It’s a fully in-person edition for the 2nd Arca International Festival of Films on Arts in Uruguay as it shakes off the pandemic blues that saw some guest cancellations last year.
“Despite the peak Covid situation last January, we had approximately 5,000 attendees,” says fest director Mercedes Sader, who pointed out that the event’s outdoor screenings were ideal for the times.
Running Jan. 2-7 this year, Arca kicked off in 2022 to coincide with the inauguration of the coastal resort town’s first contemporary art museum, the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Atchugarry (MacA). The 75,000 sq. ft. museum designed by architect Carlos Ott commands vistas of a 99-acre sculpture park and sweeping grounds that include an outdoor amphitheater, a smaller outdoor theatre for video art screenings, forests and a helipad. The museum houses Cine MacA, an indoor theatre with a 100-seat capacity.
“We learned last year how to integrate the outdoor screenings in this spectacular setting,...
“Despite the peak Covid situation last January, we had approximately 5,000 attendees,” says fest director Mercedes Sader, who pointed out that the event’s outdoor screenings were ideal for the times.
Running Jan. 2-7 this year, Arca kicked off in 2022 to coincide with the inauguration of the coastal resort town’s first contemporary art museum, the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Atchugarry (MacA). The 75,000 sq. ft. museum designed by architect Carlos Ott commands vistas of a 99-acre sculpture park and sweeping grounds that include an outdoor amphitheater, a smaller outdoor theatre for video art screenings, forests and a helipad. The museum houses Cine MacA, an indoor theatre with a 100-seat capacity.
“We learned last year how to integrate the outdoor screenings in this spectacular setting,...
- 1/2/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
It’s been many decades since composers first started treating recorded noises like Play-Doh—kneading, doubling, and looping them; slowing them down and speeding them up; dressing them in all sorts of electronic disguises; and stitching them together with theater, film, photos, and architecture. Now that the manipulation of sound has long since passed through its experimental infancy into artistic maturity and on to commercial refinement—that’s when MoMA decides the time is ripe for its first exhibition dedicated to new frontiers in sound art. Leading from the rear.“Soundings: A Contemporary Score,” organized by the museum’s media-and-performance-art curator Barbara London, treats the genre as if it had just been born and John Cage had never lived. Half of the sixteen artists in the show are in their thirties, and their work is presented in contextless purity, gliding by virtually all the issues that sound art raises—how...
- 8/3/2013
- by Justin Davidson
- Vulture
The Vimeo Festival and Awards (which wrapped its second edition on Saturday, June 9) is definitely not your average film festival. Technology panels are interspersed with workshops on lighting, sound and editing; videos often run in the sub-five-minute range; and unpacking the unique challenges of being a maker in the digital age is always at the foreground of conversation. Which is to say that the focus is pretty much everywhere but the classic 90-minute-ish film you'd see in the movie theater. 'Limited Editions in the Digital World' was one session I watched with avid interest. It featured Museum of Modern Art curator Barbara London and video artist Marco Brambilla, talking about the peculiar challenges of applying notions of 'collectability' to digital works when YouTube and Vimeo make video so ubiquitous. Coming from the fine art world, they were interested in cultivating scarcity. As someone who provides digital strategy consulting to creative individuals,...
- 6/14/2012
- TribecaFilm.com
February 20 is the deadline for submitting to the 2012 Vimeo Awards, which will be presented during this year’s Vimeo Festival + Awards, June 7 – 9 in New York City. Filmmaker Magazine is a sponsor of the awards, which go to original works in 13 different categories that premiered July 31, 2010 and February 20, 2012, or which never premiered at all. For 2012, Vimeo has assembled a pretty amazing group of judges, including actor and director James Franco; Parks and Recreation Star Aziz Ansari, 2012 Oscar Nominee Lucy Walker; documentarian Steve James; Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood; Scott Pilgrim vs. the World director Edgar Wright; snowboard superstar Travis Rice; Thierry Mugler and Uniqlo creative director Nicola Formichetti; Shelly Page of DreamWorks Animation; Barbara London of The Museum of Modern Art; Showstudio’s Nick Knight; camera guru Philip Bloom; and advertising legend David Droga.
Grants of $5,000 will be awarded to the winners of each category, and $25,000 goes to a single Best Video winner.
Grants of $5,000 will be awarded to the winners of each category, and $25,000 goes to a single Best Video winner.
- 2/14/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
DVD Review
With the upcoming release of Burlesque, Cher’s first starring role in 11 years, MGM is releasing a box set featuring six of Cher’s films on DVD.
Good Times
Directed by: William Friedkin
Cast: Sonny Bono, Cher, George Sanders
Running Time: 1 hr 30 min
Rating: Nr
Due Out: November 2, 2010
Plot: Sonny and Cher are asked to make a movie! The rest of the film loosely follows the couple as they imagine various scenarios for their movie.
Who’S It For? Do you like Sonny and Cher? Especially Sonny? Because he’s the real star of this venture.
Movie:
The film follows the variety show format used on Sonny and Cher’s show, though it doesn’t really work for a movie. They want to recreate the fun of Help! but as people, they’re just not that engaging. Or more accurately, Sonny isn’t. But that isn’t the only problem,...
With the upcoming release of Burlesque, Cher’s first starring role in 11 years, MGM is releasing a box set featuring six of Cher’s films on DVD.
Good Times
Directed by: William Friedkin
Cast: Sonny Bono, Cher, George Sanders
Running Time: 1 hr 30 min
Rating: Nr
Due Out: November 2, 2010
Plot: Sonny and Cher are asked to make a movie! The rest of the film loosely follows the couple as they imagine various scenarios for their movie.
Who’S It For? Do you like Sonny and Cher? Especially Sonny? Because he’s the real star of this venture.
Movie:
The film follows the variety show format used on Sonny and Cher’s show, though it doesn’t really work for a movie. They want to recreate the fun of Help! but as people, they’re just not that engaging. Or more accurately, Sonny isn’t. But that isn’t the only problem,...
- 11/20/2010
- by Megan Lehar
- The Scorecard Review
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