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"A guided tour of the "Andy Warhol / Supernova: Stars Death and Disasters, 1962-1964" exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario, conceived and narrated by renowned filmmaker David Cronenberg. Cronenberg says,

"Andy was making underground films when I was making underground films. And I was more inspired by him than by Hollywood. He created himself: He was an outsider, a Slovakian, Catholic, gay, an artist, poor; an outsider in his own family, a triple outsider like Kafka, with his nose pressed against the New York window. And, he became the ultimate insider, the center of his own world, and drew people to him. He became a huge example of the invention of an identity."

Commentary by David Cronenberg, Mary-Lou Green, Dennis Hopper, David Moos, James Rosenquist and Amy Taubin."

The University Film & Video Association will award a short documentary by a student or faculty member that follows best practices for fair use.

Deadline is one month away! See details here.

Paley Library now has a subscription to Wholphin, the DVD magazine brought to you by the same folks as McSweeney's and The Believer. Wholphin is a quarterly publication featuring short documentaries, animation, experimental, narrative, and "and other cinema hybrids that deserve to be seen on very expensive televisions." Temple students and faculty can check the dvds out at the circulation desk.

"Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video" is a useful report from American University's Center for Social Media. The study

by Center director Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi, co-director of the law school’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, shows that many uses of copyrighted material in today’s online videos are eligible for fair use consideration. The study points to a wide variety of practices—satire, parody, negative and positive commentary, discussion-triggers, illustration, diaries, archiving and of course, pastiche or collage (remixes and mashups)—all of which could be legal in some circumstances.

In Media Res, the site that presents daily clips and responses by media scholars, is focusing on "alternative" media this week.

Mon. 12/10– Chris Atton (Napier University) presents: “Rory Bremner as Ahmadinejad: The Purity of Alternative Media”

Tues. 12/11 – Laura Stein (University of Texas at Austin) presents: “Deconstructing Television from Within: the Alternative Aesthetics of Paper Tiger Television”

Wed. 12/12 – Allison Perlman (Penn State University– Erie) presents: “Jesus 2.0: Christian Identity and Community on Godtube”

Thur. 12/13 – Clemencia Rodriguez (University of Oklahoma) presents: “Citizens’ Media in Southern Colombia”

Fri. 12/14 – Dorothy Kidd (University of San Francisco) presents: “Alternative, mainstream or ?: The case of Radio Bilingue”

In addition to the installation, MOMA is running two screenings of Gehr's works later this month.

"Experimental media artist Ernie Gehr's Panoramas of the Moving Image (2005) is a synchronized five-channel video installation that uses eighty-seven original slides and views selected from Gehr's personal collection and that of renowned pre-cinema collector David Francis. Projected side by side, the slides create a mesmerizing wide-screen spectacle. A selection of vintage paper Zoetrope strips and Phenakistiscope discs—complementary artifacts of nineteenth-century moving-image technology—are also on display."