Spring 2008

Coming up in Summer 2008 will be the debut of 12 short films about water, as part 2008 MilkBar Live Film Festival (supported in part by Meet the Composer and Zellerbach). Click to the short films about water page to read more about this ongoing project.

Past Shows 2007/8

Traffic with Mary Armentrout at Highways, in Santa Monica.

November 2nd, 3rd at CounterPULSE traffic / Ritz Crackers a new film collaboration with Mary Armentrout.

Sept. 14th, 2007 - MilkBar #18 - Three short films about water. (work in progress showing)

This coming Thursday May 24th , 9:15PM at the Parkway EL CERRITO Speakeasy Theater see Rendition as part of the P.O.V. Bay Area Animation Festival organized by ri crawford.

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If you're in England, Rendition will be shown live as part of British Music Information Society's Cutting Edge Tour for the Keynote+ ensemble beginning in Corsham, UK Friday, 29th of June 2007 and at the Open Cinema festival in St. Petersburg in August.

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past shows Winter 2007

This weekend Feb. 2nd and Feb. 3rd 2007 at CounterPULSE in San Francisco is the MilkBar's 2007 Live Film Festival. Come see Rendition locally as well as over 15 other great films. Details on MilkBar website.

Just passed is a new performance installation at Dance Mission created by choreographer Paige Sorvillo, with music by George Cremaschi and film by myself.

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Rendition (a new film) developed w/ music / soundscape for piano and harpsichord by composer Evelyn Ficarra premiered in London, UK October 26-7, 2006 as part of the Cutting Edge series presented by the British Music Information Society.

Open Cinema Festival: August 2006-- featured pieces from this winter's MilkBar film festival will show as part of the OPEN cinema festival in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Recently PAST/closed Shows:

April 13th and 14th, 2006 Ian Winters and Merlin Coleman present, "transit", a film, music and performance installation as part of CounterPULSE's Stream/ FEST

"Elevation" a film and performance collaboration by Ian Winters, Stine Eva Jørgensen, and Sonja Pregrad shows as part of the same festival on April 13th, 2006.

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21 grand presents

Re:figure - Film and Performance

at 21 Grand.

Where: 21 grand is located at 416 25th St. (between Telegraph and Broadway) in downtown Oakland, CA.

Cost: $5-$10 / NOTA

FEATURING:

Gallery soundscape (from 8:30pm until performances start)
Evelyn Ficarra (new composition featuring marie abe among others)

Performances from:
Paige Sorvillo
Mary Armentrout (w/ something about love, and, america...and)
isak immanuel .

Music:
Merlin Coleman (cello/voice songs)
Allen Wilner (bringing us all a few ditties from NYC)

Film w/ live music:
Ian Winters with
music by Merlin Coleman and Theresa Wong (a film about transit)

Film: Ian Winters: "shadows" (w/ music by George Cremaschi),

and "snow" (collaboration w/ vocals/text by Stine Eva Jørgensen).

Directions: are available at www.21grand.org and on my website at www.ianwinters.com.

This Saturday features an evening of music, performance and film curated by 21 Grand’s Jan/Feb gallery artist Ian Winters featuring live work by some of the performers and musicians involved in my photographic work, as well as new film work with live music.

The show includes performances from choreographers Paige Sorvillo, Mary Armentrout, Isak Immanuel (all long-time subjects and collaborators); a gallery soundscape created for the evening by composer Evelyn Ficarra (part of an ongoing research project around creating combined sonic and visual environments); Transit: a collaboration between myself and Merlin Coleman featuring her cello/voice composition and a live film/performance; a series of short films and a few little ditties from NYC by Allen Wilner.

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Re: Figure features recent photographic work "re-figuring" the body. A group exhibit with painters Catherine Ryan and Tony Coleman. Re:Figure hangs Jan 12th through Feb. 19th, 2006 at 21 Grand (located at 416 25th St.).

2. Milkbar International Film Festival at the Milkbar.

8:30 PM, Fri. Feb 3rd.

Our first film festival features some great film, video, and multimedia performance from the US, UK, Russia, Denmark, Oakland, Spain, San Francisco, Norway. Plus live music from Al Ferrabe, popcorn and drinks. See the Milkbar site for details.

Milkbar #9: "Chickens", part of a new film installation is featured at the Milkbar #9. Oct. 7th