Setembro 6th, 2010 pawley
This program is a selection of film, video, and phonographic works produced over the last 40 years by artists and anthropologists affiliated with Harvard’s Film Study Center and Sensory Ethnography Lab. Founded in 1957 by filmmaker Robert Gardner, originally as a wing of the Peabody Museum, the FSC supports work that records and interprets the world in images and sounds. The Sensory Ethnography Lab, run by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ernst Karel, was established in 2005 with the aim of harnessing perspectives drawn from the sciences, the arts, and the humanities to experiment with innovative combinations of aesthetics and ethnography. Its productions emphasize original nonfiction media practices that explore the bodily praxis and affective fabric of existence. The works selected for this program comprise 7 single-channel films and videos, and 1 hybrid musical/phonographic performance. Styles range from the observational and expository to the expressive and conceptual. Subjects include a lyrical portrait of a Nilotic people who had become a classic of the (discursive) anthropological record; a modernist “city symphony” of the ancient Indian city of Benares; the tension between security and democracy in the vast world of contemporary governmental secrecy; the work of a female clam digger in Maine, USA; the architectural, social, and phenomenological space of the almost anachronistic industrial lunch break at Bath Iron Works, also in Maine; an elegiac portrait of the last shepherds to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana’s Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture; the demolition of a construction site in Sichuan, China; and a sonic ethnography of scientific research environments at Harvard University.
Ilisa Barbash (Curator of Visual Anthropology, Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology) and Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Director of the Film Study Center, Director of the Sensory Ethnography Lab, Harvard University)
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Setembro 5th, 2010 pawley
Programmed by Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Sense and Sensibilia: Selected Works from Harvard’s Film Study Center and Sensory Ethnographic Lab will show at the CGAI and Fundación Caixa Galicia a selection of film, video, and phonographic works produced over the last 40 years by artists and anthropologists affiliated with Harvard’s Film Study Center and Sensory Ethnography Lab. These are the works included in this retrospective:
The Nuer, 16mm film, 73 mins., George Breidenbach and Hilary Harris, 1971
Forest of Bliss, 16mm film, 90 mins., Robert Gardner, 1985
Secrecy, DigiBeta video, 85 mins., Peter Galison and Robb Moss, 2008
Lunch Break, 35mm transferred to HD, 80 mins., Sharon Lockhart, 2008
Chaiqian, video, 62 mins., J.P. Sniadecki, 2008
Double Tide, 16mm transferred to HD, 99 mins., Sharon Lockhart, 2009
Sweetgrass, 35mm film, 101 mins., Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, 2009
Heard Laboratories, 4 channel sound work, 30 mins., Ernst Karel, 2010
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Xuño 7th, 2010 admin
1. General Terms
The International Science Film Festival (official name: Mostra Internacional de Ciencia e Cinema), a cultural event organized by Friends of the House of Sciences Association (Asociación de Amigos da Casa das Ciencias, AACC), aims to promote and popularize science-related films and documentaries.
The third edition of this Film Festival will be held on October 25-30, 2010 in the city of A Coruña (Galicia, Spain).
2. Objectives
One of the main objectives of the International Science Film Festival is to provide a meeting ground for science awareness through films and documentaries. The Festival will make an effort to tumble down the barriers that separate the “two cultures”, of arts and sciences, by giving film creators and scientific researchers the opportunity to come together to discover the relationships between their singular worlds.
The activities of the Festival will be open to the general public, to reach as many people as possible.
3. Film registration
The films submitted to the International Science Film Festival should be educational and related to sciences (natural sciences, formal sciences, applied sciences, social and behavioral sciences, etc). They should contribute toward a better understanding of the concepts, procedures and philosophies that characterize science. The films will be judged on the basis of their quality and originality rather than on the subject matter itself, the running time or technical characteristics.
To participate in the second edition of this Festival, the production date (or the first screening) of the film must be after January 1st, 2009. The producers and/or directors must own the rights of the films presented for competition. There are no restrictions in terms of country of origin or language of the film. The works will be presented in their original language. For works in languages other than Galician or Spanish, subtitles in Galician, Spanish, Portuguese or English should be provided.
To submit a film or documentary to the Selection Procedure, a DVD-version of the work and a completed and signed registration form (OpenOffice file ou PDF) should be sent to the following address:
Asociación de Amigos da Casa das Ciencias
(Ref.: Mostra de Ciencia e Cinema)
Casa das Ciencias
Parque de Santa Margarita, s/n
15005 A Coruña
Spain
There is no limit as to the number of works a director or producer can submit, however, one registration form should be filled out for each film presented. In the case of series, only one representative episode can be submitted. Each participant is responsible for the shipping and handling fees. The organization cannot return the films submitted to the Selection Procedure, therefore, they will become part of the Festival archives.
The registration deadline will be July 23, 2010 (August 30 for galician documentaries).
4. Selection Procedure
A Selection Committee consisting of members of Friends of the House of Sciences Association will decide what films among the works submitted should be selected as the Official Section and compete for the prizes. The organization will pay a fee to the authors of each film selected for the Official Section:
100 € (films with a length of less than 30 minutes)
200 € (films between 30 and 60 minutes)
300 € (films longer than 60 minutes)
The films chosen should be sent in their final projection format to Friends of the House of Sciences Association by September 30, 2010 or by the date established by the Association and the participant. The AACC, organizing body of the Festival, is responsible for the safety of the works, from reception to return. The Festival’s responsibility will be limited, so if a film is damaged or lost AACC will only be required to cover the cost of making a new copy, according to current rates in Spain.
The film makers whose films are selected for the competition will provide the organization with photographs and video clips of the film (1-2 minutes) for promotional purposes. The Festival organization will determine the order, the dates, and the number of times the films should be projected during the Festival.
5. Juries and Awards
A Jury, consisting of professionals from different fields, will select the winning works. The following prizes will be awarded:
1st Prize
Youth award (chosen by a student jury)
The Jury can give Special Mention to other films or certain aspects of these films. The decision of the Jury will be unquestionable.
6. Authorization
The participants will allow the organization to publically show the competing films as many times as necessary during the Festival. The productions selected can be subtitled (or dubbed if necessary) for their public showing.
The participants must authorize the use of parts of their productions (maximum 2 minutes) and of all the accompanying material provided (flyers, posters, photographs, etc) for distribution in the national or international media (newspapers, radio, TV and Internet) for promotional purposes.
The works presented will become part of the archives of Friends of the House of Sciences Association, organizing body of the International Science Film Festival. The members of AACC and other authorized personnel will be able to consult these archives in private showings for educational or research purposes.
Because the organization will promote the winning documentaries, free projections will take place at the Science Museums of A Coruña (Museos Científicos Coruñeses). The Festival will also promote the winning documentaries and works of special interest by exhibiting them at collaborating institutions and organizations, as long as it is not for commercial purposes.
7. Acceptance
Participation in the International Science Film Festival implies the acceptance of the rules and regulations established.
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Outubro 31st, 2009 admin
Domingo 1 de novembro, Sala Leonardo da Vinci da Domus:
10:00 LJUSÅR de Mikael Kristersson
11:45 NATURALLY OBSESSED de Richard e Carole Rifkind
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Outubro 31st, 2009 admin
Reunido en A Coruña o xurado da II Mostra de Ciencia e Cinema decidiu outorgar os seguintes premios:
1. Gran premio da Mostra de Ciencia e Cinema, dotado con 6.000 €, ex-aequo aos filmes LJUSÅR de Mikael Kristersson, por reeducar a nosa mirada cara a vida confiando na linguaxe cinematográfica; e NATURALLY OBSESSED de Richard e Carole Rifkind, pola súa capacidade para explicar un proceso creativo no que se poden ver reflectidos tanto os artistas coma os científicos.
2. Premio Laboratorio, dotado con 2.000 €, ao filme A HORSE IS NOT A METAPHOR de Barbara Hammer, por transmitir con precisión a verdade que se encerra no seu título.
Manuel Bragado
Oliver Laxe
Luís Martínez
Pilar Tigeras (presidenta)
A Coruña, 31 de outubro de 2009
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