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Reelport presents new viewing options at Berlin and Clermont-Ferrand festivals
/ March 11, 2010
At the recent film festivals in Berlin and Clermont-Ferrand, the Reelport submission platform introduced some new ways to enter and upload films and use its Video Library.
Starting in 2010, festivals can integrate a submission module, and if desired also an upload module, directly into their own website. The films uploaded by the filmmakers are forwarded to the Reelport server, encoded uniformly and then transmitted back to the festivals.
Participating festivals use Reelport’s Video Library to view the submitted films, and can also make it available online to buyers and professionals following the festival. An offline version of the Video Library can be installed in a local network as a digital film market for use during the festival.
A demo version of the online Video Library as already deployed by the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen during its preview process can be accessed online with a password, available upon request from Reelport.
URL: http://www.reelport.com
UniFrance releases 12th edition of its Short Cuts DVD series
/ March 11, 2010In February 2010, UniFrance released the twelfth Short Cuts DVD featuring nine recent French short films. The following titles are included: “7.57 am-pm”, “Allons-y! Alonzo!”, “En attendant que la pluie cesse”, “L’Ètrangère”, “Le Petit Dragon”, “Une pute et un poussin”, “Tragédie Grouick”, “L’Aide au retour” and “Sacrifié(s)”.
Short Cuts is a promotion effort launched by UniFrance’s commission on short film. Twice a year a DVD is released in an edition of 800 and distributed to festivals, buyers and vendors. The selection is made out of a pool of new films that have received subtitle funding from UniFrance, by a panel to which representatives of foreign buyers and vendors are appointed.
URL: http://www.unifrance.org/actualites/5487/short-cuts-fevrier-2010
„Painting Paradise“ © Barbara Hlali
EMAF “Social Arts” tour programme
/ March 11, 2010As in previous years, the European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück) is once again sending a programme of films and videos from the last festival off on tour. The title of this year’s programme is “Social Arts”. It presents a total of seven international works, including award-winners “(The Never Ending) Operetta” by Istvan Kantor (EMAF Award 2009) and the anti-war animation “Painting Paradise” by Barbara Hlali (German Film Critics’ Award for best German experimental film).
Other works in the line-up deal with societal, social and environmental problems. One focus is the situation of the artist in today’s society, for example in “Ivo Burokvic – The Life of the Fake Artist as a Young Man”. The works’ aesthetic and technology range from HD computer animations (“Westcoast”) to dramaturgically perfect dance-and-theatre constructions (“Burlesque” and “Naufrage”) all the way to YouTube video (“Rehab”).
The approximately 80-minute programme comes on DVD or miniDV and can be rented from the festival’s support association, Experimentalfilm Workshop e.V.
The next EMAF Festival takes place from 21 to 25 April under the motto “Mash Up”.
URL: http://www.emaf.de
Videobrasil on tour – New festival concept in 2011
/ March 11, 2010In 2009 the Brazilian tour of the Associação Cultural Videobrasil’s programme “Cuide de você (Take Care of Yourself)” attracted 60,000 viewers. In 2010 Videobrasil will continue its work along the same lines, but starting in 2011 there are plans to unveil a new version of the international festival. The event will then take up a specific topic as leitmotif and will feature a large-scale international exhibition, commissioned works, and an educational curatorial programme with new publications. Entries will be accepted starting the first half of 2010.
The activities of the Associação Cultural Videobrasil are sponsored by SESC São Paulo (Servício Social Comercio/The Social Service of Commerce).
URL: http://www.videobrasil.org.br
„Please say something“ © David O’Reilly
Discoveries in the vlogosphere – Short film online
/ March 11, 2010_Prizewinners: PLEASE SAY SOMETHING by David OReilly (D 2009)
Synopsis: “A troubled relationship between a Cat and Mouse set in the distant Future”.
http://vimeo.com/3388129?hd=1
SKHIZEIN by Jérémy Clapin (F 2008)
http://www.vimeo.com/6913172
_New on Ubuweb:
“Cinema of Transgression” – Films by Richard Kern, Beth B, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Kempra Pfahler and others.
http://www.ubu.com/film/transgression.html
Films by Nick Zedd (THE SINEMA OF NICK ZEDD, Part 1 & 2)
http://www.ubu.com/film/zedd_abnormal_01.html
_Design + Technology: SURFACE – A FILM FROM UNDERNEATH by Varathit Uthaisri (Thailand/USA 2009)
Synopsis: “SURFACE is an experimental film, exploring the emotional journey from an underground urban perspective” (V. Uthaisri)
http://www.surfacefilm.com/
_Diary film: A VISIT TO STAN BRAKHAGE by Jonas Mekas (USA 1966/2006)
Synopsis: “In late 1966 I visited Stan Brakhage in Rollinsville, Colorado. This is a portrait of Stan at home, with his family, his animals, and the surroundings, 9000 feet high.”
http://www.re-voir.com/blogger/Mekas_Brakage.mp4
_Music video: GRINDIN for “Nobody beats the Drum” by Rogier van der Zwaag (NL 2010)
Stop-motion animation with 400 pieces of wood
http://vimeo.com/9625370
_Machinima: “Le hÈros dÈdaigneux” by Les Riches Douaniers (F 2009)
http://www.karapika.com/machinima/herosd.htm
_Commercials by Peter Lindbergh and Darius Khondji with Nora Arnezeder for the NEW LOCK handbag collection from Christian Dior (F 2009)
http://www.diorcouture.com/newlock/
„La Coquille et le clergyman“ © Germaine Dulac
DVD spotting
/ March 11, 2010_New at INDEX/Sixpackfilms
INDEX 035: “VISIONary – Contemporary Short Documentaries and Experimental Films from Austria”
DVD 1 Short Documentaries: Films by Mette Löcker, Johannes Holzhausen, Maria Arlamovsky, Klub 2
DVD 2 Short Documentaries: Films by Michaela Schwentner, Elke Groen, Angelika Brudniak, Cynthia Madansky, Jan Machacek, Siegfried Fruhauf, Dietmar Offenhuber, Lotte Schreiber, Billy Roisz, Josef Dabernig, Michaela Grill, Dextro, Martin Bruch, Manuel Knapp, Barbara Doser and others
Region 0, PAL, original with English + German subtitles, booklet, €28.80
Further information: http://www.index-dvd.at/de/program/034/index.html
_New at RE:VOIR Video
“Takashi Ito Film Anthology”
DVD 1 (73 min): Spacy / Box / Thunder / Screw / Drill / Ghost / Grim / Photo Diary / Wall / Photo Diary 87 / Devil's Circuit / The Mummy's Dream / Venus
DVD 2 (77min.)
December Hide-and-Go-Seek / THE MOON / ZONE / Apparatus M / MONOCHROME HEAD / Dizziness / A Silent Day
Region 0, NTSC, 2 DVD-9, €34
Further information: http://revoirvideo.blogspot.com/2010/02/ito-takashi-film-anthology-dvd-ntsc.html
“Surrealism and Experiment in Belgian Cinema”
Films by Henri Storck and Charles Dekeukeleire and others: SCENES OF OSTEND (1929), FOR YOUR BEAUTIFUL EYES (1929), STORY OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER (1932), PICTURES ON THE SIDELINE (1932), BOXING MATCH (1927), VISIONS OF LOURDES (1932), IMPATIENCE (1928), DETECTIVE STORY (1929), THE PEARL (Henri d’Ursell 1929), FANTOMAS (Ernst Moerman 1937).
Region 0, PAL, 2 DVDs, French with English + Dutch subtitles, €21
Further information: http://revoirvideo.blogspot.com/2009/03/avant-garde-1927-1937.html
Box set DVD & book: LA COQUILLE ET LE CLERGYMAN (The Seashell and the Clergyman), Germaine Dulac after a book by Antonin Artaud (F 1927)
Contents: Original version restored by the Nederlands Filmmuseum in cooperation with Light Cone; silent and three sound versions; report on the restoration of the film; 2 bonus films by Nicolas Droin and Prosper Hillairet; biography/filmography; new edition of the book by Alain and Odette Virmaux (160 pages)
Region 0, French/English, €32.90
Further information: http://revoirvideo.blogspot.com/2009/10/germaine-dulac-la-coquille-et-le.html