Converting an art gallery into a low budget film studio.
A project taking form as performance/installation/production facility
Jan 9 – Feb 12th, 2010,
at Kumukumu Gallery
42 Rivington St, NY NY 10002
Closing Reception: Thursday Feb. 4th, 6-9pm
Artists: Adam & Eve , François Boué, Francisca Caporali, Bradley Eros , Juliana Francis-Kelly, Brian Frye & Penny Lane, Camille de Galbert, Peter Hristoff, Andrew Lampert , Marie Losier, Jackie Raynal , Joel Schlemowitz. (artist info below)
This venture is an explicitly project driven, short-term residency program for local filmmakers, lasting only a day per artist. It will use a simple yet precise set of constraints designed to maximize the time, space, and resources available in order to produce new works of short film.
For one month, Residency Unlimited will convert the gallery into a low cost film studio, containing all the necessary ingredients for filming a movie: cameras, lighting, costumes, props, backgrounds, staging, etc. A select group of artists, filmmakers, musicians, and performers will be invited to use the space and equipment to each make a film over the course of one workday (eight hours). The artists will be challenged to see the possibilities within these limits in order to make a compelling work – an exercise in resourcefulness.
Under these conditions, lines between actors and crew, film set and back stage, equipment and props will fuse, allowing the event to be considered as one collaborative installation/performance. In this case, the process will play a role equally as important as the final product. Viewable to the public, the film shoot becomes the work, whether in an active or inactive stage.
The project will conclude with a film screening and the production of a limited edition DVD (300). Reserve a copy here
Why is this project important to us?
Experimental, underground cinema is a cherished and noble medium, it demands lots of energy and devotion yet rarely returns the same input back to it’s creators. We want to find new, sustainable methods of supporting local artists who more often than not, remain on the fringe of exposure. We also believe that any and all type of situations amount to the crucial procedure of artistic expression and production. Thus, by placing artists with in these specific work conditions and providing specific tools, we can channel an intensely productive initiative as smoothly as possible.
Where can this project take us?
“Special Features” is an experiment of sorts. One that will hopefully define an intuitive methodology towards the initiatives of low or no-budget filmmaking. If as an organization, we can provide a framework for artists with little to no means and who through our criteria produce interesting and pertinent works, then this initiative will be successful. One which could could become a continuous environment aimed at supporting emerging and experimental film makers.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Adam & Eve
Adam and Eve met in 2004 in Brooklyn, New York, where they currently live and work.
Adam was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1979. He studied medicine to become a plastic surgeon before deciding to move onto special effects make-up where he can be completely creative and transform people as he pleases. He is a former student of Dick Smith and currently works for Dreamworks on Broadway. Eve was born in Nancy, France in 1975. She graduated at the Beaux Arts School of Fine Arts in Paris and studied abroad at the San Francisco Art Institute. She uses her own body as a tool to make sculptures and videos. She has exhibited in Europe as well as the United States, and most recently at Cueto Project in New York.
FB
FB studied linguistics, the history of art, architecture and film in London and Paris. He has been showing installations in galleries and museums since 1981. He began showing films in 1999. His films have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Kunstmuseum, Bern; Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart and the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt among others. He lives and works in New York.
http://www.newmuseum.org/events/169
http://thrustprojects.com/CM_Bio_FB.htm
Francisca Caporali
Francisca Caporali is a Brazilian artist based in between Brooklyn and Belo Horizonte. She has a MA from MECAD – ESDI in Barcelona- Spain, and she is a MFA candidate at Hunter College – Integrated Media Arts. She has received the AAUW International Fellowship 2007/08 and a 2008 LMCC Swing Space residency. Francisca’s work has been shown in many festivals and exhibitions as: SCOPE and Orchard47 in NYC, UnionDoc in Brooklyn, MANA in Jersey City, Gandy Gallery in Slovakia, Break 2.4 Festival in Slovenia, VideoBrasil, Wide World Film festival in Toronto and the Flaherty Seminar in Hamilton.
Bradley Eros
An artist working in myriad media: experimental film & video, collage, photography, performance, sound, text, expanded cinema & installation. Also a maverick curator, designer, researcher & investigator. Concepts include: ephemeral cinema, mediamystics, subterranean science, erotic psyche, poetic accidents, cinema povera & musique plastique.
Exhibited at 2004 Whitney Biennial & The American Century, The New York Film Festival, London Film Festival, MoMA, The Kitchen, Pacific Film Archives, The Warhol Museum, Arsenal in Berlin, Lightcone in Paris; also works with the New York Filmmakers’ Cooperative, Anthology Film Archives, Issue Project Room, & co-directed the Roberta Beck Mercurial Cinema.
A Futurist Film Funeral (fff !!!) – Performa 09 – Nov 14th 2009
Robert Beck is Alive & Well and Living in NYC (Google Video)
Juliana Francis-Kelly
Juliana Francis-Kelly is an actor, a playwright and a doll maker who has performed in the U.S., Europe, and Asia for Young Jean Lee: SONGS OF THE DRAGONS FLYING TO HEAVEN; for Richard Foreman: PARADISE HOTEL; BAD BOY NIETZSCHE!; MARIA DEL BOSCO (for which she won an Obie Award); and KING COWBOY RUFUS RULES THE UNIVERSE; for Lear DeBessonet: TRANSFIGURES; for Dalia Ibelhauptaite: SVEJK at the Duke at 42nd Street; for Pavol Liska: FRAGMENT at Classic Stage Company; and for the late Reza Abdoh as a member of the internationally acclaimed Dar A Luz Company. She has appeared in films by Hal Hartley, Meredith Drum, and by Marie Losier in collaboration with Guy Maddin. Her plays have been produced and published in the U.S.; England; Germany; Austria; Italy; Greece; and Norway, and she’s a Sundance Lab Fellow who has written for the Killer Films Company. Francis-Kelly has received project support from the NEA, The Greenwall Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, NYSCA, and the LMCC. Her dolls have been featured in films and plays, and one lives at The American Museum of Natural History’s educational wing. Recent gallery shows include PATRON SAINT, a public art project in which she made dolls for whoever needed them.
http://culturebot.org/2009/05/30/patron-saint-by-juliana-francis/
http://ontologicalhysteric.blogspot.com/2007/11/juliana-francis-kelly-in-rehearsal.html
Brian Frye
& Penny Lane
Brian L. Frye is a filmmaker, writer and lawyer who lives in Claryville, New York.
http://waste-book.blogspot.com/
Penny Lane is a video artist and documentary filmmaker who lives in the Catskills and teaches art at Williams College.
http://www.p-lane.com/
Camille de Galbert
Camille de Galbert is a filmmaker, artist and dancer. Her career started as a dancer in France after obtaining a ballet and contemporary dance degree from the National Conservatory of Grenoble. In 2002, she moved to New York as a student at the Merce Cunningham Studio under a merit scholarship, continuing her study of modern dance for three years.
Her long career in art and dance sparked an interest in multi-media and film and she cultivated this interest by studying film production at the New York Film Academy. While she was freelancing in the film and television in Paris and New York, she founded LightHouse Films in January 2008.
http://www.camilledegalbert.com/
Peter Hristoff
Peter Hristoff was born 1958 in Istanbul Turkey; his family emigrated to New York in 1963. Hristoff received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts of New York (1981) and his MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York (1983). He is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Award in Painting, The New York Foundation for the Arts Award in Drawing and the Moon and Stars Project Grant. He is a professor of painting and drawing at his Alma Mater, the School of Visual Arts. Hristoff is represented by C.A.M. Gallery in Istanbul.
http://www.peterhristoff.com/
Andrew Lampert
Born in the mid-70s in the Midwest, Andrew Lampert primarily produces films, videos and live performances. Over the last decade his works have been widely exhibited at festivals (NY Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Kill Your Timid Notion), cinemas (BFI, Light Industry), galleries (Mitchell Algus Gallery, NYC & Associates, London), independent art spaces (The Kitchen, NYC & The Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow), museums (The Getty Museum, Los Angeles & The Whitney Museum of American Art) and in numerous venues. He currently lives in Brooklyn, works as Archivist at Anthology Film Archives and is researching the seamy underbelly of the music industry for a new live production.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/electronic-publications/stay-free/archives/23/home-movie-day.html
http://kushitan.blogspot.com/2006/05/andrew-lampert-at-whitney-biennial.html
Marie Losier
Marie Losier, born in France in 1972, is a filmmaker and curator working in New York City. She has shown her films and videos at museums, galleries, biennials and festivals. In 2009, she was invited to The Centre George Pompidou in Paris to present her work in progress on her first feature film-a portrait of on the musical genius Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, and her band Psychic TV. in 2009 she has show at the Berlin Film Festival, La Fondation Cartier/Soiree Nomades in Paris, The Bozar Museum in Belgium, at the Walter Reade-Lincoln Center in NYC and La Cinemateque Francaise in Paris among others. She was invited to be on the Jury for the ERA NEW HORIZONS International Film Festival in Poland in July for the film on art section. She was commissioned by the Kino Arsenal in Berlin to make a film inspired by Jack Smith for the LIVE FILMS! festival that took place in the last week of October. For this event she made a new film-Slap The Gondola!.
In 2008 she was invited to present her new film portrait on musician and filmmaker, Tony Conrad-Tony Conrad DreaMinimalist- at the TATE MODERN and THE BASEL ART FAIR and at The Rotterdam and Berlin Film Festival, The Havard Film Archives, The Kassel Documentary Film Festival, The Copenhagen Film Festival, Cornell Cinema among others. At the The Berlin Film Festival, she presented 7 films in a solo show at the Forum-Arsenal “Marie Losier Goes Underground”, where she premiered her new film on Tony Conrad. She was also included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum, NY) with her film on Richard Foreman, The Ontological Cowboy and at MOMA (Museum of Modern Art, NY) with Electrocute Your Stars, a film portrait on George Kuchar. In 2007, she curated a show for The Rotterdam Film Festival, “Sweet Sixteen” and was also invited to The Berlin Film Festival to present a new film-Manuelle Labor- that she made in collaboration with Canadian Filmmaker Guy Maddin.
http://marielosier.net/
Jackie Raynal
Jackie Raynal was born near Montpellier, in the south of France. She studied at Sorbonne and became an apprentice in film editing at Genevilliers Lab in Paris, becoming an assistant editor in some films, including Renoir’s The Elusive Corporal. After receiving accreditation as a Chief Editor from the Centre National de la Cinématographie, she edited several film, including Eric Rohmer’s La Boulangère de Monceau, La Carrière de Suzanne, Nadja à Paris and La Collectionneuse, and the Nouvelle Vague film in sketches Six in Paris (Paris vu par…).She made her directorial debut in 1965. Her film Deux Fois won the Grand Jury Prize at the Toulon Film Festival (1969) and the Grand Prize at the Hyères Festival (1972), and New York Story, the Grand Prize (Golden Boomerang) at the Melbourne Film Festival (1981). In New York, she was film curator at the now legendary Bleecker Street Cinema and Carnegie Hall Cinema.
http://www.jackieraynal.com/
Joel Schlemowitz
Joel Schlemowitz has made over forty short experimental films, and numerous film installation pieces. He has received grants from the Jerome Foundation and New York State Council on the Arts. His work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, Berks Filmmakers, and at various festivals including the London Film Festival, the Sydney Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Denver Film Festival, the New York Underground Film Festival, and elsewhere. His short film Reverie was broadcast on the Sundance Channel in the “Underground Shorts” series. Another short work, Moving Images – the Film-Makers’ Cooperative relocates, received Honorable Mentions from the Thaw02 Film & Video Festival and NY Short Film Expo, and was awarded a silver plaque from the Chicago International Film Festival. He has received Best Short Documentary awards at the Chicago Underground Film Festival in 2004 and 2005. He teaches filmmaking at the New School, and is President of ACT-UAW, Local 7902, union of adjunct and part-time faculty at New School and NYU.
http://www.joelschlemowitz.com
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Special Features is made possible in part by our supporters and with public funds from the Fund for Creative Communities, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
