VERTIGO NEWSLETTER #36, November 2008



	Problems reading this newsletter? See http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/newsletter/November2008.htm VERTIGO NEWSLETTER #36, November 2008 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 – The new Autumn/Winter issue is out now, new issue launch event 2) Events and screenings – ‘Star Spangled to Death’ screening, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Aurora festival, Encounters Short film festival 3) Calls for submissions and Courses – Birds Eye View extension, Flatpack Festival, Pulse and Digital Nation, European Independent Film Festival 4) Links - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1- VERTIGO NEWS Vertigo’s Autumn/Winter Issue out now The new issue of Vertigo ‘Plase and Purpose: The Moment of the Image’ is now available. The new issue – Volume 4 Issue 1 -- features interviews with filmmakers Jona Mekas (on a life in avant garde film), Peter Greenaway (on his upcoming ‘Nightwatching’), Asif Kapadia (on his new film ‘Far North’) and Benedek Fluegaf (on new Hungarian film). In addition, we take a second look at the films of Richard Stanley, Rudy Wurlitzer and Marcel Carne, review the new dvd of Carl Dreyer’s ‘Vampyr’ and discuss the new translation of Sade’s ‘120 Days of Sodom’, and much more. To subscribe or buy the current issue click here New Issue launch event, Monday November 10th, London To celebrate the new issue, Vertigo will be holding a launch event at the Curzon Soho at 6:00pm onMonday November 10th. We are pleased to present London premieres of unique works by three of our leading artist-filmmakers, all of which investigate place and the nature of documentary. The filmmakers are all featured in the new issue -- we will be screening ‘Cobra Mist’ by Emily Richardson, ‘Little White Feature and the Hunter’ by Anna Lucas and ‘The Western Lands’ by Grant Gee. For more information and to book go to Curzon Cinamas website October Online issue now on the Vertigo website TheOctober issue of the Vertigo Onlineis up on the site. This month we feature Guy Debord’s films, recently shown as part of the Experimenta section at the London Film Festival; a review of the new Takeshi Kitano box set of his classic films; a look back at Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine’s career and the new documentary on British folksinger Vashti Bunyan. To access the current Online issue click here 2 - EVENTS AND SCREENINGS Screening: ‘Star Spangled to Death’, London, 2nd November A full, free screening of Ken Jacobs’ ‘Star Spangled to Death’ episodic indictment of American politics, religion, war, racism and stupidity. Starring Jack Smith, Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Al Jolson and a cast of thousands. The film will be screened in its full length version (375 minutes, from 2 pm to 10 pm) at the Chisenhale Gallery. Tickets are free, and refreshments will be kindly supplied by firefly. For more information go to http://www.whitechapel.org Screening: Cinema Nation: An afternoon with Jem Cohen, London, 2nd November As the second in the series, Cinema Nation and its patron Jonas Mekas are proud to welcome back New York-based film and videomaker Jem Cohen to Curzon Soho for an afternoon on the verge of the US elections. Often shooting in hundreds of locations with little or no additional crew, Cohen collects street footage, portraits, and sounds. He will also be speaking about his work in regards to documentary, street shooting traditions, and politics in the wake of the US elections, and will also be presenting the film that inspired originally him, an evocative account of 1940’s Harlem street life. To read the Vertigo piece on Jem Cohen from Vol 2 Issue 9 click here. For more information on Cinema Nation click here 24th International Short Film Festival Berlin, 4th to 9th November The 24th edition of the International Short Film Festival Berlin features around 450 international and German short films originating from more than 55 countries. The festival presents a diverse selection across the short film spectrum in sections such as live-action, children’s film, animation, documentary, experimental and music clips, and includes a special section, and a new award, focussing on viral videos, where the best viral films with a message will be awarded prizes by both an audience and industry jury. For more information click here 15th Doc/Fest International Documentary Festival, Sheffield, 5th to 9th November Time again for the UK’s major documentary festival, which combines the art and business of documentary, through screenings, discussion panels, pitching sessions and marketplace. The year to coincide with the result of the U.S. presidential elections that should be announced during the festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest will present a number of films and panels around the theme of Regime Change. They’ll be looking at the consequences of changes in government – from the democratic and highly media savvy process that takes place in America – to those countries that live under dictatorships and to whom ‘regime change’. For more information and a full programme of screenings click here Aurora 2008 Film festival, Norwich, 12th to 16th November Vertigo is pleased to be a media partner with this year’s Aurora festival. Aurora focuses on the manipulated moving image, and as a multidisciplinary, progressive event, it fuses artist retrospectives and thematic film programmes with discussion events, live performance and installations The theme for AURORA 2008 is The Infinite Measure. Focusing on impermanence, materiality and uncertainty; quietude and stasis; and the (ec)static, meditative and sublime, the theme profiles work which offers both formal and poetic responses via extensive artist programmes, discussion events, thematic film programmes, installation work and live performance. For more information and a full programme click here onedotzero_Adventures in Motion, London, November 14th to 16th The London date for the international onedotzero festival brings an exhilarating mix of internationally curated compilation programmes, feature film previews with director's q+a, live audiovisual + music collaborations, hands-on workshops and artist presentations, and installations from Jason Bruges studio, Hexstatic, Doodlearth and Troika to the BFI. For more information click here 14th Encounters Film Festival, Bristol, 18th to 23rd November Vertigo is pleased to be one of Encounters media partners for the 14th festival. Encounters offers an important platform for both new and established filmmakers to showcase their work and be inspired, talk technology, share ideas and make new connections. For viewers, it offers the best of new and classic short films. The festival covers 6 days of screenings, special events, workshops and masterclasses, plus the finals of the DepicT! 90 second film challenge. For more information click here Continuing: 'Maybe in the Sky', Liverpool, 20th September to 9th November New video works by Lily Markiewicz and Anne Robinson, engaging with the 400-year anniversary of Galileo's 'invention' of the telescope, and exploring its impact on science. The two film are shown as an installation moving across all five screens in the dome of the Planetarium at the World Museum Liverpool, with free admission. For more information click here Continuing: Beyond the Frame: Cinemas of the Far East, the Middle East and Africa, London, 17th September to 3rd December Beyond the Frame is a series of free two hour introductory seminars and screenings on cinemas of the Far East, the Middle East andAfrica led by leading experts at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, organised by InSight Education and supported by Film London. Every Wednesday evening from 17th September -3rd December participants will have the chance to explore a national cinema through a screening of a key film and, the following week, a seminar examining the film and exploring its relationship with its national cinema. Cinemas included in the series will be: Japan (17th and 24th Sept); China(1st and 8th Oct); Thailand (15th and 22nd Oct); Egypt (29th Oct and 5th Nov); Iran (12th and 19th Nov) and Africa (26th Nov and 3rd Dec). No prior knowledge is needed. All seminars and screenings are free, but you will need to book. For more information go to Insight Education website 3 - CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS, APPLICATIONS AND COURSES Call for Applications: PULSE and DIGITAL NATION Film London’s digital shorts scheme, PULSE, is open for applications from London-based writers and directors with proposals for short films across all genres. This year the PULSE scheme is being run in association with FLAMIN and encourages applications from artist film-makers looking to develop new work within a narrative framework. At least 5 films will be commissioned this year, and all genres are welcome, including drama, documentary and animation. The budget range is £4,000 - £12,000 depending on the nature of the project and running times should be between 1 and 15 minutes. In addition, FLAMIN is also overseeing DIGITAL NATION, which is seeking applications from writers and directors who are ready to make the leap into more ambitious cinematic short films with a maximum production budget of £18,000. For more information Film London website Deadline for submissions: 10th November 2008 Call for Submissions: Birds Eye View 2009 – deadline extension Birds Eye View celebrates international women filmmakers – both established and emerging. The 2009 Film Festival will open in London on March 5th for 10 days of shorts, features, documentaries and special events, panels and parties. The 2008 festival was the largest to date, and therefore the deadline for UK entries of all categories by women filmmakers has been extended this year, to allow for more filmmakers to submit their work. For more information go to Birds Eye View website Deadline for UK submissions: 10th November 2008 Call for Submissions: London International Documentary Festival 2009 The London International Documentary Festival (LIDF) is calling for submissions. LIDF are looking to support new and innovative filmmaking talent, and to ask filmmakers to participate in a series of intertwining 'conversations' to be run alongside the screenings. These 'conversations' will involve academics, journalists, policy-makers, NGOs, and other cultural commentators. The LIDF is calling for documentary films produced after January 1st 2007, and is particularly, although not exclusively, interested in films that fall within the following categories: Environment, Human Rights, Memory/history, Ethnography/anthropology, Politics/Philosophy/Economics The LIDF is scheduled to run for 8 days between 28th March, and Saturday, April 4th, 2009. For more information click here Deadline for submissions: 1st December, 2008 Call for Submissions: Flatpack Festival 3 Flatpack are currently seeking submissions of short films for the 2009 Flatpack Festival, to be held in Birmingham from March 11th to 15th, 2009. The festival screens shorts, animation, artists’ film and video, independent features and music documentaries, and are looking for short films of under 15 minutes in length. In addition, the festival will include a strand called Open Season where all kinds of people will introduce a favourite short film. If you'd like to propose a short, please see Open Season section on the website. For more information click here Deadline for submissions: 5th December 2008 Call for Submissions: Human Rights Watch: Youth Producing Change The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival is seeking youth-produced media works on human rights issues for its second annual Youth Producing Change program to be screened in the New York, London, Boston and San Francisco film festivals in 2009-2010. Young people across the globe are bravely exposing human rights issues faced by themselves and their communities, and, Youth Producing Change, now in its second year, provides a platform for these young filmmakers to share their perspectives with audiences worldwide. They are currently seeking film, video and animated works on human rights issues created by youth ages 19 and younger. For more information click here Deadline for submissions: 10th December 2008 Call for Submissions: The European Independent Film Festival 2009 Since its inception, The European Independent Film Festival (ECU) has become an ideal place in Europe for independent filmmakers to screen their films to large international audiences, to network with producers and distributors as well as exchange ideas with other indie filmmakers. Held in Paris in March 2009, the competitive ECU festival is seeking features, shorts and documentaries, as well as short and feature scripts, and entries to the new ‘Made on Mobile’ category. 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