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“Cut and Run began in early 2009 in San Francisco as a single screening event at Artists’ Television Access. It has since evolved into an annual traveling film festival featuring experimental and avant-garde cinema, both contemporary and past works.

“C + R celebrates works that deviate from mainstream and traditional cinema and opt towards authentic, brave, challenging, stylized, alternative and imagined subjects. The call for submissions has no direct set theme. The program themes develop around the sense we make of the selected works as well as individual sought-out films that provoked and inspired us. In other words, our programs are inspired after we see your work.”

http://cutandruntour.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/the-2011-european-tour-call-for-submissions-and-venues-now-open/

Check-out this film created in Kerry Laitala’s Lightstruck workshop. The workshop was part of the 5th Annual ATA Film & Video Festival!

The film was made by exposing 16mm, B&W film stock by hand. “Cinegrams” were created by placing objects and material directly onto the film and casting their shadows upon the film with light. The students then hand-processed the film.

A program of short works from the 4th Annual ATA Film & Video Festival is going to be part of the 14th edition of the Microwave International Media Arts Festival in Hong Kong. The screening will take place at the Lecture Hall of the Hong Kong Space Museum on December 12, 2010.

As the first and only art festival in Hong Kong dedicated to new media art, Microwave has steadily grown into a well-established festival that brings cutting-edge works to provoke thought in the technological hub that Hong Kong is every year.

With the theme SCREENARCADIA, Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2010 is breaking the screen borders with a series of exhibitions, workshops, screenings and conference, and the very special world-touring street performance – “as if it were the last time”. Inviting audience to step into the screen world, open up its infinite possibilities.

Check out the festival program at http://www.microwavefest.net/festival2010/index.html

PROGRAM

The Salariat in Parts
Zachary Epcar – San Francisco, CA

Diatribe
Ben Popp – Portland, OR

Breathe
Sam Barnett – Berkeley, CA

Passage Briare
Friedl vom Groller – Germany

Elro
Ariel Diaz – San Francisco, CA

Spectrololgy
Kerry Laitala – San Francisco, CA

A Poem to be Read into a Flashlight with a Microphone Placed Above the Breast of a Pregnant Mother
Tommy Becker – San Francisco, CA

Naomi & Irving
Laura Bouza – Los Angeles, CA

Destination Finale
Philip Widmann – Germany

My Tears Are Dry
Laida Lertxundi – Spain/USA

Myth Labs
Martha Colburn – Netherlands/USA

Chorus
Paul Clipson – San Francisco, CA