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06 Oct 2010 NAMACAdmin

Physical Media - Gone with the Wind?

Author: 
Brian Hearn

I’m a film guy. I like celluloid on reels. I like the whirring machines that play them. This love affair started in my late teens. Seeing Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire changed my life, ditto for Lina Wertmuller’s Seven Beauties. Discovering the nauseating spectacles of John Waters blew my freakin’ mind as did the Rocky Horror cult.

04 Oct 2010 NAMACAdmin

RIP Bernie Schwartz: Hidden and Revealed Cultural Identity

Author: 
Arlene Goldbard

The movie star Tony Curtis died this past week at 85.

Curtis occupies a special place in my mental pantheon, as the embodiment of Hollywood's shrewd and cynical rendering of cultural identity during the middle years of the last century.

24 May 2010 NAMACAdmin

Only 2 hours left! It’s getting close to crunch time. #UOAFP

Author: 
Arielle Sherman
I just came down from a five-day high, and no- not that kind. From May 5-9, the little hippie town of Eugene, Oregon experienced Cinema Pacific, a brand new film festival featuring films and new media from Pacific-bordering countries.
16 Jul 2008 Helen De Michiel

NAMAC Update on Orphan Works Legislation

Author: 
David Schwartz and David Lydon
Orphan works is a copyright issue that affects a large number of filmmakers and artists today. Learn more here.

CODE

Submitted by NAMACStaff on September 9, 2004 - 8:00pm
Author: 
Anula Shetty
People experience films differently. Part of the pleasure of viewing certain kinds of films lies in unraveling a secret language or code. At the recent 50th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, where most of the contemporary work presented was avant-garde, a strong issue arose: the divide between experimental and social documentary film.

Are makers of experimental and personal works isolated narcissistic beings, working in codes that are inaccessible to most of us, and constantly reflecting on their existential crises?

MIX

Submitted by NAMACStaff on April 27, 2004 - 8:00pm
Author: 
Richard Herskowitz
I was infected with the urge to remix by my college film professor, Ken Jacobs, and, over thirty years later, the infection has spread. Collage - the mixing and rearranging of found materials - is informing nearly all my programming this year. The Virginia Festival Film Society s spring 2004 season is titled "SAMPLE THIS!" and our guests include Christian Marclay, Rick Prelinger, and Kevin and Jennifer McCoy. The audience is turning out in large numbers for these experimental programs, and the series has pulled us out of a slump.