From: Rob Gawthrop (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Mar 27 2009 - 09:04:49 PDT
Sugestions please for titles for a programme concerning black & white cats,
plumbing and critics bodies?
Thanks
Rob.
On 27/3/09 01:42, "Kate ." <email suppressed> wrote:
> THE APRIL FOOLıS CINEMA SHOW:
> Screening of works directed by Robert Banks With introduction by the artist
>
> Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 9pm
> West Lecture Hall
> Oberlin College Science Center
> 119 Woodland St.
> Oberlin, OH 44074
>
> FREE!
>
> Please join Pioneer Species and The Oberlin Independent Film Series in
> welcoming the Cleveland-based, cult-cinema-inspired filmmaker Robert Banks to
> Oberlin for a retrospective screening of his unique oeuvre, which includes
> multiple award-winning films. A self-described ³moving graffiti² artist,
> Banks has been a champion of emulsion-based cinema for many years, inspiring
> and challenging audiences with politically and culturally conscious commentary
> on the film medium. Working in 16mm and 35mm formats, Banks uses found
> footage, new footage, and hand-manipulated film to question the intentions of
> the motion picture industry over that last several decades.
>
> ABOUT ROBERT BANKS:
> Based in Cleveland, Ohio, Robert Banks specializes in avant-garde
> structuralist filmmaking. He attended the Cleveland Institute of Art, and has
> taught film at Cuyahoga Community College, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and
> Cleveland State University. Banksı films have shown at the Sundance Film
> Festival, the New York Underground Film Festival, and the Black Mariah Film &
> Video Festival, among others. Over the course of his career Banks has garnered
> numerous awards, was named Filmmaker of the Year at the Midwest Filmmakers
> Conference in 2001, and in 2000 was the honored guest filmmaker at the BBC
> British Short Film Festival in London. His best-known work is the 1992 film,
> X: The Baby Cinema, a 5-minute, 16mm film that chronicles the commercial
> appropriation of the image of Malcolm X. An instant underground classic, the
> film was selected for inclusion on the video compilation, The Best Of The New
> York Underground: Year One.
>
> THE APRIL FOOLıS CINEMA SHOW
> LINEUP:
>
> X, THE BABY CINEMA
> MY FIRST DRUG, THE IDIOT BOX
> MPG: MOTION PICTURE GENOCIDE
> JADED
> OUTLET
> EMBRYONIC
> GOLDFISH & SUNFLOWERS
> AUTOPILOT
> A.W.O.L.
> FAITH N CHAOS
> ROCK Nı ROLL BLVD
> MERCENARY
> WOMAN IN CIRCLES
>
> ABOUT PIONEER SPECIES:
> Pioneer Species is a micro-cinema screening alternative, independent, and
> experimental media every Wednesday night at various locations in Oberlin,
> Ohio. Often, visiting artists and curators will be present to introduce their
> programs. The micro-cinema is managed by students of the Oberlin College CINE
> 323: Exhibition Practices in the Media Arts course.
>
> ABOUT THE INDEPENDENT FILM SERIES :
> The Independent Film Series (IFS) is an organization whose purpose is to
> expose the Oberlin community to unique films and film events unavailable
> within the constraints of other venues of exhibition. IFS focuses on
> cultivating an understanding of the independent filmmakerıs place in the
> larger dialog of cinematic culture, and stresses that fringe cinema is
> relevant, culturally informative, and important to keep alive in the digitally
> focused present.
>
> The April Foolıs Cinema Show is presented by Pioneer Species and with support
> from the Oberlin Independent Film Series. These entities are working together
> to bring a greater diversity of alternative, independent, and experimental
> media to the community of Oberlin, with the goal of creating a broader
> awareness of non-mainstream media and media making. Watch for further updates
> and events!
>
> Visit us on the web:
> http://www.pioneerspecies.net/
>
> Join the Pioneer Species Facebook Group:
> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53023558433
> <http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53023558433>
>
> Or, with more questions, contact: email suppressed
>
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>
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