Student & Alumni Announcements & Accomplishments: December
Student Announcements & Accomplishments
Jeffrey Shroyer, MFA 3-Experimental Animation has been invited to screen his film Fish Alert! At the Rythmetic International Experimental Animated Film Festival, Begles, France, January 2010.
Alumni Announcements & Accomplishments
Javier Fuentes-Leon, Film Directing program, his latest feature film UNDERTOW has been accepted for the World Cinema Narrative Competitionat Sundance Film Festival. Javier wrote, directed and produced UNDERTOW (aka CONTRACORRIENTE)
Emery C. Martin, '06 BFA-Experimental Animation program, earned MFA '08 NYU, currently the Digital System Specialist and faculty, Experimental Animation, School of Film/Video, gave a computer generated performance, *nix Genealogy, as part of the "1969″ show, curated by Vincent Ramos, on December 5, 2009, at Dan Graham. "'1969′ is a show of performance-based works that respond to the key events of 1969 and/or uses them as a catalyst for commenting on our current state of affairs in this country and abroad."
*nix Genealogy, is a performance by a Dell Mini 9 "hackintosh" laptop computer, that recites the genealogy of the operating system it is currently running, using language typically of Old Testament Biblical genealogies. It starts in 1969, with UNICS, from AT&T Bell Labs, and traces it all the way to Mac OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard, which the machine is running. The script is written and fed into a program written in Processing that is then translated into speech using the RiTA text to speech library, Java TTS, and Mac TTS.
Documentation of the performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ovSLlNULxQ
Write up on the show:
http://anotherrighteoustransfer.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/1969-organized-by-vincent-ramos-for-the-friends-of-distinction-dan-graham-december-5-2009/
Morgan Kelly, '03 BFA-Character Animation program and Faculty, Character Animation program is completing character animation on Dreamworks' next feature animated film - 'How To Train Your Dragon'. How To Train Your Dragon is co-directed by CalArts alumni '84, Chris Sanders and premieres in theaters March 2010. It's going to be thrilling!
Andrea Pallaoro, '08 MFA-Film Directing program has won numerous awards for his thesis film Wunderkammer . They are as follows: Outstanding Film, 13th Ismailia International Film Festival 2009 for Documentaries and Short Films; Best Cinematography European Independent Film Festival 2009; Audience Award Bolzano Short Film Festival 2008; Best Short Radar International Independent Film Festival, Hamburg, 2008; Best Short Salento International Film Festival 2008.
Nataša Prosenc, '00 MFA-Program in Film and Video premiered Mud, a video and photographic exhibition Saturday, December 5, at the Ruth Bachofner Gallery, in Santa Monica, Ca. The exhibit runs through January 2, 2010. The focus of the exhibition is a video titled Mud. The film shows the gradual emergence of a female figure, as she is 'born' from a bubbling pool of mud, and begins to move through the desert, transitioning from primordial being to female figure.
For further information, please call 310 829 3300 or visit www.ruthbachofnergallery.com
Natasha Subramaniam's review of Pedro Costas's new film will be published in SENSES OF CINEMA December issue. ('08 MFA-Program in Film and Video).
Tariq Tapa, Film Directing program has been nominated for two 25th Film Independent Spirit Awards, John Cassavetes Award and the Acura Someone to Watch Award for his thesis film ZERO BRIDGE. Winners will be announced March 5th, 2010 in Los Angeles and will be telecast on IFC.