Friday, December 19, 2008

!!January CAmm Screenings!!

1st Mondays
Jan 5, Feb 2, Mar 2, Apr 6
CAmm Cine Lounge
Hosted by Stacie Gentzler, Black Ink Films
CAmm Cine Lounge is the hottest indie film event in town! Bring your new film or work in progress (max length 15min) and have a critical conversation with peers. Film industry guests share tips of the trade. Networking power hour finishes the night! Bring business cards, headshots, and press packets for our info exchange tables! Bar is open with specials!
7pm. $8, $6 mbrs.

Fri Jan 9
CAmm Indie Premiere:
Chris LaMartina’s One Foot in the Grave! w/ Grave Mistakes
8pm. $10, $8 mbrs.
Director Chris LaMartina, Baltimore's horror film tour-de-force, premieres his latest tales of terror! Featuring performances by George Stover and 98 Rock DJ Shortbus Don, One Foot In The Grave reunites LaMartina with his Book Of Lore co-author, Jimmy George. After a tragedy, a ballerina loses both a foot and her pedophiliac boyfriend. The town witch resurrects the ballerina's foot, which begins to wreak revenge on all who wronged her. In Grave Mistakes, a grave robber barters stories with an antiques dealer while an unspeakable horror lurks in the basement beneath them.

Sun Jan 25
CAmm Indie Premiere:
Happy SAHD (Schwartz, 2008)
4pm. $5, kids under 10 free.
What happens when a family decides that Dad will stay at home with the kids while Mom works? SAHDs (Stay-At-Home Dads) are a growing trend in our culture. New doc by award winning Baltimore filmmaker Michael Ivan Schwartz, Happy SAHD follows a dozen Baltimore-area fathers who have chosen to be the daily caregiver for their children, for a variety of reasons. This illuminating and humorous movie reveals the everyday life trials, tribulations and triumphs of these men living outside the norm. Q&A and reception follow the film.

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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

!!HOLIDAY RENTAL DEALS!!

Holiday Season Specials!
Discounts and extended rental deals!

Tis the season of lights!
End of the year lighting blow out! Rent one lighting package get another for ½ off! (Good for ½ of 2nd package at time of rental OR ½ off your next lighting kit rental!!) Offer good thru Dec 31, 2008.


Hanukkah & Christmas!
CAmm Cage & Media Lab will be closed Wed Dec 25, Fri Dec 26, and Wed Dec 31. Make a New Year’s movie! Document the holidays! Rent gear on Dec 22 or Dec 29 for a WHOLE week for the price of two days!! (Gear rented on Mon Dec 22 is due Mon Dec 29. Gear rented Mon Dec 29 due Mon Jan 5. )

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Take 6 with Camm Cage Intern Eric Gonzalez

1. What's the last movie you loved and what was the last movie you hated?
I was recently reintroduced to Chris Marker. The first time I heard of him was while in school in my art matters class. He did San Soleil, one of the most beautiful and longest documentaries I've seen. It was La Jete, However that really made me love his work. The film was done entirely in black and white stills along with a narrator. It's plot was recently adopted in Twelve Monkeys.
I haven't really seen anything that I really hated lately. There have been some that were better than others but nothing I'd say I hated.

2. What's your guilty pleasure movie or TV show?
Anastasia

3. What kind of films do you make?
I like to make films that use a lot of symbolism in them. I like to lure my audience with the imagery and then make them really think about what that image or images mean in relation to the characters and to themselves.

4. How'd you get into filmmaking?
I've always been into making things, all kinds of things. I went into my undergrad as a declared sculpture major with a concentration in photography. I decided to take a video class as an elective my sophomore year and was hooked for life. I've always been the type to want to get my hands into everything and in film I can do that. I can manipulate every single aspect of the piece to best convey whatever it is I want to say. It is also one the best way to reach a larger audience than a gallery piece would and that is also something very important to me. I still make and enjoy work designed for a specific space but I love the freedom and portability that film and video offer.

5. What's your fave piece of gear?
I don't really have one as of yet. I'm really excited to work with an HD camera again and hopefully I'll get to do that here. Then maybe I can say its the Panasonic HVX200.

6. Why did you decide to do an internship at Creative Alliance Movie Makers? What projects have you been working on here?
Being ejected out of art school into the real world with no resources or access to equipment or a community really sucks. I wanted to surround myself with people doing the same thing I was and from whom I could learn a thing or two. I've been given access to the equipment here and I plan on shooting my next piece in December. I'm really excited about it.

Here's a clip from one of Eric's videos, The Carnivorous Instinct.

The Carnivorous Instinct from Eric Alexander Gonzalez on Vimeo.

Eric Gonzalez Bio:
Eric Gonzalez currently resides in Baltimore MD. via Houston Tx. He recently graduated from MICA, majoring in general fine arts with a concentration in photography. His work weaves through a variety of mediums with an emphasis on combining traditional with contemporary methods and technologies not only as means of construction but as tools for
thought and investigation of human behavior in an increasingly technology dependent society.

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