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WE GOT TIME

EPFC | February 17th, 2015

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS with Guest Curator CHARLOTTE TAYLOR

Happy Monday, film friends!

This week’s optical toy comes in the form of a music video – “We Got Time” – song by Moray McLaren, video by David Wilson. Check it out here: https://vimeo.com/4184445

In the video, David uses hand painted records as praxinoscopes. There are some cuts (wipes), but all the animation is happening live or in camera. It’s pretty magical. If you’re interested in learning more about how he made it, there’s a great making of video here:https://vimeo.com/4378501.

Yay for film!!!

 

MAKING PROGRESS

EPFC | February 10th, 2015

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Charlotte Taylor

Happy Marvelous Monday, film friends!

February is a month of optical toy Mondays! This week’s magic is from Heidi Kumao’s “Cinema Machines” collection. From Heidi’s website: “From 1991-99, I created “cinema machines” for intimate installations. In each tableau, a sabotaged household object is fitted with a zoetrope-like projecting mechanism and a set of photographic transparencies.”

The mirrored machine in “Making Progress” more closely resembles a praxinoscope, projecting sequential large format slides from a cabinet above a heart-shaped box on a table. (You can watch it here:https://vimeo.com/23981976)

What I find most compelling about “Cinema Machines” is the quiet way the simple gestures evoke emotion and memory. They’re spectral, illusory, and stunning. (https://vimeo.com/40199467)

For more information about the collection, and for more videos, you can visit Heidi Kumao’s website: http://heidikumao.net/cinema-machines-2/

Have a filmtastic week!
Yay for film!!!

Relieving the American Dream

EPFC | February 2nd, 2015

Oh my gosh, it’s February!! New month means welcoming a new guest curator to spin flicks at MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS, our weekly online screening series that brings a bit of cinema into your Facebook feed every Monday. Please join us in a huge round of high fives for CHARLOTTE TAYLOR!!

Charlotte is an experimental animator teaching Film/Video in the rural mountains of Western North Carolina. Her research ranges from handmade film and digital animation to optical toys and expanded cinema, and she is particularly interested in alternative forms of production and presentation. Her work has screened at venues across the world, including: Ann Arbor Film Festival, Indie Grits Festival, MonoNoAware, Strange Beauty Film Festival, TIE, EFF Portland, FLEX Fest, and the Anthology Film Archives. She was the recipient of the 2012 Helen Hill Award from Indie Grits, for her film “The Edge of Summer.”

She enjoys organizing and teaching community filmmaking workshops for kids and at risk youth and is the co-founder/co-director of the Mechanical Eye Microcinema in Asheville, NC. She is currently working on a direct animation music video and an animated 16mm essay film about women in Belegarth medieval combat. Yay for film!!!
And now, time to go watch one of Charlotte’s pieces. Here is “Relieving the American Dream.”

The Range of Light

EPFC | January 26th, 2015

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS
Guest Curator: Amir George

This is the last Monday in January and we hope you’ve enjoyed the MMM films for this month. Closing out on the theme of solitude and escape is an awesome piece from Lawrence Martinez entitled The Range of Light.

The Range of Light explores the depths of nature and the wilderness. Photographed by Lawrence Martinez, Kyle Wyss, and Arrien Zinghini.

Enjoy!

November 1991

EPFC | January 19th, 2015

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS
Guest Curator: Amir George

Before this Monday comes to a close, here’s another weekly gem around “solitude and escape” this film comes from Danielle Campbell, a Chicago based video maker with her piece “November 1991.”

Danielle found this video that her mom took when she was trying to record the moon for over 20 minutes and it was dated November 1991. The film relates to the connections of the females in Danielle’s life / the moon / and Danielle’s birth year.

Enjoy!