Please disregard parking information on our printed schedule and from previous posts. It now appears that the only "FREE AFTER 5PM" lots that we can depend on are 396, 436, and 308.
Please accept our apologies and know that we are currently in talks with people at Parking Management to try to figure out what is going on and to see if we can come up with a creative solution for the problems that are plaguing our customers.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Another FREE film Event!
As part of ARTS AND CULTURE WEEK the IFS is showing two free films this Sunday. One is THE WINDMILL MOVIE in Muenzinger Auditorium at 7pm, the other one is LAILA'S BIRTHDAY in ATLAS 102 - also at 7pm. And now: this just in - ANOTHER free film event: On Tuesday, October 6th, director Adoor Gopalakrishnan will present his award-winning film RAT TRAP.
More information for all of these films has recently been uploaded to our website.
Friday, September 18, 2009
2009 Art House Project Shorts Program (Oct. 21)
NEXT FLOOR - During an opulent and luxurious banquet, complete with hordes of servers and valets, 11 pampered guests participate in what appears to be ritualistic gastronomic carnage. (Denis Villeneuve, Canada, 12min)
JOHN AND KAREN - John the polar bear apologizes to Karen the penguin after an argument. (Matthew Walker, UK, 4min, Animated)
ATTACK OF THE ROBOTS FROM NEBULA-5 – “Almost” everybody is going to die very soon. (Chema Garcia Ibarra, Spain, 7min)
LOVE YOU MORE – Two teenagers are drawn together by the Buzzcocks' single 'Love You More' in the summer of 1978. (Sam Taylor-Wood, UK, 15min)
OMELETTE - While a woman makes an omelette, we learn how difficult it is to make ends meet. (Nadejda Koseva Bulgaria, 5min)
I AM SO PROUD OF YOU - Dark family secrets cast a shadow over Bill's recovery in this second chapter to the prize-winning short Everything Will Be OK. (Don Hertzfeldt, USA, 22min, Animated)
STEEL HOMES - Self-storage units are windows into human histories: their discarded objects and dust-covered furniture are inscribed with past dreams, secret hopes, and lives we cannot let go of. (Eva Weber, UK, 10min)
COUNTERTRANSFERENCE - An awkward woman with assertiveness issues finds her problems multiplied in therapy(Madeleine Olnek, USA, 16min)
WESTERN SPAGHETTI - Everyday objects become delicious ingredients as we learn how to cook spaghetti through stop-motion photography. (Sarah Phelps, USA, 2min)
SHORT TERM 12 - A film about kids and the grown-ups who hit them. (Destin Daniel Cretton, USA, 22min) - Recipient of the 2009 Jury Prize in U.S. Short Filmmaking
STINGRAY SAM
Just a quick note to let people know I'm on my way to the airport to pick up Cory McAbee and his latest film: STINGRAY SAM - which he's bringing with him as carry-on luggage. Last night his film premiered in San Francisco, and he's got a bunch of other international destinations yet to hit. We feel blessed to get him on the early part of the launch!
I saw STINGRAY SAM at the last Sundance Film Festival and out of thirty or so films screened there it was definitely one of my favorites. Cory had just finished it with only a few days to go before the festival started and it's a testimony to his creativity that Sundance would make it part of their festival line-up without having a chance to pre-screen it.
What I saw at Sundance was a digital projection. What YOU will see tonight is on 35mm film! They transferred it just days ago...
To add to the magic we're making it a double-feature and adding a VIRGIN film print of AMERICAN ASTRONAUT.
That's all happening tonight at 7pm in Muenzinger.
See you there!
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Friday, September 4, 2009
CEC ArtsLink NYC in collaboration with GSLL Department at CU-Boulder PRESENT:
New short films by 4 award-winning Russian filmmakers
who were selected for their cinematic accomplishments in a competitive nomination process.
a free public screening on Wednesday, September 9th, 5-7:50pm in HUMN 150
The Last Day of I.S. Bulkin (2009, 13 minutes, dir. Aleksey Andrianov) What happens when death comes knocking…
Official Selection at various Russian film festivals.
Field, Clowns, Apple… (2008, 13 minutes, dir. Shota Gamisoniya) Dreamscape and reality meet in this surrealist and sweeping single shot film. Official selection, Rotterdam, Trieste, and Bolzano Film Festivals. Winner of the Film Critic’s Guild Prize at the Festival of Debut Film at the Moscow Museum of Cinema.
Resurrection (2008, 29 minutes, Petr Zebelin) A Tarantino-esque look at Saint Petersburg’s dark underbelly.
Official selection, 2008 Open Cinema International Film Festival (Saint Petersburg).
Sanatorium (2008, 19 minutes, dir. Natalya Govorina) It happens to all of us sooner or later… a film based on the works of Russian literary figures Venedikt Erofeev and Sasha Sokolov. Named Best Narrative Film at 2008 Moscow Short Film Festival.
Aleksei Andriyanov is a filmmaker from Moscow. Born in 1976, he holds a degree in Screenwriting from the Gerasimov Institute (VGIK), and a degree in Film Directing from Moscow’s Higher Courses of Screenwriting and Directing. His cinematography credits include Katya Grokhovskaya and Peter Stepin’s feature length film The Man of No Return (Chelovek bezvozvratnyy, 2006), and numerous promotional advertisements for major clients from Coca Cola to Panasonic. He has directed three short films, including The Last Day of I.S. Bulkin (2009) and Fun Time, which was included in the 2007 Filminute Festival (London).
Shota Gamisoniya is an actor and filmmaker living in Moscow. He was born in 1981 in Sukhumi, a city on the coast of the Black Sea in a politically volatile region of Georgia. He has lived in Moscow since 1993. His first academic pursuit was acting: he graduated from the Vakhtangov Theatre Institute in 2003, and went on to work for two years with Yuri Lubimov’s Taganka Theater. In 2007 he began a Master’s degree in Filmmaking, graduating in 2008 with his short film Field, Clowns, Apple (2008) as a final project. The film received the Film Critic’s Guild Award at the Moscow Festival of Debut Films, and was an official selection at numerous European festivals including Rotterdam, Trieste, and Bolzano. He is currently at work on his next film, with production beginning in August of 2009.
Natalya Govorina, a filmmaker, was born in 1982 in the city of Tomsk in Siberia. As a college student, she studied Philosophy at Tomsk State University and worked for the Russian television program “Rush Hour.” She went on to study at the Internews School of Film and Television in Moscow, and in 2009 she graduated from the Gerasimov Institute (VGIK), Russia’s top film school, with a degree in Film Directing. Her student films, including The Investigative Experiment (Sledstvennyy Eksperiment, 2006), Jazz (2007), and Sanatorium (Zdravnitsa, 2008) have been screened and received awards at Russian and international film festivals.
Pyotr Zabelin is an actor and filmmaker. He was born in 1978 in Leningrad. He studied Acting for Theater and Film at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Theater Arts and received a degree in Film Directing from the Saint Petersburg University of Culture and the Arts. He also studied Theory and Practice of Media Arts at the Pro Arte Institute of Contemporary Arts. He is the founder and organizer of an independent movement, The Society of Creative Adventurer Radicals (S.T.A.R.). He has worked as an actor in various Saint Petersburg theaters and his films have been screened and won awards at Russian and international film festivals. Currently he is working on a full length independent film.
DATE CHANGE
The very first Brakhage Film Series scheduled for Sunday, Sep. 6th, at 7:30 will now actually be on the day before on Saturday, Sep. 5th, at 7:30. (Due to conflict with huge football game on Sunday.)
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Ellen Maslow
This post is to share my sadness at the passing of Ellen Maslow. She was a vibrant member of the Boulder Film Alliance and took on the challenge of bringing great films that she felt would help people process difficult issues of our time. She often did this at great personal expense - one time bringing in a screening of HEARTS AND MINDS which I know cost her an arm and a leg. It's one of the best docs ever made on why we go to war, and with our blunders in Iraq in full bloom at that time it was an important film to revisit. That was Ellen: doing what was right, no matter the price.
I wish I could be at the memorial this Thursday, but I'll be hitting the road for Telluride that morning. Last time I saw Ellen was a few months ago for a bite at the Southern Sun. She looked very frail but still had that optimistic glimmer in her eye that she could beat it. Ellen was a staunch fighter for social justice and shared of herself freely. She told me some pretty amazing stories and lived through a lot craziness - always finding ways to be better for it. And we were all better for knowing her.
Rest in peace, Ellen:
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