Schedule of 2004
superCinematic Events
for the 42nd
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Tuesday February 17
7:30pm
Media Union Video Studio
Digital New
School screening
Digital New School is a
screening showcasing experimental motion pictures created using digital
technologies, programmed by Leslie Raymond for last year's Ann Arbor
Film Festival and presented now as a warm-up for this year's
Festival. Raymond will introduce the program and talk about the
role it played in opening the Festival competition to include video
& digital formats for the first time in its 42 years!
http://www.umich.edu/~elray/dns/diginooskoo.html
Friday February 20
6:30-9:00
Ann Arbor Art Center
Digital
Canvas reception
music provided by the Rattling
Wall Collective in Dutch
"Live video," a visual art form
found at the crossroads of video, performance, music, and painting, is
usually presented in a club, theater or other performance setting. For
Digital Canvas, curator Leslie Raymond recontextualizes this work in a
gallery, employing still images from live visual media performances to
highlight a relationship to the formal concerns of painting. Featuring
work by area artists Shenanigans, juLiE mEitZ, verzerren vs.
bubblegone, Detroit Techno Vision, and vjFutureWorkerGirl.
Digital Canvas runs February 20
- March 17, 2004
http://www.aafilmfest.org/content/binary/digital_canvas.swf
Friday March 12
6-9pm reception
Work Gallery
superCinematics@WORK
reception
Installation art that expands
cinematic screen will be on view during the Ann Arbor Film
Festival. Artists include Rae Davis (Ontario), John Kalymnions
(NYC), Frank Pahl (Detroit) , Anne Walsh (Berkeley), and silt (San
Francisco).
superCinematics@WORK runs March
11-21
Tuesday March 16
6:30pm
parade route TBA
Look! Hear"
superCinematics Parade!
A demonstration of local
creativity put on by artists aiming to revive the spirit of the early
days of the Ann Arbor Film Festival…
Wednesday March 17
4:30-6:30
Ann Arbor Art Center
Digital
Canvas closing party
with “Scotopic Turbulence : Crib and Sift”
a live 16mm film performance by
Bruce McClure; 5-6pm
An exhibition of Michigan-area
video projection artists: Jim Ryan & Deon Foster (Lansing), juLiE
mEitZ (Detroit), Jason Engling & Joe Bauer (Ann Arbor), Jon Hudson
(Detroit), and VJ Future Worker Girl (Ann Arbor), consisting of
large-scale still images from live projected performances, curated by
Leslie Raymond.
Digital Canvas runs February 20
- March 17, 2004
Tuesday March 16
8pm & 10pm shows
Firefly Club
mPathic.AV
with Faruq Z
Bey
mPathic.AV is a blend of
Artists joined together by creativity. Our mission is to freely
express emotion, explore ideas and to share with others…the mPathic
Audio Visual experience. We do this by collaborating to create
works that explore the meshing of music, cinematic art, spoken word and
other art forms.
Wednesday March 17
11pm
Firefly Club
Kodachrome
Kommados
with DJ Bob
Moir
The Kodachrome Komandos are
Cranbrook’s Ryan Buyssens and James Ewing. They return to the
Film Festival salon-circuit this year to immerse the viewer in the
unapologetically analog format of super-8 and regular-8 film,
juxtaposing several genres of found footage, running multiple
projectors simultaneously, accompanied by hometown DJ Bob Moir.
Thursday March 18
11pm
Firefly Club
Jeff
Economy & Carolyn Faber: Optimism Overran Invention
with Matt
DeGenero and Scott Tuma
Filmmakers Jeff Economy and
Carolyn Faber have excavated, collected, cut, shot and/or chemically
altered dozens of film loops and fragments for this performance.
They project their images simultaneously and alternately,
superimposing, fading and dissolving into each other to create a fluid
yet completely improvised whole out of seemingly scattered, tattered
pieces. Each performance is uniquely designed for each venue.
Friday March 19
8:00pm, 10:00pm
Michigan Theater
SuperSonicScreen
screenings
Two different shows of live
performances, film, and video that explore the sound-image
relationship. Live artists include Thinkbox (Detroit/Windsor),
Ken Butler (NYC), Shenanigans (Lansing, MI), and Josh Rosenstock
(Chicago).
Friday March 19
11pm
Firefly Club
Thinkbox
CD-release Party!
“Thinkbox is a Windsor/Detroit
artist collective that began their collaborations in the late 90's.
Their vision of art includes "producing a kind of experimental
intermedia that is both unfamiliar and unique." Large scale new media
installations and performances are part of their collaborative resume.
The use of sound has been a key element in their works.” Jhoan Baluyot
Join Thinkbox in this
celebration of the release of their new CD during which the crew will
improvise a live audio and video mix!
Saturday March 20
11pm
Firefly Club
Eyeball
Earhole Confederation
The Ann Arbor Film Festival
closing party features the artists from the Digital Canvas exhibition
jamming live, hi-tech, low-tech, analog, digital, film, video, sound,
and image.
With special installation
artworks and performances TBA at Downtown Home & Garden.
produced by Leslie Raymond