SUNY Fredonia Cinema Alternatives Group

04/29/2023

“She is the mother of us all.” —Stan Brakhage

Happy birthday to the one and only Maya Deren, born on April 29, 1917, in Kyiv, Ukraine. An experimental filmmaker, choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer, and photographer, Deren revolutionized the American avant-garde with her 1943 masterpiece MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON, a film that has influenced everyone from Sun Ra to Barbara Hammer to David Lynch.

Visit our catalogue to rent and learn more about Deren’s complete filmography (in addition to precious archival material, like rare footage of Deren directing THE VERY EYE OF NIGHT in 1955), and head to our online store to get your copies of MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON and DIVINE HORSEMEN: THE LIVING GODS OF HAITI (1947–52) on DVD today!

04/03/2023

Emulsified #6 April 6th, 2023 at 7pm at HALLWALLS

Emulsified #6 is a celluloid exploration into the thesis research areas of curator Blake Barit. The program will explore the 16mm film archive of DMS in an effort to contextualize Blake's thesis research and center films from the archive that speak to those themes. His thesis interests include the mass digitization of human culture and the current transition of media from analog to digital.

Blake is a second year MFA candidate in the Department of Media Study at The University at Buffalo. A graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder, Blake's film practice began with 8mm and 16mm celluloid experiments involving tactile manipulation and dark room chemical possesses. Currently, in DMS, Blake enjoys mining our culture in transition to produce work involving both analog and digital tools in the areas of installation and performance. His research interests also include media archaeology and archive theory.

Full Program:

In The Street, 1948 - Janice Loeb, Helen Levitt, James Agee (16 minutes)

Clockwork, 1982 - Eric Breitbart (25 minutes)

Arnulf Rainer, 1960 - Peter Kubelka (7 minutes)

Persephone, 1975 - Steve Osborn (5 minutes)

Adebar, 1957 - Peter Kubelka (3 minutes)

Pas De Deux, 1968 - Norman McLaren (14 minutes)

Polyphemus, 1974 - Steve Osborn (6 minutes)

Off-On, 1967 - Scott Bartlett (10 minutes)

Total Runtime: 86 minutes

06/08/2022

Here's a great opportunity - $1500 grant award open to anyone including students in WNY for work in progress. This award is associated with the Buffalo International Film Festival. Deadline is July 1st 2022

The Tilke Hill W.i.P. Award supports the completion of a Western New York made Work in Progress (WNY W.i.P.) with a $1,500 award. The award supports short film and episodic media makers creating narrative work that is avant-garde and fearless in its approach. The Tilke Hill W.i.P. Award is a memoria...

05/11/2022

Join us this Friday 7pm King Concert Hall, Rockefeller Arts Center for the 2022 Visual Arts & New Media Film + Video Arts and Animation/Illustration programs' End of Year Showcase. Free and open to the public.

SUNY Fredonia Dept. of Visual Arts & New Media's Film + Video Arts and Animation/Illustration programs' End of Year Showcase.

02/17/2022

The 11th "annual" SUNYWide Film Festival deadline is this Friday. Former students please submit if you have work that you completed May of 2020 or later. This includes the first semester of the Pandemic when we all went remote at spring break. Pass the word along and share this post.

Film and video is a thriving field of study throughout the SUNY system. From the traditional Hollywood narrative to animation, experimental film and video to documentary work, students and faculty are exploring personal visions through time-based image making. SWFF provides a platform to highlight t...

02/07/2022

https://www.openculture.com/2020/09/paul-schrader-creates-a-diagram-mapping-the-progression-of-arthouse-cinema.html

The dozens of filmmakers in the diagram above belong to a variety of cultures and eras, but what do they have in common?

06/14/2021

Your chances of winning go up substantially if you apply.

Now accepting grant applications