening: "Detente: Russian
contemporary art in video" Event Date: 2003-03-26 / 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Presenting: Catherine Liu, Jean-Michel Rabaté Lecture & Public
Conversation: "On paranoia, superstition and irrationality
(unconfirmed)" Event Date: 2003-04-18 / 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Presenting: Janet Zweig, Jena Osman
Lecture & Artist Talk: "Janet Zweig's Text Machines" Event Date:
2003-04-24 / 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Presenting: Thalia Field, Jamie Jewett, Alexander Devaron
Performance: "SEVEN VEILS (A Night of Poetry in Moving Media)" Event
Date: 2003-05-15 / 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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SLOUGHT NETWORKS
4017 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3513
http://slought.net/
215.746.4239
All events free and open to the public.
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From: "Caroline Bainbridge" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Final Call for
Papers: Culture and the Unconscious
Apologies for cross posting
************************************************** Dr Caroline Bainbridge
Senior Lecturer, Psychosocial Studies
University of East London
Longbridge Road
Dagenham, Essex RM8 2AS
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Culture and the Unconscious: Psychoanalysts, Artists and Academics in Dialogue
July 11th and 12th 2003
School of Oriental and African Studies, London WC1
Jointly organised by the British Psychoanalytic Society, the
Tavistock Clinic and the University of East London
Confirmed Keynote Speakers Include:
Prof. Slavoj Zizek, internationally renowned cultural critic
Fiona Shaw, actor, writer and theatre director
Eva Hoffman, author of Lost in Translation
Nicholas Wright, award-winning playwright - Van Gogh in Brixton
Helen Taylor Robinson, psychoanalyst
David Bell, psychoanalyst
Outline of Conference
Psychoanalysis has always wandered beyond the consulting room.
Alongside clinical texts, Freud and his followers wrote speculatively
on art and artists, politics, war and civilisation, and this cultural
engagement has been fully sustained by later analytic generations.
The creative arts and literature have been widely admired by
psychoanalysts, many of whom believe that creative artists have
conveyed the deepest of all understandings of unconscious mental
life. More recently, psychoanalysis in many hues has permeated
cultural criticism and the universities, influencing studies of film,
television, the visual arts, biography, fiction, theatre and poetry,
and other art forms. Although psychoanalysts and academics are often
drawn to the same painting, film or play, their approaches commonly
use psychoanalysis differently and address different audiences.
Until now, conversations between these three worlds of
psychoanalysis, the academy, and the creative arts have rarely taken
place. Such conversations will form the basis of Culture and the
Unconscious, an international interdisciplinary conference that will
bring together psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, artists and
academics to discuss such fields as film and television, literature,
drama and poetry, the visual arts, and biography. Through these
conversations, Culture and the Unconscious will bring together the
worlds of psychoanalysis, academia, and the creative arts. It will
produce a lively, illuminating and thought-provoking event that
should be of interest to all those interested in psychoanalysis and
culture.
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
The following themes are of particular interest:
· Affect and Culture
· The difference between psychoanalytic and academic approaches to culture
· Creativity and the Unconscious
· The tendency of psychoanalysis to moralise on 'goodness' or 'taste'
in relation to culture.
Our first call for papers produced a large number of papers concerned
with film. In light of this, the organising committee would like to
call for further proposals dealing with other cultural forms.
Proposals should be submitted to the organising committee by e-mailing
[log in to unmask] before the closing date (1st March 2003).
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From: "Fatima Lasay" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP: COSIGN 2003
*
* Last Call For Papers
* ---------------------
*
* COSIGN 2003
*
* The 3nd International Conference on
*
* COMPUTATIONAL SEMIOTICS FOR GAMES AND NEW MEDIA *
* University of Teesside (UK)
*
* 10th - 12th September, 2003
*
* http://www-scm.tees.ac.uk/users/p.c.fencott/cosign2003 *
CONFERENCE SCOPE
====================
As in previous years, this third annual COSIGN conference provides an
exciting cross-disciplinary event for exploring the ways in which
meaning can be created by, encoded in, understood by, or produced
through, the computer (using systems or techniques based upon
semiotics). COSIGN is for anyone with an interest in areas of overlap
(or potential overlap) between semiotics and computers including
computer scientists, HCI and AI practitioners, digital artists,
designers, critics, theorists, semioticians, narratologists, etc. In
addition to the academic papers and artwork presentations, COSIGN
will include a range of participatory events such as papers,
workshops, tutorials, panel discussions to provide the space for the
vital and vibrant discussions that it is know for.
COSIGN 2003 invites submissions in the following categories. A brief
outline of the submission procedure is given below.
1. Academic Papers
2. Artworks
3. Posters
4. Technical Demonstrations
Media that make use of the unique capabilities of digital systems are
of particular interest to this conference. These include, but are not
limited to, the following: virtual reality systems and virtual
environments; hypertext, hypermedia, multimedia and the internet;
content analysis systems (particularly those that extract
higher-level meaning); the semantic web (and similar systems);
digital art, net art and other technology-based or
technology-oriented art forms; computer games, interactive narratives
and other forms of interactive entertainment.
Information about the conference are available at the following web
address: http://www-scm.tees.ac.uk/users/p.c.fencott/cosign2003
The programme and proceedings of COSIGN 2001 and COSIGN 2002 are
available online at the following web address. Please note, however,
that the proceedings of COSIGN 2003 will only be made available
online to conference attendees.
http://www.kinonet.com/conferences/cosign2002/program.html
CONFERENCE LOCATION
======================
COSIGN 2003 will be held in Middlesbrough, UK, hosted by the Virtual
Environments Group of the School of Computing and Mathematics at the
University of Teesside. Middlesbrough sits near the mouth of the
River Tees in the north-east of England. It is a lively town with a
proud industrial heritage and one of the main shopping and leisure
centers for the area. It is also an important location for business
and commerce, communications and civic administration. In the Tees
valley heavy industry mingles with wetlands and wildfowl reserves
while just a few minutes drive away are the North York Moors National
Park and the dramatic North Sea coast.
Teesside International Airport is less than 20 kilometers from
Middlesbrough and has several direct connections every day to both
London (Heathrow) and Amsterdam (Schipol) which are major European
hubs for international flights.
Further information is available at the following web address:
http://www-scm.tees.ac.uk/users/p.c.fencott/cosign2003/
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
====================
Authors of accepted papers will be required to prepare a written
version of their paper for inclusion in the printed and online
proceedings. Attendance at the conference is dependent on authors
providing this written version of their paper by the required date
and in the required format.
Acceptance is also dependent on at least one of the authors
registering for the conference by 13th of June 2003. As in previous
years, COSIGN will endeavour to support as much as possible the
registration fees and/or accommodation of those presenters who are
not funded by an institution or organisation.
1. ACADEMIC PAPERS
Papers are invited on any subject that explores areas of overlap (or
potential overlap) between semiotics and interactive digital media.
Examples of this include, but are not limited to, the following:
- - - The use of semiotics in artificial intelligence and expert
systems. - - - Software architectures and technologies using, based
upon or inspired
by semiotic theories, systems or models. - - - The use of semiotics
in the creation of generative narrative systems,
interactive digital games, entertainment and artworks. - - - The use
of semiotics in the study and criticism of digital interactive media.
- - - Narratology in games and new media. - - - Semiotic-orientated HCI.
- - - Semiotics and Hypermedia.
Papers should demonstrate an understanding of - and engagement with
the principles of semiotics (understood here as the study of signs)
and gain something from this engagement.
Further details of the submission process (and templates for papers)
are available at
http://www-scm.tees.ac.uk/users/p.c.fencott/cosign2003/
- - ------------------------------------------------------ Submission
date for Academic Papers: 28th March 2003 Acceptance will be notified
on or around 12th May 2003 Camera-ready copy for the proceedings by
9th June 2003 - -
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2. ARTWORKS
In addition to academic and theoretical papers, presentations of
artworks of all forms and in all formats are invited. We are
particularly interested in digital art, net art and other
technology-based or technology-oriented art forms.
Artworks will be assessed on the basis of documentation of the work
presented in the form of an online website. The website should
display the following:
- - - A textual description of the proposed artwork and any
illustrations - - - A biography of the artist(s)/author(s) - - -
Contact details
Further details of the submission process and requirements are
available at http://www-scm.tees.ac.uk/users/p.c.fencott/cosign2003/
- - -------------------------------------------------------
Submission date for Artworks: 28th March 2003 Acceptance will be
notified on or around 12th May 2003 Camera-ready copy for the
proceedings by 9th June 2003 - -
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3. POSTERS
There will be an opportunity for researchers to present new work and
ideas that are not yet ready for the full presentation. Short papers
will be presented in poster format, and will be included in both the
hardcopy and electronic proceedings.
Further details of the submission process and requirements are
available at http://www-scm.tees.ac.uk/users/p.c.fencott/cosign2003/
- - -------------------------------------------------------
Submission date: 24th April 2003
Acceptance will be notified on or around 12th May 2003 Camera-ready
copy for the proceedings by 9th June 2003 - -
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4. TECHNICAL DEMONSTRATIONS
Demonstrations of relevant leading-edge work and work in progress are
invited. Submissions will be peer-reviewed to ensure quality.
Demonstration proposals must be submitted electronically.
Further details of the submission process and requirements are available at
http://www-scm.tees.ac.uk/users/p.c.fencott/cosign2003/
- - -------------------------------------------------------------
Submission date for Technical Demonstrations: 24th April 2003
Acceptance will be notified on or around 12th May 2003 Camera-ready
copy for the proceedings by 9th June 2003 - -
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ALTERNATIVE SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
====================================
Authors and artists who have difficulty in making their submission in
the appropriate form or in viewing the detailed submission procedure
should contact:
Frank Nack
CWI - INS2
Kruislaan 413
P.O. Box 94079,
NL-1090 GB Amsterdam
Email: [log in to unmask]
Phone: +31 20 592 4223
Fax: +31 20 592 4312
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
====================
Andy Clarke - Kinonet (UK)
Clive Fencott - University of Teeside (UK) Craig Lindley -
Interactive Institute (Sweden) Grethe Mitchell - University of East
London and Kinonet (UK) Frank Nack - CWI (Netherlands)
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
===================
Elisabeth Andre - University of Augsburg (Germany) Wilton Azevedo -
Mackenzie Presbyterian University, S“o Paulo, (Brazil) Paul Brna -
Leeds University (UK)
Kevin Brooks - Motorola Human Interface Labs (USA) Andrew Clarke - Kinonet (UK)
Chitra Dorai - IBM (USA)
Clive Fencott - University of Teeside (UK) Brody Condon - Media artist (USA)
Werner Kriechbaum - IBM (Germany)
James Lester - North Carolina University (USA) Craig Lindley -
Interactive Institute (Sweden) Grethe Mitchell - University of East
London and Kinonet (UK) Frank Nack - CWI (Netherlands)
Mirko Petric -University of Split (Croatia) Paolo Petta - OFAI (Austria)
Doug Rosenberg - University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) Ola Stockfelt
- University of Goteborg/University of Skovde (Sweden) Robert
Wechsler - Palindrome Inter-media Performance Group (Germany)
ARTWORK COMMITTEE
=================
Andrew Clarke - Kinonet (UK)
Silvia Eckermann - Digital artist (Austria) Fatima Lasay - University
of the Philippines (Philippines) Luca Marchetti - Anomos (France)
Grethe Mitchell - University of East London and Kinonet (UK) Timothy
Portlock - University of Illinois (USA) David Rokeby - Digital Artist
(Canada)
Doug Rosenberg - University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)
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From: Livia Alexander <[log in to unmask]>
I am sure that many of you will be happy to learn that First Run /
Icarus Films has re-released the landmark film by Jean Rouch & Edgar
Morin CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER, made from a new Digi beta video master.
Defined as the key cinema verite film, CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER is the
winner of the International Critics Prize at the 1961 Cannes Film
Festival.
CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER
Chronique dún été
A Film by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin
Paris. The summer of 1960. While war rages in Algeria and
pre-independence Congo struggles for independence, ethnographic
filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin send two women out
into the streets of the city to interview passersby.
Rouch, whose previous groundbreaking films were shot in Africa, and
Morin, an academic and writer, were experimenting with a new kind of
documentary film about their own society that would reveal the
innermost truth of peoples' lives.
From a simple starting point - asking Are you happy, sir? - CHRONICLE
OF A SUMMER delves deeper and deeper into the lives of its
characters, as the light opening scenes give way to intimate
revelations and hotly contested political arguments.
CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER is a true landmark in film history. Rouch and
Morin were among the first filmmakers to use the newly invented hand
held sync sound 16mm equipment. Rouch and Morin also coined the term
cinéma vérité to describe their approach, although their tendency to
deliberately place people in situations and provoke responses differs
from what later came to be called vérité films. Their use of the
urban landscape and groundbreaking cinematography deeply affected the
French New Wave and much of subsequent documentary practice. The
film's self-reflexive structure, in which Rouch and Morin screen the
film for the participants to critique it on-screen, as well as their
own reactions to the critique, is still, amazingly, contemporary.
More than 40 years later, CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER remains as ambitious,
forward-looking and powerful as the day it was first released. As
Roland Barthes stated, "What this film engages is humanity itself."
"A seminal work!" - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
For more information about this film go to:
<http://www.frif.com/new2003/sum.html>http://www.frif.com/new2003/sum.html
85 minutes / B&w / 1961 / Y3K 4B8
Sale/video: $440
Rental/video: $125
* Please refer to Order #s on all purchase orders and written
requests * Free preview for purchase consideration available *
Purchase price includes Public Performance Rights * This film is
available to our Canadian customers (except for Quebec)
*****************
Cine-Ethnography by Jean-Rouch, edited and translated by Steven Feld,
will be available in March from University of Minnesota Press. For
more information, visit www.upress.umn.edu
*****************
Livia Alexander
First Run / Icarus Films
32 Court Street, 21st Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel: 718.488.8900
Fax: 718.488-8642
Email: [log in to unmask]
www.frif.com
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