Rising Sun Media Arts Center Marry Lattimore, Karl Kernberger, Jack Loeffler, FILM, VIDEO AND Bob Gaylor and Linda Klosky, Directors Blue Sky Productions, Steina, and Woody Vasulka. 1050 Old Pecos Trail The Festival will continue on the following Sunday, PHOTOGRAPHY Santa Fe, NM 87501 October 26 with two outstanding films by Dave Ellis AT THE ARMORY (505) 982-1338 and Danny Lyon. Ellis' film Doing Time is an award winning probe into the conditions inside the New Mexico State Penitentiary as they were shortly before the infamous riot. Also on this program is Danny Lyon's first film, Social Sciences 27 about tattoo artist FOURTH ANNUAL Bill Sanders from Houston, Texas. NEW MEXICO FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL Set for Oct. 19 & 26 Continuing the Festival mood, Rising Sun Media Arts Center is presenting the Fourth Annual New Mexico Film Festival. There is an important new resource developing at New Mexico has long been known as a creative films, video The Armory for the Arts for the making of center for filmmaking. It is also now beginning to be so Code ralkers by Tom McCarthy tapes and photography. The Rising Sun Media Arts in video art as you will have the chance to witness. Navajo Center, guided by co-directors Bob Gaylor and Linda In the past the New Mexico Film Festival has Klosky, provides a resource available to qualified occurred in the Spring. It was felt that it would be an artists for a nominal fee. The facility includes 16 mm appropriate event adjacent to !Festival Santa Fe! and and Super-8mm film post-production equipment, seen in its rightful context as the art form that it is. video equipment, and photography darkrooms. RSMAC is curating a selection of new or previously To cultivate an appreciation of the filmmaker as unscreened works by film and video makers living in artist, Rising Sun Media Arts Center has developed New Mexico. The Selection represents a broad spec- the "Film is Art" exhibiton series, and presents trum of genre, from documentary to experimental roughly 100 screenings of film, video or slides per year. video. The selection is based on quality. Several ofthe RSMAC is especially committed to bringing in visiting filmmakers are known nationally. The programs will artists to present their work in person. This program be presented within the environment of the Armory/ serves an estimated 40 film and video artists and 8000 Museum/!Festival! Show of painting, graphics, sculp- members of the public. ture and photography. On the opening night of the In addition to these facilities and programs, Film Festival refreshments and cocktails will be RSMAC has a storage vault for archiving members' available before the program and during intermission . films and tapes, maintains contact with other media This is an event which should not be missed. Come organizations and serves as a clearinghouse for early and view the exhibition. Tickets sold at the door. members for media jobs in the area. The organization The NM Film Festival will begin on Sunday, also serves as an umbrella for individuals to receive October 19, with a program of 10 films'and video tapes Images from tapes by Woody Vasulka grants, and offers advice in proposal writing and lasting three hours, plus intermission . Film and video funding sources to the membership. To find out more makers represented on this program are Tom about programs and facilities, contact: McCarthy, Robert Gaylor, Linda Klosky, Iris Jordan, fou .qn Admission $2 .00 Fall 1980 unless otherwise noted. OCTOBER presented to cultivate in Santa Fe an appreciation of Fourth Annual New Mexico Film and Video Makers Festival, Part 1 These programs are film and video makers . the filmmaker as artist. The emphasis will be on work conceived and real- An evening of new films and video by New Mexico SUN19. Refreshments, cash bar. izedby anindividual or collaborators. the work ofthe visionary. thepoet, the Many of the artists will be present . who see the profoundin the Navajo Code Talkers by Tom McCarthy, 27 minutes . Documentary about compassionate journalist, the eccentric, those interviews and simple, the lover. the Navajo radio operators in the Pacific during WWI, with reminiscences from survivors . Nocturne I by Robert Gaylor, 15 minutes . An abstract, visually musical and erotic composition in black and flesh tones with voyeuristic overtones . Window/ Laundry/Landscape by Linda Klosky, 10 minutes. A beautiful study of the wind, the sunlight, the weather, the laundry of the neighbors SEPTEMBER through the window of her adobe house over a six month period. Dasburg by Iris Jordan, 28 minutes . A documentary on artist Andrew Dasburg . "The artist has to live what he's,looking at, if he's working from Between Men 1979, 57 minutes . Directed by Will Roberts . Does the nature" -Dasburg. 7 American military have a persuasive effect on American society? Between I N T E R M I S S 10 N SUN- Men is about the dehumanizing effects ofwar and the military on American A film by Nancy Whitney . A short metamorphosis animation drawn men, which shows that men are taught from childhood to react in a directly on the 16mm film frame by frame. competitive and aggressive fashion , . how male children are educated to A Gift of Timely Gestures by Mary Lattimore, 22 minutes . A lyric and assume the role of power-wielder and disdain girls for their passive role . satyrical look at Santa Fe. "A film of cyclic progressions and deteriorations Interviews with articulate career soldiers, several generations of war as 3 goes to 4 with the genetic 5." -Lattimore . veterans and young boys reveal the military to be a microcosm of American Chaco Canyon Solstice Marker by Anna Sofaer, Karl Kernberger, Jack societal attitudes that attempt to exclude all that is considered "female" Loeffler . This is the 10 minute pilot for a 60 minute film on archaeo- from acceptable male behavior . In the face of the compulsory draft astronomy in Chaco Canyon . registration this thought-provoking investigation raises timely issues. La Musica de la Gente by Blue Sky Productions, 28 minutes . Contemporary Winner of Diploma Award from Moscow International Film Festival for pop Hispanic music featuring Al Hurricane, Miguel Archibeque, Roberto Martinez, Benny Martinez, Supernatural "Humanism in Cinema Art, For Peace and Friendship among Nations!", Hedy Lamarr in Ecstasy Griego, Debbie la Chicanita George Washington Honor Medal, and numerous others. Family Band, Andrea Gallegos, Caroline Gallegos . 7:00 & 9:00 pm Steina and Woody Vasulka presenting two new computer/video works. Steina and Woody are video artists residing in Santa Fe. Woody is developing digital imaging hardware and software which both he and their tape making . 20 minutes. 7:00 prn ONLY for Study (Partl) 1930-1931, Steina use in Eisenstein's Mexican Film: Episodes Admission $3.00, students and senior citizens with I .D. $2 .00 . 44 126 minutes . Directed by Ser-gi Eisenstein and Grigoti Alexandr'ov. SUN . Photographed by Eduard Tisse. Compiled and annotated by Jay Leyda. In Fourth Annual New Mexico Film and Video Makers Festival, Part 2 1930 Eisenstein, Alexandrov, and Tisse began their ambitious Mexican Social Sciences 127 by Danny Lyon, 1969, 20 minutes . This is an oppor- film, with financing collected by the Upton Sinclairs. A year later the 26SUN tuni'tyto see Danny Lyon's first film . Aportraitof the late, great Bill Sanders backers halted the project before filming was completed . Since then, parts and his "painless" tattoo shop in Houston . the filmed footage have been released, but 'not in the form intended by I of Doing Time 1979 58 minutes . Directed by David Ellis. Produced by L. the makers . The aim of the present film is to summarize Eisenstein's film Mexico's fewfragmentary sequences from the unfinished Que Paul Sutton and Lon Holmberg . This documentary filmed at New plan and to restore a in 1979 examines the troubled and often dangerous viva Mexicol as they came from Tisse's camera . A rare opportunity to see state penitentiary world of a maximum security prison. Inmates describe their loss of liberty, this film from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. discussions . 7:00 and 9:30 pm their values, and their fears in intense individual and group The film offers an unusually balanced and honest treatment of highly controversial issues. Throughout, the film remains sensitive to the Lucia 1969, 160 minutes. By Humberto Solas. Lucia, a classic of the consequences of theconflict in correctional goal, made disturbingly clear in 21 new Latin American cinema, is known throughout the world as the epic powerful scenes from a parole hearing . Aspen Film Festival 1980-1st SUN , Cuban trilogy of love and revolution . Cuba's war for independence from prize. 8:00 prn ONLY Spain is the backdrop for the first Lucia, an aristocrat who finds herself caught up in a tragedy of romance and betrayal . The second, middle-class Lucia fights for the overthrow of the dictator Machado in the thirties . The NOVEMBER drama of the third Lucia unfolds during the literacy campaign ofthe sixties, Two Very Remarkable Women, or Imps Old and Young. where a young peasant bride struggles both to educate herself and 2 These films give us privileged insight into the witty, outrageous and overcome her husband's extreme chauvinist attitudes. Lucia is SUN. eccentric lives of two important American women artists at opposite ends internationally celebrated for its use of distinctive cinematic techniques . "It of the age spectrum . is hard to convey the passion of Lucia . audiences are transfixed by Never Give Up: Imogen Cunningham by Ann Hershey 1975 28 min- Admission free . 7:00 pm ONLY utes. An intimate visit with 92-year-old portrait photographer lmogen Cunningham, whose work has made her one of the truly sought-after people in her field.