Everybody asking what our festival will look like this year, what we expect for “Call for entries” or how to be part of the B-Seite festival, here are some informations:

- We expect primarily entries for exciting visual exhibition projects or installations (gladly interactive), audio-video-performances (also with dance or theater if it’s not too long or too complex to organize) and workshop ideas (targeting an showable output instead of showcases or software trainings). Please attach links to examples and your contact information)

- Vjs are very welcome at our festival and there are slots/possibilities to represent yourself. But we don’t realy offer a budget or accommodation for that. Be our guest, join, use the festival for networking and inspiration.

- Discuss, offer yourself als a helping hand, represent yourself and inform yourself via registration to our new board at www.jetztkultur.de/forum

More…B-Seite | Festival für visuelle Kunst und Jetztkultur

blow Wind blow (2008) - Stalo Xinari

Acrylics on stretched canvas
20 x 20 cm

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By Kerry O’Donnell

The Reel Festival (formally the Reel Movement) will take place from May 28th to June 1st at the Somerville Theater, 55 Davis Square, Somerville, MA. The festival, organized by filmmakers Rod Webber, Ali Jalet and David Grophear, is a quarterly independent film showcase, featuring all genres, lengths and styles of films.

According to Webber, “The Reel Festival is a collaborative of like-minded individuals who share more than a dream. They share a mission. Our goal is to create a seed-bed for films which personify innovation, individuality and daring strokes of bold new cinema.

“Boston is known for its history and its wealth of universities and artists, but it has also got a vibrant filmmaking community, which has seen an explosion in the past couple of years, with the passing of tax incentives.” said Webber. “Being the birthplace of the American Revolution, it is no surprise that it has given birth to a new revolution in film.”

Webber said it is in that spirit that the festival organizers “hope to achieve a place for film that embodies individuality and expressiveness. Films that challenge and explore.” The festival’s formula is to headline a feature film, along with several dozen shorts. The last Reel Festival featured Webber’s controversial documentary A Man Among Giants and garnered attention from both the Boston Herald and the Boston Globe.

Webber, about whom the Boston Globe wrote, “the [director] to watch,” will be featuring his experimental film Northern Comfort, starring Webber and Greta Gerwig (Greenberg, Friends with Benefits), The film, shot in three days, is described as an existentialist character-study, in which Webber and Gerwig encounter a slice of snowy, northern Americana as they walk, talk, and drive their way to Canada for employment and health-care, respectively.

The main characters, Horace (Webber) and Cassandra (Gerwig), meet while traveling to Canada. Guided only by a set of books-on-tape of Greek philosopher Socrates, and bound together by circumstance, the mismatched duo must learn to work together or meander aimlessly throughout the frozen wilderness. When Cassandra is confronted with the reality that her sickness is worsening, she must decide whether to stick it out with Horace, or find her own way, knowing that her time is running out.

The Reel Festival is still accepting shorts of any genre for this month’s festival. Webber said they are also looking for features for the August/September showcase. For anyone wishing to submit, Webber can be reached at rod@rodwebber.com. Adds Webber, “We will consider any kind of movie. Just as long as you have something to say, we’ll help you say it.”

Keeping it Reel: A Unique Opportunity for Local Filmmakers | NewEnglandFilm.com.

World renowned Director and Filmmaker, David Lynch is known for his creativity and big ideas. He attributes his ability to catch creative ideas to his 35 years practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique. Inspired by his experience of “diving within” through meditation, David Lynch has established a Foundation that is dedicated to providing students with the opportunity to learn how to meditate. The David Lynch Foundation funds and implements stress reducing programs that improve creativity, brain functioning, and academic performance. These programs have also been documented to reduce ADHD and other learning disorders, anxiety, depression, and substance abuse. The Transcendental Meditation technique is the most thoroughly researched and widely practiced program in the world for developing the full potential of human consciousness. The Foundation was established in 2005 and has provided millions of dollars to teach the TM technique to thousands of students all over the world.

After three successful years of implementing the TM technique in schools, The David Lynch Foundation introduces DLF.TV: The new Online TV Channel that celebrates consciousness, creativity and bliss. DLF.TV will showcase high quality video content from the David Lynch Foundation events, compelling profiles and documentaries, exclusive content from David Lynch, and explore all aspects of creativity.

We hope you enjoy the site and your feedback is always appreciated. New content is continually added to the site so make sure to keep coming back for more!

Further Information

Learn more in our Resources for Filmmakers section about the variety of funding and broadcasting opportunities available to independent producers at PBS.

26th BOSTON FILM FESTIVAL, 2010

Boston Film Festival.

visualberlinFestival
AVIT BERLIN 2010 / 10.11.12 JUNE
festival.visualberlin.org

music: Goto80
video : Raquel Meyers
graphics: fRED
cast: Flux, Lucy, fRED, Aude, Georgina, Christian, Pedro, torston e.
thanks: fh.meppen

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxc_05GohLM

This track was made in just one night when I felt very solitude and lonesome. This evening I mixed the pictures with the music and produced this video. I hope you feel the emotions, the atmosphere and the untold message.
Deutschtrance
Moers/Germany, March 25th, 2010

SX theMadArtist aka theArtConcept: SXtheMadArtist ArtWork.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k7NuGE8GTw

Release Date: 29 January 2010
Cast: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Frank Grillo, Wayne Duvall, Frank Ridley
Genre: Drama | Thriller
Director: Martin Campbell
Writer: Andrew Bovell, William Monahan
Studio: Warner Brothers

Plot:
As homicide detective Thomas Craven investigates the death of his activist daughter, he uncovers not only her secret life, but a corporate cover-up and government collusion that attracts an agent tasked with cleaning up the evidence.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=huiIo13WguI

Official music video for the…

Cameron Angeli track “Boulevard”
lyrics and vocals by Cari Golden

Director - Steven Butler
DP - Salvatore Rocco
Editor - Steven Butler
1st AD - Sean Chung
Camera Op - Jerry Franck
1st AC - Cameron Schmucker
Art Director - Chanel Nardone
Choreographer - JJ Villar
Wardrobe - Meghan Martinez
Make-up and hair - Melissa Pizzamiglio

Shot on HVX -200 with adapter and Angenieux 20-120 zoom

Cameron Angeli:
www.cameronangeli.com
www.musicsavages.com
www.myspace/cameronvangeli

Cari Golden:
www.myspace.com/carigolden

Steven Butler:
http://www.myspace.com/stevieography

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNVPalNZD_I

NB. When actually in the “Freeze-frame” pulldown menu, there are many more choices than I mention in this tutorial. For example you can choose “others” and specify an exact length for the created Freeze-frame.

Regards,

Douglas.

via Creating a “Freeze-Frame” – Avid Community.

Kendra Marshall @blip.tv

The Bridge Sound & Stage 18 Edmunds Street, Cambridge, MA(617) 714-5413

TAKE A TOUR

Welcome to The Bridge Sound & Stage. We opened our doors in January of 2009 after combining resources from the private studios run by Owen Curtin and Janos Fulop. Please feel free to call us for a tour of the studio or to discuss your project. (617) 714-5413

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq3nKQ9dqHQ

Contact info:
CarySontag.com
Cary Sontag @YouTube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy4uqwSxwfE

Speaking in Code is an intimate account of people who are completely lost in music.

A heartbreaking and lighthearted documentary, it’s a vérité glimpse into the world of techno.

Captivating and entertaining, the film takes you around the world, following the people who make electronic music … their lives.

Starring:
Modeselektor, Wighnomy Brothers, Monolake, Philip Sherburne, David Day & Amy Grill

Also featuring:
Ellen Allien, Tobias Thomas, Marc LeClair AKA Akufen, Wolfgang Voigt, Michael Mayer, Reinhard Voigt, Sascha Ring AKA Apparat, Sascha Funke, Mario Willms AKA Douglas Greed, Miss Kittin, Dan Paluska AKA Six Million Dollar Dan, Mike Uzzi AKA Smartypants

Featuring music by:
Modeselektor, Wighnomy Brothers, Robag Wruhme, Ellen Allien & Apparat, The Field, Monolake, Michael Mayer, Gas, Jonas Bering, SCSI-9, Gui Boratto, Superpitcher, Steadycam, Dettinger, The Rice Twins, Reinhard Voigt, Oxia

director / producer AMY GRILL
edited by JASON BLANCHARD & AMY GRILL
director of photography SCOTT SANS

Contact: AMY@SQUAR3.COM 617.417.2944

Website: Speaking in Code

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uad17d5hR5s

“COMBO”  by Blu and David Ellis (
a collaborative animation) 2009

See Blu’s Blog site for more information about the collaboration

Artists
Blu
David Elles

produced by studio cromie
music by Roberto Lange
made at Fame festival 2009

An amazing piece - BB

Netaudio Festival Berlin 2009 announces – aside from a few seperate and very special single projects -  the confirmed co-operation with visualberlin.org – a large and highly creative collective of visual artists, Vjs, and amospheric light workers. Not only on the festival but also to jump into the right mood before you might check their artists pages for more infos and some visual impressions.

Co-operation with visualberlin.org >>visualberlin.org

The following artists are involved into the festival:

- e / e-gruppe
- Kiritan Flux
- jorgk
- leinwandler
- HilmiKillme
- pixelnoizz [Budapest]
- oigovisiones
- cyper
- yagama
- vj_del_cuento
- fRED
- Ilan Katin
- Vanderdan
- TRItamine Video Collective

Outside aerea: Aerosol

Paul and his Mom

I Covered My Eyes (2008)

Paul Turano

I Covered My Eyes investigates childhood notions of threat and safety by juxtaposing TV news broadcasts of tragic world events with home movie footage. The project was first conceived after seeing the televised images broadcast live on September 11 2001, and wondering what children must be feeling upon witnessing this horrific act within our own borders.

Soon after, director Paul Turano wrote a list of the tragic events he distinctly remembered witnessing on TV as a child in the 1970s and early 1980s. By adopting a child’s perspective, the film evokes his experience of learning about the outside world through news broadcasts, and the accompanying realization of threatened safety from forces outside his immediate family and community. As the sense of vulnerability grows throughout the film from abstract threats to more immediate and actual ones, the seemingly innocent and idyllic world of his childhood becomes overshadowed by an increasing awareness of its fragility and precariousness.

From I Covered My Eyes (2008)

a film by

Paul Turano

My work from over 15 years as a practicing image maker has developed through autobiographical and essayistic experimental strategies, from small meditations to expansive explorations. I examine the process of image making as a way of communicating personal, social and political ideas or interpretations of history, from both the domestic and the public spheres. The images and sounds I present refer to subjects as far away as Mars and as close as my own back porch.

I work with film and video, often integrating these formats in the same piece. My current work investigates the effect of mediated experience on the construction of personal identity and memory. I Covered My Eyes juxtaposes television news broadcasts I witnessed as a child with my family’s own contemporaneous home movie footage, and examines how those images helped shape my sense of the human capacity for wrongdoing. In 2007, I received a grant from the LEF Foundation Moving Image Fund that has enabled me to complete this work and develop my digital video essay We the Ecotopia, a meditation on environmental sustainability exemplified by the small island of Tikopia in the Solomon Islands. When faced with a microcosmic equivalent of the resource depletion, monocultural food dependency and over-population issues we currently face on a global level, the Tikopians re-envisioned their relationship to these practices to save their island from destruction. Currently I am in the pre-production phases of this project and have begun shooting in 16:9 digital video and HD formats.

My ongoing work in 16mm has focused on the transformation of domestic space into a metaphor for autobiographical experiences. Two recent works, Porch Film: 76 Day St. Apt. #2, from 2004, and Windows onto Montebello Rd., currently in the editing phase, utilize similar observational strategies for depicting personal space as a vehicle for social and psychological transformation. The personal poetic approaches to the image in these films is driven by the more prosaic use of sound that provides both a supplementary emotional register as well as a contextual grounding in a larger social or political moment. As in all my work, the strategy of autobiography functions as a construction through which I may examine the larger issues that both intrigue and challenge me.

READ MORE… Paul W. Turano.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL87tiCpOpw

The song is a remix of Robot High School by In Digital Form. The video is directed by Keith Loutit. You can listen to the remix and download it (for free) here. The original song Robot High School is from the album SOFT-CORE. The video was shot at the Monster Trucks: Tour of Destruction rally in Brisbane, Australia. The video was shot using a technique called tilt-shift.

Robot High School - My Robot Friend by myrobotfriend

My Robot Friend - News.

Transitions from leo brady on Vimeo.

This is an experimental documentary from my time at Emerson. It deals with war and its impact on those left behind. I attempted to use sound and image only to evoke thinking and feeling. It combines 16mm color film, 24p video and digital images. I shot it using an Arri S, a Panasonic DVX and a Nikon digital camera. lb

The articles that I’ve chosen for review are by Anne Thompson, columnist for Variety. Both articles detail the facts of Indie decline and are well worth your time.

Theoretically, in America we have a capitalistic financial system. In this system, some large and small businesses will fail as the economy deteriorates. Small independent businesses are especially susceptible. That’s not to say that some shouldn’t, due to poor planning, poor product and poor management. But in America today, I don’t see capitalism. I’m not sure what the system is called but I’ve observed its behavior. It props up and bails out poorly managed large businesses while letting small businesses and individuals fail, in true capitalistic form. And as if that wasn’t enough, it allows these same poorly managed large businesses to buy the assets of the small.

But what can anyone do to change this? Plenty. We in the independent media community or for that matter in any independent community can build coalitions of like-minded people and spend our dollars to support each other, our ideas, and our products. In that way, we are really supporting ourselves. At the end of the day, it really is up to us, if we’d only recognize it.

From Variety

Indie sector on shaky ground
Another Indie Bites the Dust: Tartan Shutters