Workshops, Panels, Exhibits

Moving Thought: A Mobile Exhibition of Artists' Books

"Moving Thought" is an exhibition exploring aspects of the artist's book, an important medium of contemporary art, contained in a 29-foot classic Airstream trailer. The books are of roughly two kinds: printed books designed by artists, and one-of-a-kind handmade books which explore the form of the book and the acts of reading.

Produced by University of South Florida art students, the show has two components - the mobile phase, in April, and an exhibition in May at the USF Contemporary Art Museum. While at the Hillsborough Community College campus, workshops and related actives are scheduled.

Illumined Pleasures: Dali and Film

Salvador Dalí is celebrated as many things - Surrealist, painter, author, theoretician, celebrity, prankster and agitator. But what is less known is that he had a lifelong involvement in film, and it is in the world of film where all of these aspects of his identity come into play. This talk focuses on Dalí's involvement with film - as a fan, a screenwriter, a filmmaker, and an art director - examining his remarkable collaborations with such film greats as Luis Buñuel, the Marx Brothers, Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney.

Peter Tush is the Curator of Education at the Salvador Dalí Museum and the instructor of "Dalí and Film" at the University of South Florida.

Transmission Collective

Transmission Collective

The brainchild of Miami artist Judith Robertson, this collection of ten video shorts was part of the 2nd annual HCC-Ybor Festival in 2004, and married the ethereal, high-tech projection of video to the decidedly more low-tech steel chassis of a rented moving truck.

The interior of the truck, converted to an over-sized projector, trawled the streets of the Yborian urban landscape, parking itself amidst the revelry of a film festival, and provided rotating projections to the public a la tailgate.

This year, the projection arena is a glass curtain wall 18 feet square with the videos rear-screened.

Screen Actors Guild: Independent Films and Low Budget Agreements

Are you considering producing your own film? Don't know where to start? Plan to attend this workshop, presented by Screen Actors Guild (SAG).

Conducted by David Fazekas, SAG South Region Executive, this workshop will introduce and explain SAG's various low-budget agreements, including special agreements for short and student films.

David will walk you through the process of signing a SAG low-budget agreement from start to finish and answer any other questions you might have about the Guild.

Sunshine In the Dark: Florida In the Movies

Historians Susan Fernandez and Robert Ingalls have identified more than 300 films about Florida to analyze how filmmakers have portrayed the state and its people from the silent era to the present.

In their presentation, Fernandez and Ingalls will discuss their findings about location settings, plot lines, and characters that dominate films produced both by Hollywood studios and independent filmmakers.

Their book Sunshine in the Dark: Florida in the Movies is the first complete study of how the movie industry has immortalized Florida's extraordinary scenery, characters, and history on celluloid.

Festival Filmmakers Panel: The Documentary - Form and Function

The Festival is screening a number of titles that are considered to be in the genre of documentaries but take very different approaches to this important form of cinema. Filmmakers presenting at the fest will provide insight into their individual vision and approach to their subjects, discuss the challenges of capturing "real life", and share stories of the journey of making a movie.

Bari Pearlman ("Daughters of Wisdom"), Pete and Paul Guzzo ("Ghosts of Ybor: Charlie Wall"), Linda Booker ("Love Lived On Death Row"), Shaun Chatham (Sight-seeing), Charles Lyman (Persistence of Vision), Brenda Medina (Holy Biker), among others.

Program 1

Underground Film: a Brief 16mm History from the 1950's to the Present

Filmmaking today owes a lot to the independent or underground film movement originally pioneered by a few artists ( such as Maya Deren) in the 1940s and 50s. By the 1960s, this movement had really caught fire, particularly in the Bay area of San Francisco, and in New York.

A group of gifted artists emerged, who believed in total personal control of the film, from content through photography to editing and even distribution.

The "Personal Film" was something like a poetic essay in literature, relating directly to the life and thought of the artist, innovative, challenging conventional subject and technique, self expressive, non commercial. It had a profound effect on the established feature film (beginning with "2001") and led directly to new media forms such as MTV, YOU TUBE and MY SPACE.

This series will present some landmark works and artists from the 60's through today.

Peter Hutton - "Images of Asian Music" - 29 minutes (excerpt)
A minimalist film, linked impressions of a trip to Asia, contemplative.

Will Hindle - "Saint Flournoy Lobos-Logos and the Eastern European Fetus Taxing Japan Bride in West Coast Places" - 30 min (excerpt)

Will Hindle - "Sucking Alabama Air" - 15 min
The effect of current culture and reading on the life and art of the filmmaker. Charles Manson and the 1960s.

Gunvor Nelson - "My Name is Oona" - 10 min
The filmmaker uses moving images of her daughter's first years of life to evoke the passages of childhood. With Robert Nelson and Dorothy Wiley.

Scott Bartlett - "1970" - 30 min (excerpt)
A visual diary of events in the filmmakers life: trips and voyages, a wife and a film business, the joys and disappointments of a career working in a new art form.

Ralph Arlyck - "An Acquired Taste" - 26 min (excerpt)
A ride through the thoughts of the filmmaker about his growing family and the effort to capture his world on film.

Sunshine In the Dark: Florida In the Movies

Historians Susan Fernandez and Robert Ingalls will discuss and screen a feature filmed in Florida, "Things Behind the Sun", as an example of a filmmaker using the Florida landscape as metaphor for conflicting emotions and societal change.

Chuck Norris -- A Cultural Icon for Kids? Visual Literacy and Children

Young filmmakers on location

How do young people use things they've seen in the world around them to tell stories and make movies? How and why has Chuck Norris become a cultural icon for kids? How does a seemingly carefree and simple two-minute animated film created by two third graders communicate the complexities of political responsibilities of office holders and their constituencies?

Join young filmmakers from Tampa Theatre's Let's Make Movies summer camp as they screen their stop motion and live action digital short features and talk about their filmmaking experiences. Tara Schroeder from Tampa Theatre and James Welsh from USF College of Education's Florida Center for Instructional Technology will discuss how to interpret, understand and evaluate meaning and purpose in the embryonic stages of children developing a visual literacy vocabulary.

Program 2

Personal Film: a 16mm History from the 1960's to Present

Filmmaking today owes a lot to the independent or underground film movement originally pioneered by a few artists ( such as Maya Deren) in the 1940s and 50s. By the 1960s, this movement had really caught fire, particularly in the Bay area of San Francisco, and in New York.

A group of gifted artists emerged, who believed in total personal control of the film, from content through photography to editing and even distribution.

The "Personal Film" was something like a poetic essay in literature, relating directly to the life and thought of the artist, innovative, challenging conventional subject and technique, self expressive, non commercial. It had a profound effect on the established feature film (beginning with "2001") and led directly to new media forms such as MTV, YOU TUBE and MY SPACE.

This series will present some landmark works and artists from the 60's through today.

Bruce Conner - "Mongoloid" - 14 min
Found footage. One of the first MTVs ever, on a song by DEVO, now widely featured on YouTube. Sarcasm, humor and detachment, by a founding member of Canyon Cinema Cooperative. Discovery of evidence in past image making and relevance to the present.

Ed Emshwiller - "Thanatopsis" - 5 min
A psychological film which deals in visual metaphors and the mental state of the filmmaker.

Will Hindle - "Chinese Firedrill" - 12 min (Restored print)
The psychological disposition of the artist, depicted in metaphors such as broken glass, and computer cards. Items picked up by the filmmaker in daily life and installed in a constructed studio set. A seminal film, winner of the top prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

George Kuchar - "Hold Me While I'm Naked" - 15 min
A funny film, which takes a humorous view of the motivations for making a film — such as success with opposite sex.

Stan Brackage - "Window Water Baby Moving" - 12 min
The filmmaker reflects on the birth of his child. Bold in its exploration of anatomy, voluptuous and fertile and intensely personal.

Charles Lyman - "The Persistence of Vision" - 12 min
A reflection on the pleasures and dangers of raising a child. A mix of Charles Manson, insanity, drug-induced visions, quiet joys, personal lives recorded in film.

Peter Tush Eats Celluloid

Cuban composer Alfredo Rivero and the HCC Jazz Band perform an original "film score" by Mr. Rivero, commissioned by the HCC Ybor Festival of the Moving Image for the 2008 event.