From: Bart Weiss (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Nov 21 2008 - 19:29:34 PST
Thanks
And good luck
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On Nov 21, 2008, at 9:35 PM, Stephanie Sapienza
<email suppressed> wrote:
> http://www.iotacenter.org/news/events/puntoyraya/
>
> Punto y Raya (Dot and Line) Festival, US Tour
> WEST COAST TOUR DATES, CO-PRESENTED BY MAD-ACTIONS AND THE IOTACENTER
>
> Two programs in the Bay Area, Saturday and Monday:
>
> November 22, 2008: San Jose, CA
> When: 7:30 pm
> Where: Prairie Willow House
> 943 Willow Glen Way
> San Jose, CA 95125
> prairiewillow.com
> RSVP to: email suppressed, 408-292-4245
>
> November 24, 2008: San Francisco, CA
> When: 8:00 pm
> Where: New Nothing Cinema
> 16 Sherman St.
> San Francisco, CA
> www.newnothing.org
>
> The Punto y Raya (Dot and Line) festival is the brainchild of
> Barcelona-based group mad-actions. The program has a clear
> curatorial vision - that of pure abstraction in its most basic form,
> to "reveal the limitations and achievements of our representation
> systems." Submission requirements are very specific regarding the
> use of dimension, perspective, volume and color. The result is a
> series of films "built up entirely from dots and lines as ends in
> themselves."
>
> The festival's goals are clearly in line with iotaCenter's mission
> to promote the art of abstraction. We have partnered with mad-
> actions to bring this visionary program to the west coast. The US
> leg of the program will begin on November 13 in Seattle, continuing
> to Vancouver, Eugene, San Jose, San Francisco and ending in Los
> Angeles on December 2. The show's final tour date in Los Angeles
> will be exhibited by Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre, with
> programming partner Los Angeles Filmforum co-presenting this show.
>
> The touring program will feature both finalists and award-winning
> films from the official competition; thirteen films with a total
> running time of 65:00.
>
> Circle by Laurie Gibbs (2006, 3:14)
> Rayas Blancas y Rojas (White and Red Lines) by Calpurnio (2007, 5:00)
> Symmetry by Aleksandra Dulic and Kenneth Newby (2007, 2:00)
> Mecanismo by Joaquin [Kino] Gil (2007, 5:00)
> Esmolades (Sharp) by Albert Callejo Amat (2007, 4:40)
> TaMura (MuraTa) by Katsuyuki Hattori (2005-07, 8:00)
> Loop 12/06 by Astrid Hagenguth (2007, 4:00)
> Puddle Jumper by Chris Casady (2007, 2:10)
> Study for TestTest and Retinal Burn by Thomas Bey and William Bailey
> (2007, 4:34)
> Velocity by Iconish and Foraudiofans (2002, 6:20)
> Asperity by Tom Jobbins (2007, 1:58)
> Terra Incognita by Danielle Ye (2003, 6:30)
> Mercurius by Bret Battey (2005, 6:10)
>
>
> __________________________________________________________________
> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
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For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.