Returning for its seventh year from February 18-20, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival (FLEXfest) sets its sights on redefining experimental film and video with three impressive evenings of short cinema in Gainesville, FL. Su Friedrich kicks off the festival with a showcase of works spanning her phenomenal 30+ year career (Saturday 7pm & 9pm); then 2011 FLEX award-winner Steve Reinke challenges audiences with videos and animations that explore sex, death, and desire through the lens of his unique and sometimes shocking sense of humor (Sunday 7pm & 9pm); finally, Academy Award-nominee Sam Green is joined by the band the Quavers and Brendan Canty of Fugazi for a live-scored documentary performance of Utopia in Four Movements (Monday 7pm).
For additional details see www.flexfest.org.
Free and open to the public. FLEXfest is generously sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere and the Fine Arts College Council.
Schedule
Saturday Feb. 18th
Top Secret Space
24 N.
Main St., Gainesville, FL, 32601
7pm: Su Friedrich--Works
9pm: Su Friedrich-- Influences
Sunday Feb. 19th
Top Secret Space
24 N.
Main St., Gainesville, FL, 32601
7pm: Steve Reinke--Works
9pm: Steve Reinke--Influences
Monday Feb. 20th
University of Florida, University Auditorium
Corner of Newell Dr. & Union
Rd., Gainesville, FL
7pm: Utopia in Four
Movements
By Sam Green & Dave Cerf
Live Music Written and Performed by:
Catherine McCrae
Dennis Cronin
T. Griffin
Dave Cerf
Bios
Su Friedrich began filmmaking in 1978 and
has produced and directed 18 films and videos. Friedrich has received
fellowships from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations as well as numerous
grants from the Jerome Foundation, NYFA, NYSCA and ITVS, and in 1995 she
received the Cal Arts/Alpert Award. Her work is widely screened in the United
States, Canada and Europe and has been the subject of retrospectives at the
Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Rotterdam
International Film Festival, The Stadtkino in Vienna, the Pacific Cinematheque
in Vancouver, the National Film Theater in London, the Buenos Aires Festival of
Independent Cinema, The Bios Art Center in Athens, Greece, and the Anthology
Film Archives in New York. Friedrich is the writer, cinematographer, director
and editor of all her films, with the exception of Hide and Seek, which was
co-written by Cathy Quinlan and shot by Jim Denault. She teaches film &
video production at Princeton University. Her DVD collection is distributed by
Outcast Films. www.sufriedrich.com
Steve Reinke is
an artist and writer best known for his work in video. His work is in many
collections including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Centre Pompidou
(Paris) and the National Gallery (Ottawa), and has screened at many festivals
including Sundance, Rotterdam, Oberhausen and the New York Video Festival. In
2006 he received the Bell Canada Video Award. A book of his scripts, “Everybody
Loves Nothing,” was recently published by Coach House. He has also edited
several books, most recently (with Chris Gehman) “The Sharpest Point: Animation
at the End of Cinema.” He has a blog, www.fennelplunger.com, as well as a site
that archives his work, www.myrectumisnotagrave.com. He is an Associate
Professor in the Department of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern
University. www.myrectumisnotagrave.com
Sam Green is a San Francisco-based
documentary filmmaker. His feature The
Weather Underground was nominated for an Academy Award, broadcast
nationally on PBS, and included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. His other
award-winning documentaries include lot 63, grave c, The Rainbow Man/John 3:16,
N-Judah 5:30, and Pie Fight ‘69. Green has received grants from the Guggenheim,
Rockefeller, and Creative Capital Foundations, and the NEA. He got his master’s
degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied with
acclaimed filmmaker Marlon Riggs. Green currently teaches at the University of San
Francisco and the San Francisco Art Institute.
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