2011 Fringe Festival

The Cinema Pacific Fringe Festival announces Video Remix Competition Winners and Exhibition Dates

2010 Festival Winners

 

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Location:
39 W. Broadway @ Willamette (old Taco Time building)
Friday, April 1, 6 to 10 pm

Opening Night Party (part of downtown Eugene’s First Friday Art Walk)

April 2-9, 2 to 6 pm daily

Exhibit open to public

April 10, 2 to 10 pm
Gallery open throughout afternoon;
exclusive screening of The Goddess at 7pm followed by Closing Night Party
The Fringe Festival of the Cinema Pacific film festival has picked its top three winners in its annual video remix competition. The three winning videos and a fourth “honorable mention” will screen in the Fringe Festival gallery in the old Taco Time building at 39 West Broadway (and Willamette). The Fringe Festival invites the public to the  opening night reception on Friday, April 1 from 6p.m. – 10pm during and after the First Friday artwalk. The exhibition will be open daily April 2–10  from 2-6pm, with a closing night party scheduled on April 10 from 6-10pm.

The winning videos all remix the classic 1934 silent Chinese classic The Goddess, which will be screened in its entirety in the Fringe Festival gallery at 7pm on April 10. According to Cinema Pacific director Richard Herskowitz: “The fascinating thing about this year’s winners is that they all have such interesting musical scores. Silent films were never silent, and were almost always accompanied by music or narration, and these videos re-interpret the original film through innovative soundtracks. The winning films also create new narratives from the original film, and are very impressive works of video art.”

The 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

The Fringe Festival exhibition also contains two video installations created by student artists from UO’s Digital Arts and Intermedia Music Technology programs. Carly Riegel has designed a walkway with video and vinyl cut-out components that comment on scenes from The Goddess, and Jon Bellona and Max McNally have created an interactive media interpretation of The Goddess that will respond to the movements of visitors. The entire installation has been supervised by Fringe Festival coordinators Megan Lallier-Barron and Roya Amirsoleymani, students in UO’s Arts and Administration Program.

Past Call for 2011 Submissions: The Goddess Remixed

This year, the Fringe Festival of Cinema Pacific will be an exercise in video creativity inspired by director Yonggang Wu’s 1934 black-and-white silent film The Goddess. UO student artists are being invited to appropriate images and sounds from The Goddess into a 2-5 minute collage film that responds to this powerful film. The best entries, selected by a jury of filmmakers and curators, will be displayed within a larger media installation created by digital arts students. The three top prizewinners will receive cash awards

A panel of judges will evaluate each completed work and first, second and third prize cash awards will be given. Participation in the Fringe Festival is restricted to current-UO students only.

Submission Info

Deadline: Friday, March 25, 2011, received in our office or by email by 5pm. Deadline is past! Submissions 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 The Goddess. 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.

Who may submit: Registered UO students only

Format of Submitted Video: 4×3 aspect ratio; Quicktime DV or AVI DV; PCM audio; delivered on compact data disc or sent via YouSendIt

Running time: 2-5 minutes maximum

Application: Enclose the entry form with your submission.

Delivery methods:

Drop off: Baker Downtown Center, 975 High Street in Eugene, at the EmX High Street Station. M-F 8am to 5pm

Mail to:

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

YouSendIt: fringefest@uoregon.edu Subject: ATTN: Fringe – Submission

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.