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[edit] Fatimah Tobing Royer
[edit] Education
In 1984 she acquired a BA in Art at Williams College, Williamstown, MA, in 1993 she got a solid Ph.D. History of Art, Yale University, and in 2000 Rony went for the gold and received her MFA in Film Directing/Production at the University of California, Los Angeles. Now she shares her film and media knowledge at the University of California, Irvine Achievements as an associate professor. As a well versed public speaker, she has graced the presence of many, lectured at UCLA and Yale, Guggenheim Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, the Whitney Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Institut de Monde Arabe in Paris, France
[edit] Achievements
Screened internationally, Rony’s work has been screened throughout the US and Europe! Such as:
- Emerging Filmmakers Showcase at Cannes
- the Hawaii International Film Festival
- the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival
- the Museum of Modern Art in New York
- the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London
- ABC/Disney Talent Development Award of Creative Excellence in 2004
- Berlin Talent Campus in 2005
- Rony won two Directors Guild of America awards for her works, "Demon Lover" and "Everything In Between"
- a Fulbright Scholarship to Indonesia
- a Special Jury Fiction Award from the Universidad de Artes, Ciencias y Comunicación in Santiago, Chile
- Rony has published works which have appeared in Film Quarterly, Afterimage, Artforum and Camera Obscura
- Rony's book The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle won the Katherine S. Kovaks Book Award from the Society of Cinema Studies
[edit] Other Works
On Cannibalism (1994), Concrete River (1997), Demon Lover (1998), Everything In Between (2000), Treasure (2004), Chants of Lotus (2008)
[edit] Experimental Autobiography : On Cannibalism
From the perspective of an Indonesian-American, Fatimah Tobing Rony offers an insightful commentary throughout her works, speaking out against the Western entertainment’s stereotypes. Her 1994 experimental-autobiographical film On Cannibalism offers the perspective of a multicultural American, “caught between worlds”, so to speak. She takes mention of her middle class privileges, such as a respectable education, financial stability and being able to succeed in studying and making films. Rony speaks of relating to an observer, feeling a slight removal from her ethnic origins, as she lives a modern US lifestyle. At the same time Rony also relates to being the observed, being inaccurately romanticized in a racist light. The ethnographic elements of Rony's work are apparent in On Cannibalism, giving her piece not only a strong personal perspective but a deep historic relevance.
[edit] Jeff Chiba Stearns
[edit] Education
Jeff Chiba Stearns attended the Emily Carr Institute and graduated with a Bachelor of Media Arts, majoring in Film Animation. Stearns furthered his education at the University of British Columbia, receiving a Bachelor of Education. Now he works at the Center for Arts and Technology Kelowna as the head classical animation instructor, and he is the Vice President of the Okanagan Film Festival!
[edit] Achievements
Jeff Chiba Stearns is an internationally known animator, who has screened What Are You Anyways? at more than 35 film festivals (and that’s only one of his pieces!) He has also won several awards, such as:
- 2005 Best Animation: Los Angeles ARPA International Film Festival
- 2005 People's Choice and Best Overall Production: Okanagan Film Festival
- 2006 Best Animated Short Subject: Canadian Awards for Electronic Arts and Animation
- 2006 Edith Lando Peace Prize - Vancouver Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth
- 2006 Most Innovative Film - Ages 9+ - Vancouver Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth
- 2006 NFB Kids Prize for Best Animated Short - Freeze Frame International Festival of Film for Kids of All Ages
- and in 2001 Stearns founded Meditating Bunny Studio, where he creates his animations for both children and adults
[edit] Other Works
Kip and Kyle (2000) The horror of Kindergarten (2001) What Are You Anyways? (2005)
[edit] Experimental Autobiography : Yellow Sticky Notes
Jeff Chiba Stearns’ autobiographical animation is a reflexive homage to the yellow sticky notes he uses to organize his day by day “to-dos” and “don’t forgets”. Consumed in daily routine, Stearns’ sights are a little too focused, as he realizes he hasn’t been paying attention to the world or pressing current events! He integrates his everyday thoughts and actions in his notes, his images are self reflective, as well as a living document of the past few years of his life. Jeff Sterns is also a person of mixed ethnicity, and uses the term Hapanimation, due to his Japanese and Caucasian genetic combination. Happa is a term used to describe someone of a mixed ethnicity, partially Asian or Pacific Islander rooted. His unique stylistic work is also heavily influenced and driven by his multi-ethnic background. Stearns’ other work, such as What Are You Anyway? provides commentary on growing up a minority, figuring out where to fit in, celebrating difference and finding one’s self. Currently, Stearns has become an international spokesperson for Hapa advocacy.
[edit] Alan Berliner
Alan Berliner is an independent filmmaker and media artist, best known for his documentaries, which are often semi-autobiographical and feature the filmmaker and his family. Berliner has received numerous grants and fellowships, as well as many awards for his documentaries. He was born in Brooklyn in 1956 and grew up in Queens. He has a B.A. from S.U.N.Y. Binghamton and an M.F.A. From the University of Oklahoma and currently teaches at The New School for Social Research in New York City.
[edit] Media Career
Berliner describes his first films as having “a minimalist, abstract vocabulary,” but he then moved on to create documentaries, which were more narrative in nature although still incorporated experimental aspects into them. In 1986, Berliner created The Family Album, a documentary which is made from found footage and explores the concept of the American family. he subject of Nobody's Business, a documentary created in 1996, is Oscar Berliner, the father of Alan Berliner, although the relationship between father and son becomes one of the main focuses of the documentary. His 2001 film, The Sweetest Sound was a documentary which dealt with the significance of names. Berliner's most recent film, released in 2006, is Wide Awake, which explores Berliner's experience with insomnia, which is entwined with his creative process. Although he is more widely known for his film work, Berliner has also created installation pieces using photographs, audio and video.
[edit] Filmography
- Producer, Director, Editor, and Cinematographer for:
- Wide Awake (2006) 79 min.
- The Sweetest Sound (2001) 60 min.
- Found Sound (1998) Interactive Website
- Nobody's Business (1996) 60 min.
- Intimate Stranger (1991) 60 min.
- Late City Edition (1990) Video, 19 min.
- The Family Album (1886) 60 min.
- Everywhere at Once (1985) 10 min.
- Natural History (1983) 13 min.
- Myth in the Electric Age (1981) 15 min.
- City Edition (1980) 10 min.
- Lines of Force (1979) 7 min.
- Color Wheel (1977) 25 min.
- Four Corner Time: 4 Parts (1976-77)
- Patent Pending (1975) 12 min.
[edit] Woody Allen
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else
Woody Allen is a cultural icon and comic genius. This is not an overstatement. Noted actor, director, screenwriter and playwright, Allen redefined comedy by adding complexity, sophistication and culture to cinema and postmodern humor. He’s a true auteur in that sense. Allen’s films have encountered a thematic shift in late 70’s taking slapstick, homage humor to a more cerebral, sophisticated comedy. Despite the thematic shift, Allen remained consistent in exploring Jewish identity, New York City, where Allen was born and raised, morality, love and sexuality. What sustained Allen as such as a unique filmmaker is his ability to add hints of autobiographical elements to modern narrative films, and use reflexive techniques, especially when referencing his idols. Woody Allen is a true master of fictionalized autobiographies.
[edit] Filmography as Director
- Whatever Works (2009) (post-production)
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
- Cassandra's Dream (2007)
... aka Rêve de Cassandre, Le (France)
- Scoop (2006)
- Match Point (2005)
- Melinda and Melinda (2004)
- Anything Else (2003)
- Hollywood Ending (2002)
- The Concert for New York City (2001) (TV) (segment "Sounds from the Town I Love")
- Sounds from a Town I Love (2001) (TV)
- The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
... aka Im Bann des Jade Skorpions (Germany)
- Small Time Crooks (2000)
- Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
- Celebrity (1998)
- Deconstructing Harry (1997)
- Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
- Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
- Don't Drink the Water (1994) (TV)
- Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
- Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
- Husbands and Wives (1992)
- Shadows and Fog (1992)
- Alice (1990)
- Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
- New York Stories (1989) (segment "Oedipus Wrecks")
- Another Woman (1988)
- September (1987)
- Radio Days (1987)
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
- The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
- Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
- Zelig (1983)
- A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
- Stardust Memories (1980)
- Manhattan (1979)
- Interiors (1978)
- Annie Hall (1977)
- Love and Death (1975)
- Sleeper (1973)
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
- Bananas (1971)
- Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story (1971) (TV)
- Take the Money and Run (1969)
- what's up Tiger Lilly? (1966)
[edit] Lev Yilmaz
Lev Yilmaz is a contemporary animator. He specializes in observational confessional stories of identity, social confusion, human behavior and sex. He is a firm believer in using simple low rent animation techniques. His most famous experimental series is called “Tales of mere existence,” which chronicles mundane occurrences and situations.
[edit] Biography
Lev grew up in tight knit community in Boston Massachusetts. He and his two brothers began making satire films at an early age. Lev attended the School of the Museum of Fine arts in 1991. He won a 5th year scholarship in 1994 with a a 3o minute “untitled Video” which was later exhibited in Boston MFA. Lev moved to San Francisco in 1998 to pursue an animation career. He then started the website INGREDEINT X to show his body of work. Lev describes his work as “subversive comedy” or the fine line between very stupid artwork or ver intelligent entertainment.
[edit] Filmography/Awards
- TALES OF MERE EXISTENCE: (Series) 1999-Present 1st place, Short attention span film & Video festival, 2000 Best Animation, Atlanta Filn & video *Festival, 2002 Best Film: Black Box festival, 2002
- THE DARK BERET DUO: (Series) 2000-2001
- BAD NIGHT: 1998 Toured in RESFEST, 1999
- WE SHOULD GO: Best Performance animation, World Animation Celebration, 1998
- LIBERTY BEAST: 1997
- UNTITLED VIDEO 1995: Honerable mention, poetry film & video Festival, 1995 3 VIGNETTES: 1995 1st Place, Short attention span film & Video festival 1995
- CHILD'S PLAY: 1994 Screened for a month at Decordova Museum, 1995 VARIOUS SHORTS TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION: 1991
[edit] Sources
- Berliner, Alan. "Alan Berliner; filmmaker." Film Quarterly 52 (1998): 55-56.
JSTOR. 17 Nov. 2008 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/1213369>.
- Berliner, Alan. "The Reluctant Witness." Interview with Mitch Albert. The Independent Film & Video Monthly May 1997.
- Ellmeno P., comp. "ALANBERLINER.COM." 2001. 15 Nov. 2008 <http://alanberliner.com>.
- Muguiero, Carlos. The Man Without the Movie Camera: The Cinema of Alan Berliner. Ed. Efren Cuevas. Ediciones Internacionales Universitarias.
