nervousfilms » brent http://site.nervousfilms.com official site of Brent Green Tue, 15 May 2012 16:46:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 NYC Gallery show/More EMPAC!!! Gravity live DVD!!! http://site.nervousfilms.com/2012/04/18/nyc-gallery-showmore-empac-gravity-live-dvd/ http://site.nervousfilms.com/2012/04/18/nyc-gallery-showmore-empac-gravity-live-dvd/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:49:09 +0000 brent http://site.nervousfilms.com/?p=450 I worked and worked on the animation. To Many Men Strange Fates Are Given is rolling up to the Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York May 5-June 23.
It’s a sculpture (made with some brilliant RPI/EMPAC folks- Eric Ameres and Ryan Jenkins). Part of the sculpture is a 12-minute hand-drawn animation, roughly about the woman who made the spacesuit for Laika. Sort of. There’s no way to see the film outside of the sculpture, unless you’re standing next to me and I am standing next to my computer. Go to New York! There’s other things there, too. In New York.

EMPAC is starting a DVD/Blu-ray series!!! Of important art performances!!!

As if there needed to be more reasons to love those folks. Jem Cohen’s showing his new We Have An Anchor project up there. The band is incredible- Jim White, Guy Picciotto, members of A Silver Mt. Zion and Godspeed You Black Emperor. That thing’s going to be unreal. On April 27th: http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2012/spring/quote/cohen/

I was going to say EMPAC is including the Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then performance in its DVD set, but I kept saying it poorly, so I will say it again better later.

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]]> http://site.nervousfilms.com/2012/04/18/nyc-gallery-showmore-empac-gravity-live-dvd/feed/ 0 Buffalo and Chicago live things and theatrical things http://site.nervousfilms.com/2012/02/15/buffalo-and-chicago-live-things-and-theatrical-things/ http://site.nervousfilms.com/2012/02/15/buffalo-and-chicago-live-things-and-theatrical-things/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:24:31 +0000 brent http://site.nervousfilms.com/?p=448 We’re doing Gravity live at Hallwalls in Buffalo. 7PM on March 4th. It’ll be good. http://www.hallwalls.org/media-arts/5213.html

Then, there’s a lecture with live band accompaniment- short films and rantings at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, March 28 at 6PM: http://www.saic.edu/art_design/vap/index.html#current_series/SLC_38429
It’s a pretty amazing lecture series. Ben Marcus, Sam Lipsyte and Marilyn Minter are right before me. The band for our thing is Jim Becker (Califone, Iron&Wine), Joe Adamik (Califone, Iron&Wine), Michael McGinley (the Bitter Tears, Califone, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then) and Donna K (Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then).

After the SAIC thing, there’s a couple screenings of Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then- the theatrical version complete with wobbly homemade soundtrack- at the Gene Siskel Center:
Thursday, March 29, 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 31, 12:30 p.m.
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/gravity-was-everywhere-back-then

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Incidentally, Fandor just put some of my short films on their site. They’re kind of a curated version of Netflix, only they cost less, have better films- tons and tons of incredible short films- All of Phil Mulloy’s short films. Phil Mulloy is fucking incredible. And you can see his films on Fandor. That’s what I was aiming to say.

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]]> http://site.nervousfilms.com/2012/01/31/sundancefandor/feed/ 0 Brecht and me http://site.nervousfilms.com/2011/12/07/brecht-and-me/ http://site.nervousfilms.com/2011/12/07/brecht-and-me/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:54:04 +0000 brent http://site.nervousfilms.com/?p=437 This is right: http://www.filmmakersjournal.co.uk/article.php?id=66

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]]> http://site.nervousfilms.com/2011/12/07/brecht-and-me/feed/ 0 Barcelona! Miami! New Work! Good old exhaustion! http://site.nervousfilms.com/2011/11/29/barcelona-miami/ http://site.nervousfilms.com/2011/11/29/barcelona-miami/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:01:19 +0000 brent http://site.nervousfilms.com/?p=433 I’m pretty thrilled that Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then won the grand prize/best fiction feature at L’Alternativa in Barcelona, Spain! Every single film in competition looked gorgeous- any of them could have won. I’m feeling lucky they picked Gravity.

There’s the Miami art fair business, too. Andrew Edlin Gallery is showing an excerpt of my new film/sculpture To Many Men Strange Fates Are Given (made with Eric Ameres, Ryan Jenkins and the rest of the EMPAC team) at the Pulse Art Fair. There’s a big version of the sculpture (premiering at Sundance in January) and a more manageable version- he’ll have the more manageable version on hand.

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]]> http://site.nervousfilms.com/2011/11/29/barcelona-miami/feed/ 0 Sundance! http://site.nervousfilms.com/2011/11/09/sundance-3/ http://site.nervousfilms.com/2011/11/09/sundance-3/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:39:57 +0000 brent http://site.nervousfilms.com/?p=427 Well. It’s much more complicated than this. Much more. But this thing is premiering at Sundance 2012 this January.

I built it at EMPAC in Troy, NY with Eric Ameres, Ryan Jenkins and Donna K (with additional help from Mick Bello, Zackary Belanger and Bill Bergman). It doesn’t look anything like it looked when we made that video. Right now it looks like this:

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]]> http://site.nervousfilms.com/2011/11/09/sundance-3/feed/ 0 A few more live shows coming up http://site.nervousfilms.com/2011/08/15/a-few-more-live-shows-coming-up/ http://site.nervousfilms.com/2011/08/15/a-few-more-live-shows-coming-up/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:19:02 +0000 brent http://site.nervousfilms.com/?p=422 September 29- Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA
September 30- Wexner Center, Columbus, OH
October 1- Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
October 2- IU Cinema, Bloomington, IN
October 3- Ball State University, Muncie, IN

October 14- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

We postponed our IFC show. Sorry. We’ll reschedule, probably in December or January.

More likely February or March.

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]]> http://site.nervousfilms.com/2011/08/15/a-few-more-live-shows-coming-up/feed/ 0 I’m no good at updating things http://site.nervousfilms.com/2011/08/06/im-no-good-at-updating-things/ http://site.nervousfilms.com/2011/08/06/im-no-good-at-updating-things/#comments Sat, 06 Aug 2011 22:54:01 +0000 brent http://site.nervousfilms.com/?p=419 But Donna K is. She writes about all the goings on: http://gravitywaseverywherebackthen.blogspot.com/

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]]> http://site.nervousfilms.com/2011/08/06/im-no-good-at-updating-things/feed/ 0 July http://site.nervousfilms.com/2011/06/16/july/ http://site.nervousfilms.com/2011/06/16/july/#comments Fri, 17 Jun 2011 02:03:18 +0000 brent http://www.site.nervousfilms.com/?p=409 First off, here’s an interview with John Swartz. He plays cello with us, and is an absolutely brilliant photographer. He’s also a weirdo. He sits in the very back of the van. It’s nice to finally hear him talk. http://no-alternative-daily.blogspot.com/2011/06/interview-series-3-john-michael-swartz.html Turns out he’s cool.

July 1-3- Gravity is screening at Fest Anca in Bratislava, Slovak Republic. It’s an animation festival, and it seems like most animators are hard up. This site features a toothed vagina with clitoris eyeball.
July1-17- Gravity is screening at Fantaspoa in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Information complete with foxy bleeding octopus lady here: http://www.fantaspoa.com/2011/noticia_view.php?id=17

Brazil is sexier than Slovakia, I guess.

July 21-31, Gravity is screening at the ERA New Horizons Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland- I’m going to be in attendance: http://www.nowehoryzonty.pl/index.do

We’re going to Australia!!! Doing a the Gravity live show at the Revelation Perth International Film Festival on July 17th. This fest is going to be amazing. I think Tony Conrad’s going to be there. I know Marie Losier’s film, The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, will be.

We’re leaving Mike McGinley (and Holli McGinley) in Australia, and Donna K, John Swartz, Drew Henkels and I are heading to Europe for a few more live Gravity shows.
July 20: Malmö, Sweden, Music Doc Malmö
July 22: Hammenhög, Sweden
July 23: Copenhagen, Denmark
July 27: Black Rat Projects, London, England

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