Hi Liena To add to your contextual intro: James Broughton's The Pleasure Garden (1954) was made in the ruins of Crystal Palace (London) where, coincidently, I was brought up (the district not the ruins that is).
Rob On 28/09/2012 06:21, "Liena Vayzman" <liena_vayz...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hello all, a few months back I posted a call for submissions here for the > Crystal Palace: 1st ArtSpace Experimental Film and Video Festival that I > started in New Haven CT. I'm pleased to say the fest will premiere on OCT. 5, > playing til Oct. 22 with continual looped showings of 21 gems of experimental > film and video. I'm doing a curator talk / special screening / artist Q&A with > Bobby Abate on Oct. 18 at 7pm. All free and open to the public. Location: > ArtSpace, 50 Orange St., New Haven CT. Theme is crystals, gems, and multiple > facets, in a 21st century digital media transmutation on the 1851 Crystal > Palace. Deleuze said that films are like crystals, n'est-ce pas? More info: > http://artspacenh.org/ Press: as the Yale Daily News sez, it's the > "avant-garde, > crystallized"http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/sep/14/avant-garde-crystal > ized/ Traveling program: kicks off on the left coast with screening at > Krowswork in Oakland, California in December, ATA in San Francisco, & now > booking more sites worldwideContact: please get in touch if interested in > hosting a screening of Crystal Palace by emailing liena_vayz...@hotmail.com. > Thanks!CRYSTAL PALACE: 1ST ARTSPACE EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL21 > gems of international film+video art screening continually Oct. 5-22, 2012 > Plus nightly projections after dark outside the Crown St. window of ArtSpace > Special screening with curator + artist talk: October 18, 7:00pmOrganized by > Liena VayzmanCrystal-themed, crystallizing, and multi-faceted video art and > experimental films in this festival take as points of departure the cultural, > scientific, spiritual, and mathematical associations of crystals, gems, and > glass. Like the original Crystal Palace plate-glass building, a marvel of > engineering constructed by Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in > London, ArtSpace's Crystal Palace illuminates and amazes with innovative > digital and film art of our time. Crystal balls and handmade prisms, shamanic > journeys and Indian salt mines, psychadelic Crystal Light drink mix and > Victorian animation, mirrors on 16mm and windows on HD -- and even crystals > grown on a celluloid filmstrip -- all glimmer on our magic screen. Total > running time: 2 hours, continual loop. Participating Artists & Works: Abigail > Child (New York) - Peripeteia IIAlexander Stewart + White/Light (Chicago) - > CrustsBobby Abate (Brooklyn) - GossipCade Bursell (Carbondale IL) - Salt > LinesCara Levine (San Francisco) - It Ain¹t Me You¹re Looking ForEric Stewart > (San Francisco) - StrataFilipe Rodrigues Afonso (Lisboa, Portugal) - > Atracados/MooredJen Cohen (San Francisco) - Venus+XJessica Miller (San > Francisco) - Polarity Convergence John Stone (New York) - Fearful > SymmetryKathleen Quillian (Oakland) - Fin de Siecle Leigh Orpaz (Tel Aviv) - > Ice Swan Michael Lasater (South Bend IN) - Crossing Berlin 1927Patrick Tarrant > (London) - Everything is Everyday Rebecca Nijdowski (San Francisco) - from > Black Sun seriesRKDB (Oakland) - Interdimensional Pew RoomShambhavi Kaul > (Mumbai, India / Durham NC) - Scene 32Shana Moulton (Brooklyn) - Whispering > Pines #8Suzy Poling / Pod Blotz (San Francisco) - Natural PowersThorsten > Fleisch (Berlin) - Kosmos and Energie! > _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing > list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listi > nfo/frameworks _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
