Representing Women, Women Representing: Experimental Film and New Media Colloquium March 9-13
Co-sponsored by the Tulane Department of Communication, the Tulane Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Sophielab at Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, the Newcomb College Institute, and Newcomb Student Programs, Representing Women, Women Representing unites women across the country who are progressing the representation of women in film and video art, both through innovative formal approaches and through challenges to prevailing hegemonic discourses. Participants will discuss and exhibit their work at Tulane University. The artists will also lead two media production workshops on Tulane’s campus and participate in a moderated panel discussion about changes and challenges to contemporary media representation of and created by women.
Sessions are free. No registration required. The public is invited to participate.
Schedule of sessions behind cut. Please come. Bring friends.
Representing Women, Women Representing: Experimental Film and New Media Colloquium March 9-13
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
MONDAY, MARCH 9
4:00 - 6:00 PM SCREENING: WORKS BY COURTNEY EGAN (New Orleans, LA)
LBC 201, RACE CONFERENCE ROOM
TUESDAY, MARCH 10
11 AM - 12:30 PM SCREENING: FULLNESS OF TIME (2007) BY CAULEEN SMITH (San Diego, CA)
LBC 213, Kendall Cram Lecture Hall
1:00 - 3:00 PM SCREENING: DESIRE (2005) BY JULIE GUSTAFSON (Falmouth, MA, New Orleans, LA)
LBC 213, Kendall Cram Lecture Hall
3:30 - 5:30 PM PRODUCTION WORKSHOP: NEW MEDIA WITH KATHLEEN SWEENEY (Cold Spring, NY), GRETA SNIDER, JOHUNNA GRAYSON (San Francisco, CA)
NCCROW, Anna Many Lounge
Media artists lead a workshop designed to foster participants creativity as they explore innovative ways to use and create images . These approaches include video looping which Sweeney has recently been experimenting with, and using the old-fashioned slide show in new ways, as Snider and Grayson have done in the 3-D Dimensional Bodies, a collection of intimate and erotically charged stereoscopic slideshow portraits which use spoken narrative and environmental soundscape to illuminate an array of subjects (including a farmer, a social worker, a veteran, an athlete and a robot-maker), focusing on issues of aging, addiction, vitality, sexual identity and other concerns of the physical body.
6:30 - 8:30 PM SCREENING: STATES OF UNBELONGING (2006), THE SMALL ONES(2007), GEORGIC FOR A FORGOTTEN PLANET (2009), Experimental Documentaries by LYNNE SACHS (Brooklyn, NY)
Stone Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11
8:30 - 10 AM: PRODUCTION WORKSHOP: EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY WITH LYNNE SACHS (Brooklyn, NY)
NCCROW, Anna Many Lounge
In the workshop "The Devil is in the Detail: Microcosmic Street Photography," Sachs will discuss looking urban locations IN CLOSE UP in this hands on workshop. How do we represent a place IN DETAIL using film or video? With a glancing nod to the tradition of street photography (Dziga Vertov, Rudy Burkhardt etc etc) participants will prowl the streets around Tulane looking to find beauty, truth and poetic resonance in taking the short view: a tree shadow on a wall, a piece of trash floating across lanes of traffic, a wisp of an anecdote from a longtime New Orleans resident. Eschewing the panoramic, we will attempt to uncover an exalted way of seeing through active and engaged observation of forgotten moments culled from the minutia of daily life. Participants are asked to bring a SMALL IMAGE (still or a few minutes of video tape) and/or a short (2-3 minute) snippet of audio that they feel represents some aspect of their urban surroundings. We will use this material as a jumping off spot from which to gather more images and sounds in the neighborhood.
11 AM - 1 PM PRESENTATION: MAIDEN USA: GIRL ICONS COME OF AGE; SCREENING: WAVE, video loop, (2004-2008); WATERFALL BUDDHA, video loop, (2007); BE ICE, video loop, (2009); WITH KATHLEEN SWEENEY (Cold Spring, NY)
LBC 201, RACE CONFERENCE ROOM
5 - 7 PM SCREENING: DIMENSIONAL BODIES BY GRETA SNIDER and JOHUNNA GRAYSON (San Francisco, CA)
NCCROW, Anna Many Lounge
7 - 9 PM SCREENING: HELEN HILL TRIBUTE SCREENING
NCCROW, Anna Many Lounge
The screening will feature the films RAINDANCE, WORLD’S SMALLEST FAIR, VESSEL, TUNNEL OF LOVE, SCRATCH AND CROW, BOHEMIAN TOWN, MOUSEHOLES, MADAME WINGER MAKES A FILM
THURSDAY, MARCH 12
12:30 - 2:30 PM SCREENING: BY INVITATION ONLY (2004) BY REBECCA SNEDEKER (New Orleans, LA)
LBC 201, RACE CONFERENCE ROOM
6:30 - 8:30 PM PANEL DISCUSSION AND RECEPTION (DIXON HALL ANNEX)
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
HELEN HILL (New Orleans) The Representing Women/Women Representing event features a special Wednesday evening screening in honor of and featuring the work of award-winning filmmaker, HELEN HILL. Helen was a mother, wife and artist who was murdered in New Orleans on January 4, 2007. She was an extraordinary animator whose work was well known internationally. She was also an activist who founded film cooperatives; a preservationist, restoring works she found in New Orleans post-Katrina; an educator and writer of the book Recipes for Disaster: A Handcrafted Film Cookbook; and an amazing person, a friend to everyone she ever met.
LYNNE SACHS (Brooklyn, NY) Working against the grain of traditional documentary, Lynne makes non-fiction films, videos, installations and web projects that push the borders between genres, discourses, radicalized identities, psychic states and nations. Recently, Lynne's filmmaking has taken her to sites affected by international conflicts. Her work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, Pacific Film Archive and Sundance Film Festival as well as museums and alternative exhibition throughout the world. Lynne teaches experimental film and video at New York University.
GRETA SNIDER in collaboration with JOHUNNA GRAYSON (San Francisco,CA) Greta started making movies in 1989. She is currently teaching in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University. She is particularly interested in experimental nonfiction, and exploring the boundaries between documentary and document. She has made nonfiction works in film, video, flash game, audio CD, slide show, and microfiche.
CAULEEN SMITH (San Diego, CA) Cauleen creates films which play with memory, time, language, and visibility, to unburden stereotypes, addressing issues of race and ethnicity, especially African and African American culture, through formally inventive means. Recently she completed an experimental science fiction film set in the post-Katrina landscape of New Orleans, entitled The Fullness of Time, which was exhibited at Gallery 527 Julia Street as part of the Prospect One Biennial. She is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego.
KATHLEEN SWEENEY (Cold Spring, NY) Kathleen writes about pop culture, gender and iconography. Her engaging, multi-media Maiden USA: Girl Icons Come of Age lectures, presented at colleges, museums and conferences, turn a humorous lens on pop icons, trends and media-making. A visiting artist to many youth media projects, she currently teaches classes in Communication Arts at Marymount Manhattan College and Media Studies at the New School. Her award-winning video art has screened internationally, and a screenply, “The Lodestar” was short-listed for the 2009 Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab.
COURTNEY EGAN (New Orleans, LA) New Orleans based media artist Courtney Egan explores the swampy terrain between the psyche and the mass media with digitally-created video collages. Her imagery straddles the worlds of “special effects” and art, exploring the increasingly blurry boundaries between mental states, outward reality, and interactive digital worlds. Courtney's video collages have shown in galleries and at festivals in North America, Mexico and Europe. She had three installations on exhibit in conjunction with the Prospect One Biennial. Currently, she has a video installation on exhibit at the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center. Courtney has taught in the Media Arts department at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts since the program’s inception in 2001.
REBECCA SNEDEKER (New Orleans, LA) Rebecca Snedeker is an award-winning independent filmmaker based in New Orleans. By Invitation Only, her first feature-length documentary, which explores racial implications of New Orleans Mardi Gras traditions from an insider/outsider perspective, screened at numerous film festivals was broadcast on PBS stations nationwide. At home in post-Katrina New Orleans, she is producing a new film in which she asks diverse people about their dreams for the future of the city. Rebecca is a Visiting Scholar at Tulane University's Newcomb College Center for Research on Women.
JULIE GUSTAFSON (Falmouth, MA, New Orleans, LA) From a white, working-class family, Julie came of age during the 1960s sexual and gender revolution. Thirty years later, as a mother, teacher and filmmaker, she found herself grappling with the still polarizing debate over teenage pregnancy, early motherhood and abortion as well as the role that education and opportunity play in decisions young women make about these issues. Her most recent film Desire was made in collaboration with teen filmmakers who questioned her assumptions about how their desires and choices are shaped. Julie is currently updating the film and is a Visiting Scholar at Tulane University's Newcomb College Center for Research on Women.
Sessions are free. No registration required. The public is invited to participate.
Schedule of sessions behind cut. Please come. Bring friends.
Representing Women, Women Representing: Experimental Film and New Media Colloquium March 9-13
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
MONDAY, MARCH 9
4:00 - 6:00 PM SCREENING: WORKS BY COURTNEY EGAN (New Orleans, LA)
LBC 201, RACE CONFERENCE ROOM
TUESDAY, MARCH 10
11 AM - 12:30 PM SCREENING: FULLNESS OF TIME (2007) BY CAULEEN SMITH (San Diego, CA)
LBC 213, Kendall Cram Lecture Hall
1:00 - 3:00 PM SCREENING: DESIRE (2005) BY JULIE GUSTAFSON (Falmouth, MA, New Orleans, LA)
LBC 213, Kendall Cram Lecture Hall
3:30 - 5:30 PM PRODUCTION WORKSHOP: NEW MEDIA WITH KATHLEEN SWEENEY (Cold Spring, NY), GRETA SNIDER, JOHUNNA GRAYSON (San Francisco, CA)
NCCROW, Anna Many Lounge
Media artists lead a workshop designed to foster participants creativity as they explore innovative ways to use and create images . These approaches include video looping which Sweeney has recently been experimenting with, and using the old-fashioned slide show in new ways, as Snider and Grayson have done in the 3-D Dimensional Bodies, a collection of intimate and erotically charged stereoscopic slideshow portraits which use spoken narrative and environmental soundscape to illuminate an array of subjects (including a farmer, a social worker, a veteran, an athlete and a robot-maker), focusing on issues of aging, addiction, vitality, sexual identity and other concerns of the physical body.
6:30 - 8:30 PM SCREENING: STATES OF UNBELONGING (2006), THE SMALL ONES(2007), GEORGIC FOR A FORGOTTEN PLANET (2009), Experimental Documentaries by LYNNE SACHS (Brooklyn, NY)
Stone Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11
8:30 - 10 AM: PRODUCTION WORKSHOP: EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY WITH LYNNE SACHS (Brooklyn, NY)
NCCROW, Anna Many Lounge
In the workshop "The Devil is in the Detail: Microcosmic Street Photography," Sachs will discuss looking urban locations IN CLOSE UP in this hands on workshop. How do we represent a place IN DETAIL using film or video? With a glancing nod to the tradition of street photography (Dziga Vertov, Rudy Burkhardt etc etc) participants will prowl the streets around Tulane looking to find beauty, truth and poetic resonance in taking the short view: a tree shadow on a wall, a piece of trash floating across lanes of traffic, a wisp of an anecdote from a longtime New Orleans resident. Eschewing the panoramic, we will attempt to uncover an exalted way of seeing through active and engaged observation of forgotten moments culled from the minutia of daily life. Participants are asked to bring a SMALL IMAGE (still or a few minutes of video tape) and/or a short (2-3 minute) snippet of audio that they feel represents some aspect of their urban surroundings. We will use this material as a jumping off spot from which to gather more images and sounds in the neighborhood.
11 AM - 1 PM PRESENTATION: MAIDEN USA: GIRL ICONS COME OF AGE; SCREENING: WAVE, video loop, (2004-2008); WATERFALL BUDDHA, video loop, (2007); BE ICE, video loop, (2009); WITH KATHLEEN SWEENEY (Cold Spring, NY)
LBC 201, RACE CONFERENCE ROOM
5 - 7 PM SCREENING: DIMENSIONAL BODIES BY GRETA SNIDER and JOHUNNA GRAYSON (San Francisco, CA)
NCCROW, Anna Many Lounge
7 - 9 PM SCREENING: HELEN HILL TRIBUTE SCREENING
NCCROW, Anna Many Lounge
The screening will feature the films RAINDANCE, WORLD’S SMALLEST FAIR, VESSEL, TUNNEL OF LOVE, SCRATCH AND CROW, BOHEMIAN TOWN, MOUSEHOLES, MADAME WINGER MAKES A FILM
THURSDAY, MARCH 12
12:30 - 2:30 PM SCREENING: BY INVITATION ONLY (2004) BY REBECCA SNEDEKER (New Orleans, LA)
LBC 201, RACE CONFERENCE ROOM
6:30 - 8:30 PM PANEL DISCUSSION AND RECEPTION (DIXON HALL ANNEX)
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
HELEN HILL (New Orleans) The Representing Women/Women Representing event features a special Wednesday evening screening in honor of and featuring the work of award-winning filmmaker, HELEN HILL. Helen was a mother, wife and artist who was murdered in New Orleans on January 4, 2007. She was an extraordinary animator whose work was well known internationally. She was also an activist who founded film cooperatives; a preservationist, restoring works she found in New Orleans post-Katrina; an educator and writer of the book Recipes for Disaster: A Handcrafted Film Cookbook; and an amazing person, a friend to everyone she ever met.
LYNNE SACHS (Brooklyn, NY) Working against the grain of traditional documentary, Lynne makes non-fiction films, videos, installations and web projects that push the borders between genres, discourses, radicalized identities, psychic states and nations. Recently, Lynne's filmmaking has taken her to sites affected by international conflicts. Her work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, Pacific Film Archive and Sundance Film Festival as well as museums and alternative exhibition throughout the world. Lynne teaches experimental film and video at New York University.
GRETA SNIDER in collaboration with JOHUNNA GRAYSON (San Francisco,CA) Greta started making movies in 1989. She is currently teaching in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University. She is particularly interested in experimental nonfiction, and exploring the boundaries between documentary and document. She has made nonfiction works in film, video, flash game, audio CD, slide show, and microfiche.
CAULEEN SMITH (San Diego, CA) Cauleen creates films which play with memory, time, language, and visibility, to unburden stereotypes, addressing issues of race and ethnicity, especially African and African American culture, through formally inventive means. Recently she completed an experimental science fiction film set in the post-Katrina landscape of New Orleans, entitled The Fullness of Time, which was exhibited at Gallery 527 Julia Street as part of the Prospect One Biennial. She is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego.
KATHLEEN SWEENEY (Cold Spring, NY) Kathleen writes about pop culture, gender and iconography. Her engaging, multi-media Maiden USA: Girl Icons Come of Age lectures, presented at colleges, museums and conferences, turn a humorous lens on pop icons, trends and media-making. A visiting artist to many youth media projects, she currently teaches classes in Communication Arts at Marymount Manhattan College and Media Studies at the New School. Her award-winning video art has screened internationally, and a screenply, “The Lodestar” was short-listed for the 2009 Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab.
COURTNEY EGAN (New Orleans, LA) New Orleans based media artist Courtney Egan explores the swampy terrain between the psyche and the mass media with digitally-created video collages. Her imagery straddles the worlds of “special effects” and art, exploring the increasingly blurry boundaries between mental states, outward reality, and interactive digital worlds. Courtney's video collages have shown in galleries and at festivals in North America, Mexico and Europe. She had three installations on exhibit in conjunction with the Prospect One Biennial. Currently, she has a video installation on exhibit at the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center. Courtney has taught in the Media Arts department at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts since the program’s inception in 2001.
REBECCA SNEDEKER (New Orleans, LA) Rebecca Snedeker is an award-winning independent filmmaker based in New Orleans. By Invitation Only, her first feature-length documentary, which explores racial implications of New Orleans Mardi Gras traditions from an insider/outsider perspective, screened at numerous film festivals was broadcast on PBS stations nationwide. At home in post-Katrina New Orleans, she is producing a new film in which she asks diverse people about their dreams for the future of the city. Rebecca is a Visiting Scholar at Tulane University's Newcomb College Center for Research on Women.
JULIE GUSTAFSON (Falmouth, MA, New Orleans, LA) From a white, working-class family, Julie came of age during the 1960s sexual and gender revolution. Thirty years later, as a mother, teacher and filmmaker, she found herself grappling with the still polarizing debate over teenage pregnancy, early motherhood and abortion as well as the role that education and opportunity play in decisions young women make about these issues. Her most recent film Desire was made in collaboration with teen filmmakers who questioned her assumptions about how their desires and choices are shaped. Julie is currently updating the film and is a Visiting Scholar at Tulane University's Newcomb College Center for Research on Women.