This workshop is open to people local to New York and those wishing to participate remotely. Open to everyone, though the workshop setting is best suited for filmmakers, film producers, journalists, curators and media artists. Break out your laptops, pens and pencils, dancing shoes, and best karaoke voice, this workshop will be one for the ages! This time, VJ-ed by Roger Beebe (and featuring some of his own work from the original session) and held in the UnionDocs backyard, this promises to be an unparalleled, unique karaoke experience for those lucky enough to participate. In its original iteration, experimental filmmakers made works to pair with classic jams from Boys II Men to Kelly Clarkson to the Rolling Stones to create an unusual and unforgettable evening. In addition to the introductory performance, the workshop will also feature an evening session inspired by the legendary PDX-aoke (at the PDX Film Festival in 2008 & 2009) to further blur the lines between workshop participant, audience, and performer. It will also touch on the de-rigeur “Desktop Documentary” as animated by Chloé Galibert-Laîné and expanded upon by Zia Anger and discuss the role of the performer themselves, as in Kristin Reeves’ body-oriented works and Jesse Malmed’s “Conversational Karaoke.” Ranging from Jeanne Liotta’s bringing cinema “out of the booth” to Diana Arce’s Politaoke, all will interrogate how performance can resonate today. What does it mean to transform a screening into an event? What do presence and liveness bring to the film theater, especially as we emerge from a long stretch of telepresence and atomized at-home spectatorship? What forms of performance and performativity can be deployed in and beyond the black box? How can nonfiction be enlivened and broadened? How can archival materials be activated by expansive, performative presentations?Ĭomposed of six sessions, this workshop features a diverse array of practitioners who work at the intersection of experimental and documentary film traditions, exploring their respective approaches to expanded cinema now. Kicking off with a multi-projector performance by Roger Beebe (including the first screening of the 7-projector Last Light of a Dying Star in NYC in a decade), this three-day workshop will explore expanded cinema as it stands (and expands) today.
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