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...nal story of the Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum was published in 1900 and was already widely read by the time of the release of the 1937 film of the same name. For most people, the film provides the dominant imagery of the story, and it is true that much of the plot and...

... EVE the viewer freely explores this cinematic narrative space. While doing this he takes on the roles of cameraman and film editor and by his own movements determines the edited version of the cinematic event. EVE is the projection surface and the site...

...William Kentridge describes Johannesburg, South Africa, providing a social and historical context for his animated films, including "Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City after Paris" (1989). Excerpted from William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible, a film from the producers...

... that investigates the poetic potential of an obsolete technological medium, the overhead projector. The additional film rolls of the projector, usually manually operated, are moved and controlled through motors and sensors. Those augmentations...

...What can the most successful doll on the planet show us about being Jewish today? Narrated by Peter Coyote, the film mixes old school narration with a new school visual style. The Tribe weaves together archival footage, graphics, animation, Barbie dioramas, and slam...

...Displacements is an immersive film installation. An archetypal Americana living room was installed in an exhibition space. Then two performers were filmed in the space using a 16mm motion picture camera on a slowly rotating turntable in the room’s center. After...

...This film shows a monochrome landscape beneath a strip of sky. At first barely perceptible, a subtle movement is noted throughout the peaked contours of the waves—an organic contraction and expansion of a mountain-like skin. It is with the congealed heaviness and force...

... conceptually. Projected from four corners of a room onto a pair of suspended, intersecting oval screens, the work is part film and part sculpture. The film depicts a young woman in Tokyo struggling with the realization that she is losing her vision. She...

...Reel Success Stories: Lynn Hershman Leeson Wednesday, November 12, 2008 Presented by Bay Area Women in Film & Media An intimate discussion with local award-winning filmmaker and artist Lynn Hershman Leeson. A pioneer of the use of interactive computer art and virtual...

...Reel Success Stories: Lynn Hershman Leeson Wednesday, November 12, 2008 Presented by Bay Area Women in Film & Media An intimate discussion with local award-winning filmmaker and artist Lynn Hershman Leeson. A pioneer of the use of interactive computer art and virtual...