Several of the features in this year’s festival have trailers online. Both Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s 7915 KM (link) and Erin Cosgrove’s What Manner of Person Art Thou? (link) have trailers on their website. More can be found on youtube:
Alex Ross Perry’s Impolex
Alejandro Adams’ Canary
Jessica Oreck’s Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
“Form and Function” – April 10, 2009 – Michael Wang – Artforum.com
SUCCEEDING THE NEW YORK UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL after its fifteen-year run, “Migrating Forms,” organized by former NYUFF programmers Nellie Killian and Kevin McGarry, continues the late festival’s focus on recent experimental film and video while widening its international scope. The festival name, borrowed from filmmaker James Fotopoulos’s skeletal tale of sex and cysts, also alludes to the programmers’ desire to relocate moving image work originally developed for gallery audiences into the context of cinema…. (read more)
DDR/DDR by Amie Siegel
Darrin Martin and Torsten Zenas Burns’ WHAT-IF? will have its New York premiere as part of the shorts program Conjurer Visit, Saturday, 4/18 at 8:30pm
“Playing It By Ear” – April 7, 2009 – Ara H. Merjian – Artforum
AS PART OF A SCREENING TOUR of his solo and collaborative work from the late 1990s through 2005, Darrin Martin recently presented a sample of his single-channel videos at the MassArt Film Society. Martin’s joint ventures with Torsten Zenas Burns, such as Recall (1998) and Volcanica (various dates), intermix archival footage—’70s pedagogical videos for aspiring psychologists, horror films, and hippie happenings—with staged performances involving the artists themselves. At the core of Martin’s solo work, by contrast, is a sustained evocation—visual, aural, and phenomenological—of his struggles with hearing loss over the past decade. After a series of medical interventions, Martin’s skull was outfitted with a device that sends vibrations to a hearing aid in his unaffected ear… (read more)
Migrating Forms Trailer 2009, dir. Michael Robinson
Continuing a tradition from NYUFF, we have commissioned a trailer from one of our favorite artists, Michael Robinson. Two of Robinson’s films are screening in this year’s festival All Through the Night and Carol Anne is Dead, come check them out and see the trailer on the big screen.
A lot of people have helped us get things going this year, including several organizations that are curating special screenings or events for this year’s festival.
Bidoun Magazine
bidoun.com
Bidoun Magazine, Art and Culture from the Middle East, is organizing a very rare screening of Parviz Kimiavi’s The Mongols (1973).
16beaver
16beavergroup.org
16beaver is holding an open screening/forum on the topic of occupation, with videos and films selected from their collective and solicited from the audience.
Monkeytown
monkeytownhq.com
Karthik Pandian and Eric D Clark’s new 60 minute psychedelic video, The Darkroom will screen at Monkeytown in conjunction with the festival.
e-flux
e-flux.com
e-flux will host 2 screenings at this year’s festival–a selection of videos from their video rental project and a screening of Khiam (2000), a metaphysical exploration of life in Lebanese detention camp.
Bradley Eros
Bradley Eros, curator and filmmaker, has organized a marathon 7 hour screening of imageless cinema, feature rare, new or live performance by Baker, Brand, Eros, Fitzgibbon, Gibson/Recoder, Jacobs, McCall, Perkins,
Sanborn, and Seven. Plus classic imageless films from Kubelka, Sharits, Debord and others.
Printed Matter
printedmatter.org
Throughout the festival, Printed Matter, a Chelsea organization dedicates to artists’ publications, will offer a selection of publications, book projects, dvds and multiples chosen to compliment the 2009 film program. Wares by participating filmmakers will also be on sale.
Tube Time!
Our Tube Time host and team leaders have generously donated their encyclopedic knowledge of the entire internet to our annual video smackdown.
Gabe Liedman gabeliedman.com
Michelle Collins bestweekever.tv
Ben Coonley
Ed Halter lightindustry.org
Joe Mande joemande.com
Anthology Film Archives
anthologyfilmarchives.org
Last, but certainly not least, Anthology Film Archives will continue to host our festival. We are very grateful for their support, friendship and patience.
Welcome to Migrating Forms!
Some of you may know us as the organization that grew out of the New York Underground Film Festival (nyuff.com), others from the screening of Jennifer Montgomery’s Deliver we hosted last fall at BAM, and many of you have been lured here by the schedule for our upcoming festival at Anthology Film Archives, April 15-19.
We have a very exciting program lined up for our inaugural festival, including work by Michael Gitlin, Owen Land (formerly George Landow), Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Naomi Uman, Barbara Hammer, Amie Siegel, Sharon Lockhart, Kevin Jerome Everson, Robert Todd, Shana Moulton, Steve Reinke, and so many more. We also have a ton of special programs, including a 7 hour marathon of imageless cinema past, present, and future featuring new work, classics, performances and rare screenings and the continuation of NYUFF’s Tube Time–everyone’s favorite live internet video showdown.
We’ll be updating this blog with information about the film festival, the filmmakers, and anything else we feel like updating it with, so add it to your rss feed and check in often, or else you will be hopelessly out of the loop.
See you soon,
Migrating Forms
