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EXPERIMENTS IN CINEMA v4.2 - Last year's festival

Experiments in Cinema History

Notes from 2006 (Experiments in Cinema V 1.0):
For the past two decades media archeologist Bryan Konefsky has traveled to the far reaches of the globe collecting unusual examples of visionary cinema and un-dependent moving image art.
In a very rare public appearance, Bryan Konefsky will share highlights of his historic media findings with Albuquerque and the world!! You will be shocked and amazed by cinema produced for less than $1,000! Marvel at movies that do not feature Tom Cruise or Coca Cola! Witness film artists who have the audacity to thumb their noses at Hollywood’s silver screen! Do not miss this program of scandalously produced short, non-narrative films that do not depend on pyrotechnic effects or crane shots to tell their stories!

How Experiments in Cinema V 1.0 was organized in 2006:
In 2006 Experiments in Cinema was a curated program (2 nights). Curators Bryan Konefsky (Basement Films, Albuquerque), Chris McNamara (Media City, Windsor Ontario), and Laura Neitzel (Dallas Video Festival) collaborated to produce two evenings of international, contemporary experimental cinema.

What we screened in 2006:
Included in last years event were works by Jeanne Liotta (NYC), Oksana Chepelyk (Ukraine), Ip Yuk-Yiu (Hong Kong), Dan Anderson (Wisconsin), David Blatherwick (Toronto), Alfonso Alvarez (San Francisco), Diane Nerwen (NYC), Tadasu Takamine (Japan), George Kuchar (San Francisco), Nik Kern (Germany), Courtney Egon (New Orleans), Thinkbox (Windsor, Ontario), Lisa Gill (New Mexico), Emily Richardson (UK), Gerard Holthuis (Netherlands), Guy Sherwin (UK), Miranda July (Portland), Matthias Muller (Germany), Monique Moumblow (Canada), Peter Tscherkassky (Austria), Nicolas Provost (Belgium), James Johnson (Texas), Leighton Pierce (Iowa), Jay Rosenblatt (San Francisco), Katja Straub (Germany), Cassandra Jones (California), Chris Landreth (Canada), Andre Silva (Iowa), Mary Ann McQuillan (USA), Bob Kaputof (USA), Gretchen Hogue (Oregon), and Coleman Miller (Minnesota).

Notes from Experiments in Cinema V 2.0 (2007):
In 2007 Experiments in Cinema screened work drawn from an international call for submissions. Included our our three day event were works by Daniel Barroca, Brandon Bauer, Susan Blight, Roger Deutch, Courtney Egon, Chris Ernst, Fabienne Gautier, Jason Halprin, Rasmus Hamburg, Janene Higgins, Jeanne Liotta, Leandro Listorti, Douglas Katelus, Rachel Manera, Patricia McInroy, Chris McNamara, Erik Moskowitz, Ben Popp, Jennifer Proctor, Kenny Reed, Ashley Reese, Ken Paul Rosenthal, Peter Snowden, Ann Steurnagel, Jim Trainor, Niklas Sven Vollmer, Sasha Waters, and Mary Shannon Will. Additionally we hosted special presentations from the founders of Home Movie Day and a lecture titled “Secession From the Broadcast” by media scholar Gene Youngblood.

Notes from Experiments in Cinema V 3.0
In 2008 Experiments in Cinema (now a 4 day event) screened works from around the world and featured the following artists: Francien van Everdingen, Rasmus Gerhlach, Eric Theise, Alexei Dmitiev, Carolyn Kane, Dan Monceaux, Reed OBeirne, Barbara Musil, Michael Lisnet & Sophie Sindahl-Inverness, Jennifer Proctor, Lili White, Eric Arsnow, Norbert Phaffenbichier, Doug Katelus, Christopher Harris, Ann Steuernagel, Annja Krautgasser, Christian Bruno & Natalija Vekic, Brooke Alfaro, Hanni Welter, Michael Betancourt, Hanna Smitmans, Dominic Angesame, Paul Caster, Deborah Stratman, Edward Rankus, Jennifer Hardacker, Julie Perini, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, George Kuchar, Lucia Duncan, Toh Hun Ping & Jeremy Sharma, Brent Coughenour, Vanessa Woods, Kathryn Ramey, Karen Hipscher, Chi Jang Yin, Nomi Talisman, Patricia McInroy, Thorsten Fleisch, and Brandon Bauer. Additionally in 2008 we featured special presentations by legendary media artist Scott Stark, a sound/image performance by Itchy-O, a demonstration of live video mixing by software designer Andrew Stone and a presenation of select work from the 20 year history of the Dallas Video Festival by festival founder, Bart Weiss.

Experiments in Cinema V 4.2 will screen works culled from our international call for submissions (postmark deadline is January 10, 2009 – we will begin accepting submissions September 10, 2009). The event will take place at the Southwest Film Center on the campus of the University of New Mexico, 516 Arts (downtown Albuquerque) and at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque April 16, 17, 18, and 19, 2009. The recently renovated Southwest Film Center, 516 Arts and the Guild Cinema have the capability to screen 35mm, 16mm, and digital video (mini dv and DVD). In past years we have hosted audiences of more than 300 people for our four day event, and we expect a great turnout again this year.

Experiments in Cinema is an annual collaboration between Basement Films, and the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of New Mexico.

Experiments in Cinema is supported by generous funding from the Department of Cinematic Arts ICLS Program, the McCune Charitable Foundation and New Mexico Arts.