From: Marijke Jorritsma (email suppressed)
Date: Fri May 07 2004 - 00:52:14 PDT
The Itinerant Cinemascape, curated by Marijke Jorritsma
www.theitinerantcinemascape.com
The Itinerant Cinemascape is a traveling film show based on a call for submissions looking for experimental landscape portraits, adventurous geographic excavations, lo-tech neighborhood dramas, local documentary excursions, and heady pshychogeographies. Through this presentation of contemporary experimental work The Itinerant Cinemascape seeks to negotiate the multi-layered meaning of ‘place’ while stirring up an excitement about local environments. Taking its cues from D.I.Y. music culture and colonialist film propaganda strategies, this program is touring around the U.S. to spread the word about experimental filmmaking and self-made adventures.
Navigating through a diversity of ‘place’ cinema, these films examine the inextricable relationship between perceptual experience and locality. This selection of films draws a continuous line as it draws its own map of pseudo scientific survey, local phenomena, psychogeographic transformations, and cultural sediments.
Gate of Mercy, 7 min, video, sound, Bryan Konefsky, 2003.
“Gate of Mercy is a video document about a decaying visionary environment in Waterbury, Connecticut called “Holy Land.” In this tape the son of one of the many Italian immigrants responsible for the fabrication of this “Watt’s Towers of the east coast” reflects on its construction and his experiences as a child visiting the site.” (Bryan Konefsky)
N.ew Y.ork C.asino, 4 min, video, sound, Kyle R. Henry, 2002.
“Las Vegas comes to Manhattan. Prepare for debt consolidation. The voices of Times Square demand Consumption.” (Kyle Henry)
Audience Analysis #4, 3 min, video, sound, Melinda Stone, 2003.
Back from her California travels, Melinda Stone presents a sampling of some of California’s more unusual flora and fauna. (Audience participation encouraged!)
Near Windows, 12 min, 16mm, silent, Ken Paul Rosenthal, 1997.
“Nearby windows frame and illuminate four years of voyeuristic observations lyrically woven into a time-lapsed tapestry of light, unsuspecting neighbors, and street drama. At the intersection of private and public space, does a glance become The Gaze? Does the eye become a recording device?” (Ken Paul Rosenthal)
Passegiata, 7 min, video, silent, Rick Bahto, 2004.
Chasing the secret something through a never-ending labyrinth of garden passageways, Passegiata follows the canon form through two super-8 windows.
1997A (Arrival), 10 min, Super-8, sound, Steve Polta, 1997.
"An Urban / Abstraction / Collision of two spaces in hopes of providing a suspended state of anticipation
and possibilities; radiating outward spatially, distorting time." (Steve Polta)
Strewnpackedcinderwhateverlight, 9.5 min, sound, Elizabeth Block, 2003.
“A dyslexic reinterpretation of language, landscape, cinematography, and technology.” (Elizabeth Block)
Untitled, 3 min, video, sound, Nate Boyce & Nathan Burazer, 2004.
Recursive video landscape freakout.
Their Idols Disintegrate, 11 min, video, silent, Jennifer Fieber, 2001.
“Sections of this film were shot in Alaska, San Francisco, and Brooklyn, N.Y. Each section was treated with distinct techniques in an attempt to bring out the hidden essence of each location. This is part of an ongoing collection of psychogeographic studies.” (Jennifer Fieber)
Transformer, 4 min, video, sound, John Erwin, 2001.
“Shot in Boston's Jamaica Plains neighborhood, this work struggles to find light and focus in a village at night. Both subject and object flow with electric thought --slowly resolved, to be understood, and then forgotten.” (John Erwin)
Housesitting, 14 min, 16mm, sound, Tony Gault, 1999.
“An exploration of the relationship between landscape and the intrusion of Anglo-culture on the American continent.” (Tony Gault)
Last Days, 5 min, video, sound, Ben Russell, 2004.
“A pinhole travelogue of the world’s end, for what was left behind.” (Ben Russell)
Tour Dates
Friday, May 7, 8:00, Kick Off Show with live music by Grasses of Many Shades and Colors
Artist Television Access
992 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA
http://www.atasite.org/
Saturday, May 15, 8:00
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
Sunday, May 16, 7:30
University of Arizona
AME Building (NE corner of Speedway & Mountain), room 202
Tucson, AZ
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Wednesday, May 19, 7:30
The Living Room
63 Brewery Gulch
Bisbee, AZ
Friday and Saturday, May 21 & 22,
Show times: 5:30, 7:30, 9:30
The Guild Theatre
3405 Central Avenue
Albuquerque, NM
www.guildcinema.com
Tuesday, September 7, 7:30 pm
Chico State University
Little Theatre (Ayres 106)
Chico, CA
Call 530.898-4642 to confirm.
http://www.csuchico.edu/hfa/hc/filmseries.html
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