From: owen (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2006 - 16:07:24 PDT
> If a submitted film is selected, the exhibition print must be film
> (8mm, Super-8, 16mm, 35mm). All lengths are considered. A nominal
> entry fee is required. Films are considered on a rolling basis.
> Therefore, filmmakers are encouraged to submit as soon as possible.
> The FINAL submission deadline is September 1, 2006. Submission
> package must be received by September 1, 2006. Festival dates are
> October 11-15, 2006.
Whoa. from submission form:
Include $45 entry fee: Multiple films may be submitted and are highly
encouraged. A submission form and fee is required for each film.
Entry fees may be sent in the form of a U.S. money order, cashiers
check or personal check, and must be included. Submissions from
outside the United States may either send a check or money order in
U.S. dollars drawn from a U.S. bank or include U.S. cash. Make your
money order or check payable to: "TIE".'
A nomimal fee? Everything's relative.
owen
On Aug 30, 2006, at 6:52 PM, TIE wrote:
> Hello! We are getting reved up for the festival. Here are a few new
> updates:
>
> TIE, The International Experimental Cinema Exposition
> October 11-15, 2006
>
> Festival Update:
> Luther Price will be in person to present new 16mm work plus the
> Super-8 film "Mother (revised)". The program includes a discussion
> with Mr. Price.
>
> The following newly restored films by Frans Zwartjes will be
> presented at TIE-2006:
>
> Sorbet III
> (The Netherlands, 1968, 16mm, 6:00 min)
> One of the first films by Zwartjes, influenced by the filmmakers of
> the New American Cinema he admired. Everything centers around the
> glances between a neurotic camera and the just as neurotic
> transvestite who reaches for a sorbet and looks in unease to what
> lying next to him on the couch.
>
> Spectator
> (The Netherlands, 1970, 16mm, 11:00 min)
> In this film, Christiaan Manders and Moniek Toebosch play the
> artist and his model. Hidden safely behind his camera, the
> photographer can’t get enough of what the glamorous model with her
> long eye lashes has to offer him.
>
> Living
> (The Netherlands, 1971, 16mm, 15:00 min)
> Zwartjes' masterwork and his most favourite film. “Living has an
> uneasy, undefinable atmosphere. This strange swaying of the camera
> and the music that keeps going on and on…”
> Living demonstrates the the cinematographic mastery of Zwartjes. He
> is the main character of the film and handles the camera himself,
> pointing it towards himself with his hand held out. Zwartjes: “I
> was as strong as a bear in these times.” The film is part of the
> series ‘Home sweet home’, in which Zwartjes explores the house in
> The Hague he had just moved into at the time. His wife and muse
> Trix plays the other role. The two characters move restlessly
> through the house. The film was made using an extreme wide angle
> lens (a 5.7), which gives the image a strong sense of estrangement.
>
> Pentimento
> (The Netherlands, 1979, 16mm, 73:00 min)
> This film is dominated by an icy blue. In a monumental building a
> group of scientists submit women to obscure experiments, in which
> sexuality and cruelty constantly merge into one another. When the
> film was released, this horrifying game of power and powerlessness
> was condemned severely by a militant group of feminists. The
> criticism was undeserved. After all, ‘Pentimento’ is an art-
> historical term for a hidden image underneath the actual image
> giving an indication of how the latter evolved to its current
> state. The film does not endorse the lopsided power relations in
> our world but actually challenges them.
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>
> Last day to receive submission: Friday, September 1
>
> TIE - The International Experimental Cinema Exposition invites
> submissions for the autumnal 2006 festival. Since the festival's
> inception in Telluride, TIE has screened over 600 innovative
> historic and contemporary films and joined over 150 of the world's
> most influential avant-garde filmmakers. TIE has also become home
> for ground-breaking world premiers, from legends such as Stan
> Brakhage to a new generation of leading experimentalists.
>
> TIE seeks films that challenge popular and conventional modes of
> cinema. From difficult and hand-made films to extraordinarily
> radical and obscure compositions, TIE selects only outstanding
> celluloid cinema from the outerspaces of contemporary screen-culture.
>
> If a submitted film is selected, the exhibition print must be film
> (8mm, Super-8, 16mm, 35mm). All lengths are considered. A nominal
> entry fee is required. Films are considered on a rolling basis.
> Therefore, filmmakers are encouraged to submit as soon as possible.
> The FINAL submission deadline is September 1, 2006. Submission
> package must be received by September 1, 2006. Festival dates are
> October 11-15, 2006.
>
> Films from any era or date of completion are considered.
>
> Click: http://www.experimentalcinema.com/subform.htm for Submission
> Form.
>
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>
> TIE, The International Experimental Cinema Exposition
> 849 Humboldt Street, #2
> Denver, CO 80218
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