Congratulations to 3rd year student Mauricio Osaki whose 2nd year film MY FATHER’S TRUCK won Best Short at the Busan International Short Film Festival.

5th year, Nathanael Carton picked up Best Documentary for his film RECOLLECTIONS.

Well done, Nate and Mauricio. You have done Tisch Asia proud!

About Therapeutic Behavior: “An unstable woman tries to strengthen her relationship with her girlfriend by bringing her to the place where she attempted suicide. This last straw pushes Dara to end the relationship.”

Here in Singapore, Shawn Siggler has made 3 films, including Therapeutic Behavior. He also assisted with several thesis films, including Ersatz Asia. In NYC, Shawn edited for The Police, Genesis and worked on several short films.

First Take, happens every 1st Monday of the month at The Substation, is a popular screening of new & fresh local short films that displays a raw, cutting edge that juts out apart from the rest. The screening is followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.

It is a platform for new filmmakers and anyone who is interested in filmmaking to meet, exchange ideas and show their work. With a post-screening Q&A to pick the filmmakers’ brains, question their motives and push them towards the next level in their growth filmmakers, First Take is the platform to spot the future talents of Singapore film and throw in your pitch to nurture their future development! Very much a film community building platform and avenue.

The audience favourites of each month (via audience voting) will be screened again in December under “Best of First Take” and a final vote is cast for the Top Favourite of First Take 2013. So we encourage the filmmakers to let their friends and family, who may not have seen the film to come for the screening.

8:00pm (Singapore Time)
6th May 2013, Monday
The Substation (45 Armenian Street Singapore 179936)

Introduction by Jean-Marc Gauthier

LIVING ART

For the past 12 years, Florent Aziosmanoff has been exploring the question of digital art in urban space. As Creative Project Director of Le Cube, he is the founder of the festival “1st-Contact” (2002 – 2005) in Issy-les-Moulineaux, an art exhibit at the heart of the city that showcases art installations animated by artificial intelligence. He launched Le Cube’s Creative Department with the creation of art works, which he calls, “living art*”. He carries out interventions in urban spaces in various contexts, such as the Shanghai World Expo 2010, or with artistic productions such as “Le jardin des amours”, and “Arbreole”.

Florent Aziosmanoff Creative Project Director, Le Cube.

Producer, Researcher and Theoretician in Digital Art-Work using Artificial Intelligence. Author in the field of Digital Art and Behavioural Fiction – “Little Red Riding Hood” (2002) and “Le jardin des amours” (2011), fictional systems using autonomous robots; “Le temps de l’amour”, Living fiction (work in progress).

Co-founder of ART3000 (1988) and Le CUBE (2001) – Paris.

Founder and Creative Director of the Atelier and the Living Art Lab in Le Cube, Florent is also an independent curator specialized in Digital Art and CEO of Florent Aziosmanoff Production.

www.lecube.com

florent.aziosmanoff @ art3000.com

* “Living art, l’art numérique”. F. Aziosmanoff, Editions du CNRS, Paris, 2010.

www.living-art.fr

Tisch Asia Animation and Digital Arts MFA Program
presents
A Friday Talk with Maurice Benayoun, Pioneer New Media Artist and Theorist
26 April, 5.30-7pm
Screening Room 1

Introduction by Jean-Marc Gauthier

Professor Maurice Benayoun (aka MoBen) is a pioneer new media artist and theorist. As short film director, installation artist, museum and exhibition designer, interaction designer and theorist, during the past 30 years to now, Maurice Benayoun explores the potentiality, the aesthetic and social impact of various media from video to computer graphics, Virtual Reality to Web and wireless art, public space large scale art installations and interactive exhibitions. His work has been widely exhibited all over the world and received numerous international awards and prizes. He is exhibited in international museums and galleries: Centre Pompidou, Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art (Lyon, Montreal), Kiasma (Helsinki), Eyebeam, Museum of the Moving Image NYC, Streaming Museum NYC, ICC Tokyo… From the Quarxs -one of the very first computer animation series in the early nineties – to NeORIZON giant street installation in Shanghai (2008), not to forget the Tunnel under the Atlantic World Skin, a Photo Safari in the Land of War (Golden Nica, Ars Electronica 1998), or the Mechanics of emotions with Occupy wall Screens in NYC, Benayoun’s work try to exceed technologies by exploring new ways of creating meaning through experiencing metaphoric situations. Beside his art works, Maurice Benayoun has been involved in the conception direction of many large scale exhibitions, events and architecture projects including the permanent installation inside the Arc de Triomphe of Paris.

RSVP : mike.lim@nyu.edu

A packed screening of indie hit BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD was followed by a Skype session with Ray Tintori,  the special effects wizard and part of Court 13, the grassroots collective that made the ground breaking film. It was shot on 16mm and based on a script by Behn Zeitlin and NYU alum Lucy Alibar and completed over 2 years in a remote part of New Orleans. Tintori described the extensive editing process and many test screenings before the film was deemed ready for release by director Behn Zeitlin. Tintori is working on a script for the Sundance Lab and continuing with Court 13 on other projects.

PHOTO: DESMOND LIM

From the Straits Times:

Frank Oz, the voice and hands of the much beloved Star Wars character Yoda, has little patience for fans who ask him to do the character’s trademark reverse syntax and lilting tones.

Neither does he accede to requests to do the voices of Muppet and Sesame Street characters he helped create, such as Miss Piggy, Bert and Cookie Monster. As far as Oz is concerned, it would be the equivalent of performing a party piece.

“It’s like asking your four-year-old daughter, ‘Hey, would you play the violin for my friends?’ All I would be doing is showing off. I respect these characters too much to do that,” says the 68-year-old puppeteer, director, voice actor and actor, whose real name is Frank Oznowicz.

The American was in town last week for a week-long stint as the artist in residence at Tisch School of the Arts Asia. Oz says he came to Singapore at the invitation of Joe Pichirallo, chair of the Undergraduate Film & Television programme at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Read the article here >>

New York University Tisch School of the Arts Asia is proud to host the Future Filmmakers workshop in Singapore.

The workshop provides gifted students from underprivileged families in society an opportunity to learn the art of filmmaking. This workshop will be FREE for participants. Only a maximum of 12 places are available in the program, which will run for 10 weekdays through 17-28 June, 2013. Participants are typically between the age of 16-19 years old and will be learning filmmaking at Tisch School of the Arts Asia campus.

After the 10-day workshop, participants will be given about 2 weeks to further edit their short films using the editing labs at Tisch Asia.

At the end of the program we will celebrat the accomplishments of those students to screen the works they have completed. Screening will be held on 20 July 2013. Parents, friends, cast and other guests will be invited to attend. Cash prizes be awarded by Tisch School of the Arts Asia to the top 3 filmmakers.

The workshop provides exposure to the profession through:

• Hands-on experience in video production techniques
• Discussions with professionals at Tisch Asia

Application information

Applicants must demonstrate:

• Previous interest and participation in the arts
• Academic achievement
• Ability to work as a team member in producing short video projects
• A firm commitment to complete the entire workshop, which will be held Mondays-Fridays from 17-21 June and 24-28 June

A maximum of 12 students will be selected after review of application materials.

Curriculum

As most students enter the program with little or no experience in video production, early assignments are designed to familiarize them with equipment and narrative approaches. Working in teams of three or four in the digital video format, students produce short pieces of three to five minutes. Special emphasis is placed on visual language. By serving in a variety of crew positions, each student acquires a wide range of skills in production, directing and editing.

Student films often address a wide variety of topics including socially relevant issues such as domestic violence or consumerism, autobiographical topics, science fiction, comedy or narrative.

How to Apply

Step 1: Email to Azliana at azliana@nyu.edu indicating your full name, age, school and contact number. You will then be provided with an application form via e-mail. You may also call Azliana at 6500 1733 for further queries.

Step 2: Complete the application form along with supporting documents and submit to Tisch Asia either by e-mail, post or hand-delivery. Application Deadline: June 1, 2013

Step 3: Successful candidates will be informed via e-mail 5-7 days after the application deadline. An interview may be conducted, if necessary.

Step 4: Further instructions will be communicated to successful candidates via e-mail to prepare them for the workshop that will start 17 June 2013.

Tisch Asia congratulates the First Run 2013 Prize Winners!

1st Prize (USD 10,000)
Mauricio Osaki – My Father’s Truck

2nd Prize (USD 7,000)
Erica Liu – Springtime

3rd Prize (USD 5,000)
Jeffrey Wong – H’Mong Sisters

Congratulations to the Tisch Asia First Run Film Festival 2013 Craft Awards

In Recognition of Achievement in Directing
Yanqiu Fei – Mong
Mauricio Osaki – My Father’s Truck
Jeffrey Wong – H’mong Sisters
Anand Kishore – Raman
Erica Liu – Springtime

Nestor Almendros Award for Excellence in Cinematography (Female Cinematographer)
Eugene Koh – H’mong Sisters

Carl Lerner Award for a Film with Social Significance
Shivani Khattar – Ramzan

Achievement in Documentary
Jordan Schiele – 5 cm

Faculty Commendations
Kimie Tanaka – KotobukiRosie Haber – Jellyfish
Annalise Leonelli – Remission

Producing
Ty Lawson – H’mong Sisters
John Paul Su – Pagpag
Gerald Crump – Ramzan

Screenwriting
Mauricio Osaki – My Father’s Truck
Jeffrey Wong – H’mong Sisters
Yanqiu Fei – Mong

Sound Location Recording
Yanqui Fei – Remission
Annalise Leonelli – Last Tea Party
Chen Peng – Black Hawk Night Heron

Sound Design
Miriam Ditchfield – Black Hawk Night Heron
Fang Wei – 5 cmYanqui Fei – Mong

Original Score
Yanqui Fei – Mong
Nevil Jackson – Springtime
Cheryl Richards – Black Hawk Night Heron

Art Direction
Georgia Fu – Mong
Praveen Moodadi – Raman
Miriam Ditchfield – Black Hawk Night Heron

Acting
Ensemble – Tong Ange, Shen Zhen Zhou, Hong Jian, Li Li Yang Tze – Mong
Best Actor – Trung Ahn – My Father’s Truck
Best Actress – Bibeth Orteza – Pagpag

Editing
Anand Kishore – Raman
Yanqiu Fei – Mong
Mauricio Osaki – My Father’s Truck

Cinematography
Anand Kishore – Mong
Brett Rogstad – Raman
Jordon Schiele – 5 cm