Artifact Pictures is proud to announce that one of our earlier films, ‘Say It Out Loud’, is being featured on the online magazine, Nextbook
Say It Out Loud
A film by Artifact Pictures
2004 · 7 minutes
At the historic Eldridge Street Synagogue on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, people gather for the third annual Senior Poetry Slam.
The film was produced at Artifact by Lisa Fisher, Julie Goldstein, and Erika Mijlin.
Filed under: Documentary
Artifact Pictures will have two films which will be shown together as part of the Philadelphia Stories series on MiND TV – formerly WYBE-TV35. The broadcast dates are as follows : Thursday, Jan 22, 10PM Saturday, Jan 24, 9PM Sunday, Jan 25, 1PM
The continuation of our documentary from 2006 on the life and times of a pair of industrial buildings in Philadelphia – their history, the neighborhood they inhabit, and the unique balance of manufacturers and artists who are its tenants, past and present. During the course of making the first film, the buildings were sold, raising questions about the building’s future as an integrated center for art and industry. Now two years after the transfer of ownership, some of the oldest manufacturing tenants have closed, but new tenants have arrived, primarily belonging to the ‘creative economy’. At the crossroads of both gentrification and globalization, the Amber Street buildings are representative of a neighborhood, a city, and a national economy in transition
As we approach the end of analog television in 2009, and enter a new era in the evolution of digital media, our experience of images and information becomes increasingly intangible. One part history and one part poetry, Virtual Memory is a meditation on the essence of mechanical image-making and its impact on human consciousness, from the physical process of photography and film, to the alternate universe created by computers and virtual reality. Using a compilation of found material, the film bids a kind of fond farewell to the 20th century.
Filed under: Documentary | Tags: Documentary, image, reality, technology, virtual
Artifact director Julie Goldstein finished post-production on Virtual Memory in May. The documentary will air on WYBE as part of the Philadelphia Stories Series. One part history and one part poetry, Virtual Memory is a meditation on the essence of mechanical image-making and its impact on human consciousness, from the physical process of photography and film, to the alternate universe created by computers and virtual reality. Using a compilation of found material, the film bids a kind of fond farewell to the 20th century technologies that paved the way to the present moment and the ethereal future.
Filed under: Documentary | Tags: art, creative, Documentary, economy, industry
It was a busy May; Artifact also completed post-production on The View from Amber Street (2008 ), an update and extension of our 2006 documentary. The new film will air on WYBE as part of the Philadelphia Stories Series. The View from Amber Street documents a pair of industrial buildings in Philadelphia – their history, the neighborhood they inhabit, and the unique balance of manufacturers and artists who are its tenants, past and present. During the course of making the film, the buildings were sold, raising questions about the building’s future as an integrated center for art and industry. At the crossroads of both gentrification and globalization, the Amber Street buildings are representative of a neighborhood, a city, and a national economy in transition.
Production is scheduled to begin in late ‘08 on an Artifact documentary on the subject of Aging in America. Artifact producer Lisa Fisher was given a grant by the Jerome Foundation for the project. Production is expected to continue throughout 2009.
Filed under: Animation, Documentary, Event | Tags: Animation, conference, Event, festival
In April ’08, Artifact director Julie Goldstein was an Animation Juror for the 17th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival. Also this spring, she sat on the committee that gave out the University of the Arts‘ Blondeau Award.
Artifact also attended the KAFI animation conference in Kalamazoo, MI in May ’07 and the first Platform International Animation Festival in Portland, OR in July ’07.
This spring Artifact is continuing post-production on the full-length documentary Top Secret Rosies, an HD project being produced by filmmaker LeAnn Erickson. The film explores the experiences of the young women mathematicians who did top secret ballistics calculations for World War II on the world’s earliest computers.
Filed under: Documentary | Tags: Documentary, education, health, interactive, medical, webcast
In January, Artifact producer Lisa Fisher completed production on a series (45 x 2–12min) of health and medical webcasts & webisodes for Healthology.com, one of the leading producers and distributors of health and medical information on the internet. She also produced two one-hour interactive health education courses – one on Vascular Health and the other on Ulcerative Colitis for the channel.
2007 was a busy year at Artifact – here are just a few highlights…
MOTION GRAPHICS
• “8th Annual State of The Black Union”
[Tavis Smiley Productions / Shoot Em Up Film Media]
INTERACTIVE ANIMATION
• Online course : “The Aging Opportunity”
[Temple University Center for Intergenerational Learning]
DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION & POST
• including two in-house productions forthcoming in 2008 !
3D ANIMATION
Also in 2007, we were proud to see “The Adventures of Teddy P. Brains” receive a wide DVD release [a 3D children's animation project created and produced by Fourth & One Productions in association with Artifact Pictures]
Filed under: Documentary
Artifact producer Erika Mijlin co-produced Jeanne Allen’s Ordinary Time (2007), a personal documentary reflecting on the life, work and legacy of Father Frances McDermott, an important Philadelphia parish priest.
