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Alessandro Machi
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posted February 15, 2007 06:46 AM
The Rutgers Film Co-op, the New Jersey Media Arts Center & the Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies present the New Jersey Film Festival screening of the
2007 United States Super 8 Film & Digital Video Festival
Friday- Sunday, February 16-18, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.
Scott Hall #123 * CAC * Rutgers University
$10=General; $9=Students+Seniors; $8=Film Co-op Friends
Information: (732) 932-8482; www.njfilmfest.com;
2007 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival
Now in its 19th year, the United States Super 8mm Film + Digital Video Festival is the largest and longest running juried Super 8mm film and digital video festival in North America. The festival encourages any genre (animation, documentary, personal, narrative, experimental, etc.) made on Super 8mm/8mm film, Hi 8mm/8mm,or Digital video. Every year our Festival draws large audiences to celebrate works created with these small-gauge media formats. Audience members come to see small-budget works created by passionate film/video makers which are often more imaginative and impressive than the big-budget works produced out of Hollywood. The 19th annual United States Super 8mm Film + Digital Video Festivalsm will be held on February 16-18, 2007 at Scott Hall #123 (beginning each evening at 7 PM) on the College Avenue Campus of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. The Festival will include a different program each evening.
All works were screened by a panel of 16 judges including media professionals, journalists, students, and academics. The panel included: Juan Arancibia, Julia Dennebaum, Steve Dovidas, Bao Hoa Do, Kenji Fushijima (Inside Beat Film Editor), Christina Entcheva, Michael Grace, Lea Koussolulis , David Leiberfarb (Newark Star Ledger), Liz Nadybal, A.G. Nigrin, Paul Power (Museum of Modern Art, NYC), Ryan Ritchey (theFlux TV, Philadelphia, PA), Rita Stapleton, Shaun Seneviratne, and Anthony Stoeckert (Time Off, Princeton Packet Newspaper). These judges selected the 19 finalists (see the screening schedule in this playbill) which will be publicly screened at our Festival. These finalists were selected from over 210 works submitted by film and videomakers from around the world. 210 entries represents the most the Festival has received. In addition, the judges chose the Prize Winners (including over $3000 in prizes) in conjunction with the Festival Director. The audience will be asked to participate in the judging process by voting for their favorite works via the "Audience Choice Prize." The award winners will be publicly announced after the screenings on Sunday, February 18, 2007.
The Festival also takes as its mandate the spreading of the Super 8 film + Digital video word. Toward that goal, the Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC has sponsored ten touring programs culled from Festival prize winners for the past thirteen years. The "Selections of the U.S. Super 8 Film/Video Festival Touring Program" has been screened at media art centers, film festivals, and universities including: Pittsburgh Filmmakers; Princeton Library; DCTV and Millennium in New York City; The Northwest Film & Video Center/Portland Art Museum, Oregon; The 2nd World Festival of Video in Brussels, Belgium; The Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York; 911 Media Arts Center in Seattle, Washington; The Utah Film & Video Center in Salt Lake City; Berks Filmmakers in Reading, PA; Fairmont State College in West Virginia; Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts; Hallwalls in Buffalo, New York; the Melbourne Super 8 Festival, Australia; and many others.
Special thanks to all the jurors listed above; Irene Fizer; Susan Martin-Marquez, John Belton, and Alan Williams of the Rutgers University Program In Cinema Studies; Bethany Widrich and Anna Aschkenes of the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission; The New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State - a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; Mary Maynard Price, Maryann Adesso, and Steve Garfinkel of Eastman Kodak; Michael Bzdak of Johnson & Johnson; Bob Brodsky and Toni Treadway of the International Center for 8mm Film & Video; Rhonda Vingeant of Pro 8mm; Super 8 Today; Ryan Ritchey of the Flux TV; Barbara and Mike Poolin of PAC Lab; Aaton Cohen-Sitt of Jungle Software; Paul Canestri of The Bagel Dish; and The Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC friends, sponsors, donors, interns, and staff for making this festival possible. We urge you to submit work to the 2008 U.S. Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival when we will celebrate the 20th year oof the Festival! Thank you for making this year's festival a huge success, and see you in 2008.
Albert Gabriel Nigrin
Executive Director/Curator & Founder
Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center + The U.S. Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival
Cover Art: “Stripe Tease” Photogram ©2006 A.G. Nigrin
2007 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festivalsm Program
All screenings will take place on February 16, 17, and 18, 2007 beginning at 7PM, in Scott Hall #123 (43 College Avenue - near the Corner of Hamilton Street and College Avenue)
on the College Avenue Campus of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Admission per evening:$10 General; $9 Students/Seniors; $8 Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC Friends
Friday, February 16, 2007
Binta and the Great Idea (Javier Fessier; Madrid, Spain; 2005; 30 min.)
Binta is a 7-year-old girl who lives in a small village on the Casamance river in southern Senegal. She goes to school. Her cousin Soda does not have the same good fortune. She is not allowed to learn about the things of the world. Binta admires her father, a humble fisherman who, concerned about the development of mankind, is determined to carry out an idea that has occurred to him. Shot on location in Spain and Senegal.
Frog Jesus (Benjamin Peters; Vancouver, Canada; 2007; 1 min)
A nostalgic voyage takes a darker turn, exploring the naivete of mankind through the eyes of a young boy.
Life in the Web (Kathy Rose, Philadelphia, PA; 2006; 9 min.
This video uses fabrics, figures and miniature sets to create an enchanting operatic vision. Influenced by the work of Remedios Varo, the assemblages of Hannah Hoch, the supernatural world of the Japanese Noh theater, and a fascination with puppets and dolls.
A Shift in Perception (Dan Monceaux; Adelaide, Australia; 2006; 16 min.)
Taking an experimental approach to the documentary, conversations with three blind South Australian women are illustrated using a broad range of camera techniques on Super 8 film (shot predominantly in black and white). The makers use stop-motion animation, time lapse and many other methods of abstraction to invite the viewer to celebrate the beauty of the women's unique perspectives. With voices set in the midst of an experimental score, the film washes over its audience like a dream, a heightened sensory experience.
The Art of Theatrical Ushery (Christopher Banks; Galloway, NJ; 2006; 6 min.)
Ronnell, a 32-year-old movie theater usher, makes extreme attempts to educate the general public on the proper code of conduct while attending a movie.
I Forgot My Name (Matthew Cox; Miami, Fl; 2006; 5 min.)
I Forgot My Name uses animation to confront the reality of the loss of self that occurs with Alzheimer's and dementia. Are we dead when we forget everything? The driving motivation of this film is to confront the reality that may fall upon us through age and the loss of memory. The main character is an elderly woman who becomes lost in her own home. The animation is not a straight narrative but a portrait of someone losing herself.
My Name Is Wallace (David Lawrence; Burbank, CA; 2006; 17 min.)
Wallace Waverly is a socially sheltered, high functioning mentally challenged man who has lived with his mother all his life. Upon her death, Wallace finds himself alone and lonesome, rattling around in mom's big, old Victorian home. Wallace's days now consist of playing ragtime on the family piano and gazing out the front window. One day, as he browses through the personal section of a newspaper he sees an ad that reads: 'Lonely? Need Love? Call 1-900-HOT BABES.'
Wallace, taking the ad literally, dials the number and falls in love with Tiffany, the 900 sex-line operator he encounters. 'My Name is Wallace,' while a sweet and touching comedy, is also the story of personal salvation through love.
Loaded: Drowning The Ego (Anthony Werhan; Clementon, NJ; 2006; 49 min.)
Proud drinkers gather at the Modern Drunkard Convention to both justify and rationalize their lust for booze.
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Chicken (Kim Nyhaus; San Diego, CA; 2006; 3 min.)
A comedy about a family having lunch in a park, when a bizarre thief comes and steals their chicken.
The Thin Man: An Undertaker Muses... (Andy Barker; Chicago, Il; 2006; 4 min.)
A hand processed Super 8 music video where an out-of-work undertaker rock-star tours with his band from tavern to tavern and graveyard to graveyard.
Eaten (Anne Haydock; Iowa City, IA; 2006; 6 min.)
A game of dress-up: windows and wallpaper, hawks and moths, olive loaf and tinfoil. The sounds and gestures of the everyday gather to become the pre-articulated vocabulary of desire, anxiety, and basic human needs. The piece uses rephotography to incorporate elements from a site-specific installation with additional super-8 footage to create a sometimes lyric but often jarring meditation on what it can mean to eat and be eaten.
He’s My Friend (Alessandro Machi; West Hills, CA; 2005; 5 min.)
Mr. Tire (Jesse Andrus; Great River, NY; 2005; 3 min.)
This film is about an ordinary car tire that travels throughout the hallways and byways of a school creating small adventures and mishaps on its way.
All Grown Up (Andrea Witting; Glassboro, NJ; 2006; 21 min.)
Contrary to popular belief, the punk lifestyle does not end when you get out of high school. True punk rockers are always punk rockers, even after they grow up. Featuring original footage of punk bands shot in clubs, basements and other venues in Philadelphia and New Jersey during the 1980s and early 90s.
Growing Down (Jeremy Bowditch; Woodbridge, VA; 2006; 15 min.)
Growing Down tells the story of a young black man named Jerome. He works an hourly job and shares an apartment with his girlfriend of some time, who happens to be white. It becomes obvious he’s unfulfilled. Quitting his job he puts his energy toward the only thing that means anything: film. In the course of a day he cuts together old 8mm into a cathartic release of emotional history. The film ends with a powerful 8mm sequence Jerome screens for his girlfriend; saying for him what he could never say.
Halal Vivero (Sara Colangelo; New York, NY; 2006; 7 min.)
Halal Vivero is a visual tour of an immigrant-run, live poultry market in New York City's Spanish Harlem. How is poultry killed and prepared into nice clean slabs of meat ready for consumption? And who inhabits the fascinating world of these live slaughterhouses-- a world rarely seen?
Trailer Trash: A Film Journal (Don D. Ramirez; Shenandoah Junction, WV; 2007; 60 min)
This documentary is an intimate film journal that explores a family’s turmoil as it comes to terms with poverty, substance abuse, and murder.
Sunday, February 18, 2007
A Message from the Party (Katie Flaxman; Sydney, Australia; 2006; 10 min.)
A Message from the Party is a self-made 'documentary' by Vivien, an eccentric and well-read, though unemployable, 38-year-old intellectual who lives at home. Dissatisfied with the mediocrity of our times, and dismayed by his mother's waning adoration, he has decided to form a political party and mount a revolution from his living room. This film is his call to arms.
Troymotion (Justin Lovell; Toronto, Canada; 2006; 4 min.)
Shot as an urban street chase, this film is a mixture of streetdance, breakdance, flipping and free running.
This is a Tobacco Free Environment (Chris Cottrill; Miamisburg, OH; 2002-07; 8 min.)
This is a Tobacco Free Environment explores the urban malaise and current environmental conditions in Dayton, Ohio. This film is designed to create global environmental awareness through local activism.
Land of Nod (Phillip Docken; Minneapolis, MN; 2006; 24 min.)
A man living an ordinary life finds himself seeking a renewed authenticity and sense of innocence. A film montage which becomes a poem, an art work opening into an ephemeral world.
Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea (Christopher Metzler; San Francisco, CA; 2005; 73 min.)
As narrated by legendary counter-culture filmmaker John Waters, there was time when the Salton Sea, tucked into the southeast corner of California, was known as the Riviera of the West—a haven for jetsetters and vacationers. Originally created by accident, it’s now one of the country’s worst ecological disasters: a fetid, stagnant, salty lake, coughing up dead fish and birds by the thousands. Eccentrics abound in this surreal landscape: the naked guy who waves to passing RVs; the man who built his own holy mountain; beer-loving Hungarian Hunky Daddy; the guys who plan to get rich someday when this virtual sewer becomes a Riviera again. Hair-raising and hilarious, part history lesson, part cautionary tale and part portrait of one of the strangest communities you’ve ever seen, this is the American Dream gone as stinky as a dead carp.
eneral Information
Time: All Scott Hall and all Loree Building film programs begin at 7:00 PM except where noted. Films are screened in the order listed with a 10-minute intermission for double and triple-bills.
Locations: Locations are indicated by the codes listed below. Directions are listed below.
Scott 123 = Scott Hall #123 (Near the corner of College Avenue and Hamilton Street), 43 College Ave/College Avenue Campus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Admission:
Scott and Loree Programs: 2/16-18=$10/$9/$8. All films are subject to change. Call our information number the week of the show to confirm titles.
Tickets:
Tickets are available on a “first-come-first-served” basis only and can be purchased at the door beginning a half-hour before the start time.
Directions:
Scott Hall 123=Take the NJ Turnpike to Exit 9 and then take Route 18N (New Brunswick direction) and go for 2 1/2 miles to the Rutgers University/George Street exit (immediately after the Route 27S exit; don’t take the earlier George Street exit) and make a left at the light at the end of the exit ramp onto George Street, then go to the next light and make a right onto Hamilton Street, then go to the next light and make a right onto College Avenue. Almost immediately on your right hand side there is an University Parking Lot (#9) which is made available for our patrons to park in. Scott Hall is adjacent to the parking lot on the right. Patrons can also park in Rutgers Lots #1 (next to Kirkpatrick Chapel) and #16 (next to Murray Hall).
The 19th annual United States Super 8mm Film + Digital Video Festivalsm is part of the New Jersey Film Festivallsm Spring 2007 and is funded and sponsored in part by: The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center; The Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies/Faculty of Arts and Sciences; The Middlesex County Cultural & Heritage Commission through a grant provided by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State - a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; Eastman Kodak; Johnson & Johnson; New Jersey Books; WCTC/WMGQ; The New Jersey Motion Picture Commission; The Home News Tribune; The Rutgers College Office of the Dean; The Rutgers College Student Affairs and College Development Department; The Rutgers University Office of Student Involvement, Leadership and Programs; The Rutgers University World Language Institute; The Rutgers University Spanish Department; The Rutgers University American Studies Department; The Rutgers University Center For Latino Arts and Culture; Albus Cavus Gallery; Synergy Group; New Jersey Symphony Orchestra; Pro 8mm; Super 8 Today; Rutgers Students for Environmental Awareness; Film and Video Services; PAC Labs; Frame Discreet; Jungle Software; International Center For 8mm Film; The Rutgers University Paul Robeson Center; New Brunswick City Market; The Rutgers University Office of Community Affairs; Rutgers University Presentation Services; The Rutgers University Study Abroad Programs; The Rutgers University Enhanced Classroom Support Department; Design Ideas; Advanced Printing; Steven C. Schechter, Esq.; and Share and Harris.
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