DECEMBER HIGHLIGHTS Snag-A-Trip Sweepstakes!

December 12, 2013 DECEMBER HIGHLIGHTS Snag-A-Trip Sweepstakes!       Due to the overwhelming response, SnagFilms is delighted to announce a 2 week extension to our "Snag-A-Trip Sweepstakes" contest. Now until January 2, film fans are invited to enter for their chance to win our Grand Prize: a 5 day / 4 night trip to Park City with VIP access to exclusive film screenings and parties at the world-renowned Sundance Film Festival.  To enter, contestants choose from a selection of over 4,000 films to watch for free on Snagfilms.com. The more you watch, the more entries you get, so fans are encouraged to watch, share, grade, and refer friends to increase their chances of winning this fabulous trip! A trip to the Sundance Film Festival is a unique and exciting opportunity for ski bunnies, aspiring filmmakers and film aficionados alike. The once-in-a-lifetime package includes all-access VIP entry to some of the most exclusive industry events and screenings. All contestants will have the chance to win other cool prizes, even if they don't make it all the way to the grand prize!     Unofficial Google+ Film Festival SnagFilms is proud to announce its partnership with the Unofficial Google+ Film Festival, one of the world's fastest-growing short film fests. Using both simultaneous online and offline events, this free, live, interactive event welcomes viewers worldwide. From December 13 to December 15, 2013, the 3-day online and interactive festival will feature a curated selection of short films and web series free and available worldwide via the festival's home on Google+ and the UGPFF website. It will include ten separate film and web series blocks, industry expert film panel discussions and interactive Q&A sessions with filmmakers throughout the event. UGPFF is the first international film festival to engage audiences with simultaneous online and offline screenings around the globe.  As a companion to the interactive online experience, UGPFF will host and live stream a series of offline screenings with theater audiences in 7 cities throughout 5 different countries including New Zealand, Singapore, London, NYC, Seattle, Tijuana and LA. From December 16-29, SnagFilms.com will be the exclusive home for the films and web series chosen for this year's festival. Sign up for details at www.ugpff.com.    SNAG STOCKING STUFFERS This holiday season, SnagFilms presents 5 fabulous DVDs for the film lover in your home. From an inspiring story about WWII veterans to Afghanistan's official Oscar entry to a portrait of the legendary Ginger Baker, these films are the perfect gifts for anybody in the family.    Limited Edition DVD Releases    BEWARE OF MR. BAKER    SXSW Grand Jury Award-winning Beware of Mr. Baker  portrays legendary drummer Ginger Baker of Cream in unrestrained detail -- his addictions, his astonishing talent, his mercurial rise, self-destructive path and ultimately his place in the pantheon of rock and roll. The perfect gift for music and documentary lovers young and old alike.  HONOR FLIGHT    Honor Flight is a heartwarming documentary about four living World War II veterans and a Midwest community coming together to give them the trip of a lifetime. President George H.W. Bush said "The film's ability to reach out to fellow veterans, friends, and family is what makes this country great." The Los Angeles times called it "enormously moving." Bring it home this Christmas to honor the hero in your life.     New Indie DVDs LET FURY HAVE THE HOUR Rough, raw and unapologetically inspirational, filmmaker Antonino D'Ambrosio's Let Fury Have the Hour is an exuberant, mixed media collage that incorporates graphic art, music, animation, and spoken word. The Tribeca Film Fest favorite features over 50 artists including Chuck D., Lewis Black, Tom Morello, Eve Ensler, Shepard Fairey and many more.  Now available for the first time on DVD.  THE BLACK TULIP The Black Tulip, Afghanistan's official selection for the 2012 Academy Awards, is a dramatic journey into the heart and soul of the real Afghanistan that captures the plight and resilience of its people. Rex Reed called it "a gripping experience as politically enlightening and emotionally involving as it is educational... You will not go away unmoved."  This film is available for the first time on DVD.  HAPPY NEW YEAR Happy New Year is a bold film about a group of veterans who find friendship while fighting to redefine their lives as they struggle to overcome PTSD. The National Board of Review called it "An important, emotionally-devastating drama" This inspiring look at the lives of war heroes launched on Veterans Day, November 11th, for the first time on DVD.  WE MADE THIS MOVIE  Directed by Emmy-winner and Executive Producer of the David Letterman Show, Rob Burnett, We Made This Movie is the story of five graduating high school seniors with no prospects who decide to make an outrageous comedy movie with the hope of getting famous and escaping their depressing town.  Coming to DVD 12/17/13. 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Exhibition Preview: Jérôme Chazeix - Zeix Desire The world which populates Jérôme Chazeix’s (1976, Nantua/France) drawings – animals, models, stars and ornaments, sparingly-coloured and succinctly outlined – piles up already in his studio: in glass cupboards, where normally one finds collected cups, Chazeix has placed animals as if to provoke our expression of sympathy (oh, isn’t it sweet!). One looks at foxes, elks or birds lacking anything unfamiliar. They are condemned to an existence as cuddled pets. In between lie genuine deer horns and flower vases bringing post-war cosiness to mind. Above, over this popular world, the objectively-scientifically stuffed bird and other dermatoplastic processed animals are being naturally displayed. It is true that for the time being the stuffed bird has nothing to do with an image, but with a way of recording. Because science ascertains with the help of these objects and a clip box the content of the world. Yet as disposition – and yet again as image (this is a pheasant!), it should not be absent. After all, the production of the popular picture flood has its starting point in the stuffed fauna. In the corners and shelves of Chazeix’s far too small studio pile up animal atlases, books about birds and goods that are being collected in order to use their illustrations and schematized drawings. The taxonomic will to record and the naivety of the look, which seeks to erase every complexity, exert a magical attraction on Chazeix. He pursues image research. The seriousness of his venture becomes visible when one is given files in the hand to leaf through. In them one can find, thematically organized, copies of cosmonaut photos, ad booklets, fashion magazines, textbooks, medicine books, tables and catalogues of contemporary art. “I’m through with the National Library” adds Chazeix. One begins to suspect, that it is about an inventory of popular images of the “unfamiliar” in the world, not inferior to science regarding its extent. It is no surprise then, that Chazeix pulls out atlases in order to show us that he scientifically assembles his hotchpotch of cosmos, model, porno, animal and ornament in self-made notebooks. There are atlases (with candy papers, tags and milk labels with a cow face, like an object feeding us happily) or atlases with various modulations of the female image, pornographic varieties included. Therefore, the picture formulas which Chazeix has mostly by chance come across (“I have bought this fox at a Chinese market”) are being injected in order reservoirs of his own.

Jérôme Chazeix - Untitled I Original drawing Mixed media on 150g/m2 lana paper Signed by the artist Size: 42 x 29.7 cm

Jérôme Chazeix - Untitled II Original drawing Mixed media on 150g/m2 lana paper Signed by the artist Size: 42 x 29.7 cm

Jérôme Chazeix - Untitled III Original drawing Mixed media on 150g/m2 lana paper Signed by the artist Size: 42 x 29.7 cm

Jérôme Chazeix - Untitled IV Original drawing Mixed media on 150g/m2 lana paper Signed by the artist Size: 42 x 29.7 cm

Jérôme Chazeix - Untitled V Original drawing Mixed media on 150g/m2 lana paper Signed by the artist Size: 42 x 29.7 cm

Jérôme Chazeix - Untitled VI Original drawing Mixed media on 150g/m2 lana paper Signed by the artist Size: 42 x 29.7 cm #fineartmagazine

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Murmur No. 20, 44 x 44 inch inch pigment print  Richard Barnes  Murmur & Refuge January 15 - February 23, 2014   The formations of birds in flight and their nest building architecture are both guided by an innate sense of purpose and survival.  In an early investigation from Animal Logic (Princeton University Press, 2009), we find the photographer examining both phenomena with reverence. In Murmur, Barnes observes the flocks of starlings that cloud the skies of EUR, a suburb of Rome.  In this series, he depicts nature as it behaves on it's own, alive and breathing.  The photographs capture the birds' aerial displays, which can take on the form of suspended mesh sculpture or simply blacken the sky. The photographs of the starlings can appear light, airy, and elegant, while others are captured with an unnerving and ominous quality. Refuge examines the complex architecture of birds' nests, constructed from elements of the natural world along with debris discarded by humans such as string, plastic and dryer lint.  The nests are intricate structures, unique in shape and form.  This study of birds' nests exhibits an interesting and perhaps complicated relationship between humans and nature.  As we make more debris and waste, we pollute the environment, but in turn these nests are made of things we see as trash and they become safe havens for this part of the animal kingdom.   Richard Barnes graduated from the University of California at Berkley with a BA in Fine Arts. He went on to work as the photographer for the joint Yale/University of Pennsylvania excavations at Abydos, Egypt.  His resume includes solo exhibitions at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Carpenter Center at Harvard, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum and the University of Michigan Art Museum.  His work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  Barnes received the Rome Prize in 2005/2006, and the Alfred Eisenstadt Award in Photography and the Sidman Fellowship for the Arts in 2009. Murmur & Refuge will remain on view through February 23rd.  Foley Gallery is openWednesday - Sunday, 12 - 6pm.  To request images; please contact the gallery at 212.244.9081or info@foleygallery.com. #fineartmagazine

LOLA ARIAS EL AÑO EN QUE NACÍ / THE YEAR I WAS BORN

LOLA ARIAS EL AÑO EN QUE NACÍ / THE YEAR I WAS BORN January 23-26, 2014

Argentinean writer, director, performer, and songwriter Lola Arias brings El Año en que nací / The year I was born to the MCA Stage. Ten performers, born during Augusto Pinochet's 1970s and 1980s dictatorship in Chile, retell their parent's stories using photographs, letters, cassette tapes, old clothing, anecdotes, and elusive recollections. The performances are part of the MCA Stage Global Stage Series and take place January 23-25 at 7:30 pm, and January 26 at 3 pm, in the Edlis Neeson Theater at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Invited by the Chilean government to create a new work, Arias chose to explore the seemingly-lost histories of people who lived under the Pinochet regime. Arias identified ten performers whose parents had diverse experiences living in Pinochet-era Chile. They don their parent's clothes and tell family stories that represent a range of economic, racial, and political backgrounds. Performer-by-performer, the stories collect and converge, retracing both personal histories and the collective history of Chile.A harrowing and cathartic experience for the performers, this playful and political piece reveals the complexity and dark secrets alongside the joy and humor of lives recovered. Lola Arias is the co-founder of Compañía Postnuclear, an Argentinean group of interdisciplinary artists. Her productions explore the boundaries between reality and fiction, using biographies and real documentation in a surreal or poetic way. In her work Striptease (2007), a baby occupied the center of the stage while the parents dueled by telephone. In El amor es un francotirador (2007), performers related true and fictional love stories amid a rock band playing live. In 2010-2012, she curatedCiudades Paralelas, a festival of urban interventions in Berlin, Buenos Aires, Warsaw, Zurich, and Singapore. Her works have been performed internationally at festivals including Steirischer Herbst, Graz; Festival d'Avignon; In Transit Festival, Berlin; We Are Here, Dublin; Spielart Festival, Munich; Alkantara Festival, Lisbon; and Radicals Festival, Barcelona. Together with Ulises Conti, she composes and plays music and has released the albums El amor es un francotirador (2007) and Los que no duermen (2011).   RELATED PROGRAMS MCA Screen: Films by Pablo Larraίn Saturday, January 11, 12-6 pm Tuesday, January 14, 2-8 pm In conjunction with Lola Arias's El Año en que naci / The year I was born, the MCA presents Chilean director Larran's trilogy. The films trace the Allende presidency's overthrow in the 1970's, which inaugurated Pinochet's 17-year military dictatorship. ·         Post Mortem (Saturday at noon, Tuesday at 2 pm) is inspired by official public accounts of the assistant coroner who performed the autopsy on the former president. ·         Tony Manero (Saturday 2 pm, Tuesday 4 pm) is named for John Travolta's character inSaturday Night Fever, which along with Grease, were the only American movies Pinochet's censors permitted to be shown in Chile. Tony Manero was shot on 16-millimeter film. ·         No (Saturday 4 pm, Tuesday 6 pm) is a portrayal of the surprise plebiscite election in 1988 which was caused by, and unseated, Pinochet. MCA Talk: El Año en que nací / The year I was born Thursday, January 23, immediately following the performance Yolanda Cesta Cursach, Associate Director of Performance Programs, leads a discussion with the artists. MCA Studio: DO IT in Español Saturday, January 25, 1-3 pm Participants can join Lola Arias's ensemble in a hands-on workshop conducted in English and Spanish. Participants need to bring five personal documents about their life, such as photos, papers, or cassette tapes. TICKET INFORMATION El Año en que nací / The Year I Was Bornis 120 minutes with no intermission and is in Spanish with English subtitles. Performances take place January 23-25 at 7:30 pm, and January 26 at 3 pm, in the Edlis Neeson Theater, 220 East Chicago Avenue. Tickets are $28 and a limited quantity of $10 student tickets is available. The MCA Box Office is at 312.397.4010 or www.mcachicago.org. One free museum admission is granted with an MCA Stage ticket stub, valid up to seven days after the performance.

PRESS RELEASE AND HIGH RES IMAGES    Image:Lola Arias: El Año en que nací. Photo: David Alarcón. Lola Arias: El Año en que nací / The year I was born is generously supported by Lois and Steve Eisen and the Eisen Family Foundation. Touring support is made possible in part by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile, and by the National Performance Network (NPN) Performing Americas Program.  El Año en que nací / The year I was born is a production of Fundación Teatro a Mil, Santiago, Chile (FITAM). Major contributors of National Performance Network (NPN) include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), the MetLife Foundation and the Nathan Cummings Foundation.   Performing Americas is a partnership between NPN and the Network of Cultural Promoters of Latin America and the Caribbean (La RED), with funding provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation.     email: egrotto@mcachicago.org  voice: 312.397.3828    email: kloring@mcachicago.org voice: 312.397.3834 web: http://www.mcachicago.org/media   #fineartmagazine