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2008 New York Underground Film Festival
These are the films shown at the 15th New York Underground Film Festival, held from April 2–8, 2008. {, class="wikitable" , - !width="40%", Film name !width="23%", Director !width="21%", Type !width="6%", Length !width="10%", Notes , - , 1956 , Jenny Stark , Documentary Video , 7:30 , , - , 4 Films in 5 Minutes , Skizz Cyzyk , Experimental 16mm , 6:00 , , - , 4 Ways he tried to tell you , Jennet Thomas , Experimental Video , 6:00 , , - , Adventure Poseidon, The , Anne Mcguire , Feature 35mm On Video , 117:00 , New York Premiere , - , America's Biggest Dick , Bryan Boyce , Short Video , 3:00 , , - , Amy Goodrow: Tape 5925 , Eileen Maxson , Experimental Video , 6:00 , , - , Andre the Giant Has A Posse , Helen Stickler , Documentary Video , 20:00 , , - , Armored Cars: Protect Yourself from Ballistic Attacks , Angie Waller , Experimental Video , 8:26 , , - , Beirut Outtakes , Peggy Ahwesh , Experimental 16mm On Video , 7:00 , , - , Broad Day , Kevin Jerome Everson , Short 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Underground Film Festival
The New York Underground Film Festival was an annual event that occurred each March at Anthology Film Archives in New York City from 1994 through 2008 founded by filmmakers Todd Phillips ('' Road Trip'', '' Old School'') and Andrew Gurland. After Phillips and Gurland turned the festival over to programmer Ed Halter, it became noted for documentary and experimental film programming, and occasionally courted controversy, particularly in its early years. Some of these have included: premiering the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) documentary, '' Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys'', in 1994; premiering a film in 1995 that accused Quentin Tarantino of plagiarism; being protested by Reverend Fred Phelps in 2002 (apparently for not choosing to show a film about Phelps); and premiering a theatrical version of Brad Neely's Harry Potter parody ''Wizard People, Dear Reader'', which eventually led to action by Warner Brothers to suppress future theatrical performances of the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hito Steyerl
Hito Steyerl (born 1 January 1966) is a German filmmaker, moving image artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary."Hito Steyerl" ''e-flux'', Retrieved 10 August 2014. Her principal topics of interest are media, technology, and the global circulation of images. Steyerl holds a PhD in Philosophy from the . She is currently a professor of New Media Art at the , where she co-founded the Research Center for Proxy Politics, together with Vera Tollmann and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Film Festivals
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Robert Banks (filmmaker)
Robert C. Banks, Jr. (born September 7, 1966) is an American experimental filmmaker. Biography Banks attended the Cleveland School of the Arts and has taught film at Cuyahoga Community College, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and Cleveland State University. His best known work is the 1992 film, '' X: The Baby Cinema'', a 4.5 minute, 16 mm short film which chronicled the commercial appropriation of the image of Malcolm X. The movie appeared on the compilation video ''The Best Of The New York Underground:Year One''. The 1994 feature documentary film, '' You Can't Get a Piece of Mind'' explores the world of Cleveland musician and Vietnam veteran, Dan "Supie T" Theman. Banks has had his films shown at the Sundance Film Festival, was named Filmmaker of the Year at the Midwest Filmmakers Conference, and in 2000, he was the honored guest filmmaker in London at the BBC British Short Film Festival. Banks lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Filmography * (1989) ''Untitled'' (16 mm) * (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shana Moulton
Shana Moulton is a New York based media artist who explores contemporary anxieties through her filmic alter ego, Cynthia. Combining an unsettling, wry humor with a low-tech, Pop sensibility, Cynthia's interactions with the everyday world are both mundane and surreal, in a domestic sphere just slightly askew. As her protagonist navigates the enigmatic and possibly magical properties of her home decor, Moulton initiates relationships with objects and consumer products that are at once banal and uncanny. Background and education Born in Oakhurst, California, Shana Moulton attended the University of California, Berkeley and continued to receive a MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. She has also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and De Ateliers in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Moulton has been an artist in resident at Harvestworks, New York City (2008), and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2011). She has also received fellowships and grants from the Experimenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelly Silver
Shelly Silver (born 1957 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American artist who works with film, video, and photography. Her art has been exhibited and broadcast throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. She is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University School of the Arts. Biography Silver attended Cornell University, graduating in 1980 with a B.A. in Intellectual History, and a B.F.A. in Mixed Media and subsequently attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Studio Program. She has worked as a commercial video editor. In the 1990s, she lived in Germany, France, and Japan. Silver has taught video art at the German Film and Television Academy, the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and presently at Columbia University. She has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, the DAAD, the Jerome Foundation, the Japan Foundation and Anonymous was a Woman. She curre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nao Bustamante
Nao Bustamante (born September 3, 1969) is a Chicana interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator from the San Joaquin Valley in California. Her artistic practice encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation, and video and explores issues of ethnicity, class, gender, performativity, and the body. Early life and education Bustamante was born in California. She first trained in postmodern dance before moving into the realm of performance in the mid-1980s. Active in the San Francisco between 1984-2001, Bustamante was once referred to as "the doyenne of the Bay Area’s underground cultural scene."Fusco, Coco, ed. Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas. London: Routledge, 2000. She holds a BFA and MFA from the New Genres Program at the San Francisco Art Institute. Career Bustamante has performed in galleries, museums, universities, and underground sites internationally, notably collaborating with performing artist Coco Fusco and the experimental arts entity Os ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hrag Yedalian
Hrag Varoujan Yedalian (born December 14, 1981, in Los Angeles County, California) is an Armenian-American political consultant and documentary film director and producer. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and holds a Masters of Public Administration degree from the University of Southern California. He has attended UCLA School of Law and studied film editing at the AFI Conservatory. Hrag runs the Los Angeles-based consulting firBlue State Campaigns His work has been featured in Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, and San Francisco Chronicle. He previously worked at Steven Spielberg’s organization, the USC Shoah Foundation. Filmography *Advantage Player' (2023)Animus(2023)''Dead Connection''(2023) *Amber(Music Video)'' Serj Tankian featuring Sevak Amroyan (2022) *In Search of Boozers and Schmucks (Documentary Short)'' (2022) *''System of A Down (Music Video Behind the Scenes) Protect the Land'' (2020)''Karabian: A Glimpse Into a Statesman's Life''(201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Finn (filmmaker)
Jim Finn is the writer/director of what have been called "Utopian comedies." His first feature film ''Interkosmos'' (71 minutes, 2006) is about an East German space colonization mission. His second feature ''La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo'' (60 minutes, 2007) is about a day in the life of a Shining Path women's prison cellblock. His third feature ''The Juche Idea'' (62 minutes, 2008) is about an artist residency in North Korea. He has been making short films and videos since 1999. His work is available through the Video Data Bank and Facets DVD. He was born in 1968 in St. Louis, Missouri. He went to graduate school at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and studied Creative Writing at the University of Arizona. He teaches video and writing at Emerson College. He started making movies in Chicago in the late 1990s and became a fixture on the microcinema scene. His short videos appeared at festivals like the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Underground Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luther Price
Luther Price (pseudonym) (January 26, 1962 – June 13, 2020) was an experimental filmmaker and visual artist. Biography Price was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts in 1962. He received a BFA in Sculpture and Media/Performing Arts from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where he studied with Saul Levine. Before taking the name Luther Price, he worked under various pseudonyms, including Brigk Aethy, Fag, and Tom Rhoads. While at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Luther collaborated with students in the Studio for Interrelated Media on many projects including creating events, performance art, music projects and exhibitions. He was an experimental filmmaker whose work has been widely screened in the United States and Europe at such venues as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the San Francisco Cinematheque. He was an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts teaching ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cory Arcangel
Cory Arcangel (born May 25, 1978) is an American post-conceptual artist who makes work in many different media, including drawing, music, video, performance art, and video game modifications, for which he is best known. Arcangel often uses the artistic strategy of appropriation, creatively reusing existing materials such as dancing stands, Photoshop gradients and YouTube videos to create new works of art. His work explores the relationship between digital technology and pop culture. He is a recipient of a 2006 Creative Capital Emerging Fields Award Early life Arcangel grew up in Buffalo, New York and attended the Nichols School, where he was a star lacrosse goalie. He was exposed to experimental video artists such as Nam June Paik through the Squeaky Wheel Buffalo Media Arts Center. He was very interested in guitar, practicing eight hours a day by the time he turned seventeen. He studied classical guitar at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, but later switched to major in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harun Farocki
Harun Farocki (9 January 1944 – 30 July 2014) was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film. Early life and education Farocki was born as Harun El Usman FaroqhiMargalit Fox (3 August 2014)''New York Times''. in Neutitschein, which is now Nový Jičín in the Czech Republic. His father, Abdul Qudus Faroqui, had immigrated to Germany from India in the 1920s. His German mother had been evacuated from Berlin due to the Allied bombing of Germany. He simplified the spelling of his surname as a young man. After World War II Farocki grew up in India and Indonesia before the family resettled in Hamburg in 1958. Farocki, who was deeply influenced by Bertolt Brecht and Jean-Luc Godard, studied at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) from 1966 to 1968. He began making films – from the very beginning, they were non-narrative essays on the politics of imagery – in the mid-1960s. From 1974 to 1984, when its publication ceased, he edited the magazine '' Filmkritik' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
