James Benning, Faculty, Program in Film and Video has been invited to
screen his film casting a glance (2007, 80 min., 16 mm) at Sundance
Film Festival 2008.

"Like Ozu's films, Benning's poetic explorations of the American space
bring us to a moment of pure contemplation, in which a fleeting absolute
may be glanced at behind the cool seduction of appearances."- Film Comment

"Between May 2005 and January 2007 I made 16 trips to the Spiral
Jetty, Robert Smithson's monumental earthwork located on the Great Salt
Lake, Utah. casting a glance maps the Jetty back onto its 37-year
history. From morning to night, its allusive, shifting appearance may be
the result of a passing weather system or simply the changing angle of
the sun. Seasonal shifts and changes in water level alter salt crystal
growth, the amount of algae in the water, and the presence of wildlife.
Sounds may come from a navy jet, wildlife, lapping or splashing water, a
visitor's car radio, converging thunderstorms--or be a total silence..."
James Benning

The retrospective of Nina Menkes's work shown at th Viennale in Austria was a mega-hit, with all screenings sold out and a fantastic critical and public response.

Nina Menkes was awarded a top prize: BEST ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT for her latest feature PHANTOM LOVE (2007), at the Bangkok World Film Festival.

The forthcoming Prague International Film Festival - FEBIOFEST scheduled for March 27 - April 4 , 2008 will dedicate a special program for the films of NINA MENKES.

The Melbourne 6th Annual Int'l Animation Festival (MIAF), June 19-24, 2007, located in ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) Cinemas, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia. Another remarkable year of journeying far and wide to find the gems that will screened in this years line up. The following CalArts selections were included:

Suzan Pitt, faculty, Experimental Animation, film title - EL DOCTOR
Isabel Herguara, alumnae, MFA, Experimental Animation, film title - BLINDMAN'S BLUFF
Nick Fox-Geig, alumnus '04, MFA, Experimental Animation/IM, film title-THE FOXHOLE MANIFESTO
Dillon Markey, student, MFA, Experimental Animation, film title - HELLO, MY NAME IS JOE
Brian Bloss, alumnus '06, BFA, Experimental Animation, film title- WITHOUT AN OF
Dae In Chung, alumus '07, Experimental Animation, film title - STRIPS OF ILLUSION
Young-Jin Yoon, student, BFA3, Experimental Animation, film title- A WAR ON 35MM
Matt Nealon, student, BFA3, Character Animation, film title - TENECOH KOCMOCA
Leonardo Matsuda, student, BFA3, Character Animation, film title - THRISTY IGUANA
Miwa Matreyek, alumnae '07, MFA, Experimental Animation/IM program, film title: DIGITOPIA
I-Huan Chen, student, MFA2, Experimental Animation, film title - PASSING BY
Nancy Parczyk, alumnae '07, Experimental Animation, film title - PAIN'T

Betzy Bromberg, Program Director and faculty, Program in Film and Video screened her film A DARKNESS SWALLOWED at the Bradford International Film Festival, England and the Barcelona Contemporary Culture Center (CCCB) in Spain. She also had a full retrospective of her films at the 9th Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente (BAFICI).

Nina Menkes, Facuty, Program in Film and Video, will be have a "Special Premiere" in NYC at The Museum of Modern Art on June 21st at 7pm of her new feature PHANTOM LOVE (2007). The film has also been invited to numerous international film festivals, including the Viennale 2007, in Vienna, Austria, where PHANTOM LOVE will screen along with a complete retrospective of all Menkes's film 1981-the present.

Nina Menkes's new feature PHANTOM LOVE (2007) will be have a "Special Premiere" in NYC at The Museum of Modern Art on June 21st at 7pm. The film has also been invited to numerous international film festivals, including the Viennale 2007, in Vienna, Austria, where PHANTOM LOVE will screen along with a complete retrospective of all Menkes's film 1981-the present.

Nina Menkes, Faculty, Program in Film and Video, received a great review in Independent Film Quarterly for her film "The Bloody Child", reviewed by IFQ Critic Todd Konrad.

review from IFQ:
A welcome fixture on the underground film scene for the past twenty-five years, Nina Menkes has consistently challenged and enthralled viewers with her intricate and always attention grabbing forays into both time and form. While the current Hollywood may hesitate in embracing her with open arms, those filmmakers and enthusiasts in the know understand and appreciate the skill that Menkes brings to the table. When one receives praise from publications like Cahiers du Cinema and filmmakers like Gus Van Sant, you know you're definitely putting something out into the air that can hold its own weight against the typical mainstream fare that's here today and gone tomorrow. Released by Facets Video, the uninitiated now have the opportunity to view for themselves what is perhaps Menkes' most highly praised work The Bloody Child. An essential pick for people who like their movies to push boundaries, both formally and spiritually, while taking them along for the ride.

The story is based upon a real-life incident that caught Menkes eye back in the early 90's around the time of the Gulf War. While on standard patrol, two military police came upon a Marine digging a grave in the middle of the desert near dawn. Sensing trouble, they further
investigated the scene until they discovered in the back seat of the Marine's car lie a murdered woman. The victim was later to be revealed as the Marine's pregnant wife. Using this small, practically overlooked news item as a starting point, Menkes spins a web of conflicting
circumstances and scenes, held together by a fragmented temporal schema. Essentially the plot boils down to the following elements inspired by the news item, two MP's discover the Marine digging a grave for his dead wife and then take the man into custody, holding him at the crime scene until the proper measures are taken.

The crime scene itself becomes the core space that the film occupies providing atmosphere, with flashbacks and flash forwards punctuating the slow, banal waiting that both the participants and viewers are subjected to as the scene is locked down. With this stage effectively established, Menkes then further fragments the narrative down by flashing before the
viewer the events both leading up to the killing, and what appear to be events taking place in the aftermath. A further ingredient introduced into the mix is a mysterious, naked woman occupying some sort of dream space, perhaps representing the victim's spirit observing the actions
while whispering spells and chants in a childlike voice. Are we meant to think that what we are witness derives directly from her point of view? It certainly is possible as such a device has been used before, notably in Sunset Boulevard.

The other main character in the story is a young female Marine captain played by Menkes's sister and frequent collaborator Tinka Menkes. In charge of the scene, yet essentially ostracized due to her gender by the hyper-masculine environment she occupies, the captain is left to witness and muse over the events that have transpired. Tinka exudes a calm,
detached demeanor that both reflects the environment that she occupies yet through her body language and especially her eyes, we always sense that the wheels are turning and more is going on internally in her psyche yet due to her circumstances, this woman is unable to allow those thoughts a voice with which to exit.

Flashes of blood and bored posturing are frequent as Menkes uses these as signifiers of a world created by both hyper-masculine violence and the emotional disconnect that allows such acts to arise and more importantly increase in severity without any regards to conscience; a
particularly punishing image is that of a MP burying the Marine's face in his wife's remains, particularly her womb. Smearing the man's face in blood while defiling the victim's body, the captain coldly watches as her colleague tortures this man with a near-childlike degree of glee
hidden within his outward contempt. These flashes are however punctuated by silence and banality as the remaining guards joke and chit chat while a corpse deteriorates in the midday sun and a man covered in blood sits restrained in a car as if it were nothing to think about. The viewer is left horrified by both the carnage itself and the manner in which it is casually disregarded.

In the end, Menkes' latticework of temporal shifts allows the viewer to take into account the myriad of circumstances and emotions that can lead to such a brutal crime, while essentially keeping the tragic aftermath clearly in the forefront. A formal tour-de-force as well as spiritual
and emotional investigation, The Bloody Child clearly proves that despite hardships faced, the underground and avant-garde are still alive and kicking and we should be all the more happy for it.

For more information on this title, go to www.facets.org.

Adele Horne, Faculty, Program in Film and Video announced that her film The Tailenders has just been nominated for the "Truer Than Fiction Award" in the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards. This award "is presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features: a filmmaker of unique vision and talent who has not yet received significant attention." Award decisions will be announced at the end of February. Alumna Maile Colbert is honored to have had the opportunity to design the sound for The Tailenders.

The Tailenders, a film by Adele Horne
The Tailenders is a captivating look at a missionary group’s use of ultra-low-tech audio devices to evangelize indigenous communities facing crises caused by global economic forces. Global Recordings Network, founded in Los Angeles in 1939, has produced audio versions of Bible stories in over 5,500 languages, and aims to record in every language on earth. The documentary traces their journeys in the Solomon Islands, Mexico, India and the United States, where they distribute the recordings, along with ultra-low-tech hand-wind audio players, to "the Tailenders" – the last people to be reached by worldwide evangelism.

For more information:
P.O.V. website on The Tailenders

Distribution information on The Tailenders

Nina Menkes, Faculty, Progam in Film and Video is thrilled to announce that her new feature film, PHANTOM LOVE, has been invited to premiere at Sundance 2007.

PHANTOM LOVE is a surreal drama about a woman trapped within an enmeshed
family, and her slow process of personal liberation. Shot primarily in in Los Angeles, the film combines fairy-tale elements with brutal black and white photography to create a powerful testament about one woman's descent into self. With Marina Shoif and Juliette Marquis. Produced by Kevin Ragsdale. Director of Photography Chris Soos. Conceived and Directed by Nina Menkes. 35mm/b&w/2007/85 minutes.

For more information, visit www.myspace.com/phantomlovemovie

Mike Plante's "LUNCHFILM SERIES", which includes short works by both
*James Benning *and *Nina Menkes,* faculty, Program in Film/Video, was a
hit at CINEMATEXAS, and has subsequently been invited to screen at
Sundance, January 18-28th, 2007, and at the Pacific Film Archive on
February 7,2007.

Nancy Buchanan, faculty, Program in Film and Video, will have a show Nov. 4th- Dec 16th, "Decoys & Destructions" at the Overtones Gallery. Opening Reception Sat. Nov. 4th at 7pm.

Adele Horne�s film The Tailenders screened at several venues in the spring and summer of 2006, including: the Museum of Modern Art�s Documentary Fortnight; San Francisco Cinematheque; Pacific Film Archive; Film Arts Foundation; Nashville Film Festival; Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival (PDX); the 52nd Flaherty Film Seminar; Chicago Underground Film Festival; and a conference titled �Extreme Documentary: Alternative V�rit� at Williams College/MASS MoCA. On July 25, 2006, The Tailenders was broadcast nationally on P.O.V., a PBS program that showcases independent non-fiction film. In October 2006, The Tailenders screened in the Morelia International Film Festival in Michoacan, Mexico. Adele Horne, Faculty, Program in Film and Video.

Betzy Bromberg, Director, Program in Film and Video, had been invited to screen her film A Darkness Swallowed (2005, 16mm, 78:00) at the 7th Seoul Film Festival held in South Korea, 9/06 and 12th Athens International Film Festival in Greece, 9/26/06. Synopsis: Six years in the making, Betzy Bromberg's latest film is a meditation on the physical traces that memories leace behind on and inside our bodies, and on and inside the Earth. Cleverly beginning with images of two nearly
identical, somewhat-worn photographs of a partially crushed car and a narration about psychic tied to an event that happened before the existence of the narrator, the film then plunges into a microscopy of epic proportions.

Suzan Pitt, facuty, Experimental Animation will be screening her films
at the following upcoming events:
*Taiwan International Animation Festival
*Taipei, Taiwan
September 2006 (Film Festival)
*Ottawa International Animation Festival
*Ottawa, Canada, U S A
September 2006 (Film Festival)
*Cinesol Film Festival
*Harlingen, Texas, U S A
September 2006 (Film Festival)
*Estenest Film Festival
*Bucarest, Romania
September 2006 (Film Festival)
*Ojai International Film Festival
*Ojai, U S A
October 2006 (Film Festival)
*Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival
*Los Angeles, U S A
October 2006 (Film Festival)
*2006 New Jersey Film Festival
*New Brunswick, New Jersey, U S A
October 2006 (Film Festival)
*Redcat Theater, Disney Hall
*Los Angeles, U S A
October 2006 (Theatrical)
*Denver International Film Festival
*Denver, U S A
November 2006 (Film Festival)
*Museum of Modern Art
*New York, U S A
November 2006 (Theatrical)
theatrical screenings:Lincoln, NE
*Ross Media Arts Center*
August 18 - August 31, 2006
El Doctor

James Benning and Nina Menkes, Faculty, Program in Film and Video both
made "lunch films" for Mike Plante's Lunch Film Series, screened Sept.
2006 at Cinema Texas.

Adele Horne, Faculty, Program in Film and Video has screened her film
The Tailenders at several venues spring and summer '06, including:
the Museum of Modern Art's Documentary Fortnight; San Francisco
Cinematheque; Pacific Film Archive; Film Arts Foundation; Nashville Film
Festival; Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival (PDX);
the 52nd Flaherty Film Seminar; Chicago Underground Film Festival; and
a conference titled "Extreme Documentary: Alternative Verite" at
Williams College/MASS MoCA. On July 25, 2006 , Tailenders was
broadcast nationally on P.O.V., a PBS program that showcases independent
non-fiction film.

Nina Menkes, Faculty, Program in Film and Video would like to share with the CalArts the community her exciting news regarding her work: The Bloody Child has been invited for a special "favorite films" screening at the Arsenals Film Festival in Riga, Latvia (where it won the top fest prize in 1998), this September 2006.

The Bloody Child will screen at UC Irvine on October 5th as part of a film series called "The Look of Law", curated by Simon Leung.

Nina Menkes just wrapped principle photography on a new feature, Phantom Love, starring Marina Shoif and Juliette Marquis. The film was shot on 35mm black and white film and many CalArts students and Faculty participated, including Logan Wince: Production Designer (Theater-mentored by Chris Barreca) , Natasha Subramaniam: Assistant Director, Erica Frank: Costume Designer (Theater, mentored by Ellen McArtney), Marcel Wepper: Video Segments, Dave Emerson: Faculty, Optical Effects.

A selection of Nina's films will screen at the CINE FANTOM club in Moscow, Russia winter, 2006.

Suzan Pitt, Faculty, Experimental Animation has received amazing success with her new film EL DOCTOR, a 24-minute animated film, Festivals and Screenings:

**2006 San Diego Latino Film Festival
Chicago Latino Film Festival
Sin Fronteras Film Festival, Albuquerque, NM (BEST SHORT FILM)
Cinema Pochote, Oaxaca, Mexico
Huesca International Film Festival, Spain (SPECIAL JURY AWARD)
Film Forum (�Cartoons: No Laughing Matter�), New York
Filmforum, (�The films of Suzan Pitt�), Los Angeles
Taiwan International Festival of Animation, (�The films of Suzan Pitt�)
Hiroshima International Festival of Animation, Japan
Dallas Video Festival

EL DOCTOR reviews:

�Visually compelling�punchy and often shocking.�in images borrowed from Mexican folk art, it tells the story of an elderly doctor�s nightmarish final day on earth./�
-The New York Times

"A lavishly surreal parable about an aging Mexican doctor, painted in lurid, Crumb-like caricatures.� � Village Voice

"A stunning visual performance!� - StylusMagazine.com

�The justified finale of the program is Suzan Pitt's "El Doctor," an endlessly fantastical night with a drunk Mexican doctor, reeling with him across a landscape of self-creating myth and folk-art riffs.� - New York Sun

�Tinged with elements of magic realism and Mexican culture, and told using vivid oil colors, American animation El Doctor is a dazzling, haunting and poignant evocation of a man's final moments.� - Chris Robinson, ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE

EL DOCTOR will be distributed nationally by First Run Features and will be released theatrically in the fall 2006. A new DVD compilation "The Films of Suzan Pitt" will also be released in the fall. The DVD will include a new documentary about the filmmaker and other special features.

EL DOCTOR will screen at the Redcat Theater on October 3 with a program of films by Suzan Pitt.

Suzan Pitt, faculty, Experimental Animation program screened her new animated film "El Doctor" (written by Blue Kraning) presented by Filmforum, at the L.A. Premier June 25th, 7pm, Egyptian Theater. Review comments by the New York Times..."Visually compelling...punchy and often shocking...in images borrowed from Mexican folk art, it tells the story of an elderly doctor's nightmarish final day on earth."

The program included works by filmmakers who contributed to /El Doctor: Naomi Uman "Hand Eye Coordination", Maria Vasilkovsky "Fur and Feathers", Ben Zelkowicz "The Earlking", and a screening of Suzan Pitt's "Joy Street"

Rebecca Baron, Associate Dean, School of Film/Video and faculty Program in Film and Video, has been invited to screen her film "How Little We Know of Our Neighbors"(2005,50 min.) at the 2006 Seattle International Film Festival, Alternate Cinema and documentary category, May 25-June 18, 2006.

Betzy Bromberg, Director, Program and Film/Video has been invited to screen her latest film "A Darkness Swallowed" (2006, 78 min.) at the 2006 Seattle International Film Festival, Alternate Cinema category, May 25-June 18, 2006.

Matthew Harrison's, (visiting faculty s'06, Film Directing program) new feature film *The Deep and Dreamless Sleep* will have it's World Premiere on June 22 at the prestigious Avignon Film Festival in Avignon, France, historic home of the Anti-Popes.

Writer/director Matt Harrison�s hypnotic new feature film THE DEEP AND DREAMLESS SLEEP will have its World Premiere at the 23rd edition of the prestigious Avignon Film Festival to be held June 22nd to 25th in Avignon, France.

A visually textured feature adaptation of Dante Alighieri�s epic 14th century Christian allegory, THE DEEP AND DREAMLESS SLEEP �could not have a better place for it�s World Premiere than Avignon, historic home of the Anti-Popes' says Harrison. Indeed, the Anti-Popes reigned in Avignon from 1377 until 1403 when Benedict XIII was forced to flee the city to save his neck. In Harrison�s bold modern-day examination of Dante Alighieri�s DIVINE COMEDY, a troubled young woman crosses 9 levels of Hell on her quest for absolution.

Matt Harrison won a Sundance Jury Prize with his audacious feature film RHYTHM THIEF. His first studio feature KICKED IN THE HEAD (Universal) was Executive Produced by Martin Scorsese. THE DEEP AND DREAMLESS SLEEP is Mr. Harrison�s fourth feature film. His network and cable directing credits include Sex And The City.

The ancient walled city in Provence has been home to Jerome Rudes cutting edge annual program of fresh American and French independent feature films since 1983. A friend of the Avignon Festival for many years, Harrison's feature debut SPARE ME won the Prix Tournage in 1992 and his Sundance winning RHYTHM THIEF screened in Avignon�s 1995 program.

Director Harrison will attend, along with producer Daniel Blumberg and members of the cast Tami Reynolds, Katharine Hyde, Neil Jain and Jorg Tittel. Further information is available at: www.avignonfilmfest.com

Rebecca Baron, Associate Dean, School of Film/Video and faculty Program in Film and Video, screened her latest film "How Little We Know of Our Neighbors", along with Nick Fox-Gieg's* (alumni, Experimental Animation) film "The Little Bird of Disaster" and Mirko Martin's *(MFA Student, Program in Film and Video) " You Are German" at the 2006 Images International Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 2006.

Nancy Buchanan, faculty, Program in Film and Video was delighted to accompany the *Mughal India study* tour this past March-April. The visit included many tours to exquisite temples, mosques, palaces and tombs, including the famed Taj Mahal and the ancient site of Kajuharo, where the 10th century Hindu temples are carved with intricate erotic tableaus that reflect Tantric beliefs. Because the tour also included an examination of democracy in India, a discussion with a member of Parliament, on the heels of Presidents Bush's visit was included. The tour included a visit to the Center for Social Research, an organization focused on gender issues, including domestic violence, trafficking, and child poverty. Nancy accompanied student Ingrid Sydow to a local shelter office, where several women told their intensely personal and moving stories about resolving family crises. Throughout the trip, Nancy shot video, which she is currently organizing into a brief documentary for Chandra Khan and Martin Plot, co-instructors, Critical Studies.

Nina Menkes, faculty, Program in Film and Video has been invited to speak on a panel "dangerous filmmaking" at CineVegas 2006.

Eric Sherman, Faculty, Program in Film and Video has turned in the final draft for his 5th book, tentatively entitled HOME ENTERTAINMENT -- THE UNTIMATE MOVIE MARKETPLACE. It is scheduled for publication by Silman-James. Also, his DIRECTING THE FILM, in print since 1976, has been translated into Mandarin by Cal Arts student Sandy Ding. It is scheduled for publication in ealry '06, Mainland China.

Corny Cole, Facutly, Character Animation program will be awarded the Windsor McCay Annie Award for lifetime achievement in the Art of Animation at a blacktie ceremony February 5, 2006.

Lou Florimonte, creator and former program director (retired May 2005) of the Film Directing program received the 2005 City of Santa Clarita Film Excellence award, presented jointly by the IFFF and the city’s Film & Tourism Office. Jason Crawford, the city of Santa Clarita’s Film/Tourist administrator and, not entirely coincidentally, one of Florimonte’s former students, introduced the honoree as a man who’s had a huge influence on many professionals now creating movies and TV shows seen around the world. The awards ceremony was Oct. 1, 2005 at the Valencia Hyatt.

Thom Andersen, faculty, Program in Film and Video screened his film Los Angeles Plays Itself at ExperimentaDesgin Bienal de Lisboa, Sept. 2005, Monterey Design Conference, Pacific Grove, CA, Sept. 2005, Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, Sept.. 2005, Roxie Cinema, San Francisco, October 2005, University of California at San Diego, October 2005, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, November 2005, Detroit Art Institute, November 2005.

Nina Menkes, faculty, Program in Film and Video Has been invited to screen her films in Israel. The jerusalem cinematheque in conjunction with the tel aviv cinemateque and the haifa cinematheque will present a touring program of all her films. The date has not been firmly set as yet, but likely in June 2006. Additionally, as part of their program on essential films from the American avant-garde, UCLA-Melnitz and Film Forum screened Nina's film The Bloody Child (1996/35mm/color) at the Egyptian Theater, Sunday, November 20, 2005. The film series was based on David James new book, "The Most Typical Avant Garde" (Berkeley, University of California Press 2005), which positions Los Angeles as a key site for radical filmmaking from the 20"s thru the present. This major seven program retrospective gave the audience of Los Angeles an unparalleled opportunity to view the range of truly radical film work that has been produced in our city over the last 85 years.

Igor Kovalyov, faculty, Experimental Animation program won the Nelvana Grand Prize for Independent Short Animation at Ottawa for his film "Milch","Oblique but perceptive storytelling, which through a myriad of closely observed details takes us into an atmospheric, touching, sad story of childhood."

Colin Barton, faculty, Experimental Animation Program has received the Grand Festival Special Recognition Gorilla Awards, Berkeley Film and Video Festival, for is work "One Man's Treasure" - Colin Barton - Ethnographic Documentary - 30:00 - Premiere "One Man's Treasure" examines Syrian-American peddlers in Boston as junque passion becomes obsession becomes demolition. Sanford & Son redux Middle Eastern. Sat, Oct 29 - 7:16pm His credit includes Producer/Director and Cinematographer) this piece was shot in 16mm B&W and DV. )

Nina Menkes, faculty, Program in Film and Video, currently on creative leave The experimental feature doc which she shot and co-created, MASSAKER 2005), 98 minutes has won for general PR ----it won another award at the Visions du Reel Festival in Nyon, and has screened at many other festivals--info below---

Awards: FIPRESCI Prize Berlinale 2005, Prix SRG SSR idée suisse Visions du réel Nyon

Festivals: Berlin International Film Festival, Visions Du Réel Nyon, Festival de Cannes (ACID Section), Festroia Film Festival Setúbal, Durban International Film Festival, International Filmfestival La Rochelle, FID Marseille, Melbourne International Film Festival, Jewish Film Festival San Francisco, Gwangju International Film Festival, Helsinki International Film Festival, Women´s Film Festival Ramallah, DocBsAs Buenos Aires, International Documentary Film Festival Lisbon, International Film Festival Viennale, Jewish Film Festival Warsaw, Leeds International Film Festival, International Documentary Festival Vilnius, Documentary Film Festival Copenhagen, Gijon International Film Festival

Deborah Stratman, faculty, Program in Film and Video screened her films at the following Los Angeles locations:

Kings of the Sky, 2004, 68 min. the Los Angeles premiere was held at LA Film Forum at the Egyptian Theater, Sunday, April 3rd, 7pm.

Energy Country, 2003, 14:30min, On the Various Nature of Things, 1995, 25 min., In Order Not to be Here, 2002, 33 min. all screened at the Echo Park Film Center, Thursday, April 28th, 8pm

The BLVD, 1999, 64 min. screened at the CalArts Bijou Theater, Friday, April 29th, 4pm

Nina Menkes, faculty, Program in Film and Video screened the documentary she shot and co-created Massaker (about the sabra and shatilla massacre) as the 2005 Berlinale film festival where the film won the FIPRESCI prize award.

James Benning, faculty, Program in Film And Video had an extensive featured interview "Exploring the New West" in Film Quarterly, Volume 58, Issue 3, pages 2-15.

The feature documentary Nina Menkes, faculty, Program in Film and Video, shot and co-created MASSAKER has Won a prize at the FESTIVAL DU REEL in France.

Kirsten Winter, faculty, Experimental Animation program screened her film Restored Weekend at the Int Film Festival Vendome (France, Dec. 3-10) and in Solothum (Switzerland-Int Film Festival, Jan. 24-30, 2005) Also, her film Filmolog screened at the Short Film Fesitval Bamberg (Germany), Jan. 13, 2005

Nina Menkes, faculty, Program in Film and Video had her review of Heart is Deceitful (the film is not by Nina) published in this months issue of Senses of Cinema.

Nina is a leading American independent filmmaker, whose five features have won international acclaim for their unique cinematic vision. She has most recently shot and co-directed a feature length, experimental documentary in Beirut, Lebanon, which will play at this year's Berlinale. Additionally, Nina has become a director member of DGA (Director's Guild of America), 2005. Last but not least, she has been selected to screen an experimental documentary feature Massaker of which she shot and co-created, at the Berlin International Film Festival, 2005.

Kirsten Winter, Faculty, Experimental Animation has been invited to screen her 35mm film Restored Weekend, 2004, at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN, 11/19/04.

Additionally, her film Escape (2001) was screened in combination with an exhibition showing the artwork for her film during the last months in Teheran, Alexandria and Cairo and it will be screen (with exhibition) in Ramallah in Nov/December. The screening and exhibition has been organized by the German Institute of Foreign Affairs. (IFA)

Rebecca Baron, faculty, Program in Film and Video has been invited as a visiting artist to screen her work at Williams College, Williamstown, MA.

James Benning, Faculty, Program in Film and Video will be screening his recently completed (April, '04) film titiled 13 LAKES, 16mm, 135min at Viennale, Vienna International Film Festival, Oct. 2004.

Kirsten Winter, Faculty, Experimental Animation, School of Film Video will be screening her work at the following venues through-out the fall:

"Restored Weekend": 58th Edinburgh International Film Festival, 18-29th August 2004 World Film Festival Montreal, Canada, Aug/Sept. 2004; at the Cinema out Ecran, Film and Television Film Festival that will take place from October, 29th to November 7th, 2004 in Geneva, Switzerland; Dokfilmfestival Leipzig, Oct. 2004; 40th Chicago Int. Film Festival, October 7-21, Experimental Short Competition.

"Escape" Sonar Festival, Barcelona and Rio de Janeiro ‚ Artificial Architecture’

"Filmolog" opens the Symposium Oct. 1st. (something like: Film Reflects Film, Mannheim); Dokfilmfestival Leipzig, Oct. 2004; Short Film Festival, Munich, Oct. 2004.

"Just In Time" Goethe Institute: German Experimental films.

"Workshow" Oldenburger Kurzfilmtage - 19. bis 21. November 2004

James Benning, Faculty, Program in Film and Video was invited to the Wisconsin Film Festival (April 1-4, 2004), Madison, Wisconsin to screen his films Four Corners, Los, Sogobi and El Valley Centro. Prior to the festival, James visited the University of Milwaukee as a visiting artist.