Portland - Syracuse
13 April 2007
Established in 2000 by prairie filmmaker Alex Rogalski, the ONE TAKE SUPER 8 EVENT is a distinct screening in that none of the films are viewed prior to their premiere. Each filmmaker is limited to only one 3-minute cartridge of Super 8, and must shoot their entire film without the opportunity to rewind for a ‘second take.’ In addition, none of the filmmakers are permitted to edit, or even inspect, their films prior to the screening. No Cuts. No Splices. No Changes. One Take, One Night.
The Portland Film + Video Artists Collective, in collaboration with the newly-formed SYRACUSE EXPERIMENTAL Film + Media Workshop, presents filmmaker and programmer Brett Kashmere with two reels of fresh films recently created for the Syracuse One Take Super 8 Event (24 March). Reel Three presents the premiere of films by members of the Portland Film + Video Artists Collective.
Brett Kashmere Having grown up playing hockey on the Canadian prairies, filmmaker Brett Kashmere now lives in Central New York and writes extensively about avant-garde cinema, music and video, curates international exhibitions, and teaches experimental film.
Kashmere is a founding member of the antechamber, a non-profit organization dedicated to the support of emerging independent artists and filmmakers, and SYRACUSE EXPERIMENTAL Film + Media Workshop. He has presented screenings and curated exhibitions at festivals and venues such as the Seoul Film Festival, the DUMBO Arts Festival in Brooklyn, Cinémathèque Ontario, New York's Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Portland's Cinema Project, Images Festival in Toronto, and La Cinémathèque québécoise. In 2004 he organized the touring expanded cinema installation and DVD-format catalog, Industry: Recent works by Richard Kerr.
Kashmere’s work has screened internationally at the London Film Festival, the Chamber of Public Secret’s Made in Vide, an International Video Art Festival in Copenhagen, Anthology Film Archives in New York, and the Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival in Kassel, Germany.
His writing has appeared in journals and magazines such as The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Take One, ESSE arts + opinions, PROTEE revue internationale de theories et de pratiques semiotiques, Synoptique, Senses of Cinema, and Offscreen, and anthologies like The Films of Jack Chambers, Centre des arts actuels Skol 2002-2003, and The Encyclopedia of Documentary Film.
Kashmere holds an BA in Film & Video Studies from the University of Regina, as well as an MA in Film Studies and an MFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University in Montreal. His most recently completed film is Valery's Ankle (2006).
REEL ONE :: SYRACUSE
Ken Keech, Vanessa Keech, Kazuo Keech, Jason Kohlbrenner & Briana Fischer / UNTITLED ROBOT MOVIE
Vacationing Robots travel through space collecting souvenirs.
Jess Lance / THE DIARY OF DICK TRACY
A glimpse into the mind of Dick Tracy who gave up his dreams of family life after the brutal killing of his father. In order to seek revenge, he became a policeman, believing that fighting violence with more violence would ease his pain.
Stacy Barton / SHANNON FRANCIS FOR HIRE
Sometimes just filling out a job application can help a young woman realize her full potential.
Kyle Corea / WAFFLE WONDER
A close-up look into the world of a waffle.
Brett Kashmere / MELVIN SPARKS
“Chops-heavy, rock-your-socks-off, visceral-to-the-max soul-jazz. Git-you-off-you-butt, mojo-magic, that's what he dealin'.” (Also a Waffle Wonder).
Chiyoung Lee / SHORT SILLY MAYBE SWEET
Two short stop-motion animation clips featuring two roses, and goldfish crackers.
Ty Marshal / LIES, PEOPLE, TALK. Three Poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
Over the course of one week, I filmed 30 individuals portraying three poems by the Russian poet Yevtushenko, who is best known for his dissident writing and scathing attacks on bureaucracy. It is also said that Yevtushenko has an insatiable appetite for both travel and people, which the film intends to reflect.
Sejal Patel & Ryan Tebo / APPLE FOR GANESH
Ganesh is tempted to go on a much needed, healthier diet.
Intermission
REEL TWO :: SYRACUSE
Frank Olive / 60-70
A home filled with objects from the past becomes a calendar for each year of the 1960's.
Sebastien Park / VERBOSE
An underexposed montage of peculiarities.
Ryan Silveira / ACCUMULATION
A young woman stands transfixed at the Syracuse lacrosse field. Soon it begins to snow.
Alex Rogalski / LAND OF LIVING SKIES
These stories are told from recollection, reconciling that all things change. Dedicated to Jessie’s travels and taking me with her.
A. Suparak & Brett Kashmere / LAST DAYS OF WINTER LIGHT
An experiment in camera-less Super 8 filmmaking: Snow seens, and the coming of spring, interior textures, darkness, hand-cranked and lensed thru a pinhole.
Ryan Tebo / MAP QUEST
Start out going NORTHEAST…
Briana Fischer & Jason Kohlbrenner / AMOEBA
A painting time-lapsed.
Intermission
REEL THREE :: PORTLAND
Sydney & Keith Fitzgerald / GINGER KITTEN ZEN
Stefanie Loeb / TERRA INCOGNITA
(1. land that has never been explored or mapped; uncharted territory. 2. by extension, ideas or concepts that have not yet been tried or explored.) This film may contain imagery very connected, very disparate, solemn, or even silly. It is the end of the winter. It is on the road. It is believing all the images in front of oneself have never been seen. The mapping (of images, places, emotions) occurs once the film is viewed.
Betsy Nelson & Kenneth White / EASTER COOKIES
Betsy loves to bake. I filmed her.
Peter Gruner Shellenberger / to another place
Typewritten words of “Martin Luther King Jr.”
Spoken words of “John at the Home”
Kenneth White / LINES OF POWER
An exploration of lines that cut and delimit our vision while delivering us to other sights/sites.
Ling Wen-Tsai / the forgotten scene
Deborah Wing-Sproul / spatial reasoning
One Take Super 8 Event
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