For our final Kinetic Cinema on Wednesday December 9th, dance filmmaker Jody Oberfelder will present a humorous and provocative survey of the global impact of YouTube and how dance artists can best use this platform to showcase and further their art.

Makers and marketers alike have been fascinated with how to make videos massively popular and ‘go viral’ on the web since the birth of YouTube.  For her Kinetic Cinema program, Oberfelder will explore this phenomenon and hypothesize how dancers can make their videos be seen by thousands or even millions of viewers.  In her survey, Oberfelder will present an array of stunning clips ranging from hilarious “fail’ videos, bloopers, video-blogging, and a few dance-centric films, to explore content that captures our attention– what gets the most hits and why?

In conjunction with this Kinetic Cinema screening, Movement Media has posted a challenge to our audience and readers to create a viral video of your own (see our previous post: Viral Videos on YouTube!!). The person whose video receives the most hits on YouTube by December 9th will have their video screened at Kinetic Cinema and receive a special prize.

In addition to YouTube, Movement Media and Oberfelder will discuss how dancers and video artists can enhance the reach of their work by submitting their videos to blogs (such as MovetheFrame.com),  screenings (such as Kinetic Cinema), and online festivals (such as the UMove Videodance Festival).

About Jody Oberfelder’s Dance for Camera: Artistic Works
Jody’s dance films have been shown in New York City at HBO Studios, Dance Theater Workshop’s “Captured” series, Tribeca’s VisionFest, and at the Walter Reid Theater in the Dance on Camera Festival; elsewhere in the U.S. at the American Dance Festival’s “Dancing for the Camera,” Dance Camera West, and at the San Diego-Tijuana DANCEonFILM Festival 2009; as well as abroad at Cinedans (Audience Choice Award), EDIT2009 in Budapest, Milano Doc Festival, the Zodiac Center in Helsinki, and OUTVIDEO in Russia. This spring Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects mounts HEADS or TALES, an eccentric retrospective celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects, to be premiered at the Abrons Arts Center (Henry Street Settlement) March 11-13, 2010.

About Kinetic Cinema
Kinetic Cinema is a co-presentation of The Tank and Pentacle’s Movement Media project, and happens on the second Wednesday of each month. Kinetic Cinema explores the intersection of dance and the moving image. For each screening Anna Brady Nuse, Pentacle’s director of Movement Media, invites a different guest artist from the fields of dance and media arts to share a selection of films and videos that have inspired them. These could be works for screen that feature dance, are kinetic-based, or have been influential on their work in some way. The guest curators come from a range of backgrounds as performers, choreographers, critics, video artists, and film-makers.

For more info on Pentacle’s Movement Media Project and news about Kinetic Cinema, please visit our blog: Move the Frame and our website: http://pentacle.org/movement_media.asp

I Tube, You Tube, We all Tube for YouTube

Curated by Jody Oberfelder

Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 7:30pm
Tickets: $10
Reservations: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/91392

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*A co-presentation of Pentacle’s Movement Media and The Tank