please join us this afternoon with:
LOURDES FIGUEROA
NICOLE TRIGG
WENDY TREVINO
Author: Fara
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Gleanings from the Waste-Book: Brian Frye In Person
Co-presented by SF cinematheque.
Brian Frye, in town for the San Francisco premiere at of “Our Nixon” a documentary that film he produced, will also visit ATA to present a program of his short experimental works. Frye has long had an interest in marginal images such as home movies, amateur films, and found materials. His short films often play with those forms and the wide range of ideas that can be contained within. Fred Camper in his article, Cinema of Possibilities writes that Frye’s work “aims to blur the line between completed film and unfinished experiment—many of his best pieces look like fragments or rushes. His work is relentlessly self-questioning, offering a subtle, ever shifting mix of open-endedness and structure.”
Among the works that will be screened in this program are Anatomy of Melancholy (1999), Broken Camera Reels 1 & 2 (2000), Lachrymae (2000), Kaddish (2002), Nadja (2002), Observations at Gettysburg, 6 July 2002 (2002), Encomium (2003), A Reasonable Man (2011)
Brian L. Frye is a filmmaker and an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law, where he teaches copyright, intellectual property, art law, nonprofit organizations, and civil procedure. Brian recently produced the documentary film Our Nixon (2013) which premiered at Rotterdam and SXSW, was broadcast on CNN, and opened theatrically nationwide. His short films have been shown by The Whitney Museum, New York Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive, New York Underground Film Festival, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The Warhol Museum, among many other venues, and are in the permanent collection of The Whitney Museum. His writing on film has appeared in October, The New Republic, Film Comment and the Village Voice. Brian is a Creative Capital grantee and was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2012.
Readings:Fred Camper: Cinema of Possibilities
http://www.chicagoreader.com/
chicago/cinema-of- possibilities/Content?oid= 908964 Gregg Biermann & Sarah Markgraf: Cut to the Chase
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Julie Perini: Video Diaries & Other Adventures in the Everyday
Co-presented by GAZE women’s film series.Julie Perini is an artist working in experimental and documentary video, film, and installation. She has been making videos since she was a teenager poking around her house with her parents’ underused, oversized VHS camcorder. She still pokes around her house, and other people’s houses, with camera in hand. Julie lives in Portland, Oregon.Julie Time, SD video, 1 minute, 2012
Quick editing of 120 shots and snappy sound provide viewers with an opportunity to dance their way through the daily life of the artist. For the past three years, Julie has been creating one Minute Movie each day, which is a 60-second, single take video. She catalogues, studies, and meditates on this material for use in other videos. Julie Time is made from Minute Movies.
306 Steps in Guanajuato, SD video, 1 minute 41 seconds, 2012
306 Steps in Guanajuato shows all of the steps between the city of Guanajuato’s downtown and El Pipila, an enormous monument to a hero of the Mexican War for Independence, located at the top of a mountain. The same footage is edited two ways: one is edited to communicate a slow, plodding journey up the steep steps, while the other edit shows a quick run down the same steps.
Girl Next Door, SD video, 19 minutes & 59 seconds, 2010
Girl Next Door uses strategies and techniques of the essay film, structural cinema, personal filmmaking and performance to tell the story of the process of creating a movie about the cluster of apartment dwellers surrounding the artist’s apartment. The piece deploys three types of interviews: two with actual neighbors, two with paid actors, and two with people whose life circumstances might resemble those of the neighbors.
White Lady Diaries, SD video, 5 minutes, 2013
White Lady Diaries is a personal, experimental documentary that explores white racial identity in the present-day United States through close observation of the everyday life activities of the artist. Racial privileges that are typically difficult to see come to the surface in this gentle but critical examination of one particular white life.
Nebraska Diaries: #1 Nebraska Diaries: #2 Nebraska Diaries: #3 SD video, 2013, These are in-progress!
They have a name for girls like me, SD video, 8 minutes & growing, 2007 – ongoing
They have a name for girls like me. uses appropriated material from films with characters named Julie. All of the appropriated film’s footage is edited out except for moments when a character utters the word, “Julie.” This creates an exhausting repetition of the one word, Julie, while also offering viewers a frenzied cross-section of global fiction narrative film. Each time the video screens, another Julie film is cut and added to the piece.