Posted on Monday, October 18, 2010 by Brook Hinton
Wednesday October 20, 7:00 pm
California College of the Arts
San Francisco Campus Production Stage
Free
Filmmaker and CCA Faculty filmmaker Cheryl Dunye
presents her recent film The Owls
followed by a question and answer session moderated by
Peter Stein, Executive Director of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
Posted on Sunday, October 10, 2010 by Brook Hinton
CCA GRAD FINE ART SATELLITE LECTURE SERIES
AND THE FILM PROGRAM PRESENT
in conjunction with the LAND MINDS/SITE LINES graduate seminar
JOEL SLAYTON
WEDNESDAY, OCT 13TH, 12 NOON, SF Campus - Production Stage
A pioneer in the field of art and technology Joel Slayton’s artworks
engage with social software, cooperation models and networks, ontology
of organizations, robotics, information mapping, and interactive
visualization. He was an original member of the Visible Language
Workshop at MIT in the mid 1970’s, has received a National Endowment
Posted on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 by Jeanne Finley
The students in the Graduate Fine Arts seminar Land Minds / Site Lines, taught by Jeanne C. Finley, took their first field trip of the semester exploring land/walking art. They visited 1435 Grant Avenue (formerly Dupont Street, known as the oldest street in San Francisco) in the North Beach neighborhood, home to the antique book and map retailer Schein & Schein, named after the husband-and-wife proprietors, Jimmie and Marti Schein. Students searched through the drawers and bins and pulled out maps of particular interest.
Read the restPosted 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
Read the restPosted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 by Samantha Braman
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.
Read the restPosted 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.
Read the restPosted on Thursday, August 19, 2010 by Jim Norrena
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.)
Read the restPosted 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.
Read the restPosted 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.
Read the restPosted on Friday, June 18, 2010 by Jim Norrena
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.
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