Mobile Frames: International Filmmakers in Residence

MOBILE FRAMES international filmmakers in residence

2013/2014

MOBILE FRAMES Mobile Frames is an international filmmaker-in-residence series that invites artists from around the world to create new films in Windsor and Detroit. The program supports the work of artist filmmakers while training local residents in techniques and applications of artistic film production.

Mobile Frames encourages the development of new relationships between visiting filmmakers and community members, building collaborative partnerships between organizations on both sides of the border and around the world through international distribution activities.

Mobile Frames offers free public programming including hands-on film workshops, exploratory bike tours, screenings, lectures, and exhibitions.

partners Mobile Frames is presented by Media City Film Festival, together with Broken City Lab, Common Ground Art Gallery and Momentum Film & Video Collective. The series is made possible through the generous support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Media City Film Festival acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.

films The Mobile Frames Filmmaker in Residence program provides opportunities for artists and community members to create films in Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan. As the program progresses a gallery of stills, descriptions and film excerpts will be posted on our website: mobileframes.org

workshops Mobile Frames workshops will offer affordable or free training in all aspects of artistic film production, with particular emphasis on 16mm filmmaking. The workshops are intended to cover a wide variety of techniques and artistic practices. Each workshop will be conceived, presented and taught by a visiting international filmmaker during his or her residency. The workshops will engage visiting international artists with communities on both sides of the Detroit / Windsor border.

Classes will be limited so early registration is strongly encouraged. Please check back frequently as we update our Workshop calendar and blog. For direct inquiries about workshops partnership opportunities contact us: mobileframes@live.com

screenings Artists talks, screenings,and other presentation activities will also be held at venues in Windsor and Detroit during the residencies. To inquire about screening engagements, touring programs or venue partnerships contact us: mobileframes@live.com

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filmmakers in residence 2013 / 2014

daichi saito

january 13th - february 19th, 2014 “The films of Daichi Saïto explore the relation between the corporeal phenomena of vision and the material nature of the medium, fusing a formal investigation of frame and juxtaposition with sensual and poetic expressions.” — Lumen Originally from Japan, Daïchi Saïto studied literature and philosophy in the USA and Hindi and Sanskrit in India. He now lives in Montréal where he is a co-founder of Double Negative, an artist’s collective dedicated to the exhibition and production of experimental cinema. Saïto’s work has been widely exhibited in film festivals, museums, galleries and cinematheques worldwide. In 2010, his film Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis won the Best of the Festival Award at the 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival and the Jury Grand Prize at the 16th Media City Film Festival. His films are in the permanent collections of the Austrian Film Museum (Vienna) and the Slovenian Cinematheque (Ljubljana), and distributed by Light Cone (Paris), Arsenal (Berlin) and the CFMDC (Toronto). Saïto has taught cinema at NSCAD University in Halifax, Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV de San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba and Concordia University in Montréal.

kevin everson

June 2nd - july 11th 2014 “Over the past fifteen years, Kevin Jerome Everson has created a singular body of work devoted to a personal and distinctive look at African American life. Drawing on his training as a visual artist, notably in sculpture and photography, Everson’s films build a formal relationship to his subjects that move beyond documentary into portraits of people’s physical relationship to their work, their geographic community, and the material weight of history. His films are performative gestures: they inhabit experience as much as they reveal the stories behind that experience.

As Everson’s body of work has steadily accumulated — he currently has seven features and nearly a hundred shorts to his credit — a geographic subtext has appeared that maps the Great Migration of the early and mid-twentieth century, when African Americans moved out of the rural South to the cities of the North. The locations of many of Everson’s films (notably Columbus, Mississippi and Mansfield and a skeletal trace of that historical movement and a testament to the interconnections of African American communities across the United States.”

— Toronto International Film Festival

Originally form Mansfield, Ohio, Kevin Everson studied at the University of Akron and at Ohio University.

He has made more than seventy short films and five longform films, exhibited at venues including the Whitechapel Gallery (London), the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Museum of Modern Art (New York) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York). Festival screenings include Sundance, Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Berlin and four previous editions of Media City. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an American Academy Rome Prize. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia where he is a Professor at the University of Virginia.

MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL 20th Anniversary Edition July 8th - 12th, 2014 mediacityfilmfestival.com

momentum film and video collective momentum is a publicly accessible media production collective that supports the production and exhibition of independent film and video through affordable access to equipment, workshops, screening opportunities and more. for more info contact us: momentumfilm@live.com

Fern Silva

july 3rd - august 14th, 2014 “[Fern Silva‘s] framing and in-camera editing techniques create a unique visual and narrative logic in which time and space are of little concern. From such far-flung locals as France, Turkey, and Egypt come a kaleidoscopic array of images, each depicting some expansive landscape, city sprawl, or sociocultural ritual.

The technique is jarring yet intriguingly rhythmic.” — Drew Hurst, Chicago Reader “Fern Silva’s work emerges out of travel, presenting temporal and spatial transitions as conduits into the realms of the personal and ephemeral. Rather than focusing on one single perspective, his work moves through disparate moments to show commonality between beings and structures while exploring the effects of geography, climate and environment on social relations, communication, and the metaphysical.”

— Henry Hills, FAMU Prague Fern Silva is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Moving Image in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Illinois-Chicago. He has made more than a dozen short films, experimenting with various documentary and narrative modes. His films have screened at festivals including Toronto, Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam, New York, Edinburgh, Oberhausen, London and Media City and at other venues such as Anthology Film Archive, Gene Siskel Film Center, Wexner Center for the Arts, San Francisco Cinematheque, Museum of Art Lima, and the Museum of Modern Art P.S.1. He was listed as one of the Top 25 Filmmakers for the 21st Century in Film Comment Magazine’s Avant-Garde Filmmakers Poll and received the Gus Van Sant Award from the 49th Ann Arbor Film Festival. He holds a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and an MFA from Bard College.

bike tours

During the spring, summer and fall residency periods, Mobile Frames will organize a series of cycling trips intended as “field days� for film location scouting and to encourage group exploration of the region.

Please check back in spring 2014 for more details about hosts, partners, routes, schedules and events. Mobile Frames is seeking route hosts and cycling volunteers. If you are an organization or individual and would like to participate, contact us: mobileframes@live.com

julie murray

september 1st - october 1st, 2014 “Using combinations of found and original footage, Julie Murray makes subtle and eloquent films that imbue banal images and everyday sounds with an other-worldly charge, a sense of mystery and menace.

Murray’s increasingly sophisticated cutting style connects images using visual rhymes based on rhythm, gesture and morphology, until each person, animal or object becomes the dream or nightmare of another in a web of associations without beginning or end.”

— Chris Gehman, Cinematheque Ontario

Julie Murray studied Fine Art in Dublin, Ireland and moved to the US in 1985. She has made more than twenty-five films and digital artworks since 1986 which have been exhibited at numerous international events including the New York Film Festival, the Hong Kong International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Centre George Pompidou (Paris), and Redcat (Los Angeles). Her work has been featured in two editions of the Whitney Biennial and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Murray has had numerous solo screenings at venues around the world including Media City Film Festival, Pacific Film Archives, the San Francisco Cinematheque and Cinematheque Ontario (Toronto).

john price

January 13th - february 19th, 2015 “The gestures in John Price’s films – a hazy body in the throes of a ragged dance, a child nestled in a blanket on a beach rock, or a woman in a brown trench coat and high heels tweaking out – are not for us.

They have no message, no promise, and no delivery. They are the impressions of a man watching his life closely, intuitively following each moment with a flickering shutter held close to his body. Alone in the darkroom with cheap expired reels and industry tail ends, Price mixes chance with chemistry to work out the colours, tones, tints, and grain. The images may fall off altogether, but he doesn’t care.”

— DIM Cinema

John Price is an independent filmmaker from Toronto who has created experimental documentaries and diary films since 1986, employing extensive alchemical experimentation with a wide range of motion picture film emulsions and camera formats. His films have screened at numerous international festivals, including solo retrospectives at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Pacific Cinematheque (Vancouver) and the Canadian Film Institute (Toronto). He holds an MFA in film production from Concordia University, was a long-serving board member of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT), and has taught courses in techniques of 16mm and 35mm filmmaking at several institutions including LIFT, the Filmwerkplaats Rotterdam and Humber College. He is also active as a cinematographer, working with directors such as Bruce Macdonald, Peter Lynch and Liz Marshall.

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windsor, ontario • detroit, michigan 2013 • 2014