Visiting film/video maker! Phil Solomon

"Solomon recently has been incorporating machinima from Grand theft Auto games into his strangely emotionally moving videos."

> Visiting Film/video maker!!!
>
> Film and Video Artist Phil Solomon
> Presenting selections of his recent 16mm films and videos
> SATURDAY APRIL 24, 7:30PM
> E105 AJB-Franklin Miller Screening Room

Wednesday, April 12

1. Announcements

2. Troubleshooting with Sound/Video... Checking in on Projects (Progress Reports)

3. The Video Essay

-Travis Wilkerson, "An Injury to One"

-Agnes Varda, "The Gleaners and I"

-Chris Marker, "San Soleil"

-French New Wave Filmmakers

4. 11:30 Visiting Artist JOSH EKLOW

-demo in Media Lab=transferring VHS to digital

Video Art!

Monday, April 12

Agenda

1. Announcements

2. Reminder: Arts Fest, Friday, April 30th

3. Let's talk about Video Art-Reading

-What's the different between film and video anyway?

4, Experimental Film/Manipulating the film

-Stan Brakhage

5. Breaking down video/code (similar to rupturing/manipulating film)

-Evan Meaney

6. Let's look at Video Art and Artists

-Joan Jonas

-David Claerbout

-Francis Alys

-Pipolotti Rist

-Isaac Julien

7. Onward we march in Final Cut Pro

Malcom McLaren Died

Situationist, provocateur, Svengali, manager of Sex Pistols (see Svengali) dead at 64. He tried to subvert our notions of pop music, but instead changed them.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/malcolm-mclaren-dies-aged-64-1939621.html

Wednesday, April 7

1. Announcements

2. In-class exercise:

Goals

1) Experience using a camera- either a digital still camera or small video camera such as the Flip/Mino or the camcorder option on a still camera

2) Practice importing your footage from the camera to the computer

3) Opening a New Final Cut Project and importing your footage

4) Practice the following:

a) edit- cut, copy, paste footage

b) import a sound track/sound file and cut, copy, paste sound

c) layer two different images on top of each other and alter the opacity

d) export your project as a Quicktime file for viewing

Monday, April 5

1. Announcements

-Marisa Olsen, visiting artist-- LECTURE TONIGHT! 7pm Seamens Center

-sign-up to meet about Final Project

-more thoughts/conversation about group project for Arts Fest

2. A bit more about Sound

-hand-out for Zoom

-things to keep in mind when recording

3. Animation

-history (leading up to film and video)

-photography- using the Canon Digital Rebel (getting the proper settings to shoot rapidly)

-importing pictures into the comuter

-Final Cut Pro to the proper settings for animation

Microgrants- apply now!

Hi friends,

Last month was the third coffee microgrant. In case you're new to this, I drink coffee everyday. I used to drink it at cafes, for about $2 a cup. About $60 of my monthly income disappeared to coffee, never to be missed. Now I make it at home, and for each day that I do not buy coffee at a cafe, I set aside $2 for a microgrant. In March, I traveled a lot and therefore bought a lot of coffee. I drank coffee out 10 times, leaving $42 to go to this grant and to you, dear friend.

If you applied before, your application is still on file, and it will be considered again. If not, send me a paragraph telling me what you'd do with the money (it need not be art, it can be anything). If you get chosen, I'll send you a check and the next time we're in the same city, we'll grab coffee and talk about what you did with the $$.

In February, I gave the money to Aaron Strong to buy licensing software for a rad map-making program. His blog of maps are online here: http://sensefromplace.blogspot.com/

Please send your proposals by the 10th (sorry its so soon!)

Katie

p.s. pass this around, if you know someone who is doing cool stuff that I should fund, pass them the email.

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Katie Hargrave
http://www.katiehargrave.us