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Welcome | Playlist | The Specifics (where, when, etc.)
Experiments in Cinema V 3.0A letter from the director. Welcome to Experiments In Cinema V3.0! Our festival, now in it’s 3rd year, is the result of a unique partnership between Basement Films and the Department of Cinematic Arts at UNM. As our celebration of underrepresented media grows, we are also adding new community partners to our list of supporters. For example, the P.A.P.A. charter high school and the YDI Mi Voz program are working with us to develop a youth program for our festival in 2009. I would like to thank the McCune Charitable Foundation and the P.L.A.C.E. Program at UNM for their continued support, and thank the Albuquerque Film Office and the Mayor’s Office for their endorsement this year. Additionally, I’d like to mention the generous support we received from the Harwood Art Center and 516 Arts where we will “kick off” this year’s screenings with a program of collage films (see program notes for 516 Arts, “Cut Up Or Shut Up”). This year, for the first time, the Ann Arbor Film Festival (the oldest experimental film festival in the United States) will be hosting myself and a group of students/festival volunteers to attend their event to glean insights into how we might imagine the future of our event. Special guests at Experiments in Cinema V3.0 include Bart Weiss, the director of the Dallas Video Festival, award winning experimentalist Scott Stark and a live performance by Colorado based Itchy-O. Additionally, I’d like to note how excited I am with the range of challenging, visionary work that was submitted to Experiments in Cinema this year. Programming consultants Ralph McKay from 6 Pack Films and Erin Fugate from the Instituto Cervantes resulted in submissions from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Estonia, Germany, The Netherlands, Panama, Russia, Singapore, and New Mexico! This year, with support from the P.L.A.C.E. Program, Basement Films member Noel Fernando will be taking our programming on the road with the not-so-secret-mission of nurturing communities of “homegrown experimentalists.” Noel will be traveling our festival to Las Vegas, Santa Fe and Taos (see program notes for specific dates). If New Mexico is to imagine itself as a new media center then it is our obligation as media makers, media theorists and media historians to participate in this statewide conversation about movie/media making. And, it is our responsibility to add to this dialogue a rich, informed and deeply expansive sense of all things cinematic. Have a good screening.
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