Members of S.E.A.T. will give lectures of our work as well as an encore presentation of our ReAnimated exquisite corpse films at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, April 20th starting at 7 pm. in their cafe. S.E.A.T. members included: Drew Christie, Webster Crowell, Stefan Gruber, Salise Hughes, Britta Johnson, Tess Martin, and Clyde Petersen.

Experiments in Cinema v7.9

How to Draw Clouds will screen at Experiments in Cinema v7.9 in Albuquerque NM. The screening will take place on Tues, April 17th at the Guild Cinema starting at 6 pm.

The Perils of Boating

The Perils of Boating is a 4 monitor media installation that will be on view in the windows of 4Culture's E4C: Electric Gallery for one year starting April 5th. The work is based on reedited manipulated footage from F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.

ReAnimated

On March 1st S.E.A.T. http://www.experimentalanimation.org/ will host an animation event during First Thursday in Pioneer Square in Seattle. We  will take over Zeitgeist Coffee with film projections both in and outside of the space. At the center of the event is ReAnimated- an Exquisite Corpse film made by seven of the members. Back in late December we came together to draw slips of paper from a hat that would tell us what image would begin and end our films. For example one of the prompts was Man with a Beard. The picture above shows that I ended my film with an image of a man with a beard and animator Clyde Petersen began his film with an image of a man with a beard. After we chose our prompts we were sworn to secrecy so we wouldn't influence each other. Now that these two films are finished I can show you an example of the prompts.

In February my film Erasable Cities will have it's Canadian premiere at Cinesonika 2 in Vancouver B.C. Cinesonika is an international film and video festival focusing on innovative sound design. Jason Staczek who composed the score entered the festival, so this time I'm tagging along with him. Jason also composed the score for the new Guy Maddin film Keyhole, and the festival will screen a short film about the making of the score called F-Hole. They haven't given us an a date for the screenings yet, but will be either the 18th or 19th.
And on December 2nd my film Shiny Things was included in The Stranger's Short Film Fridays, along with a nice writeup by Charles Mudede.

Erasable Cities

I have three more screenings to end the year. November 25th How to Draw Clouds will screen in Valencia, Spain- included in the last screening of Cut + Run Touring Festival. The screening will take place at Espacio La Mutante. December 8th & 10th The Swimmer will screen in Paris at Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris hosted by Collectif Jeune Cinema. And December 17th Other Cinema in San Francisco will have the world premiere of my newest film- Erasable Cities, included in a program of new works titled N.E.W. Erasable Cities is my loose interpretation of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.

The Swimmer

My film The Swimmer will be included in more festivals. In Portland on Friday- 11/11/11, opening night for Northwest Film & Video Festival,  and Paris, December 8th & 10th, part of Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris. The Swimmer is my four minute reinterpretation of the 1968 film starring Burt Landcaster, based on the short story by John Cheever.