Interbay Cinema Society
Our mission is to provide goods and services to filmmakers who work outside of what the mainstream conception of filmmaking is.
The Interbay Cinema Society has give 100 grants to artists working in film, a value of $120,000.00. We are thrilled to be able to help our fellow artists in this way. The next Lightpress Grant deadline is Dec. 1, 2020. We wanted to congratulate the next next round of filmmakers,Nicole Baker
Craig Baldwin
Chris Gude
Colleen TungShuen Kwok
Jean-Jacques Martinod and Bretta C. Walker
Emma Piper-Burket
Lourdes Portillo
Wenhua Shi
Janelle VankerKelen
Brian Wilson
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
7:00 PM only
Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Ave., Capitol Hill, Seattle
A special program of outstanding and strikingly visual experimental shorts from the 20th century, all on 16mm film. Featuring works of animation, collage, visual music, abstraction, and electronic psychedelia by Shirley Clarke, Bruce Conner, Scott Bartlett, Len Lye, Mary Ellen Bute, Norman McLaren, Oskar Fischinger, and others. Curated by Spencer Sundell, drawing from the vaults of the Sprocket Society and Canyon Cinema.
(“Bridges-Go-Round” preserved by Anthology Film Archives.)
Co-presented by the Interbay Cinema Society, the Sprocket Society, and Northwest Film Forum.
The Interbay Cinema Society is proud to the announce the latest Lightpress grant recipients
Thorsten Fleisch, Luis Gutierrez Arias, Tamer Hassan + Armand Tufenkien, Leanna Kaiser,Nicholas Kovats, Sandy McLennan,Margot Niederland, Grace Sloan, Scott Stark and Michael Woods.
CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALL …. TOGETHER WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Every six months, in January and July, the Interbay Cinema Society gives grants to 10 filmmakers working with 16mm or 35mm film to have 4K high resolution scans of their work made through Lightpress, a transfer house in Seattle.
We give grants to established and emerging filmmakers. Students are not eligible.
Grants are given for 3 hours of scanning. Note that the scans are not “in real time,” so how much material can be scanned depends on a lot of variables. This is a $1200 value.
Filmmakers who receive grants must use them within the six- month period specified, or the grants expire.
Please note that we cannot support Super-8 film scanning at this time.
This is the trailer for our film festival from last year. It was created by Devon Damonte of the CrackPot Crafters, and was created entirely by hand using direct animation techniques. We will have a trailer for this years festival soon. But because the trailer from last year was so great we thought we would share it.
** Co-presented with Engauge Experimental Film Festival, coming in Fall 2019! **
Made when she was just 18 years old, Barbara Rubin’s art-porn masterpiece Christmas on Earth (1963-65) shocked NYC’s experimental film scene and inspired NYC’s thriving underground. For the next four years her filmmaking and irrepressible energy helped shatter artistic and sexist boundaries. A mythical “Zelig” of the sixties, she introduced Andy Warhol to the Velvet Underground and Bob Dylan to the Kabbalah. But beyond shaping the spirit of the sixties, Barbara was seeking the deeper meaning of life. After retiring to a farm with Allen Ginsberg, she shocked everyone by converting to Hasidic Judaism, marrying and moving to France to live an anonymous life. Tragically, she died in 1980 after giving birth to her fifth child. For years, Jonas Mekas treasured all of Barbara’s letters and films and cherished her memory. Working with Mekas’ footage, the film takes us inside the world and mind of Barbara Rubin; a woman who truly believed that film could change the world.
Description courtesy of Juno Films.
“The Queens teen who inspired Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan and an entire artistic movement.” – The New York Post
“…pound for pound, minute for minute, there are few biographical documentaries more impressive than this.” – Joshua Brunsting, Criterioncast
“Barbara [Rubin] was the moving force and coordinator between us all,” according to Lou Reed. Andy Warhol said Rubin was “one of the first people to get multimedia interest going around New York” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Rubin). And yet, like many women, Barbara Rubin was hidden from history. Rubin made groundbreaking experimental films (“Christmas on Earth”) and she was also a catalyst in the burgeoning New York underground film scene, whose colleagues and collaborators included, in addition to Reed and Warhol, Jonas Mekas, Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan. Come see a new documentary that explores her life, her work and the experimental film scene that she energized in New York.
Chuck Smith USA 2018 1h 18m
The ICS Educational Initiative funds film workshops and screenings for experienced and neophyte artists and digital filmmakers interested in learning about sprocket-driven film and its experimental, analog possibilities. Our goal is to contribute to building an audience in the Seattle area for experimental films and to promote experimental filmmakers.
• Workshops bring teaching artists to discuss and demonstrate their work. Teaching artists provide hands-on training in aspects of their practices.
• Screenings include the work of visiting film artists and the work of contemporary and historical experimental filmmakers.
Workshop films become part of the permanent archive and may be included in the annual Engauge Film Festival.
