DECEMBER 6, 2004
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REAL NEBRASKA WEB SITE
Voting on Second Round of Real Nebraska
Videos Begins Today
Voting on the second round of the Fall
2004 Real Nebraska video contest begins this morning at 9 am on the
Real Nebraska website. Using the theme "There is No Place Like Nebraska," entries
were taken from full time UNL students and/or teams of full time
UNL students.
In addition to three monetary prizes, winners of the contest will
be screened at a film festival that will take place in March at the
Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. All entries will be shown and
the "Viewer's Choice" winners, as well as the Grand Prize winner,
will be announced at this event. The festival will be open to the
public and the campus.
REAL
NEBRASKA |
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DEVANEY CENTER
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EISENTRAGER-HOWARD GALLERY
BFA Capstone Exhibition Features Work of Graduating Undergrads
The patterns assumed by flocks
of migrating birds, which seem to have an almost mathematical impulse
while also being a fleeting and sinuous cluster, are the inspiration
for air/mass an installation Anne Lindberg is creating for
the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery this fall. Lindberg, who lives in
Kansas City, has achieved recognition for her drawings and for installations
that evoke the movement of prairie grasses or cloud forms.
These projects are often realized by
suspending objects from delicate wires that are attached to the wall,
whose repeated linear forms suggest drawing in space. air/mass, in
which hundreds of delicate shapes strands of thread will be suspended
from the gallery ceiling, will likewise become a three-dimensional
experience offering allusions to a landscape, a flock, a field, a
biomass.
In many ways related to poetry or music in its suggestiveness and
duration asking to be experienced over time Flight air/mass will
engage multiple senses. As Lindberg relates conceptually, the linear
and point constellation will be mute, a silent mesh of atmospheric
density that fills the exhibition space with floating forms, changing
density and a sense of lifting. The filigree quality of this matrix
of fluid lines and weighted points will become an abstract language,
a hovering cloud. While the concept of Flight Air/Mass relates to
the Nebraskas bird flyway corridors, Lindbergs' work also reflects
the engagement of contemporary artists with immersing viewers in
environments that are conceived for a particular gallery or other
space.
Among her intentions are to join flexible line with solid form and
weight gravity, creating a formation that will be reliant, responsive,
and gently move. In addition to her installation, Lindberg will exhibit
related drawings that focus on flocking formations, conveying varying
densities, shapes, and movements and offering insights into the genesis
of air/mass.
A graduate of Miami University (B.F.A.) and Cranbrook Academy of
Art (M.F.A.), Lindberg taught at the Kansas City Art Institute from
1993-98. Her work has been featured in numerous one-person and group
exhibitions, including Awakenings at the Daum Museum of Contemporary
Art and Drawing the Thread in San Antonio. She will present a talk
on her work with the opening of air/mass on November 30 at 5:30 p.m.,
which will be followed by a reception for the artist.
SHELDON
MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing this week at the Ross: Nicotina, Woman
Thou Art Loosed
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents Mexico's highest grossing film in 2003, Nicotina and
the film Woman Thou Art Loosed, a screen adaption of the
play by legendary revivalist pastor T. D Jake of South L.A.'s West
Angeles Cathedral.
From the producers of Amores Perros comes Nicotina, a
highly stylized crime caper set in Mexico City about a simple exchange
that goes awry, causing the lives of nine unsuspecting characters
to explode in one tumultuous night over a fortune in diamonds.
Diego Luna stars as computer hacker Lolo, who is infatuated with
his neighbor Andrea (Marta Belaustegui) and catalogs her every move
via high-tech peeping devices. Lolo teams with amateur criminals
Tomson (Jesus Ochoa) and his younger counterpart Nene (Lucas Crespi)
in a deal with a Russian mobster (Norman Sotolongo) that involves
the exchange of diamonds for computer access to Swiss bank accounts.
But the deal goes terribly wrong after Lolo's attempts to spoil Andrea's
romantic trysts spiral out of control.
Down the street, the irritable pharmacist Beto (Daniel Gimez Cacho)
and his fed-up wife Clara (Carmen Madrid) inadvertently become entangled
in the exchange, along with the humble barber Goyo (Rafael Inclan)
and his domineering other half Carmen (Rosa Maria Bianchi).
Infected with diamond lust, these characters become obsessed with
the intoxicating possibility of an easy life and their greed quickly
transforms into fiery desperation. When the haze finally clears,
computers have been hacked, people have been whacked and lives have
gone up in a cloud of smoke.
This R-rated Christian film about child abuse, drug addiction and
murder is startlingly raw and honest, playing at times like one of
those blistering Donald Goines blaxploitation pulp novels, only with
Jesus. Directed with seamless competence by Hollywood veteran Michael
Schultz (Car Wash), Woman, Thou Art Loosed is based
on the fact-based novel and stage presentation of the same name by
the legendary revivalist pastor T. D Jake of South L.A.'s West Angeles
Cathedral. Jake, a preacher of improvisational genius, plays himself
in the film as he counsels a death-row inmate whose story unfolds
in smoothly integrated flashbacks. Michelle (Kimberly Elise) was
fighting back valiantly from the effects of child sexual abuse and
incarceration when she backslid with a vengeance.
More information is available at the Ross website.
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