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Sundance NHK Award / Filmmaker / Ecocinema / more...

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:07:00 GMT

February news from TRUCKSTOP Media: "HERE" RECEIVES 2008 SUNDANCE / NHK INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKERS AWARD Braden King was selected as the U.S. recipient of the 2008 Sundance / NHK International Filmmakers award at last month's Sundance Film Festival (along with his upcoming project, HERE, co-written with Dani Valent). A press release is attached, and a short video about this year's award can be found at this link: <a href="http://www.truckstopmedia.com/quicktime/nhk.html">http://www.truckstopmedia.com/quicktime/nhk.html</a> SUNDANCE: A GLANCE FROM THE INSIDE New essay / blog piece posted on the Filmmaker Magazine website: <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/2edxgu">http://www.tinyurl.com/2edxgu</a> From Filmmaker's intro: Last spring we took an exclusive look inside the Sundance Directors and Screenwriters Labs as filmmaker Braden King posted weekly stories about his experience with his project, HERE, co-written by himself and Dani Valent. Now, he's graciously given us an insight into what he took away from the Institute, including attending this year's Festival, where he was involved in the New Frontier Multimedia Performance Events with [ THE STORY IS STILL ASLEEP ] and HERE was selected as the U.S. recipient of the 2008 Sundance / NHK International Filmmakers Award. Read on: <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/2edxgu">http://www.tinyurl.com/2edxgu</a> DUTCH HARBOR: WHERE THE SEA BREAKS ITS BACK at Greece's 7th INTERNATIONAL ECOCINEMA FESTIVAL Braden King and Laura Moya's impressionistic, feature-length portrait of the Aleutian Island community will screen at the 7th Ecocinema International Film Festival in Piraeus, Greece. The Festival runs between February 21 and 27. Further information: <a href="http://www.ecocinema.gr/">http://www.ecocinema.gr/</a> MAPPING THE SELF still up at THE CHICAGO MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART An artists book of location scout photographs taken in Armenia during the research and planning stages of HERE is currently on display at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art as part of the MAPPING THE SELF exhibition. The show runs through March 2nd. Further information: <a href="http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/exh_detail.php?id=166">http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/exh_detail.php?id=166</a> SINCERE THANKS to collaborators Shahzad Ismaily, Deborah Johnson, Michael Krassner and Aram Shumavon for a wonderful experience with [ THE STORY IS STILL ASLEEP ] out at Sundance. Collective thanks to Marcus McWaters, Corey Brill, Mike Plante and Shari Frilot from the Festival, Katie Stern from Washington Square Films in New York and Chad Brammer from Alliant Services in Salt Lake City for their dedicated assistance with a complicated event. PLEASE ALSO SEE: Elisabeth Subrin's new video installation, SWEET RUIN, part of the TECHNICALLY SWEET exhibition at PARTICIPANT, Inc. (New York) through March 2. <a href="http://www.participantinc.org/">http://www.participantinc.org/</a> Aaron Landsman's new play OPEN HOUSE at The Foundry (also New York), through March 7. <a href="http://www.thefoundrytheatre.org/">http://www.thefoundrytheatre.org/</a> Jeremy "Gumby" Mather's Invisible Organ: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iswVb7dQLHo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iswVb7dQLHo</a> "Child of Vision", indeed... Over and out... -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // You are subscribed to the TRUCKSTOP Media e-list: Occasional updates regarding TRUCKSTOP Media, NO CHOICE Film Production and the Boxhead Ensemble. If you wish to UNSUBSCRIBE, follow this link: <a href="http://truckstopmedia.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/tstpmain/">http://truckstopmedia.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/tstpmain/</a>

HAPPY NEW YEAR // Sundance // Chicago MCA // more...

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:39:00 GMT

** HAPPY NEW YEAR to all from Braden King and TRUCKSTOP Media ** A few news items to kick off '08: "HERE" ONE OF THREE U.S. FINALISTS: 2008 SUNDANCE / NHK INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKERS AWARD [ THE STORY IS STILL ASLEEP ] LIVE FILM AND MUSIC EVENT AT THE 2008 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL "HERE" LOCATION SCOUT PHOTOGRAPHS: CHICAGO MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART "SONIC YOUTH: DO YOU BELIEVE IN RAPTURE" COMES HOME TO ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES / NYC "HERE" ONE OF THREE U.S FINALISTS: 2008 SUNDANCE / NHK INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKERS AWARD On December 11, Sundance Institute and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) announced the twelve finalists for the 2008 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award. One winner each from Europe, Latin America, the United States and Japan is selected by members of an international jury. HERE, written by Braden King and Dani Valent, is one of the three U.S. finalists selected for the award, along with Jake Mahaffy's FREE IN DEED and James Ponsoldt's REFRESH, REFRESH. The winners will be announced during the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. HERE was also selected for the 2007 Sundance Writers and Directors Labs and received 2007 grants and awards from the Annenberg and Sloan Foundations. Further information: see the attached press release or check out this link: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/27swbt">http://tinyurl.com/27swbt</a> [ THE STORY IS STILL ASLEEP ] LIVE FILM AND MUSIC EVENT AT THE 2008 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL This live, multi-media film and music event explores the pre-narrative ether from which the Movie emerges. A collaboration between filmmaker Braden King, composer Shahzad Ismaily and video artist Deborah Johnson along with guest musician Michael Krassner, [ THE STORY IS STILL ASLEEP ] literally and figuratively shines a light onto the Film's initial, unconscious, non-narrative points of origin and inspiration. In this case, the film is King's upcoming narrative feature, HERE: a dramatic, intensely visual, landscape-obsessed road movie that chronicles the relationship between an American satellite-mapping engineer and an expatriate art photographer who impulsively decide to travel together into uncharted foreign territory. Combining Johnson's dynamic multiple projections of King's scouting and research footage, film "samples" of past and related work and Ismaily's improvised score and sound design, [ THE STORY IS STILL ASLEEP ] creates a literal and metaphoric map of the at mospheric tone and dreamlife from which HERE is now awakening. Thursday, January 24th at New Frontier on Main, 9:00 PM. Further information: <a href="http://www.sundance.org/festival/">http://www.sundance.org/festival/</a> "HERE" LOCATION SCOUT PHOTOGRAPHS: CHICAGO MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART An artists book of location scout photographs taken during the research and planning stages of HERE is currently on display at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art as part of the MAPPING THE SELF exhibition. The show was organized by Tricia Van Eck, the MCA's Curatorial Coordinator and Curator of Artists' Books. It runs through March 2nd. Further information: <a href="http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/exh_detail.php?id=166">http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/exh_detail.php?id=166</a> "SONIC YOUTH: DO YOU BELIEVE IN RAPTURE" COMES HOME TO ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES / NYC A music-video elegy for the NYC's late CBGB club and all the great shows we've all ever been to, DO YOU BELIEVE IN RAPTURE capped off a year of screenings that included the Vienna Viennale, Rooftop Films, Silver Docs and the Rotterdam, Sydney, and Silverlake Film Festivals with a special screening as part of the NewFilmmakers program at Anthology Film Archives in New York (right around the corner from where the club used to be) on Jaunary 2nd. Many thanks to the programmers and viewers who gave this piece such a great life in 2007. PLEASE ALSO LOOK OUT FOR: Brent Green's continued march toward animated world domination: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/244yyn">http://tinyurl.com/244yyn</a> Jake Mahaffy's new short, MOTION STUDIES: INERTIA at Sundance, and his new feature (and Tiger Award Nominated!) GO WITH PEACE JAMIL at Rotterdam. David Lynch on the iPhone: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2xmvtf">http://tinyurl.com/2xmvtf</a> (if you only click one link, make it this one.) James Ponsoldt's interview with Paul Thomas Anderson in upcoming issue of Filmmaker Magazine (post it, Scott!) Invisible Cinema: <a href="http://invisiblecinema.typepad.com/invisible_cinema/">http://invisiblecinema.typepad.com/invisible_cinema/</a> Announcement of the new crop of 2008 Creative Capital grantees - any day now: <a href="http://www.creative-capital.org/index.html">http://www.creative-capital.org/index.html</a> HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008! -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // You are subscribed to the TRUCKSTOP Media e-list: Occasional, brief updates regarding TRUCKSTOP Media, NO CHOICE Film Production and the Boxhead Ensemble. If you wish to UNSUBSCRIBE, follow this link: <a href="http://truckstopmedia.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/tstpmain/">http://truckstopmedia.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/tstpmain/</a>

SUNDANCE // SONIC YOUTH // ROTTERDAM // TRASH

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:48:00 GMT

** HAPPY NEW YEAR to all from TRUCKSTOP Media ** A few brief news items to kick off '07: "HERE" SELECTED FOR 2007 SUNDANCE SCREENWRITERS' LAB Braden King and co-writer Dani Valent have been awarded a Screenwriting Fellowship from the Sundance Institute for their feature film script, HERE. The film is a structurally unique, landscape-obsessed road movie in which a solitary satellite mapping engineer charts the Armenian countryside with an expatriate art photographer revisiting her homeland. HERE is being produced by Julia King (AMERICAN SPLENDOR). Braden will be attending the Screenwriters' Lab from January 12 - 17, 2007. Further information and the full Sundance press release can be found here: <a href="http://www2.sundance.org/press.html">http://www2.sundance.org/press.html</a> In other HERE news, Julia King has been awarded one of two IFP sponsorships to attend the 2007 Producers' Lab at the Rotterdam Film Festival's CineMart Co-Production Market. She and Braden will be attending CineMart and the Festival. SONIC YOUTH: "RAPTURE" AT ROTTERDAM "Do You Believe in Rapture?", a music video elegy for New York's recently closed CBGB, will screen at the 2007 Rotterdam Film Festival on January 31 and Feburary 2. The video was directed by Braden King. King also directed a video for the single "Reena" (both are from the most recent Sonic Youth album "Rather Ripped" and can be seen at <a href="http://www.truckstopmedia.com">http://www.truckstopmedia.com</a> and on Sonic Youth's website: <a href="http://www.sonicyouth.com">http://www.sonicyouth.com</a>. TRASH RELEASED BY ALPHABET CITY PRESS Alphabet City's most recent anthology, TRASH, was released October 15, 2006. It features contributions by Edward Burtynsky, Heather Rogers, Nick Cave, Braden King and numerous others. King collaborated with Armenian filmmakers Tigran Xmalian and Gariné Torossian on [ IN | OUT ], a photographic and textual exploration of the ways in which post-Soviet Armenia conceives of domestic borders and sorts its metaphysical junk. Additional details (MIT Press / Alphabet City): <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ukfkv">http://tinyurl.com/ukfkv</a> Finally, one more surprise New Year link: <a href="http://www.stevekeene.com/">http://www.stevekeene.com/</a> Happy New Year once again... TRUCKSTOP Media: <a href="http://www.truckstopmedia.com">http://www.truckstopmedia.com</a> -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // You are subscribed to the TRUCKSTOP Media e-list: Occasional, brief updates regarding TRUCKSTOP Media, NO CHOICE Film Production and the Boxhead Ensemble. If you wish to UNSUBSCRIBE, just follow this link: <a href="http://truckstopmedia.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/tstpmain/">http://truckstopmedia.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/tstpmain/</a>

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy: "Horses" at IFC through Aug. 29

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 04:23:00 GMT

New York's IFC Center is one of the few (if not the only) U.S. cinemas to show a rotating program of short films before every feature film. IFC refers to the program as "Short Attention Span Cinema". Aug. 23-29, "Short Attention Span" will feature Bonnie 'Prince' Billy: "Horses", directed by Braden King. Please see: <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/event?eventid=999920">http://www.ifccenter.com/event?eventid=999920</a> Further information on the current program: SHORT ATTENTION SPAN CINEMA Short Films with Music by Will Oldham In anticipation of MOVIE NIGHT WITH WILL OLDHAM on September 18, the IFC Center (NYC) is presenting a series of shorts featuring songs by Oldham's Palace Music and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. Wed Aug 23 - Tue Aug 29: HORSES, directed by Braden King Upcoming films: NO MORE WORKHORSE BLUES, directed by Harmony Korine AGNES, QUEEN OF SORROW, directed by David Shrigley CURSED SLEEP, directed by Andy Bruntel A prolific and influential musician, Oldham has performed under a multitude of names: Palace, Palace Music, Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, Bonnie Prince Billy and others. He has also been involved in projects and bands such as The Amalgamated Sons of Rest, The Anomoanon and The Boxhead Ensemble. The ghostlike musical intimacy of his quiet singing and the spacey, unobtrusive acoustic accompaniment has garnered Oldham fans worldwide, especially in Ireland and Australia, and inspired some impressive artists to cover his songs. These range from Johnny Cash, whose wife, June Carter Cash, demanded he record Oldham's "I See a Darkness" after hearing it on a mix tape, to the Icelandic pop star Bjork, with whom he sang on the soundtrack of Matthew Barney's DRAWING RESTRAINT 9. IFC Center 323 6th Avenue at West 3rd, NYC <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/">http://www.ifccenter.com/</a> TRUCKSTOP Media: <a href="http://www.truckstopmedia.com">http://www.truckstopmedia.com</a> -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // You are subscribed to the TRUCKSTOP Media e-list: Occasional, brief updates regarding TRUCKSTOP Media, NO CHOICE Film Production and the Boxhead Ensemble. If you wish to UNSUBSCRIBE, just follow this link: <a href="http://truckstopmedia.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/tstpmain/">http://truckstopmedia.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/tstpmain/</a>

Sonic Youth Video Premiere on MTV2 : Subterranean

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 07:23:00 GMT

New Sonic Youth Video to Premiere on MTV2 : Subterranean TRUCKSTOP Media has completed a video for the song "Do You Believe in Rapture?" from the most recent Sonic Youth album, "Rather Ripped". The clip will premiere on this week's episode of Subterranean on MTV2. Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore from the band will be the show's featured guests. The video was directed by Braden King. Edited by Brett Nicoletti. Shooters included Jem Cohen, Godlis, Chris Habib, Andrew Kesin and Sam Levy. It was produced by Julia King with coordinator Katie Stern. Our sincere thanks and props to NYC's CBGB. Subterranean airs at 1 a.m. ET this Saturday night / Sunday morning. The show will be available on the net from MTV2 starting Monday. We're extremely proud of the piece. Hope you can check it out. Sonic Youth: <a href="http://www.sonicyouth.com">http://www.sonicyouth.com</a> Subterranean: <a href="http://www.sub.mtv2.com">http://www.sub.mtv2.com</a> TRUCKSTOP Media: <a href="http://www.truckstopmedia.com">http://www.truckstopmedia.com</a> -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // You are subscribed to the TRUCKSTOP Media e-list: Occasional, brief updates regarding TRUCKSTOP Media, NO CHOICE Film Production and the Boxhead Ensemble. If you wish to UNSUBSCRIBE, just follow this link: <a href="http://truckstopmedia.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/tstpmain/">http://truckstopmedia.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/tstpmain/</a>

Dutch Harbor in France, Dirty Three / Chan Marshall Video

Thu, 24 Nov 2005 04:04:00 GMT

-- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // TRUCKSTOP Media Thanksgiving Newsletter - November 24, 2005 Just a couple of quick news items to digest over the U.S. holiday weekend: 1. DUTCH HARBOR RE-RELEASED THEATRICALLY IN FRANCE Braden King and Laura Moya's lyric Aleutian Island portrait, Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks its Back, opened theatrically in Paris on November 23 and will expand to other cities throughout France and the Benelux region in the coming weeks. The release is being handled by E.D. Distribution (Guy Maddin, the Brothers Quay, Harmony Korine). A summary of French press (four stars from French Premiere!), cinemas and screening times, the French trailer, a photo gallery and a few 'secrets de tournage' can be found at Allocine. Watch for the DVD release in the spring on Plexifilm. The film's soundtrack is available from Atavistic. Allocine: <a href="http://www.allocine.fr/">http://www.allocine.fr/</a> E.D. Distribution: <a href="http://www.eddistribution.com/">http://www.eddistribution.com/</a> Plexifilm: <a href="http://www.plexifilm.com">http://www.plexifilm.com</a> Atavistic: <a href="http://www.atavistic.com">http://www.atavistic.com</a> 2. DIRTY THREE / CHAN MARSHALL VIDEO: "GREAT WAVES" COMPLETED Braden King recently directed the video for the single "Great Waves" from the new Dirty Three album Cinder (Touch and Go / Bella Union). The song is a gorgeous collaboration between Dirty Three and Chan Marshall (Cat Power). DP duties were handled by Sam Levy. The video also features additional footage shot by Matt Boyd and Jem Cohen. Special thanks to Art Director Tim Grimes, Producer Jenny Reiff and Washington Square Films. See the main page of the TRUCKSTOP Media website for a link to the video. TRUCKSTOP Media: <a href="http://www.truckstopmedia.com">http://www.truckstopmedia.com</a> Dirty Three: <a href="http://www.dirtythree.com">http://www.dirtythree.com</a> Chan Marshall / Cat Power: <a href="http://www.matadorrecords.com/cat_power/">http://www.matadorrecords.com/cat_power/</a> Touch and Go Records: <a href="http://www.tgrec.com">http://www.tgrec.com</a> Bella Union: <a href="http://www.bellaunion.com">http://www.bellaunion.com</a> Washington Square Films: <a href="http://www.wsfilms.com">http://www.wsfilms.com</a> That's it. Many thanks, TRUCKSTOP Media <a href="http://www.truckstopmedia.com">http://www.truckstopmedia.com</a> -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // You are subscribed to the TRUCKSTOP Media e-list: Occasional, brief updates regarding TRUCKSTOP Media, NO CHOICE Film Production and the Boxhead Ensemble. If you wish to UNSUBSCRIBE, just follow this link: <a href="http://truckstopmedia.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/tstpmain/">http://truckstopmedia.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/tstpmain/</a>

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's 'Horses' at LA Film Festival

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 03:16:00 GMT

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's 'Horses' Video, directed by Braden King, will be screened at this year's Los Angeles Film Festival in the 'Eclectic Mix' Program. The program includes videos from MIA, Blues Explosion, Le Tigre, Chemical Brothers, Jay Z, Secret Machines, Enon, Green Day, The Futureheads, Fatboy Slim, Badly Drawn Boy, Modest Mouse, Peaches, The Strokes and The Postal Service (among quite a few others) and directors including Michel Gondry, Mark Romanek, Chris Mills, Patrick Daughters, Stylewar, Jared Hess and many more... Screening times: Eclectic Mix (#2) Sun. June 19, 1:45pm, DGA 2 Sat. June 25, 9:45pm, DGA 2 The video will also be featured at New York's Rural Route Film Festival at Anthology Film Archives in July and it can be seen on the DVD of Thomas Campbell's new surf film, Sprout. Links: Los Angeles Film Festival Website: <a href="http://www.lafilmfest.com/">http://www.lafilmfest.com/</a> Rural Route Film Festival: <a href="http://www.ruralroutefilms.com/">http://www.ruralroutefilms.com/</a> Drag City Records: <a href="http://www.dragcity.com">http://www.dragcity.com</a> Sprout: <a href="http://www.trimyourlifeaway.com/index2.html">http://www.trimyourlifeaway.com/index2.html</a> TRUCKSTOP Media: <a href="http://www.truckstopmedia.com">http://www.truckstopmedia.com</a> -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // You are subscribed to the TRUCKSTOP Media e-list: Occasional, brief updates regarding TRUCKSTOP Media, NO CHOICE Film Production and the Boxhead Ensemble. If you wish to UNSUBSCRIBE (be sure you really want to leave - your unsubscription will take place automatically and at the speed of light - so don't come crying later), just hit this link: <a href="http://truckstopmedia.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi?f=u&l=tstpmain&e=example@example.com&p=[pin">http://truckstopmedia.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi?f=u&l=tstpmain&e=example@example.com&p=[pin</a>]

Braden King on (RE) CONNECTING with KARABAGH Panel - April 11, NYC

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 18:09:00 GMT

Filmmaker Braden King will be presenting video and still photographs from his recent trip to Armenia and Nagorno Karabagh as part of a panel discussion: (RE) CONNECTING with KARABAGH, Monday, April 11 at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. King's trip was undertaken in preparation for his upcoming narrative feature film, HERE, currently scheduled to be shot in the region in the spring of 2006. Details and press release follow. (RE) CONNECTING with KARABAGH panel discussion Monday, April 11 - 6:30-8:30 p.m. CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York Conference Room #9205-07. The discussion is open and free to the public. (RE) CONNECTING with KARABAGH A Cross Cultural and Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion at CUNY New York, New York -- In conjunction with the New York book signing of Markar Melkonians My Brothers Road, a cross cultural and interdisciplinary panel discussion, (RE) CONNECTING with KARABAGH, will take place on April 11, 2005 at City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. The event is organized by NK Arts in collaboration with Center for Place, Culture and Politics and Middle Eastern American Center at CUNY. Panel Topic: Headlines of the early 1990s reduced a national struggle for self-determination into an 'ethnic conflict.' In more recent years, however, the headlines have disappeared and one rarely hears/reads about Nagorno Karabagh. A fragile cease-fire has held for the past ten years, bringing to an end--at least temporarily--a war that has claimed twenty-five thousand lives and displaced close to a million inhabitants.  Today, Nagorno Karabagh remains in a state of limbo and 'illegitimacy.' While oil interests motivate Western powers to negotiate a settlement between Armenians and Azeris, a handful of cultural producers have been brokering different kinds of 'conflict resolution.' This panel focuses on the narratives woven by a non native activist, an architect, a filmmaker, a geographer and a literary critic.Their work mediates a more nuanced understanding of the complex story of Karabagh. "Philosopher and historian Markar Melkonian's recent book, "My Brother's Road," offers a compelling counter narrative of denied histories related to Nagorno Karabagh and serves as a conduit to (RE) CONNECT us with the poetics of this distanced place, scarred by violence, and its people who call it home," said panel organizer Neery Melkonian (not related to the author). Panelists: The panel will be introduced and moderated by Professor Neil Smith, Director of Center for Place, Culture and Politics. Dr. Markar Melkonian will read excerpts and discuss the experience of writing My Brother's Road. Professor of English and Womens Studies, David Kazanjian, will offer a review of the book Architect, Silva Ajemian, will present the NK Arts festival site proposal and address the challenges of (re)creating a public space in Shushi and Filmmaker, Braden King, will show photographs from his location-research trip to Karabagh and talk about his feature film project. The discussant for the panel is Dr. John Antranig Kasbarian, Activist/Director of Tufenkian Foundation (Karabagh). The evening will conclude with book signing by the author, proceeds from book sales benefits the Monte Melkonian Fund. "Markar Melkonian recounts in unflinching and fascinating detail the nearly unbelievable saga of his brother Monte's life and death, from an all-American childhood in California's Central Valley to his youth as an armed revolutionary in Beirut and his death as an Armenian hero in Artsakh. With a brother's memory and a philosopher's keen judgment, Melkonian reanimates a truly remarkable life." - Nancy Kricorian, author of 'Zabelle and Dreams of Bread and Fire'. The event takes place on Monday, April 11, 6:30-8:30 PM, at CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Conference Room #9205-07. It is open and free to the public. For additional information please contact <a href="mailto:NK_Arts@yahoo.com">NK_Arts@yahoo.com</a> or call 212 243-2110. CUNY Center for Place, Culture and Politics: <a href="http://web.gc.cuny.edu/pcp/events_April11_05.html">http://web.gc.cuny.edu/pcp/events_April11_05.html</a> Braden King: Truckstop Media: <a href="http://www.truckstopmedia.com">http://www.truckstopmedia.com</a> Bio: <a href="http://truckstopmedia.com/profile/profile-personnel/personnel-braden.html">http://truckstopmedia.com/profile/profile-personnel/personnel-braden.html</a> -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // You are subscribed to the TRUCKSTOP Media e-list: Occasional, brief updates regarding TRUCKSTOP Media, NO CHOICE Film Production and the Boxhead Ensemble. 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Looking For a Thrill: An Anthology of Inspiration

Tue, 01 Mar 2005 21:30:00 GMT

Looking For a Thrill: An Anthology of Inspiration Directed by Braden King Edited by Ian Williams TRUCKSTOP Media is pleased to announce that the epic, star-studded DVD interview anthology originally created to commemorate Thrill Jockey Records' 10th Anniversary and 100th has just been released. -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // For Thrill Jockey Records' 10th Anniversary and 100th release, label owner Bettina Richards decided to eschew the typical double-cd label compilation, opting instead to mark the milestone a little more thoughtfully: by releasing a reflection on the core catalysts behind the life choices that she and the musicians that she works with have made. Over 110 musicians, artists, employees and friends of the Thrill Jockey label were asked to tell a story about a record, show, or other musical moment they found particulary inspiring. The resulting "compilation of inspiration" features over five hours (!) of interviews and stories with the majority of the Thrill Jockey posse (think Tortoise, Sea and Cake, Freakwater, Giant Sand, Mouse on Mars, Trans Am and Eleventh Dream Day, to name a few) - plus such notables as Bjork, Mike Watt, Thurston Moore, Jem Cohen, Vic Chesnutt, Kurt Wagner, Ian Mackaye, Steve Albini and many, many, (we really do have to say it agan) many more. Directed by Braden King (Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks its Back) and edited by Ian Williams (of the bands Battles, Storm and Stress and Don Caballero), the DVD is a totally unique, formally groundbreaking examination of the catalytic moments of inspiration that have led so many of these artists to embark upon their own musical and artistic lives and endeavors. "Inspiring, moving and funny." - Rolling Stone "Remarkable... It appeals to anyone who has fallen under the spell of music... not to be missed." - Entertainment Weekly "Invaluable, inspiring and supercool." - Filter All profits from the sale of the DVD will go to Greenpeace. -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // For further information and other recent TRUCKSTOP Media film and video news, please see: <a href="http://www.truckstopmedia.com">http://www.truckstopmedia.com</a>. And... Our friends in Chicago should check out Thrill Jockey's impending release party - this Saturday, March 5 at Tower records. Eleventh Dream Day, Janet Bean (w/Jim Zinc and Nick Macri backing her), Freakwater, The Lonesome Organist, All Natural, Califone, The Zincs, Pit er Pat and more will be performing. Further details at <a href="http://www.thrilljockey.com">http://www.thrilljockey.com</a>. -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // -- // You are subscribed to the TRUCKSTOP Media e-list: Occasional, brief updates regarding TRUCKSTOP Media, NO CHOICE Film Production and the Boxhead Ensemble. If you wish to UNSUBSCRIBE (be sure you really want to leave - your unsubscription will take place automatically and at the speed of light - so don't come crying later), just hit this link: <a href="http://truckstopmedia.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi?f=u&l=tstpmain&e=example@example.com&p=[pin">http://truckstopmedia.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi?f=u&l=tstpmain&e=example@example.com&p=[pin</a>]

Boxhead Ensemble Live Music & Film Event at Fotofest 2004

Thu, 04 Mar 2004 03:56:00 GMT

FOTOFEST 2004 in association with TRUCKSTOP MEDIA / NYC presents Boxhead Ensemble: Stories, Maps and Notes from the Half-Light Improvised Music Performance and Film Screening March 13, 2004 - 8:00 and 11:00 P.M. The Aurora Picture Show, 800 Aurora Street, Houston, TX - (713) 868-2101 Tickets: $12 Improvising to a stellar program of poetic short films assembled by filmmaker Braden King and curator Astria Suparak, the Boxhead Ensemble will perform the North American premiere of "Stories, Maps, and Notes from the Half-Light" as part of Fotofest 2004: The Tenth International Biennial of Photography and Photo-Related Art. Initially joining forces to create the critically acclaimed soundtrack to Braden King and Laura Moya's film, "Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks its Back", members of the Ensemble's rotating lineup have participated in such notable musical groups as Wilco, Cat Power, Souled American, Freakwater, Gastr del Sol and Dirty Three, among many notable others. In this incarnation of the Ensemble, musicians Michael Krassner, Jim White, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Scott Tuma will accompany works by some of the most interesting filmmakers in modern experimental cinema, including Jem Cohen, Paula Froehle, David Gatten, Barbara Meter, Julie Murray, Guy Sherwin and Phil Solomon. Critical praise for the Stories, Maps and Notes... European tour: "Compelling, magnetic, perfectly imperfect. This is performance art at the cutting edge but eminently accessible and personal. It is relevant, it is wonderful." - Shakenstir UK "We like to think of the Boxhead Ensemble as a ghost ship, adrift in an endless sea of inspiration & freedom - thankfully washing ashore every couple years... conjuring their otherworldly sounds for us, making music that refuses to be tied to any genre, place, or time." - Kurt Kellison, Atavistic Records Images, poster, and more information on the Ensemble and filmmakers: - Atavistic Records: <a href="http://www.atavistic.com/artist.cfm?ThisArtist=124">http://www.atavistic.com/artist.cfm?ThisArtist=124</a> - Astria Suparak <a href="http://www.astriasuparak.com/boxens.htm">http://www.astriasuparak.com/boxens.htm</a> - Truckstop Media: <a href="http://www.truckstopmedia.com/boxheadensemble.html">http://www.truckstopmedia.com/boxheadensemble.html</a> FotoFest is a non-profit, international arts and education organization based in Houston, Texas. Its purpose is to create an international forum for the exchange of photography and ideas and to promote public appreciation of photographic art: Fotofest 2004: <a href="http://www.fotofest.org">http://www.fotofest.org</a> Aurora Picture Show: <a href="http://www.aurorapictureshow.org">http://www.aurorapictureshow.org</a> *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** MUSICIAN BIOGRAPHIES: MICHAEL KRASSNER - piano, organ, guitar [Ensemble Director, Lofty Pillars, Simon Joyner, +...] Founder of the Boxhead Ensemble as well as sometime sideman for artists including Edith Frost, Simon Joyner, Tren Brothers and Songs:Ohia. His producing and recording credits are extensive, including Boxhead Ensemble, Simon Joyner, Manishevitz, Parker Paul, Songs:Ohia and his own band, the Lofty Pillars. FRED LONBERG-HOLM - cello, Nykelharpa [Pillow, Terminal 4, Lightbox, Peter Brotzmann 10tet, Freakwater, +...] Lonberg-Holm is a top creative music cellist, active in a variety of projects in avant-garde jazz, sound experimentation and modern composition. He studied cello with Ardyth Alton and Orlando Cole and composition with Morton Feldman, Anthony Braxton and Bunita Marcus. His early career was based in New York City, working with such artists as Peep, Anthony Braxton's Creative Orchestra, John Zorn, God is My Co-Pilot and Anthony Coleman's Selfhaters. Since moving to Chicago in the early 90's, Lonberg-Holm has been involved in such projects as the Light Box Orchestra and Pillow. His recent work with Simon Joyner, Freakwater and the Lofty Pillars introduced Lonberg-Holm as one of the premiere arrangers in music today. SCOTT TUMA - guitar, harmonica [Solo, Souled American, +...] As the long time guitarist for Souled American, Tuma developed his achingly beautiful sense of suspended time and melodic deconstruction. With his solo instrumental record, Hard Again, released in 2001 on Truckstop records, Tuma expands on his palate to create a truly unique and mesmerizing aesthetic. Tuma also graces us with his recent work with the Boxhead Ensemble and Simon Joyner's Hotel Lives. JIM WHITE - drums and percussion [Dirty Three, Cat Power, Smog, Nick Cave, +...] Drummer for the Australian trio the Dirty Three and Boxhead Ensemble regular, Jim has also done drum duty for Nick Cave, Cat Power, Smog, Tren Brothers and Scott Tuma, among many others. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** FILM PROGRAM INFORMATION: JEM COHEN / [title tba]* / 2004 / 16mm PAULA M. FROEHLE / Breathless Ghost* / 2001 / Regular 8mm & video DAVID GATTEN / Hardwood Process / 1996 / 16mm BARBARA METER / Greece, to me / 2001 / 16mm JULIE MURRAY / 0* / 2001 / 16mm GUY SHERWIN / Filter Beds / 1998 / 16mm PHIL SOLOMON / YES, I SAID YES, I WILL, YES. / 1999 / 16mm *Denotes films created for the Stories, Maps and Notes event. More information about the filmmakers and works online (see links above). Check back for last-minute program changes and additions. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** -- To unsubscribe: <a href="http://www.truckstopmedia.com/cgi-bin/mojo/mojo.cgi?f=u&l=tstpmain&e=example@example.com&p=[pin">http://www.truckstopmedia.com/cgi-bin/mojo/mojo.cgi?f=u&l=tstpmain&e=example@example.com&p=[pin</a>]