Film presentations include:

Selections from St. Petersburg Open Cinema Festival:  The Open Cinema Festival is a partner festival to the MilkBar run by the Bereg Art Center in St. Petersburg. It  features some of the best new experimental film from St Petersburg and across Russia including unique performance collaborations such as  Islands by the Russian Butoh group, Derevo, and Cigaretta by AKHE theatre as well as new animated shorts such as Lullabies by Liza Skvorcova, Bed by  Masha Sharafutdinova, and The First Round Dance by  Maria Godovannaya among others.

As part of the partnership prior selections from the MilkBar festival showed in the 2006 Open Cinema Festival. Films will be introduced briefly by Katya Madrid, a former bay area artist and art historian now based at St. Petersburg’s European University.

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Anthony Discenza and Michael Zbyszynski

News Cycle #2

Video: Anthony Discenza, Composition Michael Zbysznski

Noted bay area media artist Anthony Discenza and composer Michael Zbyszynski of CNMAT present their News Cycle #2 (Excerpts from a Long Day) (15 min.), a live collaborative digital artwork consisting of reprocessed, interwoven excerpts from three 24-hour cable news networks. It is the San Francisco premiere of this work which debuted in 2006 at the Getty Museum. 

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Erika Chong Shuch, Ishan Vernalis with music by Allen Wilner

To Helen Bach

Performance/concept: Erika Chong Shuch, Film/editing: Ishan Vernalis

and music by Allen Wilner, and Tommy Shephard

To Helen Bach  is an film performed and shot in the spectacular Marin Headlands during Shuch’s residency at the Center for the Arts, that tells abstract story of self-confinment as a way towards freedom. The film grows out of Shuch’s new theater work 51802 which debuts in March 2007 at the Yerba Buena Center For the Arts.

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Evelyn Ficarra, Myra Melford and Ian Winters

Rendition

Composer: Evelyn Ficarra, Pianist: Myra Melford, Video: Ian Winters

Performers: Heather Frasch, Jason Levis, Lisa Mezzacappa and Aurora Rising. 

Created collaboratively for film, prepared piano and harpsichord CNMAT composer Ficarra (UK/US) and filmmaker Winters present Rendition. Following its debut at London’s 2006 Cutting Edge Festival, the US premiere features music performed by the acclaimed jazz pianist Myra Melford backed by an ensemble featuring musicians Heather Frasch, Jason Levis, Lisa Mezzacappa and Aurora Rising.  The film is a animated window into a fractured world of two precariously balanced musical ecosystems engaged in a struggle over resources and intelligence where "…all the things of the past rearrange themselves, line up in rows, and whatever is present is utterly and urgently present." (Rilke)

 

“Melford is the genuine article, the most gifted pianist-composer to emerge from jazz since Anthony Davis." (Francis Davis, Stereo Review)

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Andrew Lyndon, US

Cat Black Sea

Oakland-based painter and animator Andrew Lyndon presents the premiere of Cat Black Sea.  Andrew Lyndon is an Oakland-based videographer, animator, and filmmaker who makes stand-alone video, freelance multimedia work, video theater sets, and narrative film. He is the digital imaging and video instructor at Pixar Animation Studios and was the editor for the 2005 Siggraph Animation Festival, producing and editing the festival trailers. He recently finished animation and titles for the documentary Making Whiteness Visible, as well as a forensic animation detailing the replication of DNA to be used as court evidence. He currently teaches animation at California College of Arts.  He received his MFA in painting from Yale University.

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Andrew Bucksbarg, US

Chair (2002) 06:55
Chair is an audio-visual piece that follows artist-performer Julie Adler and her chair as she explores the abject character of a trashed office space in downtown Los Angeles. Setting up a relationship between the chair-women, the space and a smoky substance, Chair explores themes of isolation, abandonment, waste, decay and deterioration.

Andrew Bucksbarg is a media artist, experimental interaction designer, audio-visual performer and a professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University. Bucksbarg’s work and interests reverberate in the space of new technology/media practices and theory. As an experimental interaction artist, Bucksbarg concerns himself with technologies and social systems that support tactics of ambiguous, autonomous social creativity and exchange.

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The League of Imaginary Scientists:

A Live Diagram of the Human Condition (an Imaginary Science experiment): An interactive performance examining the connection between thought and action while figuring the digestion of the world, drawn with interactive media, movement, and new sound. Choreographer/dancer paige starling sorvillo moves within a drawn, responsive environment constructed live by The League of Imaginary Scientists and sound artist George Cremaschi. Eating words and swallowing clouds, starling sorvillo brings her lexicon of animated gestures and expressions to contemporary Butoh. Overlaid with scientific data, the live interaction relays the political and physical anatomy of consumption.

About the players:
The League of Imaginary Scientists concocts interdisciplinary research projects in collaboration with scientists, technologists, and artists engaged in many media. While the League’s collaborators are very real, these card-carrying imaginary scientists have adopted pseudonyms to protect their anonymity in the cutthroat world of digital soft science: Live Diagram contributing imaginary scientists are Doctors Aojiru, Chao Hwa Chung, and L. Hernandez Gomez. Live Diagram collaborators are paige starling sorvillo, a 2007 CHIME awardee and artistic director of the performance collaborative blindsight, and versatile musician/composer George Cremaschi.

links: www.imaginaryscience.org | www.blindsightperformance.org | www.paigesorvillo.com

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Dan Carbone, US

Untitled : A special world premiere of film from the 1970's

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Anne Haydock, US

Eaten

A game of dress-up: windows and wallpaper, hawks and moths, olive loaf and margarined toast.

Five aesthetically varied segments draw on direct animation, hand manipulation, time-lapse photography, and choreography to create a sometimes lyric, sometimes jarring meditation on what it can mean to eat and be eaten.

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Jennifer Gwirtz

The Residency Project: Being Live

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TOO PUBLIC: Stine Eva Jorgensen/ Sol Hockings, Denmark

Obstruction

Too Public consists of two female performance artists and film-makers.

Coming from a theatre, dance and performance background Too Publuc experiences in innovative ways of how to intergrate live performance/movement with film/new media and poetry/sound. www.myspace/stineeva

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Miranda Mutanta, Britain

This Bloody Show

A photo and film essay about my changing relationship to performance, and my performing body since becoming a mother. It is a document of giving birth to my daughter, the most intence physical performance of my life. It is also a reflection of the inescapable way a baby takes over (at least for me) your body, time and energy, becoming the focus of all creativity. This focus on the baby becomes a kind of mutual performance, the baby is watching and reflecting the adults avid attention.

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