11-Dec-2004
ARTE SIX
DEC 2004/JAN 2005
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Arte Six: Dec. 2004/Jan. 2005
All the arts. All the time.
[Art – Music – Dance – Film – Books – Travel – Life]
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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LIVES
Jennifer Reeves, filmmaker
ART
DC/”Berthe Morisot: An Impressionist and Her Circle”
Stockholm/Mona Hatoum retrospective
London/”Faces in the Crowd”
Cambridge/’Thoughts unsaid now forgotten…”
Berlin/”One must draw the line somewhere”
Groningen/Diaghilev Festival
Zurich/”Facts are stupid things”
NYC/”Cute and Scary”
London/”100 Artists See God”
London/”Escape from Studio Voltaire”
London/”Perpetual Canon”
London/”D’Sehnsucht”
MUSIC
Disc series/Iuno
DANCE + THEATRE
INSIGHT/Dusan Tynek, “Camera Illuminata”
San Francisco/”Welcome to the Hypnodrome”
San Francisco/”Come Fly With Me Nude”
NYC/”Isabelle’s Room”
NYC/”Swift”
FILM/SCREENWRITING
Bologna/Festival/Future Film Festival
Chicago/Festival/Eighth Annual Festival of New French Cinema
BOOKS/WRITERS
Lives Mini-view/Margo Lanagan
Excerpts/”Black Juice”
Readings/NYC: KGB Bar, Paul LaFarge
Writers Bloc series – “Seven Rules”, Jacqueline Carey
The Agent series – “First Year Out: Publicity”, Jenny Bent
TRAVEL
Budapest for Pestistentialists
LIFE
“The Evil Garden”: 5th Annual Edwardian Ball
Uffda: Dispatches from Sweden
P2P TV
SCI/TECH
The physics of best-sellers
New weapon in germ warfare: seaweed
Pass the chips
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LIVES (interviews and profiles)
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LIVES: Jennifer Reeves, filmmaker
The difficulty of being a filmmaker is the problem of making it through endless challenges, doubt and dry periods, to the shorter periods of discovery and happiness at surprising oneself. For doing what seemed impossible, a little better than you thought you could.
Right now I’m feeling good, I have a few new projects I’m excited about. But six months ago I was feeling creatively dead and I had gotten too many rejections in a row, and too much in debt, which for the moment seemed to confirm my sense that I had nothing left to say. But that seems to be a regular part of the cycle of making time-based work, for many people.
SOMETHING LIKE THE SUN
Making films…. I’m thinking it’s like a sunset on a summer night, watching a film under the stars after working seven days straight. Beautiful and such a relief! No, that’s too easy. Gratification is further off.
I recall this story I read in grade school: a girl in a future world is bragging about the sun. It only comes out once in five years, and she saw it somehow before the other kids (she moved from another planet?)
So when the sun is supposed to appear finally these other kids (who only see it as a my
