Millennium Film Workshop: Deborah Phillips, Gina Carducci & Nazli Dinçel
Sunday November 6th, 17h
Millennium Film Workshop 66E 4th Street, New York
Artists Deborah Phillips and Gina Carducci in person
Co-presented by Mono No Aware
Deborah S Phillips has curated exhibitions as well as numerous film programmes both in Germany and abroad. Her film works on 35mm, 16mm and Super 8mm have been screened as part of the Goethe Institut programme "German Experimental Films of the 1990s" and all over the world; including the Hong Kong International Festival, Toronto International FIlm Festival. The films are distributed by Lightcone (Paris) and Arsenal Experimental (Berlin). She is on the board of kunstraum t27, an artists' run gallery/space and currently resides in Berlin, Germany. There she works as an artist, a translator of art, architecture & film-related texts. Deborah rarely visits New York, do not miss this opportunity to see her work and meet her in person.
Gina Carducci is a contact printer by day and a filmmaker by night. Gina's film, Stone Welcome Mat, premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Generations, a collaboration with Barbara Hammer, premiered at MoMA in 2010 and won the Teddy Award for Best Short Film at the Berlin Film Festival. All That Sheltering Emptiness, a collaboration with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, was selected by invitation to International Film Festival Rotterdam 2011. Gina is currently shooting The 16mm Seasonal Seriesto premiere in the fall of 2012. As always, all shot on the Bolex, hand-processed in the kitchen and edited on the flatbed in Gina’s basement in Brooklyn. "Film is not dead." -G.C.
Nazli Dinçel has been influenced by Turkish, Swiss and American cultures. Her work reflects her experiences of growing up between these locations. Dinçel works with film to denote upon the body, gender, nature, immigration, and dislocation in juxtaposition with their material: texture, color and the sustainability of emulsion. Nazli Dinçel is currently pursuing her MFA in film at the San Francisco Art Institute. She received her BFA with Honors from UW-Milwaukee. She was awarded a Kodak film grant in 2009. Her works have been exhibited in the USA at the Minute Gallery, the Pink House, Center and the UWM Union Theatre.