From: Stephanie Sapienza (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Nov 26 2008 - 12:20:36 PST
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
The final screening date on the tour is next Monday at the Silent Movie Theatre in Los Angeles:
When: December 2, 2008, 8:00 pm
Where: Silent Movie Theatre
611 N Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA
www.cinefamily.org
Tickets for this event are $12, $8 for LA Filmforum members.
For tonight's program only, we will also screen 16mm prints of two classic dot and line films; Shapes and Gestures (1976) by Jules Engel and Two Space (1979) by Larry Cuba.
Special guests Danielle Ye, Chris Casady, Larry Cuba and Joaquin Kino Gil will be in attendance.
Co-presented by Cinefamily and Los Angeles Filmforum.
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)
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