This last trip was varied and fun. Here's an appreciation for ANDY DITZLER and his marvelous "Film Love" series at Eyedrum. Atlanta's Creative Loafing magazine gave it a blurb, and the show was well attended. I also loved the students at Columbus State University, who were hardworking and appreciative during our afternoon workshop.
Atlanta area
Thursday March 26
Eyedrum
EXPERIMENTS IN URBAN FASCINATION AND ALIENATION
a program of short films
How does the urban milieu serve our need to explore and wander, to be at once alone and in company? For the last 20 years New York filmmaker Mark Street has found himself drawn to cities. To him the city offers endless possibilities, surprises and contradictions. Tonight he presents works that update and expand our definition of the urban landscape film. Fulton Fish Market (12 minutes, 2004) is an abstract portrait of a teeming urban market, A Year (26 minutes, 2006) is a dynamic and conflicted middle aged diary film, Guiding Fictions (5 minutes, 2002) contrasts city and country, Alone, Apart: the dream reveals the waking day (7 minutes, 2006) traces urban decay with hand processed 16mm film. Blue Movie (2000, 5 minutes) and Trailer Trash (2008, 5 minutes) appropriate 16mm film detritus (foraged on the street) into sublime and surprising cinematic tapestries. Presented with Munchen/Berlin Wanderung (Oskar Fischinger, 1928)—a walk with a camera from one city to another—a between city symphony.
Friday March 27
Columbus State University art dept
ORAL HISTRIONICS and SOUND IMAGE HIJINKS a workshop with Mark Street
Visiting filmmaker Mark Street presents a workshop that considers the
spoken word as a starting point for an exploration of the dynamic
between picture and sound inherent in cinematic syntax. Participants
are asked bring in a short (30 seconds to a minute) fragment of
recorded sound (journal entry, short short story, poem, interview) and
the workshop will create images to accompany it. How to
illustrate/challenge/trace words on the 'picture track'? All manner
of choices will be considered, from the abstract to the aggressive to
the sublime.
EXPERIMENTS IN URBAN FASCINATION AND ALIENATION
a program of short films
(see above for description)
Monday, March 30, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Bay Area screening trip
San Francisco Bay Area
Tuesday April 7
7:30 pm in Berkeley, CA
"Ventana al Sur: An Evening of Argentine Experimental Films"
Wednesday April 8
7:30 pm San Francisco Cinematheque at Yerba Buena Center
"Hidden in Plain Sight and Guiding Fictions"
Saturday April 11
8:30 pm Other Cinema at Artist's Television Access
"X-Y Chromosome Project: An evening of cinematic seeds and mordant vines" WITH LYNNE SACHS
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