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JURORS
"2007" (Jan. 2008)
Jim Trainor is a filmmaker, mostly an animator, living in Chicago. He is just now completing a series of films called The Animals and their Limitations, of which "Harmony" is the latest installment, with "The Bat and the Virgin," "The Bats," "The Moschops," and "The Magic Kingdom" preceding it. Most recently, he has been working on a long comic strip project called Sun Shames Headhunting Moon. Trainor teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Helen Hill was a filmmaker, artist, and social activist who lived in New Orleans when she was killed in January 2007. Educated at Harvard and the California Institute of the Arts, Hill taught animation at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative in Halifax, Nova Scotia and later at the New Orleans Video Access Center and New Orleans Film Collective, which she helped found. Hill also authored a DIY filmmaking guide, Recipes for Disaster: A Handcrafted Film Cookbook. Her films include "Madame Winger Makes a Film," "Mouseholes," "Scratch and Crow," "Bohemian Town," and "Rain Dance."
Leighton Pierce lives in New York City and Iowa City, where he is a professor of film and video at the University of Iowa. His films have been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, and his video installations have been exhibited at the Exploratorium in San Francisco and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.
His works include "Water Seeking Its Level," "Glass," "50 Feet of String," and "The Back Steps."
Diane Bonder, a filmmaker and graphic designer, died of pancreatic cancer in Brooklyn in June 2006. BonderŐs films and videos include "Dear Mom," "If," "If You Lived Here You'd Be Home by Now," and "Closer to Heaven." Retrospectives of BonderŐs work have been held at the Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Cinematheque. She was a regular contributor to both the Mix NYC and Mad Cat Women's Festivals, and possessed degrees from UMass Amherst and Rutgers University.
PAST JURORS
2006
Craig Baldwin
Craig Baldwin is the evil genius behind Other Cinema and the motor that drives Artists' Television Access in San Francisco. In addition to his exhaustive curatorial efforts, he's also an amazing found footage filmmaker, whose films include Tribulation 99, Sonic Outlaws, and Spectres of the Spectrum. He's also an incredible resource for other found footage filmmakers--check out the credits of any experimental film that uses a lot of found images and you're likely to see his name.
Mike Plante
Mike Plante is the programmer at Cinevegas as well as one of the shorts programmers at Sundance. He also is the man behind Cinemad, one of the greatest film 'zines in the Free World.
2005
Deborah Stratman
Deborah Stratman is a Chicago-based filmmaker who leaves town a lot. Her films blur the lines between experimental and documentary genres, and she frequently works in other media including photography, sound, drawing and architectural intervention. She is presently collecting responses about FEAR (call toll-free: 1-800-585-1078) and is working on some short films about falling and other events that separate us from the system of things. Deborah teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Cal Arts.
Bill Brown
Bill Brown makes movies about ghosts that masquerade as movies about landscapes-- or maybe it's the other way around. His films include Roswell, Hub City, Confederation Park, Buffalo Common, and Mountain State. In 2003, the Museum of Modern Art screened a retrospective of his work as part of its MediaScope series. These days, Brown is wondering why he's living in Detroit.
Scott Stark
Scott Stark has made over 65 films and videos since the early 1980s, and has created numerous installations, performances and photo-collages as well. His work has shown nationally and internationally in venues as diverse as New York's Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Cinematheque, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Tokyo Image Forum, and many others. His 16mm film Angel Beach was invited into the 2002 Whitney Biennial. He has recently moved from San Francisco to Austin, Texas. He is the webmaster for Flicker (www.hi-beam.net), the web resource for experimental film and video. More information is available at www.scottstark.com.
2004
Tony Gault
Tony Gault is an award-winning filmmaker who currently teaches media production at the University of Denver.
Naomi Uman
Naomi Uman is an independent filmmaker and former personal chef to the stars (Calvin Klein, Gloria Vanderbilt, et al.).
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