VERTIGO NEWSLETTER #35, September 2008



	Problems reading this newsletter? See http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/newsletter/September2008.htm VERTIGO NEWSLETTER #35, September 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* – September Russian Film special On line issue on the website 2) *Competition* - Win a copy of the 50th Anniversary edition of Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ 3) *Events and screenings* – Godard’s ‘Histoire(s) du Cinema’ screening, Beyond the Frame, Cinema Nation, ‘Blind Carbon Copy’ 4) *Calls for submissions* *and Courses* – London International Documentary Festival, European Independent Film Festival, London Filmmaker Festival Fund 5) *Links* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 - VERTIGO NEWS Vertigo’s Autumn/Winter Issue is out next month The new issue of Vertigo will be out the week of October 20th, with 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 September Russian Film Special Online issue now on the Vertigo website To mark the 2nd Russian Film Festival theSeptember edition of the On line issue is devoted to Russian cinema this month. With exclusive, all-access articles include new Russian cinema, early Russian animation and Dziga Vertov and the coming of sound. Click here to access the current Online issue 2 - COMPETITION Win a copy of the 50th Anniversary edition of Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ Throughout his entire career Hitchcock broke conventions and challenged viewer’s perceptions with his films. Digging deep into the psychology of cinema and the moving image, his films continue to inspire half a century after they were made. To mark the 50th anniversary of the Hitchcock classic ‘Vertigo’, another convention-breaking and perception-challenging Vertigo (the magazine), which also digs into the psychology of the moving image, is offering a chance to win a 2-disc copy of Vertigo. The dvd comes with new documentaries, production notes and Hitchcock/Truffaut interviews. For your chance to win one of 2 copies of the 2-disc Vertigo 50th Anniversary edition DVD from Universal Pictures, email the answer to the following question, along with your full contact details, to vertigo@vertigomagazine.co.uk The screenplay to Vertigo is an adaptation of a French novel by Pierre Boileay and Thomas Marcejac. What was the title of the original novel? 3 - EVENTS AND SCREENINGS Histoire(s) du Cinema screening, London, 28th September The UK’s first theatrical presentation of Jean-Luc Godard’s masterpiece on the history of cinema, will be screened in full (265 minutes) at the Rio cinema. Introduced by Vertigo contributor and filmmaker Chris Petit, it is made up of a series of 8 chapters over 10 years, and presents a unique interpretation of the evolution of cinema. For more information click here '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 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 itsnational 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 click here Blind Carbon Copy, Bristol, 4th October to 15th November An exhibition of new work by Matthew Noel-Tod produced during his recent Bristol Mean Time Residency will open at Spike Island in Bristol. Noel-Tod's new film, ‘Blind Carbon Copy’ is based on a witty and evocative script collaged from the artist's personal email correspondence and draws parallels between traditional artistic expressions such as life drawing, dance and music with technology such as cars, computers and discos, to comment on the contemporary human condition. For more information click here Mambo Italiano: Exotica talk and screening, London, 8th October Italian writer and musicologist Francesco Adinolfi will discuss his book ‘Mondo Exotica’ a study of Western culture’s fascination with 'exotica' during the 50s and 60s through music and film, including the subgenres of exotica such as the mood music and spy music composed for Italian films of the 60s. This discussion will be followed by a screening of DIABOLIK (d. Mario Bava 1968) a tongue-in-cheek 60s Italian spy-thriller based on a popular Italian comic-book series and featuring the kind of exotica-influenced film score that will be under discussion. For more information click here Little White Feather and the Hunter, Harwich, 9th October To tie in with an article in the upcoming issue of Vertigo, Anna Luca’s new film ‘Little White Feather and the Hunter’, based on the story of Pocahontas, the Indian princess. The film was commissioned in response to the 400-year commemorations of the first landing by the British in Virginia in 1607.This screening coincides with the opening of the Harwich Shanty Festival. For more information click here Cinema Nation with Jonas Mekas, London, 19th October Profiled in a comprehensive interview in the upcoming issue of Vertigo, long-time avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas will launch the Cinema Nation initiative at this event. As patron of Cinema Nation, Mekas will be screening a selection of his own and other filmmakers work, and will be in conversation about his films. For more information click here 4 - CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS, APPLICATIONS AND COURSES Calls f or Applications: Film London Film-makers Festival Fund The FilmLondon Film-makers' Festival Fund (FFF) is now open for applications. The fund aims to support the development of moving image artists' and film-makers' careers, by providing travel grants for attendance at a number of overseas festivals where films have been selected and are in competition. Deadlines for the fund will take place on a monthly basis. For more information click here Deadline for applications: 14th October and 11th November, 2008 Call for Applications: Vivid - European Media Artists in Residence Exchange With support from the European Union Culture 2007 - 2013 programme the European Media Art Network will give 16 production awards to emerging media art talent to explore the creative possibilities of innovative content for new media platforms. Media artists in the fields of digital media (including internet and computer based art, video and sound) are invited to apply for a two month residency in 2009 with one of the following partner organisations: Netherlands – Impakt, Germany - Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Bulgaria - Interspace, UK - VIVID. For more information click here Deadline for applications: 20th October, 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: 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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