Every year, the student-run Milwaukee Underground Film Festival shows off a collection of world-class experimental and avant-garde films, screening work from some of today’s most acclaimed filmmakers. This year’s stellar event will take place on May 6-8 and will screen at several venues, including Uwm’s Union Theatre, the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts and Uwm/Psoa Kenilworth Square East.
Included in the lineup, which is printed in full below, are two films by prolific experimental animator Jodie Mack, Unsubscribe #1: Special Offer Inside and Unsubscribe #4: The Saddest Song in the World; Kerry Laitala‘s eye-popping ChromaDepth experiment Afterimage: A Flicker of Life (Version 2); Self Improvement by Clint Enns, one of Canada’s finest filmmakers; Zachary Epcar‘s haunting architecture study, A Time Shared Unlimited; and Steve Cossman‘s Jive.
Serving on this year’s jury are film professor at the University of Florida, Roger Beebe...
Included in the lineup, which is printed in full below, are two films by prolific experimental animator Jodie Mack, Unsubscribe #1: Special Offer Inside and Unsubscribe #4: The Saddest Song in the World; Kerry Laitala‘s eye-popping ChromaDepth experiment Afterimage: A Flicker of Life (Version 2); Self Improvement by Clint Enns, one of Canada’s finest filmmakers; Zachary Epcar‘s haunting architecture study, A Time Shared Unlimited; and Steve Cossman‘s Jive.
Serving on this year’s jury are film professor at the University of Florida, Roger Beebe...
- 5/3/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Welcome to Back Stage's exclusive guide to this year's Screen Actors Guild Award nominees in film and television. Here, you will find a write-up of every nominee for SAG Awards in 2011. Be sure to look for continued coverage of the awards race at our awards blog, "Behind the Scenes," at BackStage.com/bts.The 17th annual SAG Awards will be broadcast live Sunday, January 30, on TNT and TBS.Outstanding Performance By An Ensemble In A Drama Series"Boardwalk Empire"Before it premiered in September, "Boardwalk Empire" seemed like about as much of a sure thing as a TV show can be. Terrence Winter, a writer and executive producer on "The Sopranos," created the series. Steve Buscemi would star. Martin Scorsese would direct the pilot. How could "Boardwalk" be anything other than the new best television show ever?Nearly one month after the season finale aired, "Boardwalk" is neither a masterpiece nor a failure.
- 1/13/2011
- backstage.com
How would you create a city block that was fully sustainable? A competition to redevelop an entire block of downtown Dallas asked urban planners to do just that, and the finalists have just been announced.
The competition is billed as more than pie-in-the-sky. The Central Dallas Community Development Corporation, a non-profit, is acting as lead developer, and the lot involved is currently a parking lot across from City Hall. In other words, there's quite a long list of issues to be resolved before any design becomes reality. But the three finalists were an impressive lot:
Atelier Data & Moov, two firms in Portugal, imagined a 854-unit housing development modeled after a hillside. With high-tech additions, of course: The southwest side would be covered in a solar shield which, like venetian blinds, could be adjusted to vary heat loads in summer and winter; the northeast side would be faced in hay bales,...
The competition is billed as more than pie-in-the-sky. The Central Dallas Community Development Corporation, a non-profit, is acting as lead developer, and the lot involved is currently a parking lot across from City Hall. In other words, there's quite a long list of issues to be resolved before any design becomes reality. But the three finalists were an impressive lot:
Atelier Data & Moov, two firms in Portugal, imagined a 854-unit housing development modeled after a hillside. With high-tech additions, of course: The southwest side would be covered in a solar shield which, like venetian blinds, could be adjusted to vary heat loads in summer and winter; the northeast side would be faced in hay bales,...
- 6/2/2009
- by Cliff Kuang
- Fast Company
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