INTERNATIONAL EXPO & MUSIC FORUM IN SYRACUSE

Syracuse University Professors Theo Cateforis and Owen Shapiro announce a collaborative project which will bring an International Film & Video Expo and  a 4-day Forum on Music and Sound in Film to Syracuse.  These events will take place October 14-17, 2009.

Shapiro, the Shaffer Professor of Film in the College of Visual & Performing Arts Transmedia Program, is also Artistic Director of the Syracuse International Film Festival.  He has worked with partners in the local and international communities to create the first International Film & Digital Equipment Expo event.  The Expo will take place October 14 & 15 at the Renaissance Syracuse Hotel Convention Center.  This Expo event will bring the CEO's of major European film and digital technology corporations to Syracuse to demonstrate and discuss their latest innovations with expo attendees. Many of these companies will also debut new film and video technology to the American market here at the Syracuse show.

Professor Cateforis, in collaboration with colleagues in the Department of Art and Music Histories (College of Arts and Sciences) has brought together scholars and film experts from throughout the world to present and attend a Forum on Music and Sound in Film. The Forum will take place in collaboration with The Syracuse Symposium 2009: Light. Richard Dyer, noted film theorist (King's College, London) will be the keynote speaker for the Forum's featured lecture which will take place at Hergenhan Auditorium on Thursday, Oct. 15 (7:30-8:30pm.)

Working together, Cateforis and Shapiro have created events that will combine visiting artists such as Italian Sound Designer Mirco Mencacci, sound scholar Rick Altman (Univ. of Iowa), and Sound Designer Doug Quin (Syracuse University) in a series of Master Classes, Visiting Artist presentations, and roundtable discussions.  In collaboration with the Society For New Music, the Forum on Music & Sound in Film will present a screening of Fritz Lang's classic silent film Metropolis, with performance of a newly composed score for the film by Argentine-born composer Martin Matalon.

Closing the Music & Sound in Film Forum will be famed cinematographer Garrett Brown.  On Saturday, October 17 (6:15pm), Brown will show a version of the Verdi opera "La Traviata" which was made in Paris using Brown's Academy Award-winning invention, the Steadicam.  The Steadicam technique enables the viewer to experience the parties and gardens of the opera's setting as if personally present.  Tickets for the event can be purchased at the Persian Terrace (Hotel Syracuse) the evening of the event.  The event is open to the public, but seating is limited.  Garrett Brown will speak with attendees following the presentation.

For more information on the 2009 International Film & Digital Equipment Expo

and Forum on Music and Sound in Film, visit www.syrfilmoffice.com.

For La Traviata event tickets, phone: 315-443-8826.