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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

LITM.tv video wall launch party

thursday sept 30th  8pm - 1 am,
LITM 140 newark ave x grove

LITM.tv is a new television network that brings you content to love.
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Thursday September 30th at 8:30 & 10:30pm:
LITM.tv invites you to kick off studio-tour with our first live broadcast of original programming, on three HDTVs. The new video gallery is located at LITM, so you can watch while dining and lounging with friends.

LITM founder Jelynne Jardiniano and United Divas founder Jan Tompkins have partnered up to bring work from respected and emerging filmmakers, video artists and animators to a hip and popular exhibition space. Primarily a night to show off the new video wall behind the bar, the venue also provides dining, entertainment and a variety of Van Gogh vodka art cocktails.

The month of October features:

Musician, W.Y.M.E. – http://reverbnation.com/theaudiobodies (Jersey City)
Writer, Middlepoet - http://www.middlepoet.com/ (Jersey City/Los Angeles)
Director & Animator, Lady Jay - http://ladyjay.net/ (Jersey City/Los Angeles),
Illustrator & Animator Choz Belen – http://www.chozbelen.com/ (Jersey City)
Writer, Jelynne Jardiniano – http://www.restaurantfromscratch.com/
Director & Animator, Kathy Lajvardi – http://specialblend.tv/ (Los Angeles)
Writer, Alissa Walker – http://gelatobaby.com/ (Los Angeles),
Animator, Eric Dalimarta - http://the2457design.com/ (Queens NYC/Jakarta, Indonesia)
Director, Jeff Snell - (Harlem NYC)
Director, David Sams - http://web.mac.com/dubzero/ (Santa Cruz, CA)

Music will be provided by DJ Choz Belen.

List of confirmed works for the September 30th release event:
October’s works include a variety of screen-works from around the globe.

Documentary:

David Sams
Jalan Bali
single channel video
2 weeks after 9/11 i left for 10 weeks in Indonesia traveling and surfing, this is the 45 min documentary of the trip I created from 8 hours of tape.
http://web.mac.com/dubzero/dubzero/jalan_bali.html

Poetry in Motion:

Lady Jay & Kathy Lajvardi, poem by Alissa Walker
Bioluminescence
2-channel video dyptich
An experimental collaboration which is shown on two televisions as one unit. Based on the poem “Bioluminescence” by Alissa Walker. Motion Graphics and Editing by Jan Tompkins & Kathy Lajvardi. Sound Score by Bluetech, “Triangle (retriangulated)” (original track written by Jones/Wolfson). Filmed throughout Los Angeles.
http://www.ladyjay.net/bioluminescence-video-diptych/

Music videos by:

Middlepoet
“I’m Tired” single-channel video
Directed by Jan Tompkins and Melissa Pulicare
Edited by Anthony Hinds
Starring: Middlepoet & Jersey City, NJ
I’m Tired” is a hip-hop inspired down-tempo track based on Middlepoet’s poem “Things that are getting on my nerves”, which relates to the thoughts of American’s who are fed up with the constant struggle just to get by. This music video takes place in Hudson County, New Jersey, one of the most densely populated regions of the United States. Take a closer look, and it’s an homage to downtown Jersey City as well as a commentary on modern urban America. http://www.youtube.com/user/middlepoet#p/a/u/0/cT3x-S85bRU

W.Y.M.E.
Set Your Watch to the Sun
single-channel video
Directed by: C.Mahe
Produced by: Niroshima
Set your watch to the sun is a song that speaks about the fact that no one really knows the truth about creation. We are forced to adopt philosophies and ideals that are based on a system of thinking that is dwindling. By setting our watches to the sun, do we get in tune with a higher sense of self and being?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz0RND0sBoY

Choz Belen
Group: Deep Foundation, “Sleep”
Beats produced by Incise
Featuring Jay Legaspi
"An emotionally in-depth look into some of the everyday struggles people go through for the sake of their loved ones. We follow a day in the life of a soldier, a drug mule and a taxi cab driver as they each make life-altering sacrifices. We also discover that they have more in common than just having the drive to do whatever it takes so that their families can sleep at night."
http://www.youtube.com/user/illpoetik#p/u/3/5vVu-UXotZY

Christen Lien
“Unabi” single-channel video
Directed by Geoffrey S. George.
Edited by Derek Swanson.
Director of Photography Katie Barkel.
Produced by X10.
From the album Vol. I: Battle Cry, this features violist Christen Lien. The mural featured in this work is the “Detroit Industry” fresco painting by Mexican muralist Diego Rivera (1886-1957), which is a four-walled mural showcased at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Rivera completed the twenty-seven panel work in eleven months, from April 1932 to March 1933. It is considered the finest example of Mexican mural art in the United States, and the artist thought it the best work of his career. The abandoned factories that you see are actual factories of Detroit, Michigan in their current state. http://itsnotaviolin.com/videos/unabi/

Computer Graphics by:

Eric Dalimarta
“See Feel Believe” series
single-channel video
I want to share what I see, feel and believe about the world. The world, which gives a disorienting glimpse that could be interpreted differently, will always be viewed differently based on people’s point of view, what they see, feel, and believe.
http://new.the2457design.com/?p=1337

Short film by:

Jeff Snell
Hypothetically
single-channel video
Two friends have a conversation about a hypothetical situation with a funny little twist to it.