10th Annual T-10 Video Festival

Thursday July 15 & Friday July 16, 2010
Doors 8.00pm Screening promptly at 8.30pm
$7

An hour of videos under 10 minutes long each night, followed by a 30 minute feature on a local, accomplished and often under-recognized video artist.

This year's featured artists:
Lynn Marie Kirby , Thursday July 15
killer banshee, Friday July 16

Video, once deemed the bastard sibling of film, with its low resolution, electronic flatness and proletarian personality, has become the ubiquitous face of media production and consumption. Film, once the primary media of cinema, has been supplanted. Still it refuses to yield, admitting that most productions involve no film. Coupled with the rapid growth of DSLR cameras that capture HD, is it still possible to define the difference now between "film" and "video"? How do works that exist outside of narrative conceit find an audience?

The personal and immediate nature of video recording works to the advantage of the amateur and the artist, subverting the commercial system of entertainment that insists we are consumers before we are citizens. Video now represents a collapsed media field that must combine the philosophical intent of cinema with the vernacular of YouTube, while supporting unexpected and unanticipated explorations of the moving image.

This year's T-10 Video Festival reflects the broad field of video, including experimental documentary, narrative shorts, animations and expanded media works. This year's entries showcase local, national and international works exploring themes as diverse as industrial food production, the collapse of the American housing market, to the existential musings of a house cat.

Lynn Marie Kirby
Lynn Marie Kirby creates works in film, video, sound, performance, and installation. Bridging worlds of conceptual art, video and cinema, Kirby's work examines the physical material of video and film, articulating the nature of improvisation with the editing console as a performance tool. Kirby often draws upon vernacular imagery from domestic life and the American landscape, transforming the material in the process.

Her work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Modern Art; Olympic Museum in Sarajevo; the Pompidou Centre and Theatre Entrepot in Paris; Luna Park and Arsenal in Berlin; Portland Museum of Art; Kennedy Center; LACE; the Pacific Film Archive; the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; the de Young Museum; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her films and videos have shown at film festivals around the world.

killer banshee
(Experimental video collaborative artists Eliot K Daughtry & Kriss De Jong)
killer banshee distills culture, politics & technology, exploring notions of public & private resource, examined in moments of performance emphasizing video as material and content. Driven by opposing points of view taken from the contradictory nature of personal documents and public media representation, their work exposes and manipulates both record and archive. Alternately intimate and formal, their work is a richly complex synthesis experience.

killer banshee has presented site specific, multi screen live cinema works in venues ranging from the Oakland Museum of California, The Bowery Poetry Club in NYC, Artist's Television Access in San Francisco to the 2008 Whitney Biennial. They are advisors and longtime participants in the Illuminated Corridor series of public art events, and have recently shown in galleries including SPACE242 in Boston MA and 21 Grand in Oakland CA.

The 10th Annual T-10 Video Festival is curated by Darren Jenkins, 21 Grand & Eliot K Daughtry & Kriss De Jong, Killer Banshee Studios.

The 10th Annual T-10 Video Festival is organized by 21 Grand and Killer Banshee Studios.

Highlights, Artist List and Schedule at: killerbanshee.com/t-10

Thursday, July 15 (see details)	Friday July 16 (see details)
AACE The Bulb	Corrine Bot Slow Motion Suicide
Sean Clute Mechanical Bull	James & Robert Dastoli Keep Watching the Skies
Thorston Fleisch Wound Footage	Michael Goodier The François Show
James Fontana I Said Silence	Juba Kalamka The Honorable Henry Ford Civilization Machine
Makiko Fukaya Drift	Nightmare City in collaboration with Elise Irving Findings
Lee Hunter Resonant City	George Pfau Whispering Beast
Tricia Lawless Murray Yellow	Kathleen Quillian Wasteland
Andrew Makadsi Magnolia	Damon Smith "Cardboard" for Robert Rauschenberg
Michael Mantra Pixel Dub	Jerry Smith Forest Feed
Pinky Out Productions Yesterday's Tomorrows	Elizabeth Tolson Look
Angela Rodriguez Dream of Murder	Catie Vercammen- Grandjean See No Evil
V.K. Shah Welcome to Shady Pines	Hong Zhang How Far is it to EXPO 2010
Samantha Stevens Thrift Town: Get Used	Viva Zapatos!! LONG LIVE SHOES!!! Fly
Featured Artist: Lynn Marie Kirby Time Dilations Study in Choreography for Camera Remote Latent Light Excavations 2003-2010 Karate Class Exposure Part 1: The Space Itself (silent), Part 3: Second Star Kata, Part 2: Points of Contact Requiescat Listening to Letters	Featured Artist: killer banshee Unleashed Power A Wake for Analog in 3 parts