Great Wall of Oakland http://greatwallofoakland.org Monthly Video Screenings Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:00:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Next Up: The Oakland Internet Cat Video Festival (Sat. May 11, 3-10pm) http://greatwallofoakland.org/2013/next-up-the-oakland-internet-cat-video-festival-sat-may-11-3-10pm/ http://greatwallofoakland.org/2013/next-up-the-oakland-internet-cat-video-festival-sat-may-11-3-10pm/#comments Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:57:00 +0000 Issabella Shields http://greatwallofoakland.org/?p=969 May 11, 20133:00 amto10:00 am

The Great Wall of Oakland will host the Oakland Internet Cat Video Festival benefiting the East Bay SPCA with the Bay Area premiere of the Walker Art Center‘s highly acclaimed (#catvidfest) on Saturday, May 11, 2013, 3-10pm.

Visit the website for all the de-tails!

 

]]> http://greatwallofoakland.org/2013/next-up-the-oakland-internet-cat-video-festival-sat-may-11-3-10pm/feed/ 0 Up Next: Explorations in Color and Light (Fri. Feb. 1, 2013) http://greatwallofoakland.org/2013/up-next-realtime-video-performers-fri-feb-1-2013/ http://greatwallofoakland.org/2013/up-next-realtime-video-performers-fri-feb-1-2013/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:28:22 +0000 Issabella Shields http://greatwallofoakland.org/?p=929 February 1, 20136:00 pmto11:00 pm

Projecting onto the massive urban canvas, the Great Wall will explore color and light manipulation in video through a curated set of high-octane videos and three real-time video performers.
 VJ Rainbow Puddle and Jeremy Rourke  will each take their turn at illuminating the Wall with their unique sets and Tim Thompson’s Space Palette will be on the sidewalk of West Grand for the audience to try their hand at light and color manipulation.
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The Space Palette is an interactive installation – a musical and graphical instrument that lets you play music and paint visuals simultaneously by waving your hands in the holes of a wood frame
“It’s like finger-painting with three-dimensional mousepads in mid-air, letting you orchestrate your own symphony of sound and color,” says Thompson.
It will be set up and available for anyone to use, and the visual results of their hand-waving will be displayed on the Great Wall in realtime.”
Be there!

 

]]> http://greatwallofoakland.org/2013/up-next-realtime-video-performers-fri-feb-1-2013/feed/ 1 On the Wall: Oakland School for the Arts (Thurs., Jan. 31, 2013) http://greatwallofoakland.org/2013/on-the-wall-oakland-school-for-the-arts-thurs-jan-31-2013/ http://greatwallofoakland.org/2013/on-the-wall-oakland-school-for-the-arts-thurs-jan-31-2013/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:24:31 +0000 Issabella Shields http://greatwallofoakland.org/?p=922 January 31, 20137:00 pmto9:00 pm

The awesomely talented students at Oakland School for the Arts Digital Media are raising funds to project their winter show on the Great Wall!

Check out their Kickstarter Campaign and consider making  a donation to make their large-scale dreams come true!

Everyone who donates $10 or more will get a cup of hot coco at the show on January 31, 2013 at 7pm.

Support these students and the arts in Oakland.

]]> http://greatwallofoakland.org/2013/on-the-wall-oakland-school-for-the-arts-thurs-jan-31-2013/feed/ 1 Next Up: “Exquisite Corpse” (Friday, January 4, 2013) http://greatwallofoakland.org/2012/next-up-friday-january-4-2013/ http://greatwallofoakland.org/2012/next-up-friday-january-4-2013/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:15:25 +0000 Issabella Shields http://greatwallofoakland.org/?p=915 January 4, 20136:00 pmto11:00 pm

Cadavre Exquis with Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Max Morise and Man Ray

It’s time for our “Exquisite Corpse” showing on the Great Wall of Oakland.

In case you’re not familiar or missed last year’s show with the same theme, “Exquisite Corpse” refers the parlor game the Surealists used to expand their creative capacity. One artist would start with a sketch, fold up the paper leaving only a bit of the drawing visible and pass it to the next artist who would continue the drawing (see “Nude” to the right).

The Great Wall’s curators have expanded upon this idea by stringing together several disparate, but outstanding, video pieces by finding a visual thread that links the before and after.

Join us, Friday!

 

]]> http://greatwallofoakland.org/2012/next-up-friday-january-4-2013/feed/ 1 Coming Soon: we / customize the Great Wall of Oakland http://greatwallofoakland.org/2012/coming-soon-we-customize-the-great-wall-of-oakland/ http://greatwallofoakland.org/2012/coming-soon-we-customize-the-great-wall-of-oakland/#comments Sat, 01 Dec 2012 03:49:10 +0000 Issabella Shields http://greatwallofoakland.org/?p=896 April 5, 20136:00 amto11:00 pm6:00 amto11:00 pmApril 5, 2013 7:00 amtoApril 6, 2013 12:00 am

Ever wanted to try your hand a at stop-motion animation? Ever wanted to see your own film on the Great Wall? We’re teaming up with Oakland Museum of California to make all of your dreams come true!

The Oakland Rover

This Spring the Oakland Rover, OMCA’s interactive, electric mobile museum will park right in front of the Great Wall and invite you and anyone from Oakland to create a short stop-motion film to be projected on the Great Wall during Oakland’s Art Murmur.

You don’t want to miss this incredible opportunity for self-expression.

More details coming soon…

]]> http://greatwallofoakland.org/2012/coming-soon-we-customize-the-great-wall-of-oakland/feed/ 1 Next Up: Happy Holidays, Oakland! (Friday, Dec. 7, 2012) http://greatwallofoakland.org/2012/next-up-happy-holidays-oakland-friday-dec-7-2012/ http://greatwallofoakland.org/2012/next-up-happy-holidays-oakland-friday-dec-7-2012/#comments Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:00:43 +0000 Issabella Shields http://greatwallofoakland.org/?p=891 December 7, 20126:00 pmto11:00 pm

The Great Wall of Oakland presented a holiday spectacular “Oakland: Home for the Holidays!”, complete with the world’s largest digital tree lighting, holiday short films, and a few special guests including the Bandaloop aerial dancers and students at the Downtown Oakland YMCA.

]]> http://greatwallofoakland.org/2012/next-up-happy-holidays-oakland-friday-dec-7-2012/feed/ 0 Bandaloop’s “Touching Up” – Sat. (Nov. 3, 2012) http://greatwallofoakland.org/2012/bandaloops-touching-up-sat-nov-3-2012/ http://greatwallofoakland.org/2012/bandaloops-touching-up-sat-nov-3-2012/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:37:58 +0000 Issabella Shields http://greatwallofoakland.org/?p=885 November 3, 20121:00 pmto3:00 pm

]]> http://greatwallofoakland.org/2012/bandaloops-touching-up-sat-nov-3-2012/feed/ 3 Next Up: “About Oakland, By Oakland” (Friday, Nov. 2, 2012) http://greatwallofoakland.org/2012/next-up-about-oakland-by-oakland-friday-nov-2-2012/ http://greatwallofoakland.org/2012/next-up-about-oakland-by-oakland-friday-nov-2-2012/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:34:29 +0000 Issabella Shields http://greatwallofoakland.org/?p=870 November 2, 20127:30 pmto11:30 pm

The title says it all.

The 2nd annual “About Oakland, By Oakland”, a collection of the finest short video and films from artists in our hometown will be screened on November 2nd. Come, be inspired by your neighbors.

“The Nothing” by Matt Fisher

“I’ve screened ‘Salome’ in Korea, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Rome, but the Great Wall may be my favorite venue to date. Thanks again for the opportunity to show my work.” – Jan, Oakland

The 2nd Annual “About Oakland, By Oakland”

I am by Joe Rivers

The Nothing by Matt Fisher

Welcome to Town Park by Eli DeVries

Oakland Rain Redux by John Coyne

The Chords of Life by Douglas Cole

Vavohu by Adam Glucksman

Music Jelly by YAK Films

Crossing by Ellen Lake

Unspoken by Amaya Harrison

If Only I Were As Beautiful As You by Anne M. Klint

Blink by Lauren Patrick

Character by Melinda James

Photo Montage of Oakland by Jed Sullivan

Continum Infinituum by Ben Ridgeway

Easy by Artemis

Cooking with Crom by Matt Fisher

Beats Antique by Ivan Landau

RIP Ritch by YAK Films

Many thanks to our awesome sponsors for making this show posible:

]]> http://greatwallofoakland.org/2012/next-up-about-oakland-by-oakland-friday-nov-2-2012/feed/ 2 Call for Entries: About Oakland, By Oakland http://greatwallofoakland.org/2012/call-for-entries-about-oakland-by-oakland/ http://greatwallofoakland.org/2012/call-for-entries-about-oakland-by-oakland/#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:56:07 +0000 Issabella Shields http://greatwallofoakland.org/?p=857 October 1, 2012 9:00 amtoOctober 22, 2012 5:00 pm

 

The Great Wall is seeking submissions for the 2nd Annual About Oakland By Oakland

Who Can Submit: Short-film makers / video artists living or working in Oakland (and the surrounding areas) OR short-film makers / video artists who have created a film about our town 

What We’re Looking For: Dynamic, short films or video pieces (moving imagery only) from the talented artists in our communities. The subject of the film does not need to be specifically about Oakland. We’re interested in what the artists of Oakland are creating, observing and saying through beautiful moving imagery.

How to Submit: Send a link to your film on the web to thegreatwallofoakland@gmail.com. Include your name, location, title of the film and running time of the film.

Other Specs: All submissions must be under 7 minutes in length, contain moving imagery (no still images) and be appropriate for all ages (no sex, violence, political propaganda, advertising, or any derogatory images / words). Please send one film per email. Entire websites will NOT be reviewed. Note: If you recently submitted your film to Homegrown, it will be automatically reviewed for this screening. Please do not resubmit the same film.

Very Important Submission Deadline: Monday, October 22, 2012 at 5pm

Show Date: November 2, 2012 from 8-11pm on the Great Wall of Oakland

Looking forward to seeing what you’ve got!

]]> http://greatwallofoakland.org/2012/call-for-entries-about-oakland-by-oakland/feed/ 1 “Homegrown” and “Sounds of Oakland” http://greatwallofoakland.org/2012/homegrown-and-sounds-of-oakland/ http://greatwallofoakland.org/2012/homegrown-and-sounds-of-oakland/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:05:03 +0000 Issabella Shields http://greatwallofoakland.org/?p=824 In case you missed, the September “Homegrown” show, here is what you need to know:

Pandora debuted Sounds of Oakland on the Wall but you can listen online from anywhere in the world.

These fantastic local filmmakers screened these films:

Artist Melinda James in front of Drea Cooper’s “Scrapertown”

Scotterpop by Scott Hammell

China, My China by Victor Ingrassia

Scraps of Paper by Jeremy Rourke

Wake Up Monday by Patrici Flores

Rise and Shine by Ysabelle Flores

Trumpet Kid by Mike Kepta

Bandalore by About Her Films

Moments by Paul Trillo

Escargot by Jason Jakaitis

Scrapertown by Drea Cooper

It was a fantastic celebration of all the incredible talent in Oaktown!

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