Daria's Blog. Things to remember.: October 2011

Oct 24, 2011

Etsy channel on vimeo

http://vimeo.com/etsy/videos

Process: Plastinates
http://vimeo.com/27775655

Artist Statement (draft, nevermind)

DY Artist Statement

My art explores the intersection of video and poetry. I use video as means of self-expression and a tool for learning and discovering the world around me. I craft visual poetical images with the help of elaborate editing technique, sound design, accentuated color palette and contrast.

I have always loved poetry and am myself a poet. My immigration to a foreign country deprived me of an ability to clearly express myself with the means of language and poetry: few people can master foreign language as well as native. I started to look for other means of expression and found them in video and sound design. While studying at Hunter College, NYC, I was a student of such great professors and filmmakers as Kelly Anderson, Tami Gold, and Michael Gitlin. I started as a documentary filmmaker and made a short about Doctors Without Borders, The Road Taken (2006), but later switched to experimental video (The Pool of Fire (2008), Marina(2009)). Experimenting with video and editing gave me a new means for self-expression and provided with better understanding of people and reality. My documentaries project fascination with noble goals and great personalities like the doctors who work overseas in areas of war and natural disaster and help communities in need, while my experimental videos are more introverted and meditative and explore the relations between personality and the outside world.

For the current collaborative project, we have teamed up with independent artist and New Yorker Armand A.Ruhlman. This joint project, Video Poetry in New York, is a series of video-poems made in New York and expressing ‘New-York state of mind’. It encompasses the beauty of New York parks and sea beaches, the energy of the protestors on Wall Street, which is a great part of today’s New York, the emotional struggle of immigrants, and my personal contemplations.

References
Dariya Yalova’s video channel - http://www.youtube.com/user/yalovad
Armand A. Ruhlman’s video channel - http://vimeo.com/user3241260/videos
Video Poetry in New York – blog or video channel on vimeo

How to Write an Artist Statement
http://www.mollygordon.com/resources/marketingresources/artstatemt/
http://www.artbusiness.com/artstate.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist's_statement
http://www.artstudy.org/art-and-design-careers/sample-artist-statement.php
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/best-practices/documentary/documentary-filmmakers-statement-best-practices-fair-use
http://icarusfilms.com/new2006/angr4.html

Filmmaker Statement
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/lioness/statement.html
http://www.madeinindiamovie.com/the-filmmakers.html

Oct 22, 2011

Getting funding for independent film project

Trying to outline a huge work that i'll be doing next few months:

1. Artist statement, press release, portfolio, bio, resume, future goals.
2. List of organizations to apply for grant.
3. Group of independent artists applying to grant - collective statement, description of the collaborative project, other people involved, ....what else?

Independent Film Funding
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/proposal.html
http://nonprofit.about.com/od/foundationfundinggrants/tp/grantproposalhub.htm
http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/tutorials/shortcourse/index.html
http://www.civicus.org/new/media/Writing%20a%20funding%20proposal.pdf
http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/sflib/libmgnt/grantproposals.htm
http://www.arc.gov/funding/HowtoWriteaGrantProposal.asp
http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Grant-Proposal
http://www.youthdevelopment.org/pdf/howtowrite.pdf
http://www.libsci.sc.edu/bob/class/clis724/SpecialLibrariesHandbook/HowtoWriteaGrant.pdf
http://staff.lib.msu.edu/harris23/grants/3film.htm
http://filmfundingsources.com/tag/film-grants/
http://rtfcage.com/grants
http://www.content-professionals.com/How-to-Write-a-Grant-Proposal.php
http://www.indietalk.com/archive/index.php/t-7244.html

here folks actually provide list of sponsoring organizations
http://www.indietalk.com/archive/index.php/t-7244.html
http://www.indietalk.com/showthread.php?t=7244
http://www.ehow.com/how_6391273_apply-film-production-grant.html
http://filmmakeriq.com/2009/04/how-to-win-a-film-grant/
??? http://www.fromtheheartproductions.com/book.shtml
http://www.fromtheheartproductions.com/cc.shtml
http://www.filmproposals.com/Film-Investors.html#axzz1bZYjfXI4
http://newenglandfilm.com/news/archives/02december/money.htm
http://www.desktop-documentaries.com/independent-film-funding.html

Open Flix

Walter Ruttmann

Just discovered great German filmmaker - Walter Ruttmann. His first abstract short films, "Opus I" (1921) and "Opus II" (1923), were experiments with new forms of film expression, and the influence of these early abstract films can be seen in the early work of Oskar Fischinger. Ruttmann and his colleagues of the avant garde movement enriched the language of film as a medium with new form techniques.

Together with Erwin Piscator, Ruttmann worked on the experimental film Melodie der Welt (1929), though he is best remembered for Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, 1927).

During the Nazi period he worked as an assistant to director Leni Riefenstahl on Triumph of the Will (1935). He died in Berlin.

See also Oskar Fischinger.

Opus II (1924)

Opus III (1924)

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

Oct 21, 2011

New finds: art films

poetry visualized - http://poetryvisualized.com/
art video - http://www.videoart.net/home/
my fav gallery - http://www.eai.org/index.htm
and kitchen - http://www.thekitchen.org/

may be:
http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/
http://www.pbs.org/art21/multimedia/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_art
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/02/the_best_art_films_of_2010.html
http://www.artfilm.org/

And a few mysterious spot-light-shape videos

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbl1Id9185w
Coph Nia - That Which Remains

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Hanns Eisler - Passcaglia - Opus III (1924)

more Ruttmann's rhythmic enchanting videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Ruttmann+Opus+&aq=f
and another version

Video poetry

Recently found two gems - would love to do something similar:

Garden Party

Inside Outside

by Armand A. Ruhlman. The wispers, echo and fast cuts, jump cuts are sooooooo captivating. My bf is asking me to play this video over and over again.

Four Screen video

For a few years now I have been collecting videos of nature with some subtle movements like squeaking of a boat, a 'caution' tape waving in the wind, moving grass, clouds, shadows, waves...
Below are some drafts and the first version of the 4 screen video:

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water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsa1ry1Gc7Q
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the sky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSNhqLt7oFI
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fallen leafs after the hurricane Irene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NqcuLZYyao
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sunset on 47th st http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0EEvXvNJPo
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the tape http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X0HRIg9jgo
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Some cool nature videos from youtube:

-those are videos not animated stills

gosh, those videos are so beautiful, esp. Öröm - Csöndben. I would like to use it as my inspiration. Where did they find or how did they make this cool antigue looking footage? Real treasure.

One shot music video

I was amazed at the mastery of the camera guys who shot these videos and did not pause the camera for the whole duration of the intricate performance:

Benjamin Biolay - La Superbe

The movement here although confined to the area of a warehouse is very dynamic and engages the whole space and even outsides. Actors separate at some points, and the camera has to make a decision on whom to follow. I love how few times the columns obscure the view. Camera's constant move around the actors and through the space conveys a sense of nervousness, instability, dizziness, and recreates a changing fragile world of emotions. Note: at one point He moves away from Her. The camera follows the man, lets Him get ahead, so we see his back and shoulders, and then catches up and circles Him in such a way that She being left behind on the floor is again in the shot. The ending starting at 5:50 is 'superbe'. It is a pleasure to observe the whole range of camera moves.

Watch XELLE: PARTY GIRL Official Music Video by XELLE

In this video, in the confined space of a train the singers pop into the camera and move to the background. First shot starts with a detail coming into focus, then camera swiches to another detail. The sequences are very smooth with no awkward pauses or interruptions. The camera is constantly moving back and forth approaching singers or making more space for others to come into shot. At times there are 10 or more people in the shot, at times one ot three, it is amazing how smoothly the scene changes right in front of our eyes. I guess, the whole thing was rehearsed many many times. It looks like the train was moving, which only adds to the great vibrant performance. Great one take vid.

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