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At the end of the Spring 2012 semester, students from the Media Arts Theory and Practice class displayed their exhibits in Annenberg’s Studio 2. Here, Paul Hinson displays “How to Build a Bee Box to Attract Solitary Bees.” The interactive exhibit asked viewers to remove screens from a box and place them on a framework to reveal hidden videos.
photos by Ryan S. Brandenberg/Temple University
The 2012 Diamond Screen Film Festival results were announced May 7 at the closing night ceremony at the International House in Philadelphia.
For more information please visit: http://diamondscreen.org/
Diamond Screen Film Festival Awards
Best Long Form Screenplay (Juried by Scott Currie)
Magic Ghetto by Matthew Flocco
Best Short Form Screenplay (Juried by Ian Markiewicz)
Praise and Blame by Shane Book
Web Interactive Design (Jury Award) (Juried by Andrew Nicholas)
Between Leaving & Arriving by Joseph Kraemer
Web Interactive Design (viewer’s favorite) (Online poll winner)
Jake Rasmussen’s Site by Jake Rasmussen
Best Cinematography Film (Juried by Dave Lamm)
Mehul the Music Man by Cameron S. Mitchell
Best Editing Film (Juried by Lance Edmands)
Illness Magnified by Julia Fuller
Best Non-fiction Film (Juried by Kirsten Johnson)
Pigment by Alexis McCrimmon
Best Narrative Film (Juried by Jason Pinardo)
Signed, Harry by Phillip Carroll
Best Animation Film (Juried by Vineet Verma)
The Hungry Little Green Man by Thomas Brady
Best Experimental (Juried by Ted Passon)
Wonka Corner by Ashley Scrivener
Best Undergraduate Film (Juried by Kyle Martin)
My Father, the Old Horse by Max Einhorn
Best Graduate Film (Juried by Kyle Martin)
Kiss the Paper by Fiona Otway
Audience Award
Fragmented by George Mills
FMA Departmental Awards:
Motion Picture Scholarship Award
Charles Bouril
Ben Lazaroff Scholarship Award
Graduate – Ambarien Alqadar
Undergraduate – Chikira Bennett
Schoenagle Scholarship
J.D. Sacharok
Robert Lowmaster
Deglin Leder Award
(undergraduate) Caroline Woodruff
(graduate) David Romberg
Grickis Memorial Scholarship
Charles Bouril
Cameron Snyder-Mitchell
Best Comprehensive Exam Essay
Narrative Imaginings in Dance for Camera by Malia Bruker
Derek Freese Filmmakers Awards
Fragmented by George Mills
Magniloquent by Michael Mastronardi
photos by Ryan S. Brandenberg/Temple University
Medals gleaming from their necks, the proud champions celebrated their victories as John Williams’ “Olympic Fanfare” filled Annenberg Hall’s Studio 2.
The events didn’t involve javelins, running shoes or volleyballs. Instead, each competitor was strapped into a Steadicam Pilot. Their goal was to beat their fellow Film and Media Arts students in a series of competitions designed to show off their cinematographic skills.
The “Moving Camera Olympics” were part of the week-long Diamond Screen Film Festival. Over the past semester, the students have honed their skills with this piece of equipment that allows the operator to move freely around a film set, yet still maintain a steady and flowing shot. It’s designed to counter the effects of the operator’s natural body movement.
Brandon Watz, an MFA student in the department and one of the class instructors, says the resulting shot is similar to what you can get by using a dolly. “The difference is that you’re a little bit more mobile.”
Associate Professor Mike Kuetemeyer said students took the lead in designing each event. They included “Walk the Line,” in which the competitors had to walk toward and then away from an image that they had to keep in the frame. The fastest to do so won.
Senior Josh Garcia created an event in which the operator had to walk sideways over a series of boxes and keep a tape line on the wall within the camera’s viewfinder.
“You have to be aware of your boundaries and things that get in the way as you’re tracking your shot,” Garcia said. “It’s always important for filmmakers to examine the location and perhaps rehearse the shot.”
Junior Stephanie Irwin won gold in the “hands-free” competition, in which the students had to maintain a steady shot only using their bodies to control the Steadicam Pilot. She said the pending competition at the end of the semester definitely inspired her to practice her skills more.
Kuetemeyer said training for these skills events “does help them as operators. When it comes down to doing a shot, you’re pretty good.”
Click here to learn more about Diamond Screen.
Date: April 27, 2012 7 – 9 p.m.
Admission: $5, Free for Scribe members
Venue: Scribe Video Center
4212 Chestnut St., 3rd Floor,Philadelphia, PA, 19104
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It is is a collaboration with non-filmmakers who are committed to exposing a local police brutality incident as a national issue. Born and raised in Gainesville, Fla., Lincoln was drawn to this documentary project for both its subject and its potential to incite change. Lincoln has studied film and video at Antioch College and holds an MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University. Lincoln is also proud and active member of Southerners On New Ground (SONG), a LGBT organizing for queer liberation across the South.
For more information, please visit Scribe Video Center.
The Temple University Film & Media Arts Department presents the 2012 Senior Projects Screenings, April 25 and 26, 2012, at The Pearl at Avenue North in Philadelphia. Join the directors, producers, and cast and crew members for the world premiere of films by:
John Daily, Kyle Hess, Antonio Piluso, Alex Peck, George Mills, Evan Ostrow, Paul Emmett, Alex Trivane. Mike Mastronardi, Kyle Maack, Hart Sherman, Max Einhorn, Chad Warner, Angela Wolf, Steve Kilkoyne, Sean Montgomery, Alyssa Lomuscio, Alex Schmucker, Joshua Fluery, Kennan Novi, Omar McAllister, Robert Venanzi, Matt Huber, Justin McGoldrick and Ginger Elias.
Dates: April 25 and 26, 2012
Time: 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Admission: Free
Venue: The Pearl at Avenue North
Address: 11600 North Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19121
For more information, visit Arts Research Center
Film and Media Arts Associate Professor Sarah Drury has been researching a technology-based art form called augmented reality, in which artists add virtual images to real landscapes that can be viewed through a mobile phone.
Watch Professor Drury discuss her research, an augmented reality exhibit that she curated and her take on the artists who work in this medium.
Video by Ryan Geffert
Event:The Films of Cathy Lee Crane: Poetic Biography: An Investigation of Words from Two Radical Polemicists
Start: April 5, 2012 7:00 pm
Cost: Free for IHP members and Temple Students!
Venue: International House
Address: 3701 Chestnut Street,Philadelphia, PA, 19104
Phone: 215-387-5125
This film screening and discussion is co-presented by the Department of Film and Media Arts, the Temple University School of Communications and Theater and The Bryn Mawr College Program in Film Studies.
Over the last decade, Cathy Lee Crane has committed herself to an ongoing experiment with the biographical film, cultivating a fictional form of biography that seeks to penetrate what late filmmaker Raul Ruiz described as the “subtle tissue of life”. Combining staged and archival material, Crane materially renders the spectral life of thought itself as a kind of poetry. These two films contend with the end of the lives of two radical polemicists from the 20th century whose social critiques were provoked into being by the political extremities of their times. Acknowledging that the past has an intimate relationship to the present, the films use the re-enactment as a function that seeks to make history a living presence. Through theatrical, or ritualized gesture, the present maintains its distance from the past while also evoking it.
Unoccupied Zone: The Impossible Life of Simone Weil
dir. Cathy Lee Crane, US, 2006, video, 45 mins, b/w
This portrait of French writer Simone Weil is not simply an account of her life, but rather the embodiment of her ideas. The “unoccupied zone” is therefore only marginally meant to refer to the southern part of France under Vichy. It is more importantly an existential labyrinth imaged by the film itself; a psychic space through which Weil passed while in exile in her own country from 1940-1941. Winner Best Narrative Film – University Film & Video Association Juried Screening (2006).
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Pasolini’s Last Words
dir. Cathy Lee Crane, US, 2012, HD video, 60 mins, b/w and color
Known as one of Italy’s most important filmmakers, Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and foremost, one of its poets. This elegiac essay looks at Pasolini’s brutal murder in 1975 alongside the texts he published or left unfinished during the last year of his life.
FMA aluma has acting debut in The Observers
Reviews of The Observers have appeared in Time Out New York and The New York Times.
Dates: May 10-16, 2012
Admission: $9 general; $7 students/seniors/children
Venue: Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10003