approximately 60 minutes

Elle Burchill presents a “A Quite Environment”, an approximately 60-minute program of new, recent or seldom seen short video works, with an emphasis on works in which sound, or the lack thereof is important. Additionally, works involving digital accidents and those made from old model cell phone footage including two new such pieces are also featured.

Elle Burchill is Brooklyn-based artist. She is inspired by the unexpected and accidental and her works often explore the fragility of our bodies and circumstances. Her videos have screened at cinemas, galleries and festivals in the US and internationally including: White Box Gallery, Bronx Museum, Anthology Film Archives, Light Industry, Director’s Lounge, Berlin, Harvard Film Archives; Academia di Bella Arti di Brera, Milan Italy, Lucca Film Festival, Italy, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archives, Echo Park Film Center, LA, and the Chicago Underground Film among many others. Elle Burchill is a graduate of the University of Virginia and was born in Pittsburgh, PA]]> http://millenniumfilm.org/2013/05/elle-burchill-a-quite-environment/feed/ 0 http://millenniumfilm.org/2013/05/eric-solstein/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=eric-solstein http://millenniumfilm.org/2013/05/eric-solstein/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 15:07:31 +0000 editor http://millenniumfilm.org/?p=932 Since my long-ago days, an incipient film artist on the staff of Millennium, I’ve been unable to make conventional films. “The Golden Age of Science Fiction, The Story of John W. Campbell, Jr.” is an documentary that rejects storytelling in favor of conversation, what are disdainfully called “talking heads.” A life is understood through the direct impressions of the subject’s peers, some of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Campbell was an editor whose Astounding Science Fiction magazine is still the foundational document for our culture’s view of what the future is. Because a man is no more fixed or definable than the future itself, this documentary rejects a fixed viewpoint. The film also contains within itself another documentary, the only surviving recording of the editor at work, “Lunch with John Campbell,” by James Gunn.

TRT: 90 min

(TRT of program approx 1.5 hours including reel changes; Gray will present first, then an intermission and then del Mar will present after the break.)

All films are super 8 and will be projected on film.

Katrina del Mar is a New York-based photographer and award winning film director. Her recent one woman show of photographs, videos and other ephemera, GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS exhibited at Participant Gallery in NYC in 2013 and was widely reviewed and acclaimed in the press. Her solo exhibition Gangs of New York was presented in 2010 at Wrong Weather Gallery in Porto, Portugal. In 2010, she was invited to teach at the University of the Arts in Bremen, Germany where she conducted the first ever Queer Trash Feminist Film Workshop. In 2012, she presented a series of films and photographs from the Golden Age of Performance Art (1988-2000) with Dona Ann McAdams, On the Edge of Society: Moments in Live Art, at Warehouse 9, Copenhagen, Denmark. Her work has shown at Deitch Projects, NY; Museum for Contemporary Art (CAPC), Bordeaux, France; American Fine Arts Company, NY; Binz 39, Zurich, Switzerland; Bass Museum of Art, Miami; Miami Light Project; P.S.122, NY; FabLab, Berlin; and the University of Cardiff, Wales. Surf Gang, about a gang of women surfers from Rockaway Beach, landed del Mar a fellowship in video from the New York Foundation for the Arts, “Best Experimental Film” from the Planet Out Short Movie Awards announced at the Sundance Film Festival 2006, and was screened at the Museum for Contemporary Art (CAPC), Bordeaux, France.

Stephanie Gray is a NYC filmmaker-poet whose films (often with live narration) have shown in featured screenings at Microscope Gallery, Millennium Film Workshop, MIX NYC Monthly series, Thaw, and Visual Studies Workshop. Her films have screened internationally at fests such as Ann Arbor, TIE, Oberhausen, Viennale, VIDEOEX, Cinematexas, Antimatter, Frameline, Chicago Underground, Inside Out, Madcat, Recontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, and Media Art Festival Friesland. Her recent film You know they want to disappear Hell’s Kitchen was one of 10 Jury’s Choice films of the 2011 Black Maria Fest/Tour and screened at Experiments in Cinema, the 8 Fest, Director’s Lounge/Urban Research, and MONO NO AWARE. She has read her work with film at poetry series including the Segue and Poetry Project Friday performance series in NYC.

Program (all works featured in MFJ 57):

Catherine Elwes: There is a Myth (UK: 1984) 8.5 min
Shai Heredia & Shumona Goel: I Am Micro (India: 2011) 14 min
Noe Kidder: Kuíuipo (USA: 2013) 15 min
Anna Marziano: The Mutability of All Things and the Possibility of Changing Some (Italy: 2011) 16 min
Pat O’Neill: Ojo Calientes (USA: 2012) 4 min
Jennifer Proctor: A Movie by Jen Proctor (USA: 2010-12) 12 min
TBA some of Tony Oursler’s videos from the 1970s

8pm, Wednesday – April 24, 2013

Millennium Film Workshop 66 East 4th Street NYC

Suggested Donation: $8

Millennium Film Workshop presents work by three New York based filmmakers whose diverse films represent a common interest in the using the filmic texture of the media to enhance the subject matter of their work. MM Serra’s “Art Parade” uses super-8 to preserve the East Village performance art scene. Joel Schlemowitz’s “Teslamania” uses in-camera double exposures and prismatic lenses to document a Tesla coil performance. Hey-Yeun Jang’s “(k)now (t)here” uses the 16mm Bolex to transform a train compartment into a camera obsura of image poetry. Additional works from the three filmmakers will also fill out the program.

All three artists will be available for a Q&A after the screening.

JOEL SCHLEMOWITZ is an experimental filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Screenings of his films have included the Ann Arbor Film Festival, New York Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival. His work has received awards from the Chicago Underground Film Festival, The Dallas Video Festival, and elsewhere. Filmmaker website: www.joelschlemowitz.com

HEY-YEUN JANG is a Korea-born, New York based artist. Her works often involve 16mm film as either installation or a single channel film. Her films have been screened at the New York Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival and VIDEOEX, and have been included in exhibitions all around the world. Her works have been awarded with the Fellowship Grant in New Genre by The National Endowment for the Arts and with the Finishing Funds by the Experimental TV Center.

M.M. SERRA, Executive Director of the Film-Makers Cooperative is an experimental film/videomaker who has produced, directed, and edited more than fourteen works. Her own work, as well as her curated programs, have been screened at festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, and New York Film Festival; the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York; The Centre Georges Pompidou and the Cinematheque Francaise in Paris; the London Film Festival, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival and the Dresden Film Fest in Germany. Serra has been the Executive Director of the Film-Makers’ Cooperative in New York City since 1991 and has curated several exhibition programs in New York and Europe. www.mmserra.com

]]> http://millenniumfilm.org/2013/04/three-filmmakers-schlemowitz-jang-serra/feed/ 0 http://millenniumfilm.org/2013/04/millennium-film-workshop-personal-cinema-series-at-the-new-school%e2%80%a8/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=millennium-film-workshop-personal-cinema-series-at-the-new-school%25e2%2580%25a8 http://millenniumfilm.org/2013/04/millennium-film-workshop-personal-cinema-series-at-the-new-school%e2%80%a8/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:32:00 +0000 editor http://millenniumfilm.org/?p=872 Millennium Film Workshop Personal Cinema Series at The New School

Wednesday, April 17, 7:00 p.m

Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street)

Admission: Free

Intimate Projections: Experimental Diary Films Featuring: Barbara Hammer, Peter Hutton, and Amie Siegel

The final program in a three-part series presenting personal visions of cinema’s potential as an artistic medium, “Intimate Projections,” features three internationally exhibited filmmakers whose meditative, insightful, and critical engagements with the diary form speak volumes about the aesthetic, political, and historical dimensions of this cinematic mode. From Hutton’s lyrical reverie in the day-to-day to the charged, poetic feminism of Hammer’s Psychosynthesis Trilogy to Siegel’s examinations of performed and projected identities in appropriated Youtube videos, the works presented in this program explore the vast reach of the diaristic gesture. The screening will be introduced by Howard Guttenplan and followed by a discussion with the artists.

Presented by the Millennium Film Workshop in partnership with The School of Media Studies and The New School for Public Engagement. The Millennium Film Workshop is a non-profit media arts center located on the Lower East Side. Since 1965 it has promoted the exhibition, production and study of avant-garde and alternative film, video and media art. ]]> http://millenniumfilm.org/2013/04/millennium-film-workshop-personal-cinema-series-at-the-new-school%e2%80%a8/feed/ 0 http://millenniumfilm.org/2013/03/millennium-film-workshop-at-the-new-school/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=millennium-film-workshop-at-the-new-school http://millenniumfilm.org/2013/03/millennium-film-workshop-at-the-new-school/#comments Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:36:24 +0000 editor http://millenniumfilm.org/?p=862 Millennium Film Workshop Personal Cinema Series at The New School

Wednesday, March 20, 7:00 p.m.

Theresa Lang Student Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor

Admission: Free

Jennifer Reeves: Exuberant Emulsions

The second in a three-part series presenting personal visions of cinema’s potential as an artistic medium continues with a screening of work by acclaimed filmmaker, Jennifer Reeves. Reeves employs optical-printing and direct-on-film techniques to create visually complex personal films that traverse vast domains of intellectual, environmental, and sensual experience. The program will include a retrospective of shorts and a rare screening of two dual-projector works. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Reeves and filmmakers Joel Schlemowitz and Kelly Spivey.

Presented by the Millennium Film Workshop in partnership with The School of Media Studies and The New School for Public Engagement. The Millennium Film Workshop is a non-profit media arts center located on the Lower East Side. Since 1965 it has promoted the exhibition, production and study of avant garde and alternative film, video and media art. ]]> http://millenniumfilm.org/2013/03/millennium-film-workshop-at-the-new-school/feed/ 0 http://millenniumfilm.org/2013/02/millennium-film-workshop-personal-cinema-series-at-the-new-school/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=millennium-film-workshop-personal-cinema-series-at-the-new-school http://millenniumfilm.org/2013/02/millennium-film-workshop-personal-cinema-series-at-the-new-school/#comments Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:48:53 +0000 editor http://millenniumfilm.org/?p=827 Millennium Film Workshop Personal Cinema Series at The New School

Wednesday, February 20, 7:00 p.m.

Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street)

Admission: Free

The first in a three-part series presenting personal visions of cinema’s potential as an artistic medium, “New from Old” features three internationally exhibited filmmakers who have made appropriation central to their creative process. Each artist will present a selection of films and videos that exemplify the practice of making new from the old, turning ubiquitous media images to critical and expressive ends. Screening followed by a discussion.

Featuring: Bradley Eros, Colleen Fitzgibbon and Martha Colburn

Presented by the Millennium Film Workshop in partnership with The School of Media Studies and The New School for Public Engagement. The Millennium Film Workshop is a non-profit media arts center located on the Lower East Side. Since 1965 it has promoted the exhibition, production and study of avant garde and alternative film, video and media art. ]]> http://millenniumfilm.org/2013/02/millennium-film-workshop-personal-cinema-series-at-the-new-school/feed/ 0