Steiner Visit Info and Scheduling

Steiner Visit Schedule March 12-15: http://cw.emuenglish.org/?p=986

If at all possible, please plan to attend the Mon. evening lecture/demonstration from 5-8pm at the Mix marketplace in Downtown Ypsi, one of the Wed. evening performances with Carla at the Dreamland Theater, and the Thur. night Cabaret. 


Also, please become familiar with his work before next week by looking through the info and links below:
 
Konrad Steiner 
 makes short non-narrative films in the American experimental tradition of unipersonal production, winning awards and screening in festivals worldwide. His primary interest is to use the moving image as a medium for compositions in language, sound and cinematography.
http://canyoncinema.com/ catalog/filmmaker/?i=297

He served on the curatorial committee of San Francisco Cinematheque from 2003-2006. In 2007 he co-founded and produced (with Irina Leimbacher) the screening and performance series kino21.
The program calendar is archived at: http://www.kino21.org/

In the last five years, his work has increasingly involved live cinema collaborations with musicians (SF Bay Area composers Jon Raskin of ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Matt Ingalls of SFSound, new music ensemble and big band leader Graham Connah) and poets (Leslie Scalapino, Steve Benson, Brent Cunningham, Carla Harryman and Jen Hofer).

In a longer term project since 2003, he has worked with dozens of writers from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Portland, Chicago, Buffalo and New York to produce shows dedicated to the renewed interest in adapting the tradition of live movie telling, an art which was brought to its apex in Japan, Korea and other East Asian nations during the silent film era. He will perform several of these "neo-benshi" pieces here at Bathhouse Events in March, in addition to screening single channel film works.

Article on live film narration from Camerawork journal:
            http://www.kino21.org/PDF/ReverseEngineering.pdf
Recent events include:
o The New Talkies at Artists Television Access (SF)
            http://www.atasite.org/calendar/archive/index-49036.html
o The Cinema Cabaret at REDCAT (LA) co-curated with Jen Hofer
            http://www.redcat.org/event/cinema-cabaret
o Neo-benshi at Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
            http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/late032610
o Form Free Form at the St Marks Poetry Project (NY)
            http://tinyurl.com/78jybld
o Chicago Poetry Center / Red Rover series
            http://tinyurl.com/7njamo7