Vertigo Newsletter #11, April 2006



	VERTIGO NEWSLETTER #11, April 2006 Vertigo's newsletter for April covers the latest developments at the magazine and the independent, international and artists' film networks it supports, including news, reader offers, events and subscription offers. Please give us your feedback, contributions and ideas for the next newsletter by emailing us at vertigo@vertigomagazine.co.uk. You can subscribe or buy Vertigo magazine online at http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/ HIGHLIGHTED CONTENTS FOR NEWSLETTER #11: 1) News from the magazine - monthly online issue is now free! Issue 2 is out now, featuring exclusive interviews, moving image work, reviews and more. The new print issue is coming soon - more details unveiled in the May Newsletter. 2) April Events and Screenings - New online screenings; International and UK festivals and screenings information 3) Competitions and offers - Special offer on the new 'Tarkovsky' Pocket Essentials book and Studio Ghibli DVD competition 4) Opportunities/Courses/Calls For Submissions - Calls for entries to a host of festivals, new bursaries and more... 5) Links/Resources - list of useful URLs for independent film and artists' film and video information 6) Unsubscribe from this newsletter 1 - VERTIGO NEWS Vertigo Online Issue No. 2 Our new monthly online issue features an interview with the director of Quebec's blockbuster success C.R.A.Z.Y.; an extract from Kieron Corless and Chris Darke's forthcoming book on history of the Cannes Film Festival, courtesy of Faber and Faber and Time Out; streaming moving image content from British artist Matthew Noel-Tod, who will be featured in the new print issue; this month's reviews are John Maybury's 'Love is the Devil' now on DVD, and Black Dog Publishing's 'Visionary Landscapes: The Films of Nina Danino'. Full access to the Online Issue is now be available for everyone. Article submissions, features ideas, publicity information and any feedback on this section should be emailed to metin@vertigomagazine.co.uk. See http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk to read the issue. Vertigo media partners the Commonwealth Film Festival 2006 Begun in 2002, the Commonwealth Film Festival's initial aim was to produce a 10-day international festival showcasing film production chosen from Commonwealth countries. Since 2004 the organisation has been developing a dynamic all-year programme which includes screenings in and out of Manchester, an education programme and a tour of the best of the fest. Vertigo has worked together with the festival since 2004, hosting events and discussions and is proud to be associated with this years COMFEST 06. See the events section below for festival programme information. http://www.commonwealthfilm.com/ Advertising discount for newsletter subscribers Vertigo is now offering discounted advertising rates exclusive to newsletter subscribers who wish to advertise on our new website or in the magazine. Possible sizes and prices are flexible and small ads are available on the web and in print at excellent rates. Any newsletter subscribers interested in advertising should contact peter@vertigomagazine.co.uk in the first instance quoting 'Newsletter Advertising Offer' in the subject line. http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/ Free Artists' film DVD with Current Issue The current issue of Vertigo comes with a free two-hour DVD. 'Made In London' is a compilation of single screen artists' work by Film London of the last five years of the London Artists' Film and Video Awards (LAFVA). It features the work of artist filmmakers John Smith, Jane and Louise Wilson, Paul Bush, William Raban, Emily Richardson, Joe King and Rosie Pedlow, Clio Barnard, Inger Lisa Hansen, Miranda Pennell, Simon Aeppli, Al & Al and Alnoor Dewshi. Special thanks to the artists featured on the DVD, Film London, Arts Council England and VET. http://www.filmlondon.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=781 http://www.vet.co.uk http://www.artscouncil.org.uk The current issue is available to buy online from www.vertigomagazine.co.uk, bookshops, cinemas, galleries and arts centres across the UK and selected outlets in Europe. Now available at selected outlets in North America. View a selected list of outlets at http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/Wheretobuy.htm Student rep scheme Vertigo's student rep scheme is up and running. Reps get a free year's subscription and lots of other great rewards from our sponsors for 2005-6 Moviemail, Soda Pictures, Second Run DVD and Wallflower Press. All you need to do is promote the magazine where you can by letting other students know about Vertigo and . Interested for next year? Please reply with your full name, university, campus and course year and any other information you might find relevant about yourself, to studentrep@vertigomagazine.co.uk More information here - http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/studentrep.htm http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk http://www.secondrundvd.com http://www.sodapictures.com/ 2 - EVENTS AND SCREENINGS -ONLINE- LOVEFiLM LOVEFiLM is the biggest online DVD rental company in Europe. Created in December 2003 the company now features downloadable video-on-demand films as well as rental services. Their website contains a selection short films that are free to download, including work commissioned by OneDotZero among others. Feedback about the films can be sent to shorts@lovefilm.com. Watch online at: http://www.lovefilm.com/collection.php?cl_id=187 ScreenSelect The UK's other big online DVD rental company, ScreenSelect, also offers free downloadable short films. Earlier this month the company behind ScreenSelect, Video Island Inc, announced their intention to merge with LOVEFiLM, which would give the companies a combined market share of around 17% of all DVD rental transactions in the UK. The companies will be consolidating under the LOVEFiLM brand. Watch online at: http://www.screenselect.co.uk/visitor/browse.html?node_id=6419 FourDocs, watch films online/upload your work FourDocs are calling people of all ages, communities and persuasions to make a four minute film about their worlds, and to learn about the history of the creative interpretation of reality. No previous experience is required. FourDocs encourage anyone who wants to tell visual stories to submit their work. Features currently on the FourDocs site include 22 doc-making education guides, an archive of classic feature documentaries by Humphrey Jennings, Nick Broomfield and Kim Longinotto, as well as work soon to come from Tony Richardson ('Momma Don't Allow'), Lindsay Anderson ('O Dreamland') and Karel Reisz ('We are the Lambeth Boys'). There is also an innovative new RUSHES section featuring a library of free music and video clips which users can add to, or download from, for use in their documentary. A prize of the Adobe Video Collection suite will be awarded to the person who uploads the best clip. The clips are covered under a version of the Creative Commons licence that allows the material to be shared. Questions can be emailed to fourdocs@channel4.com Watch the films online at http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs -INTERNATIONAL- ReelWorld Film Festival 2006, Toronto, Canada, 19-23 April 2006 ReelWorld Film Festival is Canada's premiere non-profit film festival dedicated to nurturing, promoting and celebrating the full spectrum of racially and culturally diverse films and video. Its vision is to change the face of the Canadian film and video industry behind the scenes and on the screens. http://www.reelworld.ca/ CROSSING EUROPE Film Festival, Linz 2006, 25-30 April 2006 The Austrian festival CROSSING EUROPE foregrounds the cinematic work of unconventional European directors, featuring a cross-section of diverse media art from Spain, and films from Werner Herzog, Marc Bauder, Thomas Arslan and Bohdan Slama. http://www.crossingEurope.at 52nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany, 4 - 9 May 2006 The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen will present its unique and meticulously programmed selection of short films considering where the medium is today: in museums, galleries, on the Internet, television and cinema. New this year is 'Podium', a series of discussions on aesthetic, technological, economic and cultural policy issues to explore their relevance for the production, distribution and presentation of the short form: this is not a media conference, but rather a platform for all those interested in these themes. Daily between 10:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. http://www.kurzfilmtage.de Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, 28 April - 7 May 2006 North America's largest documentary festival. Each year, the festival presents a selection of over 100 cutting-edge documentaries from Canada and around the globe. Through its industry programmes, the festival also provides a full range of professional development, market and networking opportunities for documentary professionals. http://www.hotdocs.ca/ -ACROSS THE UK- 'Warning Shadows', German Expressionism in Silent Cinema, Barbican, London, 23 April-16 July 2006 Expressionism, the influential movement in German painting, literature, and drama, had a profound influence on German cinema in the 1920s, and was most vividly expressed in the work of directors such as Robert Wiene, Fritz Lang, Paul Leni, and F.W. Murnau. This silent film series offer rarely screened masterpieces alongside seasoned classics of the genre, all presented with live on-stage musical accompaniments. Reduced booking fee available online http://www.barbican.org.uk/film. Box office +44(0)20 7638 8891. Event information http://www.barbican.org.uk/film/series.asp?id=263 'Salvador Allende' Documentary by Patricio Guzm�n, Bloomsbury Theatre, London, 27 April 2006 As part of the week long Independent Voices Festival sponsored by Souvenir Press, there will be a rare opportunity to see the 2004 documentary by celebrated filmmaker Patricio Guzm�n, 'Salvador Allende', in which he revisits Chile 30 years after the infamous 1973 military coup. This is the latest of several films made by Guzm�n about his native country, including 'The Battle of Chile' (described as "among the best documentary films ever made" by Time Out) and 'The Pinochet Case'. 7.30pm, The UCL Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AH, Box Office: +44(0)20 7388 8822. Tickets: �10 (Concs: �8). http://www.thebloomsbury.com/events/show.php?run=000919 Commonwealth Film Festival, Manchester, 28 April-7 May 2006 The 5th Commonwealth Film Festival launches with over 200 films from countries including India, Australia, UK and Canada at 12 venues across the region. 'Queer Screen' offers a whole weekend of the latest of gay and lesbian shorts, documentaries and features. 'Moves' explores the crossover between performing arts and film through a selection of documentaries, stories and fables. The festival will also feature a special strand of features and short films from Singapore; 'Collision', a celebration of music meeting film in a collection of multimedia performances, music promos and experiment; and a horror strand 'Bad Blood: Part I and II'. Special events include an RSA discussion on digital distribution and a screenwriting masterclass. There will also be a night dedicated filmmakers from the North West. Full details of the programme can be found at http://www.commonwealthfilm.com/screenings2006.asp The Films of Fassbinder Film Season, ICA, London, 28 April-18 May 2006 The famed German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder worked at a prodigious rate from the moment he began filmmaking in the late 1960s until his death in 1982. Completing 44 film projects alone, as well as continuing his work in theatre (his first discipline), Fassbinder remains a model for independent filmmakers seeking to work hard, fast and on their own terms. Always vital, honest and full of emotion, Fassbinder's films - many of them social melodramas - connect directly with the viewer, making for essential, compulsive viewing. The ICA's three-week celebration of Fassbinder's spirit and genius, ties-in with the forthcoming release of 17 key titles on DVD from Arrow Films. http://www.arrowfilms.co.uk/ Event information http://www.ica.org.uk 'My Kingdom For a Horse, 1 May 2006, Rio Cinema, London A film screening for May Day, with testaments to folk culture, everyday triumph and glorious disaster. Films and videos about folk heroes, devils and peculiarities; working-class idols; middle-class guilt; peoples' princes and princesses; ethnic pride or shame of many backgrounds and persuasions. Includes documentaries on bus conductors, argumentative elderly Jews, chewing gum painters, ley lines, anti-capitalists, Morrissey, twitching curtains and a film-song from iconic friend of The Libertines, The Rabbi. Plus live folk songs and shanties, and May Day and anti-establishment buns and cakes. 1pm, Rio Cinema, 108 Kingsland High Street, E8 2PB. Tickets �4, +44 (0)207 2419410 for advance booking. Further information available on request from Charlie Phillips at charlie@angelsedition.com http://www.riocinema.org Anticipating the Past: Artists : Archive : Film, Tate Modern, London, 12 May 2006 An international symposium exploring the work of artists who use archive and 'found' film and video, organised by the British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection at Central Saint Martin's and LUX in association with Arts Council England, the British Film Institute and Tate Modern. The experience of viewing projected archival or 'found' film and video can have a seductive, even spellbinding effect on the viewer. The moving image's material and aesthetic qualities can act as a trigger to memories true or false, sharply evoke a sense of time and nostalgia, or conjure fantasies of history. This international symposium draws together a collection of voices and perspectives and examines the work of artists and filmmakers who have purposefully manipulated these materials, explored their inherent qualities, dislocated them from their original purpose and intention, and thereby revealed new readings, new meanings, new questions. 10.00-18.30 Tate Modern Starr Auditorium. Tickets: �20 (�15 concessions). Book online at http://www.tate.org.uk/modern or call +44(0)20 7887 8888. British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection http://www.studycollection.org.uk http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/anticipatingthepastartistsarchivefilm5202.htm 3 -COMPETITIONS AND SPECIAL OFFERS COMPETITION - WIN A SET OF STUDIO GHIBLI DVDS This spring sees the DVD release of Hayao Miyazaki's latest film 'Howl's Moving Castle', in addition to 4 DVDs of his earlier works, classic anime including My Neighbour Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service (Special Edition), Laputal: Castle in the Sky (Special Edition) and Princess Mononoke (Special Edition). To win a set of the 3 Special Edition DVDs of Howl's Moving Castle, Kiki's Delivery Service and Laputal, email the answer of the following question to vertigo@vertigomagazine.co.uk: Q: Which author wrote the book that Howl's Moving Castle is based on? SPECIAL OFFER - The Pocket Essential Andrei Tarkovsky, �5.95 including postage & packing Sean Martin 's new book studies the work of celebrated Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. The Pocket Essential discusses his feature films, shorts, stage, radio and television work, writings, paintings and photographs. Take advantage of the offer at http://www.londonbooks.co.uk/shop/product.php/2221/ 4 - OPPORTUNITIES/COURSES/CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS - /seconds issue 3: On Curating '/seconds' is an online publishing project initiated and edited by Derek Horton and Peter Lewis, designed by Graham Hibbert and supported by an international editorial and advisory board of academics, writers, artists and curators, supported by Leeds Metropolitan University. '/seconds' will be published quarterly and will include text, visual material, still / moving image and sound-based work. Issue 3 will consider curating. Enquiries or material to be considered for submission can be sent to: d.horton@leedsmet.ac.uk org.hibbert@leedsmet.ac.uk, plewis@reduxart.org.uk http://www.reduxprojects.org.uk For more information see http://www.slashseconds.org CALL FOR ENTRIES - RESFEST, launches September 2006 RESFEST is a global travelling festival of innovative film, music, art, design and culture. The festival is looking for British and Irish creatives to submit their short-form work. RESFEST kicks off in New York in late September before travelling to 40 cities across the world in its biggest tour yet for its 10th anniversary. Work can be in any genres and visual forms, including narrative, documentary, experimental and design-oriented work. Entries can be live action, animated or hybrid. Submitted works may be shot or created in any format: film, analogue / digital video, or entirely on computer. INNOVATION! Entries should have been produced within the last two years. Acceptable submission formats are VHS, DVD, miniDV and Beta SP (NTSC preferred); acceptable exhibition formats are miniDV, Digital Beta or Beta SP (NTSC preferred). Online Submission Form and Submission Guidelines can be reached at http://resfest.com/submissions For enquiries please email submissions2006@resfest.com Deadline: 14 April 2006 (early) / 12 May 2006 (final) CALL FOR ENTRIES - London Film School Craft Extension Programme, September 2006 With Skillset Screen Academy funding, The London Film School will be enrolling a small number of filmmakers in four craft areas: Cinematography, Editing, Production Design and Sound, to undertake a year long programme of individually agreed practical learning. The programme is aimed at filmmakers who have a good grounding in their craft area, but might want more experience, a better showreel, or a more industry oriented focus. Entry is in September 2006 and January 2007 and as only 3-5 students will be enrolled in each of the craft areas, applicants are encouraged to apply early. Further information and application forms http://www.lfs.org.uk Deadline: 5 June 2006. Register for the free masterclass programme. To launch the Craft Extension programme, London Film School are running a series of masterclasses focussed on Cinematography, Editing, Production Design and Sound for potential applicants to get a taster of the LFS environment. If you are thinking of applying for a Craft extension course and you would like to be added to our masterclass guest list, please email Lesley Darcy l.darcy@lfs.org.uk CALL FOR ENTRIES: Talent Circle's Super Shorts Film Festival, 17-21 July 2006 Launched last year, with 375 films showing over five days in three venues, the Super Shorts Film Festival established itself as central London's largest admission-free short film festival, before going on to tour major cities in the United Kingdom. Entries must be no longer than five minutes in length. This year the festival goes international with entries welcome from across the globe. For further details and to learn how to enter please visit http://www.supershorts.org.uk Deadline: 6 June 2006 CALL FOR ENTRIES: 51st Cork Film Festival, Ireland, 8-15 October 2006 Entries are invited for from all forms of film for the Cork Film Festival, including production, animation, experimental, student and digital work. Categories include feature films, documentaries and short films. Short films (30 minutes or less) will be the only competitive category. Cork Film Festival, Emmet House, Emmet Place, Cork, Ireland Tel: + 353 21 4271711 Fax: +353 21 4275945 Online entry form and full regulations are available on http://www.corkfilmfest.org Deadline: 30 June 2006 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - Skillset Film Futures Bursary Scheme Skillset have relaunched their Film Futures Bursary Scheme with new priorities, an easier to use application process and an expansion of the number of types of training covered. Film Futures makes grants of up to �800 to individuals with more than two years experience in the film industry to attend training in the following priority areas: Business Skills; Technical and Craft Skills; Health and Safety. There is no deadline for applications, however your course must not start earlier than five days after we receive your application. It is also advised that applications can take up to four weeks to process. Please see http://www.skillset.org/film/funding/bursaries/ for more detailed information including guidelines and an application form. 5 - LINKS/RESOURCES INDEPENDENT FILM PARLIAMENT - http://www.filmparliament.org.uk DETAILED ARTISTS' FILM AND VIDEO EVENT LISTINGS - http://www.lux.org.uk/resources/calendar.htm SHOOTINGPEOPLE CALENDAR FOR FILM SCREENINGS AND EVENTS - http://shootingpeople.org/calendar INDEPENDENT CINEMA OFFICE SCREENINGS - http://www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk SHORT FILM NETWORK FOR UK AND EUROPE - http://www.futureshorts.co.uk AUDIO DESCRIBED AND SUBTITLED CINEMA LISTINGS - http://www.yourlocalcinema.com SCREENINGS AND EVENTS IN WALES - http://www.sgrin.co.uk/newsletters.html INDEPENDENT NEW PRODUCERS: TRAINING/EVENTS/SCREENINGS/ADVICE - http://www.npa.org.uk DOCUMENTARY SCREENING NETWORK - http://www.docspace.org.uk DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKERS NETWORK - http://www.dfglondon.com SCRIPTWRITER NETWORK - http://www.thescriptfactory.co.uk USA INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER NETWORK - http://www.ifp.org 6 - UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS NEWSLETTER If you do not want to receive this newsletter please send a blank email to unsubscribe@vertigomagazine.co.uk SUBSCRIBE TO VERTIGO ONLINE AT http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk