"FIDEM FATI VIRTUE SEQUEMUR""With courage follow the promise of Destiny!"
BRAVE DESTINY
The Master Surrealist Exhibition
"FIDEM FATI VIRTUE SEQUEMUR"
"With courage follow the promise of Destiny!"
BRAVE DESTINY
The Master Surrealist Exhibition
September 20th - November 2nd, 2002 at The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, in Williamsburg Brooklyn.
Among the participants:
PETER DIZOZZA, Surrealist dramatist, Director of the Royal WAH Theatre, and founding member of Cinema VII Productions presents scenes from his shows "Prepare to Meet Your Maker," "The Last Dodo," "The Eleventh Hour" and "The Golf Wars" and introduces a new dance/musical "The Wedding at the Statue of Liberty"
Introducing Williamsburg's International Surrealist Film Festival
The Film Programs for October 3rd through the 5th include surrealist selections from the past Brooklyn International Film Festivals, chosen by the festival's curator, Marco Ursino!
("The sole justification for our existence as artists, superfluous and
egotistical as we are, is to confront people with the image of their
destiny." Max Beckmann)
The New International Surrealists Manifesto
"FIDEM FATI VIRTUE SEQUEMUR" -- "With courage follow the promise of Destiny!"
BRAVE DESTINY, The Master Surrealist Exhibition, September 20th - November 2nd, 2002 at The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, in Williamsburg Brooklyn, presents. Williamsburg's First International Surrealist Film Festival, organized by PETER DIZOZZA: Surrealist dramatist, Director of the Royal WAH Theatre, and founding member of Cinema VII Productions.
Four programs, two nights, October 3 & 4.
And, introducing, Live on Stage: A NEW Cinema VII Project, a modern ballet with Dialogue, "The Marriage at the Statue of Liberty" introducing the dance troupe, EMIAJ Movement LTD. Four performances at the Royal WAH Theatre, October 10, 11, 17 & 18.
Friday October 3
Program 1 -- 8PM: Biff Rose Film Festival Selections from past Biff Rose Film Festivals of singer/songwriter surrealism
Program 2 -- 10PM: Brooklyn International Film Festival Surrealist selections from the past Brooklyn International Film Festivals, chosen by the festival's curator, Marco Ursino
Saturday October 4
Program 3 -- 8PM: The Brave Destiny Surrealist Film Submissions featuring the New York Premier of DADA CHANGED MY LIFE, a film by Daniel Martinez (Spain), Olga Mazurkiewicz (USA), Lou Lou (Switzerland). Screened at 8:30PM
Program 4 -- 10PM: The Brave Destiny Surrealist Film Prizewinners Sponsored by the Society for Art of the Imagination. Made possible in part by grants from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Independence Community Foundation and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz
"Brave Destiny" International Surrealist Film Festival Program
Program 1, Friday, October 3, 2003 8PM
The Biff Rose Film Program, originating from the home of Steve Espinola, exploring the visualizations of the singer/songwriter surrealist.
Smothers Brothers with "Gentle People" and "Myrtle's Pies." 10min.
Early Cable TV ("The Playboy Channel" hosted by Hugh Hefner and Don Adams) with performances of "Molly" and "Japanese Transistor." 10min.
FACE PAINTING WITH BIFF ROSE Director: Paul Castagnia United States, 2003 13min
UKULELE FREAKS Director: Sonic Uke United States, 2003 8min
ADVENTURES OF THE BROOKLYN HIPSTER SUPERHERO Director: Alan Webber United States, 2003, 8min
BULLET BALLET/EXECUTING ART Director: Morrie Cramer -- http://www.wildseduction.com/featuredartists/artandlust/Morrie_Cramer.html
MUSIC FOR ORCHESTRA WITH TWO NOTES Director: Orin Buck United States, 2002, 7 min -- http://www.buckart.com
INTRUDER Director: Nathan Gulick United States, 2002, 12min
PROGRAM 2, Friday, October 3, 2003 10PM The Brooklyn International Film Festival contributes a program to Brave Destiny selected from the growing BIFF archive, by the festival's curator, Marco Ursino TRT: 103 MINUTES.
FROM BIFF 2003… DAY 26 Director: Andreas Samland Germany, 2002, 18min
CALL BAKER Director: Dan Salzmann France, 2003, 6min
INTO THE AIR'S MEMORY Director: Albert Yu United States, 2003, 8min
BUTTERFLY Director: Glenn Marshall Ireland, 2002, 10min
WOMAN Director: Signe Baumane Latvia/United States, 2002, 10min
SUNNY FEET Director: Pete List United States, 2002, 4min
NOSFERATU TANGO Director: Zoltan Horvath Switzerland/France, 2002, 13min
FROM BIFF 2001…
ROSEWATER Director: Kimi Takesue United States, 2000, 13min
STATE OF BLISS Director: Kenneth Sperling Denmark, 2000, 7min
TENNIS MATCH Director: Robert Ellmann Czech Republic, 2000, 10min
SPOTLESS Director: Jessica Nilsson Denmark, 1999, 5min
Program 3: Saturday October 4, 8PM The Brave Destiny Surrealist Film Submissions including the New York Premier of DADA CHANGED MY LIFE
DADA CHANGED MY LIFE -- New York Premier! Director: Olga MazurKiewicz (USA) aglo@onebox.com, Daniel Martinez (Spain) daniel@opusnomedia.com, Lou Lou (Switzerland) Produced in collaboration with Foundation Kroesus Switzerland, 2003, 29min the legendary Cabaret Voltaire, cradle of the most influential movement in contemporary art history, 86 years after its founding is threatened by the imminent construction of luxury apartments and a pharmacy.....the Fondation Kroesus, a group of young armed artists, lock themselves in and create an international appeal...
DORA: ANALYSIS BY F__ Director: xtine (Christine Burrough) and Michael J. Hanson xtineburrough@yahoo.com www.missconceptions.net Freud's case study comes to the screen through glorious old-time video camera b&w!
MAMBO MADNESS Director: Adal Maldonado United States, 2003, 10min adal_maldonado@hotmail.com
MARVELOUS CREATURES -- correlation of erotic and destructive impulses Director: Wago Kreider United States, 2003, 6min wagokreider@earthlink.net
THE PENETRATING NEEDLE Director: Arlene Ducao arlduc@highstream.net http://www.arlduc.org United States, 2002, 8min
PHANT Director: Lauren Hartman crazyspace@sbcglobal.net United States, 2003 27min
REVERSE HOUSE KIT Director: Carole Kim United States, 2003 4952 1/2 N. Maywood, LA, CA 90041-2001 Adam Rosenkranz, text, Alex Cline, Live Percussion, Jesse Gilbert, Sound Design.
SCHIZOPHRENIC ATTACK SELF Director: Timothy R. Pickerill a/k/a NEMO United States, 2003 http://www.omenproject.com email: nemo_kosmos@hotmail.com
STILL LOVER Director: Amir Motlagh United States, 2002 5:33 Min dinoadino@hotmail.com AYAFilms with Brie Ann Harris
SWEENEY ASTRAY Director: Ameliac United States, 2003 8min http://www.sweeneyastray.com
THE TRAVELING EYE OF THE BLUE CAT Director: Shawn Atkins United States, 2002, 16min travelling_eye@hotmail.com from the 35mm print, color dolby sr
FROM CINEMA VII
THE RUINS (Silent 8mm, Dizozza/DiMaio, 1971) When Dizozza and DiMaio (then aged 13 & 12) took their camera and some friends to the local unused railroad tracks behind their neighborhood little league fields, they began a battle of wizards that anticipates the British Mysticism of Harry Potter.
CHARACTERISM GLANCES (Digital 8 3m) from Cinema VII 2003
HAPPY HONEYMOON Dizozza/Dunphy 16m. 2003
FREE PSYCHIATRY Marino
THE JEWISH WIFE SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES PREVIEW Director: Asolif Sioul
THE PAN SCENE from THE LAST DODO
SALLY DOWN THE PLUG HOLE After a relaxing bath Sally is suddenly transported to another land somewhere over the rainbow. The film was created by award winning uk. multimedia artist Joanna Woodward, who's other mixed animation and live actions films include Sawdust For Brains And The Key Of Wisdom which was shown as a part of a showcase for the avant-garde, the Weatherhouse made with the IOU theatre company shown at the ICA, and The Brooch Pin And The Sinful Clasp a mammoth animated film which features the fascinating performance artist Rose English and was a part of the 'Between Imagination and Reality' tour. Joanna can be contacted by e-mail jo@wonder95.freeserve.co.uk Tel: 44 (0) 20 79234292
ALABASTER CITY Director: Sheila Ernst-Bifano United States, 2002, 6min fbifano@swbell.net www.sheilaeb.com website: www.sheilaeb.com The title of my piece is taken from a line in the song "America the Beautiful": "Oh, beautiful, for patriots' dreams that see beyond the years, Thy Alabaster Cities gleam undimmed by human tears ..."My movie is a layering of photographs I shot with a medium format Hasselblad camera in Manhattan, animation, voice over, rough random recordings of some of the news and part of a speech by President Bush: all for textures to enhance the underlying theme of political uncertainty in these unusually mercurial times. Today's war events are ever on our minds, whether it be the situation in Iraq, Israel, Afghanistan or, now, Liberia. The live news streaming in from these areas, the endless analysis, the second guessing and images we see make for a constant beehive hum of activity. The haunting shadow of 9/11 hovers above all.The word War is so repetitive; it begins to lose its meaning. Only the images stand out starkly to haunt us. We're eating, drinking, and inhaling it. It surrounds us like an environment. Pictures, film and sounds of war are everywhere. And where are we going? We stand, poised, on the brimming edge of our Brave New World, straining to see a glimmer of our vision of freedom. Do we see it? Is it there yet?My piece was finished in April 2003, and the running time is approximately four minutes.
BULLET BALLET Director: Morrie Cramer Pre Production Trailer bulletballet.com
The cannibal-clown stop motion shenanigans of Robert Kleinshcmidt FEAST OF FOOLS
Tracy Waaka THE SEERESS
Baris Ger MYTH Denny Daniel dennydaniel.com
SPECTRAL ANALYSIS Direcor: John M. Buchanan (10m) USA 1997
PASSER BY Artur Golacki
MUSIC FOR ORCHESTRA WITH TWO NOTES Director: Orin Buck buckart.com
PROGRAM 4: 10PM: The Brave Destiny Surrealist Film Prizewinners
The press attending: Renata Lorenc Lisa Rothman The L Magazine (Rob or another reporter). Steve Bayer Eddy Herch Paper Magazine Logan Hill NY Magazine Lisa Rothman Broklyn Rail Phong Bui Brooklyn Rail Ian Mohr Premiere Robert Stepanek
------------ Ameliac, http://www.sweeneyastray.com Sweeney Astray ------------ Shawn Atkins travelling_eye@hotmail.com The Traveling Eye of the Blue Cat 35mm 16mins color dolby sr 2002 ------- Arlene Ducao arlduc@highstream.net http://www.arlduc.org The Penetrating Needle -------- Sheila Ernst-Bifano fbifano@swbell.net www.sheilaeb.com Alabaster City -------- Lauren Hartman crazyspace@sbcglobal.net Phant -------- Carole Kim -- 4952 1/2 N. Maywood, LA, CA 90041-2001 presents with Adam Rosenkranz, text, Alex Cline, Live Percussion, Jesse Gilbert, Sound Design.... Reverse House Kit (2003) ---------- Wago Kreider wagokreider@earthlink.net Marvelous Creatures -- correlation of erotic and destructive impulses... WOW! ---------- Adal Maldonado adal_maldonado@hotmail.com Mambo Madness ----------- Amir Motlagh dinoadino@hotmail.com 5:33 AYAFilms©2002 with Brie Ann Harris Still Lover (2002) ---------- Timothy R. Pickerill a/k/a NEMO http://www.omenproject.com email nemo_kosmos@hotmail.com presents the all too familiar for some: Schizophrenic Attack Self (2003) ---------- xtine (Christine Burrough) xtineburrough@yahoo.com www.missconceptions.net and Michael J. Hanson Dora: Analysis by F_. Freud's case study comes to the screen through glorious old-time video camera b&w! ----------- Olga MazurKiewicz (USA) aglo@onebox.com, Daniel Martinez (Spain) daniel@opusnomedia.com, Lou Lou (Switzerland) in collaboration with Foundation Kroesus presents: Dada Changed My Life 29m -- actually occupying Zurich's old Cabaret Voltaire changed their lives... See familiar faces speaking another language. Parallel places for New York: ABC No Rio, Quando (Cuando?), Lach's Fort at SideWalk! more films at http://www.wahcenter.org/exhibits/2003/surreal/BD_filmsubmissions.html ("The sole justification for our existence as artists, superfluous and egotistical as we are, is to confront people with the image of their destiny." Max Beckmann) The New International Surrealists Manifesto Return to schedule.