Vertigo Newsletter #13, June 2006



	VERTIGO NEWSLETTER #13, June 2006 Vertigo's newsletter features the latest on the magazine, what's new on the website plus exclusive competitions, events listings, links to resources and more. Subscribe or buy Vertigo magazine online / Go to the new issue / Unsubscribe from this newsletter / Send us your information CONTENTS 1) Vertigo News - Vertigo's new issue is out now; a special live event with Tereza Stehlíková and Philip Jeck will launch the issue at the Curzon Soho in London; Vertigo will also be collaborating with Cahiers du cinéma for a special season at the Cine Lumiere; the next issue of Vertigo will be a special electronic magazine available to buy on disc, and will be out mid-July. 2) *Competition* - Win Aleksander Ford's Polish epic 'Knights Of The Teutonic Order' on DVD 3) Events and screenings - Tribeca Film Festival's short films online; Sydney Film Festival; Anarchist film and culture festival 4) Calls for submissions - Film London Digital Shorts; BRITDOCART Funding Scheme; Radar Music Video Film Festival 5) Links - Two new documentary resources listed: DFG Docs (just launched) and SIDF. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 - VERTIGO NEWS New Issue out now The new issue of Vertigo is out now. It is taller, thicker and more colourful, and features new regular columns and sections, and has full colour covers and artists' pages. Highlights from the new magazine include an interview with 'Keane' director Lodge Kerrigan, profiles on filmmakers Eugčne Green and Jafar Panahi, new writing from Iain Sinclair, and an essay by Don DeLillo. Plus artists' pages from Tereza Stehlikova, writing on experimental filmmaker Matthew Noel Tod, spotlights on Argentine Community Cinema and the Cinematheque Paris, book reviews, documentary, experimental, competitions and more. http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/issue.php?sel=cur&siz=1 Vertigo New Issue launch, Curzon Soho, 17 June 2006 The new issue of Vertigo will launch with an event at the Curzon Soho, London, on Saturday June 17th. Fingertips is a live music film event, a collaboration between experimental filmmaker Tereza Stehlíková, with an original soundtrack performed live by Touch label's Philip Jeck. The event will also feature a screening of a Stan Brakhage short from his 1994 'Chartres Series'. Event details http://www.curzoncinemas.com/flash/whats_on/events/curzon_soho/vertigo_presents_fingertips_live_music/synopsis Tereza Stehlikova site http://www.terezast.com Philip Jeck site http://www.philipjeck.com Vertigo and Cahiers du cinéma season at the Institut français, London A further event to mark Vertigo's launch is our encounter with Cahiers du cinéma at the Institut français. A series of paired screenings mapping the territory covered by both magazines will begin with the UK premiere of Le Petit Lieutenant, in the presence of director Xavier Beauvoir (tbc). Roundtables will look at the role played by both magazines in developing a broad film culture, and the influence of experimental work and world cinema on the aesthetics of contemporary cinema. Guest speakers will include Cahiers du cinéma editor Jean-Michel Frodon, screenwriter Tony Grisoni, film critic Jonathan Romney, documentary maker Ken Fero, writer Iain Sinclair as well as Vertigo editors and contributors. See programme details at http://www.institut-francais.org.uk/CdC-Vertigo Cahiers du cinéma site http://www.cahiersducinema.com/ Previews of articles from the new issue on Vertigo site from June 17 Free previews of five articles from the new issue of Vertigo will be live from 17 June, as well as content listings. Subscribers will be able to log-in and access a fully-searchable, web version of the new issue, to accompany their print edition. Go to the current issue page http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/issue.php?sel=cur&siz=1 2 - COMPETITION WIN A DVD ALEKSANDER FORD'S 'KNIGHTS OF THE TEUTONIC ORDER' Aleksander Ford's 1960 epic film will be released by Second Run DVD on 26 June 2006. Considered to be one of the greatest and most popular Polish films of all time, this spectacular historical romance and war film set in the Middle Ages is based on the best-selling book by Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz ('Quo Vadis'), and compares with the best of the Hollywood epics. http://www.secondrundvd.com/ For your chance to win a copy of the DVD, email the answer of the following question to vertigo@vertigomagazine.co.uk: Can you name the famous Polish film organisation that Aleksander Ford headed in the years after the Second World War? 3 - EVENTS AND SCREENINGS *ONLINE* Short Films on the Tribeca Film Festival Website If you missed the recent Tribeca Film Festival in New York, there is an excellent selection of full-length short films online from their Narrative, Documentary, Student and Family strands. Watch the films at http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/video-clips.html BBC Film Network: Short Films From New British Filmmakers The purpose of the BBC's Film Network is to provide a platform for new British filmmakers to show their work. The site is screening three new short films every week. The interactive site also allows people to comment on and rate films and provides filmmakers with tools to create online profiles and exchange tips, advice and ideas. Watch the films at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/ Rhizome.org: Connecting Art and Technology Rhizome.org is an online platform for the global new media art community supporting the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways. Founded in 1999, Rhizome ArtBase is an online archive of new media art containing some 1600 art works, and growing. The ArtBase encompasses a vast range of projects by artists all over the world that employ materials including software, code, websites, moving image, games and browsers to aesthetic and critical ends. Visit the ArtBase at http://rhizome.org/art/ *INTERNATIONAL* Sydney Film Festival, Australia, until 25 June 2006 Established in 1954, the Sydney Film Festival is one of the leading international film festivals and a key Winter event in the city. Presenting a sophisticated program of over 200 films, this year's festival will be showing new Australian feature and documentary films and shorts and contemporary world cinema with a focus on Denmark and Latin America. For more information see http://www.sydneyfilmfestival.org Taormina Film Festival, Italy, 20-25 June 2006 The Taormina Film Festival in Sicily is held at the Greek Amphitheatre and at the Congress Hall of Taormina. The festival will have a special focus on Italian films, as well as showing international shorts and feature films, and running cinema workshops. http://www.taorminafilmfest.it/2006/english/default.asp UK 'Africa Mine' film season, Tuesday evenings, Peckham Multiplex, London In partnership with Black Cultural Archives, Black World and Film London, Africa Mine presents a programme of features and documentaries that explore Africa through the eyes of Africans. Screenings throughout June and July will include panel discussions and an opportunity to meet filmmakers, media professionals and experts from Africa and the diaspora. Programme details available from http://www.screenstation.net/africa-mine.html 'Without Boundaries' Artists' Film and Video, ICA, London, until 18 June 2006 This specially curated artists film and video, feature and documentary programme explores what Europe means now. Contemporary artists’ work is gathered together to challenge pre-conceived conceptions of culture, place, identity and history with work from over 15 different countries. First shown at Brief Encounters Festival in Bristol, now showing with two key Hungarian found footage films. See http://www.ica.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=15044 for more information. 'Ghosting', Artists’ Film and Video Screenings, A Bond, Watershed and Arnolfini venues, Bristol, until 25 June 2006 Developed in response to the growth of contemporary artists’ interest in archives, 'Ghosting' is a programme of exhibitions, screenings and discussion exploring its relationship to the moving image. ‘Ghosting’ alludes to the idea of re-awakening ghosts of the past, it is also a technical term used to describe the appearance of an overlapping secondary image on a television or a display screen. Details of events, venues and screenings http://www.picture-this.org.uk/current/ghosting.htm 'Screenland' Landscape in Film and Video Exhibition, Whitstable Museum and Gallery, Kent, until 25 June 2006 An exhibition of artist's film and video work bringing together six artists whose landscape films and videos explore space, place and psychological states. It is supported by a programme of events, including a one-night cinema-style screening of artists' films and videos of the landscape. Artists include Emily Richardson, Joe King and Rosie Pedlow, Peter Collis among others. For more details see http://www.whitstable-museum.co.uk 'Future City - London', Architecture and Film Season, Barbican, London, until 25 June 2006 As part of the London Architecture Biennale 2006, the Barbican Centre will be screening a series of architecture-related films, open-air cinemas will be located along the 5km Biennale route and artists' film installations will take place in unusual and exciting venues around London. For more information see http://www.barbican.org.uk/film/series.asp?ID=323 or see http://www.architectureweek.org.uk/labdownloads/Social%20Cinema.doc (Word document) for outdoor screenings information 'Projectile' Anarchist film and culture festival, Newcastle upon Tyne, 16-18 June 2006 Projectile is an annual film festival based in Newcastle aiming to use film to explore the philosophical, cultural and political themes of anarchism. For the second year running the organising collective has put together a full programme of films, talks and workshops. The event will take place at the Star & Shadow Cinema, NE1. For more information, contact info@projectile.org.uk or visit http://www.projectile.org.uk Roger Graef Documentary Filmmaker Masterclass, London, 21 June 2006 DocHouse and The Grierson Trust has been presenting masterclasses in May and June with distinguished British documentary filmmakers. The final in the series features Roger Graef, who will be showing rarely seen early work alongside new documentaries as well as reflecting on the influences and inspirations that have shaped their careers. Details of the events available from http://www.griersontrust.org/other_act1.htm Screenwriters' Festival, Cheltenham, 27-30 June 2006 The International Screenwriters' Festival is dedicated to the art, craft and business of writing for the screen. Bringing together professional industry delegates, high profile guests and new talent from around the world, the Festival provides a unique forum to debate and discuss writing dramatic scripts for film, television and new media. For more information see http://www.screenwritersfestival.com/ 'Light Reading Series' with Nicky Hamlyn and Simon Payne, London, 28 June 2006 Internationally renowned and respected artist Nicky Hamlyn will be in conversation with video maker Simon Payne. Nicky Hamlyn was Simon Payne's tutor while at the Kent Institute of Art and Design, and both artists have had their works shown internationally. Light Reading Series 5 takes place at the Kingsgate Gallery, NW6. Email courses@nowhere-lab.org to reserve seats and for more information. http://www.nowhere-lab.org/ 'Time Flesh & Nerve', Lounge Gallery, London, 2 July 2006 The Lounge Gallery in Dalston presents a moving image art event bringing together 15 artists in film, video, performance, and music. Curated by Anne Robinson, the night will explore imaginative time travel and the perfect instant. Programme starts at 7pm. Email anne.robinson@londonmet.ac.uk for more information or see http://www.lounge-gallery.com Solar Cinema, Camden, London, 2 July 2006 Part of this summer's Camden Green Fair and Bike festival, the Solar Cinema Experience presents works by amateur and breakthrough directors on a solar powered screen. For more information see http://www.camden.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/business/camden-film-office/camden-film-festival/;jsessionid=b8CaEdGZWdE8 'Nausea' by Matthew Noel-Tod, Outpost Gallery, Norwich, 2-21 July 2006 Matthew Noel-Tod's 54 minute artist film Nausea is a synthesis of text and image that draws inspiration from Impressionism, On Kawara, Barnett Newman and the existential diary of Jean-Paul Sartre from which it adopts its title. Excerpts are available from the Vertigo website at http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/showarticle.php?sel=bac&siz=1&id=349 More event information available from http://www.norwichoutpost.org/calender.html#clndr_23 'The Future of Documentary', Sheffield International Documentary Festival Debate, London, 6 July 2006 An evening of lively discussion with commissioning editors and filmmakers to explore the onset of the second wave of the digital revolution. How will documentary filmmakers and broadcasters respond to the challenges of making programmes for new platforms? What is the future of factual film and television with the emerging importance of cross platform distribution? A free event. RSVP to emma@sidf.co.uk, 6pm (6.30pm start) - 8.30pm, Zero-One, Soho, W1 See http://www.01zero-one.co.uk for more event and venue details Cambridge Film Festival 2006, 6-16 July 2006 Highlights from the 26th festival include a brief history of erotic cinema, a Michel Gondry retrospective, British Public Information films, New German Cinema, daily free Artists Film and Video screenings and Claude Friese-Greene's 'The Open Road' with a live music accompaniment. The festival will also show a complete retrospective of fashion photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber's work. Festival information available from http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk/ Short Film Summer School, Curzon Soho, London, 12-15 July 2006 The second four day celebration of the short film will screen 66 short films as well as having 14 Workshops, 11 Panel Discussions and Daily Market, Networking and Young People's events. A training, skill-building and networking opportunity for filmmakers of all abilities and ages. More information available from http://www.shortfilmsummerschool.com/ Addictive TV live at the National Theatre, London, 15 July 2006 After last year's performance on the National Theatre's roof, Addictive TV are back to present their new audio/visual set with brand new audio/video remixes, including a remix of 1966 Worldcup. Free outdoor event from 10pm. Further information at http://www.addictive.tv and http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk 4 - CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS, APPLICATIONS Call for Submissions - Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal, Quebec, Canada, 18-28 October 2006 The Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal (FNC) is a multidisciplinary event that aims to promote cinéma d'auteur (art-house cinema), independent video and creativity in new media. The FNC is looking for new and original feature, short, medium-length and digital works. Only works produced after 1 January 2005, not previously shown in Quebec are eligible. Deadline: 1 July 2006. Festival information (in French)http://www.nouveaucinema.ca Call for Applications - PULSE 2006, Film London Digital Shorts Scheme Film London's Digital Shorts Scheme is now open for applications, offering awards of between Ł2,000 and Ł10,000. The PULSE scheme is open to new talent in the London region and offers an opportunity to make short digital films for a variety of exhibition and distribution platforms. At least 8 films will be commissioned with running times of between 1 and 10 minutes. Further information and downloadable application pack http://www.filmlondon.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=788 Deadline: 5pm, 5 July 2006 Call for Submissions - 'Radar' Music Video Film Festival, September 2006 Radar is a new competitive music video festival that will show shortlisted films at the Apple Regent Street Store's Theatre, London in September 2006. Shortlisted films will also be shown on the festival's sponsor's sites (Domino, Warp and Tummy Touch Records), as well as winning cash and music prizes, and commissions. Production company Colonel Blimp will represent the overall winner. Deadline: 31 August 2006 More information available from http://www.radarfestival.com/ Call for Applications - 'FURTHER 2' Artist Moving Image Residency, London FURTHER 2 is Film London, Artquest, and no.w.here's second three month moving image residency opportunity hosted for three London-based visual artists interested in developing film-based projects. Applicants must be available for interview for the week beginning 4 September. Application packs are available from the no.w.here website http://www.nowhere-lab.org/. Deadline: 31 August 2006 Call for Applications - BRITDOCART Funding Scheme A new funding scheme from the Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation, in conjunction with Arts Council England and with the support of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) will award four UK, or UK-based artists up to Ł30,000 each this year to make a documentary film. BRITDOCART is open to artists from any field, be it visual, video, performance, or installation art. For more details see https://www.britdoc.org/foundation/ 5 - LINKS THE INDEPENDENT FILM PARLIAMENT LUX ARTISTS' FILM AND VIDEO EVENT LISTINGS SHOOTINGPEOPLE CALENDAR FOR UK-WIDE FILM SCREENINGS AND EVENTS INDEPENDENT CINEMA OFFICE FUTURE SHORTS: SHORT FILM NETWORK AUDIO DESCRIBED AND SUBTITLED CINEMA LISTINGS NEW PRODUCERS ALLIANCE: TRAINING/EVENTS/SCREENINGS/ADVICE DOCSPACE: DOCUMENTARY SCREENINGS NETWORK DFG DOCS: BRITISH DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING RESOURCE SIDF: FREE NEWSLETTER AND FESTIVAL INFORMATION SCRIPTFACTORY: SCRIPTWRITING EVENTS AND NETWORK IFP: THE USA'S INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER NETWORK Subscribe or buy Vertigo magazine online / Go to the new issue / Unsubscribe from this newsletter / Send us your information