Thursday April 17, 2008
Avant-Garde Cinema
Film Studies Presents Avant-Garde Cinema
Avant-garde Cinema night will survey recent and historical short films by experimental filmmakers from around the world. The program will be curated and presented by students in FST 496: Senior Seminar in Contemporary Avant-garde Cinema. Highlights will include Four of Andy's Most BeautifulWomen by Andy Warhol, along withFluxus-style performances andmulti-media explorations presentedbymembers of the Wilmington Transmedia Collective.
At 9:20 p.m. experience the LiveCinema Explosion: Students in FST496: Contemporary Avant-Garde Cinema will combine live video mixing, film loops, slide collages, and other projected colors and images to create a 30 minute multimedia extravaganza.
Enjoy these Avant-garde Cinema night selections:
On The Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation of the Unconscious, Or Can the Avant-Garde Artist be Wholed? (1977) Dir. Owen Land and George Landow; 16mm; 18 min.
There's a Pervert in Our Pool (1998) Dir. Martha Colburn; 16mm; 3 min.
Light is Waiting (2007) Dir. Michael Robinson; DVD; 11 min.
What the Water Said 1-3 (1998) Dir. David Gatten; 16mm; 16 min.
Closer to Heaven ( 2003) Dir. Diane Bonder, 16mm; 12 min.
I Am a Boy Band (2002 )Dir. Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay; Video; 5 min.
Four of Andy's Most Beautiful Women (1964/1965) Dir. Andy Warhol; 16mm; 15 min.
Uso Justo (2005) Dir. Coleman Miller, DVD; 20 min.
Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (2005) Peter Tscherkassky; 35mm Cinemascope; 17 min.
Lumina Theater. 7 p.m. FREE.
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