2012 Fringe Festival

 

 

cinema pacific fringe festival

april 6 - 22, 2012

Thursday - Saturday, 5pm - 9pm
(Closing Party Sunday, April 22)

44 West BROADWAY

(BROADWAY COMMERCE CENTER)

 

This year, the Cinema Pacific Fringe Festival will be an exercise in video creativity inspired by director Teinosuke Kinugasa's 1926 black-and-white silent film Kurutta Ippeiji (A Page of Madness). Participants are invited to re-appropriate images and sounds from A Page of Madness into a 2-5 minute remix that responds to the film. The best entries, selected by a jury of filmmakers and curators, will be displayed within a larger media installation created by University of Oregon digital arts students. The three top winners will receive cash awards.

 

2012 Special Events

 

April 6: Opening party

april 13: Mask Making with kumoricon & full screening of "A Page of madness"

April 19: media mashers (re)mixer

 

About the Film: A Page of Madness

Japan, 1926
Directed by Teinosuke Kingugasa
Screenplay by Yasunari Kawabata, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Minoru Inuzuka
Cinematography by Kôhei Sugiyama
Cast: Masuo Inoue, Yoshie Nakagawa, Ayako Iijima, Hiroshi Nemoto
Running time: 59 minutes
Lost for fifty years until director Kinugasa rediscovered the film in his garden shed in 1971, A Page of Madness challenges even the most seasoned silent film viewer with its fast-paced editing and sophisticated camera work. Based off a story by Yasunari Kawabata, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature, the film is set in a mental institution and follows the building’s janitor and his struggle to free his mentally unstable wife from the grounds of the institution. Although we learn little about any one character, the entire asylum is showcased much like the supporting players in One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest, with brief glimpses into their delusions and disturbing behaviors. The somewhat confusing plot is hardly of concern, however, despite a lack of intertitles and the loss of nearly two-thirds of the original print. Influenced by Eisenstein and the school of Soviet montage, Kinugasa’s film unfolds in a highly disjunctive manner, filled with hallucinations and dream sequences, eerie close ups, and bizarre imagery. The result of an avant garde group known as the School of New Perceptions, who sought to obliterate naturalistic representation, A Page of Madness was shot on an incredibly tight budget, with well-known actors often doubling as crew members. Now considered a forerunner of its time, the film is often praised for its modernity and challenging content matter. For more information regarding A Page of Madness, visit http://kuruttaippeiji.blogspot.com/2007/08/kurutta-ippeiji-page-of-madness-at.html.

 

submission guidelines (now closed)

 

Source Material:
Artists can use any combination of footage, typography, music and effects they have created themselves with at least thirty seconds of images and sounds from A Page of Madness. They may also mix in other appropriated images and sounds that are in the public domain, such as archival footage from the free, online Prelinger Archives and music and sounds from ccmixter.com. Material appropriately licensed with the Creative Commons is encouraged. For more information on the Creative Commons, visit http://creativecommons.org/

Technical Requirements:
Submissions for the Cinema Pacific Fringe Festival must meet the technical standards for video submissions found on Vimeo found at https://vimeo.com/help/faq/general_vimeo_questions#recommended_settings The basic information for these standards include using the h.264 video codec, AAC audio codec (320 kbps bit rate and to 44.100 kHz. sample rate), and setting minimum resolution to 640x480.

Right-click and Save to Download Kurutta Ippeiji.

Submission Sites:

Please submit remixes to Vimeo or Youtube and send an email to fringefest@uoregon.edu with the submission link. Please enclose the entry form with your submission. If you are having trouble downloading the film, please send a detailed email to fringefest@uoregon.edu and we'll help you out.
Other delivery methods include:
Drop Off:
Baker Downtown Center, 975 High Street, Eugene, OR (M-F 8am to 5pm)

Mail To:
Fringe Festival, Cinema Pacific, C/o Academic Extension, 1277 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403
 

2011 Fringe Festival Winners

 

 

 

2011 Fringe Festival winners are:

  First Prize ($200): Seventy-Seven by Doug Potts
  Second Prize ($100): The Goddess by Colin Zeal
  Third Prize ($50): The Dream by Lisa Hewitt
  Honorable Mention: The Night is Falling by Max McNally
 

2010 Fringe Festival Winners

 

Running time: 2-5 minutes maximum


More information:

Exhibition Right

Upon submission, artists grant Cinema Pacific the right to present their work in various sites including, but not limited to, gallery projection, television cablecast, or online.