January 5, 2008
KKUP 91.5 FM
Cupertino, CA
Ronnie Cramer's album Juno named Best of 2007 in Experimental category on Don Campau's No Pigeonholes program
January 14, 2008
Decko Koji Objecava
Even Hitler had a Girlfriend
Director: Ronnie Cramer
Whom would not have interested in this movie with such title? And what is it?
Marcus Templeton is a loser who works 'shitty jobs' and that it desperately needs girl. At night works as a security, and by day looks sort of bad adult channel striptiz girl that i do not want to see naked. At the same time, someone is constantly under his door trpao religious pamphlets on how the sin of watching programs that show naked women. After several unsuccessful and incredibly poor attempts to give up and start spending money on girls from the advertising to come to your home address ...
Interesting low or no buget film. Mostly due to excellent internal monologue main characters, some hilarious scenes, such as watching monster moviea about sexual episode, a woman and brain in the jar with the comment 'Even that brain got a girl!' If you prefer a slightly different film to try get this.
Conclusion: although presporog paced and occasionally on the border negledljivosti, however, because of the above mentioned details and ponekog jewels worth it to see. - Translated from Croatian
January 15, 2008
New Orleans Video Access Center
532 Louisa St.
New Orleans, LA 70117
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
January 21 - 27, 2008
Les Inattendus Festival de films (tr�s) ind�pendants
Lyon, France
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
January 26, 2008
Muskegon Chronicle
Coming soon to the Muskegon Film Festival
Cantata in C Major
Director: Ronnie Cramer
Six hundred and five film clips are assembled and used to create a piece of electronic music.
As the visual component appears in the center of the screen, the original analog audio is sent to the left channel while it is simultaneously converted into digital music data and sent to the right channel.
The digital data is also transposed into traditional musical notation and displayed on the screen as it is converted.
The film includes an animated 'chalkboard' introduction that explains the entire process. - Bill Iddings
January 28, 2008
Denver International Experimental Film Festival
Denver, CO
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Highway Amazon
January 31 - February 2, 2008
Muskegon Film Festival
Frauenthal Center
Muskegon, MI
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
February 15 - 17, 2008
United States Super 8 Film & Digital Video Festival
Scott Hall #123
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
February 20, 2008
This Week in New York
CINEKINK
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave. at Second St., February 26 � March 1
Pioneer Theater, 155 East Third St. at Ave. A, March 2
Tickets: $6-$10
The fifth annual CineKink returns to New York City for a series of sexy programs at Anthology Film Archives, Taj, and the Two Boots Pioneer Theater.
This year�s fest includes such titles as THE BI APPLE, BONDAGE BOOB-TUBE, THE GAY LEATHERMAN, NEUROTIC, SEXUAL SUSHI, TRANNYMAL, and a whole bunch of others we can�t mention here without being blocked by various firewalls.
Triple X Selects: The Best of Lezsploitation, featuring DIRTY WORDS: THE LETTER C (T. Arthur Cottam, 2007), PILLOW GIRL (Ronnie Cramer, 2006), and HIGHWAY AMAZON (Ronnie Cramer, 2002), 7:00
February 20 - 23, 2008
Carolina Film and Video Festival
Elliott University Center - UNCG Campus
Carousel Cinemas - Battleground Ave.
Greensboro, NC
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
Named Best Independent Experimental/Animation
February 23 - March 22, 2008
Morton Street Gallery
214 Morton St.
Richmond, TX 77469
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
February 26 - March 2, 2008
CineKink
New York, NY
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Highway Amazon
February 27 - March 2, 2008
Durango Independent Film Festival
Durango, CO
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
February 28 - March 2, 2008
Gasparilla Film Festival
Tampa, FL
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
March 15, 2008
jFerrari Gallery
3015 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90039
Music/Sound-Art Performance by Ronnie Cramer
March 15 - April 12, 2008
GALEX 42
Galesburg Civic Art Center
114 E. Main Main St.
Galesburg, IL 61401
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
March 18 - May 15, 2008
The Nude in the 21st Century
Clatsop Community College
1653 Jerome Ave.
Astoria, OR 97103
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
March 20 - 23, 2008
Dawson City International Film Festival
Dawson City, Yukon
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
March 21, 2008
AMP
Body of Art
The opening reception on March 15 was a fantastic success with great performances from Nathalie Broizat, Scot Nery, Holmes, Nance Broderzen, and Ronnie Cramer, and great attendance too.
March 24 - 29, 2008
Buffalo Niagara Film Festival
Buffalo, NY
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
March 24 - 30, 2008
Humboldt Film Festival
Humboldt State University
1 Harpst St.
Arcata, CA 95521
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
March 26 - 30, 2008
Sacramento International Film Festival
Sacramento, CA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Highway Amazon
March 28 - 30, 2008
Open APPerture Film Festival
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28607
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
April 2008
Ronnie Cramer
Capriccio for Guitar and Triangle
1. Capriccio for Guitar and Triangle
Modulated guitar feedback and effects
Recorded March 15, 2008 at jFerrari Gallery
Los Angeles, California
Written and Produced by Ronnie Cramer
April 2008
Accolade Awards
Honorable Mention for Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
April 3 - 26, 2008
Englewood Cultural Arts Center
Englewood, CO
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
April 4 - 6, 2008
Lake Havasu Film Festival
Lake Havasu City, AZ
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
Recipient of the Final Cut Award
April 4 - 25, 2008
Academy of Fine Arts
600 Main St.
Lynchburg, VA 24504
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
April 7, 2008
Westword
Delegating Denver #38 of 56: North Dakota
Famous North Dakotans With Denver Connections:
Renegade art-museum mooch Clyfford Still;
Boulder printmaker Bud Shark;
Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend filmmaker Ronnie Cramer.
April 10 - 13, 2008
Lake Arrowhead Film Festival
Blue Jay, CA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
April 10 - May 10, 2008
Watercolor Society of Alabama
67th Annual National Exhibition
Carnegie Visual Arts Center
207 Church St. NE
Decatur, AL 35601
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
April 10 - May 23, 2008
Associated Artists of Winston-Salem
301 West Fourth St.
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
April 11 - 13, 2008
Reynolda Film Festival
Winston-Salem, NC
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
April 11 - 13, 2008
Brandywine Digital Film Festival
Wake Forest University
Greenfield, IN
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
April 16 - 20, 2008
Ybor Festival of the Moving Image
Tampa, FL
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
April 16 - May 10, 2008
Katharine Butler Gallery
1943 Morrill St.
Sarasota, FL 34236
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
April 16 - 20, 2008
Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee
Kansas City, MO
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
April 16, 2008
Kansas City Star
10 best bets at the Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee
Cantata in C Major
Undoubtedly the weirdest movie of the jubilee � and one of the most enjoyable.
For Ronnie Cramer�s oddball masterpiece, 605 movie clips � they average less than a second in length � are edited together. The sounds are then converted into musical notes that are played on what sounds like a synthesizer.
Here�s the gimmick � all the clips are of actors screaming. And the screaming is organized into categories: actors turning and screaming, actors running and screaming, actors pounding on doors and screaming, actors screaming and fainting, actors waking up from nightmares and screaming �
Not only is it hysterical, but 'Cantata' also serves as a commentary on how the scream (and other film clich�s) has become part of our cinematic language. - Robert W. Butler
April 17 - 27, 2008
Bare Bones Film Festival
Roxy Theatre
Muskogee, OK
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
April 22 - 26, 2008
Rinc�n International Film Festival
Rinc�n, Puerto Rico
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
April 23 - May 3, 2008
Indianapolis International Film Festival
Indianapolis, IN
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
April 25 - May 1, 2008
Athens International Film and Video Festival
Athens, OH
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
April 25 - May 3, 2008
Mediawave International Film and Music Festival
Gyor, Hungary
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
April 25 - 27, 2008
Fallbrook Film Festival
Fallbrook, CA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
April 28, 2008
Viral Film Festival
New York, NY
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
April 28, 2008
Vanksen Culture Buzz
Viral Film Festival gibt�s jetzt auch auf Dailymotion
Die Freunde des viralen Kurzfilms k�nnen sich freuen, denn bald ist es soweit: N�chste Woche, am 28. April 2008, steigt das weltweit erste Festival des viralen Films in New York. Organisiert wird das mit Spannung erwartete Ereignis von Vanksen/Culture-Buzz, dem Befilm Festival und Dailymotion.
Inzwischen steht die Jury fest. Sie wird sich aus Norman Vale (ehemaliger Gesch�ftsf�hrer von Grey Advertising und ehemaliger Direktor der International Advertising Association), Lizzy Klein (Direktorin von Zagat.com, dem ersten Onlinerestaurantf�hrer in den USA) und Moenen Erbuer (Designdirektor bei Duval Guillaume New York) zusammensetzen.
Diese Filme werden bei dem Festival gezeigt:
1. Mugs, Regie: Ronnie Cramer
2. Holyland, Regie: Or-Lin Tamir
3. Tripswitch, Regie: Anthony Sutcliffe
4. Carolinas Recycling: Tag, Regie: Michael Sugarman
5. Perrier 'Sexier'
6. Behind the scenes with Dick Chatterly 'Dick on name droppers,' Regie: Eric Kallevig
7. Monkey Proof, Regie: Andi Knaup
8. Wedding Proposal Idea, Regie: Or-Lin Tamir
9. Bosco, Regie: Willy Hartland
10. Le dernier megot: office, Regie: Michael Sugarman - C�dric Puisney
April 29 - May 3, 2008
BE FILM the Underground Film Festival
147 Duane St.
New York, NY 10013
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
April 29 - May 31, 2008
Emerald Empire Art Association
500 Main St.
Springfield, OR 97477
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
May 1, 2008
Valley News
Fallbrook Film Festival pops with talent!
Amid the hum of voices and the robust stream of poured champagne, the Fallbrook Film Festival began and ended with a pop! With sounds mingling in a murmur that sounded like a film track, guests at both the opening and closing receptions shared stories. Under the bright tracks of small lights that were fashioned to illuminate works of art, guests and guest-artists were spotlighted.
An eight-minute film that carried a lot of emotional impact was the Cantata in C Major, which was a piece with over six hundred film clips of screamers from vintage films. Creating a piece of electronic music, the screams were almost too much for the eight minutes. One woman commented, 'It made me feel like screaming.' - Nathalie Taylor
May 1 - 4, 2008
Syracuse International Film Festival
Syracuse, NY
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
May 2 - 4, 2008
Trenton Film Festival
Trenton, NJ
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
'Viewers will be transfixed by 100 celebrity mug shots rapidly morphing from one to the next in a way that will act on the mind of those individuals who gaze at the flashing images. Celebrity faces turn into seamless figures that dance on the screen to a continuous flow of a positively eerie beat. The recurring images make a daring statement on the culture of celebrities.'
May 5 - 10, 2008
Ohio Independent Film Festival
Gordon Square Theatre
6405 Detroit Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44102
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Highway Amazon
May 14, 2008
Cinema Tonic
Films You Just Wouldn't Believe!
Ronnie Cramer is a director of note. An American with an eye for the uncanny and the absurd. He also likes to be behind the camera creating really amazing films.
(Recaps of Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend, Back Street Jane and The Hitler Tapes)
May 16 - June 27, 2008
Arts Council of Wayne County
2406 E. Ash St.
Goldsboro, NC 27534
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
May 29 - June 1, 2008
Mendocino Film Festival
Mendocino, CA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
May 30 - June 8, 2008
Brooklyn International Film Festival
Brooklyn, NY
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
June 10 - 13, 2008
International Film Festival England
Ramada Tamworth, UK
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
June 11 - 15, 2008
Parabox 11th Montclair Film Festival
427 Bloomfield Ave.
Montclair, NJ 07042
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
June 13 - 14, 2008

Transistor Festival
Benders Tavern
314 E. 13th Ave.
Denver, CO
Experimental music festival featuring multi-media by Ronnie Cramer
June 26 - 29, 2008
Philadelphia Independent Film Festival
Philadelphia, PA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
June 2008
Kaffeine Buzz
bump & grind > event reviews
It all began Friday, June 13 at Bender's Tavern in Denver, CO. It was here that my magical electronic weekend began, at the Transistor Electronic Sound Art Festival, presented by Symbolic Insight. This first of two evenings consisted of some really great acts, the beginning of which was Bow Shock.
Another highlight of the event was the visual stimulation. Live painting and drawing was provided by Eric Buckner Winfield and Michael Garfield while music was played. Ronnie Cramer's short films provided a nice change of pace between some sets, while bahiya engaged the eye with experimental dance during bios+a+ic's set. - Joshua Jones
July 3 - Aug 1, 2008
Fireworks
Conneaut Community Center for the Arts
Conneaut, OH
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
Best of Show
First Place--Watercolor
July 10, 2008
Chicago Tribune
Movie Capsules
CANTATA IN C MAJOR USA / 2007 / Short /11 min
Six-hundred-five film clips are assembled and used to create a piece of electronic music. Director: Ronnie Cramer Producer & Camera: Ronnie Cramer Voice Over: Sarah Young
July 10 - 12, 2008
CineKink
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Highway Amazon
July 10 - 12, 2007
San Francisco Frozen Film Festival
The Roxie
3117 16th St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
July 19 - August 2, 2008
Jersey Shore Film Festival
Deal, NJ
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
July 20 - 26, 2008
Imaginaria Film Festival
Conversano, Italy
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
August 1, 2008
Chrome and Chroma
1330 27th St.
Denver, CO
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
August 1 - 3, 2008
Indie Gathering
1100 Crocker Rd.
Westlake, OH 44145
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
Experimental Short Award Recipient
August 5, 2008
CineKink Tawdry Summer Tryst
The Red Room @ KGB Complex
85 E. 4th St.
New York, NY
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Highway Amazon
August 9, 2008
Cambofest
Pre-Screening
Srok Srey, Cambodia
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
August 14 - 17, 2008
Nevada City Film Festival
Nevada City, CA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
August 15 - 17, 2008
River's Edge Film Festival
Yeiser Art Center (Aug 15)
Maiden Alley Cinema (Aug 16)
Market House Theatre (Aug 17)
Paducah, KY
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
Recipient of Juror's Award
August 20 - 23, 2008
Washougal International Film Festival
1700 Main St.
Washougal, WA 98671
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
Recipient of Honors for Experimental Film
August 21 - 28, 2008
Land Locked: The Iowa City International Film Festival
Englert Civic Theatre
221 E. Washington St.
Iowa City, IA 52240
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
September 4 - 7, 2008
Rome International Film Festival
Rome, GA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
September 4 - 7, 2008
ACE Film Festival
New World Stages
343 W. 49th St.
New York, NY
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
September 6, 2008
vBulletin
Joe Bob Briggs's 'Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend' Review
I found this site of Joe Bob Briggs drive-in movie reviews and it brought back good memories.
This one is for the movie 'Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend' - Nastier Homer
'Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In' for 3/27/92
Cutline: The ENORMOUSLY-talented Karen Pombo demonstrates how one pathetic lonely guy spent his entire life savings on calls girls in less than two weeks, in the best movie of 1992, 'Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend.'
By Joe Bob Briggs
Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, Texas
And speaking of lonely pathetic existences, the best drive-in movie of 1992 is 'Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend,' the latest from Denver's one-man film industry, independent director Ronnie Cramer. Watch a chubby Omaha security guard in a lumpy golf shirt spend his entire life savings on call girls in less than two weeks!
Andren Scott is the actor who plays Marcus Templeton, a guy so depressed that he sits in his bathtub for hours with the phone sitting on the commode, trying to think of somebody to call. He eats frozen dinners and Slim Jims, watches porno strippers on cable in his underwear, buys a jar of 'Reduce-o-cream' ('as safe as any garden vegetable') to make himself more attractive to women, tries to talk to women who are repulsed by him, considers a 'Wonder Corset,' wonders if someday he'll become a serial killer or whether he's currently insane, goes to the library to research the subject, and calls girls up for dates with opening lines like 'We could go to lunch. There's a Sinclair station near your house that has sandwiches on sale for $1.49.'
I think you can tell where this is leading--straight to the Yellow Pages section marked 'Escort Services.' Marcus gets so deep into hookeritis that pretty soon he's tape-recording his sessions, and about eight hookers down the road, he makes his fatal mistake: he buys a video camera.
How many times have I told you guys? It SOUNDS like a good idea, but talk to Rob Lowe first. Uh-uh. I don't think so.
Here's the real scary part. Ronnie claims that this movie is '99 per cent true.'
This is one of the funniest goldurn movies I've ever watched, but it's probly not available in video stores or theaters, so if you want to order one from Ronnie, send me an SASE and I'll send you the order form: Joe Bob, P.O. Box 2002, Dallas, TX 75221.
We're talking 28 breasts. Six strippers. Eight hookers. Aardvarking. Brain in a jar. Butt tattoo. Frequent indigestion. Gratuitous Pee Wee Herman doll. Crab Fu. Drive-In Academy Award nominations for Ronnie Cramer, the genius who previously directed the violent drug drama 'Back Street Jane'; and Andren Scott, as Marcus Templeton, for saying 'My heart is bound to explode if I keep eating like this' and 'I could go buy something at the store--those people HAVE to talk to you' and 'I wish I could safely pull out my heart and massage it' and 'That chin is being swallowed up by the abyss once known as my neck' and 'At least this is better than my last job, changing those aromatic urinal cakes' and 'Am I going insane? I hope I'm just drunk' and 'This is kind of expensive, but it'll be worth it to go out on a date' and 'I should eat at home and save my money for call girls' and 'Can I feel those?'
Four stars.
Joe Bob says check it out.
September 7 - 14, 2008
Lakedance International Film Festival
Panida Theater
300 N. 1st Ave.
Sandpoint, ID 83864
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
September 9 - 14, 2008
SoCal Independent Film Festival
19744 Beach Blvd.
Huntington Beach, CA 92648
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
September 11, 2008
Illinois Times
Route 66 Flix
Seventh annual film festival is bigger and better than ever
It's funny what a smidge of positive press, a little marketing gizmo, and a good reputation can do for a film festival. This year's Route 66 Film Festival � the 7th annual � received six times the usual number of submissions, says festival director Linda McElroy, including entries from every continent on the globe except Antarctica.
'Antarctica's just not in the film business, I guess,' she quips.
Films include:
Mugs Ronnie Cramer, Denver, Colo.
A hundred of your favorite celebrity mug shots morph from one to another in this experimental film.
- Dusty Rhodes
September 11 - 14, 2008
Estes Park Film Festival
Estes Park, CO
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
September 11, 2008
Westword
The late Dale Chisman put Denver in the picture
Kevin Causey expertly presided over the memorial, which began with a marvelous short film, 'Tribute to a Colorado Artist,' done by Ronnie Cramer in 2005. The film is all about Chisman, who speaks at length about his influences and his experiences as an artist. It was a perfect way to start, having Chisman's voice ringing in our ears. - Michael Paglia
September 12 - 13, 2008
Frame Damage Festival of Animation
Starz Film Center
Denver, CO
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
September 12 - 13, 2008
Milano Film Festival
Athens Video Art Section
Milan, Italy
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
September 18 - 20, 2008
Black Earth Film Festival
114 E. Main St.
Galesburg, IL 61401
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
September 19, 2008

Omaha Lit Fest
W. Dale Clark Library
Omaha, NE
Art exhibition featuring multi-media by Ronnie Cramer
September 20 - 21, 2008
Route 66 Film Festival
Springfield, IL
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
September 20 - 21, 2008
Twin Cities Underground Film Festival
Sheraton Minneapolis Midtown Hotel
2901 Chicago Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55407
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
September 21, 2008
Lubbock Online
Short films compete for honors at festival
Several directors of short films will travel to Lubbock from New York, California and Texas markets to participate in the fourth annual Flatland Film Festival, according to festival co-director Chris Caddel.
The festival will take place Thursday through Saturday at the Firehouse Theater inside the Underwood Center, 511 Ave. K. Call 762-8606 for full details about the film festival and to purchases tickets.
Short Films Competing
'Domingo Frango Assado,' Frango Assado.
'Looking Good,' Ben Powell.
'Crossing Numbers,' Abel Gonzalez.
'The Ville,' Amy Bench.
'Strife of Tongues,' Michael David Perkins.
'Donut Heaven,' Annetta Marion.
'Cantata in C Major,' Ronnie Cramer.
'Stuck,' Bruce A. Block.
'ICD-9: 297.3,' Harrison Reynolds.
'The Great Wall of Texas,' Valerie Asensio.
'The Cave,' Michael Ramsey.
'Reflections,' Barry Caldwell.
'Dream on Cupid,' Michael Grabow.
'Texas At Random,' Stephen P. Warren.
'Sons of Gods,' Q. Manning.
'Lipstick,' Shane Pullen.
'Birds,' Mark Betancourt.
'Never Go Back,' Randy Cordray.
'I Love You I Love You I Love You,' Mikey Reyes.
'Incantation,' Nancy Rodwan.
'Future Cop 2010,' Matt Kelley.
'Abandoned,' Chase Chessnutt.
'Cowboy: A Love Story,' Jenny McNabb.
September 24 -28, 2008
Thin Line Film Fest
Denton, TX
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
September 25 - 27, 2008
Flatland Film Festival
Firehouse Theatre
Louise H. Underwood Center for the Arts
511 Ave. K
Lubbock, TX
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
September 26 - 28, 2008
Port Townsend Film Festival
Port Townsend, WA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
September 2008
Alliance Fran�aise
1st Golden Lion Animation Film Festival in Maseru
The target is to work toward doing an African animated film festival centered in Lesotho (for this 2008�s year, envision 2 sponsors Babophayi Awards, one for the Best Animation film and another one for the best documentary movie.
The listing of the films is
'Favela Rhythms / Ritmo na Favela' (Brazil) Mari Gardner Duration 31:00
'Uno degli Ultimi' (One of the Last) (Italy) Paul Zinder Duration 12:00
'Eginja Eyimba (The Singing Rock)' (Uganda) Zuleika Kingdon Duration 16:00
'Cantana in C Major' (US Denver) Ronnie Cramer Duration 8:00
'Africa 11' (Austria) Stefan Lukacs Duration 21:00
October 2 - 5, 2008
Hell's Half Mile Film and Music Festival
Bay City, MI
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
October 2 - 19, 2008
Tacoma Film Festival
Tacoma, WA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
October 7, 2008
Syracuse Post-Standard
Nominations are in for 2nd Upper State Indie Awards show at Syracuse's Palace Theatre
Syracuse rapper and businessman Kendric T. Bedell will present the second edition of the Upper State Indie Awards show at 7 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Palace Theatre on James Street in Syracuse.
Bedell just sent over this year's nominees.
Bedell's been gracious enough to invite me to present an award for the second year in a row. The debut of the event last year mixed music, dance and fashion with the awards. More information will be coming.
The nominees were gathered through online submissions. Here they are:
Independent DVD
Cuse DVD Vol 2
America The Beautiful
Urban S.L.A.M., Vol.1 On DVD
How To Succeed in Urban Fashion
Block Party Madness
Films by Ronnie Cramer
- Mark Bialczak
October 9 - November 1, 2008
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
Snap to Grid
107 W. 5th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Art exhibition featuring multi-media by Ronnie Cramer
October 13 - 18, 2008
International Film Festival of South Africa
Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
October 17 - 18, 2008
Flint Film Festival
Flint, MI
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
October 18 - 31, 2008
Gold Lion Film Festival
Scala Theatre
Maputo, Mozambique
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
October 19, 2008
15 Short Film Festival
Charlotte, NC
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
October 24 - 26, 2008
Utopia Film Festival
15 Crescent Rd.
Greenbelt, MD 20770
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
October 30 - November 9, 2008
AFI Fest
Los Angeles, CA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
October 31, 2008
Commerce Gallery at the Go Away Garage
508 S. Commerce
Wichita, KS 67202
Art exhibition featuring paintings and multi-media by Ronnie Cramer
November 2008
MNGinteractive
Mugs, USA, directed by Ronnie Cramer:
In this bizarre, hypnotic, and funny short, celebrity mug shots morph into one another over a minimalist, trancelike soundtrack.
November 2008
Truckee Meadows Community College
7000 Dandini Ave.
Reno, NV
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
November 6 - 8, 2008
Rockport Film Festival
Rockport, TX
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
November 6 - 9, 2008
Dallas Video Festival
Angelika Film Center
Dallas, TX
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Cantata in C Major
November 10 - December 19, 2008
Philadelphia Watercolor Society 108th Anniversary International Exhibition of Works on Paper
McKinney and Long Galleries
Mitchell Hall
West Chester University
West Chester, PA
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
November 12 - 15, 2008
Cucalorus Film Festival
815 Princess St.
Wilmington NC 28401
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
November 12 - 15, 2008
Bolzano Film Festival
Capital Cinema
Bolzano, Italy
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
November 13 - 23, 2008
Starz Denver Film Festival
Starz Film Center
Denver, CO
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
November 20, 2008
Coffee, Coffee and More Coffee
Some Short Thoughts on Some Short Films
There are several programs of short films presented at the SDFF. I chose two of the programs based on past interests - 'Faux Movements . . . and other excursions' to get a glimpse of the current state of so-called experimental filmmaking, and 'Fear & Dystopia' in order to see something by local legend Ronnie Cramer.
'Fear & Dystopia' consists of short films by local filmmakers. The two that I enjoyed were The Clearing by Jack Gastelbondo, and Mugs by Ronnie Cramer. Mugs is simply the morphing of mug shots of the (in)famous - Larry King, Johnny Cash, Mel Gibson, Jane Fonda, among others. Some appear to be happy, while others look worse for wear. The film is five minutes of fun at the expense of people who sometimes behaved very badly. - Peter Nellhuas
December 4, 2008
Diagonal Thoughts
Morphology
In his essay �Animation as Baroque: Fleischer Morphs Harlem; Tangos to Crocodiles� (in �The Vatican to Vegas: A History of Soecial Effects�, and also part of the excellent reader �The Sharpest Point Animation at the End of Cinema�, edited by Chris Gehman and Steve Reinke) Norman M. Klein argues that one the governing concepts of animation is 'the morph,' the theatrical rupture of the stable image in the transformation of a thing into something else.
For Klein, it is a space of entropy within a cartoon itself-an actual 'lapse' of scribbles between two more fixed images.
The �morph� is a metaphoric, frequently haunted 'hesitation' that embodies all our anxieties about the world around us, and it is shorthand for the entire medium�s proclivity for constant metamorphosis.
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'the Morph is solid and absent at the same time. It is like a scar that narrates, a braile of absences.
The viewer can practically run a finger across the ridge of hesitation, very haptic, a touch of all-at-once.
The drawings leave a elegant wound as they dissolve to make way for motion.
The Morph is also a history of production itself, like many special-effects films:
a history of the drawing in decay or erasure; or even of the team who made the effects.
In thirties animation, the original drawing was cleaned up, then traced by inkers on to another medium:
inked and painted on a cel. In the nineties, it is scanned digitally, then paint-boxed, a morph of production itself,
with far fewer strings, often fewer hesitations.
Also, the morph should suggest an uneasy alliance inside the character�s body and inside the atmospheres at the same time.
Like Dr. Jekyll nervously grabbing his throat, both the space and the body should look as if they might revert back,
as if the air is dangerous. The morph is supposed to look unstable, in hesitation, on a journey into antimatter,
where many atmospheres meet.'
Here are some wonderful examples of Morphing in the �Electronic Baroque� era
Ronnie Cramer, �Pillow Girl� (2006)
�Pillow Girl� was originally a sound-art work. Artist/musician/filmmaker Ronnie Cramer scanned the covers and inside pages of a number of lurid, vintage paperbacks and magazines, then ran the collected image and text data through a variety of synthesizers. The resulting sound files were then processed and remixed into a collection of electronic soundscapes. The visual portion of the piece makes use of the covers themselves, with the illustrated figures coming to life and morphing into one another during the course of the presentation (each cover is visible in its original state for only 1/30th of a second). In addition to being a colorful and impressive visual display, the images presented in �Pillow Girl� are a vivid and fascinating historical encapsulation of how women have been depicted in popular culture.
December 26 - 28, 2008
Cambofest: Film and Music Festival of Cambodia
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Mugs
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl