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SPACE ART
"New urban challenges, such as the shrinking of cities in Eastern Germany, call for new reflections. In a time of tight budgets the question of how to revive cities and regions with little means is becoming increasingly relevant." Stuggart-based Media-Space 04, which runs October 22-24, will address these and other issues while atempting to bridge the gap between "great architectural and urban concepts... and micro-utopia[s]... arising out of accidentally developing free space."In conjunction with the program, the non-profit organization Ward 5 will screen works by the alternative media pioneer Stan VanDerBeek.
VanDerBeek started his career in the mid-'50s with experimental collage films in the style of Max Ernst. Although strongly influenced by the Beat Generation, VanDerBeek's films are mostly political satires. Director Terry Gilliam cites VanDerBeek's experimental animation as one of the earliest sources of inspiration for Monty Python. 
VanDerBeek developed his work further towards Expanded Cinema in the '60s and was one of the most significant representatives of this heterogeneous movement that keeps influencing media art to this day. He worked with artists like Claes Oldenburg and Allen Kaprow, as well as representatives of modern dance like Merce Cunningham and Yvonne Rainer. 
In cooperation with Ben Kwolton at the Bell Telephone laboratory, VanDerBeek developed computer-animated films and experiments with holography towards the end of the 1960s. A pioneer of multi-screen projections, he also explored new possibilities for media presentation starting with his Steam Projections at the Guggenheim Museum, at his Movie-Drome theater in Stony Point, NY, and with the interactive broadcast of his Violence Sonata simultaneously on two TV channels in 1970. With his Cine Naps project, VanDerBeek attempted to move beyond Expanded Cinema to the collective unconscious of "community dreaming" in Florida.
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The Independent Feature Project kicks off its 26th IFP Market, Conference & Expo in New York on Monday with a screening of Brad Anderson's The Machinist, starring Christian Bale and Jennifer Jason Leigh; the director, actors and screenwriter Scott Kosar will participate in a panel discussion about the making of the film on Tuesday. Paramount Classics will release the film, in which Bale plays a man who has not slept in a year and who is slowly becoming delusional, later this fall. The Market will close on September 24 with a screening of Rodney Evan's Brother to Brother, which will be released theatrically by Wolfe Video in October. Evans's film, about a young gay black writer who meets a surviving poet from the era of the Harlem Renaissance, received a Gordon Parks Award for best screenplay from the IFP in 2000.
Included among numerous other events planned throughout the coming week are sneak preview screenings of Robert Altman and Gary Trudeau's miniseries, Tanner on Tanner, which will air as four half-hour episodes on the Sundance Channel each Tuesday in October, beginning October 5 at 9:00 p.m. Part political satire and part wry portrait of an independent filmmaker, Tanner on Tanner revisits subject matter first explored in Altman's 1988 miniseries Tanner '88.
Throughout the week the IFP Market will screen 224 projects in various stages of development at the Angelica Film Center in lower Manhattan; numerous panel discussions and workshops will take place at the nearby Puck Building, and at locations throughout the city.
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