Noticias generales

  • Media City 21 Awards

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    These are the awarded films from the 21st edition of Media City Film Festival. This year's jury, composed by Akosua Adoma Owusu (USA), Jeremy Rossen (Harvard Film Archive, USA) and Lauren Howes (CFMDC, Canada), selected the following films:

    • Grand Prize: Occidente, by Ana Vaz, Brazil.
    • Second Prize: Neither God nor Santa María, by Samuel M. Delgado and Helena Girón (La Banda Negra), Spain.
    • Third Prize: Jáaji Approx., by Sky Hopinka, USA.
    • Honourable Mention: Blue and Red, by Zhou Tao, China.
    • Regional Award: The Fortune Teller, by Annie MacDonell, Canada.
    • Honourable Mention (Regional): Who Painted the Sky with Wispy Clouds?, by Miranda Dershimer, USA.

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  • Experimental Film Society - Video On Demand

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    Over the past five years, four prolific underground filmmakers have emerged to define a new and distinctive visionary strain of filmmaking in Ireland. Under the banner of Experimental Film Society, Rouzbeh Rashidi, Dean Kavanagh, Michael Higgins and Maximilian Le Cain have forged a defiantly personal and marginal cinema that is fast becoming recognized as "an important new direction" (Donal Foreman, Estudios Irlandeses) in Irish film. Sharing an exploratory approach to filmmaking where films emerge from the interplay of sound, image and atmosphere rather than traditional storytelling techniques, their work has been singled out for its radical formal qualities and poetic sensibility. Made with low or, most often, no budgets, this is filmmaking at its most challenging and independent.  

    Now, for the first time, their archive of forty-three feature and medium length films is available on VOD to stream or download. Explore this unique catalogue of work here (http://goo.gl/4kISRc).

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  • 53rd Ann Arbor Film Festival Awards

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    The Ann Arbor Film Festival has just announced the awards for its 53rd edition, chosen by the jury comprised by Jesse McLean, Joanna Raczynska and Julie Murray.

    Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival: The Creation of Meaning, by Simone Rapisarda Casanova

    The Stan Brakhage Film at Wit’s End Award: Things, by Ben Rivers

    Lawrence Kasdan Award for Best Narrative Film: Episode of the Sea, by Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan

    Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary Film: Speculation Nation, by Bill Brown & Sabine Gruffat

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  • Millennium Film Journal No. 60

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    Millennium Film Journal No. 60 "Fundamentals", out now, includes two articles on the emergence and development of artist-run film labs, an interview with Morgan Fisher accompanied by an article focused on his film (), an article on the cinematic implications of James Turrell's light installations, reviews, artist pages, and more.

    The Millennium Film Journal, now in its 36th year, is devoted to artists' moving image of all kinds, from the photo-chemical to the digital, from the black box to the white cube to the street to the handheld.

    MFJ 60 is now available at http://mfj-online.org or http://centralbooks.com in the UK.

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  • 2014 Avant-Garde Masters Grant Winners

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    The National Film Preservation Foundation has just announced its 2014 grant winners:

    Anthology Film Archives (New York)
    - Globe (1971), Ken Jacobs' 3D view of the streets of Binghamton, New York.

    Bard College (New York)
    - FF (1986), Julie Murray’s assemblage of rephotographed images from pop culture.
    - Tr’cheot’my P’sy (1988), Julie Murray’s fast-paced feminist collage.
    - A Legend of Parts (1988), parodic history of civilization by Julie Murray, assembled from found footage and 3D postcards.
    - Conscious (1993), Julie Murray’s collage of educational and science films.

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  • Microscope Expands!

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    Microscope is moving to a new 2,000sf semi-raw space, and expanding our Weekly Events Series. This will require a lot of work as well as substantial upgrades of our equipment. Microscope Gallery does essentially two things at once: we operate as a gallery with a regular schedule of exhibitions open five days a week, and alongside we feature a weekly series of events. To date, we have presented 34 art exhibitions and more than 250 events by artists working primarily with film, video, sound, digital art and performance in our current four-hundred-twenty square foot space.  

    We are greatly looking forward to the range of new possibilities of a larger space, and hope you are too! Between now and our planned opening this September, there is a lot of work to be done in order to house the Event Series. Please take a moment to review our Indiegogo Campaign at: www.igg.me/at/microscope

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  • Sight Unseen Fundraising Initiative

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    Sight Unseen is pleased to announce the launch of its Fiscal Sponsorship and Fundraising Initiative (June 1st – August 31st, 2014) in association with Artists Public Domain!

    Sight Unseen, through its 3-month online campaign, hopes to maintain its monthly programs in 2014 as well as provide its first two filmmaking workshops this July and October at Current Space, conducted by Kevin Rice of Process Reversal and Richard Tuohy of NanoLab, respectively. Sight Unseen also hopes to sustain its portability and proper projection practices through the purchase of quality audiovisual equipment.

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  • Visual Music Award 2014 to be celebrated in Gelnhausen

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    This year's prize winners and awardees of the Visual Music Award competition will receive a certificate and also prizes by the sponsors as well as a unique presentation of their works at the evening of the prize ceremony on March 28th 2014 in Gelnhausen, the birthplace of Oskar Fischinger. Your works will be presented on a big screen in the Gelnhausen cinema - which was voted as the best "Hessian Cinema 2013".

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  • IFFR 2014: Hannes Schüpbach & Jodie Mack

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    The 2014 edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) will feature this year two profile scrrenings as part of its Spectrum Shorts section, dedicated to Swiss artist Hannes Schüpbach (Friday January 24th) and to experimental animator Jodie Mack (Sunday January 26th). 

    Schüpbach will present three of his filmworks, that "emphasize the corporeal act of vision and of revision", L’Atelier (2007), his latest Instants (2012), and Falten (2005), in a programme curated by Erwin van ’t Hart. A special edition of the forthcoming publication by Hannes Schüpbach & French writer Joël-Claude Meffre, INSTANTS (Revolver Publishing, Berlin, February 2014) will be distributed to the public.

    Let your light shine, an anthology of recent films by Jodie Mack, "investigates the formal principles of abstract cinema while maturing an interest in found materials, evolving modes of production, forms of labor, and the role of decoration in daily life.", and includes her 'animated personal rockumentary' Dusty Stacks of Mom: the Poster Project.

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