Studio XX, Montreal’s foremost women’s digital resource centre, is proud to present Jeannette Lambert and her participation in the international event, Streaming Cinema 3.0, the real time creation of an on-line film by different filmmakers situated in 4 cities around the world.
Working within a common narrative, filmmakers in Philadelphia, Montreal, Paris and Mexico City will each develop their own version of a short film. During the webcast the filmmakers will upload their footage to the filmmaker in Philadelphia, who will weave together the footage in real time to create one, unified story. The mixing will be webcast live, so online audiences can watch the film being created. The finished film will reside online at The Bit Screen.
A unique experiment, Story Streams employs high technology and digital cinema to mimic the ancient tradition of oral storytelling. The tale begins at 9 p.m. on February 22nd at the studios of WHYY-TV in Philadelphia.
Storytellers:
_Carlos Gomez de Llarena (Caracas, Venezuela and New York) will mix from Philadelphia, USA – www.med44.com
_Jeannette Lambert (Montreal, Canada) will webcast from Studio XX (www.studioxx.org) – www.nette.ca
_Pierre Wayser (Paris, France) – www.holott.org
_Fran Ilich (Mexico City, Mexico) – www.de-lete.tv
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Jeannette Lambert is a Montreal-based multi-media artist who combines her background as a film maker, jazz vocalist and poet to create art on the internet. She began using the Web creatively six years ago when she kept an award-winning multimedia journal online. Simultaneously, she began collaborating through the network with visual artist Raquel Rivera, to create what has been described as ‘subversive feminist hypertext’.
She gathered sounds from the streets of New York City for her first streaming media project One Night in Greenwich Village. It has been exhibited by the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts (Tokyo, Japan) and Nomads (Washington D.C). Her next streaming video project, Sunset on St-Viateur, also explored notions of time and place in cyberspace, and was featured at The Bit Screen Online Digital Theatre, ISEA (Paris, France) and the digital arts festival d>00 (Australia).
She has experimented with combining low tech forms of filmmaking, mixing super8 film with streaming video for her black and white short Givre. In her recent Web cinema work, Where are you from? (D’où viens-tu?), she explored themes of identity, memory, geography and heredity. This project has been exhibited at many international festivals including ZKM’s Future Cinema Exhibition (Germany), Ars Electronica Cyberarts (Linz, Austria) and WARC (Toronto, Canada).
Jeannette studied Film Production and Theory at York University, Toronto. She performs jazz and improvised music and has created an online community for women in jazz – Jazz Grrls. She contributes video, CD and book reviews to the e-zine, In My Hysterical Opinion. Links to these projects may be consulted at http://www.nette.ca
Streaming Cinema is produced by Screen Arts Media. Its Executive Director, Nora Barry, is the creator of Streaming Cinema and The Bit Screen, as well as a curator of digital media and Web cinema for international events is Seoul, Amsterdam and Boston. She has been a guest speaker at the Georges Pompidou Museum (Paris, France) and at Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), where she also published an article on new forms of narrative in digital media. Barry recently curated an exhibit on the history of Web cinema for the ZKM Museum (Karlsruhe, Germany).
For more information, please contact Studio XX at 514.845.7934