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Hi, thought this may be of interest to anyone
heading in the Newcastle direction next week...
ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SCREENING:
Wednesday 5 March, 5.30pm & 8pm
3.50 / 3.00 concs SCATTERED FREQUENCIES
Micz Flor and Philip Scheffner, Indonesia 2002
(30min)
GUERILLA VIDEO PRIMER
Cascade Media, USA, 2002 (60min)
This screening includes films about the setting up
of an independent radio network in Indonesia and Guerilla media journalism in
the USA.
Micz Flor and Philip Scheffner Bio- and
Filmographies: MICZ FLOR (born 1969 in Unna, Germany) Micz Flor has worked with multi-media since the mid-90s, focussing on Internet and community networking. He received the First Internet Art Award of the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 1997 (with Florian Clau�) and the Multimedia Award of the Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart in 1998 (with Josephine Berry). Flor was co-founder of the independent media fanzine 'Crash Media' which later developed into an umbrella for various media activities, including video works. Flor also works as a media developer for a Prague based Foundation, supporting independent media in Asia and East Europe. Besides his cultural activities in curating and organising media related conferences and exhibitions, Flor also produced video works for theatre plays, most prominently exposed in the German Pavillion at the EXPO2000 in Hannover at the closing show 'Abschied'. He also produced music videos for the independent Berlin label 'Monika Enterprise' which were screened on MTV Germany and Viva-Plus. Recently Flor started collaborating with Philip Scheffner on a series of small documentaries on independent media development in East Europe and Asia. http://mi.cz PHILIP SCHEFFNER (born 1966 in Homburg/Saar, Germany) Philip Scheffner has worked as a visual artist since 1985. From 1990 to 1995 co-founder and member of the group "Botschaft e.V." together with 10-15 artists, filmmakers, musicians, net activists a.o. Works as an artists group, screenings, exhibitions, concerts a.o. in the association's independent club space in Berlin Participations in national and international art exhibitions and events. From 1991 to 1999 member of the authors and producers group "dogfilm" together with the video and filmmakers Bettina Ellerkamp, J�rg Heitmann, Merle Kr�ger and Ed van Megen. Development and production of videos between the genres documentary, essay and video art, in cooperation with Kanal 4, ZDF/ Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, ARTE and 3SAT. Complete development of two "theme nights" for ARTE. Videos by dogfilm have been shown in various national and international festivals. Since 2000 video projects in progress. Composition and Production of electroacoustic sounds. 2001 co-founder and member of the media production platform "pong" together with Merle Kr�ger. Release of the audio CD "fon" on pong in May 2001. http://www.pong-berlin.de http://www.dogfilm.de |
