Somewhere Only We Know, has been selected to be part of the 5th Annual ATA Film & Video Festival, October 21-23, 2010! The festival takes place in San Francisco.
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October 10, 2010 • 2:39 am 0
Screening at Museum of Contemporary Photography
Video Playlist: Mixtapes and Mashups
The Bearing Witness Trilogy will screen on Oct. 21 at 6pm at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Here’s more info:
Video Playlist is a one-night screening of short video works that consider the playlist as a user generated form of expression featuring artists who mix and re-edit materials from popular media such as YouTube and movies to examine and question meaning. The artists in Video Playlist subvert the content they borrow as they explore notions of spectacle, truth, and performance. Featuring work by Natalie Bookchin, Jesse Mclean, Nicolas Provost, Jon Routson and Sterling Ruby. Curated by Kate Bowen and David Oresick.
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October 7, 2010 • 2:41 am 0
Bearing Witness at Impakt Oct. 13-17
I’m screening the entire Bearing Witness Trilogy in the Anticipating Eternity Program at the Impakt Festival in Utrecht, Netherlands. Wish I could be there!
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September 24, 2010 • 10:24 pm 0
The Eternal Quarter Inch at Dallas Video Fest
I’ll be screening The Eternal Quarter Inch at the 2010 Dallas Video Fest on Saturday, Sept. 25 at 5:30.
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August 13, 2010 • 10:22 pm 0
Somewhere only we know in Pittsburgh
Josh Tonies has curated a video program to be exhibited at Fe Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA. Somewhere only we know will be included!
Fe Arts Gallery | 4102 Butler St, Pittsburgh, PA, 15201
Screening, Sat. July 17 at 8pm
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August 13, 2010 • 10:16 pm 0
Somewhere only we know in Berlin!
MMX Open Art Space SHOW V Screening Program: Defenestration curated by Eric Fleischauer
Featuring:
The Jettisoned Yoni Goldstein + Meredith Zielke 2010
Somewhere only we know Jesse McLean 2009
The Fallen Steve Reinke 2006
Black and White Trypps Number Four Ben Russell 2008
</3 Chelsea Welch 2010
Between the Sheets Warren Cockerham 2008
On the Edge of Utterance and Being Articulate: A Brief Introduction to the “Poetics of Space” Todd Simeone 2008
Anne Frank’s chestnut tree (Amsterdam, 2008) Jason Lazarus 2008
Program Description:
The city of Chicago was built on swampland, then destroyed by a devastating fire, and quickly rebuilt atop its own ashes. These imperfect conditions gave rise to a certain spirit that lingers above the city, and initiated a culture of alternative strategies including advancements in engineering and infrastructure that have been adapted and implemented by others around the world – Chicago raised the world’s first skyscraper.
While the eight videos presented here utilize divergent aesthetics and techniques, there is a unifying presence that transcends geography, form, or content. This presence is absence. In a minimal and precise fashion, these artists eschew “the cinematic” and adapt the medium to fit their conceptual frameworks. Various incarnations of lacking and longing motivate, comprise, inspire, and inform the work in this program.
What is contained within the frame is only a trace of what-has-been, but it works to tap into the metaphysical and communicate these larger, complicated, intangible emotions and ideas that are looming outside the frame. It is this direct relationship to their subjects that works to augment the discrete, draw out the ephemeral, and contain the ethereal. By engaging in the impossible task of grasping the intangible, the imminent failure of these videos are transcended by way of sincerity.
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July 10, 2010 • 3:38 am 0
Honorable Mention at Onion City
I was very honored to have received an honorable mention at this year’s Onion City Fest for Somewhere only we know. I was in a fantastic program and the entire festival was terrific.
Thanks!
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June 2, 2010 • 3:04 am 0
The Burning Blue in CUFF
I will be screening The Burning Blue in the 17th annual Chicago Underground Film Festival, held at the Gene Siskel Theater here in Chicago. The festival runs from June 24- July 1 and has lots of great programs and a visit from Jonas Mekas! Here’s some details on the program I’m in:
SHORTS PROGRAM ONE: SCHOOL OF VELOCITY – 9:15pm
2009-10, Various directors, Various countries, ca. 76 min.
Two internationally renowned art personalities enter into a group marriage with two obscure Marvel superheroes in Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin’s WHAT IF? BEYOND A CARNAL LOVE (2010, 17 min.). Jesse McLean’s THE BURNING BLUE (2009, 9 min.) observes the thrill, terror, and boredom found in watching mass spectacles and the unexpected loneliness when you miss them. The moments of the discovery of “pure evil” from various Hollywood narratives are isolated and examined in Roddy Bogawa’s MEMYSELFANDI (2010, 11 min.). Also: new works by James P Finnegan and James Thatcher, Thorsten Fleisch, Wago Kreiger, Jason Livingston, Ivan Lozano, and Alexander Stewart. Various video formats. (Bryan Wendorf)
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June 2, 2010 • 3:01 am 0
Somewhere only we know in Onion City
I will be screening Somewhere only we know in the 22nd Onion City Film Festival here in Chicago. The festival runs from June 17-22 and the program looks amazing! Here’s some info on the screening I’m in:
Sunday, June 20 – Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
4:00pm
Group Show Six
In Memory of JoAnn Elam, Chick Strand, and Callie Angell
Cartoon le Mousse (1979, 15 mins., 16mm, US) by Chick Strand.
Lie Back and Enjoy It (1982, 8 mins., 16mm, US) & TBA by JoAnn Elam.
Four of Andy’s Most Beautiful Women (1964, 15 mins., 16mm, US) by Andy Warhol.
Shoulder (1964, 4 mins., 16mm, US) by Andy Warhol.
Delphine de Oliviera (2009, 3 mins., 16mm, Austria) by Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka).
Dark River (2009, 6 mins., video, US) by Chi Jang Yin.
Northport (2009, 10 mins., 16mm, US) by Adele Friedman.
Somewhere Only We Know (2009, 5 mins., video, US) by Jesse McLean.
Ray’s Birds (2010, 7 mins., 16mm, US) by Deborah Stratman. North American Premiere
Daylight + the Sun (2009, 5 mins., Super-8mm, US) by Karen Johannesen.
Shutter (2010, 8 mins., 16mm, Canada) by Alexi Manis. World Premiere
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April 15, 2010 • 9:34 am Comments Off
VDB New Acquisitions at Oberhausen
As part of a program of new acquisitions from the Video Data Bank, The Eternal Quarter Inch will screen Monday, May 3 at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany along with work by Sterling Ruby, Dani Leventhal, Jim Finn, Susan Youssef, K8 Hardy, Wynne Greenwood and Nicolas Provost.
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