October 29th 2008!

Torsten Zenas Burns

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“TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS: COLLABOTRONICA”

Spectral space station training, etheric man-infestations,
re-imagined educational workshops, obsessive compulsive androids, gestural researchers, and semi-dead hosts are entwined at the spirited spine in this selection of works by video makers who work together and apart. These Collaborative works between Torsten Zenas Burns, the Halflifers, Darrin Martin, The Foundry, Virocode and Michael O’Malley chart
a processed terrain of variable speculative fictions.

WORKS TO BE SCREENED INCLUDE:
Ship to Ship (3:00 - variable date) - Torsten Zenas Burns & Mike O’Malley
Extending Trainer: Pressure suits & Broom-crafts (21:00 – 2007) Torsten Zenas Burns
Afterlifers: Walking & Talking (Extendead version)
(23:00 – 2008) HALFLIFERS(Torsten Zenas Burns & Anthony Discenza)
I am today’s lesson plan – (11:00- variable date)Torsten Zenas Burns & Darrin Martin

BIOGRAPHY
Torsten Zenas Burns received his BFA in experimental video in 1990 from the New York State College of Art at Alfred University and his MFA in video and performance art from The San Franscisco Art Institute in 1993. He has created & curated video and installation projects exploring speculative content, including reimagined educational practices, experimental space programs, zombie /afterlife relationships, medical manifestations, and improvisational splatstick choreographies. Other projects include long term collaborations with Anthony Discenza under the name HALFLIFERS, media artist Darrin Martin ,and VIROCODE. Burns' video work is distributed by Vtape, Canada, The Video Data Bank in Chicago, Lux Center in England, and Recontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. Over the past 10 years Burns has participated in 8 residency programs including Headlands Center for the Arts, L.M.C.C. World Views Studio Program and Eyebeam. Burns has had video work screened at the the Museum of Modern Art's Video Viewpoints and Premieres series, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Pacific Film Archive,Cinematexas, Aurora Picture Show, Scanners: The New York Video Festival, The New York Underground Film & video Festival, The Chicago Underground Film & video Festival, the European Media Arts Festival, the Impakt Festival, the Melbourne International Film Festival,the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, and the 4th Busan,Korean international video festival. In 2008 he curated for the Stuttgarter Filmwinter festival for expanded media, HHORRRAUTICA (an ongoing research initiative fusing reimagined horror,medical,and communication hybrids.)

October 22nd!

Our Lady of the Turks by Carmelo Bene

Nostra Signora dei Turchi
1968, Italy, 124’, colour

Independent filmmaker Carmelo Bene makes his debut in this feature that concerns the murder of the Saracens in the city of Otranto centuries ago. Our Lady appears at various times in the film, symbolic of the carnal desires and spiritual dreams of all men. Flashbacks and avant garde cinematic techniques provide passages of erotica and black humor on occasion. The story was taken from Bene's own novel as the author oversees all aspects of writing, production and direction in this experimental and provocative film.
Director: Carmelo Bene
Cinematography: Mario Masini
Special effects: R. Marinelli
Editing: Mauro Contini
Music coordinated by Carmelo Bene
Production: Carmelo BeneCast: Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli,

Ornella Ferrari, Anita Masini, Salvatore Siniscalchi, Vincenzo Musso

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MassArt Film Society October 15th!

Shelly Silver's in complete world
premiered on September 24 at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC to an overwhelming response. Audience members said again and again that this film needs to be seen right away, by as many voting aged viewers as possible. In colleges, community cinemas, on television, everywhere - before Election Day, November 4, 2008. in complete world is a 53-minute documentary made up of street interviews shot throughout NYC. Mixing political questions (Are we responsible for the government we get?) with more broadly existential ones (Do you feel you have control over your life?), the film centers on the tension between individual and collective responsibility.-VDB

Sue Friedrich's From the Ground Up
The definitive scoop on the coffee trade.
"With deep intelligence and a very light touch, Friedrich invites you to wake up and smell the global economy."-Stuart Klawans, author of LEFT IN THE DARK

Bruce Conner's Report
A meditation on violence using edited and re-edited stock and filmed television footage of Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

October 8, 2008

Showing October 8!

James Nares

ROOF
1975. 1/2» video.
Self portrait as a head adrift in the city.

RAMP
1976. S8 to 16mm.
A concrete ball on the off ramp to the old West Side Highway.

NO JAPS AT MY FUNERAL
1980. 3/4» video.
«No Japs at my Funeral» is a deconstructive propaganda piece that demolishes the British version of events in Northern Ireland. It is an eloquent statement about brutality and victims, told mainly by Jackie, an IRA man whose personal account is intercut with images from British television. No Japs has the same formal properties as a typical TV «documentary», but is aimed to show the bias of what is known on TV as «truth»
Gary Indiana. East Village Eye. Summer 1980.

WAITING FOR THE WIND
1982 (?) S8 to 16mm.
«Waiting for the wind is a technical tour de force. Nares creates a tornado-like catastrophe with a hand-held super-8 camera, a shooting ratio of three to one (about $100 worth of film stock), and remarkable timing…fine filmmaking control is used to suggest the terror of a world completely beyond personal control…Nares opens up the possibility of metaphor, evoking forces both terrifying and exhilarating.»
Amy Taubin. Soho Weekly News. June 1982.

THE LIGHTHOUSE
1991 Hi 8 video (30.00 minutes)
A wandering being, in search of sustenance in a wintry wasteland, experiences a strange transformation, which grants him insight into the possibility of a solution to his predicament.
This film, which was shot during the winter of 1990-1991, had been abandoned before the finished edit and remained thus until 2007, when Nares returned to it and brought it to completion.

October1st 2008!

Ann Steuernagel October 1st 2008
asteuernagel@verizon.net

Ann Steuernagel is an experimental video and sound artist. Her visual work accentuates the gestures and quotidian rhythms of her subjects. Ann’s sound work—a blend of music, ambient sound, and noise—stems from her on-going collaboration with choreographer Caitlin Corbett. Ann’s work has been presented throughout the United States and in Canada, Mexico, and Europe. She is the recipient of the grand prize at the XX VideoArt Festival in Locarno, Switzerland, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Media Fellowship, a LEF grant, and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Ann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at Northeastern University.

website: http://boyrunning.com/

"I work almost exclusively with found footage of every kind (educational and industrial films, feature film and home movies). Once I have appropriated the footage I practice the art of montage with great pleasure reconfiguring the explicit message of the films. The resulting work offers a critique of gender roles, systems of communication and dubious technological advancements. " -Ann Steuernagel