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FILM PROGRAM
HOJAS DE MAIZ: Eric Theise, 10 minutes, color, silent, 16mm
Hojas de Maiz is an abstract film, constructed from etchings without the use of a camera. Made at the request of Cincinnati instrument-builder Anthony Luensman, the film was originally intended to be projected amidst arrays of vibrating piano strings. To provide an organic counterpoint to the lines of machine-spun steel, the film was built up from impressions taken of the cornhusks used to form and steam tamales. An old media (etchings, celluloid) journey through progressions of color, temperature, and screen energy.
DEERE JOHN: Mitchell Rose, 3 minutes, color, digital video
A man and a twenty-two ton John Deere excavator dance a dance of discovery, fulfillment, and eventually, the loss that any diesel-based relationship must suffer. Deere John is episode four of "Modern Daydreams" and was made in collaboration with BodyVox dance company of Portland, OR.
TRAVELING LIGHT: Morleigh Steinberg, 23 minutes,1995
This award-winning film features dancers Oguri and Roxanne Steinberg with music by Van Morrison and sound design by Paul Chavez. Produced by Susie Landau.
ABOUT THE FILMAKERS
Eric Theise is a San Francisco-based visual artist, working in film, photography, printmaking, and the book arts. His newest film, "To No End Gathered", will premiere at the Antimatter (Victoria) and TIE (Denver) festivals in September 2005, and he is one of the 2005 recipients of a Fund for Independent Cinema grant from Film Arts
Foundation.
Mitchell Rose was, prior to becoming a filmmaker, a New York-based choreographer specializing in comedic work. He was dubbed “the dance world’s Woody Allen” by The New York Times. Places of performance included Joseph Papp’s New York Dance Festival at the Delacorte Theatre, Jacob's Pillow, the Spoleto Festivals in the U.S. and Italy, and touring throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. He was awarded five Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and set pieces on over a dozen repertory dance-theatre companies around the world. Eventually he was drawn more to visual media and disbanded his company to become a Directing Fellow at the American Film Institute. His films have won forty-eight awards in film festivals including Elevator World, which won the Grand Prize at the Slamdance Film Festival and Modern Daydreams, which won the American Choreography Award (the Hollywood award for filmed choreography). Some of his short films can be watched ad nauseam at www.MitchellRose.com.
Morleigh Steinberg has been directing films since 1994. Her directorial debut, the award winning short, “Traveling Light", was presented by Francis Ford Coppola, for the VH-1 music-film series. Since then, it has been her passion to capture dance on film. Morleigh was chosen to participate in the UCLA Dance/Media Fellowship Project, where she shot and directed, “XING” and “Naizou”, featuring Oguri. Her other films include “Stir” and “Too Close for Conversation”, with New York choreographer Nina Winthrop. Morleigh has just completed her first feature length documentary “Height of Sky” which documents the extraordinary two-year journey of Oguri as he sets out to investigate his identity and his dance in the hostile serenity of the deserts of California.
Known for her work as a dancer, choreographer and lighting designer, Morleigh co-founded ISO Dance, along with Jamey Hampton, Ashley Roland, and Daniel Ezralow, and was a formative member of Momix. She toured the world extensively with both companies and with her solo work. She won an Emmy award for best screen choreography in “Episodes”, a PBS presentation of ISO repertory. Working as a choreographer and performer in numerous music videos and feature films served as a natural progression in her move to directing film. Morleigh is a native of Los Angeles now residing in Dublin, Ireland. ABOUT FRIDAY NIGHTS @ NOT A CORNFIELD
Friday Nights @ Not A Cornfield brings people together in order to share, engage, energize, and enhance the organic nexus that is this project.
ABOUT THE NOT A CORNFIELD ART PROJECT
Growing in the historic center of Los Angeles, the Not Cornfield project transforms an industrial brownfield site into a cornfield for one agricultural cycle. Now the Los Angeles Historic State Park, the site popularly known as 'The Cornfield' had remained derelict for more than a decade. The project serves as a potent metaphor that provides a focus for reflection and action in a city unclear about the location of its energetic and historic center.
ABOUT LAUREN BON, NOT A CORNFIELD ARTIST
Not a Cornfield artist, Lauren Bon resides in Los Angeles and holds a Masters of Architecture degree from MIT and a BA from Princeton. Ms. Bon is a trustee of the Annenberg Foundation and President of Not A Cornfield, LLC. Her recent urban, public and land art projects in the U.S., Hong Kong, Belfast and Northern Ireland, as well as her role as a trustee, make her uniquely poised to build the capacity of the Foundation in the area of site based philanthropy, serving communities through education, civic, health, artistic initiatives and programs. Not a Cornfield art project is being developed through a grant by Annenberg Foundation.
ABOUT THE CURATORS
Echo Park Film Center is a volunteer-run, non-profit media arts center committed to providing equal and affordable access to film and video education and resources for all members of our diverse and vibrant community via a community microcinema space, free and nominal cost media arts education programs, a comprehensive film equipment and service department, and a touring film festival showcasing local established and student filmmakers. For more information on EPFC programs and services: www.echoparkfilmcenter.org The RadioSonideros collective is dedicated to mapping the city of L.A. through sound. For more information: radiosonideros@yahoo.com |
