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What comes between Superbowl Sunday and Super Tuesday?
Super Kinetic Cinema Monday!

Come check out a fabulous program of cutting edge movement-based films and videos, curated by Brian McCormick. From a 1987 collaboration between Elizabeth Streb and Mary Lucier to the latest online virtual spectacles of Second Life Ballet, you will be blown away!

KINETIC CINEMA
Tonight! Monday Feb 4th @ 7:30pm
$5 Admission (buy tickets at the door)

at:
Collective:Unconscious
279 Church Street (just south of White Street)
New York, NY 10013
Trains: 1 to Franklin; A, C, E to Canal
info: www.weird.org
212.254.5277

Kinetic Cinema kicked off last month with a great program during the Dance On Camera Festival. Please join us for our second screening on Monday February 4th at 7:30pm at Collective:Unconscious in Tribeca. This time I have invited dance writer and educator, Brian McCormick to guest curate a program of films and videos that have inspired his work with dance. Brian’s program evolves from his interest in video art, including early performance-based video, choreographies that exploit film’s surrealistic potential, and the latest 3D virtual dance from the Second Life Ballet.

Come see a fascinating collection of rare videos that span the short and rich history of mediatized movement.

THE NUT by Second Life Ballet, photo: Cienega Soon

Kinetic Cinema
Monday February 4th 7:30pm (and the first Monday of every month thereafter)
$5 Admission (buy tickets at the door)

@ Collective:Unconscious
279 Church Street (just south of White Street)
New York, NY 10013
Trains: 1 to Franklin; A, C, E to Canal
www.weird.org
Phone: 212.254.5277

Brian’s program will feature ground-breaking experimental videos including Mary Lucier and Elizabeth Streb’s 1987 collaboration “In the blink of an eye, Amphibian Dreams… If I could fly I would fly” (click here to preview an excerpt), plus a special live performance in Second Life (a virtual online world) of excerpts of “The Nut” (an abridged version of The Nutcracker) by Second Life Ballet, followed by a chat with artistic director Inarra Saarinen. These, plus many more surprises are in store!

Kinetic Cinema explores the intersection of dance and the moving image both on screen and stage. Each month curator Anna Brady Nuse invites a special guest from the dance community to share the films and videos that have inspired or moved them. These could be films that feature dance, are kinetic-based, or have been influential on their work in some way. The guest curators will come from a range of backgrounds as performers, choreographers, critics, and filmmakers. Upcoming guests include Malinda Allen (March 3rd), Jonah Bokaer (April 7th), Levi Gonzalez (May 5th), and Kriota Willberg (June 2nd).

Thanks
to all who attended the first Kinetic Cinema screening on Monday. If
you weren’t there, a large wonderful crowd turned out at
Collective:Unconscious in Tribeca to watch seven fabulous short dance films from
the Dance On Camera Festival. Two filmmakers attended: Noemie LaFrance,
choreographer of two Feist videos (1234 and My Man My Moon both directed by Patrick Daughters) and Charlotte Griffin, director of the film Raven Study.
They shared great stories and insights about making films with dance, and a good time was had by all.

Be sure to check out the Feb 4th screening with dance
critic and media maven Brian McCormick! Details will be posted here
soon…

Here’s the Feist video 1234
Notice the lack of cuts – it’s all one continuous take!

Just a friendly reminder about the Dance On Camera Festival screening tonight curated by yours truly for Kinetic Cinema at Collective:Unconscious at 7:30pm.

Featuring seven fantastic international shorts including Feist’s music video “1234″ choreographed by Noémie LaFrance, Charlotte Griffin’s sexy “Raven Study”, and Victoria Marks’ political duet “Not About Iraq,” you’re sure to find something to get excited about in this program.

Don’t get left out! Make your reservation now before this underground, hipster hole-in-the-wall sells out!

Details:
Kinetic Cinema – 2008 Dance On Camera Festival Shorts Program
Monday January 7th 7:30pm (and the first Monday of every month thereafter)
$5 admission

@ Collective:Unconscious
279 Church Street (just south of White Street)
New York, NY 10013
Trains: A to Canal or 1 to Franklin
www.weird.org
TICKETS: 212.352.3101
VENUE:212.254.5277

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Happy New Year! What better way to start 2008 than by seeing some wicked cool dance films and videos? On Monday January 7th at 7:30pm I will present a special program of of international dance film shorts in conjunction with the Dance Films Association’s 36th Dance On Camera Festival. This program is part of Kinetic Cinema, a videodance screening series happening on the first Monday of each month at Collective:Unconscious in Tribeca. After the Jan 7th kick-off event I will invite a special guest from the dance community each month to show films and videos that have inspired their work in dance. Come see why dance and film go together as well as chocolate and peanut butter (or champagne and chocolate-dipped strawberries)!

Feist’s 1234

Kinetic Cinema
Monday January 7th 7:30pm (and the first Monday of every month thereafter)
$5 Admission

@ Collective:Unconscious
279 Church Street (just south of White Street)
New York, NY 10013
www.weird.org
TICKETS: 212.352.3101
VENUE:212.254.5277

For the Dance On Camera Festival program I have selected  seven shorts from among 200+ festival entries that represent some of the freshest new visions by leading dance filmmakers today. The program includes “1234″ – an award-winning music video by Feist directed by Patrick Daughters with choreography by Noemi LaFrance (who will be in attendance); “BLUE” – a suspended moment before a pianist begins to play by Elif Isikozlu; “PANORAMA ROMA” – a rotating timelapse film shot over 24 hours in the center of Rome by Italian choreographer Anna de Manincor; “RAVEN STUDY” – a sleek duet between a beautiful Louise Brooks-like dancer and a Rock drummer by Charlotte Griffin; “ANIMALZ” – a crew of urban b-boys from Brighton that go feral by Sergio Cruz; “PLANT” – a haunting exploration of a decaying bomb factory by The Body Cartography Project and Olive Beiringa; and “NOT ABOUT IRAQ” – a dance film that questions the relationship of words and experience, government rhetoric and reality by choreographer Victoria Marks with dancer Taisha Paggett.
Click here for a video preview of Feist’s “1234″.

Kinetic Cinema explores the intersection of dance and the moving image both on screen and stage. Each month I will invite a special guest from the dance community to share the films and videos that have inspired or moved them. These could be films that feature dance, are kinetic-based, or have been influencial on their work in some way. The guest curators will come from a range of backgrounds as performers, choreographers, critics, and filmmakers. Upcoming guests include Brian McCormick (Feb 4th), Jonah Bokaer (April 7th), Levi Gonzalez (May 5th), and Kriota Willberg (June 2nd).

DFA’s 36th, annual internationally touring Dance on Camera Festival & Symposium January 2-19, 2008
DFA’s 36th annual Dance On Camera Festival is the oldest dance film/video festival in the world that sparked an explosion of activity amongst artists, curators, writers and a curious audience. The Festival has been co-sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center since 1996 and has toured to over 70 venues internationally.
For festival schedule, tickets and info: www.dancefilms.org