Williamstown, Mass. - Images Cinema announces the second annual MOVING IMAGES 2006 Dance + Film Festival, a festival of work for the camera, exploring the possibilities of dance, movement, video, and film and created by artists from the region. This year's screenings will take place on Sunday, September 17 at 7pm, at Images Cinema. Admission is regular ticket price, and includes a reception to follow the screening.
Images Cinema is located at 50 Spring Street in Williamstown, MA.
This year, Moving Images highlights the work of Williamstown native Marta Renzi, including the premier of her newest film, PORCH STORIES, which was shot in North Adams last November with many local performers. Marta's work in dance and film have spanned more than 20 years. New experimental films by regional artists Loren Robertson and Joe Holt will also screen.
Directed, choreographed and edited by Renzi, PORCH STORIES (2006 - running time 16:52) takes place on a quietly momentous afternoon where separate lives intersect, thanks to a landscape of porches and stairs. The cinematography, like the dance, is modest and deliberately low-key:
a narrative told in hints, passing looks, a shared cup of coffee. PORCH STORIES was a finalist in the Moondance International Film Festival in Boulder, Colorado, and features appearances from a number with ties to the area. Come catch a glimpse of Penny Bucky, Judy Fitzgerald, Evelyn Gallese, Lynn Hood, Vladimir Mijanovic, Petra Mijanovic, Marta Miller, Rob Torrentino, and Sharon Wyrrick, Anthony Rodriguez, Robert Biggs and Kevin Soucie, as well as the camera work of Robin Doty. Other performers include Arthur Aviles, Leya Barsky, Lily and Daphne Corey, Charles Rice-Gonzalez, and Jenny Tortorello. PORCH STORIES has been produced by Marta Miller, Maggie Renzi, and Dancers, Inc.
Renzi will be present and also give an overview of her work in video and film showing excerpts from YOU LITTLE WILD HEART (1981), SOFT SELL (1986), MOUNTAINVIEW (1989), THE WELCOME TABLE (2005), and FLEET WEEK (2006). Marta has made work for the stage, film and television and on location since 1976 with site-specific dances for the Guggenheim Museum, Union Station in Washington, D.C., and on ferry boats and beaches. These works led naturally to creating in video and film. YOU LITTLE WILD HEART was Renzi's first half-hour for television, made in 1981 and set to the music of Bruce Springsteen. MOUNTAINVIEW, made in 1989 in collaboration with independent filmmaker John Sayles, was aired on "Alive From Off Center", won the PROCIREP Prize at Cannes that year, and was shown in the Black Maria, Toronto, San Jose, Charlotte, Sacramento and Dallas Film Festivals. Renzi has been commissioned to make dances across the U.S. and abroad, including the Wagon Train Project in Nebraska, Balletteatro in Portugal - and Ben & Jerry's dancing ice cream flavors. As part of a continuing commitment to making dance accessible, she helped inugurate the "Inside/Out" program of public performances at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, and makes frequent appearances outdoors in public spaces. This fall, Marta will be in residence at Williams College creating a new live performance work (which may include video) in collaboration with the modern dance company.
The September 17th event will open with two experimental shorts by area artists. Loren Robertson, a senior in dance and in film studies at Mount Holyoke College and independent producer of dance video work, will screen her A SLOW DANCE (2006). Joe Holt, a professor of Computer Science at Bennington College, will screen his UNTITLED (DANCE) (2006). The artists will be present to introduce their work.
Dance and film festivals are springing up in venues across the U.S. and internationally. Festival coordinator Sharon Wyrrick's inspiration for a festival at Images Cinema evolved out of an awareness of a wealth of artists in the region making work combining dance and film, and a desire to encourage new work by these artists while providing a setting for it to be seen. Moving Images also seeks to be an artist-centered event where the artists themselves are present at their screenings to introduce their work, and for discussion about their creative process and inspiration.
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