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From: Stephanie Vevers <sve...@gmail.com>

Date: April 2, 2012 9:55:10 PM EDT

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Subject: Millennium calendar; BOARD ELECTIONS--MEMBERS MEETING; Spring Workshops.

  APRIL           MILLENNIUM FILM WORKSHOP       66 East 4th St, 10003    

 MEMBERS  MEETING    &   BOARD ELECTIONS   April 15   !

-   FILM EXHIBITIONS- 

   

SPRING   WORKSHOPS

                                 .   All screenings start at 8:00PM                              .

  
                                                    Admission is by donation                                            

Friday   4/6      Elizabeth Henry and Tony Gault - filmmakers from Denver

at MILLENNIUM to show "THE CAGE WE ARE TRICKED INTO" - 

Eight short experimental/non-fiction films, 

duration about 60 minutes plus filmmaker dialogue with audience. 

TABERNACLE (1998, 10m), CASE HISTORIES IN PSYCHOTHERAPY (2008, 8m), FOSSIL LIGHT (2009, 7m),GHOST OF YESTERDAY (2012 6m), AN EVENING SCENE ON THE SAME SUBJECT (2012, 7.5m), FOUR CUBIC FEET OF SPACE (2010, 8m), THROUGH THESE TRACKLESS WATERS (2007, 12m). 

 - Collaborators for fifteen years, filmmakers Tony Gault and Elizabeth Henry screen a body of work that examines the human impulse toward dualism and narcissistic command of the planet Earth. Their films create "a cinematic poetry of paranoia as a higher state of consciousness" (Film Threat) and “illustrate the perverse means by which narrative shapes our consciousness" (Slant Magazine).   

  -  ". . . how we might cultivate a new approach to physical, mental and environmental equilibrium."    Tony and Elizabeth both teach film production/film studies at the University of Denver

Thursday  April 5   7:30 – 10:30 

Open Planning and Informational Meeting for Volunteers - 

Prepare for the Members Meeting and Elections.Come when you can, bring energy, ideas and inspiration.

Sunday April 15 at 7:00 PM
Members Meeting and Elections 

Details in Calendar below -  doors will open at 5:00.  New members can register.

Basic Filmmaking    April 22 – May 27 

  with  Jordan Stone  
    Sunday    2:00–4:30 pm   6 sessions  
       $175  +  $20 Membership
    

Optical Printing   March 31, April 6 & 13 
   with  Kelly Spivey                                   

     Saturday     2:00–5:00 pm   3 sessions.
        $150 +  $20 Membership

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Workshop Info at http://millenniumfilm.org/workshop.html
or call Jay at 212-673-0900  or write jkh...@gmail.com

 
                                      .    All screenings start at 8:00PM                              . 

FILMS AT MILLENNIUM IN APRIL:

Friday   4/6      Elizabeth Henry and Tony Gault   (see above for details)

Thurs      4/12       Millennium Film Journal Publication Party and Screening!

for Issue No 55 -- Structures & Spaces: Cine-Installation

Films to be shown at this event Including works by Alfred Guzzetti, Christoph Girardet, Robert Nelson, and others to be announced.

8:00 PM.  Further information, subscriptions and to pre-order MFJ 55 at a discount: mfj-online.org/news

SUNDAY   4/15       MEMBERS MEETING !   Important for all to attend: 7:00 PM,

to elect Millennium Board Members, director, vote on tweaking bylaws, and other business. It is essential that a quorum of members – at least 50% of those eligible to vote –  attend this meeting. Doors will open at 5:00 PM for new membership registration; 

  New members will eligible to vote once they have had two 6-month memberships within the 2 years immediately past.To be an eligible and active voting member -- conditions include: current membership plus at least one other membership/ donation within the last two years. 

  Proxy voting is not allowed. This restrictive bylaw is something for the voting members to consider changing.

Weds   4/18      AMY TAUBIN, Special guest, as our first Stand Up Film Professor !

(a new mid-month Wednesdays series of talks hosted Ken Jacobs, our esteemed Board Member)

Amy Taubin will talk about the digitizing of everything, and why it will be
impossible to fall in love with the movies of the past in the future.

Film journalist, critic, educator, curator, Amy Taubin is a contributing editor to Film Comment and Sight and Sound magazines, writes for Art Forum; received the 2007 Anthology Film Archives Film Preservation Honors’ Siegfried Krakauer Award, and the 2005 Art Historian Award from the School of Visual Arts in 2005.

In a former life she was an actress on Broadway and appears in several avant garde films including those by Jonas Mekas and Michael Snow.
Read Taubin's recent article on the Ken Kobland retrospective at Anthology Film Archives: 
http://artforum.com/film/#entry30376

Stand Up Film Professor evenings will be once a month on Wednesdays.

Here's a glimpse of the lineup for 2012:

David Phelps -May 16, on  Fritz Lang's 1000 EYES OF DR MABUSE with film
John Matturri -June 20, John Matturri  on Optical Proofs: The City Seen / Venice
Mark McElhatten -mid-Sept,  Grahame Weinbren -Oct 17, 
Ernie Gehr -Dec 12, David Baker -early January.

EVERY FRIDAY       Screenings in weekly rotation, ongoing, at MILLENNIUM:

4/6    Curated Screening; 
4/13  Open Screening, all welcome to show work up to 20 minutes in length; 
4/20  Selections from the Vault / or from Guest Collections; 
4/27  Reel to Real expanded media improv.with actors/ projectors/ layers/ music

         - bring the tools of your trade and prepare to become immersed.

Millennium Film Workshop    http://millenniumfilm.org 

66 East 4th Street NYC  10003    

212-673-0900

jkh3...@millenniumfilm.org

cin...@millennium.org

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Stephanie Vevers
646-764-3823
sve...@gmail.com