Millennium Film Workshop Personal Cinema Series at The New School
Intimate Projections: Experimental Diary Films
Featuring: Barbara Hammer, Peter Hutton, and Amie Siegel
Wednesday, April 17 2013, 19h
Wollman Hall
65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street), New York
Admission: Free

The final program in a three-part series presenting personal visions of cinema’s potential as an artistic medium, “Intimate Projections,” features three internationally exhibited filmmakers whose meditative, insightful, and critical engagements with the diary form speak volumes about the aesthetic, political, and historical dimensions of this cinematic mode. From Peter Hutton’s lyrical reverie in the day-to-day to the charged, poetic feminism of Barbara Hammer’s Psychosynthesis Trilogy to Amy Siegel’s examinations of performed and projected identities in appropriated Youtube videos, the works presented in this program explore the vast reach of the diaristic gesture. The screening will be introduced by Howard Guttenplan and followed by a discussion with the artists.

Presented by the Millennium Film Workshop in partnership with The School of Media Studies and The New School for Public Engagement. The Millennium Film Workshop is a non-profit media arts center located on the Lower East Side. Since 1965 it has promoted the exhibition, production and study of avant-garde and alternative film, video and media art.

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.