Announcing Cut and Run’s 2010 Experimental East Coast Tour – Call for Submissions – Call for Venue Proposals.
Cut and Run is a curatorial project which consists of experimental film and video programs, curated by Brenda Contreras and Mallary Abel, two filmmakers and Cinema alums from San Francisco State Univerity. Mallary recently served as the programming associate for UnionDocs.
Started in early 2009 at San Francisco’s Artist’s Television Access and turned into a multi-city West Coast tour. Cut and Run’s aim is to explore the range of experimental and avant-garde works, from the past to the present. We celebrate works that deviate from mainstream and traditional narrative film, and opt towards authentic, brave, challenging, stylized, alternative and imagined subjects. Our call for submissions has no direct set theme. Our programs themes develope around the sense we make of the selected works, as well as individual sought-out films that provoked and inspired us.
**There are no call for entry fees or applications. Please send us your 40 min. or less piece, on DVD or miniDV tape by mail.** Contact Mallary at [email protected] to obtain address info.
**Cut and Run is also accepting venue proposals for exhibitions for our East Coast Tour, as well as independant programs here along the West Coast, currently. If you have a space or microcinema, experimental-friendly to potentially host Cut and Run, contact Mallary.
Cut and Run featured artists:
Jay Rosenblatt, Robert Nelson, Karl Lind, Christine Noll Brinckmann, Warren Haack, Paula Levine, Gretchen Hogue, Joshua Solondz, Dustin Zemmel, and more.**
Past Cut and Run screenings took place at:
Artist’s Television Access in San Francisco, The Waypost in Portland, Oregon, NWFF in Seattle, The Basment in Nevada City, CA, Beatnik Studios in Sacramento, Jensen Mainstage in Santa Barbara, Echo Park Film Center in LA, Ditch Projects in Springfield, Oregon, UnionDocs in Brooklyn, NY. Cut and Run also pioneered a guerilla screening on San Francisco’s MUNI rail system in 2009.