The Flaherty Film Seminar is doing something new. They are bringing some of the work from this summer’s excellent programming to NYC audiences at Anthology Film Archive.

The monthly event series will launch this Monday with a screening one of my favorite filmmakers from the seminar. This is Oliver Husain….

His short videos and films works are really not to be missed.

Chi-hui Yang said it best, “If part of the Seminar’s quest was to find a new language to deal with an interconnected, globally flattened reality, it was perhaps Oliver Husain who had the most coherent form… Surreal, romantic, disorienting and whimsical, his videos are experiential and almost undescribeable.”

Films and videos to be screened include:

Q (2002, 15 min.) - A fantasy of globalization set in a multicultural consumer space that fulfills its shoppers’ and viewers’ every desire and need.
Squiggle (2005, 21 min.) - Giving a wink to Bollywood, this film is a personal exploration of a young man’s desire to understand himself as an artist as he returns to India, his homeland.
Swivel (2003-05, 15 min.) - An experimental work in which the camera continuously swivels around to create a 360° panoramic portrait of new Shanghai.
Shrivel (2005, 8 min.) - A surrealist fantasy of a hyper- globalized Indonesian suburb where American consumer culture and lifestyle have taken over.
Green Dolphin (2008, 9 min.) - This hybrid films follows a Filipino Canadian woman as she recounts her complicated romantic affairs (which may or may not be imagined).
Mount Shasta (2008, 8 min.) - A 16-mm film of a puppet play created by Husain and based on incidents during a road trip through Oregon. Music by Canadian independent recording artist Mantler (a.k.a. Chris A. Cummings).

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I will be actually moderating the Q&A… so come out and ask a good question.

TICKET INFORMATION:

General admission $10. ($8 for Anthology members and students)

Tickets can be purchased online by clicking HERE. You can also purchase tickets at the Anthology box office the day of the show.

Anthology Film Archives is located in the old Second Avenue Courthouse building in the East Village at 32 Second Ave. at the corner of 2nd Street.

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The Flaherty is thrilled to be bringing the innovative and thought-provoking works that screen at the Flaherty Seminar to local audiences in New York City. The screenings will occur on the second Monday of every month at the Anthology Film Archives and will feature films and videos from the 2008 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, The Age of Migration, which took place in June. The fall schedule will showcase works by Oliver Husain (Canada/Germany), Alison Kobayashi (Canada), Sylvia Schedelbauer (Germany), and Lee Wang (USA) and will feature post-screening discussions with the filmmakers.

The Flaherty NYC series premiere on October 13 will feature the New York City debut of films by Oliver Husain, a German-Indian artist currently based in Toronto, who uses visual media to explore ideas of geography, migration, and globalization. His award-winning short films range from documentary to live-action composite to Bollywood dance sequences to most anything you can (and cannot) imagine. He carefully crafts worlds that are somewhat familiar to the viewer, but are also strangely bizarre, visually captivating, and fantastically delightful.

TODAY and TOMORROW!!!!

Soapbox-It’s a mass performance revolving around issues of free speech. Everyone who wants to speak is given a soapbox and one minute of free speech….

SOAPBOX EVENT
CONVERGENCE CENTER AT PARK AVENUE ARMORY

643 PARK AVENUE BETWEEN 66TH AND 67TH STREETS

One Box = One Minute of Free Speech
Come and speak your mind!

26th September 12-3pm
27th September, 3-6PM

Hey all you makers / creatives / teachers / collaborators / community-builders!

This month, we Meerkats converge in an all new BROOKLYN locale for a Media Mixer, with the documentary pioneers at Union Docs. It’s a time to come together to share ideas, complain about our day jobs, imagine new and improbable projects and get inspired.

Come and talk to someone you don’t know. Come and surgically remove the “boring” from the burgeoning body of adulthood. Come and create a community that’s as self-sufficient and sustainable as a wind-powered commune run on a bike powered smoothie machine — a colony of collaborating meerkats in the city! Come kick off your Friday night with a drink and a dream.

• Criticals / RSVP info:

DATE: Friday, August 29.

TIME: 7:30pm - midnight…

WHERE: UnionDocs - 322 Union Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn View Map

Subways:  L train: Metropolitain Ave.  J M train: Hewes St.  G train: Broadway.  

COST: $3-6 suggested donation

• 8:30PM screening of 2 new films, from UnionDocs and Meerkat Media
  
• FREE DRINKS all evening!

Learn more at meerkatmedia.org.

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interesting nytimes article on the role of programs like photoshop in re-envisioning history and what it says about ‘american’ notions of truth and photography.  link to the article here.

I Was There. Just Ask Photoshop.

REMOVING her ex-husband from more than a decade of memories may take a lifetime for Laura Horn, a police emergency dispatcher in Rochester. But removing him from a dozen years of vacation photographs took only hours, with some deft mouse work from a willing friend who was proficient in Photoshop, the popular digital-image editing program.

Like a Stalin-era technician in the Kremlin removing all traces of an out-of-favor official from state photos, the friend erased the husband from numerous cherished pictures taken on cruises and at Caribbean cottages, where he had been standing alongside Ms. Horn, now 50, and other traveling companions.

“In my own reality, I know that these things did happen,” Ms. Horn said. But “without him in them, I can display them. I can look at those pictures and think of the laughter we were sharing, the places we went to.”

“This new reality,” she added, “is a lot more pleasant.”

(more…)

Check out this AIR article. Mentions Kara and her influences, UD being one of them:
http://www.airmedia.org/PageInfo.php?PageID=390

Come celebrate the second season of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective on Thursday, June 5 at Union Docs in Williamsburg. Members will premiere 10 short films inspired by the often-used but rarely questioned phrase “based on a true event.” In addition to the films, festivities include all the beer you can drink for $10 and a live DJ. Proceeds support the group’s ongoing efforts to inspire and promote the best work from Brooklyn-based filmmakers. Union Docs is located at: 322 Union Ave (between Maujer St. and Ten Eyck St.) near the Lorimer L stop/Metropolitan G/Hewes J stops. Doors open at 8:30 pm, films start at 9.

The Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective is tight-knit community of professional filmmakers in Brooklyn, NY who are dedicated to innovative approaches to filmmaking. The collective comes together through weekly peer workshops to provide sustained feedback and critiques throughout the life of its members’ projects. It is the mission of the BFC to inspire groundbreaking films and maximize exposure of the best work from Brooklyn-based filmmakers. Our collective resume includes awards from Sundance, Independent Spirit Awards, Student Academy Awards, and IFP.

For more information, go to brooklynfilmmakerscollective.com

Talk about spearheading global peace! This sounds amazing. Read about the event below. DCTV and NYWIFT will be your local hosts for this worldwide event. This Saturday from 2-6pm.

www.pangeaday.org

Pangea Day is a global event bringing the world together through film.

Why? In a world where people are often divided by borders, difference, and conflict, it’s easy to lose sight of what we all have in common. Pangea Day seeks to overcome that – to help people see themselves in others – through the power of film.

Starting at 18:00 GMT on May 10, 2008, locations in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will be linked for a live program of powerful films, live music, and visionary speakers. The entire program will be broadcast – in seven languages – to millions of people worldwide through the internet, television, and mobile phones.

The 24 short films to be featured have been selected from an international competition that generated more than 2,500 submissions from over one hundred countries. The films were chosen based on their ability to inspire, transform, and allow us see the world through another person’s eyes.

The program will also include a number of exceptional speakers and musical performers. Queen Noor of Jordan, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, musician/activist Bob Geldof, and Iranian rock phenom Hypernova are among those taking part.

High Risk Citizen
VIDEO EXHIBITION @ ART IN GENERAL
04.17.08—05.03.08
Organized by Mary Billyou and Eva Díaz.

High Risk Citizen explores forms of political resistance and public engagement today, as considered by contemporary artists working in film and video. The works in the exhibition move between depressed responses to the ways in which collective, political efficaciousness has been curtailed, and euphoric re-imaginings of sites of robust social and civic culture.

more info

Expression = Life
VIDEO SCREENING AND PANEL
APRIL 18TH, 7:00PM @ CANTOR FILM CENTER

On April 18th, a video screening and panel discussion with ACT UP members, filmmakers, and media theorists entitled “Expression = Life: ACT UP, Video and the AIDS Crisis,” will be held at the Cantor Film Center of New York University. Activists, filmmakers, and media theorists will be on hand to discuss the history and significance of this powerful, grassroots work, and how it contributed to movement organizing and the culture of resistance that evolved from this crisis period.

More info

This week is full of great screenings and shows connected to this event. Check out the full schedule here.

Two highlights that are opening Thursday, March 20:

Almagul Menlibaeva. Jihad, 2004.

I Dream of the ‘Stans: New Central Asian Video
Co-curated by Leeza Ahmady, Murat Orozobekov and Edward Winkleman, works by artists from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan. Incredible critical international acclaim has greeted Central Asian artists in recent years. Most of the newfound attention centers on the remarkably strong single- and multi-channel video works produced in the region, a fact often attributed to the centuries-old traditions of street theater, storytelling and weaving.

Winkleman Gallery - 637 W. 27th St. (Bet. 11th and 12th Ave.)
6–8 P.M. Opening Reception

Ashok Sukumaran. Glow Positioning System, Mumbai, 2005.

Ashok Sukumaran: Glow Positioning System and Other Forms of Address
A Golden Nica winner for Interactive Art, 2007 Prix Ars Electronica, Sukumaran presents video documentation of his multifariously panoramic, light-based work originally installed in Mumbai. The result of a vast collaboration with street decorators, residents, and private and state agencies that could be activated and animated by a single “viewer” using a hand-crank.

Thomas Erben Gallery - 526 W. 26th St. (4th floor)
6–8 P.M. Opening Reception

DocuClub was a fine institution that was temporarily on hiatus. Now ArtsEngine has brought it back to life and the first screening is one I’d definitely like to see…

DocuClub’s first session for 2008 is scheduled for Thursday April 3rd, at 7:30pm, at the screening room of our partner Goldcrest Post (799 Washington Street, between Horatio and Gansevoort. For map with directions, go to www.goldcrestpost.com), in New York City.

We will watch Kimberly Reed’s PRODIGAL SONS, the story of “a brotherly rivalry between a man and a woman… and Orson Welles.” Reed was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film for 2007. Our moderator will be DocuClub founder Susan Kaplan.

If you are planning to attend, please RSVP.

If you’d like to have your rough cut considered for future sessions of DocuClub, contact Felix Endara.