Eisner Prize Screenings - Congratulations, Curtis!

Just thought I'd pass this information on, since our own Curtis Tamm is featured in this year's selections, as well as work by Berkeley Center for New Media DE student Claudia Salamanca.

Works from the Eisner Prize Competition

Friday, May 8, 2009 6:30 p.m.The Pacific Film Archive

Robert Rippberger and Navid Sinaki, along with a diverse sampling of videos from the competition. Rippberger will screen In the Middle, a beautifully shot, near-wordless story of a divorce told from the vantage point of a young girl. Sinaki presents Pop, an inventive hand-painted collage film that constructs a story about a young homosexual man using fragments of melodramas from pre-Islamic Revolution Iran. A program containing written descriptions by the artists will be available at the screening. Farley Gwazda's video installation Attention Relay will be presented in the theater preceding the screening; doors open at 6:10 p.m.

This year's judges were UC Berkeley faculty Mark Berger, Kwame Braun, Marilyn Fabe, Kathy Geritz, and Jeffrey Skoller.

* Attention Relay (Farley Gwazda, 15.5 mins). Death at Once (Claudia Salamanca, 10.5 mins). Sergeant Thorne (Molly Snyder-Fink, 10 mins). A Self Made House (Lydia Katherine Greer, 2009, 19 mins). Beautiful Sisters (Connie Chung, 8.5 mins). the texture of interpretation (as seen by the perceptual system of a civilization unknown). (Curtis Tamm, 5 mins). Hip Hop Underground (Gabriel W. Leigh, 8.5 mins). New Morning (Kate Maeder, Derek Dabkoski, 15 mins). Mama Don't Take My Kodachrome Away (Wenhua Shi, 2009, 3 mins, B&W/Color). In the Middle (Robert Rippberger, 9 mins). Pop (Navid Sinaki, 6.5 mins, B&W/Color)

* (Total running time: 95 mins, 2009 Color, Digital video, From the artists, unless otherwise indicated)