5TH ANNUAL 48-HOUR FILM CHALLENGE

The 5th Annual Phoenix Film Foundation 48 Hour Film Challenge Returns! This year it will be July 18th to July 20th with the big screening and awards on July 31st.

As always we’ll be limiting the number of teams participating to just 33 so everyone can see their film up on the big screen.

Of course you know the routine, but here’s a reminder of the details:
The competition will kick off at 6:00pm on Friday, July 18th.

A FEW SIMPLE RULES:
That evening you will receive:

The LINE you must use in the film on screen.

Information on the PROP that one character must handle during the film (no background props)
You’ll be given a GENRE that your film must be made in. You will be receiving one of three, but we’re not telling what three we’ll be using.

You’ll have 48 hours to complete your film.

Then on Sunday, July 20th, 48 hours after the kickoff, roughly 6:00 pm, the teams will turn in their films to the Phoenix Film Foundation offices. The film should be in Mini-DV or DVD. Mini-DV is the preferred method because of quality and reduced chance for errors.

Finally on Thursday, July 31st at 7:00pm at Harkins Scottsdale/101 we’ll be hosting the big screening and awards presentation.

Registration go here

Here are some great images of Chris Eska’s films…There is a Thought Provoking Interview with Chris Eska on our other blog, SPRAYBLOG.




1. “Digitally Manipulated Self Portrait” Series Archival Digital Print 43″ x 48″ Ltd. Ed. of 10 2002

2. “A Condemned Opera” 11/19/2005 Bergamot Station Track 16 Los Angeles, CA

Technology dances within our fabrication like a continuous ballet that will destroy the clarity of reality. This constant change alters our mind and confuses our sense of consciousness. It is an elevator reaching no destination, an opera with no direction. I created a digital environment using two contrasting elements. One was the theme of beauty and elegance represented by the costume I wore and the 1900’s chandelier. The other contrasting component was the conventional and grimy utility elevator. I constructed a light box with an image containing the knobs off an old elevator. Three projected images of an elevator going up and down were projected onto a nine-foot plexi glass box. The performance included me holding a children’s toy that expanded and contracted. Inside the toy were two small cameras that connected to two monitors on the outside of the plexi glass box. There was a continuous sound of an elevator going up and down. The performance and the installation were constantly moving and changing. Sound Design by Joseph Bishara Duration: Continuous

3. “I Can’t Predict the Future of a Past I Never Lived.” performance
7/22/2005 Photo San Francisco, Brown Bag Contemporary, San Francisco, CA 6/11/2005 Bluespace Hollywood, CA

We cannot believe everything that we read. History is written from someone’s perspective. I created a video of a constant changing stain glass window. This image was projected in the back of me. I toke white apples that looked like eggs, out of a birdcage. I bite into each of the apples and spit out red feathers. This entire image was projected onto a book that lay upon a wooden stand. The viewer thought that it was a pre-recorded image but in reality it was a live performance.

4. “Plastic Rape” performance 5/2004 Gallery 4016 Los Angeles, CA

What happens when the past collides with the present which changes our future? Are we so transparent when a violent act has haunted our being? “Plastic Rape,” is an auto-biographical piece that deals with the past, present, and future. The first installation includes the following items: suspended razor, lights and scissors. A performer named Blayne plays opposite of me. She is dressed in a foam nun’s hat and wears tape over her body. She represents the perception of the future and what I hope to achieve in my subconscious. I offer the scissors and the razor to demonstrate that I choose to come to terms with the past and am able to change. Blayne continues to shave my head in a ritualistic manner to represent the present.
When the hair reaches the ground it becomes the past that is peeled away. When the act is done, I run behind a tarp. The tarp drops to the ground and the second portion of this performance begins. A 15ft video projection is projected on two large pieces of foam. The projection is of a mechanical landscape with heavy steam. This landscape is to portray the mechanical gears of change. The steam is th e cleansing of the soul. In front of this projection, I am suspended inside a plastic bubble, 10ft off the ground. I twist and turn inside the bubble to portray an embryo, a new beginning.

5. “RAW WAR” performance Lightbox and DVD Video Documentation of performance piece at Farmani Gallery 2005

6. “Sea of Gold” “The Golden City” Series Self Portrait Archival Digital Print 9″ x 12″ Ltd. Ed. of 5 2004

7. “Under Water Series” “My Hand” Self Portrait Archival Digital Print 9″ x 12″ Ltd. Ed. of 5 2004

8. “A Written Dream” performance
12/31/2005 Sea of Dreams Los Angeles Theatre Los Angeles,
CA 12/14/2005 Pool Trade Show Private Event Los Feliz, CA
12/08/2005 FAR (Fine Art Resources) Los Angeles, CA

What happens when I share my dreams with the other?
Dreams became reality or reality shaped my dreams.
I wrote a stream
of consciousness, like a written dream… I first created a dress made of lights, foam and plastic. The wig made of rubber is reminiscent of French decadence in the 1700’s. I wanted the piece to have a sense of time but not a time period. While white furniture was hung upside down in a world with atypical rules. There was a video projection of water while I was typing on
a suspended typewriter. I would drop the papers onto the ground. The viewer could pick up the papers and read the contents.
Conscious vs. Subconscious

9. “Annilation of Nexus”

This piece was about the separation of body from the mind. The television screen is what is inside the artists mind. It is a psychological piece that expresses how technology is a mind-altering state that we deal with day to day. The speakers, connected to the television screen were projecting the sound.

10. “Odalisque” video installation, displayed on framed LCD Screen Ltd. Ed. of 100 2001

Here are some great images of Tiffany Trenda’s Art…There is a Thought Provoking Interview with Tiffany Trenda on our other blog, SPRAYBLOG

ART AND DESIGN ON FILM SERIES - Free Screening
FRIDAY, March 21, 7:30p.m.

3 Films:
Kill John Wayne (2007)
An Animation by Vivian Wong
Running time: 6 minutes 32 seconds

Dhrupick (2006)
An Animation by Adam Stoves

Just Browsing: A Screening of Online Shorts and Video Art

The remainder of Friday’s screening will consist of hand-picked Internet film shorts and video art as curated by Manifest’s all-volunteer Art and Design on Film Research Team. These works will consist of found videos as well as older works now out of print and available solely online.
Approximately 45 minutes

On Exhibit: PROJECTIONS: A survey of wall-based sculpture, Selections from the 2007 International Drawing Annual

Manifest Gallery is located at 2727 Woodburn Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45206.

Screening: The Bank Job

Synopsis: A car dealer with a dodgy past and new family, Terry has always avoided major-league scams. But when Martine, a beautiful model from his old neighborhood, offers him a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London’s Baker Street, Terry recognizes the opportunity of a lifetime. Martine targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry. But Terry and his crew don’t realize the boxes also contain a treasure trove of dirty secrets - secrets that will thrust them into a deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal that spans London’s criminal underworld, the highest echelons of the British government, and the Royal Family itself…the true story of a heist gone wrong…in all the right ways.

Principal Cast: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner, Keeley Hawes, Alki David, Michael Jibson, Richard Lintern, Don Gallagher, David Suchet

When: Thursday, February 28, 2008
Where: Harkins Scottsdale 101
Time: 7:00 PM

 

The 5th Annual Mesa Community College International Film Festival will feature five films from Polish-born writer/director Krzysztof Zanussi. The director will also make an appearance after each showing. Zanussi, a one-time physics scholar, directed 76 films from 1958 through 2007 and is the winner of lifetime achievement awards from the Yerevan International Film Festival, the Florence Film Festival and the Chicago Film Festival.

The festival features five of Zanussi’s films shown on five consecutive nights.

Schedule:
Tuesday, February 19th: The Constant Factor (1980)
Wednesday, February 20th: Wherever You Are (1988)
Thursday, February 21st: The Silent Touch (1992)
Friday, February 22nd: Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000)
Saturday, February 23rd: Persona non Grata (2005)

All films are free and begin at 7 p.m. at Harkins Arizona Mills 24, 5000 Arizona Mills Circle, Tempe.

ART:
1) “Be a Man”
2) “untitled 002″ from the series “undetermined measurements”
3) “Reality_Bytes”
4) “BOTS: Battle of the Sexes”
5) “It’s All Inside Out”
6) “DataDeadLine”

Here are some great images of Sean Hovendick’s Art…There is a Thought Provoking Interview with Sean Hovendick on my other blog, SPRAYBLOG

THE BAGAVAGABONDS ART EXPLOSION: POP!
Original Art sold for $50 or less
Live music, 5 for 50 Film Festival, interactive art, DJs,
dance party, silk screening, photo and video booth, and much MORE
A portion of the proceeds benefits “For the Arts”

When: Friday, January 25th 2008, 8 PM -1 AM.
Where: THE GRAND BALLROOM at the PACIFIC ELECTRIC LOFTS
601 S. Main St. LA, CA 90014

Envisioning Russia: A Century of Filmmaking
Run: January 25 – February 14, 2008
Where: Walter Reade Theater
North side of West 65th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues, one flight up on the upper level. Look for the FILM banner on 65th Street near Amsterdam Avenue to locate the stairs, escalator and elevator to the plaza level.

This is an amazing series of Russian cinema of the past 100 years. Everything from classics to modern day films…It is a wonder lineup that is a must see…

Program:

Alexandra / Aleksandra
Aleksandr Sokurov, Russia, 2007; 92m
Sat Jan 26: 7:15

The Ascent / Voskhozhdeniye
Larisa Shepitko, USSR, 1976; 110m
Wed Feb 13: 4:15 & 8:45

At Home Among Strangers, Stranger at Home / Svoy sredi chuzhikh, chuzhoy sredi svoikh
Nikita Mikhalkov, USSR, 1974; 97m
Mon Feb 11: 4:15 & 8:20
Thu Feb 14: 1

The Battleship Potemkin / Bronenosets Potyomkin
Sergei M. Eisenstein, USSR, 1925; 80m
Sat Jan 26: 1
Wed Jan 30: 6:15

Bed and Sofa / Tretya Meshchanskaya
Abram Room, USSR, 1927; 74m
Sat Feb 2: 5:30

Cargo 200 / Gruz 200
Aleksei Balabanov, Russia, 2007; 90m
NY Premiere
Fri Jan 25: 8:45
Sun Jan 27: 5:15
Wed Jan 30: 4

Carnival Night / Karnavalnaya noch
Eldar Ryazanov, USSR, 1956; 78m
Sat Feb 2: 7:15
Tue Feb 5: 2:15 & 6:15

Courier / Kurer
Karen Shakhnazarov, USSR, 1986; 88m
Sun Jan 27: 3:15
Thu Feb 7: 9

The Cranes Are Flying / Letyat zhuravli
Mikhail Kalatozov, USSR, 1957; 98m
Tue Feb 5: 4 & 7:50

Dersu Uzala
Akira Kurosawa, USSR/Japan, 1975; 141m
Sun Feb 10: 5:15
Tue Feb 12: 2 & 8:30

Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya / Elegiya zhizni. Rostropovich. Vishnevskaya
Aleksandr Sokurov, Russia, 2006; 101m
US Premiere
Sun Jan 27: 1
Tue Jan 29: 4

The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks / Neobychainye priklyucheniya mistera Vesta v strane bolshevikov
Lev Kuleshov, USSR, 1924; 95m
Sat Feb 2: 1:30

Happiness / Schastye
Aleksandr Medvedkin, USSR, 1934; 66m
Tue Jan 29: 8:15
Wed Jan 30: 2:30

Jazzman / My iz dzhaza
Karen Shakhnazarov, USSR, 1983; 88m
Sun Jan 27: 7:15
Wed Feb 6: 4

Jewish Luck / Jidische Glickn
Aleksandr Granovsky, USSR, 1925; 88m
Sun Feb 3: 2

Jolly Fellows or Moscow Laughs / Vesyolye rebyata
Grigori Aleksandrov, USSR, 1934; 96m
NY Premiere
Fri Jan 25: 2
Tue Jan 29: 2 & 6:15

July Rain / Iyulskiy dozhd
Marlen Khutsiyev, USSR, 1966; 109m
Sat Feb 9: 2 & 6

The Letter Never Sent / Neotpravlennoye pismo
Mikhail Kalatozov, USSR, 1959; 97m
Sat Jan 26: 5:15
Wed Feb 6: 2
Fri Feb 8: 8:15

The Mirror / Zerkalo
Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR, 1974; 108m
Fri Jan 25: 4
Wed Feb 13: 2 & 6:30

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears / Moskva slezam ne verit
Vladimir Menshov, USSR, 1980; 150m
Sat Feb 9: 8:15
Thu Feb 14: 2:45

The New Moscow / Novaya Moskva
Aleksandr Medvedkin, USSR, 1938; 80m
Fri Jan 25: 6:30
Thu Jan 31: 8:15
Sun Feb 3: 4

The Russian Question / Russkiy vopros
Mikhail Romm, USSR, 1947; 91m
Sun Feb 3: 6
Mon Feb 4: 2 & 6:15

Sadko
Aleksandr Ptushko, USSR, 1952; 90m
Sat Feb 2: 9
Mon Feb 4: 4 & 8:15

The Thirteen / Trinadtsat
Mikhail Romm, USSR, 1936; 87m
NY Premiere
Wed Jan 30: 8
Thu Jan 31: 2 & 6:15

Tractor Drivers / Traktoristy
Ivan Pyryev, USSR, 1939; 88m
Sat Feb 2: 3:30
Sun Feb 3: 8

Traveling with Pets / Puteshestvie s domashnimi zhivotnymi
Vera Storozheva, Russia, 2007; 97m
US Premiere
Sat Jan 26: 9:30
Sun Jan 27: 9:10
Thu Jan 31: 4

Uncle Vanya / Dyadya Vanya
Andrei Konchalovsky, USSR, 1970; 104m
Sun Feb 10: 7:45
Mon Feb 11: 2 & 6:15

Walking the Streets of Moscow / Ya shagayu po Moskve
Georgi Daneliya, USSR, 1963; 78m
Thu Feb 7: 1
Sat Feb 9: 4:15

White Sun of the Desert / Beloe solntse pustyni
Vladimir Motyl, USSR, 1969; 85m
NY Premiere
Sat Jan 26: 3
Fri Feb 8: 1 & 6:15

 

Motion Graphics Chicago Festival 08
January 15th - 21st 2008

On January 15th, the coolest industry event showcasing creative motion picture design will be held all over Chicago. There will be screenings, parties, and an educational conference discussing the latest technology and techniques.

When: Jan 15th -21st
Where: Various Chicago sites

More info: Here