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SCREENING OF ANIMATION AT EPFC

2008-12-08T21:53:00.000-08:00

Thursday, December 11 – ANIMATIONS FROM A SURREALWORLD - 8 PMJohn Cannizzaro and Mark Cosmo Segurson present Armchair Adventures Abroad: Animations From A SurrealWorld, a night of rare and wonderful animation fromaround the world. The program includes 16mm prints ofmany bizarre gems encompassing many different stylesof animation, films by Segurson and Cannizzarothemselves, and new soundtracks performed LIVE byF-STOP SERENADE!! FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE!Echo Park Film Center1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)Los Angeles, CA 90026213-484-8846http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/

FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH to screen at LA's Film Forum

2008-01-14T22:49:00.000-08:00

"FIRST SIGHT SCENE" AT THE LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM
NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS BY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FILMMAKERS
–– Los Angeles, CA – Showcasing the work of Southern California experimental filmmakers, the Los Angeles Filmforum, the city’s longest running experimental screening series, presents First Sight Scene, a program of new experimental shorts by local filmmakers, on January 27 at the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood.
First Sight Scene has been a yearly event for the exhibition of new works by Southern California experimental filmmakers since it was established by previous Filmforum Director Jon Stout in 1992. This year’s program presents the work of Madison Brookshire, John Cannizzaro, Erik Deutschman, Gwenaelle Gobe, Thomas Helman, Christina McPhee, and Dena DeCola and Karin E. Wandner, and is curated by Jaimie Baron and Victoria Meng, who are both graduate film scholars studying at UCLA and volunteers at the Los Angeles Filmforum.
This year’s First Sight Scene includes Madison Brookshire’s landscape meditation entitled Opening, shot on 16mm film and accompanied by a minimalist soundtrack performed by live musicians; John Cannizzaro’s Super8 poem Fountain of Youth, which explores feelings of nostalgia for childhood and a disappearing medium of remembrance; Erik Deutschman’s comic experiment with optical illusion, entitled Stare Gently; Gwenaelle Gobe’s animated short, The Old Noise, in which the filmmaker uses silhouette cut-outs to tell the story of a girl with two heads; Thomas Helman’s nightmarish digital animation df/dx; Christina McPhee’s video Carrizoprime, which traces seismic distortion along the San Andreas Fault; and Five More Minutes, Dena DeCola and Karin E. Wander’s moving blend of documentary and narrative about a mother and daughter.
Screening time: approximately 75 minutes
Los Angeles Filmforum is the city’s longest-running organization that screens non-commercial experimental and avant-garde films and video art, documentaries, and animation. Filmforum began in Pasadena, and 2008 is the start of its 32nd year.
Sunday, January 27, 2008, 7:00pm
LA Filmforum, Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd, at Las Palmas
Los Angeles CA 90028
www.lafilmforum.org
For reservations, email the name & number in your party to lafilmforum@yahoo.com.
$9 general; $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members

NEW WEBSITE EXPOSURE

2007-07-02T23:27:00.000-07:00

The film 50 FEET THAT SHOOK THE WORLD has been invited to be showcased on the international Super 8 film website www.onsuper8.org, after its participation in The Strawberry super 8 Fest in Cambridge England. An amazing site featuring everything you could ever want to know about Super 8 filmmaking. Grab a camera and join the revolution!!

Coming To SUPERBALL....July 21st

2007-07-02T23:21:00.000-07:00

SUPERBALL......a film/arts/music/cooking/fashion show extravaganza....coming in July features a BRAND NEW ANIMATION by John Cannizzaro and SMOKEHOUE FILMS made especially for the event. All proceeds to benefit children with Down's Syndrome. Please visit the website for more info; www.superball8.com

UPCOMING SHOW-"man with a movie projector"

2007-07-02T23:11:00.000-07:00

DOCUMENTAL shows films at the Unurban Coffeehouse, 3301 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA, 90404, 310-315-0056, free admission from 6-10pm. Info: 310-306-7330 www.myspace.com/sevendudleycinema MONDAY, July 16. CINEMATIC INTERVENTIONS at 8pm - Experimental filmmaker extraordinaire John Cannizzaro screens FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH ('06, 13m) the last Super 8mm home movie: a cine-poem to time, childhood & the color of memory, AND an eye-opening 90 minute program of mutiple projection (16mm, video, live spoken word, bongos - the future of movie viewing?) layering of avant garde, educational, travelogue, animation films & more. This genre-mashing phantasmagorical happening satirizes our daily sensory overload to reveal the hidden effects of moving image art and media yoga massaging. Special macrocosm mash-up of Luis Bunuel, James Joyce and Marshall McLuhan. Plus experimental films from 6-8pm including shorts by Bryan Konefsky, who coined the term "Cinematic Interventions."

50 FEET THAT SHOOK THE WORLD screening at EPFC

2007-06-04T13:34:00.000-07:00

ECHO PARK FILM CENTER
Thursday June 7th, 2007
1200 N. Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026 PH# (213) 484-8846
www.echoparkfilmcen ter.org
Come watch beautiful images dance upon a screen in your own neighborhood. Shows begin promptly @ 8PM and are $5 (unless otherwise noted). The EPFC is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization. Sell your TV and come to the cinema.

Thursday, June 7 – Live Music, Short Films & Shenanigans! – 8PM Trash Band presents Bananagun! with a Live Foley soundtrack by TrashBand! The city of Venice Italy is plagued by evil Cowboy Vampires and the canals run red with blood. Only one man stands against them, with his nerves of steel, his banana pistols and his personal relationship with God… Padre Brown is our only hope! Bananagun is a spaghetti western with extra marinara sauce. Also screening shorts: Cosmo Segurson, John Cannizzaro & Margie Schnibbe. FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE!

More FESTIVAL NEWS

2007-05-24T21:43:00.000-07:00

Following on the heels of the news about all three films being accepted into the STRAWBERRY SUPER 8 FEST in Cambridge, England came more good news.....

Hi John,

I'm happy to inform you that all your films are included into the OPEN CINEMA festival program! Congratulations! America, the Beautiful (2005) and Fountain of Youth (2006) will participate in the competitive section, while 50 Feet that Shook the World (2004) is included in the non-competitive section (as it doesn't meet the date realease limitations).

We'd like to get a permission from you for screening the Films. You may send us a scaned note by e-mail, that you agree to have them showcased at the OPEN CINEMA Festival in St. Petersburg. Otherwise you may sign up an agreement we're sending to you

Thank you!Best,Tamara
art-centre BEREG
Russia, Saint-Petersburg phon: +7[812]600 1502artbereg@inbox.comwww.artbereg.ru

FESTIVAL NEWS

2007-05-15T22:57:00.000-07:00

The Strawberry-super 8 Fest 2007 in Cambridge, England has just accepted three different films by John Cannizzaro. 50 FEET THAT SHOOK THE WORLD and AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL will screen in competition, and FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH will screen before the awards banquet.

Screening info:

We are pleased to announce you that your film "50 Feet that shook the world " has been selected for our festival. It will run in our competition programme - Saturday the 2nd of June 2007Competition Programme 3 - University Sports & Social Club, Mill Lane - 7 pm

We are pleased to announce you that your film "America the beautiful" has been selected for our festival. It will run in our programme Competition 1 - Friday the 1st of June 2007Competition Programme 1 - University Sports & Social Club, Mill Lane - 7 pm andSaturday 2nd of June 2007Competition Programme 1 - Strawberry Fair (film tent), Midsummer common - 4 pm

We are pleased to announce you that your film "Fountain of Youth" has been selected for our festival. It will screen off competition before our Award ceremony - Saturday the 2nd of June 2007Award ceremony Programme - University Sports & Social Club, Mill Lane - 9 pm

Gulliver's Travels

2007-03-02T23:01:00.000-08:00

Held hostage by her dolls, a girl is forced into a showdown between good and evil in this offbeat, stop-motion film. Gulliver’s Travels was made for LA Flicker’s “Attack of the 50 Foot Reels” (1 roll of Super 8 film, edited in camera, sound created without seeing the footage).

Berkeley Film Fest

2006-12-26T22:46:00.000-08:00

Experimental short film "Fountain of Youth" just got into the Berkeley Video and Film Festival. It won a "best of fest" prize. Future screenings in the SF area to be announced.