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New Frontier celebrates experimentation and the convergence of film and art as a hotbed for cinematic innovation. This program highlights work that explores the limits of traditional aesthetics and the narrative structures of filmmaking and presents the moving image in theatres, gallery spaces, and other surprising ways at the Festival.

All My Friends Are Funeral Singers DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Tim Rutili U.S.A., 2009, 84 min., color

The beautiful Zel is a special woman. Her big house is full of ghosts of all ages from different eras. A psychic advisor, Zel works with her ethereal roommates to help her clients. Although it’s magical, it is also a job as she removes clients’ aches and pains, advises gamblers, and channels cranky spirits to check on their loved ones. Business is good—until the ghosts see “the light” one night. The ghost crew now feel they are trapped and start pressuring Zel for the truth.

Writer/director Tim Rutili is also a member of the band Califone, whose members act in the film and provide the lush original soundtrack. The band brought its music-making talent to the film’s construction, treating the footage and story like an album. Zel’s unique existence is a lesson in hope, habit, and folklore. The atmosphere is utterly enchanting, mixed with an odd realism and filled with as much humor as wonder.—MIKE PLANTE

ExP: Glen Sherman Ci: Darryl Miller Ed: Kevin Ford PrD: Joseph Bristol Mu: Califone (Joe Adamik, Jim Becker, Ben Massarella, Tim Rutili) So: Blair Scheller Principal Cast: Angela Bettis, Molly Wade, Emily Candini, Reid Coker, George McAuliffe, Alan Scalpone

Preceded by Fiddlestixx Directors: David Zellner, Nathan ZellnerU.S.A., 2009, 10 min., color & b/w

Tuesday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. - ALLMY26NNNew Frontier on Main, Park CityScreening with live music performance by Califone

Wednesday, January 27, 9:00 p.m. - ALLMY27ENEgyptian Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 28, 2:00 p.m. - ALLMY282AHoliday Village Cinema II, Park City

Friday, January 29, 7:30 p.m. - ALLMY29BEBroadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC

Saturday, January 30, 3:00 p.m. - ALLMY30YAYarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

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ODDSAC DIRECTOR: Danny Perez U.S.A., 2010, 54 min., color

Opening with torch-wielding villagers and a wall bleeding oil, ODDSAC attaches vivid scenery and strange characters to the wonderful melodic wavelengths of the band Animal Collective, revitalizing the lost form of the “visual album.” Working on the project for three years with friend Danny Perez, Animal Collective pushes the boundaries of the music video and joins music visionaries like The Residents, Devo, and Daft Punk, who previously connected filmic imagery with their songs.

Animal Collective’s music is a glittering mix of pop rock, experimental noise, and horror-movie soundtrack. Perez’s visuals mirror that, incorporating intense scenes of vampires, campfires, and screaming prophets to form themes and a distinct vision, rather than following a traditional plot and dialogue. The characters are interlaced with flicker effects that mimic pressure phosphenes, the magic colors produced by rubbing your closed eyes. A true physical experience, ODDSAC turns the theatre into a sensory submarine.—MIKE PLANTE

Pr: Gary Hustwit CoP: Jojo Li AsP: Brian Betancourt, Chris Ronis Ci: Ryan Samul Ed: Danny Perez Mu: Animal Collective Principal Cast: Josh Dibb, Noah Lennox, David Portner, Brian Weitz

Preceded by The ZO Director: Glenda WhartonU.S.A., 2009, 26 min., color

Tuesday, January 26, 8:30 p.m. - ODDSA26PNProspector Square Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 28, 10:30 p.m. - ODDSA281LHoliday Village Cinema I, Park City

Friday, January 29, 9:30 p.m. - ODDSA292NHoliday Village Cinema II, Park City

Saturday, January 30, 6:00 p.m. - ODDSA30BEBroadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC

Double Take DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Johan Grimonprez , based on a story by Tom McCarthy, inspired by the essay “25 August, 1983,” by Jorge Luis Borges Belgium/Germany/The Netherlands, 2009, 80 min., color & b/w

The best art imitates life, but at a slant. Johan Grimonprez adroitly proves this in his highly original film, which locates and develops thematic conjunctions between escapist entertainment and real-life horror; more specifically, between the work and images of legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock and the escalation of the cold war in the 1960s. Appropriating and reprocessing film and television images of Hitchcock, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Nikita Khruschev, and others, Grimonprez expands droll generalizations about doppelgangers, guilt, and paranoia into a full-blown analysis of global politics, fear of the bomb, and the mad rush to mutually assured destruction. As public anxieties are sublimated in popular entertainment, so do they sometimes erupt in artistic expressions (such as Hitchcock’s The Birds). In addition to pinpointing the postmodern, movielike unreality of public life, Grimonprez convincingly indicates the precision with which an artist may sketch the public psyche in entertainment, and why Hitchcock still haunts our dreams.—SHANNON KELLEY

Pr: Zap-o-Matik, Emmy Oost, Johan Grimonprez CoP: Nikovantastic Film, Hanneke van der Tas, Nicole Gerhards, Volya Films, Denis Vaslin Ed: Dieter Diependaele, Tyler Hubby Mu: Christian Halten So: Ranko Paukovic Principal Cast: Ron Burrage, Mark Perry

Preceded by Voice on the Line Director: Kelly SearsU.S.A., 2009, 7 min., color

Friday, January 22, 9:00 a.m. - DOUBL22EMEgyptian Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 23, 3:00 p.m. - DOUBL23BABroadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC

Sunday, January 24, noon - DOUBL24YDYarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 30, 12:30 p.m. - DOUBL30EDEgyptian Theatre, Park City

Memories of Overdevelopment Memorias del Desarrollo DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Miguel Coyula U.S.A./Cuba, 2010, 115 min., colorEnglish and Spanish with English subtitles

What happens when a socialist revolutionary in-tellectual asserts creative freedom? In Memories of Overdevelopment, ideological clashes and contradictions explode and fragment within a Cuban émigré while they spurt across the world stage. A kinetic, mesmerizing, subliminal collage, the film forges new cinematic dimensions with multiple planes: a picaresque saga of desire and decomposition, a self-reflexive project about art reifying life, a surreal foray into memory and the unconscious, and a searing critique of twentieth-century forces like genocide and totalitarianism.

Shot with psychedelic lucidity, the narrative evolves from our rogue’s Cuban boyhood, when the revolution and his aunt’s dying wish for a kiss become formative fodder and iconographic propaganda. He constructs and deconstructs reality—manipulating language, image, and sound—to manufacture the very art we’re consuming. As he careens from youth to old age in elliptical swirls of misadventure, elusive pleasures of collectivity and individualism give way to existential truth.—CAROLINE LIBRESCO

ExP: Steve Pieczenik, Suzana Dejkanovic Pr: David Leitner AsP: Yukiko Niigata, Michael Ferris Gibson Ci: Miguel Coyula Ed: Miguel Coyula Mu: Dika Durbuzovic, Miguel Coyula, Hayes Greenfield, Luis Novo Principal Cast: Ron Blair, Eileen Alana, Susana Pérez, Lester Martínez, Dayana M. Hernández, Reb Fleming

Preceded by Vostok Station Director: Dylan PharazynNew Zealand, 2009, 9 min., color

Friday, January 22, noon - MEMOR224DHoliday Village Cinema IV, Park City

Saturday, January 23, noon - MEMOR23YDYarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 24, 4:30 p.m. - MEMOR24DABroadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC

Tuesday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. - MEMOR26YNYarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 30, 6:30 p.m. - MEMOR302EHoliday Village Cinema II, Park City

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Pepperminta DIRECTOR: Pipilotti Rist SCREENWRITERS: Chris Niemeyer, Pipilotti Rist Austria/Switzerland, 2009, 80 min., colorGerman with English subtitles

Pepperminta is a playful young woman with an anarchic imagination, determined to free people from their fears through her own special alchemy. Colors are her best friends, strawberries are her pets, and the world outside her door is there to be licked. Together with a plump, shy young man named Werwen and Edna, a gender-bending gardener, Pepperminta sets out on a mission to fight for a more humane world. Internationally acclaimed visual artist Pipilotti Rist’s first feature, Pepperminta is an explosion of psychedelic color and fantasy where things sacred and taboo become playful and whimsical, and color can transform and heal lives. Crafting a tactile film seen through a toddler’s-eye camera, Rist irreverently engages with childhood fairy tales to create a magical and visually stunning contemporary fable of courage in the face of shame. Lobe of Lung: The Saliva Ooze Away to the Underground is a fully immersive version of Rist’s feature film, which invites audiences to lie back and lounge inside the film. The installation can be experienced at New Frontier on Main. —SHARI FRILOT

Pr: Christian Davi, Christof Neracher, Antonin Svoboda Ci: Pierre Mennel Ed: Gion-Reto Killias ArD: Su Erdt Mu: Anders Guggisberg, Roland Widmer VESu: Davide Legittimo Principal Cast: Ewelina Guzik, Sven Pippig, Sabine Timoteo, Noemi Leonhardt, Elisabeth Orth, Oliver Akwe

Preceded by I Without End Director: Laleh KhorramianU.S.A., 2008, 7 min., color

Friday, January 22, 3:00 p.m. - PEPPE22EAEgyptian Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 23, 9:00 a.m. - PEPPE23EMEgyptian Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 23, 7:30 p.m. - PEPPE23BEBroadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC

Thursday, January 28, 5:30 p.m. - PEPPE283EHoliday Village Cinema III, Park City

Saturday, January 30, 10:00 p.m. - PEPPE303LHoliday Village Cinema III, Park City

Utopia in Four Movements DIRECTORS: Sam Green, Dave Cerf U.S.A., 2010, 75 min., color & b/w

Throughout human history, people have had giddy dreams and fantastic notions about what the future would bring. Today the future has become more of a threat than a promise—a knot of intractable problems looming menacingly on the horizon. With a powerful sense of poetry, Utopia in Four Movements uses the collective experience of cinema to explore the battered state of the utopian impulse at the dawn of the twenty-first century. In this “live documentary,” filmmaker Sam Green cues images and narrates in person while musician Dave Cerf performs the soundtrack. From the establishment of a man-made language designed to end war and cultural conflict and the undying optimism of an American exile in Cuba, to the current economic boom in China and the desire to give the remains in mass graves a dignified burial, Green and Cerf sift through the history of the utopian impulse with audiences and search for insights about the way to build a vision of the future based on humankind’s noblest impulses.—SHARI FRILOT

Pr: Sam Green, Carrie Lozano Ci: Andy Black Ed: Sam Green, Dave Cerf Mu: Dave Cerf, Matt McCormick, Tarentel, Todd Griffin So: Kadet Kuhne

Monday, January 25, 3:00 p.m. - UTOPI25YAYarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Tuesday, January 26, 6:00 p.m. - UTOPI26YEYarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Performancesand Installations

NEW FRONTIER ON MAINPresented by HP and Sony Electronics Inc.333 Main St. (lower level, across from Egyptian Theatre)

Thursday, January 213:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.Friday, January 22–Friday, January 29Noon to 8:00 p.m.Saturday, January 30Noon to 3:00 p.m.

Opens or all Festival Credential Holders and the general public as space permits unless otherwise noted.

Filmmaker and performance artist Nao Bustamante returns to Sundance with a deliciously outrageous and ambitious new work; her short film Untitled #1 (from the series Earth People 2507), starring her toy poodle as a herd of buffalo, appeared at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Silver & Gold combines film, live performance, and original costumes into a self-proclaimed “filmformance” that evokes the muse of legendary filmmaker Jack Smith and his tribute to 1940s’ Dominican movie starlet Maria Montez in a magical and joyfully twisted exploration of race, glamour, sexuality, and the silver screen.

Sunday, January 24 at 6:30 p.m.Tuesday, January 26 at 6:30 p.m.Thursday, January 28 at 6:30 p.m.Admission is free on a first-come, first-served basis.

Kalup Linzy’s work is a splendid mix of southern culture, daytime soap opera, and the raunchy, shady humor of black gay culture, all turbocharged with fierce DIY Network determination. Linzy writes, directs, and stars in his hilariously melodramatic tales of love and flama. Following the video presentation, one of the characters, Taiwan, comes to life to star in a multimedia musical performance. Featuring the videos, Ride to da Club, Conversations wit de Churen VII: Lil Myron’s Trade, Keys To Our Heart, and episodes from the series Melody Set Me Free.

Saturday, January 23 at 6:30 p.m.Monday, January 25 at 6:30 p.m.Wednesday, January 27 at 6:30 p.m.Thursday, January 28 at 2:00 p.m. (screening of Keys To Our Heart & discussion with artist)Admission is free on a first-come, first-served basis.

Courtesy of the artist and Taxter & Spengelmann gallery

SILVER & GOLDNao Bustamante, U.S.A., 2010

SWEET, SAMPLED, AND LEFTOVAKalup Linzy, U.S.A., 2009

Video and Live Performance

Video and Live Performance

Tracey Snelling’s exquisitely crafted miniature sculptures of buildings and landscapes conjure up a visceral sense of time and place and manifest the life that comes from within. Incorporating architecture, photography, collage, film, and audio, Snelling presents a carnivalesque tableau of the Mexican/American border that tells the story of a sweeping locale and the individual inhabitants who reside in its buildings, streets, and alleyways. The cinematic image stands in for real life and, as it unspools behind windowpanes, creates a sublime sense of wonder, nostalgia, and the relevance of the cinematic image in our terrestrial lives.

BORDERTOWNTracey Snelling, U.S.A., 2006–2009

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Attention Google Earth junkies! Digital-media designers Thomas Gläser and Jens Franke invite you to surf the globe with your feet! Their installation, The Earthwalk, offers an intuitive way for the user to control Google Earth and navigate the Earth’s surface by stepping onto an interactive map projected on the floor. Fly around the world in one minute or descend upon the city of your choice and become immersed in your favorite tangle of streets. The Earthwalk lets you soar and explore the planet, one step at a time.

A soulful siren song lures the viewer into a magical surround-sound concert performed from five different locations in the majestic Canadian Rocky Mountains. Icelandic musician and performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s mesmerizing five-channel installation, The End, is a portal to another time and place, transporting the viewer to a sweeping expanse of alpine landscape where just two musicians, Kjartansson and Davio Por Jonsson, fill the crisp snowy air with an evergreen tune performed by an entire ensemble of acoustic guitars, banjos, drums, and a grand piano.

Mixed-Media Sculpture with Video

THE EARTHWALKJens Franke, Thomas Gläser, Germany, 2006

Interactive Media

THE ENDRagnar Kjartansson, Iceland, 2008, 30 min. loop

Galleries: Luhring Augustine, New York; Galeri i8, Reykjavik

Artist and computer scientist Eric Gradman brings online social networking back into the human realm with Cloud Mirror, an interactive, augmented, reality-based art installation that merges audiences with their online identities. Step in front of the magic mirror, and you will see yourself in the flesh. You will also see your “second skin”—a thought bubble transmitting information from your Facebook, Twitter, and other social-networking identities. Anyone who has properly registered can participate in this playful and insightful work, which aims to bring human intimacy back into terrestrial interaction.

CLOUD MIRROREric Gradman, U.S.A., 2009

Interactive Media

Video Installation

Gallery: Galerie Urs Maeile, Lucern, Beijing

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Michael Joaquin Grey’s work exists at the boundaries among art, science, and media and emulate dynamic living systems. His projects contemplate the origins of life, language, and physical form. The films connect relationships of development and growth, using body signals, sound, and appropriated media. Beautiful, elegant, and fascinating to watch, Grey’s computational films and film objects are unrecorded emergent and dynamic cinematic systems.

Works include Perpetual ZOOZ (Madonna and Child), Rereentry, Sam Slime Stress Cycle, The So What Moon Calendar, Reentry, and Between Two Milkbars.

All screenings in the MicrocinemaThursday, January 21 at 3:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.Friday, January 22 at 6:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.Sunday, January 24–Friday, January 29 at 4:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.Saturday, January 30 at noon and 3:00 p.m.

Gallery: bitforms, New York

As a fourth-generation Arizona farmer whose land is currently being encroached upon by suburban sprawl, Matthew Moore designs his installations to reconnect consumers to their local geographies and the life cycles of the Earth and its produce. Lifecycles is a multimedia installation that reconfigures the produce section of the Park City Fresh Market grocery store and transforms the experience of shopping for vegetables into a beautiful meditation that brings us closer to the life cycles of the produce we buy and consume.

LIFECYCLES Matthew Moore, U.S.A., 2009

Music: Michael KrassnerSound: Adam MurrayPhotography Consultant: Mike LundgrenFarm Consultant: Mike Moore

THE WORKS OF MICHAEL JOAQUIN GREYMichael Joaquin Grey, U.S.A., 2005-2009

Microcinema Screenings

Site-Specific InstallationFresh Market Grocery Store (formerly Albertsons), 1760 Park Ave.

The deviously delicious imagination of internationally renowned multimedia artist Pipilotti Rist invites audiences to lie back and lounge inside her film. Lobe of Lung is a fully immersive installation rendition of her debut feature film Pepperminta, which is being screened in the films’ program. Starring two humans, a pig, and an earthworm, Lobe of Lung merges fantasy with reality as it opens up the walls of New Frontier onto a luscious panoramic poem that bathes audiences in audiovisual delight.

LOBE OF LUNG (THE SALIVA OOZE AWAY TO THE UNDERGROUND)Pipilotti Rist, Switzerland, 2009–2010, 14 min. loop

Part media workshop, part social network, and part art exhibition, hitRECord.org is a hybrid production enterprise that taps crowd-sourced creativity and topples traditional ideas of artistic ownership, online communication, and film production. Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Hesher, 500 Days of Summer, Mysterious Skin, Brick) invites audiences to collaborate collectively with him in the filmmaking process and create, record, and remix each other’s art (video, music, photos, writing, etc.). Together, hitRECorders will fashion cohesive, short, multimedia work designed to bring the creative community together at the end of the festival.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s remarks: Sunday, January 24 at 8:30 p.m. and Wednesday, January 27 at 9:00 p.m.hitRECorder screening: Friday, January 29 at 6:00 p.m.

hitRECord.orgJoseph Gordon-Levitt, U.S.A.

Producer: Jared GellerArt Director: Marke JohnsonWeb Director: RonenV.com

Daily Workshopsand Microcinema Screening

Video Installation

Gallery: Luhring Augustine, New York

Digital Dive: A New Media Workshop for FilmmakersFriday, January 22, 10:00 a.m. –5:40 p.m.Microcinema, New Frontier on Main

Twitter accounts! iPhone apps! Facebook pages! It’s all a bit overwhelming, isn’t it? Digital Dive is a one-day immersion program to help filmmakers wrap their heads around the world of digital-media content creation. New-media experts present case studies, product demos, and practical information about the way to get your feet wet with website, mobile-phone, social-media, and cross-platform production. A collaboration between Sundance Film Festival and Jigsaw Global, this workshop is ideal for filmmakers and industry professionals with minimal hands-on digital-media production experience. All instructional sessions and demos are open to the public, depending on seat availability. Credential holders and Sundance-affiliated filmmakers will be given priority access. For the full lineup, including the nerve-wracking pitch session, please see www.jigsawglobal.com/sundance.

Spotlight on Social Media: Successful Strategies for StorytellersFriday, January 22, noon–1:30 p.m.Microcinema, New Frontier on Main

Today’s social-media sites have the potential to bring content creators closer to audiences than ever before—creating new marketing opportunities for independents. But what more can be achieved? Can we create meaningful experiences through our profile pages, or is it all just self-promotional clutter? Are the popular sites we use today the end of the line, or just a peek into the future? Moderated by Kara Swisher of The Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsD.com

“Cinerama Futurama”: The Future of the Theatrical ExperienceSaturday, January 23, noon–1:30 p.m.Sundance House Presented by HP, Main Gallery

More than a century after its invention, the theatrical cinema experience is due for an aesthetic overhaul. Through innovative design, architecture, and technology, the twenty-first-century theatre space will look and feel very different. Beyond IMAX and 3-D, we prepare for waves of immersive design, real interactivity, alternative content, and flexible niche programming. But while the studio blockbuster may be safe, is there a role for independents in this futuristic world? Moderated by David Taylor, cofounder of the 5D conference and theatre planner for Arup.

New Frontier Panels

HP PresentationThe Next Generation of the 3-D ExperienceSaturday, January 23, 3:00 p.m.Sundance House Presented by HP, Main Gallery

Awe-inspiring advancements in 3-D are everywhere. The latest techniques allow the audience to experience storytelling in new ways—and exciting new environments. Join HP and renowned 3-D experts from DreamWorks Animation, Disney, Sony, NBA, and other leading developers in a dynamic preview and in-depth panel discussion. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet the experts, engage in discussion, and view innovative 3-D clips. Moderated by Philip McKinney, vice president and chief technology officer of HP Personal Systems Group.

Sponsor Presentations

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Multimedia artist Gina Czarnecki explores the convergence of sensuality, biology, dance, and cinema in her mesmerizing single-channel installations. In these pieces developed in collaboration with biotechnologists, computer programmers, dancers, and sound artists, Czarnecki crafts gorgeously textural, digital meditations on the human form in motion: gazing across scale, blurring the boundaries between the mass and the cellular, and investigating what is possible when nature ends and the technologically manipulated begins.

Works include Nascent, Cell Mass N2, and Infected.

Petko Dourmana’s fascinating interactive multimedia installation invites audiences to explore a postapocalyptic landscape and visit the workplace of a person whose job is to observe the border between land and the rising sea. Upon entering the room, viewers at first think there is nothing but a simple human dwelling there. However, once they alter their ability to see through the darkness with night-vision devices, viewers can experience and explore the hauntingly futuristic landscape surrounding them.

POST GLOBAL WARMING SURVIVAL KIT, Petko Dourmana, Germany/Bulgaria, 2008,10 min. loop Interactive Multimedia Installation

THE WORKS OF GINA CZARNECKI Gina Czarnecki, United Kingdom, 2001–2006

NascentProducer: FormaCoproducer: Australian Dance TheatreSupported by Arts Council EnglandCommissioned by Forma and Adelaide Film Festival

Cell Mass N2 and InfectedProducer: FormaSupported by Arts Council England

Video Installation

Cross-Platform and Transmedia Storytelling for FilmmakersSaturday, January 23, 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.Microcinema, New Frontier on Main

Beyond traditional narratives, today’s savvy filmmakers are embracing storytelling across multiple forms of media, with each element making distinctive contributions to a viewer’s understanding of the story. By creating new “entry points,” filmmakers find new audiences and revenue streams and engage with our mobile lifestyles. Join us as we take a “deep-dive” approach to examples of contemporary cross-platform media and showcase some of the most successful projects launched to date.

Migrating Imaginations: Visions from the Art and Music Worlds Transform the Silver Screen

Sunday, January 24, noon–1:30 p.m.Microcinema, New Frontier on MainThis year’s Festival features some of the leading names in other mediums—both visual art and music—crossing over into the world of feature filmmaking. This migration brings exciting new perspectives to the form, often resulting in surprising new cinematic languages. Join a panel of leading artists as we explore the intersections between art and film and the unique motivations behind working in multiple and sometimes contradictory mediums. Featured artists include Shirin Neshat and Piplotti Rist, among others; moderated by Elvis Mitchell.

Cinematic Breakout: Integrating Film and Physical SpaceMonday, January 25, noon–1:30 p.m.Microcinema, New Frontier on Main

The artists of the 2010 New Frontier point the way toward an intriguing future, where cinema migrates off the screen and incorporates itself into the everyday world. Pushing beyond the boundaries of “site specific,” pioneering artists are using new media technology to imagine seamless interactions between mundane reality and heightened sensory experiences. Tour the galleries of the New Frontier, and then join the artists for a conversation on the emerging role of cinema in the physical realm. Moderated by Ruby Lerner, executive director of Creative Capital.

Filmformance: The New Cinema Road ShowTuesday, January 26, noon–1:30 p.m.Microcinema, New Frontier on Main

In a world of shrinking theatrical releases, today’s filmmakers are increasingly hitting the road themselves, presenting their work in myriad venues across the country. What emerges is a more direct connection between filmmaker and audience and a dynamic grassroots interaction among artist, the work, and the public. What are the artistic benefits of these “event” screenings? What are the new revenue and marketing opportunities? Join us for a whirlwind tour of the new “live” cinema. Moderated by Jose Munoz, NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Net Evolution: What Will the Next Internet Be?Wednesday, January 27, noon–1:30 p.m.Microcinema, New Frontier on Main

Often referred to as Web 3.0, the Internet is set to make its next great leap. Driven by cloud computing, mobile alternatives, semantic technology, and search functionality, the Internet is transforming from a network of information to one of knowledge and services—with ubiquitous digital content permeating every aspect of our lives. But what will these changes mean for the creative community? Will content ownership and distribution transform itself, or simply disappear? Moderated by Wendy Levy of the Bay Area Video Coalition.

Lynn Shelton on $5 Cover: SeattleSaturday, January 23, 9:00 p.m.Microcinema, New Frontier on Main

Director Lynn Shelton (Humpday) leads us through the creative process behind $5 Cover: Seattle, the rocking MTV multiplatform musical series inaugurated last year with Craig Brewer’s look at the music of Memphis. Featuring 13 up-and-coming bands playing themselves, the project offers an improvised, immersive look at one wild weekend in Seattle. From lovin’ to brawlin’, pop to punk, this is real life for working musicians.

Sony Electronics Inc. Presentation Unveiling the Creative Potential of Sony Handheld Cameras and Essential Digital TechniquesSaturday, January 23, 2:30 p.m.—3:30 p.m.Sunday, January 24, 2:30 p.m.—3:30 p.m.Microcinema, New Frontier on Main

Join David Leitner—producer, director, and cinematographer of seven Sundance premieres—as well as New Frontier director Miguel Coyula (Memories of Overdevelopment) to discuss the latest line of Sony cameras and the tremendous new possibilities for independent filmmakers. Also learn about critical digital techniques in the preproduction, production, and postproduction of a no-budget dramatic feature.

G-Technology by Hitachi PresentationDrive Your Creativity—Cutting-Edge Digital Filmmaking Tools and Workfl owsTuesday, January 26, 2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.Microcinema, New Frontier on Main

Learn about some of the hottest tools and techniques in digital cinematography, postproduction, stereoscopic 3-D workflow, and high-performance storage from the industry leaders. Come see Ted Schilowitz of Red Digital Cinema demonstrate the latest digital-cinema cameras, ultrafast editing and effects tools by Adobe, and a unique “desktop 3-D” workflow presentation from Plaster City of Los Angeles.