USA,
2005
Shown in 2006
CREDITS
- dir
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Sue Costabile
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COMMENTS
Shown in Scribble, Scrapple, I.C. You, a program of "live cinema" shorts. Sue Costabile performed live.
Wondrous, intricate and unique, each of the performances in this program belong under the loose rubric of “live cinema”—a term that describes various innovative visual and sonic arts practices, notably “live editing” of visual and sound materials; “live generation” of images and sound (often through computers); and “live composition” of spontaneously generated and ready-made materials. Live cinema is perhaps the most engaging and complex of emerging multimedia. This program offers a rare opportunity to experience several of its pioneering modes, created onstage by three internationally recognized innovators in the field. These short performances are connected by their magical transposition of gestures and objects into projected sounds and images.
In Mini Movies, Costabile manipulates objects—and sings—to produce beyond-ethereal animated shorts.
FACTOID #25
The San Francisco International showed Lina Wertm’ller’s first film, The Lizards, in 1963. A favorite of Bay Area audiences, her features All Screwed Up and The Seduction of Mimi had their U.S. premieres at the SFIFF in 1972 and 1974.
