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LUX NEWSWIREapril2004
[LUX NEWSWIRE is a monthly e-newsletter covering UK and international artists' moving image news. Contributions are welcome under any of the following headings, send information for inclusion to [log in to unmask]]
Contents
1. UK/International openings (festivals, gallery shows, screening series)
2. Calls (festivals, open shows, competitions, conferences)
3. Opportunities (funding, residences, employment)
4. Publishing (books, online journals, videos, DVD, CD)
5. LUX news
Welcome to LUX NEWSWIRE. We planned this to be a (roughly) monthly newsletter of useful information for those interested and involved in the world of artists' film and video. Please give us your feedback, let us know what you need and send us information for inclusion. Although we have an UK-based perspective the newswire is international.
NEWS
Temenos presents the first four cycles of ENIAIOS by Gregory Markopoulos in an open-air premiere at the Temenos site near the village of Lyssaraia in Arcadia, Greece on the 25th-27th June 2004. for more information see http://www.the-temenos.org and see below for information on the Markopoulos retrospective presented by the NFT/LUX this month in London.
New and noted websites
http://artefact.mi2.hr an online magazine for contemporary art and culture and an open and public forum for the critical consideration of society, of new practices in art, their interaction with the theory and politics of presentation in an artistic and non-artistic context. Published by Dalibor Martinis.
http://www.mediaartnet.org Media Art Net aims at mediating and contextualizing media art online, a project edited by Rudolf Frieling and Dieter Daniels and commissioned by ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe, and Goethe-Institut, Munich
http://www.mediatecaonline.net/muntadas "Muntadas monograph", a pilot and first delivery of a series of docu-interactive monographs on media artists created by Eugeni Bonet for the Mediateca of CaixaForum / Fundació "la Caixa".
1. UK/INTERNATIONAL OPENINGS
UK
Into this World, Steve McQueen. Thomas Dane, London. 1 April - 15 May. http://www.thomasdane.com
Rethinking Time, Peterborough Digital Arts. 9 April - 23 May. The show brings together work by 40+ artists that have taken part in the innovative LabCulture residencies run by PVA Media Lab, Bridport, The exhibition, curated by Ele Carpenter, features a low-tech wine glass projector by Scott Martin, Alistair Gentry & Joe Magee's Hypnomart animation, and 'Monologue' a video installation by Ming Wong amongst others. http://www.pdarts.org.uk
Songs for Home and Economy, Rosalind Nashashibi, CCA Glasgow. 17 April - 30 May. http://www/cca-glasgow.com
The Underworld, Mark Wallinger. Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle. 17 April - 11 July. http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/laing
Lucy Gunning, Matts Gallery, London 21 April - 13 June http://www.mattsgallery.org
Journey to the Lower World - A film of a performance, Marcus Coates.21 April - 16 May. http://www.cafegalleryprojects.com
Futuresonic, Festival of Electronic Music and Media Art, Manchester. 27 April to 8 May http://www.futuresonic.com
INTERNATIONAL
Internationales Trickfilm Festival, Stuttgart, Germany. 1- 6 April.
http://www.itfs.de/
At the Far and Farthest Point, Monika Oechsler. Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany. 2 April - 31 May. http://www.oldenburg.de/edith-russ-haus/
BRITANNIA WORKS presented by the British Council, various venues, Athens, Greece. 6 April - 29 May. major exhibition of contemporary art currently being made in Britain, curated by Katerina Gregos. http://www.britishcouncil.gr
Filmfest Dresden, International Festival of animation and short films. Germany. 13 - 18 April. http://www.filmfest-dresden.de/
Images Festival, Toronto, Canada. 15 - 24 April. http://www.imagesfestival.com
Call me ISTANBUL ist mein Name, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. 18 April - 8 August. http://www.zkm.de
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany. 21 - 25 April. http://www.emaf.de
Jeonju International Film Festival, Korea. 23 April - 2 May
http://www.jiff.or.kr/
50th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany, 29 April - 4 May 2004 http://www.kurzfilmtage.de
2. CALLS
CALL FOR ENTRIES
13th Message to Man Int. Documentary, Shorts & Animated Film Festival, St Petersburg, Russia. Deadline: 15 April. http://www.message-to-man.spb.ru/
International no-budget film festival, Vienna, Austria. Deadline: 15 April
www.ohnekohle.net
VIPER International Festival for Film Video and New Media, Basel, Switzerland. Deadline: 15 April. http://www.viper.ch/
19th Festival de Cine Cinema Jove, Valencia, Spain. Deadline: 15 April.
NB for filmmakers up to 35 yrs. http://www.gva.es/cinemajove/
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Forum of Independents, Czech Republic. Deadline: 16 April. http://www.iffkv.cz/
Resfest 2004, touring festival, USA. Deadline: 16 June. http://www.resfest.com/
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland. Deadline: 20 April http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk
AVANCA'2004 International Meeting of Cinema, TV, Video and Multimedia, Portugal. Deadline: 28 April. http://www.avanca.com
Stot, Gateshead, UK. call for submissions. artists and curators working with video are invited to submit proposals to stot for our project "room", for potential solo or group exhibitions. Deadline: 30 April http://www.stot.org
Tank TV, UK is also calling for submission For 'Our Summer Show' Deadline: 30 April. Spring show is now online including film and videos from Jenny Springer, Chris Grieves, Jacques Charlier, Katy Dove to name a few. See http://www.tank.tv
6th Disability Film Festival, London. Deadline: 30 April. http://www.disabilityfilmfestival.net/6thDFF/6thDFF.htm
RESOLUTIONS 04, Buffalo, USA. Deadline: 3 May. Http://www.hallwalls.org
Against the Wall: Santa Fe Art Institute Open Call for Experimental Film, USA. http://www.sfai.org
6th BFM International Film Festival, London, UK deadline: 28 May. http://www.bfmmedia.com/
FEMINALE International Women´s Film Festival, Cologne, Germany. Deadline: 1 June. http://www.feminale.de
3. OPPORTUNITIES
Bogliasco Fellowships, Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities, Italy. Deadline: 15 April. Deadline: 15 April. http://www.liguriastudycenter.org
Conduct, UK. 'digital interventions into rural environments'
3 residencies in Somerset for digital/interdisciplinary artists. Deadline: 19 April. http://www.theengineroom.net
Isis Arts New Media Commissions 2004, Newcastle, UK. Deadline: 24 April. http://www.isisarts.org.uk
Animate! TV 2004 Commissions, UK. personal projects for television, with running times of up to 6 minutes and production budgets between £5,000 and £20,000. NB you must be based in the UK and have some experience of experimental practice in film, video & digital media. Deadline: 30 April. http://www.animateonline.org/funding/
Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Austria. bursaries for artists 2004-2005. Deadline: 30 April. http://www.buchsenhausen.at/
Employment opportunity: Professor in Media Arts, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Deadline: 1 may. http://www.kunstakademiet.dk
Research Residency, Le Fresnoy - National Studio of Contemporary Arts, Tourcoing, France. post-graduate art and audiovisual research centre. Its aim is to enable young artists to produce works using professional standard equipment under the direction of established artists. NB open to students under 35. Deadline: 19 May. http://www.le-fresnoy.tm.fr
4. PUBLISHING
Medien Kunst Netz 1: Medien Kunst im Überblick / Media Art Net 1: Survey of Media Art, 400 pages German/English, Springer Wien New York. 54,00 Eur. ISBN 3-211-00570-6. http://www.springer.at
New Media Art: practice and context 1994 - 2004, an ACE/Cornerhouse Publications publication, ISBN 0 948797 88 6 (available c/o Cornerhouse Publications http://www.cornerhouse.org/publications for £15 RRP. Publication launch is marked by a conference at Tate Britain, BRITISH NEW MEDIA ART on 3 April, see http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/artnewmedia for details.
VARIANT, Issue 19, Spring 2004 http://www.variant.org.uk
the free, independent, arts magazine. In-depth coverage in the context of broader social, political & cultural issues. Complete texts available online.
5. LUX NEWS
LUXONLINE LAUNCHES see http://www.luxonline.org.uk
LUXONLINE is a major new online resource for the exploration of British artists film and video. Developed over the last 18 months with support from the New Opportunities Fund LUXONLINE launches with 25 artists. More artists will be added in the coming year to make LUXONLINE fully reflective of this exciting area of contemporary arts practice.
SCREENINGS AND EXHIBITIONS
16 - 21 April
GREGORY MARKOPOULOS AT NATIONAL FILM THEATRE, LONDON http://www.bfi.org.uk/nft
Towards The Temenos: Myth, Portraiture and Films of Place
Gregory Markopoulos was the archetypal personal filmmaker: an accomplished technician, masterful editor and consummate perfectionist, who created great works of art with a minimum of means. A contemporary of Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage and Maya Deren, he was a major figure of the New American Cinema, the post-war movement that developed a new, visionary approach to film.
Literature and Myth
Fri 16 Apr 6.20 NFT2 (*); Sun 18 Apr 8.40 NFT2 (*)
Two contemporary, personal interpretations of classical literature. In Swain, an early psychodrama based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel 'Fanshawe', a young man flees from a woman who represents an oppressive sexual identity. Twice A Man is a modern adaptation of the myth of Hippolytus, in which a chaste youth rejects the advances of his mother and is saved from death by a caring physician. This film demonstrates a great stylistic leap as Markopoulos introduces single-frame montage and a more elliptical narrative process.
Swain
USA 1950. With Gregory Markopoulos, Mary Zelles. 24 mins.
Twice A Man
USA 1963. With Paul Kilb, Olympia Dukakis, Albert Torgese. 49 mins.
Films of Place
Sat 17 Apr 6.20 NFT2 (*); Mon 19 Apr 8.40 NFT2
Markopoulos created many impressions of buildings and places, making in-camera dissolves and superimpositions without any subsequent editing. Ming Green, a portrait of his humble apartment, painted the colour of the title, was made shortly before his departure from New York, while Sorrows was shot at the house in Switzerland built for Wagner by King Ludwig II. Gammelion is a measured and romantic portrayal of an Italian castle, extending seven minutes of photographed 'film phrases' with hundreds of fades in and out.
Ming Green
USA 1966. Music by Wagner. 7 mins.
Gammelion
Italy 1968. Text by Rilke. Music by Roussel. 54 mins.
Sorrows
Switzerland 1969. Music by Beethoven. 6 mins.
The Illiac Passion
Sat 17 Apr 8.40 NFT2 (*); Tue 20 Apr 6.20 NFT2
Throughout his life, Markopoulos remained closely connected to his family background, and ultimately saw the Greek landscape as the ideal setting for viewing his films. The Illiac Passion, one of his most highly acclaimed works, is a visionary interpretation of 'Prometheus Bound' starring mythical beings from the 60s underground including Andy Warhol, Jack Smith and Taylor Mead. The soundtrack of this contemporary re-imagining of the classical realm features a reading of Thoreau's translation of the Aeschylus text and excerpts from Bartók. The preceding film, Bliss, is a brief study of a church on the island of Hydra.
Bliss
Greece 1967. 6 mins
The Illiac Passion
USA 1967. With Richard Beauvais, Clara Hoover, Andy Warhol. 92 mins.
Portraiture
Sun 18 Apr 6.20 NFT2 (*); Wed 21 Apr 6.20 NFT2
Galaxie consists of thirty-three portraits of important figures from the art world, including painters, poets, critics, filmmakers, and choreographers. Each is shot with a single roll of 16mm film and though edited entirely in-camera, often comprises of many layers of dense superimposition. The subjects were invited to pose in their home, together with objects chosen by them as symbolic extensions of their personality. Saint Actaeon is a rhythmic portrait of historian and aesthete Sir Harold Acton, shot in the gardens of his family villa.
Galaxie
USA 1966. With WH Auden, Allen Ginsberg, Jasper Johns. 92 mins.
Saint Actaeon
Italy 1971. With Sir Harold Acton. 12 mins.
LUX SCREENINGS AT TATE BRITAIN (FREE, NO NEED TO BOOK) http://www.tate.org.uk/britain
Sunday 18 April 14.00
Children and Language
Tate Britain Auditorium
Programme duration 110'
Poto And Cabengo
(Jean-Pierre Gorin, USA 1978, 75')
Messages
(Guy Sherwin, UK 1981-83, 35')
Two very different films which try to redescribe our first experiences of language. Poto And Cabengo (1978), by Godard's former collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin, is an experimental documentary based around the case of two young San Diego twins, Gracie and Ginny Kennedy, who had apparently invented a private language.
Guy Sherwin's Messages (1981-83) was made during his daughter's early childhood: 'It's not about her, but it's a response to her questions about the world that implicitly challenge things we take for granted - the visual appearance of the world, ambiguities in language, the ways we communicate.'
Sunday 25 April 14.00
This Is A Film About You
Tate Britain Auditorium
Programme duration 70'
Remedial Reading Comprehension
(Owen Land, USA 1970)
Just Me And You
(Laure Prouvost, UK 2003, 40')
Stonebridge Park
(Patrick Keiller, UK 1981, 21')
These films are about you: three films in the second person.
In Laure Prouvost's Just Me And You, you are the silent partner in a love affair which is funny and painful, and invariably too close for comfort.
In Patrick Keiller's Stonebridge Park, you are the narrator's confessor as he plays out his private drama of crime and punishment on a motorway footbridge.
In Owen Land's Remedial Reading Comprehension, you are a pacemaker for the jogging artist, and the butt of some bad jokes
UPCOMING LUX TOURING SHOWS
SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT: The First Decade of the London Film-Makers' Co-operative & British Avant-Garde Film 1966-76. showing as part of the Image Forum Festival, Japan http://www.imageforum.co.jp
Hillside Gallery/Image Forum, Tokyo, Japan. 24 April - 5 May
Goethe Institut, Kyoto, Japan. 11-16 May
Shoot Shoot Shoot website http://www.lfmc.org
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