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** December 2006 **
• 5-6, Tuesday/Wednesday - Land Marked/Marquette will be making its London premiere at a conference entitled Research Spaces 3: Topos - The Moving Image Between Art and Architecture. Presented by the University College London's Slade School of Fine Art and the Bartlett School of Architecture.
** November 2006 **
• 19, Sunday - A retrospective of my work is coming to Milwaukee. Films by Thomas Comerford, 1997-2005 will screen at the Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 East Locust St., Milwaukee at 1pm. Admission is $2. Presented by the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Department of Film. More show details available at the Woodland link.
** October 2006 **
• TBA - Land Marked/Marquette will be making its European broadcast premiere on Danish television through the good offices of TV-TV (unfortunately no English on site). Stay tuned for more details.
• 15, Sunday - Walking the Corridor. Multimedia Artist Melinda Fries (In the Weather, Ausgang) screens her video, "Corridor" (2005, 60 mins, video) and leads a walking tour/discussion of the Kinzie Industrial Corridor. Meet at The Ice Factory, 526 North Ashland at 1pm, for the screening. Tour/discussion to follow. Co-presented by Thomas Comerford and the Ice Capades Film/Video Screening Series. Bring your walking shoes!
• 13 October - 9 November - A short quicktime movie (I guess it would qualify as a miniature), "Untitled (Train-by)," will be included in the gallery exhibition, 20MB, at the Mass Gallery in Austin, TX.
• 7-8 - Land Marked/Marquette continues its run on Free Speech TV in a series curated by Kyle Harris entitled Monkey Wrench Cinema. The multiple broadcast times are listed below and at the FSTV link. All times are CST--check the FSTV for times in yr locale.
October 7: 1130pm
October 8: 230am
** August 2006 **
• 19-26 - Land Marked/Marquette continues its run on Free Speech TV in a series curated by Kyle Harris entitled Monkey Wrench Cinema. The multiple broadcast times are listed below and at the FSTV link. All times are CST--check the FSTV for times in yr locale.
August 19: 1129pm
August 20: 229am
August 21: 329am
August 23: 429am
August 24: 329am, 1029pm
August 25: 129am
August 26: 229am
• 1 August - 28 September - My friend and sometime film-touring partner, Bill Brown, will be conducting a bike tour, complete with screenings of films about the U.S.-Mexico border, from the east coast to the continental divide. For more information go to The Pedal Powered Movie Tour!
** July 2006 **
• 2-8 - Land Marked/Marquette makes its broadcast premiere on Free Speech TV in a series curated by Kyle Harris entitled Monkey Wrench Cinema. The multiple broadcast times are listed below and at the FSTV link--think Late Night w/David Letterman, but later and, um, me, not Dave. All times are CST--check the FSTV for times in yr locale.
July 1: 1130pm
July 2: 230am
July 3: 330am
July 5: 430am
July 6: 330am
July 6: 1030pm
July 7: 130am
July 8: 230am
• 1, Saturday - I've created a profile for my film-life at myspace.com. I've no plans to put up films at this point, but if you want to be my friend, please check it out and send me a request. Happy networking! Click here to get there.
** May 2006 **
• 13-14 - Land Marked/Marquette screens at the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival.
• 14, Sunday - The third and final event by my Microcinema class students. Films on Forgetting: A screening of short films and videos about personal and social issues of forgetting, loss, omission, failure and absence in contemporary society. These films touch on the roles that photographic, print, film, video, text, and internet documentation play in our capacity and desire to remember and forget. Program will feature the films of: Jacob Chalkley, Laura Daroca, Sascha Fink, Paul Gabel, Tony Gault, Karina Griffith, Alyssa Marinez, Nick Obrien, David Poolman. At The Ice Factory, 526 N Ashland Ave; Show 8pm; Tix by Donation (suggested $5.00).
• 12, Thursday - Figures in the Landscape screens at the Eugene Lang College of the New School, NYC, in a program entitled An Unseen Energy Swallows Space. Curated by Seth Mitter.
• 6, Saturday - The second event programmed by my Microcinema class students. Midwestern Productions presents ... FRESH MODE: BLOCK PARTY. A free film screening followed by a block party style barbeque with live Djing and dancing. Titles to be screened are director Emily Dell’s B-Girl, Syd Garon and Eric Henry’s Wave Twisters featuring DJ Q-Bert and a work in progress by Mandy Johnson that delves into the Chicago Breakdancing scene. The barbeque (with vegetarian options) and will be supplied on a first come, first served basis, attendees are encouraged to bring food and beverage for the event. This will take place at the Mess Hall on 6932 North Glenwood Avenue (Morse stop on the redline). Free!
** April 2006 **
• 28, Friday - The first of a series of events programmed by my Microcinema class students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Modern Electric Cinema presents an evening of short experimental films accompanied by live sound scores composed and performed by local bands. This multimedia event will be held at the Elastic Arts Foundation, located at 2830 N. Milwaukee, 2nd Floor. Doors at 9:00 pm. Show starts at 9:30pm. $5 suggested donation. With films by: Jason Fletcher, Jodie Mack, Chris Collins, Jeremy Doss, Kyung Sun Hwang, Eun Sun Lee, Elena Bazini and Michael Betancourt. With live soundtracks by: Fear of Empty Spaces, Chase Staley (Beguile, Beguile, My Love!) and The Poison Arrows.
** February 2006 **
• 9-19 - Land Marked/Marquette premieres in Europe at Director's Lounge 2006 in Berlin in a series of programs titled Urban Research on Film, curated by filmmaker Klaus Eisenlohr. For the complete schedule of programs, click on the Director's Lounge link. Director's Lounge will also feature films/videos by Roger Beebe, Diane Bonder, Kim Collmer, Dave Ellsworth, Guy Sherwin and Chi-Jang Yin, to name a few.
** January 2006 **
• 27, Friday - Chicago-Detroit Split screens at Hallwalls, 341 Delaware Avenue, in Buffalo, NY for the series, resolutions 06. The film will screen *twice*--8pm and 930pm and both screenings will feature a live soundtrack by Bill Brown and my stunt-double, Carl Lee. Other programs over the weekend feature work by filmmakers dear to us: Ben Russell, Christopher Becks and Roger Beebe. Admission: $7.
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