{"id":41,"date":"2006-03-25T02:54:43","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T08:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2014-09-06T15:02:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T21:02:36","slug":"dvds-to-feature-uiuc-alums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"DVDs to feature UIUC alums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">A recent press release from <strong><a title=\"Microcinema International :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microcinema.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microcinema International<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0the San Francisco-based exhibitor of independent and esoteric cinema, announced a partnership with the Houston, Texas, archival video label <strong>ARTPIX<\/strong> to distribute the latter&#8217;s &#8220;ARTPIX Notebooks&#8221; DVD titles. The brand-new entry in the series is <strong>WILLIAM WEGMAN: VIDEO WORKS 1970-1999<\/strong>, released this month to coincide with the retrospective, &#8220;William Wegman: Funny\/Strange,&#8221; at the Brooklyn (NY) Museum of Art. The 2-disc compilation features more than 150 films and videos by Wegman, a 1967 MFA graduate of the University of Illinois who is\u00a0known world-wide for creating whimsical photographic work starring his beloved Weimeraner dogs.\u00a0<strong>WILLIAM WEGMAN: VIDEO WORKS 1970-1999<\/strong>\u00a0is currently available for\u00a0individual and institutional purchase through Microcinema.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"WILLIAM WEGMAN (Artpix\/Microcinema) and HEADSPACE (Freestyle Home Entertainment)\" alt=\"WILLIAM WEGMAN (Artpix\/Microcinema) and HEADSPACE (Freestyle Home Entertainment)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/Images\/CUBlog%20Art\/cu_wegman_headspace.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Elsewhere, in the upcoming\u00a0<strong><a title=\"HEADSPACE @ Freestyle Home Entertainment\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freestylehomeent.com\/headspace.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Freestyle Home Entertainment<\/a><\/strong> psychological horror movie <strong>HEADSPACE<\/strong>, the lead role of &#8220;Alex Borden&#8221;\u00a0is played by <strong>Christopher Denham<\/strong>, a 2002 theatre arts graduate of UIUC making his feature-film debut after performing in several New York stage productions. Freestyle originally scheduled\u00a0the <strong>HEADSPACE<\/strong> DVD for release this past <strong>Tuesday<\/strong>,<strong> March 21<\/strong>, but apparently pulled it for unspecified reasons, going so far as to alter the street date listed on their Web site from March 2006\u00a0to September 2006\u00a0to &#8220;Theatrical Release: Winter 2006,&#8221;\u00a0all within the past week<em>.<\/em> <em>Freestyle<\/em>, indeed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The first full-length feature for both director <strong>Andrew van den Houten<\/strong> and his company, <strong>ModernCine<\/strong>, <strong><a title=\"HEADSPACE :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.headspacethemovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HEADSPACE<\/a><\/strong> stars cult icons <strong>Udo Kier<\/strong> (<strong>ANDY WARHOL&#8217;S DRACULA<\/strong>), <strong>Dee Wallace-Stone<\/strong> (<strong>THE HOWLING<\/strong>), <strong>William Atherton<\/strong> (<strong>REAL GENIUS<\/strong>), <strong>Olivia Hussey<\/strong> (<strong>ROMEO AND JULIET<\/strong>), <strong>Sean Young<\/strong> (<strong>BLADERUNNER<\/strong>), and <strong>Larry Fessenden<\/strong> (<strong>WENDIGO<\/strong>)\u00a0in addition to\u00a0Denham.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microcinema\/Artpix releases the film and video work of UIUC MFA alumnus William Wegman, while Freestyle Home Entertainment delays the surreal horror film HEADSPACE starring recent graduate Christopher Denham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos-du-c-u"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}