Woodstock Museum

is a non-profit 501(c)3 educational institution

8th Annual 2007

Annual

Woodstock Museum Film/Video Festival

Aug. 31, Sept. 1 – 2, 2007, Labor

Day Weekend

Woodstock Town Hall

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Theme:

“Inspiration”

AUG .31 – FRIDAY

8PM Opening

Ceremony with Rainbow Weaver, Mohawk Turtle Clan

Using Iroquois protocol, the festival opens with a traditional Iroquois

Thanksgiving Ceremony. Everyone’s in the circle. No one is left out.

8:20

Mighty Xee & Friends Catskill Mountain Global Warming Musicians

Collective performs original & familiar tunes of inspiration during

dark times when human greed threatens life. Mighty Xee on keyboards,

harmony by Davida & Tommy Hollister.

9PM

XV:12 This documentary follows a Brazilian prostitute, parent and

friend opening her heart to all contacts as she follows Verse15:12

, “This is my commandment, that ye love one another as I did

love you.” Fernando Pinheiro, filmmaker.

SUMMER OF LOVE Shelli Lipton & Nathan Koenig filmed the Monterey

Pop Festival 40thAnniversary last month, also celebrating the 1967

Summer

of Love, which spread nationwide. Film rushes of the journey will

be screened throughout this year’s festival.

9:20

SUMMER OF LOVE: Janis Joplin While we can’t bring her back, this talented

singer looks & sings the part. She gets the crowd mojo workin’.

It’s a flashback!

9:30

Gobi Women’s Song immerses the viewer in the ancient world of Shamanic

women leading a nomadic life in Mongolia for 3000 years. It captures

the transition to a 21st Century lifestyle. Q & A’s with filmmaker

Sas Carey.

11 PM

SUMMER OF LOVE: Peace Stage Hosted by hippie icons “Diamond Dave”Whitaker,

poet & activist of the Beat Generation, SF Oracle original Daniel

Eggink, Woodstock’s Hemp Empress and other grass roots music and poetry.

Q & A’s.

11:30

Dalai Lama In Woodstock As far as the eye could see, Andy Lee Field

was filled with enthusiastic listeners witnessing the Dalai delivering

spiritual advice for people of all faiths. Filmed by Nathan Koenig

with a little help from his friends. Q&A’s.

SEPT 1 – SATURDAY

2PM

Flash Animation Workshop 3-hour, interactive workshop with large screen

projection. Learn different animation, techniques scanning original

art, computer editing, scripting and music scoring. Filming one frame

at a time as in Claymation will be discussed. Mick Cusimano is an

award winning filmmaker, cartoonist and columnist for Boston film

magazine, “Imagine.” He’s known worldwide for his “Rooster

Tales.

5PM

SUMMER OF LOVE: Jefferson Starship Okay! So there’s a new

Grace Slick. And she’s slicker and slinkier than slick. If you missed

this group live in

town recently or want to relive some highlights, catch this rush.

5:15

Escape Velocity explores the connection between A.D.D. (Attention

Deficit Disorder) and creativity. Experimental filmmaker Scott Lignon

uses hilarious, self-depreciating examples. Best Animation in Int’l

Disability Festival 2007, Canada.

5:45

Faces of Change Activists are given cameras & training to document

racism

so individuals and governments must take notice. Filmed in Bulgaria,

India, South Africa, Brazil and the U.S. Q & A’s w/filmmaker Michele

Stephenson.

7:25

Your Destiny Filmmaker Jieun Kwon creates digital interactive tarot

readings with video feedback, a new divining technique for accessing

the unconscious, inspired by “The Castle of Crossed Destinies”

by Italo Calvino.

7:35

SUMMER OF LOVE: Barry McGuire and Terry Talbot sing famous hits including

“Eve of Destruction”. Other clips include Groovy Judy, a

feminine Jimi Hendrix persona. David La Flamme sings “White Bird.”

7:50

Kujira A young Oriental girl has trouble leaving home and growing

up. Reiko Murakami’s unique animation illustrates her personal story

of a traditional mother/daughter attachment and how she achieves freedom.

8PM

Diamond Dance Company Live dance performance with multimedia

effects. Salidas y Entradas, Cuban folklore music & dance, Las

Escondidas (Spanish Inquisition “hidden ones”), Music of

the Spheres: Origins of the Universe, Levitations: freedom of the

human spirit.

8:55

In here, out there NASA released images of humans in outer space for

alien observation. Animator/filmmaker Edward Morin focuses on what

extraterrestrials might imagine us to be like from these depictions.

9PM Fragged

Premiere. A Vietnam era soldier is released from a psychiatric unit,

has flashbacks, meets a pretty actress, some hippies & a guru

who confront his inner turmoil. Stars Dean Stockwell. Written &

directed by Michael Elsey, who lived in Woodstock.

10:30

High Times TV Reality TV as seen from a High Times Magazine point

of view. Marijuana is shown positively. Herb cult is worldwide. First

time screening with an audience. Q&A’s with filmmaker Steve Hager.

11:35

To Die Is to Live Armenian filmmaker David Sarkissian sent this award

winning film about Peace & Love with Rock music heroes as symbols

of youth revolution, and a passion to live every moment as if it were

the last.

11:45

SUMMER OF LOVE: The Doors Who says the Doors can’t survive without

Jim Morrison? Midnight Special to San Franciso’s City Lights Books,

Vesuvios Café, Jack Kerouac Alley & Haight-Ashbury. Q &

A’s w/filmmakers Eggink, Lipton & Koenig.

SEPT 2 – SUNDAY

2PM

Film Scoring Workshop 3 hours learning film scoring & comparing

good and poor film clips. A “spotting session” invites audience

participation. The music is removed, reworked and replaced. Mohican

composer, Brent Michael Davids’ career spans 30 years, including awards

from ASCAP, NEA, Rockefeller Foundation, In-Vision, & Joffrey

Ballet. Works includes Last of the Mohicans, Dreamkeeper and Shakespeare

Warbeck. Trained at Redford’s Sundance Institute. Resides in Minn,

MN.

5PM

Hopis In The Bob Marley Museum Hopi leaders were special guests at

Jamaica’s Wellfest. At the Bob Marley Museum, we are told how Reggae

music helped young tribe members reconnect with traditional elders,

identify oppression and other obstacles to freedom. Q & A’s with

Paparazzi Nathan Koenig & Shelli Lipton.

6PM

Ancient Prophecies, Future Visions The cultural prophecies of the

Hopi, Maya, Hindu, Tibetan and Iroquois peoples. It’s informative,

transformative and hopefully enlightening. Q & A’s with multimedia

artist “White Buffalo.

7:05

Papalotzin Filmmaker and pilot, in an ultra light glider painted like

a monarch butterfly, follow the migration of monarchs on the 2,500

mile journey from Canada to Mexico. The film is a poetic, environmental

metaphor affecting three nations and all living beings.

8:30

Human Park Filmmaker Mick Cusimano animates dinosaurs and more familiar

animals from our kingdom from a reverse viewpoint. The human species

becomes zoo exhibits. Q & A’s.

8:50

SUMMER OF LOVE: Led Zeppelin, Steppenwolf, Rolling Stones & other

tribute bands & originals celebrated the 40thAnniversary of Monterey

Pop just a few

weeks ago. Great flashbacks & rushes in a multigenerational jam.

9:15 Nearly Normal Nimbin This 3-hour

documentary examines Woodstock’s official sister city down under,

a “counter-culture,” one-street town. Q & A’s w/ Benny

Zable performance artist featured in the film. . (5 min. intermission

each hr.)

The Woodstock Museum three-day

film festival, August 31-September 2, 2007, Labor Day Weekend at Woodstock

Town Hall, Woodstock, NY will include three days of contemplative

film screenings beginning at 8PM and culminating Sunday evening at

11PM. The 2007 theme “Inspiration” includes two half-day

interactive film/video workshops, Saturday and Sunday from 2PM to

5PM (films begin at 5PM).

Saturday afternoon will feature

the work of noted experimental Flash animator and cartoonist Mick

Cusimano, who illustrates political satire through animation of a

favorite rooster. Mick will use a laptop computer with Flash software

and a projector.

He will demonstrate how to animate original art using various scanning

techniques that make the art computer friendly for editing. Cusimano

will teach basic techniques of Flash animation with large screen projection

for audience viewing and feedback. Mick will discuss how he scripts

his work. Mick will teach us about voice-overs and how the addition

of music enhances the film. Audience participation is expected. Other

styles of animation, such as Claymation and time-lapse will be briefly

discussed so filmmakers learn about the options of animating films

besides using the Flash program. http://mcusiman.tripod.com/

FLASH ANIMATION WORKSHOP:

Mick Cusimano

was born in Buffalo, NY. He was drawing cartoons and shoveling snow

at an early age. His cartoons have been published in over 100 magazines

in the U.S.A., France, England, Germany and Russia. One of his cartoons

was found on a university bulletin board in Slovenia. His monthly

cartoon in “Imagine Magazine” comments on Boston’s filmmaking

community. Mick’s animated series, “Rooster Tails,” has

appeared on Cambridge Cable TV. Several of his movies were screened

at the Giggleshorts Comedy Film Festival in Toronto, Cookieshorts

Film Festival in Portland, ME, Tufts University Television, Coolidge

Corner Theater, Woodstock Museum Film Festival and the Regent Theater

in Arlington, MA. The movie Billy Barnum was chosen for the Philippines

International Film Festival. www.bitscren.com

reviews some of the movies.

FILM SCORING WORKSHOP:

Sunday afternoon will feature

a composing workshop by Brent Michael Davids,

covering the four basic types of film scoring by screening both good

and poor examples of film clips for a compare and contrast type of

examination. The four basic scoring types:

A) Scoring the action: composing music that reflects the on-screen

action.

B) Scoring the cuts: composing music that shifts with the film’s edits.

C) Underscoring the mood: composing the emotional subtext of a scene.

D) Underscoring against the action: composing contrary to the film

action.

This method provides a comprehensive overview that producers, directors

and editors can truly benefit from by seeing actual music scoring

examples, back-to-back with commentary provided for each. Near the

end of the workshop, a “spotting session” is conducted with

participants by screening a film clip with the music removed; then

together, the participants take a detailed look at the clip for scoring

purposes. www.Filmcomposer.us/filmscoring.html Mohican composer, Brent

Michael Davids’ career spans 30 years, including awards from ASCAP,

NEA, Rockefeller Foundation, In-Vision, Joffrey Ballet, Chanticleer,

Kronos Quartet, Meet-The-Composer, Miro Quartet, National Symphony

Orchestra, Bush Foundation, McKnight Foundation, and Jerome Foundation,

among others. In 2006, Davids was listed as one of the preeminent

choral composers by the NEA American Masterpieces: Three Centuries

of Artistic Genius. He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Music

Composition from Northern Illinois University and Arizona University

respectively. He was trained at Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute

and apprenticed with film composer Stephen Warbeck (Shakespeare in

Love) and on the TV-Miniseries Dreamkeeper (Hallmark and ABC).

Davids has been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, PBS and NAPT. Davis

film scores include:

The 1920 Classic Myth: Last of the Mohicans, The World of American

Indian Dance,

The Business of Fancy Dancing, The Silent Enemy and Bright Circle.

The centerpiece of this film

festival will be the interactive, intergeneration film/video workshops

that require no previous film or video experience. We especially encourage

the teens and elderly. Our location at Woodstock Town Hall on Tinker

Street makes it very accessible to all parties. It is a warm environment

and for your refreshment we serve homemade sandwiches, desserts, drinks;

for vegetarians and omnivores.

The Dutchess County Arts Council

and The New York State Council of the Arts help make these workshops

possible. Says, Shelli Lipton, Woodstock Museum Dir., “like all

art, film and video have the potential to create in the viewer an

opening or invitation to a deeper understanding of the world. Yet,

in a culture awash with visual stimuli, we often lose sight of this.

Adding two interactive workshops requiring no previous film or video

experience will open our eyes and ears to a more direct perception

of viewing and making film and video art. It is a chance to further

our outreach program and not only show films but also teach filmmaking

techniques.”

Please ~ NO MORE SUBMISSIONS

FOR 2007

Completed features, documentaries, and shorts and works in progress.

All genres including animation and digital media; everything must

be in English (subtitles okay). Submission format: DVD (NTSC and PAL),

DV, DVCAM,VHS, S-VHS, Hi-8, and BETA SP. Supporting materials could

include: description of piece, autobiography, resume and artist statement.

$60 entry, $24 entry for shorts (up to 30 minutes) Fees cover public

relations package including audience critiques for selected entries.

SASE to return entries. Woodstock

Museum, P.O. Box 73, Woodstock, NY 12498, 845-246-0600. www.WoodstockMuseum.org

or email: hello@WoodstockMuseum.com

Event Description: In soliciting

clips to showcase, Woodstock Museum looks way beyond Hollywood to

solicit works from independents and students. Announced by film &

video publications such as “Videographer”, “Film Imaging”, “Digital

Producer”, “Animation Artist” and “Creative Mac”, news of the festival

reaches millions of readers, making Woodstock Museum film festival

the hottest website and a sure bet for tourism.