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This Advanced Digital Production & Post reel screened with improvised music performed by John Hawk, Gordon Kurowski, and others as part of the CalArts end of year celebration the Bijou Fest. My class gives equal focus to exposing students to cutting edge Industry hardware, software, and workflow as well as various methods of experimental production and ultra low budget production and post solutions. These represent a few of the experiments we performed this Spring.

Poster by Mike Welch for Emilie Sabath’s 3-channel video installation and live performance at CalArts this week. Additional performance on 5/4 at 11am. Via esabath’s blog, under-pressure-over-time.

Poster by Mike Welch for Emilie Sabath’s 3-channel video installation and live performance at CalArts this week. Additional performance on 5/4 at 11am. Via esabath’s blog, under-pressure-over-time.

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Brannu Fulton by Esteban1098 on Flickr.  Esteban: you’ve got another hit, buddy!

Brannu Fulton by Esteban1098 on Flickr.  Esteban: you’ve got another hit, buddy!

Cy Kuckenbaker’s Indentured.  “Indentured has done more to raise Congressional and public awareness of the unabated trafficking in humans than all of the government’s annual reports combined. Indentured not only exposes the exploitative process so pervasive in government contracting abroad, it also highlights the fact that this terrible crime being paid for by the U.S. taxpayer is not without victims,” Sam McCahon, Owner McCahon Law Film, former Federal Prosecutor, former Assistant U.S. Attorney, former Trial Attorney for U.S. Army.

Jiang @ Capital Steel by Buddha1098 on Flickr.  “Shougang, Beijing Capital Steel Factory 首钢 is located on the west side of Beijing. Due to the Olympics, the government decided in 2005 to move the factory to Tangshan, Hebei Province. What remains is the shell of what used to be Beijing’s most secure workplace. Working there meant having an “iron rice bowl,” insurance, food, and benefits from cradle to death.”

Jiang @ Capital Steel by Buddha1098 on Flickr.  “Shougang, Beijing Capital Steel Factory 首钢 is located on the west side of Beijing. Due to the Olympics, the government decided in 2005 to move the factory to Tangshan, Hebei Province. What remains is the shell of what used to be Beijing’s most secure workplace. Working there meant having an “iron rice bowl,” insurance, food, and benefits from cradle to death.”

katieshapiro: Lemon Tree

katieshapiro:

Lemon Tree

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There is little in the current cinematic landscape that matches or evokes the anger and the sense of injustice that have galvanized the protesters at Occupy Wall Street and its proliferating offshoots. You know things are bleak when people are positioning the financial-crisis indie thriller “Margin Call” as a movie of the moment.

Perhaps it will take time, but while we’re waiting, class warriors and curious bystanders alike might want to check out Travis Wilkerson’s “An Injury to One,” one of American independent cinema’s great achievements of the past decade, just issued on DVD by Icarus Films.

A Second Look: ‘An Injury to One’ by Dennis Lim.  A well-deserved reminder that there are great political films that are also great art.  Travis Wilkerson’s 2002 film is one of my two favorite documentaries (the other being Thom Anderson’s Los Angeles Plays Itself) and I’ve been waiting with baited breath to upgrade my VHS tape.  Icarus has put up an excerpt on Youtube, but take my word for it and go buy Wilkerson’s DVD right now.  You won’t be disappointed.

A long time ago, in a first year film production class not so very far away…

Gina & Kitties, by Katie Shapiro.  Future superstar.

Gina & Kitties, by Katie Shapiro.  Future superstar.

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Mediterranean Sea, Agde, by Gustave Le Gray. On the event of the Getty Center’s exhibition of his work in 2002, the curator wrote, “Gustave Le Gray is known as the most important French photographer of the nineteenth century because of his technical innovations in the still new medium of photography, his role as the teacher of other noted photographers, and the extraordinary imagination he brought to picture making.” I made a film about him while I was in grad school that I recently had the opportunity to telecine. The Broken Wave isn’t bad for a love note to a long dead hero.

Mediterranean Sea, Agde, by Gustave Le Gray. On the event of the Getty Center’s exhibition of his work in 2002, the curator wrote, “Gustave Le Gray is known as the most important French photographer of the nineteenth century because of his technical innovations in the still new medium of photography, his role as the teacher of other noted photographers, and the extraordinary imagination he brought to picture making.” I made a film about him while I was in grad school that I recently had the opportunity to telecine. The Broken Wave isn’t bad for a love note to a long dead hero.

Tosininkyste (The Barker) by Cy Kuckenbaker.

Wood, by David Fenster.

Bumper for the CalArts School of Film/Video Showcase, 2010, by Ian Samuels.

Dreaming of Lucid Living by Miwa Matreyek.  One of the best installation/performance pieces I’ve seen in person.