Eye Am Filmmakers Screen At Anthology Film Archives Wednesday, November 5th

6:00PM Wednesday November 5th, 2008
NEWFILMMAKERS WOMEN BEHIND THE LENS
Curated by Victoria Kereszi

Featured Filmmakers~
~Emily DeGruchy FRENCH LADIES (2006, 1 Minute, Video)
~Abigail Feldman THE YEAR OF THE CORRESPONDENT (2004, 10 Minutes, 2004)
~Sarah Friedland BREATH ON THE MIRROR (2008, 1 Minute, Video)
~Oriana Fox OUR BODIES, OURSELVES (2003, 2 Minutes, Video)
~Victoria Kereszi FADED GLAMOUR (2008, 5 Minutes, Video)
~Lili White PROVIDING NOURISHMENT (1996, 3 Minutes, Video)~Vanessa Woods FIVE CENTS A PEEK (2007, 7 Minutes, Video)
~Caroline Koebel HOLE OR SPACE (2006, 3 Minutes, Video)
~Sophie Peer TURNED ON (2006, 6 Minutes, Video)
~Oriana Fox TALE OF NARCISSUS (2003, 5 Minutes, Video)
~Penny Lane & Jessica Bardsley THE WREN (2008, 4 Minutes, Video)
~Hilda Daniel NATURE NATURE (2005, 2 Minutes, Video)

Please spread the word and join us to celebrate women's film!

Eye Am Episode 18 July 6th 2008

Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens is a short film series showcasing women's memoir spanning across all genres of film and video.

EA airs @ 9:30-10:30pm the 1st Sunday of the month on...
Manhattan Neighborhood Network
Time Warner #34/ RCN #82 (in Manhattan)& Streaming Live Online at www.mnn.org (Worldwide)


Episode 18 Sunday July 6th 2008 9:30-10:30pm MNN.org/TWC 34/RCN 82 (in Manhattan)Worldwide at www.MNN.org

Featuring work by Vanessa Woods, Sarah Kriely, Emily DeGruchy, Judith van der Made. Victoria Kereszi, Sophia Peer, Kristi Ryba, Lili White, Penny Lane & Jessica Bardsley













Passing , 2007, 1:20 minutes
A short film that explores the idea of passing (passing time, passing histories, and passing away). To create the film, self-portrait photographs of the filmmaker taken in an abandoned home were used as a stage to re-inhabit and reinvent through single frame animation. Mark making, collage and sound engender a new history in the spaces of a vanishing home.

Filmmaker Biography:
Vanessa Woods graduated with an MFA in film, with honors, from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her artwork and films have been exhibited internationally and she has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship for Film from the San Francisco Arts Commission, a Film Arts Foundation Personal Works Grant, and the San Francisco Art Institutes's MFA Film Fellowship. She has also been awarded residencies at the Headland Center for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony and in Pont-Aven, France, through the Museum of Pont-Aven. Woods has produced eight films that have been broadcast nationally and screened internationally, including the Education Channel, the Centre International d'Art (France), The Anthology Film Archives (New York), the Oberhausen Film Festival (Germany) and San Francisco International Film Festival. Woods is currently working on several new films, including a feature-length documentary titled Mimita, (www.Mimita.com)) which follows a family of women raising their adopted child in Bronx, New York.
www.vanessawoods.com













Che Lake, 2007, 14 minutes
A visual soundscape of NYC and the places that exist close to our hearts.

Filmmaker Biography
Sarah Kriely













French Ladies, 2006, :40 seconds
Animated ladies dancing.

Filmmaker Biography
Emily DeGruchy
www.elimenop.com













Fitna (Feminin Chaos), 2006, 12:40 minutes
I am... who? Many... one. I dream free... imprisoned? A nightmare... reality alone.

Filmmaker Biography
Judith van der Made also known as Skills Ltd. Is a performance artist, video artist and musician residing in the Netherlands. After various studies (social studies, physical theater) she started making videos in 2000. It started out of frustration of not being able to put all ideas into live performance; discovering video as the the best thing that ever happened to her.
www.antenna.nl/barleyqueen













For My Country, 2007, 4:00 minutes
An experimental Super 8 found footage composition of American girls dancing, stripping, and boxing from the 50's re-mixed with sound by 'Miss Pocono Idol'.

Filmmaker Biography
Victoria Kereszi is an artist, photographer, documentary filmmaker, curator, community media organizer, and educator. For the past three years, Victoria worked at Manhattan Neighborhood Network, a flagship community media operation, where she began as the Youth Programming Coordinator and eventually became the Director of Programming. In addition to her own video and photographic pursuits, she is the founder and curator of Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens, a women's memoir television series and traveling festival. Victoria's arts and education work has taken her to Costa Rica and Cuba to work with youth to document their experiences of friendship and culture. In 2003, Victoria received her MA from NYU's Gallatin School with a concentration in Documentary Film and Gender Studies. She currently lives in Troy, New York where she is attending RPI's iEAR program in the Fall.
www.victoriakereszi.net













Turned On, 2006, 5:51 minutes
A teen couple's relationship comes to an electric conclusion in this video. A circuit of trials and tribulations leads them to plug into one another as a way to find an outlet for their curiosities. The anxiety and tenderness the two are experiencing is shown through odd pacing and colorful situations. They are fumbling in the dark trying to communicate and connect in a way that noth frightens and excites them. The strange language of attraction and intimacy creates a difficult situation for the couple as they explore themselves and each other.

Filmmaker Biography
Sophia Peer New York based video artists and filmmaker Sophia Peer was born in Queens, NY, in 1980. She received her BA from SUNY Purchase (2002) and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts . Her short narrative videos juxtapose the banal with the absurd. Whether urine and potato salad, mice and agoraphobics, senior citizens and Jane Fonda, or young love and audio equipment, the result converts anxiety and sadness into comedy. Peer irreverently pokes fun at the world and its quirks. Her fictional characters embody the surreal aspects of reality as she presents us with a very oblique sense of the ridiculousness in everyday life.
www.sophiapeer.com













Babydoll, 2006, 3:00 minutes
Using dolls, the embodiment of all that is female, to serve as standardized human forms, Ryba’s work examines cultural roles, relationships and common experiences such as growth, transition and change. Her primary interest lies in exploring the traditional gendered roles of women, principally motherhood and the domestic sphere. Drawing her ideas from personal experience and cultural influences, her focus is to question how in our society these gendered roles have become and remain so trivialized and devalued.

Filmmaker Biography
Kristi Ryba received her BA degree in painting and printmaking from the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC in 1989; and her M.F.A. in Visual Art degree from Vermont College in 2006. Since 2002, she has been making stop frame video animations that have expanded on the themes from her earlier paintings, prints and books. Her stop frame video animations have shown in New York, Atlanta, Boise, ID, Cranbrook MI, Greenville and Charleston, SC.
www.kristiryba.com















Providing Nourishment, 1996, 3:05 minutes
THE HOUSE OF THE GENTLE one of eight houses from the I Ching, an augury, also know as The Chinese Book of Changes; which describe sixty-four different but archetypal forms of energy. The “gentle” refers to the elemental nature of wind or wood: both are considered soft, yet they are penetrating forces.
In #27: Providing Nourishment, the I Ching advises to
“Pay heed to the providing of nourishment and to what a man seeks to fill his own mouth with.” The rose is the symbol of beauty, love and eternity.

Filmmaker Biography
Lili White has been exhibiting her works in solo and group shows in the United States and abroad since before moving to New York. In Philadelphia she received at B.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with a four-year painting certificate. Her interest in the moving image and multimedia, lead her to perform, write, produce, direct several live multi-media pieces, each of which included the performance participation of over a dozen actors, poets and dancers. Upon the introduction of computer digital editing programs, she made several videos, that featured her gestural performances as well as others that were based upon poetry and documentary subjects. These are often seen as a continuation of her earlier Super 8 film work and lead to screenings at numerous cultural centers, including the American Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, the Museum of American Art in Philadelphia and The Newhouse Center in Staten Island, New York.
www.liliwhite.com













Faded Glamour Trailer, 2008, 5 minutes
A documentary about three eccentric women who have been producing their own television shows for cable access in Manhattan for the past 15-37 years. The piece is an attempt to challenge the stereotypes of women in the media, deconstruct the notion of celebrity, and define nostalgia.

Filmmaker Biography
Victoria Kereszi is an artist, photographer, documentary filmmaker, curator, community media organizer, and educator. For the past three years, Victoria worked at Manhattan Neighborhood Network, a flagship community media operation, where she began as the Youth Programming Coordinator and eventually became the Director of Programming. In addition to her own video and photographic pursuits, she is the founder and curator of Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens, a women's memoir television series and traveling festival. Victoria's arts and education work has taken her to Costa Rica and Cuba to work with youth to document their experiences of friendship and culture. In 2003, Victoria received her MA from NYU's Gallatin School with a concentration in Documentary Film and Gender Studies. She currently lives in Troy, New York where she is attending RPI's iEAR program in the Fall.
www.victoriakereszi.net













The Wren, 2007, 3:53 minutes
A little thing about certain qualities shared by Emily Dickinson and Troglodytes troglodytes (the winter wren). Made by two women on opposite coasts searching for elusive things.

Filmmaker Biography
Penny Lane is an independent filmmaker and video artist living in Troy, NY and Northampton, MA. Her collaborative and solo experimental, narrative and documentary videos have screened at AFI FEST, Int'l Film Festival Rotterdam, San Francisco Int'l Film Festival, Images Festival, Seattle Int'l Film Festival, Women in the Director's Chair, Santa Fe Art Institute, MOMA, and DUMBO Art Under the Bridge. Her award-winning documentaries The Abortion Diaries and Independent Media in a Time of War (the latter made with Hudson-Mohawk Indymedia) are regularly screened in classrooms, community centers and microcinemas across the U.S. and internationally on Free Speech TV and Yes! Television. The Abortion Diaries has screened in 40 states at over 170 different community venues, ranging from bars to art centers to clinics to colleges. From 2003-5 she was a core producer of the Hudson-Mohawk Independent Media Center, a group dedicated to challenging the assumptions of the mainstream media. She has also worked extensively with youth in community centers such as Children's Media Project and The Ark, Inc. She earned her MFA in Integrated Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her BA in American Culture at Vassar College. Currently she is a visiting assistant professor of video and new media at Hampshire College and is working on a documentary about a Depression-era madam.
And yes, that is her real name.
www.p-lane.com

Jessica Bardsley is a Cultural Studies major in her last year of college at New College of Florida. She likes feminism, Anne Carson, bike rides, blue whales, monsters, video, and hanging out with her friends.

Eye Am Episode 17 Sunday June 1st 2008

Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens is a short film series showcasing women's memoir spanning across all genres of film and video.

EA airs @ 9:30-10:30pm the 1st Sunday of the month on...
Manhattan Neighborhood Network
Time Warner #34/ RCN #82 (in Manhattan)& Streaming Live Online at www.mnn.org (Worldwide)

Episode 17 Sunday June 1st 2008
Featuring work by Abigail Feldman, Sophia Peer, Vanessa Woods, Lili White, Tala Dowlatshahi & Stephanie Sigs













The Year of the Correspondent, 10 minutes, 2004
A woman's journey post 911 through her letters to a war journalist.

Filmmaker Biography:
Abigail Feldman was born in 1974, and grew up in Kingston, NY.
She graduated from Bard College in 1996, and recently received her
MFA from the School of Visual Arts Photography, Video and Related
Media Department. She has lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY for
the past ten years. Abigail Feldman has been a passionate observer
since she was introduced to the medium of photography, and has
photographed all over the country, as well as in many parts of the world.
Besides photographing the interiors of the homes of friends and family,
she photographs everything from obscure corners to Jazz musicians to
what is right in front of her.
www.abigailfeldman.com













Out of Breath, 2006, 15:30 minutes
A confused five-year-old girl becomes a threat to those around her as she tests life's limitations. While discovering her relationship to the world, she learns what she cam expect from it. Out of Breath is a surreal thriller in which reality is fleeting and the simplest if life's lessons can leave you gasping for air.

Filmmaker Biography:
New York based video artists and filmmaker Sophia Peer was born in Queens, NY, in 1980. She received her BA from SUNY Purchase (2002) and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts . Her short narrative videos juxtapose the banal with the absurd. Whether urine and potato salad, mice and agoraphobics, senior citizens and Jane Fonda, or young love and audio equipment, the result converts anxiety and sadness into comedy. Peer irreverently pokes fun at the world and its quirks. Her fictional characters embody the surreal aspects of reality as she presents us with a very oblique sense of the ridiculousness in everyday life.
www.sophiapeer.com













Five Cents a Peek, 2007, 6:33 minutes
A filmic interpretation of a poem by Sharon Olds wherein the circus becomes a metaphor for a woman's performance in, and for, the world. The film incorporates animation, archival circus footage and distortions of the female form to explore ideas of performance, spectatorship and the male gaze. The eye is a reoccurring trope in the film, referencing the spectator/audience looking the the subject and the subject looking inward at herself. Because the circus is a spectacle whose very existence derives from performance and illusion, the performative and illusory aspects fo the film are exaggerated. The audio of the film draws upon this concept, wherein the narrator stops ans starts the poem over and over thereby making the practice and performance of the poem evident.














The Stillness in the Room, 2007, 8:30 minutes
A memento of sorts, the film explores explores 19th century English death and the mourning rituals within a framework of time, growth and decay. The film draws upon the regimented mourning procedures set forth by Queen Victoria, characterized by a strict dress code which included the black “weeping veil” - a veil of black crepe worn during the first year of grieving. In the film, the veil is a dominant trope that serves to reveal fragments of imagery, ritual, and emotive experience. The film edits are fluid and malleable like the veil. Much of the film was put through various processes of decay, thereby physically implicating the subject of the film in its physical structure. The “Stillness in the Room” is generated though a subtle, quiet soundtrack that incorporates components of Emily Dickinson's funeral poems.

Filmmaker Biography:
Vanessa Woods graduated with an MFA in film, with honors, from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her artwork and films have been exhibited internationally and she has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship for Film from the San Francisco Arts Commission, a Film Arts Foundation Personal Works Grant, and the San Francisco Art Institutes's MFA Film Fellowship. She has also been awarded residencies at the Headland Center for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony and in Pont-Aven, France, through the Museum of Pont-Aven. Woods has produced eight films that have been broadcast nationally and screened internationally, including the Education Channel, the Centre International d'Art (France), The Anthology Film Archives (New York), the Oberhausen Film Festival (Germany) and San Francisco International Film Festival. Woods is currently working on several new films, including a feature-length documentary titled Mimita, (www.Mimita.com) which follows a family of women raising their adopted child in Bronx, New York.
www.vanessawoods.com














Words on Peace Piece, 2006, 1:32 minutes
In 2006 the NY Filmmakers Co-Op put out a call for filmmakers to create a piece as a response to the current war in Iraq. This was a made for that call. Words on Peace Piece was inspired by the following references:

"in Flanders field where poppies grow"

. Flower chain made by children at Ljubljana's National Gallery. Slovenia is the only nation where "Culture Day" is a national holiday.

C.G. Jung's thought: only by dealing with one's "shadow" side can one arrive at peace.













NY(See), 2005, excerpt 6:45 minutes
[a pun substituting the word "see" for the letter "C"] captures today's zeitgeist and is White's first feature-length movie. Eschewing the documentary films' standard of expressing opinion, and made without a script, storyboard or an editing plan, NY (see) reflects what New York stands for: America's cradle of immigration; the site of the 9/11 Disaster; the platform of a genuine international city.

At one time New York was considered to be the center of the art world. What does it mean to be an artist-immigrant in New York after 9/11 when the whole world is on the verge of major change?

Filmmaker Biography:
Lili White has been exhibiting her works in solo and group shows in the United States and abroad since before moving to New York. In Philadelphia she received at B.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with a four-year painting certificate. Her interest in the moving image and multimedia, lead her to perform, write, produce, direct several live multi-media pieces, each of which included the performance participation of over a dozen actors, poets and dancers. Upon the introduction of computer digital editing programs, she made several videos, that featured her gestural performances as well as others that were based upon poetry and documentary subjects. These are often seen as a continuation of her earlier Super 8 film work and lead to screenings at numerous cultural centers, including the American Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, the Museum of American Art in Philadelphia and The Newhouse Center in Staten Island, New York.
www.liliwhite.com













Veiled Stories, 4:30 minutes
Through the eyes of a Muslim woman in the U.S.

Filmmakers:
Tala Dowlatshahi
Tala Dowlatshahi is a US Representative of Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans Frontieres)-the Paris-based media watchdog organization. More than a third of the world’s people live in countries where there is no press freedom. Reporters Without Borders works constantly to restore their right to be informed. Eighty-one media professionals lost their lives in 2006 for doing what they were paid to do– keep us informed. Today, more than 120 journalists around the world are in prison simply for doing their job. In Nepal, Eritrea and China, they can spend years in jail just for using the “wrong” word or photo. Reporters Without Borders believes imprisoning or killing a journalist is like eliminating a key witness which threatens everyone’s right to be informed. It has been fighting such practices for more than 17 years.
www.taladowlatshahi.com


* To submit work to Eye Am, please email eyeam@earthlink.net for details~
* Next Episode Sunday, July 6th 2008 Featuring the works of Vanessa Woods, Sarah Kriely, Emily DeGruchy, Judith van der Made. Victoria Kereszi, Sophia Peer, Kristi Ryba, Lili White, Penny Lane & Jessica Bardsley.

EA Program Featured at the 2008 Female Eye Film Festival

Saturday March 29th 2008
8:30pm
Canada Square Cinemas, 2190 Yonge Street, Concourse Level, (Yonge & Eglinton) Toronto

*52 Bis 2006 minidv/super8, experimental, 1:55 min.
Filmed at my grandmother's house in Paris, France 52 Bis leads the viewer through a house of memories, empty rooms, photographs that have been left behind and one light illuminating and obscuring what's inside. The continual shift between the positive and negative image serve to exploit the idea of presence and absence, or alternately the internal and external. The negative images become the bones of the house, or the bones of memory within its continually shifting spaces.

Filmmaker Bio: www.vanessawoods.com
Vanessa Woods graduated with a BA in art history and visual arts, cum laude from Barnard College. Her artwork and films have been exhibited internationally and she has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship for Film, a Film Arts Foundation Personal Works Grant, and the San Francisco Art Institute's prestigious MFA Film Fellowship, where she is currently pursuing her MFA degree. Woods has produced five short films that have been screened internationally including the Centre International d'Art in France, The Anthology Film Archives in New York, and the Pacific Film Archives in Berkeley. Woods is currently working on three new films, including a feature-length documentary titled Mimita, which follows the lives of a family of women raising their adopted child in Bronx, New York.

*Hail the Failure of Urban Planning (2007), minidv, experimental, 2:07 min.
A possibility of creation and constraint through a visual movement as an urban dweller. Accompanying the visual movement is a text of tenets of urban practice, both sincere and ironic.

Filmmaker Bio: www.giantpixie.com
Kim Khielhofner is an artist living and working in Montreal. She works across the mediums of video, drawing, installation, and sound. She has produced over 30 art book editions and exhibited across Europe and North America.

*Go Global 2007, minidv, experimental/doc, 5:45 min.
What happens when consumerism starts close to home and travels over distant lands only to come back to haunt us?

Filmmaker Bio: www.rpi.edu/~milleb
Branda Miller is an Artist, educator and activist who has been working with independent media since the 1970s. Her experimentation with media arts is integrally linked with community organizing. In her collaborative work with groups around the country, Miller involves participants in varied aspects of production so they take control of their own representation. The tapes produced in her youth empowerment workshops focus on issues such as teenage pregnancy, dropping out, crime, prison, drugs, and AIDS, offering a realistic yet upbeat treatment of what growing up in America is like today. Over the past 20 years, Branda has developed a portfolio of intriguing, award-winning works, examining topics in areas such as environmentalism, consumerism, social behavior and cyber culture.

*She used to see him most weekends, 2007, experimental., 4:07 min.
A short story about growing up, a certain love song, and the apocryphal memories of childhood. Simple animations create a picture book whose story is scrambled by time and loss.

Filmmaker Bio: www.p-lane.com
Penny Lane is an independent filmmaker and video artist living in western Massachusetts. Her collaborative and solo experimental, narrative and documentary videos have screened at AFI FEST, Int'l Film Festival Rotterdam, San Francisco Int'l Film Festival, Seattle Int'l Film Festival, Women in the Director's Chair, Santa Fe Art Institute, MOMA, and DUMBO Art Under the Bridge. Her award-winning documentaries The Abortion Diaries and Independent Media in a Time of War (the latter made with Hudson-Mohawk Indymedia) are regularly screened in classrooms, community centers and microcinemas across the U.S. and internationally on Free Speech TV. The Abortion Diaries has screened in 37 states at over 170 different community venues, ranging from bars to art centers to clinics to colleges. She earned her MFA in Integrated Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her BA in American Culture at Vassar College. Currently she is a visiting assistant professor of video and new media at Hampshire College and is working on an experimental documentary about a Depression-era madam with support from the LEF Moving Images Fund and the Experimental Television Center. And yes, that is her real name.

*Consciousness, Understanding 'N Trust (2005), minidv, experimental, 5:50 min.
Ventriloquism, lip-syncing, and appropriation all play subversive roles in the post-feminist retro-spoof, Consciousness, Understanding 'N Trust. In it, Oriana Fox plays a quirky cast of characters including Betty Crocker brunettes, soap opera blonds, and airhead redheads, as they become aware of their collective subjugation as women. The consciousness raising dialogue comes from varied sources ranging from Laura Cottingham's feminist documentary Not For Sale to 60s musical Bye Bye Birdie.

Filmmaker Bio: www.orianafox.com
Oriana Fox was born in New York in 1978, she currently lives and works in London. She received a BFA in Painting from Washington University in St. Louis in 2000 and went on to earn her MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College in London in 2003.Since graduating she has shown her work in galleries and film festivals throughout the UK and US including the Tate Modern and Photo Miami. She received an award for Best Experimental Video Art at the Short Ends World Film Festival held at the ICA in London. Currently, Fox works primarily in video, using lip-syncing and appropriation to tackle subjects such as the self-representation of feminist artists and TV's roles as mythmaker.

*Wee Dark Hours 2006, animation, 1:52 min.
A stop motion animation about a mother's love, a singing moon and
stars and the magic of being born. Short and sweet and made with felt!

Filmmaker Bio: www.meerkatmedia.org and www.growingchefs.blogspot.com
Annie Novak & Alexis Powell are both member of the Meerkat Media Collective. Annie Novak is an artist, farmer, and adventurer who is teaching folks across the globe the importance of local farming and a field-to-fork philosophy. Alexis Powell is a member of the Meerkat Media Collective, an arts collective dedicated to non-hierarchical art-making, and is also a member of the band festival. Together they are superheroes.

March 2nd 2008 Episode 16

Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens is a short film series showcasing women's memoir spanning across all genres of film and video.

EA airs @ 9:30-10:30pm the 1st Sunday of the month on...
Manhattan Neighborhood Network
Time Warner #34/ RCN #82 (in Manhattan)& Streaming Live Online at www.mnn.org (Worldwide)

Sunday March 2, 2008 Selected works from the 2007 Female Eye Film Festival.

About FeFF~
The Female Eye began in 2001 and celebrates International independent films by women
and is now in its 6th year.
femaleeyefilmfestival.com

Episode Breakdown~














Dance 2006
A study of choreography and friendship.

Filmmaker Bio:
Natasha is an Italian-Canadian who grew up in the suburbs, north of Toronto. At three years of age, she began and avid study of dance. She later graduated from the Ballet School of Woodbridge and became a certified teacher. Her love of dance was key in the development of many other of her artistic abilities, including painting, acting and writing. High school introduced her to new mediums, when she learned to shoot on 35 mm film and develop her pictures in the darkroom. Natasha was always an avid player in her school’s drama program, and in 2003, when Woodbridge College unveiled a revolutionary new film program, she was able to take her artistic passions to the next level. Two years after the programs initial year, Natasha travelled to Japan with the intentions of creating a short documentary on her travel companions, shot with her digital, hand held video camera. This documentary, entitled “Woodbridge College Invades Japan” was later showcased and viewed by the students, teachers and mayor of Sanjo City in 2005. In 2006, she was given the opportunity to create an experimental film on Super8, a medium she had never previously used. Under the guidance of Edie Stiener, independent film maker, photographer and environmental studies doctorial candidate at York University, Natasha created “Dance”, to be shown at the Female Eye Film festival in Toronto. She later spent a year in Ottawa, studying film and journalism at Carleton University. Natasha is currently completing a Bachelor in English Literature at the University of Toronto.














Beautiful, I guess 2006
A young girl's vision of beauty and all of the contradictions that come with it.

Filmmaker Bio:
Natasha Mariani (Dance) and Suneet Pabla (Beautiful, I guess) were both youth participants in the 2006 Female Eye Film Festival workshop series that gives young women the tools to create their visions in film form.














More Sensitive 35mm 2003
Life threatens to annihilate art as a performer sings his heart out to a less than attentive audience in a bar.

Filmmaker Bio: www.cartoonan.com
Gail Noonan’s life has consisted of a slow westward migration from the east to the west coast of Canada with a sojourn in the middle. She grew up in Nova Scotia , went to art school in Winnipeg and lived there for a number of years as a printmaker. A move to Vancouver prompted her to make a lateral transfer to film animation after a compressed two years of study at the Emily Carr Institute. She abandoned the city a number of years ago to live on Mayne Island, a move that has allowed her to focus on making her films. "More Sensitive" is the latest of seven animated films produced so far. Along with filmmaking Gail has also programmed animation screenings and taught various aspects of film animation. Currently she is exploring a new interest in songwriting combined with experimental animation.














Scoff 2006, 9mins by Renee Webster
A rural woman breaks out of isolation and finds herself in a familiar place.

















Beyond the Pearly Gates of Ill Repute 2006, 9mins. Super 8mm
An innocent young girl rents a room in a shady boarding house only to discover she is being held prisoner in a brothel! When her cash runs out, the callous Madame forces her to pay her rent by catering to the needs of her insalubrious clientele. The pious girl tries to defend her purity by exploiting the religious eccentricities of her customers... but will Jesus forgive her ultimate sin?

Filmmaker Bios:
Montréal born Elza Kephart graduated in Film Production from Emerson College in 1998. She then returned to her hometown where she wrote and directed her first feature GRAVEYARD ALIVE - A ZOMBIE NURSE IN LOVE, produced by Bastard Amber Productions. Since its premiere in 2003 the film has screened in over 20 international film festivals and garnered numerous awards, as well as being picked up for distribution and international sales. She is currently developing several feature projects.

Born in Chicago, Elizabeth Lawrence graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a Bachelors degree in film and video production. She has since been consistently working on both studio films and independent productions both in the Us and Canada. She has assisted the CEO of Lakeshore Entertainment on The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Underworld Evolution, The Last Kiss, and The Covenant. She has also coordinated, production managed and line produced several films including Boricua, Torte Bluma, The 5:22, Kosmos, among others. She has written and directed numerous shorts, including the award-winning Nightmarecrawlers. She is currently finishing a musical documentary.














Mrs. William Dixon 2001, 8:37 mins.
A housewife's intense fears are confronted at a simple dinner party.

Filmmaker Bio:
Elizabeth Edwards grew up in San Antonio, Texas then moved to New York City to attend college at Columbia University. She was a member of Choreotectonics, a professional dance company in Manhattan, and choreographed works for the Barnard College Dance Department. She won the Monticello Choreography award from Dance Magazine and her work was selected to attend the National College Dance Festival. She graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Film and Dance from Columbia before moving across the country to attend USC graduate film school. Elizabeth’s thesis film Mrs. William Dixon played at over a dozen film festivals including Deauville, Cinema Jove and the Houston International Film festival where it won the platinum award. Elizabeth also edited the award winning documentary Free a Man to Fight! Women Soldiers of World War II for the History Channel, feature films The Graffiti Artist and Eban and Charley and numerous reality television shows. While editing she started writing her the psychological thriller Hysteria. An early draft earned her a staff writing job on Fox Television’s “Rules of Deception.” After writing eight one hour episodes, Elizabeth completed Hysteria where it found its home with High Treason Productions. It is scheduled to go into production in 2008. Elizabeth is a mentor for the Young Storyteller’s Program which matches screenwriters with elementary school children from Los Angeles public schools. She has been a big sister in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program for six years.














The Barrows 2006, 10:06 mins.
A timeless love story in an unexpected place.

Filmmaker Bio: Tori Garrett
www.twolittleindians.com













Rock Garden: A Love Story 2007, 10:27 mins.
A Story about a lonely farmer named Ugg whose rocks are his pride and joy. Amidst a landscape of grey fields, he wakes with the sun to tend to them. Every evening he sits at home with his best ones and cleans them. Life is perfect - til Farmer Ugg meets his neighbour farmer Merr. He too wants to be a good farmer and plants his own rocks. The two men compete, side by side. until Farmer Ugg walks into his field one morning and finds a little red flower. And suddenly both men are transformed. Ands two men who were enemies finds themselves doing a slow waltz into the sunset.

Filmmaker Bio: www.rockgardenfilm.com
Born in Seoul, Korea, Gloria U. Y. Kim emigrated to Canada when she was three years old. Soon after graduating from the University of Toronto with her degree in English literature, she has written for Maclean’s as well as worked for such magazines as National Post Business, Report on Business, Canadian Living, Chatelaine and Canadian Business. Gloria found her true love when she started attending Ryerson for film. She has just completed her short film Rock Garden: A Love Story, which has been described by Oscar-nominated director Atom Egoyan as “absolutely beautiful” and “stunning”.

February 3rd 2008 Episode 15

Happy New Year from Eye AM~

Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens is a short film series showcasing women's memoir spanning across all genres of film and video.

EA airs @ 9:30-10:30pm the 1st Sunday of the month on...
Manhattan Neighborhood Network
Time Warner #34/ RCN #82 (in Manhattan)& Streaming Live Online at www.mnn.org (Worldwide)

Episode 15 - Sunday February 3rd/TWC 34/RCN 82 (in Manhattan)

Episode Breakdown~














Der Gruß von meiner Mutter (The Greeting from my Mother)
(2006 )12:25min
A liturgy, a litany, a laud, THE GREETING FROM MY MOTHER traces the sublime and almost invisible bonds of motherhood, daughterhood and sisterhood over "one hundred years and two world wars." Familial rites and rituals converge in the form of nebulous belief (sometimes objectively, sometimes as metonymy). Images whisper by, like rosary beads, pointing to an underlying message, a personal conclusion: the specifics are secondary, it is in reverence and repetition that salvation can be found, that an anchor can be grasped, that a weather candle can be lit.

Biography
Katja Straub is a native of Southern Germany and is currently pursuing her MfA in Film Production at the University of Texas at Austin. Before moving to Texas, Katja spent 10 years in Berlin freelancing as an art designer and painter for films and music videos. She also held an apprenticeship as a scene painter for the German Opera. She is a graduate of the University of the Arts in Berlin, where she received her Master in Experimental film. Her films have been screened in numerous festivals around the world including the Images Festival in Toronto, the Viper Basel in Switzerland and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. For her film “All White People Are French” she received the Special Jury Award at the South By Southwest Festival in Austin in 2005.
www.rocketfilm.de













Western (2007) 11:09 minutes
American morality tale, with a female reporter’s voiceover about disguising herself as a soldier, takes place in a typical motel room. Appropriated cinematic images mix with landscapes of New York, Monument Valley, and Tombstone. The historic gunfight at the O.K. Corral, portrayed in numerous films, has come to symbolize the struggle between law-and-order. Stories about “how the West was ‘won’” parallel those about conquering “the enemy”. If this was the television/entertainment staple for the American public what effect did its continued broadcast have in shaping our society’s mindset?

Biography
Lili White has been exhibiting her works in solo and group shows in the United States and abroad since before moving to New York. In Philadelphia she received at B.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with a four-year painting certificate. Her interest in the moving image and multimedia, lead her to perform, write, produce, direct several live multi-media pieces, each of which included the performance participation of over a dozen actors, poets and dancers. Upon the introduction of computer digital editing programs, she made several videos, that featured her gestural performances as well as others that were based upon poetry and documentary subjects. These are often seen as a continuation of her earlier Super 8 film work and lead to screenings at numerous cultural centers, including the American Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, the Museum of American Art in Philadelphia and The Newhouse Center in Staten Island, New York.
www.liliwhite.com
















Troubadour (2007) 27:14 min.
A psychedelic journey of self-discovery through virtual space of the imagination, a landscape of the mind- and of the unknown. Our heroine Metalmags is a wandering minstrel, a lost soul, glam rocker,a psychonaut, a superhero, a mime, a depressed 20-something – any and all apply. At first, she is without hope – stranded in an alien world- haunted by memories of another time and place. But with the aid of a self-help tape, her persepctive and the course of her path are transformed. Troubadour's hand-crafted lo-fi sounds and visuals offer an intimate view of the emotional realms of consciousness and creativity. A meditation on soul-searching in an age of anxiety, Troubadour is on your side.

Biography
Erica Magrey is an artist and musician exploring the ways in which fantasy shapes reality and identity. Much of her video work takes a cue from sci-fi and kids' TV shows, employing costumes and handmade miniature sets to portray alien worlds and beings. Erica often uses the perosna Metalmags, a kind of caricature of her music project of the same name, in her work. Erica has a BFA in Photography from Hartford Art School in Bloomfield, CT and an MFA is Photography, Video, and Related Media from SVA in NYC. Erica lives and works in New York.
www.ericamagrey.com














nature nature (2005) 1:57 min.
Based on a haiku by Simon Baron, nature nature portrays a very real, present and no less natural underside of existence that remains outside the embrace of those who declare a “reverence for nature.” A graphic image of the aftermath of “cutting” (self-mutilation) is softened, prettified and bloodied again in unreal computer graphication; a mechanical songbird is the subject of a childlike poem and sweet Grimlike unjust desserts in reverent uneven burlesque of Hitchcock and horrorfilm. Marianne Faithful sings.

Biography
Hilda Daniel is a multi-media artist based in New York City (her permanent home after a childhood in Singapore and adolescence in Hollywood). Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and festivals in New York, London and other cities, included in internet and print projects, broadcast on cable television and reviewed in the New York Times, Performance Art Journal, New Art Examiner, artnet.com and other publications.

Don't Miss~
Episode 16 - Sunday March 2nd MNN.org/TWC 34/RCN 82 (in Manhattan):
Selected works from the Female Eye Film Festival
www.femaleeyefilmfestival.com

January 6th 2008 Episode 14

Happy New Year from Eye AM~

Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens is a short film series showcasing women's memoir spanning across all genres of film and video.

EA airs @ 9:30-10:30pm the 1st Sunday of the month on...
Manhattan Neighborhood Network
Time Warner #34/ RCN #82 (in Manhattan)& Streaming Live Online at www.mnn.org (Worldwide)

Tune in January 6th for the work of Kim Khielhofner, Lili White, Diane Spodarek, & Katarina Maloney.

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Hail the Failure of Urban Planning (2007) 2:07 min.
A possibility of creation and constraint through a visual movement as an urban dweller. Accompanying the visual movement is a text of tenets of urban practice, both sincere and ironic.

Biography
Kim Khielhofner is an artist living and working in Montreal. She works across the mediums of video, drawing, installation, and sound. She has produced over 30 art book editions and exhibited across Europe and North America.
www.giantpixie.com














Sailing the Byzantium (2007) 11:54 min.
Simultaneously in the two grand-mother lands at once — a Slovenian town square at sunset, and rummaging through the other grandmother’s forgotten property in Ireland.
The title is taken from Yeats’ poem; whereby he muses on how immortality, art, and the human spirit may converge, while journeying to Byzantium. He describes the metaphorical journey of an artist pursuing his own vision of eternal life.

Biography
Lili White has been exhibiting her works in solo and group shows in the United States and abroad since before moving to New York. In Philadelphia she received at B.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with a four-year painting certificate. Her interest in the moving image and multimedia, lead her to perform, write, produce, direct several live multi-media pieces, each of which included the performance participation of over a dozen actors, poets and dancers. Upon the introduction of computer digital editing programs, she made several videos, that featured her gestural performances as well as others that were based upon poetry and documentary subjects. These are often seen as a continuation of her earlier Super 8 film work and lead to screenings at numerous cultural centers, including the American Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, the Museum of American Art in Philadelphia and The Newhouse Center in Staten Island, New York.
www.liliwhite.com














Dreaming New Zealand (2006) 3:03
In a dreamy realm suspended somewhere between her childhood Ontario residence and her new found dwelling in New Zealand, Diane ponders her connections to time, marriage, mother-daughter bonds, the sea, and home.

Biography
Diane Spodarek
Diane is a Canadian-American artist who grew up in Detroit. She moved to New York in 1983 and has been living in NY and New Zealand since June, 2005. Each Summer she returns to Belle River, Ontario to be with her family. Diane is an award-winning artist, writer and playwright. Also a performer she has performed her own one-person shows as well as acted in various off-off Broadway productions and independent films. As a visual artist Diane has collaborated with Jay Yager since 1983 creating original video art productions for which she performs and writes. Many of these productions have won awards in international festivals and are owned in various public and private collections.
www.dianespodarek.com
www.dangerousdiane.blogspot.com














Cambubu (2004) 32 minutes
A personal portrayal of the artist's 8 month journey
throughout India at the age of 20. she went there seeking the exotic
and instead found celebrity and loneliness, but most importantly,
love. shot randomly at inspired moments, the film is the story of "her
india."

Biography:
Katarina Maloney considers herself a seeker and world traveler.
continuously fascinated by the foreign and new, she is always looking
for interesting ways of connecting with others and expressing herself.
she moved to nyc right after graduating from uc berkeley. all of her
short films are viewable at
www.katarinajack.com