Previous Event: Upstate NY Film & Video Festival

UPSTATE NEW YORK FILM
& VIDEO FESTIVAL
Saturday, 8 Sept. 2007, 7-9pm
Shemin Auditorium, 102 Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse NY
Free Admission!

FESTIVAL AFTER PARTY
10pm @ Funk’n Waffles
727 S. Crouse Ave.
(in Campus Plaza, behind Marshall St.)
$5, or $3 with festival ticket

Support your local film community by attending the first-ever Upstate New York Film & Video Festival! Representing a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction genres, this event demonstrates the diversity of media and approaches being applied in the Upstate and Central New York area. Dedicated to facilitating collaboration and connection amongst media artists, filmmakers and audiences, the festival provides a unique opportunity for screening and discussion, with the goal of building a stronger, more active film and video community.

Featuring work by Brent Barbano, Alexandra Fuller, Dan Ramin, Mike Smith, Stephen Stauss & Zakery Weiss, Zosha Stuckey, Chris Toppino, and Rehema Imani Trimiew. Several filmmakers will be in attendance. Following the screening, viewers will vote for the People’s Choice Award. The winning selection will automatically be screened at the 2008 Syracuse International Film Festival!

Shemin Auditorium is located in Syracuse University’s Shaffer Art Building (SE corner on University quadrangle adjacent to SUArt Galleries, off College Place). This event is free and open to the public. Parking is available in the VIP lot (Q4) accessible from College Place. For a campus map, click here

An all ages Festival After Party will be held at Funk’n Waffles, Syracuse's newest music venue! Local hip-hop phenomenon, The Goonies will be joined by the one-and-only Three1Live for a night of smooth and funky sounds.

The Upstate New York Film & Video Festival is presented by Syracuse Experimental Film & Media Workshop, with the support of Syracuse University, Syracuse International Film Festival, Funk’n Waffles and Young Guns Studio.

For more information contact Jess at Jrlance@syr.edu

Previous Event: Daughters of Joy!

Experimental video and audio about sex
& American launch of Lickety Split smut zine

Sunday 26 Aug. 2007, 8-9:30pm, $5
@ Spark Art Space, 1005 E. Fayette St. at S. Crouse Ave.
Syracuse, New York
For mature audiences

Curated and introduced by Amber Goodwyn, with work by Lamathilde, Kathleen K-R, Peter Miller, Jackie Gallant & Dayna MacLeod, Pomgrenade, Nicole Koschmann, Scott Stark, Anita Schoepp, Shana MacDonald, and more.

Presented by Lickety Split, organized with the support of Syracuse Experimental (Film & Media Workshop) and The Warehouse Gallery, in combination with the exhibition, COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze.

For more information, download the press release here.

petition for picture new york!

If you are a independent filmmaker or enjoy independent video and media please take a moment to read the following and sign the petition:

via Split Screen

We need everyone who works in any kind of independent or personal or experimental film or video or installation work to click on this site - and sign this ePetition, please:

http://www.pictureny.org/petition/index.php

I'm with this ad hoc group of us, Picture New York - pictureny.org - who just formed to fight these proposed regulations from our Mayor's Office of Film Theater and Broadcasting --- these proposed rules would require any two people doing handheld work for more than a half hour and any five people with a tripod for even ten minutes - (including set-up & breakdown) - to get a permit from the city -- which can take up to a month - AND to get a million dollars worth of insurance.

So - I don't have to explain to your readers the chilling effect this is going to have on all kinds of films and videos -- They just didn't know what they were doing when they wrote these regulations, and these two laws are merely the most heinous.

The only ammunition we have is public pressure - we got a great write-up in The NY Times on Saturday, we've got 6000 signatures, lots of very talented people on it - major stills fotogs, patti smith, barbara kopple - and we're meeting with the Mayo's Office and trying to get them to delay the August 3 deadline and throw these regs out

I know everyone gets asked to sign things online - but this is one case where every single signature really matters - we're going to print them out at the end of the week and personally hadn them over to the mayor's office and - also - hopefully - email the MOFTB, or even write a real letter, and email everyone they know, especially any kind of official group.

Although these proposed regulations are for New York City, if they were to succeed in limiting what independent video and filmmakers have to say, you could be sure that regulations like this one will pop up all over.

For an insightful take on this matter check out this video from video artist Julie Talen.

thanks
-jason
(http://www.thisbluehippo.com/)