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Quark Mobile!
All the videos at Quark Nova are now available to play back on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad (as well as other excellent mobile devices). I’ve tested them, and I’m completely thrilled with it. Go now and engage your cell phone data plans with experimental film!
(For those who care about the details, Vimeo finally released an embeddable HTML5 player, only 8 months after they first started hinting about it.)
The Age of Slack?
This article is from March, but it bears examining months later as financial data expands and paints a clearer picture.
Sharing data works? That’s unpossible.
From the NYT: “Rare Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s”
But how can we keep the current system of capitalizing on discoveries alive if these assholes are focusing on HEALING?
Welcome to UFVA 2010!
August 10, 2010
I’ve been looking forward to this since last August. As I write this, members of the University Film and Video Association are convening in beautiful Burlington, VT. Just walking down to help install art in the New Media galleries, I ran into friends I’d not seen in a year… a few I hadn’t seen in even longer… and I remember why I keep coming back to the UFVA Conference. People, people, and people.
Champlain College is small, lovely, and it’s all ours this week. Karen Klove and her colleagues have done exemplary work setting up this conference. The events you know and love are back in full force, there are a few new events, and maybe a few surprises.
I strongly recommend that you spend some time with the online schedule, and take advantage of the ability to build a personalized schedule with the new “My Conference Schedule” function.
Some things I’d like to point out that might not be obvious to conference attendees this year:
- The Welcome session on Wednesday morning will serve as your orientation to the conference, as well as a marvelous surprise guest speaker.
- Saturday at 3:30pm there will be a “Fond Farewell” session to remember pioneering members who passed away this year: Herb and Bea Farmer, George Wehbi, Skip Landon, and Ned Hockman.
- Saturday at 10:30am we have a new session that we are experimenting with… the UFVA Awards / Kodak Scholarship Screening! At this brunch session we will screen highlights from the UFVA Juried Screening Awards of Merit, Carole Fielding Grant winners, and the Kodak Scholarship winners.
As you go about the conference, I hope you’ll take advantage of some of our social media endeavors:
It’s going to be a great conference… I look forward to spending time with you this week!
Simon
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Simon Tarr
UFVA Conference Vice-President
UFVA Social Media
The University Film and Video Conference is an academic gathering, so when it comes to social media, you might expect us to have some strange choices. This is, after all, the industry that not only spawned the dreaded Blackboard, but continues to use it. So what’ll it be? Plurk? LinkedIn? Friendster?
Wrong. It’s pretty standard and widely-accepted stuff:
Twitter: use the hashtag #UFVA in your tweets.
Facebook: The new Facebook page is here. Be sure to like it. Or, “like” it.
And there’s also… Flickr, Vimeo, and YouTube
UFVA 2010 Conference Site
Looking forward to seeing many of you at this year’s University Film and Video Association Conference next week. This is my first conference as the Conference Vice President, so I’m a little anxious for everything to get rolling, but the team at Champlain College has done to fantastic work, and it should be an outstanding conference.
The NEW UFVA website is live. And actually alive, rather than a brain-dead zombie. Jeff Warmouth is a wonderful human being for all the work he’s done with it, it’s a Drupal tour-de-force. Go check it out.
The 2010 Conference Schedule is complete, and it is also online. There will be, of course, a print schedule, but since things have gone to print, there have already been some personnel changes in some sessions. One reason to use the online schedule is to be sure you’re looking at the most accurate schedule. Reason 2: you can build a personalized conference schedule that sticks with your login. Reason 3: there’s a mobile version of the site, formatted for the small screen. Yeah yeah, it’s not an iPhone app. Anyone who wants to volunteer to build one for 2011 for free is hired…
More to come, stay tuned.
UFVA 2010 (May 24 update)
This is the most recent revision for the 2010 University Film and Video Conference schedule. This May 24 revision addresses all prior errors and conflicts. New to this revision: New Media, Caucus Meetings, grad student work, and some events. Still not listed: descriptions, locations, some events and parties, basketball games, golf. To find where you are scheduled, use your browser’s “Find” function.
Here it is: http://www.quarknova.com/ufva this is shut down now that the official site is live.
Important notes:
- All prior requests for possible schedule accommodations have been addressed. The planning team will not be accepting new requests for schedule accommodations.
- The prior listed deadline for conference registration was June 1. We are pushing that deadline back to JUNE 8, 2010, after which a $50 late fee will apply.
- Conference presenters must a.) register for the full conference and b.) be members of UFVA. These are separate things. Membership does not include registration, and registration does not include membership. If you do not register and become a member (or renew) by June 15, your presentation will be cut from the program.
Giri Chit
Giri Chit
(2009, 14 minutes)
Cosplay girls, urban farming and a Zamboni. The subtle trace of irreconcilable worlds.
GIRI CHIT tells an epic tale. A worker driving a mobile sweeper in hypnotic circles across an already immaculate surface. The high drama of cosplay aficionados clamoring to be seen. A cast of thousands toiling hundreds of feet above the street.
Giri translates as ‘duty’ in Japanese, but the concept is in fact far more complicated. Giri is a sort of interpersonal political capital that informs careers, family relations, and much more. Its presence and flow is palpable in Japan, where this film was shot. A “giri chit” then may be a hypothetical voucher for this intangible flow (with a tip of the cap to Thomas Pynchon’s “Vineland”).
Selected Screenings and Awards
- WINNER, Best Experimental Film- DaVinci Film Festival
- Chicago Underground Film Festival
- Athens International Film and Video Festival
- Dallas Videofest
- ICDOCS Film Festival
- NewFilmmakers at Anthology Film Archives
- Oxford Film Festival
- Director’s Lounge (Berlin)
Tia Mak
TIA MAK
(2007, 17 minutes)
TIA MAK is a VJ performance that remixes the classic documentary NANOOK OF THE NORTH into an avant-garde, pre-apocalyptic rock and roll show.
It’s different every time. Like a live music performance, there is a set list and a general blueprint for what will happen. But the specifics… shot choice, rhythm, and pacing change as the performer gets a feel for the venue and how the audience is feeling.
TIA MAK has been performed in many different kinds of settings; from film festivals where the audience sits and watches as if it were chamber music, to outdoor venues where beer flows freely.
Selected Screenings and Awards
- SuperDeluxe (Tokyo)
- Dallas Video Festival
- IndieGrits Film Festival
- Penn State
- Iowa City Documentary Film Festival
- UFVA 2009
- Coker College Centennial Celebration
FUD
FUD
(2006, 4 minutes)
A comfy-cozy vignette of fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
“FUD” is Simon Tarr’s third film to use anaglyphic technology to alter the audience’s view. Using two cameras joined together but shooting independently, Tarr creates an altogether new experience for filmgoers.
The term ‘FUD’ was coined in the 1990’s to refer to one of Microsoft’s P.R. strategies of domination over open source systems:simply suggest that the devil you know is better than one you don’t. Actually, they’re doing it again now.
Selected Screenings and Awards
- Athens International Film and Video Festival
- UFVA 2006
- McKissick Museum Faculty Biennial
- Dallas Video Festival
Quark Star
Quark Star
(2005, 70 linear minutes)
Billions of years in the future, the fate of humanity rests in the hands of one deep space explorer. One vulgar, obsessive-compulsive, prejudiced guy in a tin foil hat. What could possibly go wrong?
Stuart Bing is all alone in the depths of space. All alone, that is, except for the two million clones of himself. When his starship starts to malfunction, he calls back to Earth for help, only to find that robots have taken over the planet, led by a spiteful, mechanical stand-up comic. Bing’s only hope is to discover the secret of the all-powerful Quark Star, and even then, it may not be enough…
Quark Star is an innovative DVD-only motion picture, presented as the rescued captain’s log of Bing’s starship. The viewer chooses different sections of the logs to view, and they play back differently every time. Director Simon Tarr also plays Stuart Bing, all of his clones, and the Evil Robot Leader.
Quark Star is available for purchase from Amazon, and for rent from Netflix (the whole piece isn’t available online, because the it is designed form the ground up to use the programmatic structures of the DVD). If you see it, a review at either of these sites would go a long way at getting the word out about this film… I’d appreciate it!
Selected Screenings and Awards
- Audience Choice Award, UFVA 2004
Sundog Verga Matrix
Sundog Verga Matrix
(2002, 4 minutes)
The synthesis of simulacrum and solar max. Viva Las Vegas!
Selected Screenings and Awards
- Ann Arbor Film Festival
- Dallas Video Festival
- Athens International Film and Video Festival
- New York Underground Film Festival
Extremely Bright Lights
Extremely Bright Lights and the Sound of Explosions
(2000, 4 minutes)
This film was released globally on the internet on Dec 31, 2000, at 11:59.99pm (ISO 8601) making it the absolute final film to be released in the 20th Century. Centering on entertainment spectacle, the film draws parallels to popular portrayals of warfare. It’s a delicate line; the film is funny, sans pastiche, yet it honestly chills the viewer with simple truths.
Selected Screenings and Awards
- Ann Arbor Film Festival
- Dallas Video Festival
- Honorable Mention, Athens International Film and Video Festival
- Black Maria Film Festival
- IFC Canada
Growing Up Luke
Growing Up Luke
(1996, 4 minutes)
Don’t be fooled, children of the 70’s. The most important decision that any of us faced came in 1977, when destiny was thrust on us all, when we had to make the ultimate decision: Luke or Han?
Joe’s Suspenders
Joe’s Suspenders
(1996, 7 minutes)
Joe Kokoruda only wanted to spend his last days, tasting good food, keeping his pants up, and whipping his grandson’s butt in chess.
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