Newsletter 5, July 2001
Newsletter #5 July 2001
In this issue:
1. KINETICA™ 3 to Premiere in LA, AUG 17th
2. KINETICA™ 3 Tour Dates Set
3. The iotaCenter Receives New Grants
4. KINETICA™ 2 to Begin European Tour
5. New Videotapes Available
KINETICA™ 3 to Premiere in Los Angeles, AUG 17th
When: Friday, August 17, 2001, 7:00pm
Where: The Norris Cinema Theater on the campus of the
University of Southern California, LA
Admission: $8.
There are two programs in this third edition in the
KINETICA™ series:
Hy Hirsh and the Fifties:
Jazz and Abstraction in Beat Era Film
Newly-preserved prints of the rarely seen films
of Hy Hirsh are featured in this look at abstraction
in the ’50s. The program also includes films by
Hirsh’s contemporaries including Jordan Belson,
Harry Smith, Patricia Marx and also John and James
Whitney and Mary Ellen Bute.
Abstract Expressionism, Jazz, Zen and Beat culture —
all come together in these abstract films of the ’50s.
Jordan Belson’s “Bardo” and the Contemporary Program
In the contemporary program of KINETICA™ 3, more
recent ‘visual music’ animation will be screened — both
computer-animated and otherwise, on film and on video,
from the 70s up to the present. This program features the
world premiere of “Bardo,” a new work by Jordan Belson,
and also includes work by Sky David, Joost Rekveld,
Richard Reeves, Ying Tan, Paul Glabicki, Bob Snyder,
and Chris Casady as well as other contemporary artists.
For the benefit of those who will be in LA for the
SIGGRAPH conference, we are showing both programs
in one evening (beginning with the contemporary program).
Also, USC’s Norris Theater is located just 2 blocks from the
Shrine Auditorium, the site of Siggraph’s Electronic Theater.
After the screening, cocktails will be served courtesy of
ABSOLUT Vodka.
For more information on K3 including a complete list of
the works shown, visit
http://www.iotacenter.org/program/exhibition/kinetica3
The Norris theater is much smaller than LACMA’s Bing Theater
where K2 was shown last year. It is *strongly* suggested
that you get your tickets *early* (i.e., right now).
Don’t be disappointed!
Order K3 tickets online here:
http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=15581&Referrer_id=6356
To arrange for off-line ticket purchase, call The iotaCenter
office: (310) 842 8704
See you there.
The films of Hy Hirsh were preserved by The iotaCenter
with a grant from The National Film Preservation Foundation,
with additional support from The Academy Film Archive and
The Whitney Museum of American Art.
The Los Angeles premiere of K3 is co-sponsored by Department
of Digital Arts-Animation, School of Cinema-Television,
University of Southern California
KINETICA™ 3 Tour Dates Set
After the premiere in LA, K3 will travel
to the following venues:
The Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
October 2, 9, 2001
The Museum of Modern Art
October 29, 30, 2001
Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto, Canada
November 21, 28, 2001
Then the tour will continue to the following venues.
Exact dates to be announced.
Continue to check the website for details.
http://www.iotacenter.org/program/exhibition/kinetica3
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Anthology Film Archives, NY, NY
Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The iotaCenter Receives New Grants
Just this month The iotaCenter received a grant for
$5000. from the National Endowment for The Humanities
for “Development of a long-term plan for preserving
paper-based collections, photographs, moving image
collections, and material culture objects documenting
20th-century art.”
This will allow us to assess the preservation needs for
our entire collection which will hopefully lead to more
funding for this project in the future.
More information here:
http://www.neh.gov/news/archive/20010723.html
Mention of The iotaCenter’s project can be
found on page 7 of this document:
http://www.neh.gov/pdf/GrantsJuly2001.pdf
In April, the National Endowment of the Arts awarded
The iotaCenter a $10,000. grant to conduct a complete
inventory of its collection of films and videotapes.
That announcement is online here:
http://www.nea.gov/endownews/news01/announce4-26.html (no longer active)
http://www.nea.gov/learn/01grants/HP.html#media (no longer active)
And in March, The National Film Preservation
Foundation awarded The iotaCenter a grant to support
the preservation of films by Jordan Belson and Jules
Engel. This is our second grant from the NFPF. Our
NFPF-funded projects are listed on their site:
http://www.filmpreservation.org/
KINETICA™ 2 to Begin European Tour
Since July, 2000, K2 has had a successful run of eleven
venues in the US and the Animac festival in Spain.
Now K2 is scheduled to begin its tour of Europe in the
Fall of 2001.
The following venues have been confirmed to date:
The INDAC Festival: Cologne, Bonn, Dusseldorf, and
Duisburg, Germany
The Royal Film Archive, Brussels, Belgium
The Swedish Film Institute’s Cinematheque, Stockholm
Barcelona Centre of Contemporary Culture, Barcelona, Spain
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Since the exact dates are still to be announced, continue
to check the website for the most current information:
http://www.iotacenter.org/program/exhibition/kinetica3
New Videotapes Available
A new edition of “The Films of Oskar Fischinger,
Volume 1” is being released next month, now as part
of iota’s KINETICA VIDEO LIBRARY™. This edition includes
new versions of “Allegretto” and “Motion Painting” (no longer available)
Also appearing in the store soon will be collections
of films by Len Lye and Jordan Belson. Stay tuned
to iota’s online store for further developments:
iotaCenter Online Store