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Film and Video at Independents’ Day 2014- Featuring Matt Swift

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This weekend Columbus will come alive with art, music, film, food, and more at the 2014 “Independents’ Day”, September 19th-21st.

Every year, the Independents’ Day festival comprises a variety of activities organized by individuals and groups from around the city, highlighting Columbus’ cultural vibrancy. On Saturday September 20th stop by the celebration to see moving image works by Film Studies Program Coordinator Matt Swift, the featured video artist. See the premiere of moving-image window installations by Matt Swift, Nikki Swift and Derek Stewart in collaboration with artists Jenn Brewster, Amy Leibrand & Christin Hutchinson, as well as City Lights & other works. The City Lights presentation will be a floor projection featuring works in the series from Seattle WA, Chicago IL, Columbus OH, Cincinnati OH, Ogelbay Park WV, Panama City FL, and Alys Beach FL.

Film Studies Time-lapse from the 2014 Student Involvement Fair

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On August 24th 2014, the Film Studies Program was present at the Student Involvement Fair that took place on the Oval. While speaking to many students about the upcoming year, the Film Studies Fall Reception on September 3rd at 5:30, and film course offerings at The Ohio State University, Program Coordinator Matt Swift created a time-lapse covering over three and a half hours with over 10,000 still photographs. If you made it to the student fair or you missed the event, check out the short video welcoming new and returning students for another great year at The Ohio State University.

 

Columbus Lunch Walks – Facebook Mobile Photo Group

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A fellow artist and good friend, Matt Yoho, started taking photos with his mobile phone while strolling on his lunch break. Recently, I have been inspired by his photos and decided to join him. Now the concept has quickly blossomed into a facebook group called Columbus Lunch Walks. The idea is that you take a healthy walk during your lunch break or daily break (not necessarily lunch), you take photos with a mobile device (tablet or phone), make any photo corrections in your phone, post it to the group page and tag the photo in the comments with #‎mobile‬ ‪#‎photography‬ ‪#‎lunchwalk‬. By posting to the group you are helping create a mobile photo gallery and by tagging the photos you are linking your photos to members in the group and any facebook user who might use those tags. Every Friday Curator, Matt Yoho will choose an image from the group to award the best of the week by making it the cover photo for the group. Below I have added some of my recent mobile pics I took with my Nokia 920 smart phone.

Leaf adn Stone 1Railway NailFenced Root  Leaf adn Stone 2  Fallen Fruit Wet Leaf Wet Branch Flowering Waste Creepy Crawler Cement Forest

25 on High Benefit Show

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This Friday August 1st, 6 of my meditation wall scroll paintings will be in display and up for auction at The Oak Room Gallery. The Auction is in support of the 25 on High photographic exhibition that will take place in September. Along with auctioning off some of my paintings I am also a participating photographer int eh 25 on High exhibition with photographs of high street from the OSU Campus area. For more information about the show and auction read the event details below.

Amber – One of the paintings that will be up for auction.

Amber

Amber

The Oak Room

511 North High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215
at 5:00pm – 9:00pm

The Oak Room is proud to celebrate the collective works of the 25 on High project initiated by Clay Lowe. We invite you to join us in this celebration for a quick celebration of works from our local Columbus artists in our High Street gallery. The exhibition will be on display for one week only, ending in a closing reception featuring a silent auction. Proceeds from the silent auction will benefit contributing artists and the 25 on High project raising funds for their exhibition later this year at the OSU Urban Arts Space.

Silent Auction Submissions: Deadline Thursday, July 24th. Submit directly to Oak Room director Nicole Desiree at info@oakroomgallery.com

Installation: drop off and installation will take place on Saturday, July 26th. Please, drop off works between noon and 3pm on July 26th.

Exhibition: 25 on High Benefit show is on view from July 26th through August 1st.

Closing Reception: August 1st from 5pm-9pm, Auction from 6:00pm-8:45pm.

Would you like to contribute?
Consider donating items or services for our auction,
Share this event with your friends
Contribute to the 25 on High IndieGoGo fundraiser: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/25-on-high-a-photographic-journey

Or put a little something in our tip jar during the closing reception 🙂

Post Production stills of new dance art film featuring Thornhaven Manor, Roman, and Jennifer

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This past weekend Nicolette Swift (my wife) and I had the pleasure of working with Roman and Jennifer to shoot a dance film in Thornhaven Manor. Roman and Jennifer are a local Columbus dance duet that engages audiences by combining their skills in traditional ballroom dancing with edgy improvisational dance that is paired with dark industrial music. Their style of dance is a perfect fit for a film that would feature a haunted house, AKA Thornhaven Manor. Thornhaven Manor is a large estate in New Castle, Indiana that has been vacant until recently. It has recently been purchased and the owner is performing renovations to make the estate more accessible. In the past, paranormal investigators, musicians and others have used the house as a focal point to create a sense of the beyond. For our purposes it was a suitable location to create a short dance film that focused on a man and a woman bound to the house, longing for an eternal dance together even though all that’s left of the house are the flies, and spiders. Even a swarm of bees has moved on to another plane of existence (see the still below). We hope to have the film edited and ready to send to festivals in late August 2014 under the production company Nicolettecinemagraphics. Enjoy the photos.

Roman on the landing

Roman on the landing

Roman near the chair

Roman near the chair

Roman longing for outside

Roman longing for outside

Roman approaching Jennifer

Roman approaching Jennifer

Roman and wallpaper

Roman and wallpaper

Roman and the spider

Roman and the spider

Roman and Jennifer in the doorway

Roman and Jennifer in the doorway

Roman and Jennifer in the dark 2

Roman and Jennifer in the dark 2

Roman and Jennifer in the dark 1

Roman and Jennifer in the dark 1

Roman and Jennifer In dance in the main hall

Roman and Jennifer In dance in the main hall

Roman and Jennifer Dancing

Roman and Jennifer Dancing

Roman and Jennifer chasing

Roman and Jennifer chasing

Jennifer sees Romans shadow

Jennifer sees Romans shadow

Jennifer on the stairs

Jennifer on the stairs

Jennifer longing for outside

Jennifer longing for outside

Jennifer in the window

Jennifer in the window

Jennifer in the chair

Jennifer in the chair

Jennifer and the bees

Jennifer and the bees

CMIAR 19 screening with 2 new works – My Typewriter and City Lights – Alys Beach, Digital Graffiti 2014

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For the past five years my wife and I have been providing a quarterly screening event for local filmmakers and moving image artist called Columbus Moving Image Art Review (CMIAR). This Friday June 27th we will be hosting our 19th screening of CMIAR as well as a replay of the 18th screening. CMIAR 19 will be starting at 8pm in Hagerty Hall 180 and features two of my new pieces, My Typewriter – a short poetic narrative exploring the alienation caused by the ease of new communication technologies, and City Lights – Alys Beach, Digital Graffiti 2014 – an experimental documentary using a single shot from the entrance to the exit of the Digital Graffiti 2014 outdoor video festival in Alys Beach, Florida. Both films will be joined by several documentaries and experimental art films created by local filmmakers and OSU and CCAD students and Staff. The replay of CMIAR 18 will be at Comfest on the Solar Stage starting at 9:45 pm to close out the Friday night festivities. For more information about CMIAR visit http://movingimageart.wordpress.com/ .

Still from My Typewriter

Still from My Typewriter

Still from City Lights - Alys Beach, Digital Graffiti 2014

Still from City Lights – Alys Beach, Digital Graffiti 2014

City Lights Oglebay Park chosen for Digital Graffiti 2014 in Florida’s Alys Beach Continued

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From June 5 through June 8th my moving image piece City Lights – Oglebay Park Festival of Lights was on display at Digital Graffiti 2014 in Alys Beach Florida. It was amazing to get to see my work displayed in a way that I have been striving towards for some time now. Alys Beach is a perfect area for creating moving image projection displays because of its unique white whiles that make up 100% of the village. I was luck y enough to have my work displayed on 4 projectors using the Alys Beach iconic butteries as the screening medium. Here is an HD documentation of the display on Friday night during the larger Digital Graffiti 2014 festival.

City Lights – Oglebay Park chosen for Digital Graffiti 2014

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Matt Swift, Film Studies’ multitalented Program Coordinator, will be displaying his work in June at the international festival Digital Graffiti 2014. For the past 2 years Matt has been producing an experimental documentary series entitled “City Lights and Rural Colors” that creates kaleidoscopic effects blurring the boundary between reality of a city or rural landscape and the imagination of the viewer. Matt investigates movement as it manipulates visual effects to challenge our assumptions of what landscape means to us. “City Lights Oglebay Park Festival,” a film from this series documenting a month-long, 300-acre Festival of Lights in West Virginia, has been named a finalist and will compete for the top prize at Digital Graffiti’s annual three-day event. Using animation and projection technologies to paint moving-image art onto the iconic white walls of Alyis Beach, Florida, Digital Graffiti 2014 is the first outdoor festival specifically organized to celebrate works using what is sometimes referred to as “Photon Bombing,” “Guerilla Projection,” or “Urban Projection.” Join us in congratulating Matt Swift on being chosen to be showcased at this important event.

Click here to find out more about Digital Graffiti 2014. http://www.digitalgraffiti.com/

To see more “City Lights and Rural Colors” visit Matt’s vimeo album. https://vimeo.com/album/2747980

Matt has created a gofundme campaign to support going to Digital Graffiti 2014 as well as making new videos while at Alys Beach. To support his project and receive unique rewards visit his campaign at – http://www.gofundme.com/8xd3u8

Jianzi and Footbag Sports

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Since summer last year myself and a group of other staff members in Hagerty Hall have been playing freestyle footbag or Jianzi twice a week. As of participating in this activity I have been playing footbag sports more and more. Here is a collection of videos that I and others have made featuring my exploits.

Playlist of various videos in Columbus, Seattle and other cities.

Video of Hagerty Hall Group.

Me on Ellen Degenerous Show as part of mirroring challenge video taped by some OSU students (00:56 I am at the south bond Union bus stop).

City Lights & Rural Colors – A Movign Image Artist Talk with Matt Swift

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Please join us for a one night only artist talk entitled City Lights & Rural Colors in The Oak Room Gallery by DeepWood. This artist talk is a continuation of the Crossroads, an exhibition in three parts, that is running from January through March.
Matt Swift local moving image artist and program coordinator for The Ohio State University Film Studies Program will be presenting his recent series of works City Lights & Rural Colors. This series of work bridges the two worlds of poetic documentary and structuralist experimental cinema. As part of the artist talk 7 short video works will be presented including City Lights Chicago, City Lights Columbus, City Lights Oglebay Park, Rural Colors Ohio River, Rural Colors Northern Ohio and a debut of his newest piece in the series, City Lights Cincinnati. Time for discussion and questions will be part of the presentation.

Thursday, February 20th from 6:30pm-8pm
Celebrating: City Lights & Rural Colors
Branch into The Oak Room through DeepWood at
511 North High Street
Columbus, Ohio 43215
Phone: 614.221.5602
Fax: 614.221.5653
Take advantage of the happy hour from the DeepWood seasonal menu and cocktails list.

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