"Aesthetica is looking for filmmakers who are driving the genre of short film forward through inspirational and innovative works. Whether you are fresh out of film school or have been making films for years, we want to hear from you. Accepting films in all genres: drama, documentary, music video, satire, comedy and artists' film.
This award offers the winner and runners-up a fantastic prize package, which will bring your films to a wider audience.
The deadline for submissions is 30 April 2010. All winners will be notified by 31 May 2010 and the DVD will be released 1 August 2010."
For more details see the competition website.
When: This Morning! Wednesday, November 11th, 11:30am (new time)
Where: Women’s Studies Lounge, 8th Floor, Anderson Hall (new location)
Susan Lucas and Rickie Sanders (Department of Geography/Urban Studies) used visual qualitative methods in their research analyzing images in retirement community brochures, “The View from There: Analyzing Images in Retirement Community Brochures”. They will discuss methodologies used to interpret visual materials, images as sites of cultural production, epistemological concerns in the use of visual methods, common critiques, and institutional factors that impinge on the use of visual methods.
Lucas and Sanders are the authors of many articles with publications in the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Methods Section), Children’s Geographies, Professional Geographer, International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, Gender, Place and Culture, The Canadian Geographer, and Journal of Geography.
There will be time for discussion, questions and comments.
Film @ International House
Cronica D'una Mirada: Clandestine Filmmaking in Franco's Spain, 1960 – 1975
Co-presented by the Department of Hispanic Studies and the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania
This six-part documentary series focuses on a generation of independent filmmakers whose innate unwillingness to conform required them to produce, distribute and exhibit radical films during Francisco Franco’s regime. Shooting under the pretense of amateur filmmaking, they hid within crowds of protesters, producing works that were often highly creative and even experimental. In order to protect the identities of its participants, many of these films had no credits.
While this body of work represents a margin of Spanish film history, it nevertheless contains some of the most crucial, first-hand documents of the end of the dictatorship, revealing problems of housing and social services, immigration, the fate of political prisoners and restrictions on expression and free speech. These films explore an era that fought for freedom through cinema.
Curated by Marta Sanchez and Manuel Barrios. Special thanks to Bryan Cameron and Anna Cox of the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University Of ennsylvania and Charlotte Nitta Cargni.
Wednesday, October 28 at 7pm
Part I: Good Manners
dir. Manuel Barrios, Spain, 2004, DVD, 44 mins, color & b/w, Spanish w/ English subtitles
Apart from professionals, owning a film camera at the end of the 50s was a privilege enjoyed by relatively few and used primarily for travel and family. People who were passionate about film went to the movies or created a cinema club. However, there was a shift that occurred when amateurs created stories with intent and when cinema clubs where used to talk about more than just films. Good Manners and accompanying shorts reflect on amateur films that dared to explore what was not permitted, that try to investigate the day-to-day morality of the time.
followed by
Happy Parallel (El Alegre Paralelo)
dir. Enric Ripoll and Josep-Maria Freixes Ramon, Spain, 1964, DVD, 28 mins, b/w
The film reveals the daily life of the popular Barcelona neighborhood of Parallel, reflecting prostitution, nightlife and all it encompasses.
A Good Friday (Un Viernes Santo)
dir. Joan Gabriel Tharrats, Spain, 1960, DVD, 26 mins, b/w
When it was produced, A Good Friday was considered quite controversial and actually forbidden by the regime and shown only in cinema clubs.
Aspectes i Personatges de Barcelona 1964
dir. Carles Barba, Spain, 1975, DVD, 25 mins, b/w, Spanish w/ English subtitles
Using footage centering on Barcelona, these images and accounts have now become outstanding documents of the period.
Free admission members above Internationalist level;
$5 Internationalists; $6 students + seniors; $8 general admission.
In advance at TICKETWEB or 1/2 hour before showtime at The Ibrahim Theater Box Office.
Robert E. Cargni
Film Program Curator
Ibrahim Theater @ International House
International House Philadelphia
3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
p) 1.215.895.6555| (f) 1.215.895.6562
www.ihousephilly.org
A Panel Discussion on the Works of Wolgin Prize Finalist Ryan Trecartin
October 7, 5:30 pm, Paley Library Lecture Hall
Ryan Trecartin’s work advances understandings of post‐millennial technology, narrative and identity. Discussed from a variety of perspectives, panelists will examine issues of social media and networks; gender and aesthetic themes in video art; and more. Participants include Temple University’sGerard Brown, Chair of Foundations, Tyler School of Art (moderator); Scott Gratson, Director of the Communications Program and SCT Undergraduate Studies; Aaron Smuts, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy; Elisabeth Subrin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media Arts; and Andrew Suggs, Executive Director of Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia.
This event is part of a series of collaborative public programs presented in conjunction with the Tyler School of Art’s Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts
September 30, 2009 7:00 PM, Wednesday
Strange Fruit, Dir. Joel Katz, 2002, 57 min.
September 30, 7:00 p.m., Paley Library Lecture Hall
This event is a part of a Film Series Curated by Wolgin Prize Finalist Sanford Biggers
Introduction by Dr. Diane D. Turner, Curator of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection
Director Joel Katz explores the history of the popular song "Strange Fruit," written by Abel Meeropol and famously performed by Billie Holiday, through interviews with musicians, historians, genealogists and more. Katz fashions a fascinating discovery of the lost story behind this heartbreaking American classic.
This event is part of a series of collaborative public programs presented in conjunction with the Tyler School of Art’s Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts
About Wolgin Prize Finalist Sanford Biggers
Sanford Biggers (b. 1970, Los Angeles) is a native of Los Angeles, California, and current New York resident, who uses the study of ethnological objects, popular icons, and the Dadaist tradition to explore cultural and creative syncretism, art history, and politics. An accomplished musician, Biggers often incorporates performative elements into his sculptures and installations, resulting in multilayered works that act as anecdotal vignettes, at once full of wit and clear formal intent. Biggers has won several awards and has participated in a number of prestigious national and international artist residencies and fellowships. Sanford Biggers' installations, videos, and performances have appeared in institutions in China, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Poland and Russia as well as several notable exhibitions such as the Prospect.1/New Orleans biennial, Illuminations at the Tate Modern, Performa 07, the Whitney Biennial and Freestyle at the Studio Museum in Harlem. He is currently preparing for solo shows at the Contemporary Arts Forum in Santa Barbara and the Brooklyn Museum and a permanent commission in New York City through the New York Percent for Art.
About the Competition
Created in 2009 by the real estate developer, banker and philanthropist Jack Wolgin of Philadelphia, the Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts was established at the Temple University Tyler School of Art to recognize an emerging artist with a significant studio practice who critically and creatively engages with existing histories and images, and whose work transcends traditional boundaries. With a cash prize of $150,000, the Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts grants the world’s largest juried visual art prize awarded to an individual.
Inspired by the diversity of Temple University and its unique connection to the thriving art communities of Philadelphia, Mr. Wolgin chose the Tyler School to host and administrate the Competition. By bringing the work of innovative and talented artists to the Tyler School, the Competition seeks to open a dialogue among students, the diverse communities of Philadelphia, and the greater art world. The exchange of ideas and art inspired by the Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts also perpetuates the spirit of Philadelphia, a cultural hub since our nation’s founding, rich in both historic and contemporary art.
Today (Wed 9/23): Tejaswini Ganti (New York University) will be giving a
talk titled "How the Hindi Film Industry became 'Bollywood."
At the Center for Humanities at Temple University, Gladfelter Hall 10th floor, 3-5 pm
Sponsored by the Philadelphia Cinema and Media Seminar
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