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New content, new events, new look. launches early summer. Check back!
CURRENT EXHIBITION PROJECT: FREE FORM FILM SERIES
A monthly exhibit of film and video at ATA in San Francisco. Check out the "Tour" section for the details on each screening.
FFFF ANNOUNCES NEW ADOPTED PROJECTS:
#1. LOST MEDIA ARCHIVE:
If you have ever tried, you know that it takes a lot of work to create a film or record an album. As people toss out their records, cassettes and CD's for MP3's, their old VHS tapes for DVDs, and even their DVDs for easily downloaded video files, what happens to the old music and movies that nobody bothers to re-release? And what if you're a filmmaker or recordist who still wants to make super-8 films or record songs on a reel-to reel? What if you want to step back even further in time to the era of wax cylinder recordings, and the camera obscura? This is where the Lost Media Archive comes in...
Based in Salt Lake City, UT, the LMA is a collection of mondo/kitch/cult/ephemeral/experimental/historical/obsolete/forgotten/unearthed audio-visual and textual documents. The LMA is also a resource for those who cling to bygone media formats. We accept donations of any and all projection, recording and filming devices. When possible, we maintain these machines for use by recordists and filmmakers.
We hope to establish the LMA as a physical library space by early summer. Local patrons will be able to check out videos, records, films, projectors, and countless other media-objects.
The LMA's secondary project is to curate the Free Form Film Festival's "OUT" programs (just take a look at the video that's running on this page). "OUT" is a touring program of outsider film and video. Not unlike other Outsider Art (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art) , Outsider film and video is work that is often brilliant, often obtuse, but always incredibly fascinating. It's the fringe media that's so true it can't be anything but fringe media!
The LMA was founded by Blair Sterrett and will continue to expand its projects with loaf-i productions and the Free Form Film Festival. A little more information is available on the temporary LMA website: http://lostmedia.blogspot.com/
#2. OUT/EX FILM SERIES
OUT/EX is a fusion of Outsider and Experimental film. Programs will alternate between works that intentionally push boundaries and other works that just can't help it. Astounding, provocative, and sometimes just plain weird, we promise to show you stuff you could never see anywhere else! OUT/EX is Utah's only TRUE fringe film series and is made possible via a residency with the Trasa Urban Arts Collective (otherwise known as the Utah Pickle Company).
WHERE: No Brow Coffee and Tea Company (315 E. 300 S. Salt Lake City).
WHEN: The third Saturday of each month ... Always the day after the monthly SLC Gallery Stroll!
FILMMAKERS who enter the Free Form Film Festival will automatically be considered for OUT/EX. Best of all, a $500 prize will be awarded to the most significant experimental work shown in 2008. This award is made possible by the Trasa Urban Arts Collective.
#3. FFFFTV
Free Form Television is not so far away now. For some time we have been organizing, planning, scheming... Internet TV may be the future of media, but anyone can see it is still lacking in quality. In this new era of totally disposable trash-media, our goal is to provide Internet TV that actually makes you glad you were watching and not ashamed of the time wasted. In just a few months, the FFFF will begin hosting regular programs that you can view via the comfort of your own computer screen. Programming will include innovative short films, unfiltered indie-newscasts and up-to-date video coverage of some of the coolest film festivals around.
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