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DRIP 2008 - Student Moving Image Festival

Our own Deke Weaver, is organizing the second ever DRIP annual student festival of the moving image. It is open to all undergrads from UIUC's School of Art & Design. Your work will be juried by Lissa Gibbs, Director of Contemporary Art Tucson (and former curator of San Francisco's Film Arts Festival), along with the work of studentts from Rensselaer Polytech and the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth.
Here's the skinny:
+ Videos must be 5 min or less
+ Work must have been completed after Jan 1, 2006
+ 2 submissions allowed per student
+ submissions must be in Quicktime DV-NTSC format
+ Deadline is May 7!

To submit download this flyer and submission form.

posted by ryan griffis at 10:26 AM Wednesday, April 23, 2008

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Last Project

Our last project is here, and it's due on our last day of class - Tuesday April 29. It's a no-holds-barred, all-or-nothing, anything-goes, do-or-die, know-when-to-hold-'em, knock-down-drag-out... assignment. In other words, there are no thematic or formal constraints on what you produce. It doesn't even have to be video. It can be a super 8 film. It can be a performance. It can be watching candles melt.
OK, a couple of constraints... we can't burn anything in or near the building. And nothing that takes more than 5 minutes to actually watch. And no guns. Or hoaxes about bombs.
Also, if you'd like to use this project to restage one of your previous projects, go for it. But it must be either re-shot or re-edited significantly differently.
And, this is kind of exciting, although the collection isn't quite exciting itself - the library is offering streaming versions of some films/videos.

posted by ryan griffis at 11:44 AM Monday, April 21, 2008

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More Television Satire: Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

Darkplace is a double satire of British sci-fi that includes a backstory via commentary. If you're a fan of the original BBC series The Office, or This is Spinal Tap, you should enjoy this.

posted by ryan griffis at 10:52 PM Friday, April 11, 2008

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Commercial Parodies +

So, I found the "Taco Town" SNL ad.
And "Colon Blow".
Also, for an interesting mix up of old advertising and other footage, check out Rick Prelinger's "Panorama Ephemera".
For anyone interested in the Rushkoff "Merchants of Cool" Frontline series, you can see it online here.
If you have others that are interesting, feel free to post them in the comments, or on your blog.

posted by ryan griffis at 4:21 PM Thursday, April 10, 2008

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For Thursday

For those not in class Tuesday, you need to have storyboards for your two 30 sec videos to discuss. They can be electronic or on paper, but either way, take them a little more seriously than quick doodles of stick men. I suggest employing a montage method - using found images of people, things and settings that approximate your intention. You should be thinking about everything from composition to color to lighting, using the storyboards as a way to think through and imagine your visions. A good starting point is 3 frames per video minimum.
ALSO, for anyone planning on attending the Craig Baldwin event I posted about below (on April 11), I just found out the time should be 8pm not 9 as previously listed.

posted by ryan griffis at 8:53 PM Tuesday, April 8, 2008

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Tuesday April 8

The last of the four visiting candidates for the sculpture/3d position will be speaking on Tuesday at the usual 4pm in room 229. We will meet there before returning to the lab to discuss the project in more detail.
Relating to the project, I have decided to extend the deadline to April 17, rather than the 15th, because of the change to our class schedule over the last week.

posted by ryan griffis at 11:47 AM Monday, April 7, 2008

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Upcoming Screenings of Interest

Monday, April 7th:
For-Educational-Use-Only: a Series of Video Screenings (A&D room 229, 7pm)
Chris Marker's "Sans Soleil"
1983, 100 min, 16mm film, color, sound

Stretching the genre of documentary, this essay-film is a rich composition of thoughts, images and scenes, mainly from Japan and Guinea-Bissau, "two extreme poles of survival". Some other scenes were filmed in Iceland, Paris, and San Francisco. A female narrator reads from letters supposedly sent to her by the (fictitious) cameraman Sandor Krasna. "Sans Soleil" contains some stock footage, clips from Japanese film and television, and a few excerpts from other films. The original documentary footage was filmed by Marker with a 16mm Beaulieu silent film camera in conjunction with a non-sync portable tape recorder.

And, if your in or near Chicago next Friday:

Craig Baldwin, video and performance @ Enemy, 9pm, 4/11/08
Craig Baldwin presents his curated video series "Blows Against the Empire" (also listed sometimes as: "Blows Against the Empire: Jamming Tactics from Direct-Action to Media Intervention) -- followed by live audio/video performances, including I <3 Presets. At Enemy - 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. 3rd Fl. (Damen Blue line, Damen/North).

Baldwin is an amazing SF Bay-area film maker and responsible for Other Cinema, and alt distribution system.

posted by ryan griffis at 5:27 PM Thursday, April 3, 2008

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