NEWS and PRESS
CVM Announces New Membership Campaign - Become a Member and Support Visual Music
June
2008 - CVM
receives an NFPF grant to preserve two films by Jordan Belson:
Meditation
and Music of the Spheres
March
- CVM presented a selection of Visual Music films in LA County Museum's
"Evenings for
Educators" program for K-12 teachers, an outreach program designed
to provide educators
with tools
to integrate
Music and Art into their classrooms.
Sight and Sound Magazine (BFI, London), Jan 2008, reviews CVM's Belson and Fischinger DVDs
CVM's Jordan Belson DVD named in many reviewer's Top DVDs of 2007 lists
November 2007 - CVM's Oskar Fischinger DVD wins a Willy Haas Award at Cinefest Hamburg
November 3 - CVM's Director Cindy Keefer gave a presentation on The Exhibition of Visual Music Films in Museums at the San Diego Museum of Art's Animation Symposium: From the Avant-Garde to Popular Culture
September - Review of CVM's Oskar Fischinger: Ten Films DVD in Ray Filmmagazin (Austria)
June 2007- CVM releases the first Jordan Belson DVD and publishes its Belson Research Pages
June - CVM receives a film preservation grant from the NFPF to preserve Jordan Belson's Chakra
April - Interview with Keefer about CVM in Digicult magazine (Italy). In English or Italian
March - Color Organ talk and screening in London at Optronica/BFI - see Events page
February 2007 - A performance of Fischinger's original Lumigraph in Frankfurt, Germany
2006
October
2006: CVM received a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation
to preserve another
Charles Dockum film of a performance of his Mobilcolor 'color organ' (1969)
Special call for artists' work for a feature film project - Abstract/experimental moving images - Details here CLOSED
Recent
press for our new Oskar Fischinger DVD: Jonathan Rosenbaum in Cinema
Scope,
Leonard Maltin's Video View syndicated radio show, and a "Special
Mention" Award at the Bologna, Italy
Il Cinema Ritrovato Film Festival in July. See the Press
Kit online for more.
CVM introduces our new Oskar Fischinger Research Pages
CVM
received a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to
preserve 6 films:
3 Home Movies (1959-64) of Oskar Fischinger in Los Angeles, two films of Charles
Dockum's
Mobilcolor color
organ (1965-66), and Turn, Turn, Turn (1966) by Jud Yalkut (a collaboration
with Nam June Paik).
May 2006 marks our release of the first Fischinger DVD
CVM's website was saluted in "Symphony Magazine" - A pdf of the article is available for download
Fischinger artwork presented in our online Gallery
CVM presented 2 shows at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands, January 2006 - Jordan Belson: Epilogue and Other Films, and "Legendary Light Shows" - see our Events page
Curated Shows Available for Bookings: Fischinger, Neubauer, Legendary Light Shows: See our new Access and Distribution page
Thanks to the DEW Foundation for their generous grant to CVM
Jan 2, 2006 - The Film Society of Lincoln Center in association with Center for Visual Music presents Fischinger Films at Lincoln Center, New York. Link to CVM Press Release; tickets available online through Lincoln Center site. Image from Allegretto (c) Elfriede Fischinger Trust.
2005
Screenings of Fischinger films in LA in November 2005: Radio Dynamics at UCLA Nov. 9, and 3 films at Skirball Center
Baerbel Neubauer's new DVD Flockenspiel added to the CVM store, plus other new releases (Michael Snow, Brakhage, and the Video Out documentary)
Oskar Fischinger: Motion Paintings An exhibition of Oskar Fischinger's paintings is at Goethe-Institut, Washington DC, Sept 8 - Oct 26, 2005
Visual Music exhibition at The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, closed September 11, 2005. Previously this show was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Feb - May 2005. CVM worked extensively on this exhibition and provided most of the films/videos plus extensive research and consulting and accompanying screenings. Visit our site, About the Films in the Exhibition
May: CVM premieres Jordan Belson's new film Epilogue at MOCA LA.
Our congratulations to David James on the publication of his new book The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles; also available through amazon.com
Past Press
(for current press see 2007-08 listings above)
Press
for CVM's Oskar Fischinger DVD: Jonathan Rosenbaum in CinemaScope,
Leonard Maltin's Video View syndicated radio show, Variety, more.
See the Press Kit
online
Animation Magazine: "Fischinger to Swim in DVD Waters"
Symphony Magazine, Jan-Feb 2006, "Hear the Colors, See the Music" (pdf)
Village Voice, New York, December 2005
Fischinger's Ornament Sound experiments discussed in Artforum (October issue)
CVM and Fischinger in Modern Painters (UK) magazine, Sept issue
Reviews of Visual Music exhibition in NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Artforum
Jordan Belson mentioned in Wired (May 2005 issue)
CVM, Visual Music and Belson's new film Epilogue in Artdaily.com
Image courtesy Bärbel Neubauer
Join our Mailing List: CVM List