The San Francisco Film Society presents the fifth annual San Francisco International Animation Festival (SFIAF), a four-day celebration of the Bay Area's preeminence as a hub for one of the most creative forms in cinema, November 11 - 14 at Landmark's Embarcadero Center Cinema. This year's International Animation Festival ranges from FX-based features to family-friendly cartoons and includes Hayao Miyazaki protégé Sunao Katabuchi's Mai Mai Miracle, the Decemberists-inspired Here Come the Waves...
Dear Friends!Jury has finished all the voting and here are the results:BEST FICTION: "The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5" by Chema Garcia Ibarra. http://dotfest.net/fe_film_comments?film_id=207BESTANIMATION: "Balance" by Serdar Koçak.http://dotfest.net/fe_film_comments?film_id=184BEST MUSIC VIDEO: "The Last Defeat" by Diego Rampelini.http://dotfest.net/fe_film_comments?film_id=124BEST EXPERIMENTAL: "Energy!" by Thorsten Fleisch.http://dotfest.net/fe_...
From 1st till 18th of April 2010 DotFest Online Film Festival will take place in the World Wide Web.
Jonas Mekas
These fine gentlemen honored us by agreeing to be on the jury list:
Jonas Mekas - the godfather of American avant-garde cinema,
Jean-Gabriel Periot - French film direc...
As promised — here's http://movielocker.com/3295/ the first Film of the Week.
A brilliant experimental short by Thorsten Fleisch called "Energy!".
Next week we'll give you a sneak peek of the music video section.
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46th ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TOURING PROGRAMDecember 17-18The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest-running experimental film festival in the country and one of the few that circulates the winning works. This year’s Festival Tour is comprised of two programs featuring 31 of the finest short films from the 46th Festival—personal, documentary, animated and narrative works by artists from throughout the country and the world. Together, they offer a singular snapshot of the state of independent...
Short Films in competition at Milano Film Fest Winner, 12th edition Just Like the Moviesby Michal Kosakowski, Austria, 2006, DV, 21’Staff AwardThe Lonely Bliss of the Cannonball Luke,by Levi Abrino, USA, 2007, 16mm, 11’MentionsNijuman no borei, (200.000 Phantoms)by Jean-Gabriel Périot, France, 2007, 35mm, 10’Tolya,by Rodeon Brodsky, Israel, 2006, 16mm, 9’Valuri, (Waves),by Adrian Sitaru, Romania, 2007, 35mm, 16’Soldat, (Soldier),by David Peros Bonnot, Croatia, 2006, digiBeta, 5’Ene...
Opening Program: Frans Zwartjes TIE is thrilled to announce that three newly restored films by Frans Zwartjes will be opening The International Experimental Cinema Exposition - 2006. Frans Zwartjes (1927) is a filmmaker, musician, drawer, painter and sculptor. Sexuality, psychosis, cruelty, power and powerlessness are ever recurring themes in his films. The general idea of reality is broken down by brilliant camera work and neurotic editing to replace it with a personal and often disturbing real...
