REAL FILM CAMP in JUNE

Real Film Camp
Instructor: Ethan Berry and Tara Meranda Nelson
June 10-14; M - F, 9 am - 4 pm

This is an opportunity to work hands on with Super-8 and 16mm film material. We will explore a variety of ways of image making on film ranging from drawing and scratching, to in-camera photographic techniques. Students will encounter and engage with the medium of film as the basic material for generating and presenting images. We will take advantage of the Super-8 and 16mm equipment available from the Northeast Institute for Analog Studies. The course will cover an intro to film, hand drawing, basic cinematography, camera operation, sound collage, hand developing black and white film, film slicing, video transfer, basic editing, and creative use of projectors, and  will culminate in a presentation of films.The primary prerequisite for this course is a willingness to experiment with ones own visual ideas. No previous film experience is required but is helpful.

STORY TIME May 9th at 8 pm. in room 201 in the Hardie Building

Join us at the Institute for an evening of films that are based on childrens books on May 9th at 8 pm.

This group of films is curated by Montserrat senior Georgia Bolender. Georgia is an animator and gifted story teller. She has gone through our collection of films to pull out a group of films that tell stories through animation that may have originally been aimed at children. The link between all of the films is the way that they employ animation. Quite often simple but always effective, these films are great examples of the art of animation simply applied to art story telling.

LUTHER PRICE

THE FILMS OF LUTHER PRICE ON APRIL 4TH at 7:00 

at Montserrat College of Art

artists talk at 11:30 am.

Under Your Skin: The Artist Body in Film, is a series of screenings and visiting filmmakers considering the role of the artist’s body and how it relates to moving image. 


ABOUT LUTHER PRICE'S FILMS...Memory, Possession, Truth, Language, Solitude, Cigarettes, Suicide and Trust. Disorder, Reconstruction, Out takes and tape. Pin hole, Retrospective, Performance and Velvet ... Obsession, Creation, Addiction, Introverted, Reflection, Moving Element ... Subject Matter, Day Dreams, Sailors and Anger, Failure, Remorse ... Permanent Desire, Documentation, Lip Synch, Animation ... Static, Procrastination, Dissolve and Fade. Distortion, HomoErotic Collaboration. Habitat, Transformation, Hieroglyphic, Consideration ... Liquid and Fat ... One Track Minded Mental Block. Unresolved Reality, Ordinary Restriction. Volatile Combination, Desire, Presentation Meaningless Evidence, Situation Imagination and Dream ... Pigment, Punch Holes, Ashes and Swirl ... Soundtracks, Pealing, Ribbons Twirl, Maggots and Pink. Comas and Cameras, Liquid Vignette ... Juxtaposition, Frame Line, 500 Watts ... Cerebral Hemorrhage, Head Vomit, Project ... Make Believe Glamour, Glitter and Tonic, A Time Sorted Occasion, A Pleasant Worth While Episode, A Relaxed Flabby Eyelid ... A Silver Funeral ... and Birthday Cake
- from the Canyon Cinema Catalog

Creating new works from old documentaries, snippets of Hollywood film and other cinematic detritus, LUTHER PRICE ties the re-edited footage together with an often brutal electromechanical noise.

Screening: Thursday, April 4, 7-9pm, Room 201, Hardie

THE SPRING FILM SERIES

AN EXTRAORDINARY SPRING FILM SERIES 
AT MONTSERRAT COLLEGE OF ART
Organized by the Visiting Artist program and curated by Tara Nelson, this program brings film makers from across the country to our Spring Film Screening Series.

The Extravagant Shadows
A beautiful discourse on language and time, David Gatten’s award winning film shows the filmmaker painting a window with different pigments in real time, while literary excerpts emerge on the screen.
Screening: 2-6p, Saturday, February 23

Under Your Skin: The Artist Body in Film
Curated by Filmmaker Tara Nelson, Under Your Skin is a series of screenings and visiting filmmakers considering the role of the artist’s body and how it relates to moving image.

Jennifer Montgomery


           
Montgomery's films explore the complex psychological struggles with identity, control, and sexuality that are inherent in human relationships. Her recent feminist autobiography explores
"innocence of guilt and the guilt of innocence".
Artist Talk: Friday, February 1, 11:30a
Screening: Friday, February 1, 7-9p




Victor Faccinto



Faccinto’s films may have been described as psycho-erotic cinema, but the intention is not to alienate audiences, but to work as personal, psychological explorations.
Artist Talk: Friday, March 1, 11:30
Screening: Friday, March 1, 7-9p

Luther Price










Creating new works from old documentaries, snippets of Hollywood film and other cinematic detritus, Price ties the re-edited footage together with an often brutal electromechanical noise.
Artist Talk: THURSDAY APRIL 4, 11:30a
Screening: THURSDAY APRIL 4, 7-9p

Winter Update

The Institute has acquired hundreds of orphan films from an anonymous donor. These films are not in great condition. They have been stored improperly and in some cases have become effected with vinegar syndrome. Consequently, they are being stored offsite as they are organized, cleaned and sorted. Because of their condition many of them may end up in found footage compilations. More images from this collection soon.

The TIE Show at Montserrat

 Chris May and Ethan Berry Setting up for the first TIE show at Montserrat. We screened 13 films on Thursday October 11th. Two films premiered in this program; Paul Clipson's luscious color print of ANOTHER VOID and Josh Weissbach's brand new print of STORM CROSSING. We also put up two multi- projector films; TWIN PROPELLORS in Super-8  by Jason Halprin

and PARKOUR in 16mm by Chris May. Along with about 90 minutes of other 16mm work. It was an ambitous program of Super-8 and 16mm films utilizing six projectors. Chris did a great job of putting this program together with Abstract, Structuralist, Found Footage, Diary and Poetic Narrative works.

Thanks to all who came and also thanks to Institute friends Damaris Chapin-Berner and Mike Evers who's equipment made this presentation possible.

This digital image was acquired by Ron Dirito using an iPhone, I think.

TIE Experimental Films @ Montserrat

Kindred spirit Chris May has been working for 10 years presenting and supporting experimental and innovative films in all celluloid formats. He has curated numerous shows all over the country. We share his mission and commitment to the analog formats and the magical quality of shadow-based images. Join us at Montserrat  College of Art on October 11 at 8 p.m. to see work by Jody Mack, Paul Clipson, Jason Halprin, Laida Lertxundi and others at a first ever TIE show at Montserrat.

Check out TIE here: http://www.experimentalcinema.org/