Festival Examines Mini-Digital Video
Technology
At Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus
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For Immediate Release
Contact: Alka Gupta and Peg Byron
October, 2002 |
Brooklyn, N.Y. – A two-day "First Annual Big Mini-DV
Festival," focusing on the cultural, technological and creative
impact of Mini-Digital Video, will be held at the Brooklyn Campus
of Long Island University.
Sponsored by the Campus's Media Arts Department, the event
takes place on Friday, November 8, from 4 to 10 p.m., and Saturday,
November 9, from noon to 8 p.m., in the Spike Lee Screening Room.
The festival is free and open to the public.
The festival will recognize the best documentary, experimental
and narrative videos created with the mini-DV format. The first
day of the festival will feature panels that will examine the
impact of this technology on video and film production, and feature
screenings. Day two will feature screening of the remaining juried
festival submissions.
Rodney K. Hurley, Coordinator of Special Projects for Media Arts,
said, "Once again an evolution in technology is sparking
creative new usage and debate in visual media."
The first panel, "Mini-DV: The Future of the Digital Video
Artist," features video artists and practitioners who discuss
pragmatic questions related to the professional use of the DV.
The panelists include Julia Mintz of Full Rez Inc.; Jake Abraham
of InDigEnt; Eileen Newman of Film Video Arts; and the moderator,
assistant professor Larry Banks who teaches in the Media Arts
department.
In the second panel, "Mini-DV: Video Revolution or Rest Stop
on the Information Super Highway?," film scholars, critics
and industry analysts discuss the social and political implications
of the new technology. Panelists include Edin Velez, an experimental
filmmaker who teaches at Rutgers University; Jonathan Welles,
an editorial board member of the prominent industry Res Magazine;
Warrington Hudlin, producer and founder of DV Republic, a web
site for DV filmmakers; Antonino D'Abbrosio, head of a video activist
group, La Lutta, and programmer of Brecht Forum's Video Liberation
Series; and the moderator, Dennis Broe, assistant professor of
Media Arts.
For more information, call Rodney Hurley at (718) 488-1052. |
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