Fests and events, 8/21.

What's Jonas Mekas been up to lately? Lots. Logan Hill fills us in in New York: "For Apple's video iPod, he'll be filming 365 short videos and releasing one a day, beginning September 15. Plus, he'll be curating a downloadable series of classic shorts by experimental filmmakers and videos by the likes of Martin Scorsese, John Waters, Jim Jarmusch, and Abel Ferrara. 'Life is beautifully, beautifully busy.' Go to jonasmekas.com for updates, or hear Mekas speak after the screening of Letter From Greenpoint at the Museum of the Moving Image, on August 25."

Jason Solomons has a big Edinburgh International Film Festival roundup, including takes on the "enjoyably strange" Colour Me Kubrick and the "dense, claustrophobic and compelling" Killing of John Lennon; London to Brighton, "an iron-hard film of almost unbearable intensity," and five more. The fest runs through August 27.

In Ft Worth: Tutto Fellini, a retrospective running through September 3. Via David Lowery.

Invisible Cinema has the program for Nouvelle Vague: Submerged Scientific Films at the Anthology Film Archives on Friday evening.

Camillo De Marco at Cineuropa: "Twelve young European directors will be able to meet potential investors for their second films during the first edition of the Rome Film Festival (October 13 through 21)."

Posted by dwhudson at August 21, 2006 2:40 PM