Cinema Arts: The Soul of Things and Light Play With Live Music
February 5, 2011, 15h
McBean Theater, Exploratorium
3601 Lyon Street, San Francisco, California 94123-1099
With Filmmaker Dominic Angerame
Live Music by Kevin Barnard
And
László Moholy-Nagy’s Light Play

On Saturday, February 5, at 2 pm, the Exploratorium presents a special screening of two short films that examine light and shadow. They are The Soul of Things by Dominic Angerame and László Moholy-Nagy’s Light Play. This event is included in the price of admission to the Exploratorium.

Award-winning filmmaker Dominic Angerame will present The Soul of Things (2010, 15 min.), a work that uses historical San Francisco footage to explore the fluid nature of urban architecture through the saturated chemistry of black and white high-contrast film. The film will be presented in 16mm and accompanied by a live soundscape written and performed by San Francisco musician Kevin Barnard.

The program also includes Light Play: Black/White/Gray (1930, 6 min.), László Moholy-Nagy’s cinematic study of a kinetic sculpture called the Light-Space Modulator that creates luminous shadows and reflections. Don’t miss this unique event and the opportunity to meet filmmaker Dominic Angerame. The Cinema Arts Program is funded in part by the Louis Goldblatt Memorial Fund and by a grant from Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.

Winnipeg Film Group presents
Experimental Series: Expanded Cinema; The Poetics of the Frame
May 28-June 4, 2011

Held over two weekends, this workshop will focus on the poetics of First Person Cinema. Participants will watch and discuss work by filmmakers who explore meditative subtle explorations of carefully framed shots and indexical in-camera abstractions. Participants will be invited to show their final projects in both traditional and non-traditional spaces. After one week of shooting two rolls of high contrast 16mm, participants will hand process their footage with an emphasis on clean images (no scratches) and no image manipulation. Experience in hand processing is an asset, but not essential.

Dates:
Sat May 28 & Sat Jun 4 11am-5pm
Fee: $120 mem/ $150 non-mem
Instructor: Solomon Nagler

Online registration available

For more information on workshops, please contact Darcy Fehr at 925-3450 or darcy@winnipegfilmgroup.com

* Please read our registration policy before registering!

About the instructor
Solomon Nagler's films have played across Canada, in the U.S., Europe and Asia at venues such the Centre Pompidou (Paris), L'Université Paris Panthéon Sorbonne and Lincoln Center in New York. His work has been featured in Retrospectives at the Winnipeg Cinematheque in August of 2004, at the Excentris Cinema in Montreal in August of 2007, the Festival De Le Cinéma Different in Paris in December 2005 and 2007, The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers and The Canadian Film Institute in 2009. Originally from Winnipeg, Solomon Nagler currently lives in Halifax where he is a professor of film production at NSCAD University.

SAM / OTO - Balloon and Needle: The New Korean Avant-Garde
Thursday January 20th-22nd, 17h
Cafe OTO
18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London E8 3DL

A three day residency at Cafe Oto, 20th - 22nd January 2011

Through live performance, screenings and workshops, this three day residency explores the unique sonic and visual world of a group of young South Korean artists and noise makers appearing in the UK for the first time. Within the tiny experimental underground of Seoul, this tight - knit collective has developed a sound, style, and approach to creativity outside the influences of their Japanese and European kin, conjuring a distinct vocabulary that reflects the collective spirit of a new South Korean avant-garde.

Lee Hangjun (16mm film projection)
Choi Joonyong (cracked CD players)
Hong Chulki (turntables)
Ryu Hankil (self-made electro-acoustic instruments)
Jin Sangtae (cracked hard-drive)