ICE-Vision: The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)
Wednesday, February 20 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
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ICE-Vision continues with Film Studies major Daniel LoPilato’s weekly selections of eclectic, idiosyncratic, psychotronic, or otherwise eccentric excursions into world cinema.

Originally shot for German television, this alienating drama is the first feature in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s melodrama cycle, influenced by the American director Douglas Sirk. The Merchant of Four Seasons tells the bleak story of Hans, an ex-soldier who must become a fruit-seller after losing employment in a world where dignity, let alone happiness, is a rare commodity. Shot in a rich palette of unrelenting color, this look into a marriage destroyed by infidelity and neglect bears the unsettling force of Fassbinder’s filmmaking.

Arts and Entrepreneurship
Thursday, March 28 at 3:30 PM
Miller Learning Center Room 101

UGA faculty and alumni share new perspectives on art and entrepreneurship in a panel session moderated by Mark Callahan, Artistic Director of Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA.

Connie Frigo is a visiting professor of saxophone who focuses much of her teaching on areas beyond the stage and classroom. In 2011, she launched “Road of Creativity,” a business dedicated to teaching entrepreneurship and creativity to musicians. She is an accomplished performer, former Fulbright Scholar, and author of the “Entrepreneurship 101″ column in the Saxophone Journal magazine.

Mitchell Jarrett graduated from UGA, where his studies included anthropology, Chinese, and film with professor emeritus James Herbert. He and his brother Mark created “The Taiwan Oyster,” a 2012 SXSW Official Competition film that follows the journey of two American teachers through Taiwan in an attempt to bury their friend. Together they raised over $20,000 through Kickstarter to support the making of the film. An entrepreneur at heart, Mitchell also started Mama’s Boy, a local favorite eatery.

Ashley Buchanan graduated with a BFA in Jewelry and Metalwork from UGA in 2009. She now makes jewelry full-time from her home studio in Johnson City, Tennessee, selling her work through galleries, boutiques, fairs, and the Internet. Her minimalist and playful jewelry combines industrial materials with details inspired by antique forms.

More UGA Entrepreneurial Week events here: http://thinc.uga.edu

Links:

Connie Frigo – 5 Entrepreneurial Pillars of Performance
http://roadofcreativity.com/archives/1388

Mitchell Jarrett – The Taiwan Oyster
http://www.thetaiwanoyster.com

Ashley Buchanan – Jewelry
http://ashleybuchananjewelry.com/

Art without Market, Art without Education: Political Economy of Art
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/art-without-market-art-without-education-political-economy-of-art/

How to Fund the Arts in America
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/05/01/how-to-fund-the-arts-in-america?

Swimming Downstream in the Current of History
http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/blog/2012/06/19/swimming-downstream-in-the-current-of-history/

“Underdeveloped” national study of challenges facing nonprofit fundraising
http://www.compasspoint.org/sites/default/files/images/UnderDeveloped_CompassPoint_HaasJrFund_January%202013.pdf

Creative Mornings Lecture by Yancey Strickler, co-founder of Kickstarter
http://tiny.cc/gc2nuw

Art Galleries Go Indie

Online Art Galleries Go Indie

List of female entrepreneurs

Female Entrepreneurs

Special report: As money for the arts slowly dries up, Georgia ranks 49th in government funding
http://www.artsatl.com/2012/10/scott-henry-draft/

Creative Placemaking
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=380300019

ICE interview with Steven Tepper
https://ugaartscollaborative.com/podcast/ice007.html

Athens Slingshot Music and Art Festival
Saturday, March 9
Downtown Athens, GA
http://www.athensslingshot.com

Athens Slingshot brings together an eclectic mix of independent local, national, and international bands to perform in the music capital of the Southeast. A wide range of venues across downtown Athens are hosting bands of all sizes.

The event highlights non-traditional art forms: interactivity, new genres, social media, performance, sound, site specific works and locative works, and works integrated with the urban environment. Slingshot will feature artists from across the country and around the world.

Tech Shot panels sessions will bring together the brightest minds working at the intersection of music, art and technology to advance creativity and lay the foundations for the next big thing.

Supported in part by Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE). For more information visit http://www.athensslingshot.com.

ICE-Vision: Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati, 1958)
Wednesday, February 6 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
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ICE-Vision continues with Film Studies major Daniel LoPilato’s weekly selections of eclectic, idiosyncratic, psychotronic, or otherwise eccentric excursions into world cinema.

“Jacques Tati’s 1958 film is a transitional work between the character-centered comedy of Jour de Fete and Mr. Hulot’s Holiday and the global perspective of his most formally inventive film, Playtime. Hulot is still here, but he no longer occupies the foreground; set off to one side, as the eccentric uncle of a desperately modern family, he is more of a visiting sprite, suggesting a human alternative to the mechanical life forms that occupy the center of the story… a very witty and suggestive work from the modern cinema’s only answer to Chaplin and Keaton.” – Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

ICE-Vision: The Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1971)
Wednesday, January 30 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
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ICE-Vision continues with Film Studies major Daniel LoPilato’s weekly selections of eclectic, idiosyncratic, psychotronic, or otherwise eccentric excursions into world cinema.

The first installment of the controversial Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s compendium of adapted medieval texts, the Trilogy of Life, this bawdy film from Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century story imagines nine of Il Decameron’s tales through a lens at once erotic, slapstick, and scatological. “Not only are comedy films and church frescos treated as unlikely brothers here,” writes Joseph Jon Lanthier of Slant, “but Pasolini also alludes to a variety of cinematic tropes to suggest that even within the broad history of the moving image all genres and styles are created equal.”