Fests and events, 5/16.

"CineVegas will show a site-specific work by Takashi Murakami for one night only, June 16, at the Wynn Las Vegas." The Circuit's Michael Jones has details.

Cinewhores NYC presents The World of Susie Wong at Galapagos Art Space on Sunday. Via Edith at the L Magazine.

Michael Guillén carries on previewing Another Hole in the Head: Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer and Exte: Hair Extensions.

Cinema Purgatorio: "We've noted before the Opera Double Bill, which Lech Majewski will direct at Bard college in late July and early August. Meanwhile, filmmaker and stalker Kyle Gilman reminds us of another summertime opera: La commedia, directed next month in Amsterdam by Hal Hartley, in collaboration with Louis Andriessen.

Jake Meany looks back to Boston for PopMatters.

David Walsh has more from San Francisco at the WSWS. More from Sean McCourt at Hell on Frisco Bay.

And SF360 runs Kevin Kelly's State of Cinema Address. A couple of points: "[W]e're coming up to the point where the tools used by the amateur and professionals are basically the same." And:

[T]he moving image becomes as ubiquitous in our culture as the written word was until now. OK? I call that the Gutenberg Shift. We're going through the Gutenberg Shift in the visual world, in what I call "vizuality." If you saw the Harry Potter movies and The Daily Prophet - when [Harry Potter] takes out the daily newspaper - the images on the newspaper are moving. We're going to do that.... The moving image will become part of our literacy. That's already happening. Here's [he points to slide] an example of Seesmic, [a] Web site where you post videos. The way you comment on the videos on this site is you make another video.

Chuck Tryon comments on ideas raised in Artists Using YouTube, an evening at the Kitchen a few nights ago.

Posted by dwhudson at May 16, 2008 2:44 PM