Offscreen Notes
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Palestinian Perspectives
An evening (May 15) of Palestinian films, including Pasolini pa* Palestine, A Palestinian Journey, Sons of Eilaboun, and many others.
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One-Eyed Films
Offscreen is a huge fan of the Brazilain horror maestro Jose Mojica Marins (better known as Coffin Joe), as witnessed by this in-depth interview published in 2005. Hence we would like to help promote One-Eyed Films and their effort to produce the first English language film starring Coffin Joe. Read the press release from Betina Goldman below:
Uk based ONE EYED FILMS and VERAS o IMAGINARIO recently set up a Brazilian production company and have signed an option to produce the first English language feature based on the infamous cult character Zé do Caixão (known in the English speaking world as Coffin Joe) created by the Brazilian iconic Director Mojica Marins.
Household name Director of over forty films during the 60’s and 70’s, and with a come back after 30 years in a Brazilian production of Embodiment of Evil, to be released by Fox in Brazil in 2008, Mojica Marins’ character Coffin Joe is a Latin American Horror legend with a committed legion of fans worldwide and celebrated by critics as one of the few auteurs of horror.
“As his agent for over ten years we have been able to witness the continuing fascination that Mojica Marins/Coffin Joe exerts over the international horror community” says Betina Goldman, ONE EYED FILMS’s MD. “The Cult Horror Collection has been sold to over twenty broadcast territories including IFC, Film4, SBS, CanalPlus, Cine Cinema, TPS and Universal Spain among others. We are in advance negotiations for a package of 9 titles for the USA.”
“The concept (working titled) The Bitter Garden is a loosely based script on the character, to introduce him to new audiences unfamiliar with the phenomenal Coffin Joe in a new contemporary arthouse twist.”
The Bitter Garden is to be produced in Brazil by VERAS O IMAGINARIO, and is seeking engaged and hands on co-producers in Canada/Spain to co-develop the project.
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Inflexions
Launch of a new interdisciplinary webjournal whose goal is to “promote experimental practices combining research and creation in such a way as to foster symbiotic links between philosophical inquiry, technological innovation, artistic production, and social and political engagement.”
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Screening of Shahin Parhami’s Faces
The Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University
Invites you to a screening of FACES (2007), by Shahin Parhami, followed by a conversation with the director
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
3-5 PM
Morrice Hall
Room 023FACES (100 min. Canada, Quebec, 2007) is an experimental documentary exploring the life and work in exile of 10 Iranian-Canadian artists as they represent themselves through art, performance, and monologues. This multi-layered documentary reflects on politics, pop-culture, history and the power of popular media as it crafts a new face for contemporary Iranian art and culture. FACES was premiered at Montreal World Film Festival and won the best feature film award at the Cinewest Experimental Film Festival 2007 (Sydney,
Australia).Iranian-Canadian filmmaker SHAHIN PARHAMI was born in Shiraz, Iran. After his arrival in Canada in 1988, along with contributions of his poetry and essays to local Persian and English cultural/art journals, he pursued film studies and production, first at Ottawa’s Carleton University and later at Concordia University in Montreal. He has directed several award-winning short and feature films which have been screened in festivals, art galleries, and universities. From 1997 he worked on a trilogy: Nasoot (1997); Lahoot (1998); and Jabaroot (2003). The last part of the trilogy is a 60-minute poetic documentary on Iranian traditional music. His films have been selected by many prestigious international film festivals such as Montreal World Film Festival, Thessaloniki, Hot Docs, and Montreal International Festival of New Cinema.
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Cinefest
A one-of-a-kind film festival that features silent and early sound films (mainly American) screened on (mostly) 16mm from morning until night. A real cinephiles mecca which shows rare and as yet unavailable films on video films. Also includes large dealers rooms featuring videos, dvds, books, posters, super 8 and 16mm film, equipment, etc.
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On Screen! A Celebration of Canadian Cinema
“On Screen! is a documentary series that explores and celebrates the Canadian film industry’s most important cultural milestones. Each one-hour program showcases a quintessentially Canadian feature film and the work of the people who made it; artists and auteurs who blazed new paths, opened doors and set new standards for a modern generation of story tellers yet to come. Along with clips from the films, each episode features interviews with members of the cast, crew, and nationally known critics, who reveal the behind-the-scenes trials of how each movie evolved from page to screen. Occasionally sad, sometimes hilarious, but always poignant, these are the stories that changed the face of Canadian film forever.”
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WJT Mitchell Lecture
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture is happy to invite you to its inaugural public lecture Thursday, 17 January 2008 at 19h00, in H-763 (1455 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, Quebec).
WJT Mitchell, Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago and well know theorist of media and visual art, will present some of his recent work. His lecture is entitled “Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9-11 to Abu Ghraib.” A reception will follow.
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Télé-Utopie : Godard, Rohmer, Rossellini, Ruiz
The following series has been programmed by Viva Paci (Université de Montréal) and Karine Boulanger (Cinémathèque Québécoise), with financial and grant assistance from The Italian Cultural Institute of Montréal, The René Malo Chair, the National Audiovisual Institute (INA), the online film journal Hors Champ and the Art History and Film Studies Department of University of Montreal. All proceedings (introductions, round table panels) are conducted in French.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008, 7PM: Mai en décembre (Godard en Abitibi), Julie Perron, Qué., 2000, + La Dernière Utopie : La télévision selon Rossellini, Jean-Louis Comolli, Fr., 2006. Introduced by Viva Paci (UdM) and Paul Tana UQAM)
Wednesday, January 16, 2008, 7PM: France Tour Détour Deux Enfants (episodes 1 to 4), Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, Fr., 1979. Introduced by André Habib (UdM and online journal Hors Champ)
Wednesday, Janaury, 2008, 7PM: France Tour Détour Deux Enfants (episodes 5 to 8), Godard, Miéville, Fr., 1979
Friday, Janaury 25, 2008, 7PM: France Tour Détour Deux Enfants (episodes 9 to 12), Godard, Miéville, Fr., 1979
Wednesday, Janaury 30, 2008, 7PM: Petit Manuel d’histoire de France (part 1 and 2), Raúl Ruiz, Fr., 1979
Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 7PM: “Éric Rohmer et la télévision pédagogique, 1964-1965 », Les cabinets de physique: la vie de société au XVIIIe siècle; Les histoires extraordinaires d’Edgar Poe; Perceval ou le conte du Graal; Les “caractères” de La Bruyère
Friday, February 8, 2008, 7PM: Ville nouvelle (episodes 1 and 2), Rohmer, Fr., 1975
Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 7PM: Ville nouvelle (episodes 3 and 4), Rohmer, Fr., 1975
Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 7PM: Socrate, Roberto Rossellini, It.-Fr.-Esp., 1970. Introduced by Adriano Aprà (Fondation Rossellini et Università di Roma 2)
Thursday, February 28, 2008, 1PM: Round Table on Roberto Rossellini and television, with Adriano Aprà (Fondation Rossellini and Università di Roma 2), Elena Dagrada (Università di Milano), Stefano Roncoroni (director and independent researcher), Viva Paci (UdM) : Roberto Rossellini placed great hope in television as a medium to reflect and transform the world. This round table will be an occasion to discover these television works and discuss the elements which the project as a whole share: namely a didactic and encyclopedic approach to human history. Admission is free.
Thursday, February 28, 6:30pm: India Matri Bhumi, Rossellini, It.-Fr., 1959. Introduction by Elena Dagrada (Università di Milano)
Friday, February 29, 2008, 7PM: Blaise Pascal, Rossellini, Fr.-It., 1972. Introduction by Stefano Roncoroni (director and independent researcher, Roma)
Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 7PM: La Prise du pouvoir par Louis XIV, Rossellini, Fr., 1966
Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 7PM: Cartesio (Descartes), Rossellini, It., 1974
Friday, March 21, 2008, 8:30PM: The Age of the Medici: Cosimo de’ Medici, Rossellini, It., 1972
Saturday, March 22, 2008, 7PM: The Age of the Medici: The Power Of Cosimo, Rossellini, It., 1972
Friday, March 28, 2008, 8:30PM: The Age of Cosimo de’ Medici: Leon Battista Alberti, Humanist, Rossellini, It., 1972
Click here for an introductory essay on the program by Viva Paci and Karine Boulanger.
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Ferdinando Baldi (1917-2007)
Italian director of many important popular genre films, Ferdinando Baldi, passed away on November 12 at the age of 90. Some of Baldi’s best works include the spaghetti western Texas, Addio (1966), starring Franco Nero, one of the many Django spin-offs, Viva Django (1968), and The Sicilian Connection (1972). One of his last ‘public’ appearances was as himself interviewed in the documentary Spaghetti West (2005).
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Music and the Moving Image III: May 30-June 1, 2008
Conference at NYU, May 30 – June 1, 2008
Call for PapersThe third annual conference, Music and the Moving Image, encourages submissions from scholars and practitioners that explore the relationship between music and the entire universe of moving images (film, television, computer, video games, and interactive performance) through paper presentations, roundtables, and plenary sessions. This year live performance/screenings will be a featured part of the evening program. Streaming video versions of every presentation will be available only at NYU from May 30 – June 3, 2008.
Accepted papers will be considered for inclusion in the new peer-reviewed online journal Music and the Moving Image.
The Program Committee includes Macquarie Univ. faculty Rebecca Coyle (Reel Tracks: Australian Feature Film Music and Cultural Identities); NYU artist faculty Ira Newborn (The Naked Gun); NYU faculty Robert Rowe (Machine Musicianship); Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison faculty Jeff Smith (The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music); and coeditors of Music and the Moving Image, Gillian B. Anderson (Haexan; Pandora’s Box; Music for Silent Film 1892-1929: A Guide); and NYU faculty, Ron Sadoff (The Moon and the Son).
For more detailed information about last year’s conference, click on the link below.
The conference will run in conjunction with the NYU/ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop in Memory of Buddy Baker (May 16-23, 2008) and the NYU Song Writing Workshop [ May 27-30 ].
Abstracts or synopses of papers (250 words) should be submitted to Dr. Ron Sadoff, chair of the program committee, by no later than Jan. 14, 2008. For more information contact Dr. Ron Sadoff.
Ron Sadoff
New York University
35 West 4th St
Rm 777H
New York, NY, 10012Conference fee (May 30 – June 1): $135.00, Students: $65.00, Housing Available.
