VERTIGO NEWSLETTER #41, May 2009



	Problems reading this newsletter? See http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/newsletter/May2009.htm VERTIGO NEWSLETTER #41, May 2009 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 latest issue / Unsubscribe from this newsletter / Send us your information CONTENTS 1) Vertigo News – Vertigo Appeal, Vol 4 Issue 3 New Issue, New Issue Launch Event, Brief Encounters’ Vertigo’s series of talks 2) Events and Courses – Animation Day, Curzon DocDays, Vertigo Brief Encounters Talk # 3: ‘Globewatching’ 3) Calls for submissions and applications – onedotzero_adventures, Cortopotere Short Film Festival, GFest Arts Festival, Wie wir leben! / The Way We Live! festival 4) Links - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 - VERTIGO NEWS Vertigo Appeal: An Urgent Call for Support – it’s now or never As we go to press for our April 2009 issue, Vertigo magazine faces imminent closure. Since 1993, Vertigo has remained unique as a publication of both defence and advocacy, untied to commercial dictates of what constitutes so-called ‘cinema.’ Partisan, polemical, politically engaged in its examination of form, content, industry infrastructure and international developments, it has considered the entire spectrum of moving image media: from features, through shorts, documentary, artists’ film and video to hybrid production and new media. Our team has also projected our editorial vision through a multiform website, screenings, events, conferences and seasons. Vertigo’s belief is in the entirety of the moving image as an artform, as a medium for social and political dialogue, and as a driving force for change. It is now in its fourth print volume. It has been a small but influential manifestation in response to our own vertiginous times. We need new financial resources to bridge a critical funding gap, and we need new members for our team, to take Vertigo into the future. If you value the role Vertigo plays in our moving image culture, and can offer financial support or would like to join us, please come forward immediately to enable its survival. And/or if you feel you have the skills, commitment and vision to lead Vertigo into the future we would like to hear from you. You would build on fifteen years of experience and an international range of writers, contributors and partners, the independently –minded leaders of the moving image and its cultures. Thank you, Gareth Evans and Holly Aylett, for Vertigo RSVP to vertigo@vertigomagazine.co.uk Thank you for your attention and for your support. If you are able to help financially please either send a cheque to Vertigo Publications, 4th floor, 26 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ or transmit funds to Lloyds Acct: 2686127 Sort code: 30-98-71 THESE ARE THE TIMES: THE IMAGE ON THE THRESHOLD The new issue of Vertigo is out at the end of April – and includes an exclusive FREE DVD of Ken McMullen’s feature ‘1871’ The latest issue of Vertigo - Volume 4 Issue 3 – will be out at the end of the month: in bookshops, on newsstands, on the website and, if you are a subscriber, in your own mailbox. Vol 4 Issue 3 includes an exclusive FREE feature length dvd of director Ken McMullen’s ‘Parisian-set historical tale of the turbulent times of the Franco-Prussian war ‘1871’ (and extras including cast interviews and the acclaimed short ‘1867’) The new print issue also offers exclusive interviews with documentary legend Frederick Wiseman and Desperate Optimists Joe Lawlor & Christine Molloy; excerpts from a new script by Trevor Griffiths; profiles of filmmakers Eva Weber and Ramin Bahrani; an appreciation of the late actress Ann Savage; Kathy Acker on Iain Sinclair; Gideon Koppel’s ‘Sleep Furiously’; the (timely) re-release of the classic silent epic ‘L’Argent’; the healing power of cinema; Iraqi Film now, and much more. To buy the new issue (Vol 4 Issue 3) go to http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/shop/shophome.htm NEW ISSUE LAUNCH EVENT and Screening – London, May 28th, 6 pm To mark publication of what is, at the time of writing, the FINAL print issue of Vertigo magazine, we are proud to present a unique soundwork for darkened cinema and a series of short films from some of our finest artist film-makers, whether ‘household names’ or emergent talents. Singular and idiosyncratic creators every one, they will almost all be on hand to celebrate with us the sheer diversity, innovation and imagination on which Vertigo has thrived for the fifteen years of its life. So, please join us for works by Louis Benassi (with Julian Ziz), John Berger, Vaughan Pilikian, Judy Price, John Smith, Dan Walwin and Eva Weber. We will raise a glass, and our eyes, to the screen of dreams and we will mark the moment well. 6pm, May 28th Birkbeck Cinema, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London; nearest tube: Russell Square. FREE ADMISSION but strictly limited capacity. Please arrive promptly. Vertigo’s Brief Encounters – a series of talks – next one in June The beginning of April brings the start of Brief Encounters – a series of three panel-based talks, hosted by Vertigo (in collaboration with London Metropolitan University and Iniva) in which we consider how images relate to place and what they can do - politically, culturally and as a form of opposition. The first talk in the series is entitled ‘Virtual’, and will be followed by ‘Local’ and finally ‘Global’ Each of the talks in the series is free to attend, but space is limited so its best to book. See below in the Events section for more information on the second of the Brief Encounters. 2 - EVENTS AND COURSES CloseUp film series: Anticipation and Memory – the films of Larry Gottheim, London, 26th May The program surveys the trailblazing career of one of America’s foremost avant-garde masters. Best known for the cycle Elective Affinities, a series of four feature-length films started in the early 1970s and completed in 1981, Gottheim has carried out an absorbing exploration of the relationship of images to sound and time, examined issues of racial, cultural and personal identity, and considered the theme of nature in art. CloseUp are pleased that the filmmaker will attend the screening and introduce his films. For more information and full programme notes go to Close-Up website Animation Day: Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, 28th May A day long series of workshops exploring writing, producing, composing, special effects and making animation, with the morning sessions open to students and alumni, and the afternoon panel discussion and networking with the Scottish Animation Group open to all. The afternoon panel discussion will focus on the challenges facing people entering and working in the Animation industry today. Panellists include script writing consultant Phil Parker and live action specialist and former eca graduate Oliver Smyth. The panel will explore what constitutes the Animation industry today, challenges and opportunities within the industry, retaining your creative integrity when working in the industry and the options and roles available for graduates today. The event is free but you must book on info@screenacademyscotland.ac.uk Vertigo and Curzon Doc Days: ‘OPEN SHUTTERS IRAQ’ + director Q/A, London, 31st May Vertigo is proud to present the English premiere of a remarkable and relevant new documentary by acclaimed Iraqi film-maker Maysoon Pachachi, co-founder / director of the Independent Film and Television College (see the article in Vertigo Vol 3 Issue 3 ). Women from five cities in Iraq take part in an extraordinary participatory photographic project. For a month, they live and work together in a traditional courtyard house in the Old City of Damascus before returning home to shoot their photo-stories. At the same time as they learn to take pictures, they present their maps of their lives and tell their stories to each other; childhood, the struggle for education, loves and betrayals, births and deaths, wars, abductions, violence and acts of daily resistance. The result is a collective fabric of Iraqi women’s experience woven from the threads of individual lives. After shooting their stories in Iraq, the women return to Syria to edit their work. The film explores the way in which traumatised and silenced people can resist the ‘un-making’ and fragmentation of their world with an act of creative articulation. After the screening, there will be a Q&A with the filmmaker. For more information and tickets go to www.curzoncinemas.com/soho Brief Encounters - Vertigo Talk #3: ‘Globewatching’, London, June 11th 6:30 to 8:30 This is the third talk in the Vertigo Brief Encounters series. Each of the talks considers how images relate to place and what they can do - politically, culturally and as a form of opposition. Entitled ‘The Place of the Image: Globewatching’, in this exclusive screening and discussion event, three film-makers (Suki Chan, Tony Grisoni (tbc) and Maysoon Pachachi) who are all extremely well placed to comment on the traffic of images between London and the globalised world will be in discussion with Holly Aylett, lecturer at London Metropolitan University, co-editor of Vertigo, documentarist and an international advocate for cultural diversity in cinema and society. The evening will consider how we understand the world and our troubled times through the images we receive from abroad, as well as the 'global' images we find within our communities and then transmit. What is the place of the image in an image-saturated world? How do we decide what to make or to watch? How do we tell authentic stories in an age of celebrity, manipulation and surveillance? FREE Admission but strictly limited capacity. Venue: The Graduate Centre, London Metropolitan University. Nearest tube Holloway Road. For more information check the News section of the Vertigo website. InSight: Red Camera workshop, London, 20th June With all the talk about the new RED ONE camera system filtering into the industry how does it all actually work? This InSight full day workshop will guide you from pre-production to post-production using the RED system. Beginning with an introduction to the camera, what everything does, how it fits together and how it works, prgressing onto how to work with the camera on set, preparation, settings and systems, including time savings and shortcuts, understanding proxies and R3d files. And finally on to post production. For more information go to www.insighteducation.org.uk 3 - CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS, APPLICATIONS AND COURSES Call for submissions: onedotzero_adventures in motion 2009 onedotzero makes a final call to visionary creators to submit new work to the globetrotting festival of innovative contemporary moving image and digital creativity. onedotzero is making a final call for proposals for short film, animation, music videos, installations, interactive works and live audio-visual performances, in the categories of Wavelength, Extended Play, Wow and Flutter, j-star, Terrain, Shifting Identities or Craftwork. The festival and its screening programmes visit up to 60 cities worldwide each year with an extensive global tour continuing across Europe, the Baltic’s, Asia, the Americas and Oceania, beginning at teh BFI Southbank in London. For more information on the categories and the submission requirements go to www.onedotzero.com/submissions Deadline for entries: 29th May 2009 Call for submissions: 9th Cortopotere Short Film Festival The 9th Cortopotere Short Film Festival will be held in October 2009 in Bergamo, Italy. They are currently seeking submissions for the competitive festival. Short films of any type (fiction, experimental or animation) to a maximum of 20 minutes and documentaries to a maximum of 30 minutes may compete. Works must have been produced since 2007. For more information go to Festival website Deadline for applications: 8th June 2009 Call for Submissions: Sheffield DocFest 2009 The Sheffield International Documentary Festival is the UK’s premier event for international documentary professionals, and showcases some of the finest examples of documentary film from across the globe. The festival, to be held this year between 4-8 November, welcomes documentary films of any style, duration or subject produced for cinema, television, as part of film school coursework or for cross-platform. Established and debut filmmakers are encouraged to apply. For more information go to www.sheffdocfest.com Deadline for submissions: 17th June 2009 Call for Submissions: Co-operative Young Film-makers Festival The Co-operative is calling for budding young movie-makers who dream of changing the world, to submit entries to the prestigious Co-operative Young Film-Makers Festival. Young filmmakers aged 19 and under can submit entries for the 2009 Festival which will be held in Bradford in October 2009.Through drama or documentary, animation or comedy, music video or silent movie, film-makers can tackle issues that concern them, such as climate change, Fairtrade, animal welfare or healthy living. Alternatively they can make a movie about their life, community or experiences. Entries should be no more than six minutes long. For more information go to www.youngfilm-makers.coop Deadline for submissions: 26th June 2009 Call for submissions: GFest Arts Festival G Fest are inviting submissions of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) short films that explore queer issues and themes. Preference will be given to films reflecting diversity within the LGBT community (including moving images & artist's videos). Films can be up to a maximum of 25 minutes. Submissions are free of charge. For more information go to GFest website Deadline for submissions: 29th June 209 Call for submissions: Branchage Jersey International Film Festival The 2nd Branchage Jersey cross-arts festival is seeking submissions of films for its festival in October. Held in a variety of unusual locations (including a Speigeltent, the castle, the Magistrates Court and the war tunnels, the festival wants films of all lengths and subjects. For more information and submission details go to festival website. Deadline for submissions: 9th July 2009 Call for submissions: Wie wir leben! / The Way we Live! Europe’s longest running Disability Film Festival “Wie wir leben!/The Way We Live!” invites filmmakers from all over the world to enter their latest work for preselection. The festival is looking for provocative, radical, fresh, controversial, excellent films which represent people with disabilities, chronic or mental illnesses, their lives and their experiences. 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