11th ANNUAL
JAMES RIVER
FILM FESTIVAL
Virginia’s Festival for the
Independent- Minded |
ALL ADMISSIONS
FREE UNLESS NOTED; DONATIONS ENCOURAGED
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 Ms.
Films Workshop:
Cameraless Film with Pat Doyen
The technique of scratching and painting directly on film
has a long history and explores qualities unique to film itself.
Participants will learn about the many types of films made
without a camera and create their own 16mm film using clear
and black leader and found footage. Techniques include scratching,
painting, drawing, tape transfer, collage and stamping. Pat
Doyen was Ms. Films’ visiting filmmaker during their
2004 festival (February 27-29), where she screened some of
her films and offered cameraless film and toning workshops.
Doyen has degrees in film and media studies from the State
University of New York at Buffalo. Her work has screened worldwide
at Independent Exposure in Seattle, the Millennium Film Workshop
in New York, the Milwaukee Outdoor Experimental Film Festival,
Splice This! in Toronto, Ocularis in Brooklyn and festivals
in Mexico and Bosnia. Doyen recently joined RMIC’s board
of directors, serves on the programming committee for the
James River Film Festival and regularly screens her films
at Flicker.  Plant
Zero, 4 p.m. Admission $5. Enrollment limited to 15. (Participants
will receive a copy of Ms. Films’ The Down, Dirty &
DIY Guide to Film and Video.)
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New Millennium Studios presents:
"The Spook Who Sat by the Door"
Director Ivan Dixon’s 1973 blaxploitation flick achieved
instant cult status when the distributor pulled it from theatres
after a four-month release. Based on Sam Greenlee’s novel
Spook," the film follows a black CIA recruit who, upon
leaving the agency, uses his years of covert training to start
an urban guerilla resistance movement. The film’s political
parody was evidently too much for United Artists. Citing the
volatile climate of the times, the studio canned the film. Over
time, however, its reputation as a lost classic grew. It was
recently included in a list of the 50 Most Influential Black
Films and has just been restored and released on DVD (on sale
after the show) by New
Millennium Studios in Petersburg, VA. Introduction by Martin
Jones, a partner at New Millennium Studios. (With Lawrence Cook,
Paula Kelly, color, 102 mins.) Plant
Zero, 7:30 p.m. Admission $5. |
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