Like a cheetah on roller skates, the Vimeo Festival + Awards are fast approaching, and we don’t want you to miss a thing — especially your chance to submit! Submissions close February 20, which means you have just one week left to share your best work in one or more of 13 categories. There are categories for everyone, and you don’t have to be a professional filmmaker to show us your stuff. If the looming deadline doesn’t light a fire under your fingertips, maybe the chance to have your videos seen by famous people will inspire you. As you may have heard, our newly announced Festival + Awards judges include actor/director/Renaissance dude James Franco, world’s funniest human Aziz Ansari, 2012 Oscar Nominee Lucy Walker, snowboard superstar Travis Rice, and Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood. Don’t miss your chance: Submit today!

You are invited to attend the launch of the half hour documentary “We are the 99%” about organised labour and the Occupy movement in New York City and the panel discussion, about trade unions and Occupy by ACTU President Ged Kearney, SEARCH Foundation Co-ordinator Peter Murphy and members of Occupy Sydney.

WHEN:Monday 13 February 2012 from 6pm-8pm

WHERE:Unions NSW Auditorium, 377 Sussex Street, Sydney

TICKETS:$15 and available through shabnam.hameed@gmail.com

Friday Feb 10th will be a night of Balkan Gypsy brass-band madness – and that ain’t all! There will also be Persian dance grooves, aetherial Sufi meditations and strange uncategorisable originals. Special guest with the band will be Iranian Kurdish percussionist Mustafa Karami, a master of the dhaf (traditional frame drum). He was declared Best Dhaf-player in Iran in 2005,6,7. Mustafa also sings and plays oud.

“We’ve had some Persian and Kurdish tunes in the repertoire for a while – including Persian reggae” says Kim “but this gig will give us a chance to learn a few new grooves. Mustafa and I played together in Davood Tabrizi’s Far Seas last year, and hopefully that will be an ongoing project too. Llew Kiek has also played some Iranian music over the years, and Peter Kennard is a great frame-drum player, so there should be a lot of things happening”.

There will also be music with a Balkan Gypsy brass band feel, driven along by Sam Golding’s sousaphone.

* Kim Sanders: ney, kaval, gaida, saxofon
* Llew Kiek: bouzouki, baglama, oud
*Sam Golding: sousaphone
*Peter Kennard: percussion
and special guest Mustafa Karami bringing a taste of Persian nights on oud, vocals and percussion

“The enthusiasm and passion of this globetrotter’s music makes the listener get carried away from the first notes” – Rootstown (Belgium)

“Exotic and uplifting world music with a contemporary feel”
- Paul Petran, Producer, Music Deli, ABC Radio National

Friday 10th February 2012

Entry: $25/$20

DOORS OPEN 7.30 FOR 9pm SHARP START

Fully licenced. Pizzas, mezzes, snacks and sorbets available.

Bookings: http://www.trybooking.com/BDAJ

To arrange interviews, HiRes photos etc contact Kim at kimzgaida@hotmail.com

For more info http://kimsandersworldmusic.com/ and http://www.camelotlounge.com/

Discover this tender and touching 40 minutes documentary made by Jane Birkin herself about her memories with Serge Gainsbourg. The screening will be followed by an exclusive Q&A with the famous French actress and singer on the occasion of her Australian Tour. A glass of French wine offered on arrival.

Thursday 15 March 6.30pm Drinks, 7pm Screening, 7.45pm Q&A

Chauvel Cinema

Tickets: Alliance Française de Sydney & Palace Movie Club members $22 / non members $26
To buy tickets, please click here.

UCLA FILM & TELEVISION ARCHIVE IN DOWNTOWN L.A.
Wednesday, February 1 @ 7:30 p.m.

The UCLA Film & Television Archive continues its weekly film screenings at the Million Dollar Theater in Downtown Los Angeles. Two iconic, visually-striking, Archive-restored films noir this week: in The Big Combo (1955), a detective trails a crime boss; Pitfall features an insurance executive snared by a femme fatale. Read More

IN PERSON: author and film historian Alan K. Rode.

307 South Broadway Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90013
(213) 617-3600

One CarnivalAskew reader will have the opportunity to walk into a free acting course at the Actors College of Theatre and Television.

ACTT are giving away one complimentary pass to their beginners course ‘Step Into Acting’. Valued at $325 and taught by the school’s leading tutors, the course is great for anyone interested in acting or wanting to build their confidence. Over four sessions, the focus of the mini-course is  on having fun, building confidence and letting your imagination fly! Courses start in February. For further information see http://www.actt.edu.au/course/stepact. 

About ‘Step Into Acting’

Step into acting is an 11-hour acting course for beginners, taught over four sessions by ACTT’s leading teachers. ‘Step into Acting’ well suited to the absolute beginner who is not sure if acting is for them or who can’t commit to the full 8-week “Acting Essentials 1” course. The beginners system is based around professional actors’ warm-up and confidence-building exercises and high-energy improvisation games. The focus of this mini-course is on having fun, building confidence and letting your imagination fly!

Dates:

14 Feb – 6 Mar 2012

Tuesdays, 6:30pm – 9:30 pm

Teacher: Valentino del Toro

OR

18 Feb – 10 Mar 2012

Saturdays, 9:30am – 12:15pm

Teacher: Deborah Jones

How to enter

To win your pass into ACTT’s ‘Step into Acting’ course, send us an email to info@carnivalaskew.com with the subject line ‘A leg up into acting’ by Friday 10th February.

Sat 10th Dec 1pm at Sydney University, New Law Building

The Latin American Film Festival has been invited to program a free final day of film to cap off Indigenous Knowledges in Latin America and Australia: Locating Epistemologies, Difference and Dissent. This conference draws Indigenous educators from Argentina, Chile and Mexico to Sydney, as well as their local counterparts. As its grand public finale, the conference is putting on a long afternoon of free film in Sydney University’s flash new Law School. If eight hours of free documentary is the sort of thing that fires you up, the program starts at the Sydney University New Law Building from 1pm.

Films include various short films from Australian Western Desert filmmaker Curtis Taylor, along with director Genevieve Grieves presenting her film, Lani’s Story. From Chile will be screening Wallmapu, from Mapuche director, Jeannette Paillán, that traces the complex problem of present day territorial demands by the Mapuche in Chile. From Colombia will be screening Elderly Words – Colombian Indigenous film directors of the Arhuaco, Wiwa and Kogui communities, travel from the seashore to the snowy mountains, the territory of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, which, according to them, is the “heart of the world”.

Entry is Free

Dec 1 to Dec 17
Opening Thu, Dec 1, 6-8pm

As our dear Georgie went before him, Alex is about to embark on the open ocean of exhibition with his first solo show at MOP.  Come join our little guy as he undergoes that right of passage that in other cultures would be marked by cutting a bit of his penis off.  Should be a great night with a heady line up including Dara Gill and Brown Council.

‘Blank Canvas’ is an exhibition of large scale photographs of homes that have been lived in for more than 30 years taken on the day of their sale by auction. Alex Wisser’s photography captures the decorative decisions layered decade upon decade and the traces of the lives lived within these interiors. The potency of these scenes is rendered salient by the fact that they are taken on the day of their sale and within the awareness that this will result in their ultimate erasure through renovation. Thirty years of one person’s life is another person’s blank canvas.

INDEX.
95907704
60 Hutchinson Street St Peters
www.indexspace.com.au

Opening Wed Nov 30, 6-8pm

Dan Stocks’ exhi­bi­tion of orig­i­nal pho­tog­ra­phy of obscure tech­nolo­gies, mostly declas­si­fied mil­i­tary devices, is a trib­ute to the grace­ful intel­li­gence invested in the design of these obscure objects.

“Every tech­no­log­i­cal object is the echo of thought made man­i­fest in mat­ter. Often a sub­tle under­stand­ing of com­plex processes is involved, enabling a par­tic­u­lar func­tion. These objects, embod­i­ments of thought and under­stand­ing, often exist beyond the realm of com­mon expe­ri­ence, obscured either by the com­plex­ity of their nature, or con­cealed as mil­i­tary or indus­trial secrets. While such things may be the prod­uct of cre­ative intel­li­gence and under­stand­ing,  the cre­ator goes unac­knowl­edged, anony­mous. Echoes of Unknown Thought is a visual text­book, a doc­u­men­ta­tion and a trib­ute to var­i­ous devices, reflec­tions of the thoughts of past cre­ators, mostly unknown.” – Dan Stocks

INDEX.
95907704
60 Hutchinson Street St Peters
www.indexspace.com.au

You are cordially invited to an evening of storytelling, confession, and conversation around the myths and facts and all the combinations of the two that make up the figure we call Joseph Beuys. As a part of the “EX VOTO: Joseph Beuys” exhibition, curator Tom Isaacs and INDEX. studios are hosting an evening in which our artistic community is invited to tell their stories and thoughts and listen to the stories and thoughts of other on the influence or lack thereof of this unique German artist on their lives and art. Come in through the back gate on Lackey street.

INDEX.
95907704
60 Hutchinson Street St Peters
www.indexspace.com.au