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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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 • 3:01 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 • 2:56 am Comments Off
Somewhere only we know at San Francisco International Film Festival
Somewhere only we know will be screening at the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival, which takes place from April 22 to May 2. It will be showing as part of the Something Like a Dream program. Here’s a description of the program:
This selection of eight new experimental films and videos highlights the diverse approaches and concerns of contemporary film artists. Interior states are made visible and the exterior world is visibly transformed as artists grapple with things awry, in need of restoration or simply deserving a close look. A sense of foreboding permeates many of the works, like a dream slipping towards a nightmare. In others, we awake from the nightmare and begin dreaming.
The program will screen Sat, Apr. 24 8:45 at Pacific Film Archives and Tues. Apr. 27 at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
And I like their description of Somewhere, an improvement over my text for sure!
Somewhere Only We Know
What can a face reveal? Balanced between composure and collapse, individuals anxiously await their fate. (Jesse McLean, USA 2009, 5 min)
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March 3, 2010 • 9:31 am Comments Off
Somewhere only we know and The Burning Blue at Ann Arbor
I will be screening Somewhere only we know and The Burning Blue as part of the 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival which runs from March 23-28. Somewhere only we know will be screened March 24, Wednesday at 9:00pm and The Burning Blue will screen on March 28 Sunday at 3:00. Stay tuned for the full film festival schedule, I’m sure there will be a lot of amazing work screening. I will be headed to the festival on Thursday to see Matthais Muller speak!
http://www.aafilmfest.org/festival/48th-aaff/48th-ann-arbor-film-festival
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January 5, 2010 • 6:48 pm Comments Off
Somewhere only we know in Rotterdam with VDB!
Somewhere only we know will show as part of a Video Data Bank press-screening presented by the fabulous Abina Manning. The screening will take place Friday, January 29, 2010 as part of the International Rotterdam Film Festival.
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December 15, 2009 • 7:43 am Comments Off
Bearing Witness Trilogy at Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH
The entire Bearing Witness Trilogy will be screened January 9. 2010 at the Aronoff Center for the Arts, in Cincinnati, OH this January in a show curated by Steve Zieverink and featuring the work of amazing artists Deborah Stratman, Michael Morris and Steve Z. More information can be found here
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October 25, 2009 • 9:34 pm Comments Off
San Francisco Cinematheque/Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Somewhere only we know will be screening as part of Running up that Hill, a selection of works curated by Michael Robinson for the San Francisco Cinematheque. The screening is Nov. 6 at 7:30 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
About the screening:
Exploring states of psychological purgatory, journeys of spiritual flux and the possibilities of transcendence found in the act of getting lost, these episodes in the struggles and joys of the transient being are in turns haunting, hilarious, damning and hopeful. Running Up That Hill features Shana Moulton’s desert vision quest, Sand Saga; Ben Rivers’ foggy portrait of pilgrimage, The Coming Race; Jesse McLean’s reality television meltdown Somewhere Only We Know; Tsuji Naoyuki’s entrancing charcoal nightmare, Children of Shadows; Phil Solomon’s intervention into the Grand Theft Auto netherworld, Rehearsals for Retirement; an excerpt of Ryan Trecartin’s miasma of cloning, adoption and online identity, I-Be Area; and curator Michael Robinson’s most recent work, If There Be Thorns. (Michael Robinson)
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