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No Cure for CuriosityJames Cameron and his Avatar Pentalogy!Send us a textIn our first episode of 2023, Shanny talks with Cary Elza and Kevin Obsatz, two media studies professors at UWSP, about the career of James Cameron and his latest movie, Avatar: The Way of Water. We talked about the themes that have dominated Cameron's career, his particular skill for getting audiences pumped up, and what we thought of the second film in the Avatar Pentalogy!Support the showPlease rate and review No Cure for Curiosity in your favorite podcast app. And tell your friends who might also enjoy No...2023-02-0642 min
Cellular CinemaCCC12 - Mike GibisserIn this Conversation, we discuss Mike's films Travel Stop (2017), Slow Volumes (2019), and The World of Facts (2018).
Mike Gibisser is a filmmaker and artist interested in navigating the indefinite lines between essay, narrative, experimental, and documentary work. Over the past decade, he has completed two narrative features (Finally, Lillian and Dan and World of Facts), a feature film essay (The Day of Two Noons), as well as several experimental and non-fiction shorts. He has presented work at numerous cinemas and festivals around the world, including the Toronto International Film Festival, the International Oberhausen Film Festival...2021-03-051h 06
Cellular CinemaCCC11 - Scott FitzpatrickA discussion of competition and conflict in the experimental community, power dynamics and class struggle in the film festival landscape, celluloid purists (pro and con), and much more!
Scott Fitzpatrick is a visual artist (Libra) from Winnipeg whose film and video work has screened at underground festivals and marginalized venues worldwide. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Film Studies at the University of Manitoba and began conducting lo-fi moving image experiments in 2010.
https://vimeo.com/artbarbarian2021-01-071h 07
Cellular CinemaCCC11 - Scott FitzpatrickScott Fitzpatrick is a Winnipeg-based artist who works with super-8 and 16mm, video, expanded cinema and performance. We discuss the community of artists in Winnipeg, competitiveness in art, status, sustainability, and film festival politics!2020-12-111h 07
Cellular CinemaCCC10 - Carl ElsaesserExperimental filmmaker Carl Elsaesser, currently based in Maine and Minnesota, discusses his recent work, including Itinerary of Surfaces, The Misbehaving Image, and Exercises in Resistance.
http://carlelsaesser.com/2020-12-051h 07
Cellular CinemaCCC9 - Hannah Piper BurnsYou can find examples of Hannah's work here: https://vimeo.com/hpb
Adroitly choreographed and cleverly edited, Hannah Piper Burns’ videos are brainy but for the body. Reflecting and refracting the spells and charms of popular culture, her work is seductive and unrelenting. Fluent in the languages of pop music, dance and reality television, the works are crisp and communicative, political in their poetics and personal in their polemics. Their tautness and rhythm uphold what music videos promise and all too rarely deliver: a multisensory re-envisioning of the bodily and intellectual experience of music.
Writing by...2020-11-1200 min
Cellular CinemaCCC8 - Kelly SearsKelly Sears on Vimeo
In this conversation, we discuss The Drift, Once It Started It Could Not End Otherwise, and Pattern for Survival.
Kelly Sears uses experimental animation techniques to create hybrid works that draw on fiction and documentary storytelling, recasting American archetypes and institutions to reimagine our own social and political legacies.
She transforms an extensive trove of source materials, such as first aid handbooks, chronicles of space exploration, presidential and military newsreels, 35 millimeter photography manuals, aerobic and yoga guides, archival films, high school yearbooks, and disaster survival guidebooks, into new instructional...2020-08-201h 02
Cellular CinemaCCC7 - Lori FelkerLori Felker on Vimeo
In this conversation, we discuss Lori's films "Spontaneous," "Not You," and "Future Language: The Dimensions of VON LMO."
Lori Felker is a filmmaker/artist, teacher, programmer, and performer. Her moving image work focuses on the ways in which we process, share and disseminate information, via screens, dreams, gestures, games, and dialogue. By employing and pushing these structures, she attempts to study the ineloquent, oppositional, delusional, frustrating, and chaotic qualities of human interaction.2020-08-201h 07
Cellular CinemaCCC6 - John AkreJohn Akre on Vimeo
John Akre is an animator, experimental filmmaker and documentarian who has been an integral part of the community art community of Minneapolis for decades. We discuss his films "Charlotte's Photographs," the "Hats of the New American Cinema Series: Scor3pio Rising" and his ongoing Art-A-Whirl and Open Streets projects.2020-08-181h 02
Cellular CinemaCCC5 - Sabine GruffatSabine Gruffat's Website
During this discussion, we talk about the short, experimental documentary "Take it Down" and the feature-length 16mm documentary "I Have Always Been a Dreamer."
Sabine Gruffat is a French-American artist who was born in Bangkok, Thailand. After living many years in Saudi Arabia and Hong Kong, She immigrated to the United States.
Sabine Gruffat is an artist who works with experimental video and animation, media-enhanced performance, participatory public art, and immersive installation. In this work, machines, interfaces, and systems constitute the language by which she codes the world. The creation...2020-08-181h 01
Cellular CinemaCCC4 - Roger BeebeRoger Beebe's Website
During this conversation, we discuss Beebe's films "Amazonia," "Strip Mall Trilogy," and "Lineage (for Norman McLaren)."
Roger Beebe is a filmmaker whose work since 2006 consists primarily of multiple projector performances that explore the world of found images and the "found" landscapes of late capitalism. He has screened his films around the globe at such unlikely venues as the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square and McMurdo Station in Antarctica as well as more likely ones including Sundance and the Museum of Modern Art with solo shows at Anthology Film Archives, The Laboratorio Arte...2020-08-181h 06
Cellular CinemaCCC3 - Kevin B. LeeKevin B. Lee's Website
Kevin B. Lee is a filmmaker, media artist, and critic. He has produced over 360 video essays exploring film and media.
His award-winning Transformers: The Premake introduced the “desktop documentary” format, was named one of the best documentaries of 2014 by Sight & Sound and screened in many festivals including Berlin Critics Week, Rotterdam International Film Festival and Viennale International Film Festival.
Through Bottled Songs, his collaborative project with Chloé Galibert-Laîné, he was awarded the 2018 Sundance Institute Art of Nonfiction Grant, the 2018 European Media Artist Platform Residency, and the 2019 Eurimages Lab Pro...2020-08-181h 02
Cellular CinemaCCC2 - Kym McDanielKym McDaniel's Vimeo Page
In this episode we discuss Kym's recent short experimental video series entitled "Exit Strategies."
Kym McDaniel is an experimental filmmaker, media collaborator, choreographer, and performer. Her films have shown at Slamdance, Antimatter, Chicago Underground Film Festival, ADF’s Movies by Movers, and selected exhibitions at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University, and the London Bow Arts Gallery, among others.
https://www.kymmcdaniel.com/
Her practice is rooted in somatic-based inquiry and energetic movement rituals. She has a BFA in Contemporary Performance & Ch...2020-08-111h 01
Cellular CinemaCCC1 - Travis WilkersonTravis Wilkerson's Vimeo Page
A conversation with Travis Wilkerson about his films Machine Gun or Typewriter, Did You Ever Wonder Who Fired The Gun and An Injury to One. Recorded on March 26, 2020.
Travis Wilkerson is an American independent film director, screenwriter, producer and performance artist. Named the "political conscience of 21st century American independent cinema," by Sight & Sound Magazine, Wilkerson is heavily influenced by the Third Cinema movement, and known for films that combine "maximalist aesthetics and radical politics." This is owed, in part, to his meeting Cuban filmmaker Santiago Álvarez.2020-07-301h 00