Film News
Film Program's Gray Sally Scores Big with Night/Light Audience
Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010, by Jim Norrena
The CCA Film Program's 2010 end-of-year show, titled Night/Light, was a smashing success. The event took place in Timken Lecture Hall and was filled with wonderful energy, films, and installations.
Congratulations to the following award winners:
Faculty Award: Erinn Clancy
Audience Award: Gray Sally, by Jim Allison, Adam Bhermann, Hannah Jewett, Fred Kolouch, and Chun-Ping Wang
Best Installation: Julie Henson
Featured above is the Audience Award winner, Gray Sally, made in the Film Program's Advanced Production course.
ShareCategories: Awards and Accolades Film Students
Alumnus Etienne Kallos's Short Films Gain International Renown
Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010, by Samantha Braman
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Etienne Kallos (photo courtesy NYU Film School)
Film festival by film festival, CCA alumnus and filmmaker Etienne Kallos (Film/Video 1997) is gaining renown on the international scene. His short films have screened at numerous festivals, including Cannes (2006), Berlin (2006), Sundance (2007), Telluride (2009), and Venice (2009). He frames much of his work around his unique perspective as a Greek from South Africa, as well as the exploration of sexuality and masculine identity.
Kallos's best-known film, Eersgeborene (2009), Afrikaans for "firstborn," was his thesis project for his master's degree in film directing at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. It went on to win a Corto Cortissimo Lion for best short film at the Venice Film Festival in 2009. Set in the Afrikaans minority culture of post-apartheid South Africa, Eersgeborene is a fable about incestuous brothers on a remote ostrich farm who descend into matricide and madness.
"I had made a previous short, doorman (2006), that did well at Cannes and Sundance in 2007. After that everyone was advising me to make a feature, but I didn't feel ready yet. So Eersgeborene is a middle step, a half-hour short fiction film to get me ready for my first feature," says Kallos.
"I had a dream one night in New York about driving to a strange, old farmhouse in South Africa. When I woke I decided Eersgeborene should take place on a farm, and that it should explore a conflicted relationship between two men in some sort of emotional power struggle. When I read African Gothic, an English translation of a play by my very first mentor, the internationally acclaimed Afrikaans playwright Reza de Wet, I realized how I could use part of it as a vehicle for my own preoccupations. This is how my film ended up being in Afrikaans, a language I don't speak well. Once I found the play and got Reza's permission, it took me just a month to write the 20-page script."
The process of making the film was far more difficult than Kallos expected. Despite his $20,000 budget and previous Cannes and Sundance credits, no one in South Africa was particularly interested in producing a short film. So, to his horror, he found himself doing all of his own producing, location scouting, production managing, and even script supervising! His connection to the prolific Reza de Wet opened many doors for him in the South African theater community, enabling him to secure several fantastic actors and other essential help for free.
"The shoot was two weeks in the desert with an extra three days of pick-ups a month later. Watching the raw footage after a shoot always sparks my imagination further and I find myself thinking about all the ways I could have written the story differently, or perhaps directed the actors differently. So then I think 'Why not?' and these extra scenes become my 'pick-ups.' I have never been able to make a film without doing pick-ups and some reshoots. It's part of the improvisational way I learned to work at CCA.
"My education at CCA was a great foundation. I learned to think outside the box, improvising and feeling things out as I go along, taking risks. These are essential to the creative process."
Kallos has received numerous awards and award nominations, including the Shorts Jury Award at the Atlanta Film Festival, a 2010 National Board of Review Student Grant Award, and a Charles & Lucille King Family Foundation Award. Additionally, Kallos was nominated for a Student Academy Award for his documentary Jane's Birthday Trip in 2006.
His short film doorman is available from Strand as part of the Boy's Life DVD series. Read more about it here at Logo.tv. Eersgeborene is still circulating at film festivals and not yet available on DVD. Kallos is currently traveling around South Africa, conducting interviews and collecting material for his next project, and soon he will return to New York to begin writing the script. Also in the fall he will start teaching film aesthetics in the graduate film program at New York University.
Categories: Alumni Diversity Featured Film International
CCA Students: R.A.W. Video Wanted!
Posted on Tuesday, August 24, 2010, by Clay Walsh
That’s right folks, the rumor’s true: It’s time again to break out your video camera and hit the streets for CCA’s R.A.W. (Real Artists at Work) Video competition.
This year’s theme: Bike Culture at CCA—as you define it!
What’s CCA’s R.A.W. Video competition? It’s the college’s annual student video competition that awards $500 cash to each juried winner of an original artistic point of view submitted in the form of a short video that depicts a designated theme.
For inspiration and to review past winning videos, see the collection of awarded short videos playing in the CCA channel on YouTube.
All student submissions are due by October 8, 2010.
Go now to the R.A.W. Video Submission Form for entry rules and participation guidelines.
• Demonstrate safe riding practices
• Pop a wheelie
• Show us your fixie
• Exercise your right to exercise
• Haul your art project on two wheels
• Commute with friends
• Design or build a bike
• Explore cycling history
• Participate in Sunday Streets
• Ride your bike to class
• Take it on public transportation
• Share a favorite parking spot
• Celebrate your favorite bike lane (thanks to San Francisco Bike Coalition!)
• Park it using an indoor bike rack
Share your vision of how bicycles are a part of daily life at CCA and become eligible to win $500 cash! Just don’t forget to wear your helmet (and have fun)!
Categories: Animation Featured Film Graphic Design Students Sustainability Undergraduate Admissions
Alumnus Erinn Clancy: A Video Artist to Howl About
Posted on Thursday, August 19, 2010, by Jim Norrena
"Rob and Jeff showed me traditional storyboarding techniques. . . . They really work!"
The Pitch
It's a story about a recent California College of the Arts graduate who scores an internship working with his former instructor, an Academy Award–winning filmmaker. The intern makes such a strong impression he's put to the task of editing extra scenes taken from his instructor's latest feature film for its upcoming DVD release. (It should be noted the film was the opening feature at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.)
Despite looming deadlines and a celebrated filmmaker's reputation on the line, the intern knows what he has to do. With the clock ticking, he reviews the film selects. He storyboards the outline. He puts the clips together. He masters the color calibration. He corrects the sound. The rough cut becomes the final cut. It's an undeniable success. The intern, confident and hungry to advance his career, stands triumphant and declares he's off to Brooklyn to start his own film production company.
Career-Catapulting Internship
CCA's Erinn Clancy (BFA Media Arts 2010) assures himself a life spent working with video—selecting footage, assembling the story, narrowing the clips, relating the images with the dialogue, finding the “great little moments,” working with sound, color correcting, organizing the rough cut, and launching the final cut—is his intended career. Now thanks to Film Program chair Rob Epstein, who hired the recent graduate as a film editor to compile the extras for the DVD release of his and Jeffrey Friedman’s feature film Howl, Clancy’s story—about a graduate who lands a career-catapulting internship—is one worth telling!
Clancy is a 24-year-old multifaceted video artist (director, producer, teacher, film editor, entrepreneur) who is about to head off to Brooklyn to start his own production company, which he’s named Shot and Cut Productions. His recent film project, Planet XQ, a six-minute music video, screens August 21 at the 10th annual Nevada City Film Festival and will screen September 11 as part of the San Francisco International Festival of Short Films, the latter of which Graphic Design associate professor Jim Kenney founded and serves as executive director.
Yet it’s Clancy’s current project—editing the scene extras for Oscilloscope Laboratories' January 2011 DVD release of Howl, which had its world premiere as the 2010 opening-night feature at Sundance Film Festival—that we hope will catapult the talented alum in his career. The film, produced by two-time Academy Award–winning filmmaker Epstein (with filmmaking partner Friedman), offers a star-studded cast: Hollywood heavyweight James Franco (as the young Allen Ginsberg), David Strathairn, Jon Hamm, Bob Balaban, Treat Williams, Alessandro Nivola, Mary-Louise Parker, and Jeff Daniels. (Look for Howl to be released in theaters September 24.)
CCA's Faculty/Student Collaborative Relationship
“One of the joys of working at CCA, for all of us who teach in the Film Program,” shares Epstein, who himself started as an apprentice before working professionally, “is having the opportunity to mentor students outside and within the classroom. In our personal careers, we who teach in the Film Program work in a wide range of film and media arts practices, so students are exposed to all sorts of career possibilities.”
Clancy honed in on the opportunity and took hold.
“CCA has been great,” admits Clancy. “Critiques are really big there, and I miss getting feedback from faculty and students. My program was small, so many of us were in the same classes, which formed a supportive community. I knew their work; they knew mine. Same with the instructors.
Among the Film faculty Clancy tips his hat to are former faculty member and 2007 Rome Prize awardee Caveh Zahedi, who was “a big influence for me in terms of the creative process”; Cheryl Dunye, an “amazing inspiration who brought a whole new attitude and energy into my filmmaking process" (and whose recent film, Owls, brought to two the number of Teddy Awards she’s received from the International Berlin Film Festival [The Watermelon Women was awarded a Teddy in 1996]); and assistant chair Brooke Hinton, who “was extremely influential in terms of developing my technical skills.”
Collectively speaking, all of Clancy's influences helped build skills that captured Epstein's attention: "Production of any kind requires the ability to collaborate well and apply social skills, which Erinn excels at. All of us in the Film faculty took note of Erinn’s talent as an editor in his personal work. His potential is vast. He expressed interest in further developing these skills and took the initiative to do just that.”
About Interning at Telling Pictures
Clancy started his internship at industry-renowned Telling Pictures in May. The production studio, founded by Epstein and Friedman, is located at the corner of Arkansas and 16th, just mere steps from CCA’s San Francisco campus. Upon entering the quiet and charming courtyard, it’s difficult to imagine the collective media frenzy Telling Pictures has generated for more than a quarter of a century; between the two filmmakers they have received two Academy Awards, five Emmy Awards, three Peabodys, as well as Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellowships, among numerable other national industry accolades.
Yet don’t think the ubiquitous prestige of Telling Pictures escapes Clancy’s notice, either; the aspiring video artist has to pass by this resplendent array of awards every day—an inspiration and a daunting measurement of success alike. Choosing inspiration over intimidation, the so-called walk of fame becomes merely a symbolic portal between his life as a CCA undergraduate and his first “real” gig, which just happens to be as film editor working under the wings of two maverick filmmakers who saw his potential and gave him a chance.
“I’m totally honored to be working with such filmmakers,” admitted Clancy. As for his thoughts on Howl itself: “It’s like no other movie I’ve ever seen. It’s really three films in one: a courtroom drama (from the Allen Ginsberg obscenity trial transcripts and records); an interview process with Ginsberg (taken from historical archives); and beautiful, psychedelic, poetic animation depicting Ginsberg’s poetry.”
Your Education Is Only as Good as You Make It
When asked about working through stylistic differences on a collaborative project, Clancy demonstrated a firm grasp on the realities of the professional film industry: “You can always make suggestions, but when you’re working with the director . . . the director gets the final say.” Good answer, kid.
Based on Epstein’s praise of Clancy, it’s difficult to imagine there were any visionary roadblocks. “While first working as an assistant editor, Erinn showed himself to be hard working, skilled, and professional, which led to editing the extra documentary materials for the forthcoming Howl DVD release,” Epstein explained. “Erinn was the perfect candidate and a good fit. We were the lucky ones. . . . With this first professional job under his belt, we hope he is well on his way.”
And before heading off to New York, Clancy offered incoming Film students the following focused advice based on his POV: “Take advantage of the film community that CCA has to offer. Collaborate with your peers. Pick your instructors’ brains for creative input. Use as much film equipment as you can. Your education is only as good as you make it.”
Cut. That’s a wrap! Next stop—red carpet!
Related
Meet Media Arts Alumnus Erinn Clancy (an interview)
The Film Program at CCA (watch the video!)
CCA press release: Howl at Sundance
Categories: Alumni Awards and Accolades Faculty Featured Film
Alumnus Alex Beckman's Work on "Glee" Nominated for a Primetime Emmy!
Posted on Monday, July 26, 2010, by Samantha Braman
Alex Beckman (MFA 2010) was recently nominated for a Primetime Emmy for outstanding creative achievement in interactive media for his work on the FOX TV show Glee. Beckman is vice president of video production at Coincident TV, a San Francisco–based company that creates interactive video technology to accentuate pictures and voices in online videos.
Powered by Coincident TV's interactive video software suite, Fox's Glee Superfan site allows viewers to watch full-length episodes online while simultaneously navigating the web, accessing Glee social media sites, purchasing related merchandise, and watching bonus material.
Coincident TV's association with FOX Broadcasting, Glee, and their Primetime Emmy nomination were recently written up in Forbes magazine.
The 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards will air Sunday, August 29, at 8 ET/5 PT.
Congratulations Alex and good luck!
Categories: Alumni Awards and Accolades Featured Film Fine Arts
CCA Getting Out for Oakland's First Fridays
Posted on Thursday, July 8, 2010, by Jim Norrena
CCA Film student Edward Hayden took to the streets of Oakland during its popular Art Murmur art walk, where hundreds of artists, including CCA students and alumni, come out to watch and share art-making practices the first Friday of each month.
Watch other student videos on CCA's channel on YouTube.
Three CCA Filmmakers Included in Preeminent San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
Posted on Friday, June 18, 2010, by Jim Norrena
frameline34 features films by three CCA community members
What do owls, drag queens, and poets have in common? It’s a tricky question, that is unless you’re attending frameline34, the 34th San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival—the world’s landmark showcase of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender cinema—where not one but two CCA Film Program faculty members have award-winning feature films in this year's program.
Film professor Cheryl Dunye’s The Owls, which earned the inspired filmmaker her second Berlin International Film Festival Teddy Award, receives its West Coast premiere Friday, June 18, at the Castro Theatre. (Note: Day-of-show ticket sales can be purchased at the venue.)
Two-time Academy Award–winning documentary filmmaker [The Times of Harvey Milk (1985), Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)] and Film Program chair Rob Epstein’s latest feature film, Howl, starring James Franco as the young poet Allen Ginsberg, is scheduled to close the festival—a parallel honor to the film’s opening-night programming at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in January.
Howl is based on Ginsberg's famous poem, on which the title of the film is based, which sparked a counter-culture revolution following the famous 1957 obscenity trial in which a San Francisco prosecutor argued Ginsberg's poem contained "filthy, vulgar, obscene, and disgusting language." Read more about this film at the Telling pictures website.
Also scheduled in the world-renowned film festival is a short film by Film student Julian Vargas, whose Ka.Ka is a six-minute comedy presented in Spanish (with English subtitles) about how two characters unravel a life-changing discovery during what used to be a private childhood game. The film is scheduled to screen as part of one of the shorts programs ("Are You Krazy"). The short-film collections are traditionally sold-out events and often rate high as an audience favorite during the festival.
About frameline34
The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival is the longest-running, largest, and most widely recognized LGBT film exhibition event in the world. It was founded in 1977 and is produced by San Francisco–based Frameline, which also distributes more than 200 films nationally as part of its integrated programming that provides support for emerging LGBT filmmakers.
This year’s festival runs June 17 through 27 at various venues in San Francisco (Castro Theatre, Roxie Theater, Victoria Theatre, Ninth Street Independent Film Center, and the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society), as well as in Oakland’s Rockridge District (Rialto Cinemas Elmwood).
For complete frameline34 programming information, including screening times and venues, visit the frameline34 website.
Related
Cheryl Dunye's The Owls Makes a Hoot at International Berlin Film Festival
Rob Epstein's Film Howl, Starring James Franco, Lands World Premiere at Sundance
Categories: Awards and Accolades Faculty Featured Film International Students
South Korean Filmmaker and Alum Hong Sangsoo Returns to Cannes Film Festival, Picks Up Top Prize
Posted on Wednesday, June 2, 2010, by Sarah Owens
Alum Hong Sangsoo’s feature film Hahaha: What Do You See in Life, Darling? received top honors in the respected Un Certain Regard award category at the 63rd annual Cannes Film Festival. Sangsoo, whose film was one of 18 in this category and the third South Korean film in the overall selection, won over such celebrated filmmakers as French director Jean-Luc Godard (Film Socialisme).
Un Certain Regard jury president and film director Claire Denis announced the winners May 22 at the Théâtre Claude Debussy in Cannes. Other jurors included Helena Lindblad (film critic from Sweden) Patrick Ferla (journalist from Switzerland), Dongho Kim (Pusan Film Festival, South Korea), and Serge Toubiana (Cinémathèque Française).
Hahaha is the tenth film Hong Sangsoo has written and directed and marks the filmmakers fourth return to the world-renowned Cannes Film Festival (two in Un Certain Regard and two in Competition). The film stars Kim Sangkyung, Yu Junsang, and Moon Sori. The plot involves two main characters: Jo Munkyung, a Korean filmmaker in the process of moving from Seoul to Canada; and his friend, Bang Jungshik, a film critic.
As the two men get together to share makgeolli, a traditional Korean alcoholic beverage, they quickly realize they each have recently visited the seaside town of Tongyeong. Agreeing to recount only the happy memories of their steamy summer vacations, it becomes evident they were each there at the same time and with the same people.
Sangsoo has twice been nominated for the Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival for his films Tale of Cinema and Woman is the Future of Man. In addition to the Cannes Film Festival, he has screened films at the Berlin International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, and the Toronto International Film Festival.
The filmmaker first studied film in his native South Korea at Chungang University. He then attended CCA, graduating with distinction in 1985 with a BFA in Film/Video. After earning an MFA from The Art Institute of Chicago, Sangsoo returned to South Korea to work with SBS, a broadcasting company.
In 1996 Sangsoo made his directorial debut with The Day a Pig Fell into a Well, his first feature film, which received international critical acclaim, including awards in Korea, Rotterdam, and Vancouver.
Sangsoo is best known for his understated narrative style and unconventional plot development. While his actors’ interactions and dialogue seem based on the everyday—even banal—reality of life, his films speak toward complex social structures and the intricacies of interpersonal relationships.
Said Manohla Dargis of the New York Times, "One of the pleasures of Mr. Sangsoo’s films is their complexity or, more precisely, the pleasures you get as a viewer from working through the involved structures and filling in gaps and silences."
According to a 2004 press kit for Woman is the Future of Man, Sangsoo revealed, "People tell me that I make films about reality. They're wrong. I make films based on structures that I have thought up."
Watch a trailer (in Korean).
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Categories: Alumni Awards and Accolades Featured Film International
Meet a First Year: Kellie Arceneaux
Posted on Tuesday, April 6, 2010, by Marion Anthonisen
This is the first in a short series of Q&A sessions with students in CCA's First Year Program, or "first years." The sequence is aimed at familiarizing prospective CCA students with our Bay Area art-making community. Maybe you’ll imagine yourself here!
Check back for another interview next week, or (better yet!) subscribe to the RSS feed at the link below and never miss an update. As always, feel free to contact me at manthonisen@cca.edu with any questions about our admissions and enrollment processes.
Planning to enter the Individualized Major after her first year, Kellie Arceneaux will be incorporating elements of Sculpture, Illustration, and Film into her creative practice here at CCA. Read below for her opinions on dorm life, the First Year Program, and the push-and-pull of the art college classroom experience.
Thanks for the interview, Kellie!
Where did you live before coming to CCA?
I grew up in multiple places—I don’t really have a hometown. I went from Florida to Santa Rosa, CA, to Holland, back to Santa Rosa, to Portland, OR, and now I'm here! It’s been interesting.
How did you choose CCA?
I chose CCA because I was really drawn to its diversity in majors and opportunities. I thought the facilities were incredible. I was also really drawn to the Individualized Program because no other school offered anything like it. I also really appreciated the fact that you didn’t have to immediately declare a major, because I didn’t exactly know what I would want to do as soon as I started college.
Do you live in the residence halls?
I live in the Avenue Apartments with four other girls. I think it’s definitely a vital experience for kids straight out of high school. It teaches you a lot about yourself and how you interact with other people independent from your family. It’s also a crazy bonding experience. I’ve made really great connections with so many people I normally wouldn’t have from living in the dorms. It’s almost like you form a little family. I’ve had so much fun living here.
Do you cook? Cheap eats for students around campus?
Honestly, I can make potatoes, beans, and rice—it’s the college diet. I really like Sabuy Sabuy, a Thai place literally right behind the apartments. You get a nice amount of food for your buck.
How have you liked the First Year Program?
The First Year Program is really supportive of exploration and experimentation with different medias that you wouldn’t normally incorporate in your art. I’ve learned a lot of different skills that have changed the quality and aesthetic of my artwork. Since you don’t have to choose a major your first year, you get to really explore what direction you want your art to go.
What has it been like to adjust to an art school environment?
Pretty easy. I never was able to adjust to schools before I came here. I think it’s a good sign.
What do you like best about the CCA community?
I love how small it is. You pretty much know or can recognize everyone on campus after being here a few months. It’s a tight-knit community where everyone is really supportive and helpful.
What’s an interesting project you’ve made this year?
In my 2D course with Sydney Cohen, I made a portrait of Alice, from Jan Svankmajer’s film Alice, out of cut-up embroidery floss. It was a little insane.
Music you've been listening to lately?
Recently I discovered Little Dragon, Empire of the Sun, and Pogo. They’re pretty awesome. Also, the local music scene is pretty great around here.
What role do your CCA friends and classmates play in your artistic development?
At CCA, it’s really your friends and classmates who help push and inspire you. It’s a giant mess of different backgrounds and cultures, so you get a lot of different viewpoints from people. Everyone is so supportive that it really helps inspire you to make some awesome pieces.
Categories: Film First Year Illustration Individualized Major Undergraduate Admissions
Graduate Nightlight Exhibition Illuminates, Builds Social Awareness
Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010, by Jim Norrena
Professor Jeanne Finley works in CCA's Media Arts and Fine Arts programs.
Seven graduate students from CCA’s fall "Magic Lantern: Projected Image and the Construction of Space" seminar joined forces at the end of the semester to shed some light on CCA—literally.
The Nightlight exhibition, which took place December 7, was a cross-disciplinary exhibition of photography, video, film, and light in the context of performance or installation. The exhibition was visually and intellectually illuminating. (Watch the accompanying Nightlight slideshow at right, as well as see additional images at the CCA SnapShots page on Flickr.)
The artists, representing CCA's Graduate Program in Fine Arts, Media Arts, and MBA in Design Strategy programs, used the architecture of the San Francisco campus as a collaborative element on which to display their work.
Under the guidance (and participation) of Media Arts and Graduate Program in Fine Arts professor Jeanne C. Finley, the following second-year Graduate Program in Fine Arts students (unless otherwise indicated) collaboratively shaped the Nightlight exhibition into an interpretive installation of light, messaging, sound, and architecture that promoted awareness of social issues right here on campus:
- Zarouhie Abdalian
- Kathryn Hautanen (MBA in Design Strategy)
- Anna Ludwig
- Rebecca Ora
- Ruth Robbins
- Ashley Lauren Saks (Media Arts)
- Wafaa Yasin
"CCA's San Francisco campus is rich in history and evidence of the shifting social dynamics of the Bay Area," said professor Finley. "Surrounded by vacant lots, dilapidated buildings as well as high-end design outlets and designer lofts, several of the featured artists used their projection to highlight the ironies and contradictions embedded in the campus's position within the city."
Second-year MBA in Design Strategy student Kathryn Hautanen filmed the more impoverished elements of Hooper Street, closer to 7th Street, during a Sunday afternoon when no one was around. "Right next door [to CCA] is an abandoned lot, graffiti, pollution, homeless and day laborers all trying to survive. I wanted to juxtapose these two elements—the sun shining on the burned-out buildings and homeless and bring that to the front of Hooper where it can't be ignored." Kathryn projected her film on the southern wall of the Graduate Center building on Hooper Street.
MFA candidate Anna Ludwig's project, People's Park, featured a looped series of 80 images projected in quick succession using an automatic Kodak carousel slide projector. She used watercolor-painted images on clear film, which were then cut and fitted into a 35 mm slide mount. "The energy of an event leaves a stain, faint, even invisible, on the place where it occurs," she explains. "I investigate sites loaded with residual energy of resistance to power—places that were active in the Bay Area during the 1960s. People's Park uses the outdated technology of the slide projector as a vehicle for ephemeral paintings that reference shared cultural memory and the subjectivity of history."
In addition to the challenge of interpreting the relationship between light and architecture, professor Finley also commented on the more mundane challenges of merely having to build outdoor installations: “Although San Francisco had had very little rainfall, the day before the exhibition one of the biggest storms of the fall slammed into the city. We were watching the satellite maps to know if the show could go on. As the afternoon approached, the clouds cleared, and despite the drop in temperature to record lows, rain did not fall. The artists dressed in their warmest clothes because they had to stand outside for hours, never leaving their equipment.”
To encourage viewers to brave the frigid temperatures and find all the projections sprinkled throughout the San Francisco campus—the Graduate Center, the Writers' Studio (195 De Haro at 15th Street), the Carmen M. Christensen Production Stage (within the main San Francisco campus building at 1111 Eighth Street), and outside the main campus building entrance—each station served chocolates. And for those who had their exhibition invitation hole-punched at all stations, a glass of wine to warm the spirit, if not the hands, was served to grateful exhibition attendees.
"None of this could have been accomplished without the support of CCA's San Francisco Media Center," Finley added, "in particular Jennifer Rarick and Rebekah Eisenberg, who allowed the projectors to be checked and unlocked from their carts. Also, they provided hundreds of feet of extension cord. And thanks to everyone who helped and supported this show."
About Magic Lantern
"The Magic Lantern: Projected Image and the Construction of Space." This graduate critique seminar is designed for Fine Arts and Architecture students who are interested in working with projected light and imagery to shape and redefine images and the objects/structures that reflect them. Students working with photography, video, film or light in the context of performance and/or installation will have the opportunity to work with the technical and theoretical tools necessary to create a series of new projects in the course. Projects address questions of site-specificity as students choose to work with projection in public and intimate spaces alike.
Additionally, we look at the work of artists and architects who have worked with projection from as early as Louis Daguerre to Aether Architecture, Anthony McCall, Elaine Buckholtz, and Tony Oursler, among many others. Through the creation of their projected works, students explore the relationship of one's physical presence and experience of light-constructed spaces to questions of site, history, narrative, permanence, illusiveness, and desire.
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