VERTIGO NEWSLETTER #12, May 2006
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CONTENTS
1) Vertigo News - Vertigo's new issue is in production and will be out at the beginning of June; a special live event will launch the new issue at the Curzon Soho in London; the next free online issue goes live on 15 May and features an exclusive interview with Robert Greenwald, director of Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, more downloadable moving-image work, reviews and more.
2) Competition - Win tickets to a special screening and Q+A for 'Ashes of God', part of the Barbican's 'Tropicalia' season.
3) Events and screenings - The Streaming Online Film Festival; Spanish-language Film Festival on tour
4) Calls for submissions - Madcat Women's Film Festival; animate! Artist Award; Britdoc 06 Shorts
5) Links - The Independent Film Parliament, DocHouse, Futureshorts and more.
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1 - VERTIGO NEWS
New issue out beginning of June
The new issue of Vertigo will be taller, thicker and more colourful. It will feature new regular columns and sections, and have a full colour cover and centre artists' pages.
Highlights from
Vertigo's new issue include interviews with 'Keane' director Lodge Kerrigan,
profiles on filmmakers Eugène Green and Jafar Panahi, new writing from Iain Sinclair and an essay by Don DeLillo. Plus artist's 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 lots more.
Where to
buy Vertigo
Vertigo new issue launch, Curzon Soho, London
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.
Curzon Soho
Tereza Stehlíková site
Philip Jeck site
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, documentary maker Ken Fero, writer Iain Sinclair and others.
Look out for programme details in our June newsletter.
Institut français
Cahiers du cinéma
Vertigo Free Issue goes live on May 15
The
free online issue of Vertigo will be live from 15 May. The 'Featured Film' will be Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low
Price with an exclusive interview with Robert Greenwald, the documentary's director. This
month's 'Locations' piece is a report on the innovative festival strands that are being developed
at Brighton's CineCity festival; 'Artworked' will feature a downloadable
moving-image piece from Tatiana
Fernandez, whose work was short-listed for last year's student awards of
Becks Futures. 'Viewings' will
take a look at Michael Haneke's Caché, released later this month on DVD by Artificial Eye
and the Jacques Rivette retrospective currently at London's NFT.
Go to the free issue
2 - COMPETITION
WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO 'ASHES OF GOD' AT THE BARBICAN CENTRE
Inspired by
Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses', Brazillian director Andre Semenza merges the languages of dance and cinema in
'As Cinzas de Deus (Ashes of God)'. The director and choreographer will take part in a Q+A at the
screening on 21 May 2006 at 4.15pm, as part of the Barbican's 'Tropicalia' season.
For your chance to
win a pair of free tickets to the screening , email the answer to the following questions to vertigo@vertigomagazine.co.uk
Which
famous DJ mixed the music for Ashes of God?
3 - EVENTS AND SCREENINGS
ONLINE
Streaming Film Festival: Work from independent filmmakers
The
Dutch-based Streaming Festival, from May 12th to May 14th, will show
non-subsidised films and videos using six different 'theatres' (websites)
from 8pm (gmt+1). It will open with the films from festival special guests Dré
Didderiëns (Trains and Rabbits), Jan Wouter van Reijen (Gagged), Jasper Scheepbouwer (Noise) and
Melinda Jansen (Leda). The Streaming Festival is a platform for independent filmmakers who make their
films without subsidy.
Go to the Streaming Festival
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.
Go to BBC Film Network
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.
Go to ArtBase
INTERNATIONAL
Cannes Film Festival, 17 - 28 May 2006, France
The
2006 festival jury for the Palme d'Or is chaired by Wong Kar Wai and boasts Monica Bellucci, Helena
Bonham Carter, Patrice Leconte, Tim Roth and Palestinian director Elia Suleiman among notable others.
Films in competition include new work by Andrea Arnold and Ken Loach as well as Pedro Almodóvar, Nuri
Bilge Ceylan, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Aki Kaurismäki and Nanni Moretti.
Festival information
UK
Katie Barlow's Documentary Visit Palestine is on tour
A new documentary following Caiomhe Butterly, one of a growing number of
volunteers who risk their own safety to intervene in the long-running and bloody conflict between Israel
and Palestine. Activists such as Butterly are usually stereotyped as lunatics, meddlers or saints. This
film offers an insight into a brave, honest, determined yet self-critical woman who takes direct action
to the limit, with no quest for glory.
Tour
details
The 12th ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival will be
in London at the Curzon Soho from 26 - 29 May 2006. This year's
selection reflects the growing co-operation and increasing number of co-productions between Spain and Latin America, with a two-way exchange of
talent both in front of and behind the camera.
Details of other venues participating in the tour
'Anticipating the Past : Artists : Archive : Film' Symposium, Tate Modern, London
This
international symposium draws together a collection of voices and perspectives to examine the work of
artists and filmmakers who have worked with archival film or antiquated video footage. Speakers include
George Barber, Patrick Keiller, Elizabeth McAlpine, AL Rees and Heather Stewart. Screenings during the
day include work by Martin Arnold, Joseph Cornell and Malcolm Le Grice.
Event
information
'Animate the World', Barbican, London, 20 -28 May 2006
The Barbican’s fifth annual children’s film festival
will be bringing the best children’s animated feature films and shorts from around the world, together
with family animation workshops and special events. As the only UK film festival dedicated solely to
animation films for children, 'Animate the World' holds a special place in revealing that there is
animated life beyond Hollywood.
Event information
onedotzero festival, 2 - 11 June 2006, ICA, London
The
tenth annual festival of innovative moving image will celebrate and consolidate the achievements of the
last decade with a clear focus on the future with curated compilation screenings, features, exhibitions,
live av performances, club nights, presentations and panel discussions from internationally acclaimed
artists and creatives.
Festival information
Science, music and animation, London
A new project which combines animation and psychology is attempting to see how
far we all have audio-visual synaesthesia - an ability to join together sensations commonly thought to
be experienced separately. Animator Samantha Moore together
with Dr Jamie Ward and the New London Orchestra have developed the project based on unique
responses of synaesthetic subjects.
London Science
Museum, Fridays and Saturdays throughout May 2006.
Free Talk and discussion
at Dana Centre on 31 May 2006, 19.00 - 20.30. To book email tickets@danacentre.org.uk
British Documentary Filmmaker Masterclasses, London
DocHouse and The Grierson Trust will be
presenting masterclasses throughout May and June with distinguished British documentary filmmakers Sean
McAllister, Clive Gordon, Penny Woolcock, Kim Longinotto and Roger Graef. Each filmmaker will show their
rarely seen early work alongside new documentaries and reflect on the influences and inspirations that
have shaped their careers.
Details of the
events
Africa Mine film season, Tuesday evenings, Peckham Multiplex, London
In partnership with
Black Cultural Archives, Black World and Film London, Africa Mine presents a tantalizing programme of
features and documentaries that explore Africa through the eyes of Africans. Screenings throughout May,
June and July will include panel discussions and an opportunity to meet filmmakers, media professionals
and experts from Africa and the diaspora.
Programme
details
'The Unnamable', Video Artist solo shows at Lounge gallery, London
Lounge gallery and LUX
are pleased to present the debut London solo shows of three video artists (Sebastian Buerkner, Laure
Prouvost and Duncan Campbell) as part of an exhibition entitled 'The Unnamable'. The exhibition
consists of three two-week solo gallery shows, presenting works which have not been exhibited in London
before in specially-designed installations.
More
details about the show
'Sex and Cinema' book launch, Curzon Soho, London, 28 May 2006
Tanya
Krzywinska's new book 'Sex and the Cinema' traces the numerous factors and contexts - artistic,
institutional, political and socio-cultural - that have shaped the way that sex appears in film.
Introducing a double-bill of 'Cat People' (Jacques Tourneur, 1942) and 'The Curse of the Cat People'
(Robert Wise, 1944), the author will discuss meaning, history and representation of sex on film.
Programme details
Book
details
4 - CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
Call for Submissions - MadCat Women's International Film Festival, San Francisco, September 2006
MadCat is committed to showcasing women
directors who challenge the use of sound and image and explore notions of visual story telling. The
program is curated thematically and accepts films and video of all lengths and genres: experimental,
narrative, documentary, animation, collage or anything else. The only parameter is that the works are
directed or co-directed by women.
Deadline: 15 May 2006
Submissions information
Call for Proposals - 'Trailers' moving image commission, Hull
Hull Film is generating an exciting
opportunity for film makers/video artists to create a unique site-specific moving image work to be
projected inside a shipping container located in the City of Hull. The containers will be open to the
public for the duration of the 5th Hull International Short Film Festival, 27 September-01 October 2006.
Deadline: 31 May 2006.
Detailed information about the
commission
A new award has been added to the Encounters Festival by animate! an
Artist Award for Innovation in Manipulated Moving Image. The animate! jury is looking for films that
seriously challenge the boundaries of animation through radical content and ground-breaking concepts,
forms and processes, the winning film will receive a cash prize of £2,000. The animate! Artist Award is
international. Deadline: 26 May 2006.
Detailed
information about the award
More about the
Encounters Festival
Call for Submissions - Blink, London
This summer Gasworks will present Blink, a
showcase of innovative animation works from UK-based artists. Artists participating in Blink will
be selected from an open call for submissions. The definition of 'animation' is left open to
interpretation by artists. Works will be screened in July and August. Two works can be submitted
per applicant, with each work being a maximum length of 10 minutes.
Deadline: 16 June
2006.
Submissions information
Call for Proposals - ArtSway Residency, New Forest, Hampshire
A two month production residency with a following exhibition and
an accompanying publication/critical text is being offered by ArtSway and the Arts Institute
Bournemouth. The residency is offered to emerging and mid-career visual artists working in any medium,
who wish to develop new work for presentation in a supportive environment.
Residency:
February and March 2007, with the subsequent exhibition in October 2007.
Deadline: 30
May 2006.
Residency information
Call for Submissions - Britdoc 06, 26 - 28 July, Keble College, Oxford
BRITDOC is an annual showcase and meeting of the
documentary talent from Britain and around the world. The festival is open for short documentary film
submissions of no longer than 30 minutes to screen in competition for the FourDocs Short Film Prize at
this summer's festival.
Submissions information
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
SCREENING NETWORK
DFG: DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING COURSES AND NETWORK LONDON
SCRIPTFACTORY: SCRIPTWRITING EVENTS AND NETWORK
IFP: THE USA'S INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER NETWORK
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