Last Supper Film 2010- Chris Cassidy
Director: Chris Cassidy
Title: Dennis and Lois Clip
Genre: Documentary
Length: 5 minutes
Interpretation:
Once referred to as “caring, sharing Americans” by Mark E. Smith of The Fall, Dennis and Lois have been immersed in the Rock n Roll scene for the last 40 plus years together. Meeting at a Ramone’s show in the 1970′s, they are still regulars to the scene in 2010. Enjoy a glimpse into the life of Denis and Lois as they continue to pursue their love of music and the raw energy of live shows.
Bio:
Chris is a Brooklyn based filmmaker that has directed over 25 music videos, 2 feature length documentaries and the award-winning MTV documentary short, “Dear Barbra…” He is currently working on his third feature doc about the unique relationship between a Brooklyn based indie-rocker named Vic Thrill, and a young Hasidic Jew named Curly Oxide, who was drawn to Vic’s free spirited lifestyle.
website: http://www.casspix.com/
Last Supper 2010- Josh Aiello
Director: Josh Aiello
Title: One Man Brand
Genre: Documentary
Length: 14 minutes 23 seconds
Interpretation:
Matthew Shultz epitomizes the creative individual as a self-made person, particularly in light of his ability to function as a purely creative person thriving in a corporate environment without compromise. Woot.com is a symbol of the new economy like few other entities out there. It is a community in the truest sense, almost to the point of functioning as a retailer as an afterthought. Matthew is a significant force behind Woot’s success. His writings, artwork and podcasts have helped define the Woot brand. First from a cramped basement in Brooklyn, then a remote basement in Vermont, Matthew has found a way to productively indulge his creativity, toiling for a corporate entity, true, but while shedding the trappings of a corporate existence. No easy feat.
Bio:
Josh Aiello is a humor writer and filmmaker living in Brooklyn. Having graduated from Boston University, he authored three books of satirical nonfiction and is a contributing writer at Glamour magazine.
website: www.joshaiello.com
Last Supper 2010- Toni Greaves, Jeff Davis, Steve Rowland, Gregory Warner and Bob Sacha
Directors: Toni Greaves, Jeff Davis, Steve Rowland, Gregory Warner and Bob Sacha
Title: A Tail of Identity
Genre: Documentary
Length: 8 minutes 52 seconds
Interpretation:
The “Furries” – people who feel, deep-down inside, that being human actually constrains who they are. One may believe that his true self is something other than human – not extra-terrestrial or other-worldy, but something very much of this world: a bear, perhaps, or a mouse, or a rat.
In A Tail of Identity we meet three such men who reveal, with incredible honesty and humor, what it means to feel more like themselves when dressed as an animal than they do in their own skin.
“Rattus has lots of friends,” says one man, of the persona he has created with a hand-crafted rat costume. “He knows lots of people, and lots of people know him. Whereas I’m not so well known in my human form.”
“I didn’t choose the rat,” he exclaims. “Who would want to be a rat? I believe the rat chose me.”
Bios:
Toni Greaves is a documentary, editorial and portrait photographer with a passion for storytelling. Toni was named one of the “30 Emerging Photographers to Watch” by PDN magazine in 2009.
Jeff Davis has worked with a broad range of local and international non-profit organizations as a documentary photographer and media producer. Davis is currently producing TV and web-based documentary and advocacy-oriented multimedia projects to support awareness and expand funding for a highly successful treatment (RUTFs) that is now possible for malnourished children in sub-Sahara Africa.
Steve Rowland has worked in public broadcasting for nearly 25 years. He has worked as a jazz club manager, a late night jazz radio host, a radio station music director and oral historian.
Gregory Warner is an independent public radio reporter and multimedia producer. His stories from Afghanistan and elsewhere have aired on This American Life, Radiolab, and other public radio programs. Warner has produced multimedia stories for Global Post and POV Borders. His work won a 2008 Sigma Delta Chi award for Radio Feature Reporting from the Society for Professional Journalists.
Bob Sacha is an award-winning freelance multimedia producer, documentary cameraman, internationally published photographer, multimedia and film editor and teacher based in New York City. He shoots and produce stories, conduct on camera video interviews, shoot video and still images, edit audio, video and stills and use the assets to edit and create the cinematic openings to web sites.
Websites:
Toni Greaves
http://www.tonigreaves.com
Jeff Davis
http://www.lumenproduction.com
Steve Rowland
http://www.shakespeareis.com
Gregory Warner
gregory909@gmail.com
Bob Sacha
http://www.bobsacha.com
MediaStorm
http://www.mediastorm.com
Last Supper Film 2010- Sije Kingma
Director: Sije Kingma
Title: Deathmachinery
Genre: Short/poetry/classic horror/black and white
Length: 2 minutes 9 seconds
Interpretation:
Deathmachinery brings you the last supper of the stranger in dressed in white. Where does the self end in death and where does the new self begin? The film is a poetic play upon the classic suspense era and inspired by a poem of Dutch poet Daniel Dee.
Bio:
During his studies at the academy of fine arts, Kingma began experimenting with the narrative sides of videoart. Besides examining the technical possibilities of the new media, Kingma explores his own fantasies. Together with his classmate Fabian de Boer, Kingma produces some short experimental films. These are films where puppets or puppetlike figures have the main part in a harsh and violent world. In 2005 Kingma graduates with a bigger filmproject, Arsenicum. The puppets might be exchanged for real actors but the harsh fantasies of earlier works keep on being the main theme. At present Kingma uses different methods to produce his work. Rigid 2D animations are combined with edited graphics and self shot film material. Recurrent themes are: boy wonders, B-movies, paralel universes, games, comics, antagonists, propaganda and autocracy.
website: http://www.sijekingma.nl
Last Supper Film 2010- Sergio Oksman
Director: Sergio Oksman
Title: Notes on the Other
Genre: Documentary / Experimental
Length: 13 minutes
Interpretation:
On July 7, 1961, the day Ernest Hemingway was buried, one of his most famous impersonators was seen at the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona. That strange appearance was merely the symptom that, from that moment onwards, the figure of the famous writer would last in time through a crowd of doubles.
Nowadays, dozens of Hemingway’s impersonators compete in the Annual Hemingway Look-alike Contest in Key West, Florida. They are determined to be “the true Hemingway after Hemingway’s death.” But, why do they want to be someone else?
Bio:
Sergio Oksman (Brazil, 1970) studied Journalism in São Paulo and Film in New York. In 2000 he created Dok Films, a production company based in Madrid. His filmography includes titles like “Ronaldo: A Flight Manual” (1997), “Gaudí in the Favela” (2002), “The Beautician (2004)”, “Goodbye, America” (2007) and “Notes on the Other” (2009).
website: www.sergiooksman.com / www.notesontheother.com
Last Supper Film 2010- Adéla Kroupová
Director: Adéla Kroupová
Title: Dasha Is Coming Back
Genre: Short Documentary
Length: 26 minutes
Interpretation:
After decades, Dasha decided to visit her birthplace amidst beautiful forests and mountains of the Beskydy region. She does not recognize anyone and anything there. She had to leave, when she was 2 years old. Her mum was imprisoned in 1949 for helping Mr. Vrba, an anticommunist foreman. Her father was hiding in the local forest and finally run down by Members of the State Secret Police. Small Dasha was brought up by her grandparents in a big town far–away from her native village. Even though Dasha‘s memory is wretched, that of local denizens and neighbors is much richer. What does her birthplace have for Dasha to discover? How much has her life and her mother’s trajectory been informed by these moments?
Bio:
Adéla Kroupová was born in 1979. She graduated from Faculty of Arts at the University of Ostrava in Literary science and Czech literature. She is now finishing her studies at the Department of Screen Writing and Script Editing at the Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). She writes screenplays for feature films and does directing occasionally. At present she is finalizing feature-length documentary. She loves animals and cowboys.
website: www.childrenofstalinism.com
Last Supper Film 2010- Zachary Timm, Matt Rivera
Director: Zachary Timm, Matt Rivera
Title: Hair Man
Genre: Non-fiction
Length: 3 minutes 19 seconds
Interpretation:
Hair Man is actually the antithesis of self-made. It’s the story of unwanted celebrity created by society and internet against his will, just because of one strange hairline.
Bio:
Zachary Timm is a graduate of Ithaca College with a concentration in Television production. He has lived in NYC for the last three years working as a freelance filmmaker and music journalist .
Matt Rivera is a NYU grad that currently works at the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, and teaches Multimedia Reporting at New York University’s Carter Journalism Institute for the graduate program. Both Zach and Matt are part of the Filmshop of Brooklyn which is a collective of filmmakers who get together weekly to present and discuss personal projects. This is where the Hair Man came to fruition.
websites: http://thefilmshop.org/chapters/brooklyn/members/zach-timm/
http://thefilmshop.org/chapters/brooklyn/members/matthew-rivera/
Last Supper Film 2010- Danielle Ash
Director: Danielle Ash
Title: Pickles for Nickels
Genre: Stop-motion Animation
Length: 8 minutes
Interpretation:
Pickles for Nickels is a cardboard world where monkeys steal pickles and neighborhoods change overnight. A stop-motion visualization in recycled cardboard of a crumbling city’s shop keepers and street musicians. Through reusable materials, a world is created in which the beauty of one neighborhood breaks down into a less hospitable place. How can people retain their sense of self amidst decay?
Bio:
Danielle Ash is a Brooklyn based stop-motion animator of all things, from cardboard pigeons to light beams. Since receiving her MFA in experimental animation at CalArts, she continues to teach and work in animation, puppetry and sound design. Her animated films have recently screened in various festivals, and in 2010 she was awarded the Helen Hill Animation Award.
website: www.danielleash.com
Last Supper Film 2010- Mike Healey
Director: Mike Healey
Title: The Prune
Genre: Dark Comedy/Animation
Length: 5 minutes 50 seconds
Interpretation:
The Prune is a classic tale of one’s isolation and alienation within a society because of ostensible differences between the individual and the masses. In the film, Jenny, a six year old plum girl, is thrown to the fringe of plum society because of a perceived infraction of the sociological norm, which manifests itself in a physically unappealing way (a true crime in any society). When she meets someone with a similar problem, she is faced with the choice of a brief life as a plum or the eternal shriveled existence of a prune. Mike Healey was drawn to creating a world where fruit is personified because it allows the viewer to have a degree of separation from the characters and as such, the audience can more objectively empathize with the themes of the film.
Bio:
Mike Healey began animating in 2005. His first animated project, a music video for Ryan Star’s “We Might Fall,” aired on IFC. Since then, Mike’s work has appeared on MTV, RTE (in the UK) and Stereogum and he has been a featured animator on the animation website, aniboom. In 2008, Mike co-founded //kneeon, an animation production company, and has since directed and animated music videos and commercials for clients such as Atlantic Records, Vitamin Water, and the FEED Foundation.
website: www.kneeon.tv
Last Supper Film 2010- Myriam Thyes
Director: Myriam Thyes
Title: Ascension
Genre: Exploration
Length: 1 minute
Interpretation:
On the symbolic level, the film taps into hopes and fears such as religion and ambition, which are “self-made” human conceits. Analyzed at length by Erich Fromm, neither punishment nor reward should be bestowed by the human concocted anthropomorphic form of a god. Of course encountering a rabid tiger would induce one’s survival instincts about self-preservation, but this is a primal reaction. Society’s role in shaping or augmenting fears has a more sinister effect.
Bio:
The Swiss/Luxembourgish artist has studied painting and videoart at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dusseldorf, Germany. In 1990, she stayed for 6 months in Paris at the ‘Cité Internationale des Arts’ with a grant. Since 1993, Thyes participates in exhibitions and festivals.
Since 1999, the artist has focused on videoart, animation and digital imagery. Years later, Thyes developed media art projects for public screens in 2000. Continuing in this thread, FLAG METAMORPHOSES was installed at Halle Zehn in Cologne. In June of this year, M. Thyes worked in Zurich, Switzerland. Upcoming in September FLAG METAMORPHOSES will be installed at ON-OFF-Artprojects in Hamburg, and GLOBAL VULVA will be shown in several festivals this year.
website: www.thyes.com
Last Supper Film 2010- Stefano Giannotti
Director and music composer: Stefano Giannotti
Title: 59 Memories about Landscape and People
Genre: Experimental
Length: 59 seconds
Interpretation:
59 Memories About Landscape and People is basically a film about memories, images of our own life, which pass in front of our eyes like in a film. Every image is connected with a music note. The film might be infinite, never-ending, but… it lasts only 59 seconds. What will it happen after?
Bio:
Stefano Giannotti (1963), composer, author, guitarist, performer and filmmaker. His repertoire ranges from performance, experimental film, radio-art, dance theatre to chamber music, orchestral scores and songs. He has earned several international acknowledgments among which:
2009 – Nomination of DIALOGHI (SWR 2008) for the Prix Italia 2009
2008 – Katherine Knight Award at the Earth Vision International Environmental Film Festival (Santa Cruz, California) for his film CHIAYI SYMPHONY
2007 – Karl-Sczuka-Preis for his composition GEOLOGICA
2004 – Special mention of the jury in the PRIX ITALIA 2004 for IL TEMPO CAMBIA (Part II)
2002 – Karl-Sczuka-Preis (SWR, Baden-Baden) for his composition IL TEMPO CAMBIA.
1998/99 – Artist-In-Residence in Berlin (DAAD Berliner Kuenstlerprogramm)
website: http://www.stefanogiannotti.com
Last Supper Film 2010- Jonathan Skurnik
Director: Jonathan Skurnik
Title: I’m Just Anneke
Genre: Documentary
Length: 11:20
Interpretation:
I’m Just Anneke” is a portrait of a 12-year-old girl who loves ice hockey and has a loving, close-knit family. Anneke is also a hardcore tomboy and everybody she meets assumes she’s a boy. The onset of puberty has created an identity crisis for Anneke. Does she want to be a boy or a girl when she grows up, or something in between? To give her more time to make a decision, her doctor has put her on Lupron, a hormone blocker that temporarily freezes her body in a pre-pubescent state. Despite rejection by her friends and struggles with suicidal depression, Anneke is determined to be true to herself and maintain a gender fluid identity that matches what she feels on the inside. “Anneke” takes us into the heart of a new generation of children who are intuitively questioning the binary gender paradigm. She is living the conception of “self-made.”
Bio:
Jonathan has produced, directed and shot numerous award-winning documentaries and has recently completed his first two fiction films as writer/director. His most recent documentaries include: “Something’s Moving,” about American Indian boarding schools, that won the Unspoken Truth award at the 2008 Media That Matters film festival; “The Elevator Operator,” about a Ukrainian immigrant who runs a manual elevator in Manhattan, has screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, won Best Documentary at the Urban TV film festival in Madrid and had its broadcast premiere on PBS and Ukrainian TV; the award-winning “Spit It Out,” the life story of a man who stutters, was broadcast on PBS in 2007; and “A Day’s Work, A Day’s Pay,” about welfare reform, won the prestigious Harry Chapin award for films about hunger and poverty and was broadcast on PBS and in Europe in 2002. Jonathan is currently directing a series of short films about transgender and gender fluid youth.
Websites: www.jskurnik.com & www.imjustanneke.com
Last Supper 2010 – Call for Short Films
Last Supper 2010 Curatorial Theme: “Self-Made” by Coralina Meyer
The Last Supper Salon 2010 will explore the creative individual as a self-made person and provocateur of social change. In contrast to the male robber baron of our industrial age, the contemporary version of the ‘self-made man’ is an artist of any gender, discipline; someone who is cross-cultural and cross-national, and someone tapped in to the individual as part of the border-less, collective wisdom created by open source ideas sharing. Humanity is transforming it’s identity to fit the current needs of a new economy, and socio-political environment. Using an experimental, multi-sensory, collaborative approach, we hope to critique the way we produce the goods and services that define our generation, the way we consume media, products and our environment, and the way open dialog, DIY and technology promotes self-made identity prototypes.
Film Curator’s Statement by Laura Rugarber
How do we define self if we eliminate the other? Without a comparative model, individualism is forced to stand alone, an oblivion onto itself. Stripped of accouterments and references, what remains? This self-exploration is the main point of life in how we understand ourselves which ultimately informs how others respond to us. A clash occurs with collaborations. In the context of sustainability and community, how much self can co-exist once immersed into situations tied to group cooperation? Actions and decisions are rarely absolutely negative or positive whether originating from the self or a group consensus. These complexities invite introspection about agency. The preservation of self is possible. People should be open to systems designed to improve life and conditions for everyone. This is not asking that the “I” subsume identity; rather that, individuals engage in selflessness to become singularly defined. One must recognize hackneyed patterns of giving too much which are detrimental. Only through maturity and “self” awareness can true balance be achieved.
Description of what we are looking for: The filmmakers presented in this installment of The Last Supper 2010 embrace and transform our interpretations of self whether in a literal or spiritual manner.
“Self-Made” i.e., RIDING THE WHITE CLOUD by Alex Craig
Submission Information:
Online Submissions:
Please include w/ DVD package: Director Name, Film Title, Genre, Length, Availability to attend opening on 9/18/2010, Short Bio, Interpretation (How work relates to theme of show), jpg Headshot (2″x3″ 300dpi), jpg Film Still (300 dpi), Link to Film or Director’s website, Permissions to show in Festival and Press/Print Materials
email Laura Rugarber: Film@Lambastic.com
snail mail:
Coralina Meyer
The Last Supper
160 Parkside Ave #14D
Brooklyn, NY 11226
Please include w/ DVD package: Director Name, Film Title, Genre, Length, Availability to attend opening on 9/18/2010, Short Bio, Interpretation (How work relates to theme of show), jpg Headshot (2″x3″ 300dpi), jpg Film Still (300 dpi), Link to Film or Director’s website, Permissions to show in Festival and Press/Print Materials
Last Supper 2009 Film- Andrea Stanislav
Director: Andrea Stanislav
Title: Blow Away
Genre: Video Art
Running Time: 4 min 32 sec
“Blow Away” is a short film yet surprising film concerning empire and Manifest Destiny, shot on location on the Bonneville Salt Flats, in Wendover Utah. Another noteworthy aspect of the film is that all of its effects were done in real time and at a massive scale, nothing of significance was done in post.
Bio
Andréa Stanislav is currently based in New York City. Selected exhibitions: Fieldgate Gallery, London, Thisisnotashop, Dublin, Jonathan Shorr Gallery, NYC, Al Sabah Gallery, Dubai, Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, and Weisman Museum, Minneapolis.
Her 2008 solo museum exhibition, River to Infinity–the Vanishing Points, showed at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Numerous grants and residency fellowships include a Jerome Fellowship, and the Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship.
2010 solo exhibitions include: Jonathan Shorr Gallery, New York, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Burnet Art Gallery, Minneapolis, and the Plains Museum of Art.
Last Supper 2009- Fiorella Castanotto
Director: Fiorella Castanotto
Title: Salt In The Scars
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 17 minutes
The mining of sea salt is one of the most important sources of income for the local inhabitants in South India. The industry is, however, also a source of violation and exploitation.
Bio
A Swiss-Italian national, Fiorella Castanotto (Lausanne, 1968) is a graduate of the University of Lausanne with a Master in history, Italian, sociology and anthropology. In the US, she completed her training in documentary filmmaking at Rockport Film College (Master’s Program). Since 2003 works as editor and filmmaker of documentaries and commissioned films.
Last Supper 2009- Zack Wilson
Director: Zack Wilson
Title: The End
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 2 min 39 sec
Zack Wilson’s “The End” is a short film on a first-responder to the tragic events on 9/11 who faces life-threatening health complications that are the result of being on-site after the World Trade Center collapse. Despite America’s promise to never forget, much of the world has already forgotten the heroes who today struggle to keep up with a long list of health issues and their inability to work and support their families. As the rest of the world moves on and insurance companies and the government ignore the very vital health and financial assistance needed, our heroes must deal with their everyday struggles that significantly hinder their capacity to provide.
Bio
I’m a filmmaker and photographer based in New York City with a strong background in dramatic narrative structure. My passion lies in illuminating underexposed topics and inciting social change through various forms of channels, including mobile and interactive platforms. I primarily focus on repurposing subjects most often covered in documentaries into fictional pieces that have a greater appeal to a wider audience.
I am obsessed with pushing visual aesthetics to their boundaries in order to create beautiful images that are rarely achieved, whether it is throwing countless adapters onto a HD camera for a full cinematic experience or ripping apart and modifying a Holga toy still film camera for an organic, antiqued aethetic. Besides my projects and contributing to various independent projects, I serve as Head of Production for Rosenblum Associates, Inc. and media consultant for Aligned Creative, LLC. I have consulted for Arts Engine, Acumen Fund, Working Films, Transient Pictures, Anonymous Content and the Media That Matters Film Festival.
Last Supper 2009- Meerkat Media Collective
Director: Meerkat Media Collective
Title: Every Thid Bite
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 9 minutes
Honeybees are responsible for pollinating every third bite of food we eat. America’s bees are at risk, though, as their number are being reduced by as much as 50% due to a mysterious phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder. We set out to see what we could learn from the folks around us, taking to the road to visit beekeepers in Manhattan, Chicago, Nantucket and Long Island. We also talked to one of the top virologists in the field, and even some grade school kids who were in the show. Along our journey, we discovered that with proper care and nutrition, bees can stay healthy- and with ther contributions to fresh, local g=food and their delicious, allergy-alleviating honey, bees can help keep us healthy, too.
Bio
The Meerkat Media Arts Collective is an interdisciplinary group of artists dedicated to making media with a non-hierarchal and inclusive creative process. We take our name from the communal, prairie-dog-like mammal of the African Grasslands, and strive to share skills and ideas across the board. The idea is to make a kind of consensus art that inspires, encourages, and motivates others to tell their own stories. Meerkat Media has produced dozens of short films featured in festivals across the country and broadcast internationally. Our feature-length documentary, Stages, won the Audience Award for Documentary and the Best Documentary Awards at the 2009 New York Latino International Film Festival.
Last Supper 2009- Zach Timm
Director: Zach Timm
Title: Lost In Lexicon
Genre: Narrative
Running Time: 3 min 20 sec
During a first date over a game of Scrabble, awkwardness ensues.
Bio
Zachary Timm is a graduate of Ithaca College with a concentration in Television production. He has lived in NYC for the last two years working as a freelance filmmaker and writer. He and a few of his friends recently formed a film company called Aligned Creative LLC, which is in the process of producing a short film, a web series and a documentary.
Last Supper 2009- Amautalab
Director: Amautalab
Title: The Blindness Of The Woods
Genre: Narrative
Running Time: 12 minutes
The Blindness of the Woods is a narrative presented with the naive simplicity of fairy tale and folklore, in the style of the Nordic Erotic Films of the Seventies. A sexually explicit love story unfolds between the cute woolen characters of Ulrika (the blind woman) and Hans (the lumberjack) which is being witnessed by the voyeuristic character of Bear Bjorn. This film inspires an uncertain yet enjoyable reaction in the audience, as they relate to this contradiction and the controversial nature of both the subject and its characters.
Bio
Martín Jalfen, co-founder and director at Amautalab. He used to work as a copywriter and creative director in different ad agencies. His background comes from advertising, screenwriting and painting. He won advertising awards such as Cannes, D&AD, Clio, One Show.
His work as a director was screened and awarded at different festivals such as Milano Film Festival, Resfest, Pictoplasma, Berlin Porn Festival, Flux at the Hammer Museum, Paris Porn Film Festival, Amsterdam Alternative Erotica Film Festival and La Boca del Lobo. He is planning to win an Oscar next year.
Javier Lourenço joined Amautalab as a director after following 11 years of expertise in advertising as an art and creative director in several ad agencies.
In advertising Javier created successfull award-winning campaigns. His more than 100 advertising awards include Cannes, Lions, Clio, One Show & AD&D, among others.
As a director, his work was selected at festivals such as Milano Film Festival, Resfest, Pictoplasma, Berlin Porn Festival, Flux, Paris Porn Film Festival, Amsterdam Alternative Erotica Film Festival and La Boca del Lobo.
In 2006 he created and developed “The Uncoolhunter” project that worships the “un –trendy”.
Last Supper 2009 Film- Yin-Ling Chen
Director: Yin-Ling Chen
Title: Who Comes To Supper?
Genre: Experimental
Running Time: 3 min 41 sec
This film recorded the process of a fly eating in a toilet. The water closet and the sink are like the bone china dishes people use to contain food. After the fly finished eating and simultaneously defecating, it wiped his face in satisfaction and flew away.
Bio
Yin-Ling Chen, born 1969 in Taiwan is an artist based in London, mainly working with video and film. She has completed an MFA in Fine Arts at the Slade school of Fine Art in London. She has shown her work internationally including at the AURORA 08 in Norwich, The Regional Museum Stalowa Wola in Poland, Hysteria: A Festival of Women, Toronto in Canada, Sidewalk Cinema in Wein, Austria.
Most of her work focuses on figure. She uses different media to portraiture and tries to create her art with authenticity. In a broader sense, portriature embodies issues such as human emotion, human identity, dilemma, struggling, and life and death will remain one of her central themes. A mirror that reflects her feelings, art is a medium as well as a process of dialogue between her inner self and the external world, social and private spheres.
Last Supper 2009 Film- Mike Schuwerk
Director: Mike Schuwerk
Title: Happiness Is The Right Choice
Genre: Experimental
Running Time: 15 min 22 sec
Happiness is the Right Choice is an experimental video that uses an audiovisual study of Times Square and the Financial District to look at lived time in societies that pursue economic growth as an end in and of itself. Sequential photographs and video are paired with street interviews and audio captured on-site, sampled and created.
Bio
Michael Schuwerk is a New York based artist. He holds a BA with Honors in History from the University of Chicago and an MFA from Hunter College. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. His current practice explores the aesthetic and expressive possibilities of time-based media and printmaking.
Last Supper 2009 Film- Jeffu Warmouth
Director: Jeffu Warmouth
Title: Day of the Cabbage!
Genre: Video Art
Running Time: 10 minutes
“Day of the Cabbage!” is a giant-monster movie with an all-vegetable cast, the third in a series of “Vegetronics” live-action mini-epics. Shot on HD with the real food, live vegetable characters act in miniature sets with matzo buildings and graham cracker skylines. Directed, cut, shot, and eaten by Jeffu Warmouth.
Bio
Jeffu Warmouth is a photo-based contemporary artist who has managed to make a career out of playing with his food. His work incorporates photography, video, objects, and installations, and often uses humor to skewer popular culture. Jeffu has exhibited in alternative spaces and museums, and his award-winning film/video work has screened in festival internationally.
Last Supper 2009 Film- Casimir Nozkowski
Director: Casimir Nozkowski
Title: Checkmate
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 9 min 45 sec
For the economically challenged or disenfranchised, banks are not an option. Without ID to start an account, the funds for checking account minimums, or even convenient access to banks, people in low-income communities have to find a way to cash their paychecks in time to pay their bills, feed their kids and above all else, stay in debt. Their only solution is also an enabler of their poverty. Commanding an enormous fee, overcharging on the other services they offer (50 cents for a stamp?!?) and making sure they’re in close proximity to liquor stores, jewelry spots and DVD bootleggers are just some of the ways check-cashing places exploit their position as a necessary evil.
Bio
Casimir Nozkowski makes video. The co-creator of the award winning website www.cryingwhileeating.com, he has written and directed short films, music videos and commercials that have been seen on cable, online and in festivals around the world. He has been featured on The Tonight Show, MSNBC, KROQ and NPR. His work has been featured in Entertainment Weekly, Best Week Ever, The NY Times, Slate, on IFC, CNN, the CW, AMC and exhibited at the Larissa Goldston Gallery in New York City. He has written and produces the on-air promotion for the Emmy-winning show Mad Men and is on the board of directors for Rooftop Films.
Last Supper 2009 Film – Thomas Beug
Director: Thomas Beug
Title: The Spotter
Genre: Narrative
Running Time: 14 minutes
Set on a fire escape in Brooklyn at dawn, a boy and girl meet to perform a weekly ritual in their makeshift crow’s nest. She’s the spotter, he’s the sniper and they’re hunting alley rats. As they sip coffee in the chilly morning air and wait for activity in the alley below, they converse idly about urinals and Gouda. As the rats emerge, the hunt begins. She gives the calls and he pulls the trigger. All the while, the conversation escalates, revealing there’s more at stake for both of them than the life or death of an alley rat. In the current atmosphere of economic crisis and political turmoil, the individual is in the position to reinvent and repurpose behavior, space, actions and norms. Existence and functionality move out of the mainstream to inhabit the fringe. The Spotter involves a ritual on the fringe – a boy and a girl meet in a makeshift crows nest on their fire escape to shoot rats at dawn. It’s illegal and it’s out-of-place, altogether on the ‘outside’ of society. As a means of expressing violence or emotion, this ritual raises questions about taking things into your own hands. It conjures apocalyptic images and survival tactics. These people don’t go into the wilderness to hunt, they hunt right on their doorstep. Nothing is wasted here. A story evolves through an activity that repurposes the inner city as a ‘Western’ or jungle or battlefield. In this setting and through these means of production/destruction, a film is created that captures the violence of love in some way. At least that’s what The Spotter aspires to, when it’s not just killing vermin and breaking hearts.
Bio
After graduating with an honors degree in English and German literature from Trinity College Dublin, Thomas fulfilled a longtime desire to move to New York City where he began a career in advertising and film. He worked initially as an associate producer for Publicis and then as a producer at Droga5, Creativity Magazine’s Agency of the Year for 2007. At Droga5 Thomas produced multiple TV campaigns for Tracfone, Rhapsody, Puma and The New Museum along with award-winning integrated campaigns for Steinlager, The Tap Project and The New York Board of Education. With Droga5, Thomas most recently expanded his portfolio and directed a global campaign for Adidas. Coming off that, he directed and produced several documentary shorts about Usain Bolt’s return to Jamaica after his success at the Beijing Olympics. Currently Thomas is working full time producing and co-directing a season of a new independent travel show called “This Is My City”.
The Last Supper Film Festival is an indoor-outdoor film, food, music and art festival occuring in Brooklyn during the crux of seasonal change in September. Referencing the celebratory nature of the feast, and the symposium of genres, the festival kindles the creative miasma sparked by NY's peppery fall and inventive community.The last exposure to outdoor interaction before the shearing winter...
