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VERTIGO NEWSLETTER #17, November 2006
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CONTENTS
1) Vertigo News - Vertigo's new print issue is out now; New Issue launch event; Archive Update
2) Competition - Win a copy of the new DVD loop from the International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen
3) Events and screenings - Camerimage Cinematography festival; Northern Lights Film Festival; Encounters Short Film Festival; Festival of German Films
4) Calls for submissions/applications -- Oberhausen; Optronica; Blank Slate; Indie Lisboa
5) Links - New addition - The Artists' Moving Image Network
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1 - VERTIGO NEWS
Landscapes of Intent: Place and the Moving Image. Issue 3 of the new quarterly Vertigo now out
Volume 3
Issue 3 (Autumn 2006) is now available to buy from the Vertigo
website. The new
issue is an examination of place within moving image -- exploring
vistas of film narrative, both new and familiar, reclaiming old ground and
breaking new territory. With new writing by John Berger, Hannah Collins,
Andrew Kotting, Avi Mograbi and an exclusive feature by actress Tilda
Swinton, filmmakers interviewed include Fred Kelemen and Kim Longinotto
and articles feature J G Ballard, Idris Khan and a major piece on Andrei
Tarkovsky to mark the Twentieth Anniversary of his death. Bernd Behr takes
over the Artists' Pages. We take a look at film education in Iraq,
filmmaking in Russia, Scottish film policy and the re-release of a
landmark documentary on Tibet.
Go to the new issue:
http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/issue.php?sel=cur&siz=1
Subscribe now,
or order the current issue of Vertigo: http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/shop/shophome.htm
Vertigo launch event: Place and the Moving Image, November 17th, London
Place and the
Moving Image,
a
screening of short films by some of the most exciting short filmmakers
today, will mark the launch of the new issue of
Vertigo, Landscapes of Intent:
Place and the Moving Image.
The evening promises a sideways looks at landscape and people's place
within it that is always invigorating and enquiring. The short films will
range from an exploration of northern India's ship-breaking yards in
Hammer And Flame to the spirited steps of Greg Pope's Moonwalk
and Bernd Behr's military test-sited and extraordinary House Without A
Door.
For
more information go to
http://www.curzoncinemas.com/
Vertigo archive update
The Vertigo On-line archive has been further updated to now include
10 complete back issues of the magazine, with more to come by the end of
the year. Subscribers to Vertigo can now access each of the
articles from Volume 2 Issue 7 (Autumn/Winter 2004), Issue 6 (Spring
2004), Issue 5 (Summer 2003), Issue 4 (Spring 2003), Issue 3 (Summer 2002)
and Issue 2 (Spring 2002) and Issue 1 (Spring 2001), and Volume 1 Issue 9
(Summer 1999) and Issue 8 (Summer 1998), in addition to Volume 3 Issue 1
and our special electronic issue Volume 3 Issue 2. Plus, print-ready pdfs
of articles have been added to make it easy to print out articles in
hard-copy form.
To check out the archive, go to
http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/issuelisting.php?sel=bac&siz=1
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2 - COMPETITION
Win a copy of loop pool ping pong the new DVD loop from the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
With the release of loop pool in 2005, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen published the first loop collection ever. The result of a project by artists Graw Böckler (Raum für Projektion, Cologne) for the Lounge of the 51st Festival, the DVD was a big success. Oberhausen now follows up with a second collection on DVD entitled loop pool ping pong. Commissioned by the Festival, Raum für Projektion once more collected loops, most of which premiered at the Festival Lounge 2006.Emotional, sensational, controversial, romantic, nostalgic, hypnotic, fantastic, paradox, the loops cover the whole spectrum, ranging in subject matter from kissing to carps, from the “Loop Miguelista” to the ”Oil film”. 69 international artists, VJs and filmmakers from A like Sookoon Ang to Z like Cora von Zezschwitz contributed 62 loops to loop pool ping pong. The title of the DVD connects the video loop with the the ping pong game where all the players run around the table - the movement of the film corresponding to the circular movement of the ping pong players.
For
your chance to win a copy of the DVD, email the answer to the following
question to
vertigo@vertigomagazine.co.uk
Which legendary European filmmaker smoked his first cigarette at
Oberhausen Film Festival? For more
information on the DVD go to
http://www.raumfuerprojektion.de/
3 - EVENTS AND SCREENINGS
INTERNATIONAL
Camerimage 2006, November 25th to December 3rd, Lodz, Poland
The premiere International film festival for the art of Cinematography, Camerimage this year will be dedicated to the memory of Sven Nykvist. Running since 1993, the festival offers screenings, workshops and International, Polish and new film competitions. For more information go to http://www.camerimage.pl/
10th
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival,
23rd November to
10th
December, 2006 in Tallinn, Estonia
Tallinn
Black Nights Film Festival is an unique event combining a feature film
festival with the sub-festivals of animated films, student films and
children/youth films. The festival aims to present Estonian audiences a
comprehensive selection of world cinema in all its diversity with the
emphasis on European films, providing a friendly atmosphere for
interaction between the audience, Estonian filmmakers and their colleagues
from abroad.
For more information see http://2005.poff.ee/
UK
Future Cinema Metropolis: Event and Screening, London, November 23rd
On 23rd November, Future Shorts and Stella Artois present the Future Cinema event -- including a screening of Metropolis -- at the legendary Fabric nightclub. The entire venue will be transformed into a series of inspiring worlds drawn from the film, taking you on a unique cinematic ride to the heart of the Fritz Lang’s terrifying and beautiful vision of the future. The experience will present a spectacular fusion of cinema, short films (from Future Shorts), interactive installations, theatre, sexy cabaret and the very best in live music. This is the grand finale event of the 2006 Future Cinema tour. For more information go to http://www.futureshorts.com
9th Festival of German Films, London, November 23rd to 26th
The 9th Festival of German Films returns to London for four days with a strong line-up of impressively crafted and compelling new features and documentaries from some of the most exciting German filmmakers working today. The 9th Festival of German Films is also delighted to screen The Critical Cinema of East Germany, presented by Goethe-Institut, London plus the regular Next Generation strand which showcases live-action and animated shorts from German film school graduates. This year the Festival also screens three feature length documentaries as part of German Dox, the festival’s popular showcase for documentary film. For more information http://www.germanfilmfestival.co.uk/
Future Shorts Film Screenings, Touring Programme, November
Future Shorts’ short film screenings will be taking place all over the country throughout November. Headlining the November programme is Claude Relouch's 'Rendez-Vous', which has to go down as one of the most notorious short films ever made. Legend has surrounded this electrifying single-shot zip through Paris since it was made in 1976. How on earth was it filmed? Was it a Formula 1 driver in the iconic Ferrari 275 GTB? Was Lelouch really arrested after the police saw it? - just a few of the questions raised by this pure cinematic adrenaline rush. Also check out stuntman-actor-writer-director-editor Nash Edgerton’s gem ‘'Lucky' and Lev Yilmaz's hilarious animation 'Tales of Mere Existence'. For venues and dates see http://www.futureshorts.com/screenings.
Baghdad Days, London, November 16th and 17th
Equity’s International Committee for Artists’ Freedom (ICAF) has been supporting the Independent Film and Television College in Baghdad, and is organising a screening of films made by students of the college as a fundraising event. The three short films which open a window onto the life of ordinary Iraqis during this far from ordinary period of history. The College was set up in 2004 as a free-of-charge training centre to provide the opportunity for Iraqis to express their thoughts and stories on-screen. Screenings will take place on 16th and 17th November 2006 at 3.00pm and 5.30pm at the Trafalgar Studios 2 in London and all will be introduced by Maysoon Pachchi, co-founder of the college. Tickets are £3.00 and all proceeds go to the college. Box Office 0870 060 6632. For more information go to http://www.iftvc.org/
4th Northern Lights Film Festival, Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland & Middlesborough, 16 – 23 November 2006
Northern Lights Film Festival showcases over 80 screenings from 12 Northern European countries mixing regional and national premieres of new features with major retrospectives, international guests, animation, shorts, education workshops, documentaries, free screenings, an Industry Summit (17 & 18 November), and challenging work from artist film and video. PLUS the UK’s biggest prize for short filmmaking (£40,000), the Orange North Star Short Film Award. For more information go to http://www.nlff.co.uk/2006/
2006 Encounters,12th Bristol International Short Film Festival, Bristol, 21-26th November
Britain's biggest competitive short film festival – with the expanded six-day film festival presenting a bonanza slice of brand new international work, and screen over 300 new shorts from 30 countries including over 50 premieres, with education and training from respected industry professionals and an array of special events andparties. Special guests this year include: director Ken Russell, screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, animation producer Claire Jennings and award-winning animation directors Joanna Quinn and Chris Shepherd. For more information go to http://www.encounters-festival.org.uk/
4 - CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS, APPLICATIONS AND COURSES
Call for submissions - 53rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 3 - 8 May 2007
Oberhausen is one of the major international crossroads for the short
form, unique in the range of forms and genres it presents to the public,
and particularly well known for its spotlight on experimentation.
Oberhausen attracts both cinema operators and gallery owners, artists and
distributors, filmmakers and festival representatives, curators and video
clip directors.
The festival is now calling for submissions to its 2007 competitions.
Deadline for submissions: 15 January 2007 (postmark)
No entry fee.
Entry forms are available as pdf-file downloads from http://www.kurzfilmtage.de/ or upon request from the Festival:
info@kurzfilmtage.de
Call for submissions – Film London East website, London
East London
film-makers now have the chance to appear on the Film London East website
www.filmlondon.org.uk/east
Appearing on the site gives you the opportunity to raise your profile and
networking opportunities. The profiles help Film London to document the
industry professionals and film projects in East London. They also help to
promote local filmmaking talent and inspire other professionals, by
providing information on the range of filmmakers, their career development
and what projects they are working on. Film London will be producing
profiles and case studies of successful filmmakers, film projects and
production companies. If you are a filmmaker living or working in Hackney,
Tower Hamlets, Newham, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Greenwich or Bexley
you may be eligible.
To check your availability, please go to
http://www.filmlondon.org.uk/east/content/
Call for applications – Break Out
Break Out is a year-long national project development scheme for the hottest emergent writers, directors and writer/directors from the Black and Minority Ethnic (including Latin American) talent pool in the UK, ready to make successful features. The scheme, set up by Screen East, is open to both fiction and documentary feature writers and directors, and has commercial production partner companies behind it. Break Out will be officially launched in October For more information email june.givanni@virgin.net
Call for applications – 2007 London Artists Film and Video Awards (LAFVA)
A share of £160,000 is now available to London-based film and video artists to produce new work through the 2007 London Artists’ Film and Video Awards (LAFVA). One of the largest UK schemes of its kind, the awards are supported by Film London in partnership with Arts Council England, London, and prioritise work that is experimental and innovative. Now in their seventh year, LAFVA supports artists living and working in the London region. Awardees receive up to £20,000 which can cover full production costs or be used to complete existing projects. The scheme is open to proposals for work in any format, length and genre; single or multi screen; and produced for exhibition in galleries, festivals, specialist venues or cinemas. For more information go to http://www.filmlondon.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=781
Call for submissions -
OPTRONICA – London, March 2007
Optronica explores
the fusion of music and visuals, and features live audiovisual
performances, screenings, talks, workshops and related special events.
The festival will be held at the BFI IMAX and the newly renovated National
Film Theatre. We’re looking for innovative and unconventional music
videos, ambient and experimental work, animations, audio/video remixes and
video cut-ups that express or explore the close relation of music and
image. We're open to all styles of music and all styles of images, be
they created on celluloid or in the digital domain. We are also looking
for video installations that utilise this close relation of music and
image; these can be interactive and preferably for a single screen
exhibit. These installations will be hosted in one of the new BFI
Southbank spaces over the five days of the event as part of the Optronica
Lounge.
Deadline: Friday 1st December.
Please download a submission form and details from here
http://www.optronica.org/
Call for Applications - IFFR Trainee Project for Young Film Critics, Rotterdam
The 9th IFFR Trainee Project for Young Film Critics of the International Film Festival Rotterdam offers up to six young (under 30 years), motivated and talented film critics from outside The Netherlands a chance to get acquainted with the festival and the cinema of the world. The Trainee Project for Young Film Critics was created in 1998 motivated by the fact that young and upcoming film critics get less opportunities to explore this range of cinema and the festivals, like the International Film Festival Rotterdam, that present it. Deadline for applications: Friday November 10, 2006 Applications should be send to the IFFR, press@filmfestivalrotterdam.com
Call for submissions - Blank Slate UK, Cardiff, 23rd November
Bringing Fresh New Stories to Light -- The UK-Wide search is on! 8 chosen black and minority ethnic projects will get 9K each from B3 Media to make their vision a reality. Blank Slate isn’t about simply handling over a cheque and waiting for the premiere. You’ll get to learn from experienced industry professionals as you develop your script for the big screen. Blank Slate UK kicks off with a screening programme touring the UK where you can sample Blank Slate film screenings, workshops and panel events The Blank Slate Tour comes to a Cardiff in a screening and panel event hosted by the International Black Welsh Film Festival (http://www.blackwelshfilmfestival.com/.To find out more and join our mailing list check out http://www.b3media.net / or http:// www.chapter.org/
Call for submissions - 4th Indie Lisboa 2007 Film Festival, LIsbon, April 2007
A
fantastic meeting point for directors, producers, programmers and
journalists, IndieLisboa attracts large and enthusiastic young audiences
to over 200 screenings on six screens in three cinemas all within walking
distance. The festival will take place between 19th and 29th April 2007
and comprises a Competition section for first and second time directors of
Short and Feature films (fiction, documentary, animation, experimental, in
16 and 35 mm, and video) finished in 2006 or 2007.
Submissions for the 4th edition of IndieLisboa - Lisbon International
Independent Film Festival are now open in http://www.indielisboa.com/
Course - Narrative/Non-Narrative/Anti-Narrative: a conference on film and narrative structure, Bristol, 20th November
Are traditional modes of thinking adequate to new modes of making and distribution? In what ways have games and digital production methods disrupted and enhanced ‘film’? What new relations obtain between community and creativity? The Creative Media Group at the Bristol School of Art, Media & Design, UWE, invites you to a conference at the Arnofini, exploring the relationship between film and narrative structure and issues associated with short film. For updates, visit the Creative Media Research Group conference website: http://www.cmrg.uwe.ac.uk/events.htm/
Course - Raindance “Lo-to-No Budget Filmmaking”, London, December 2nd and 3rd
Want to make a movie but don’t know where to start? Learn how to shoot, edit and direct your first feature cost-effectively and develop a plan to submit to film festivals and distributors. The course is taught by one of the leading experts in the independent film industry, Raindance founder Elliot Grove. Movies like Clerks and the Blair Witch Project were made using the principles taught in this course, and writers, directors or producers of Memento and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels all attended this intensive two day seminar.
For more information about this course or other Raindance courses, log on to http://www.raindancefilmfestival.org/courses/ or contact +44 (0)207 287 3833 for booking information.
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