Volunteers Needed

The Threshold Center for Autism is currently looking for volunteers to put together a short film for our website. They are looking for something similar to these videos:  

http://www.marcus.org 

http://vimeo.com/17016468

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUoi8nSdL2U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w3T2HJIRuQ

If you are interested in helping out please contact Courtney Ford at: 727-324-3606 or by email at courtneyford88@gmail.com. 

Sunspot Cinema presents "View From a Cemetery: Videos by Jake Barningham"

Heavily influenced by the avant-garde (Stan Brakhage and Chris Welsby most specifically) Jake Barningham envisions video as a medium struggling to exist. Barningham's work is concerned first and foremost with the textures, rhythms and colors possible in video. Largely using re-appropriated footage from amateur meteorologists across the country, the videos in this program re-envision landscapes not as majestic natural sculptures but as things, like video, that are struggling to exist: colors and shapes snap, gesticulate and then dissolve in a membrane of pixels. Trees and clouds shift restlessly against ill-defined spaces and tremble at the hand of invisible forces. Appropriately, Barmingham compares working in video to “sculpting with smoke.” His work has been shown at The Onion City Film Festival, as well as the Wisconsin International, Arkansas Underground, and Milwaukee Underground Film Festivals.


Program:
Hills (2011, 2min, DV, silent)
Easter (2011, 2min, DV, silent)
Color Copy (2011, 3min, DV, silent)
Trees (2011, 2min, DV, silent)
Again (2011, 4.5 min, DV, sound)
And Again (2011, 3min, DV, sound)
Charles Ives' Three Quarter-Tone Pieces "Chorale" (1924, 4.5min, CD)
Arrangements 1 (2011, 3min, DV, silent)
Arrangements 2 (2011, 2min DV, silent)
View from a Cemetery (2011, 4min, DV, silent)
A Pass (2011, 2min, DV, silent)
Silence (2011, 2min, DV, silent)
All (2011, 2min, DV, silent)
Parts (2011, 4min, DV, silent)
Tropical (2011, 5min, MiniDV, silent)
Back Yard (2011, 4min, DV, silent)
"Wood Cart Group"
1. Wood Cart (2011, 5min, DV, silent)
2. Sometimes at Night (2011, 6.5min, DV, silent)
3. I Hear Strange Laughter (2011, 6min, DV, silent)
4. Buster Keaton (2011, 5min, DV, silent)


Quotes about Jake Barningham's video work:
"There are shades of Stan Brakhage in Jake Barningham’s digital daydreams... In love with the textures of video, Barningham’s shorts transform the mundane into the gorgeously abstract, drowning signposts of daily life—houses, trees—in a churning ocean of digital noise." - A.A. Dowd, TimeOut Chicago

"[Barningham] understand(s) that abstraction is a necessary function of digitizing images, and [his] shorts, most of them silent, use the medium for its unique qualities of flicker and pixilation." - Fred Camper, The Chicago Reader

"What Barningham has managed to do is, simply put, more than akin to the poetry that Brakhage has imbued to celluloid. It is this critic’s opinion, whatever it may be worth, that Barningham is building a formidable body of work and quickly emerging at the forefront of this still new, not entirely understood, medium." - Dan Gorman, truth24framespersecond.blogspot.com

Jake Barningham was born and raised in rural Wisconsin. He moved to Chicago, IL to pursue film studies and began making videos in 2004. His work has shown at The Onion City Film festival, The Wisconsin International Film Festival, Bearded Child Film Festival, The Iowa City Experimental Film Festival and The Milwaukee and Arkansas Underground Film Festivals. His work was also part of a the Three Person Show "After Image: New videos by Jake Barningham, Kyle Canterbury and Yoel Meranda" last Winter at Chicago Filmmakers. Barningham's work has also been featured internationally, in a program curated by Gabe Klinger: "Fragments of a room: A Sampling of Chicago's best film/video art" in Toronto, CA.

http://film.ucf.edu/events.php?id=1882

Composer Needed

From Jonathan Richter

I am currently producing a independent feature film and am searching for a composer to do the score. The film is titled "I Did" and you can see more information and watch the trailer at www.ididfilm.com. If you're interested pleas contact me at: p207productions@gmal.com or 321-604-8548.

Thanks,

Jonathan Richter

p207productions@gmal.com

Florida’s Entertainment Industry Rally

 

ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY REQUEST FOR YOUR IMMEDIATE PARTICIPATION

Florida’s Entertainment Industry Rally in Tally will be taking place next Tuesday, February 7th and Wednesday, February 8th in Tallahassee, FL. The organization Film Florida is leading these efforts. If you are interested in attending to support the legislative effort please contact Sheena at Sheena@FilmOrlando.com.

If you are not able to make it up to Tallahassee next Tuesday for the Rally in Tally, then please consider writing a paragraph or two explaining to legislators what the Florida Entertainment Industry Tax Incentive has done for you personally over the past year-or-so.

Please email your story to Sheena at Sheena@FilmOrlando.com. Deadline is 12:00pm, Monday, February 6, 2012.

And please stand by for an important announcement next week regarding the WIFT-FL 2012 Board of Directors.