Hunter’s MFA/IMA student group is hosting an event this Thursday, NOV. 15th. Join us for drinks and media artist/filmmaker presentations from grad students at Hunter, NYU, Parson’s and more…

// [ ESC ] is Electronic Social Club: a network of NYC graduate students connected by the practice of creating social dialogue through projects in media, art and design. //

Mixer + Presentations
November 15, 2007
7-10 PM
Hunter College Black Box
695 Park Avenue, Room 543 Hunter North

Directions:
6 train to 68 street or F to 63 street
enter on 69th street between Park & Lexington
elevator or stairs to the 5th floor

* Free & open to the public.
electronicsocialclub[AT}gmail[DOT]com
www.eyespeakIMA.org

Also Nov. 16th, 7:30 pm, Hunter MFA/IMA POW WOW event, come learn about the new media program…same location,
contact integrated.media.arts@hunter.cuny.edu

Just heard about this upcoming lecture by one of the first filmmakers UnionDocs worked with…

The Experimental Lecture
“Barbara Hammer: The Cinema of the Optic Nerve”
Film, Video, Performance and Conversation

Friday November 16
7 PM Free

Tisch School of the Arts
721 Broadway
Room 109 (Lobby Floor)

World renowned avant-garde filmmaker Barbara Hammer will talk and
screen films from a movie career that spans forty years. Hammer will
use a performative style that challenges all our assumptions about
what a “lecture” should be, projecting unseen treasures from her own
eExpExarchive as well as her award winning shorts Optic Nerve and Sanctus.

Barbara Hammer biography:

Barbara Hammer was born on May 15, 1939 in Hollywood, California. She
is a visual artist working primarily in film and video and has made
over 80 works in a career that spans 40 years. She is considered a
pioneer of queer cinema.

Barbara’s experimental films of the 1970’s often dealt with taboo
subjects such as menstruation, female orgasm and lesbian sexuality. In
the 80’s she used optical printing to explore perception and the
fragility of 16mm film life itself. Her documentaries tell the stories
of marginalized peoples who have been hidden from history and are
often essay films that are multi-leveled and engage audiences
viscerally and intellectually with the goal of activating them to make
social change. Hammer was a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Fall 2005
at the Bratislava Academy of Art and Design, Slovakia; she received
the first Shirley Clarke Avant-Garde Filmmaker Award in October 2006
and the Women In Film Award 2006 from the St. Louis International Film
Festival. In February 2007, she was awarded a tribute and
retrospective at the Chinese Cultural University Digital Imaging
Center in Taipei, Taiwan. She lives and works in New York City.

www.barbarahammerfilms.com

Here’s some info on a special screening at UnionDocs Saturday, November 11 at 8pm. This film by David Zuckerman was shot on 16mm over a week this summer using exteriors and interiors of 322 Union Ave. Drinks and Discussion will follow the film.

Adapted from the play Blood on the Cat’s Neck by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Phoebe
Zeitgeist in the City of the White Wolf follows the comic book character Phoebe
Zeitgeist. Sent to the earth from a distant star to write an eyewitness account of human
democracy Phoebe Zeitgeist has difficulty, because although she has learned the words
she doesn’t understand human language. Ms. Zeitgeist witnesses a series of vignette-like
dialogues between various representatives of society- cop, model, lover, soldier – feeding
off their all too human words and empty aphorisms and regurgitating them in a
comic/tragic/vampiric outburst of interstellar communication breakdown. Phoebe
Zeitgeist in the City of the White Wolf. 45mins. 16mm. Adapted and Directed by David
Zuckerman.