ELECTRIC ART Lily Hatchett Artists are jumping boundaries in a mind boggling feedingfrenzy. Everywhere I look, painters and sculptors are making movies, shootingvideo clips, and photographing digitally. In this millennium, multi-tasking isa creative need, as well as the stuff of survival. Communication andcomprehension are mandatory: try surviving without them, whether you are aNeanderthal, a tiger, […]

FILM AS METAPHOR FOR FILM� Lily Hatchett Film as metaphor for film is a topic touched on by filmmakerslarge and small. The tale told in The Last Supperstyle=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>,style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>a very independent film fromSlovenia (Tribeca Film Festival, 2002), has entered that realm with the help oftwo very delightful inmates in a psychiatric lockup. This fantasy needs nobatteries […]

Tribeca Film Festival 2003 Lily Hatchett   photos by Lily Hatchett     Greenwich Street was my address in the late seventies,when it was a dark and empty NYC zone. The outpost of the city, a place whererats didn’t run away because it was their domain, theirs and some humans wholooked like they were straight […]

MC5: A True Testimonial, Directed by David C. Thomas Lily Hatchett��       style="mso-spacerun: yes">   MC5, the Detroit rock band thatinspired punk, hardcore and noise metal, has earned the reverence reserved forthose seminal creators, artists that really have something “new under the sun”.style="mso-spacerun: yes">    Theywere outrageous. Fred “Sonic” Smith said that they could […]

NATIVE AMERICAN FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL 2003 Catherine Wayland image of V. Blackhawk Aamott   Organized by the Film and Video Center of the SmithsonianNational Museum of the American Indian (FVC), the festival was presented in NewYork City at the NMAI George Gustav Heye Center, the Donnell Media Center ofthe New York Public Library, and […]

LES FILM FESTIVAL Rick Hamner I doubtmany of the people who heard Baz Luhrman’s high-dollar, uptown production of LaBoheme wandered through much of Phil Hartmann’s low-rent bohemian circus, HowlFestival, but there was much to ponder about art then and now, and what loveand squalor it all comes from. No small part of the week-long extravaganza […]

LOOP ’00 ART BARCELONA Rita Michel  photo by Rita Mchel   LOOP’00 ART BARCELONA,"Fira de Videoart", the new International Video Exposition, tookplace from November 27-30 in Barcelona, Spain at the beautiful Barcelo HotelSants. Based upon my conversations with the artists, many of them were planningto sell work or make gallery contacts. Some of the gallery […]

INSTANT GRATIFICATION Lily Hatchett As we allknow, filmmaking is a painstaking collaborative process that takes time andeffort, spanning an extended period of time from idea to completion. That wayof working leaves the impatient, the need-to-see-it-now types out, or does it?Available technology allows us to make a movie in a day. Quick video festivalsare here and […]

Constructing A Visual Field Rick Hamner   Reading Ossie Clark, 2003, sequence from DVD with sound for plasma or projection   JeremyBlake’s "time-based painting" has been around for a while now, at theWhitney’s Bitstreams and at 010101 in San Francisco, but he’s gained much ofhis renown working with real-time artists Beck and P. T. Anderson. […]

Delicious for the brain: Godfrey Reggio Lily Hatchett Images of him and of NAQOYQATSI   So muchhas been written and said about artist/filmmaker Godfrey Reggio, especiallysince the release of NAQOYQATSI, his long-awaited grand finale to the QATSItrilogy. The outcry of joys and disappointments, amazing how much passion agentle ex-monk can arouse.   I firstmet Godfrey […]