Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts Faculty Achievements
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Phantom 52 screening with other animated shorts in the Denver International Film Festival, 11/8/19
Professor Geoff Marslett has newest film The Phantom 52 showing as part of the DIFF animated shorts program Friday 11/8, 6:30 pm at the Lyric in Fort Collins.
https://secure.denverfilm.org/tickets/film.aspx?id=31480&FID=105
Hammer, Schneeman, Solomon: Brakhage Vision Award Recipients in Memoriam
Experimental film lost three luminaries in 2019: queer-cinema pioneer Barbara Hammer; multidisciplinary feminist icon Carolee Schneemann; and Phil Solomon, a master of the poetics of melancholy. As the creators of distinct, intensely personal films that inspired new ways of seeing, each gave us the gift of their bold vision, liberating us to rejoice in our own.
Curated and introduced by Melinda Barlow, Ph.D.—an associate professor of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts at the University of Colorado, Boulder—the program begins with films that were made as gifts by and for Solomon, including a rare screening of the exquisite Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes (1999), which he made for his wife on the occasion of their marriage. The second half, programmed in consultation with internationally renowned experimental filmmaker Jeanne Liotta, pairs Schneemann’s autobiographical Plumb Line (1972)—which powerfully aligns the end of a relationship with the breaking apart of the film itself—with Hammer’s sensual, self-described “lesbian commercial” Dyketactics (1974) and the later, lyrical Sanctus (1990), a work that transforms found footage “into a celebration of the body as temple,” as one critic put it. - Denver Film Festival
https://secure.denverfilm.org/tickets/film.aspx?id=31474&FID=105
San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts Program 6 features Prof. Jeanne Liotta
Jeanne Liotta’s tour de force projection performance Path of Totality spins the most ecstatic of the cinematic from flickering loops and household objects to create a luminous show and tell that transmutates base matter to pure energy. Path of Totality anchors a program of discovered sights, found sounds, and meditations on the fragility of life and the inner lives of the inanimate. Reports from the world reinforce the urgency of our actions: forced, folded, and coaxed to motion.
-San Francisco Cinematheque
For more information regarding Program 6 and ticketing please CLICK HERE
Applied Pressure, an experimental short by Prof. Kelly Sears, is being screened at Slamdance Film Festival
Slamdance is a film festival for emerging artists, governed "by filmakers, for filmakers," they specialize in bringing innovative and unique artists to the screen. Slamdance this year is January 25-30 in Park City, Utah. Look them up on their website for tapsses, or read more about their screenings here:
https://www.parkrecord.com/entertainment/slamdance-to-honor-oscar-winner...
Suranjan Ganguly-- has been invited to speak on Stan Brakhage and curate a show entitled Stan Brakhage: Home and World at the FilmKoop in Vienna on November 16.
The event is in collaboration with the Film Museum. The program will focus on some of Brakhage’s self-portraits, drawing on films such as Dog Star Man, Confession and I…Dreaming, as well as work within a more public space, inspired by travel within and outside the US—Marilyn’s Window, Visions in Meditation, Part 2 (Mesa Verde), and Chartres Series.
Kelly Sears-- invited to be part of the Core Program Fellowship, through the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, October 2018
Kelly Sears-- selected as juror for the Ottawa International Animation Festival and asked to cureate a program on collage animation, September 2018
Kelly Sears-- animation program at Berkeley Museum of Art/Pacific Film Archive on September 12, 2018
https://www.mfah.org/fellowships/core-program/core-program-events/
Suranjan Ganguly-- spoke on Stan Brakhage and curated a show at Spektrum, Berlin, on June 24, 2018. Films screened included Cat’s Cradle, Wedlock House: An Intercourse, I…Dreaming, Dog Star Man Part 2, Mothlight and The Persian Series
Suranjan Ganguly-- Presentation by Suranjan Ganguly on Stan Brakhage at the Museum of Modern Art (Centre Pompidou), Paris, on May 30 at 7:00pm.
Suranjan Ganguly—Presentation in Rome, Italy: Stan Brakhage: Image, Rhythm, Vision.
Suranjan Ganguly was invited by the National Film Archives in Rome to speak on Brakhage and show his work at Cinema Trevi in May, 2017. Some of the films screened included Cat’s Cradle, Window Water Baby Moving, Dog Star Man Part 2, Scenes From Under Childhood, Section 1, Mothlight, The Dante Quartet and Yggdrasil Whose Roots Are Stars In The Human Mind.
Suranjan Ganguly - Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisbon, Portugal
Suranjan Ganguly has been invited by the Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisbon, Portugal, to speak on Stan Brakhage and show his work on May 15.
Christin Turner & Kelly Sears - Films to be shown at the Ann Arbor Film Festival
March 14, 2017 - Christin Turner's What Happens to the Mountain (2016) and Kelly Sears' In the Vicinty (2016) will be showing at this year's Ann Arbor Film Festival. The dates for that are March 21-26.
Suranjan Ganguly -- New Publication: Stan Brakhage Interviews
UPDATED 7/31/17 -- In this book, edited by Suranjan Ganguly and published by the University Press of Mississippi in March, 2017, nine of Stan Brakhage’s most important interviews have been selected. Brakhage describes his conceptual frameworks, his theories of vision and sound, the importance of poetry, music, and the visual arts in relation to his work, his concept of the muse, and the key influences on his art-making. He discusses some of his iconic films, such as Anticipation of the Night, Dog Star Man, Scenes from Under Childhood, Mothlight, and Text of Light. See review in TheNew York Review of Books: http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/06/08/brakhage-when-light-meets-life/
Stacey Steers - Showing of new film at the Catherine Clark Gallery
February 16, 2017 - Starting February 25th and running through April 15th the Catherine Clark Gallery in San Fransisco will be showing esteemed former Professor Stacey Steer's new film, Edge of Alchemy. And that's not all, there will also be a selection of handmade collages, a suite of silver gelatin prints, and sculptural objects that incorporate media from the film to look at as well.
Erin Espelie - The Alchemy Film Festival
February 13, 2017 - On March 2nd and 3rd, Professor Erin Espelie will both be speaking and premiering her film, A Net to Catch the Light at the Alchemy Film Festival in Scotland.
For more information: http://www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/2017/symposium/
http://www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/2017/reasons/
Tiel Lundy - Presenting at SCMS in Chicago
February 1, 2017 - In April of 2016, Tiel Lundy co-directed (with Prof. Acevdo-Munoz) the 4th Annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies Undergraduate Conference. Twenty-nine students, from across the U.S. and Canada, gave papers ranging from studies of new media to classical Hollywood cinema. Many of the presenters have since begun graduate programs, and we are delighted that two of them will be giving papers at this year’s professional SCMS conference in Chicago.
Speaking of, Tiel herself will be presenting at SCMS in March. Her paper, “Bosom Buddies: Hollywood and The Lingerie Industry, 1930 – 1949,” will hopefully attract a curious audience.
Kelly Sears - Tear It Up, Tear It Down show at Grizzly Grizzly
February 1,2017 - Starting February 3rd and ending on the 26th, GrizzlyGrizzly will be showing a collection of work by our own Kelly Sears alongside Martha Colburn and Kelly Gallagher.
From the release packet: While the three artists in this show have been creating work that forces awareness of our political landscape for a decade or more, Grizzly Grizzly brings their work together in February 2017 during the first month of Trump’s presidency, to share stories of resistance and celebrate art’s power as activism.
The show will run Saturdays and Sundays 2-6pm at Grizzly Grizzly in Philadelphia, PA.
Jeanne Liotta - Dreamlands Exhibition at The Whitney Museum of American Art
January 11, 2017 - On Friday January 20th, 2017 the Whitney Museum of American Art will be showcasing Professor Jeanne Liotta's film Loretta as a part of their program, The Color of Light. The show starts at 7:30pm.
Christin Turner - Short film What Happens to the Mountain accepted to the International Film Festival Rotterdam
January 11. 2017 - "My film, What Happens to the Mountain will be screening during the short film showcase Mythical Ifs. I made the film during my first semester at CU Boulder, as part of Phil Solomon’s 4500 class. After several studio visits with visiting filmmakers, I continued to polish the edit. I also transferred the digital film to 16mm with the help of Andy Busti, to lock in color and play with grain. I have transferred the film to 35mm for the festival."
SYNOPSIS
What Happens to the Mountain draws upon literary sources, late night radio, and legends from the Cheyenne and Kiowa to conjure a psycho-geographic experience in a sacred landscape. A long-distance driver, a drifter, journeys from a tenuous reality into a vision of the afterlife, called forth by the spirit of the mountain.