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Annual membership benefits include free admission
to all 13 Film Society events plus one pass to Regal Cinemas.
Memberships
can be purchased at the Vinegar Hill box office before Film Society
screenings or ONLINE after September 20th.
Please
click the Printable Form link to download our mail order form:
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Screenings presented with the Virginia Foundation
for the Humanities.
$50
Annual Membership
$40 Seniors & Students
$7.50 Individual Admission
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 September
24th: THE ODDS OF RECOVERY with
Su Friedrich
A personal journey through six surgeries, a mysterious illness,
a waning libido and a fifteen-year relationship. The film winds
in and out of doctors’ offices, operating rooms and Friedrich’s
urban garden as she searches for answers to her physical ailments
and emotional questions. (Co-sponsored with the Women’s
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 October
26th: RECONSTRUCTION
(1pm showing)
29-year-old filmmaker Irene Lustzig explores her maternal line
through her Romanian grandmother’s criminal past. It’s
Bonnie and Clyde in Bucharest, where the first lesson from Hollywood
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 December
3rd: THE
SAME RIVER TWICE
with Filmmaker Robb Moss
Five friends reconsider a summer of free love and river
rafting from a more considered and aged perspective. A poignant
then-and-now portraitist, Moss considers human choices and the
tenuousness of youth. |
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October
23rd: DIRECT
ANIMATION with Devon Damonte
Scratching, painting and otherwise manipulating movie film,
so-called "direct animation" has become, in the words
of experimental film artist Devon Damonte, "a ding-dang
thumpin' do it yourself revolution!" Experience
no-budget filmmaking at its best! |
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October
25h: POUR DOWN LIKE SILVER with Phil Solomon (time
TBA)
Solomon is a film artist whose canvas is archival footage and
whose paint is time and the chemical processes of decay.
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18th: THE MATTER WITH FILM with Luis Recoder and
Sandra Gibson
An evening of camera-less cinema looking
at film as matter and film as it matters. Recoder has been
compared to light sculptor, Jamrs Turrell; Gibson derails
moving objects with elaborate handmade material work.
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 Jan.
22- 25: The Cremaster
Cycle
The
Virginia Festival Film Society has joined with OFFScreen,
the U.Va. Art Museum and Cinematheque
to bring Matthew Barney’s global phenomenon,
The Cremaster Cycle, to Charlottesville. Hailed as
"the most important American artist of his generation"
by New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman, Barney infuses
breathtaking cinematography with photographs, flags, bizarre
sculptures and installations made out of Vaseline to capture
a spectacular auto-erotic mythological world.
Screenings
will take place at Newcomb Hall Theater.
Admission is $5.00 adults/ $3.00 students.
Advance sale tickets will be available at Plan 9 Music
on the Corner and Albemarle Square and at Gravity
Lounge on Second Street off the Downtown Mall beginning
1/15.
January 22: Parts 1 and 2 begin at 7pm
January 23: Part 3 at 7pm
January 24: Parts 4 and 5 at 7pm
January 25: Parts 1 and 2 at 1pm, Part 3 at 4pm,
and Parts 4 and 5 at 8pm.
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 Feb.
17: Christian
Marclay
Pioneer turntablist and multimedia artist.
“Christian Marclay is a visual artist and composer..
who is exploring the pattern languages connecting sound, photography,
video, and film. Marclay uses records and turntables in musical
performances, both solo and in collaboration with musicians
... He is ‘the most influential figure outside hip hop,’
according to Kjetil Hansen” (Wikipedia)
February
17: 3:30pm, location TBA: Artist Talk (free)
February 17: 8:00pm, Jefferson Theater: djTRIO
Live Music and Video Performance featuring turntablists Christian
Marclay, Marina Rosenfeld, and Toshio
Kajiwara. Admission: $12.
Jan. 23 – Feb. 29, U.Va. Art Museum
video installation: Telephones by
Christian Marclay
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Feb.
24: Rick Prelinger:
Archeologist of archival media
“Prelinger has a fascination with what he calls the ‘bastard
genres,’ the thousands of promotional, educational, and
industrial films created to whip up consumer frenzies, educate
the school kiddies, and train employees to flog company products
more properly.” (Joyce Slatton, Freezerbox)
7pm, Vinegar Hill Theatre Screening: Archival films from
the Prelinger Collection
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 March
23: Michele Smith:
Film Collagist
“Michele Smith creates intense, hand-made collage films
from a diverse assortment of film materials, mixing formats
and contents with spontaneous regularity…This is original
and challenging work, demanding of its audience, and rewarding
in its illumination.” (Mark Webber, London Film Festival)
7pm,
Vinegar Hill Theatre Screening: Like All Good Men
He Looks Attractive/They Say
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 March
30: People Like
Us:
Audio and Video Collage
"Dadaist samplings and reshuffling of cultural oddities
from discarded LPs is a recurrent theme, as is the use of intercepted
radio broadcasts gutted and completely recontextualised. There
is an air of both humour and impending doom within the work
of PLU.” (Ben Watson, The Wire)
7pm,
Vinegar Hill Theatre: Screening and Live performance
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April
8: Black
Maria Film and Video Festival with John Columbus
Annual exhibition of the best new documentary and experimental
media, with a special emphasis this year on new works employing
“found footage.”
7pm,
Vinegar Hill Theatre Screening: 2004 Award
Winners
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 April
20: Kevin and
Jennifer McCoy: New Media Artists
"Together they have made a wide range of video, installation,
new media and performance works dealing with the cultural
manifestations of technology in the world. Formally these
projects arise from an interest in the modular, language-like
nature of digital information and its recombinant possibilities.”
(P.S. 1)
7pm,
Clemons 201: Multimedia Presentation
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May 4: Two documentaries celebrating the
local arts! George Kuchar’s Film Festival
tribute, The Guzzler of Grizzly Manor,
and Virginia Film Festival Director Richard Herskowitz’s
montage of the local millennial art exhibit Hindsight/
Fore-site.
Vinegar Hill Theatre, 7pm.
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