EPFC In Riga
EPFC | July 9th, 2017
The 14th (!) installment of The Sound We See is in full production mode in Riga, Latvia! Check it out!
http://www.arterritory.com/en/news/6756-in_production_the_16mm_short_film_the_sound_we_see_riga/
The 14th (!) installment of The Sound We See is in full production mode in Riga, Latvia! Check it out!
http://www.arterritory.com/en/news/6756-in_production_the_16mm_short_film_the_sound_we_see_riga/
Call for submissions for the 2017 edition is now open! Deadline: August 15.
Women Alchemists
There are artists still working with film around the world.
People who insist in doing so, as myself, consider that film has qualities and specific characteristics that are suitable for the experimentation we seek in our work.
The film lab is where great part of the alchemy happens and it has become the place where filmmakers and lovers of the photochemical cinema come together to collaborate, exchange knowledge and generate solutions that allow to continue working with this material.
In this program we will share the work of women who are part of artist run labs and whose films explore the possibilities of lab techniques, film material and film machines.
Monica Baptista (Portugal)
DIÁRIO / DIARY
2011, DOC·EXP, 35mm, Colour/B&W, 22’30”
This film was made with series of images, over 4000, all them integrate a photographic recording that I have been carrying out for the past three years. Without any initial purpose that would circumscribe all these images, this photo diary drifts and accompanies many different circumstances, trips, places and people.
The editing of the film shown here does not resort to any major tricks: no image cutting was carried out – the photos are all here, in chronological sequence – frame speed was manipulated in a 35mm editing table where the mechanic and physical gesture can create a suspension of frame in time, interspersed with other moments in which the progression of the film takes on a syncopate rhythm.
Director.Photography.Editing: Mónica Baptista
Sound: Bruno Moreira
Mónica Baptista coollaborates with Átomo 47 lab in Oporto
http://www.filmlabs.org/index.php/labs/atomo47/
Welcome to June, cinefriends! We’re excited to announce the artist who will be taking the curatorial helm of MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS for the month of June. Please join us in welcoming…
ELENA PARDO!!
Elena lives between Oaxaca and Mexico City, where she has worked as a documentary, experimental cinema and animation filmmaker. Her short films have been selected at festivals and have been part of curatorial projects and experimental film compilations in Mexico, United States, Spain and France. She’s part of Trinchera Ensamble, an expanded cinema collective that recycles film equipment and footage for its performances. This interest in reusing materials resulted in her joining the community of filmmakers, programmers and scholars that carries out the Encuentro Internacional de Archivistas Audiovisuales (International Audiovisual Archive’s meeting) in Oaxaca every year since 2014. Since 2007, Elena has participated as a teacher of video production and animation with young people from diverse communities in Oaxaca. In 2013, she cofounded the Laboratorio Experimental de Cine (LEC), a non profit association dedicated to screening, producing and teaching about experimental cinema. An important part of this project is the preservation and dissemination of film-lab techniques and knowledge.
From Elena:
I grew up surrounded by film crews and equipment because my parents were involved in television commercial production. I found some of my favorite childhood toys on set or in the editing room. Some of these toys I still use. Later in life I had the chance to learn about experimental film and animation from Naomi Uman and Lourdes Villagómez. My work now is a continuous exploration on the possibilities of moving image, on the film material itself and on the communities that surround me. Together with other filmmakers we’re building the project called Laboratorio Experimental de Cine with the purpose to have a shared space to produce and screen films and to exchange knowledge with other colleagues.
And now, time to check out Elena’s film “Mi Barrio”:
https://vimeo.com/26490243
Political documentary films take on a renewed role amid a reinvigorated rage against immigrants, refugees and people of color in many places around the world. Through politically engaged cinematic work, many filmmakers are confronting old and new forms of racism, the deepening ungrievability of Black and Brown lives, and precarious realities faced by minority communities including indigenous peoples, the elderly, refugees, women and children. ACTION! Cinema As Sanctuary features political documentary films and filmmaking workshops that re-assert the images and stories that remind us that a compassionate world rooted upon solidarity, friendship, and collective action is possible.
All events are FREE! Check the EPFC Cinema and Workshop calendars for more details.
Curated Nerve Macaspac of the Echo Park Film Center, with special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.