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| •RES REPORTS: Next RES Screening, Miramax Film Scholarships •4U2C: Shirin Neshat Studio Tour •RES REVIEWS: TV On The Radio, Lion Fever •UPCOMING EVENTS: Shooting People Powwow, Beverly Hills Film Festival •DEADLINES: Seoul Net & Film Festival 2004 •RESFEST: RESFEST 2004 •RES MAGAZINE: Who's Now / Who's Next •ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITIES •SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE •CONTACT US | |
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| H5 HOSTS NEXT RES SCREENING
The RES screening series returns to the Egyptian Theatre Tuesday, March 30
for what will indisputably be our best event yet. The acclaimed Paris-based
design and video collective H5 will be on hand to present a mini-retrospective
of their work for the likes of Playgroup, Massive Attack, Zebda, Audio Bullys,
Alex Gopher, and Röyksopp. They'll stick around afterwards to chat and answer
questions. Additionally, the event will feature Shari Roman's new short film, ADM : DOP, about brilliant cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, who worked
with Lars von Trier on the upcoming Dogville. Several other shorts and
videos will be screened as well, including Traktor's latest madcap promo
for Basement Jaxx. Traktor's Mats will play guest DJ at our nearby after-
party. Come out and join us for a great evening. | |
| MIRAMAX OFFERS FILM SCHOLARSHIPS The University of Buffalo (in Buffalo, NY of course) has just announced a new
Master of Arts degree program in Film and Performance. The one-year program,
directed by film producer (and former Head of Production at American Zoetrope)
Linda Reisman, emphasizes the interaction between actors, directors and writers,
with a particular focus on honing writing talent. In conjunction with the start
of the program, Miramax Films is offering a number of scholarships for it. All
applicants to the program are encouraged to apply, particularly those with
"diverse backgrounds." Applications are due April 1. | |
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| SHIRIN NESHAT STUDIO TOUR
If you've ever read the Digital Habitat section of RES, you already know about
our voyueristic fascination with artists' working spaces, which we turned into
practice at last year's RESFEST with our first ever Studio Tours. So naturally
we're very intrigued by the unique working space designed by he folks at
the arts nonprofit Eyebeam called the Moving Image Studio, a cooperative
where post-graduate fellows, emerging artists-in-residence, and mid-career
commissioned artists all work together to create cutting-edge motion graphics.
On Wednesday, March 23, Shirin Neshat (profiled in detail in RES' July/August
2003 issue), Caspar Stracke and other artists currently working in the studio
invite you to come visit the studio for a tour which promises to be intriguing
and informative. | |
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| REEL DEALER: JOKELSON TURNS ON TV ON THE RADIO
The elegant drone of TV On The Radio's anthemic "Staring At The Sun" is mirrored
in the electric strands and wafting filaments director Elliot Jokelson has
injected into a particularly preternatural performance by the Brooklyn band
(of which 2004 RES 10 head Tunde Adebimpe is a core member).
Jokelson, a Williamsburg dweller, has been producing videos for the past three
years and as he himself puts it, has "of late begun directing." His video is
ethereal yet dark and lingers on fragmented and replicating moments with the
band members alternately singing, playing or simply melting into the black
void background. Improvisation and the inspiration drawn from old-school video
art played key roles in the concept behind the piece, but mid-to-late 1970s
video effects synthesizers and their painstaking manipulation by Jokelson
and his collaborators Brad Turner, Tim Crean and Benton C. Bainbridge
elevate the clip beyond mere visual oddity.
"The lead visual instrument we used was the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer. We
made patch after patch, hooking up miles of cables and running the song over
and over again, driving the neighbors crazy. Only a small fraction of the
textures, palettes and techniques we tried out made it into the final cut,
but the keeper image process passes all have a gorgeous organic quality to
them because they emphasize the human hand...that gestural quality of buttons,
knobs and sliders you just don't get with a timeline," explains Jokelson of
the video's pleasing distortions.
These human touches reflect the fact that the late '70s era video art that
inspired "Staring At The Sun" was more often than not created in real time.
In further keeping with the era, the filmmakers devised a method where each
stage of production would embody the sought after "improvisational autonomy."
"We shot the band doing their thing in Brooklyn and cut a performance edit at
Post Millennium in Manhattan. Later, we fucked with our edit in an upstate
Koreshian nerd compound, the result of which was a six-hour treated loop
of the original performance cut," relates Jokelson. "We brought it back to
the city, and reconstituted our edit, employing the best of what we made
upstate. The result was a bit like choreography. We encountered opportunities
for improvisation at every turn, and there was a tremendously empowering call-
response vibe to the multi-tiered editorial/effects process, but all of these
things were happening according to a very fixed plan, and in service of a
singular vision."
The results present a haunting low fidelity companion to what, if it isn't
already, should be your favorite song.
For more information on vintage video synths:
http://www.audiovisualizers.com/toolshak/vsynths.htm
~ Sandy Hunter
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| CATCHING THE DISEASE
Lion Fever | |
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| SHOOTING PEOPLE POWWOW Friday, March 26, 8pm | |
| BEVERLY HILLS FILM FESTIVAL
May 6-9 | |
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| SEOUL NET & FILM FESTIVAL 2004
The fifth annual Seoul Net & Film Festival (SeNef for short) comes to the
Web May 1 through September 22 and to Seoul, Korea from September 15-22. The
festival, which is supported by a grant from Korea's Ministry of Culture &
Tourism, seeks to broaden its scope this year with entries from across the
world. All genres are accepted, including fiction, non-fiction, animation,
experimental, music video, Flash, Web-based media and more, but work should
be digitally based and completed no earlier than January 1, 2003. Send in
your film and media entries by April 5. VHS is preferred for previewing. | |
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ACTION/CUT SHORT FILM COMPETITION | |
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| RESFEST 2004
We're currently accepting submissions for the 2004 RESFEST, so send in your film today! We encourage you to enter your film using our online submission form.
Early Deadline: April 16 - $20
Submissions:
http://www.resfest.com/submissions | |
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| WHO'S NOW / WHO'S NEXT Our March/April issue, titled Who's Now / Who's Next, will be on newsstands and
in mailboxes this week. In it, you'll find our annual RES 10 guide to the year's
most compelling media innovators, our "school kids" guide to younger emerging
talents, Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and much more.
Subscribe now to the one and only publication dedicated to innovative media culture. Special RES subscription offer: Save 30% off the cover price! Six issues of RES for $24.95 or 12 issues for just $44.95. Plus - only subscribers get the magazine DVD, with 90 minutes of music videos, shorts films, interviews and more.
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