As part of our 30th Aniversary Celebrations,
THE URBAN-15 GROUP Presents
THE MICROCINEMA FESTIVAL
An evening of video and film shorts from throughout the world
Saturday, July 17, 2004 8 p.m.
.00 Admission
2500 S. Presa (just 12 blocks south of Alamo Street)
The URBAN-15 Group will host the Microcinema International Festival "Independent Exposure" as their contribution in Contemporary Arts Month 2004.
The Presentation will include two distinct collections:
8:00 p.m. - "Love and Other Difficulties"
Ten shorts examining this universal issue. For a full listing and description of the works in this collection, go to:
http://www.microcinema.com/programResult.php?program_id=193
9:15 p.m. - "Manifest Destiny - Political Moving Images"
Ten video and film works inspired by the politics of our times. For a full listing and description of the works i this compilation, go to:
http://www.microcinema.com/programResult.php?program_id=250
MICROCINEMA INTERNATIONAL is the brainchild of Patrick Kwiatkowski from Houston, TX and Joel Bacher from San Francisco, CA as a way to exhibit and promote international independent short films and videos throughout the world. Their INDEPENDENT EXPOSURE, an internationally-recognized short film and video series, was held monthly in Seattle from 1996 until October of 2001 when the company relocated to San Francisco. INDEPENDENT EXPOSURE has presented over 700 short works from all over the world and has toured to 32 countries and Antarctica. Venues have ranged from living rooms and tents to igloos and airports.
URBAN-15 is excited that MICROCINEMA will present San Antonio audiences with a diverse and thoughtfully curated selection of unique short films and videos created by international directors as well as local filmmakers. You are invited to visit the MICROCINEMA website at where you can download samples of the works in their archive.
Telephone interviews with producers Patrick Kwiatkowski and Joel Bacher regarding the MICROCINEMA FESTIVAL can be arranged by calling the URBAN-15 offices.
For more information, call URBAN-15 at 210-736-1500.
San Antonio remains a frontier outpost even in our modern times as an international city. It is a place of experimentation with the merging of diverse cultures and the juxtapositions of traditions. Because of this unique position, the traditional and the modern exist side by side. This has enabled THE URBAN-15 GROUP to develop a philosophy of inclusion, combining the traditional with the non-traditional, crossing lines of gender, class, race, religion and breaking the prejudice barriers of physical size, age and beauty, THE URBAN - 15 GROUP reaches out to stimulate the community in an imaginative manner to create a dynamic force in culture, creating a new folk style most reflective of contemporary San Antonio.
Organizational History
For over twenty-eight years, as an arts group and twenty years as a non-profit arts and education agency, our organization has worked to widen the interest in traditional and contemporary art forms. Our goal is to activate the resources of our 21st Century society in creating situations that stimulate the imagination of everyone. Simultaneously, we have tried to instill a sense of magic by exploring the roots of our experimentation.
