What better time to celebrate sleep and winter than a hot July night? The
first annual No "Mittens Film Festival" is set for July 27, 2007 at 7:00
P.M. when Rosalux Gallery will transform into a premiere screening room.
Please join us for the event and party that follows. The festival will be
free and open to the public.
The No Mittens Film Festival is in part inspired by the strange changes in
weather, which we are all experiencing, and childhood memories. During a
bout with insomnia, and aided by multiple viewings of the film, “The Science
of Sleep,” the idea came to us. The conception of the festival was also
driven by our desire to bring a new venue/event to emerging artists who have
no place to present their video works. With this festival theme of winter
and sleep, one can be a metaphor for the other (i.e. Winter: the coldest
season of the year. Sleep: a state of partial or full unconsciousness.) A
short film/digital video of five minutes or less that uses one or both
concepts, blurring them together or mixing them around in any way is
eligible. Works will be reviewed for aesthetic quality as well as thematic
compatibility. Diane Mullin, Associate Curator for the Weisman Art Museum
will be the guest juror.
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About the Juror:
Diane Mullin is Associate Curator at the Weisman Art Museum. Her curatorial work focuses on modern American art and culture with a particular emphasis on the post World War II era. She is currently working on an exhibition of the documentary photography of Paul Shambroom that will for the first time bring together his major series and provide, through an accompanying catalogue, new scholarship on his work. Mullin is also currently curating, SAD, a group exhibition of Minnesota-based artists whose work addresses light, isolation, and/or melancholy—key elements of the depressive disorder Seasonal Affective Disorder The multi-media exhibition will consider anew our relationship to our environments—both physical and psychic..
From 2002 to 2004 she was Director of Gallery and Exhibitions at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where she was on the faculty as Assistant Professor of Art History and Critical Studies since 1999. She has also worked as an independent curator, producing exhibitions for the Weisman Art Museum and No-Name Gallery at the Soap Factory (both in Minneapolis). From 1998-2001 she was Artistic Director and Curator at Soo Visual Arts Center, a non-profit contemporary exhibition space in Minneapolis. From January 2002-January 2003, she was an Assistant Curator at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota. She has also served as a lecturer for docent training at the Walker Art Center, the Weisman Art Museum, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Mullin received a BA from Boston University in 1987, with a major in English Literature and a minor in Art History. She completed an MA in Art History at Washington University in St. Louis in 1989. Her MA thesis focused on the 1970s body and performance work of Vito Acconci. In 1999, she was awarded a PhD in Art History from Washington University in St. Louis. Her dissertation examined Robert Rauschenberg’s early work in the contexts of photography and abstract expressionism.
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