Presented by the Department of Media, Film & Journalism Studies and the Marsico Visiting Scholars Program
Since 2003, the Free Form Film Festival (FFFF) has toured North America showing diverse films and videos to diverse audiences. In 2012, the FFFF touches down in Denver with a six-screening series that includes in person presentations from Mike Kuchar, Craig Baldwin, Jennifer Kroot and Jamie Meltzer. The festival is curated by FFFF founder and DU Lecturer/Postdoctoral Fellow Tyrone Davies.
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Schedule
Note: All screenings are free and open to the public
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Thursday, March 29, 2012 @ 6:30 p.m.
Location: University of Denver, Sturm Hall (building), Lindsay Auditorium
(Room 281); 2000 E. Asbury Ave., Denver, CO
Films:
Lullaby by Karl Lind (OR)
Grimm’s Tales by Brian Dewan (NY)
Peace I Give To You by Melissa Day (CA)
Through These Trackless Waters by Elizbeth Henry (CO)
Black Hole by Jess Hobbs (CA)
Sunday School by The Bran Flakes (WA)
Geography of the Imagination by Jan Andrews (UT)
Oh Great, Now Look What Happened by Tijmen Hauer (Netherlands)
Pyroclastic by Ryan Wylie (CA)
Thursday, April 12, 2012 @ 7:00 p.m.
Location: University of Denver, Sturm Hall (building), Lindsay Auditorium
(Room 281); 2000 E. Asbury Ave., Denver, CO
Jamie Meltzer’s documentary films include Off the Charts: the Song-Poem Story, Welcome to Nollywood, and La Caminata. He is currently in post-production on a feature documentary titled Informant, about a revolutionary activist turned FBI informant. Meltzer’s work has shown at Silverdocs and the True/False Film Festivals among others and has aired on PBS. He is an assistant professor at Stanford University.
Thursday, April 19, 2012 @ 7:00 p.m.
Location: University of Denver, Sturm Hall (building), Lindsay Auditorium
(Room 281); 2000 E. Asbury Ave., Denver, CO
FILM: Please Self-Help Me!
Blair Sterrett started the Lost Media Archive in the unlikely location of Salt Lake City UT seven years ago. The LMA is dedicated to the preservation of bygone media formats and ephemeral films and videos. Please Self Help Me! is Sterrett’s curated “clip-show” of bizarre, humorous, and culturally telling moments from the era of the VHS self help market.
Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 7:00 p.m.
Location: University of Denver, Sturm Hall (building), Room 451; 2000 E. Asbury Ave., Denver, CO
FILM: Other Cinema with Marsico visiting artist, Craig Baldwin in person! Craig Baldwin is an experimental filmmaker and curator known for high-energy found footage works of culture-jamming like Spectres of the Spectrum and Sonic Outlaws. He is also known for his San Francisco-based film series, Other Cinema. On this evening, Baldwin brings Other Cinema to Denver. Expect to see a variety of truly underground films and videos!
Thursday, May 10, 2012 @ 6:30 p.m.
Location: University of Denver, Sturm Hall (building), Lindsay Auditorium
(Room 281); 2000 E. Asbury Ave., Denver, CO
Mike Kuchar and Jennifer Kroot visit Denver in person to present It Came From Kuchar, as well as a collection of shorts by Mike Kuchar. The Kuchar legacy has inspired multiple underground and independent film movements and makers such as John Waters, WayneWang, Guy Maddin, Atom Egoyan (and countless others). Come and catch a slice of experimental film history! Both Kuchar and Kroot appear via the Marsico Visiting Scholars Program.
Thursday, May 17, 2012 @ 6:30 p.m.
Location: University of Denver, Sturm Hall (building), Lindsay Auditorium
(Room 281); 2000 E. Asbury Ave., Denver, CO
VIDEOS AND FILMS BY EMERGING MAKERS! Program:
Polygon Sun by Johnny Rogers (MD)
Burgermeister by Tim Sullivan (CA)
Practice by Betsy McCall (Italy)
Stupaform by Van McElwee (MO)
Invisibility Cloak Study and Bamf Tests by Chris Coy (CA)
FIU by Ian Coyle (CA)
Folly of the Wise by Christina Corfield (England)
IN3DIA by Jesse Malmed (OR)
Philadelphia by Neil Needleman (NY)
Man Vs. Tree by James Bogan (MO)
Sonic Youth at the Filmore by David Borengasser (CA)
Don’t Universe by Paul Baker (TX)
