THREE SHORT DOCUMENTARIES by Yuichiro Yamada

Screening of three short documentaries by Yuichiro Yamada
@ Hallwalls, 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202
Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 7:00 p.m

$8 general, $6 students/seniors, $5 HW & TLB members

Do My Own Thing (2010, 20min)
A story about an 83-year-old Japanese woman who has lived in Buffalo for 55 years.

Molly’s Art School (2010, 12min, co-director : Sam Avery)
A story about people living with Parkinson’s disease and Parkinson’s Association of WNY.

Unconditional Love (2010, 20min)
A story about an organization offering free art classes in Buffalo since 1959.

You can preview details of the screenings at the Hallwalls website.
For more information, please email Yuichiro Yamada
at yu1ro.ymd@gmail.com.

YUICHIRO YAMADA screens at Hallwalls June 7, 2010

MFA Candidate Yuichiro Yamada will be present to screen his latest documentary TIME TO DANCE at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center on June 7, 2010 at 7PM.

Time to Dance (2010, 46 min., color) is a film about the process of making a dance. Melanie Aceto, Assistant Professor of Dance at the University at Buffalo, choreographed a dance piece for the concert of Zodiaque Dance Company in 2009. This documentary shows the creative process of how Aceto, working with her dancers, transforms her ideas into movement.

Plus, back by popular demand, encore screenings of:
Irreplaceable (2009, 24 min.), the film about New World Record
and
Just Browsing (2009, 33 min.), the film about Talking Leaves Book Store

YUICHIRO YAMADA screens "TIME TO DANCE" and "1 LUV"

Time to Dance and 1 LUV
Wednesday, March 17, 5:00PM to 6:30PM
CFA 112 Screening Room
Center for the Arts, UB North Campus

Free admission, open to the public

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/9937620]

Time to Dance by Yuichiro Yamada shows the creative process of choreographer, Melanie Aceto, as she transforms her ideas into beautiful movement with her dancers in Zodiaque Dance Company, University at Buffalo. (Documentary, 2010, color, DV, 46mins)

Featuring dancers: Anna Bush, Sarah Creagan, Ashley Currey, Amanda Glowacki, Carie Jurcak, Joanie Keppler, Meghan Kohler, Christie LaCongo, Colleen Walsh

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/9972247]

1 LUV by Yuichiro Yamada (Documentation, 2009, color, DV, 5mins)
A documentation of a beautiful dance piece, 1 LUV, choreographed by Tom Ralabate and performed by Christopher Howard and Colleen Walsh of the Zodiaque Dance Company 2009.

Time to Dance was commissioned by the Center for the Moving Image with funds provided by the Liberace Foundation and Robert and Carol Morris Fund for Artistic Expression and the Performing Arts, University at Buffalo.

Center for the Moving Image announces "Bridge Project" student grant awards

Seven DMS graduate students have been awarded grants through the Center for the Moving Image (CMI) in the Department of Media Study to support individual films based on their participation in “The Bridge: An International Art Initiative”.

Last spring the CMI hosted Richard Foreman, a pioneer of American avant-garde theater, and his collaborator Sophie Haviland for an intensive two week film and theater production at the Ukrainian Center in Buffalo. The footage created from that project is now part of “The Bridge”, which has been to nine countries conducting similar workshops. The students will be using the footage made in Buffalo to create their own films.

The seven grant recipients for 2009-10 are: Anna Scime ($1000), Scott Ries ($1000), Kerri Kieser ($1000), Yuichiro Yamada ($1000), Olivier Delrieu-Schulze ($1000), Loren Sonnenberg ($1000), and Brett Williams ($500). A screening of their work will be held in Buffalo and New York City next spring.

Emmy award-winning filmmaker Elliot Caplan, Artistic Director of the CMI and UB professor of Media Study said, “We were the first location chosen in the United States for this prestigious and far-reaching project. We are thrilled that our students will be able to contribute to its continued success and capitalize on this opportunity by producing another generation of work.”

The grants were made possible through the generous support of the Liberace Foundation and the Dean’s Office in the UB College of Arts and Sciences.

For more information on The Bridge: http://www.bridgefilm.com/Site/INDEX/INDEX.html

2 Films By Yuichiro Yamada at Hallwalls

Screening is open to the public and free!

Here’s a trailer:
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/6148734]

When: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 7 PM

What: Two short documentaries(Just Browsingand Irreplaceable) about local independent stores in Buffalo. Just Browsing is about the local independent bookselling community in Buffalo featured Talking Leaves Books. Irreplaceable documents the closing of the local music store, New World Record in 2008.

Where: Hallwalls Cinema, 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo