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Just wanted to throw a few screenings that are coming up that might be of interest to those interested in short films and experimental cinema.

In Minneapolis:
Cinema Revolution presents
The Dance Film Project

A collaborative project between Minneapolis filmmakers and choreographers.

The screening will be a series of short films that are the result of this collaboration as well as a live dance performance to the music of To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie.

Details:
FEATURING NEW SHORT FILMS BY
• Mad King Thomas and Katinka Galanos
• Vanessa Voskuil and John Koch
• Justin Jones and Kevin Obsatz
• Mandy Herrick and Dustin Nelson
• Katie Richey and Garrett Tiedemann
• Erica Pinigis
• Megan Mayer and Kevin Obsatz

FILMS INCLUDE PERFORMANCES BY
• Laurie Van Wieren
• Sally Rousse of James Sewell Ballet
• Anna Marie Shogren
• Charles Campbell of Skewed Visions
• Kristin Van Loon of Hijack
• Elliot Durko-Lynch
…among others.

AND also live performances by choreographer April Sellers and musical group To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie.

Friday and Saturday, December 12 and 13, 7 PM

Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55408
612-871-4444
http://www.intermediaarts.org
For map and directions click here

This screening is a little off the beaten path, but it looks very interesting. Check out CinemaRevolution.com for some more information.

In New York:

Dec. 4 @ 7pm
Film Society at Lincoln Center presents a screening of Robert Altman’s Short Cuts

Film Society of Lincoln Center presents Experimental Cinema in Spain.

From their site:

Although Spain more than made its mark in the most progressive and challenging reaches of many other visual arts, the tradition of experimental filmmaking in Spain has received less attention. Often the distinctions between “experimental” and other kinds of cinema have been rather arbitrary, hopelessly blurred by films such as Life in Shadows (Llobet Gracia, 1948) or the works of the ’60s Barcelona School.

Selected by Jose Maria Prado, director of the Filmoteca Española, these two programs offer a brief introduction to this little-known strand of Spanish cinema. Our thanks to the Filmoteca Española for making these rare works available to us.

As long as we’re talking about Dance and film (and I watched a short film be Yvonne Ranier at the MoMA today - I will try to track down some of these online and post them soon), the Film Society of Lincoln Center is putting on a screening of Dance on Film in January. From their site:

Dance on Camera
Jan 7-11, 16-17, Feb 1, 2009
Explore the artistic collaborations, past and present, that bring dance and music to vivid life onscreen.