MICHAEL
ROBINSON May 2008
3027 W.Logan Blvd. (Apt 1)
Chicago, IL
60647
(607) 339-1072
michaelblayneyrobinson@hotmail.com
EDUCATION:
University
of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art and Design
Master of Fine Arts in Moving Image,
May 2007
Ithaca
College, Park School of Communications, Ithaca, NY
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film,
Photography and Visual Art, May 2003
FILMS AND
VIDEOS:
Carol
Anne Is Dead (digital video, 7:30, 2008)
All Through The Night (digital
video, 4:00, 2008)
Victory Over The Sun (16mm
color film, 12:30, 2007)
Light Is Waiting (digital
video, 11:00, 2007)
The General Returns From One Place To Another (16mm color film/digital video, 11:00, 2006)
And We All Shine On (16mm
color film, 7:00, 2006)
you dont bring me flowers (16mm color film, 8:00, 2005)
Birds Of North America
(digital video, 11:00, 2004)
First Cousins: Prevost/Provost (digital video, 3:30, 2004)
Chiquitita And The Soft Escape (16mm color film, 10:00, 2003)
Motel Flora (digital
video, 5:00, 2003)
Opening Ceremonies (16mm color
film, 8:30, 2002)
The War Of 1987 (digital
video, 2:00, 2002)
Tidal (16mm color film, 7:00,
2001)
Carpenter (16mm black
and white film, 3:30, 2001)
EXHIBITION:
2008 Things Sinkin With a
Melody: The Films of Michael Robinson, Wexner Center, Columbus
Shine
On: Films by Michael Robinson, San Francisco Cinematheque at Yerba Buena Center
Films
and Videos by Michael Robinson, MMoCA: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Pop
Secret: The Films of Michael Robinson, USC School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles
Michael Robinson in Person, MassArt Film Society, Boston
Pop
Landscapes: Michael Robinson, Dryden Theater, George Eastman House, Rochester
The
Films of Michael Robinson, Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago
Transitional
Objects, Art in
General Video Marathon, New York, The General Returns...
Light
Is Waiting (video
installation),The Box Gallery, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
Walking
Picture Palace: Crooked Fireworks, Wexner Center, Columbus, All Through the Night
International
Film Festival Rotterdam, All
Through The Night
Courtisane Festival, Ghent, Belgium, All Through The
Night
Hong
Kong International Film Festival, Victory Over The Sun, Light Is Waiting
Media
City Film and Video Festival, Windsor, ON, Victory Over The Sun
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Victory Over The Sun, All Through The Night
Images Festival, Toronto, Victory Over The Sun
Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Chicago, Victory Over The Sun
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany, Victory Over The Sun
The Blazing World, Light Industry, Brooklyn, Victory Over The Sun
We Melt Away: A Walking Picture Palace of Ice, Light Industry, Brooklyn, All Through the Night
The Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, All Through the Night, Victory
Over The Sun
NY
Underground Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, Victory Over The Sun, Light Is Waiting
NY Underground Film Festival Kick-Off, IFC Center, And We All Shine On
Enduring Ends: Films for End Times, The Butcher Shop, Chicago, And We
All Shine On
Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands, And We All Shine On
The Nashville Film Festival, Light Is Waiting
Triple Canopy Launch, Gowanus Studio Space, Brooklyn, Light Is Waiting
NEXT Invitational Art Fair, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Light
Is Waiting
Action News, Small Change Cinema Collective on
Tour, Light Is Waiting, with stops in:
Brooklyn, Providence, Northampton,
Buffalo, Syracuse, Troy, Montreal, and Toronto
PDX
Film Festival,
Portland, Peripheral Produce Invitational, Carol Anne Is Dead
The
Whole World, tank.tv
online exhibition, you dont bring me flowers
2007 Nothing Compares 2 U:
The Films of Michael Robinson,Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
Walking Picture Palace: The Films of Michael Robinson, Anthology Film Archives, New York
The
Elated Anguish Show: Films of Michael Robinson, Magic Lantern Cinema, Providence
Elated
Anguish: Films of Michael Robinson, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse
The Films of Michael Robinson, Cornell Cinema, Ithaca,
The
Films of Michael Robinson, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle
Amorous
Nightmares of Delay: The Films of Michael Robinson, Cinema Project, Portland
Beautiful, Wary: The Films of Michael Robinson, Woodland Pattern Book Center,
Milwaukee
International Film Festival Rotterdam, And We All Shine On, The General
Returns From One
Place To
Another, you dont bring me flowers
The New York Film Festival: Views From the Avant Garde, Lincoln Center, Light Is Waiting,
Victory Over the Sun
The Times BFI London Film Festival, Victory Over the Sun
San Francisco International Film Festival, The General Returns...
Hong Kong International Film Festival, The General Returns...
NY Underground FF, Anthology Film Archives, The General Returns..., And We
All Shine On
Avant
Gaming, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, And We All Shine On
International Short Film Festival
Oberhausen,
Germany, you dont bring me flowers
Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands, The General Returns...
Experimenta Festival, Mumbai and Bangalore, India, you dont bring me
flowers
PDX Film Festival, Portland, The General Returns..., Light Is Waiting
Films From the End of the World, Yerba Beuna Center For the Arts, The
General Returns...
Art Chicago: New Insight, The Merchandise Mart, Chicago, The
General Returns...
Images Festival, Toronto, The General Returns From One Place To Another
Lost and Found, The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, New York, The
General Returns...
IndieLisboa International Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugual, you dont
bring me flowers
Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Portugual, you dont bring me
flowers
Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Chicago, The General Returns...
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC, The General Returns
From One Place to Another
Kill
Your Timid Notion,
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland, you dont bring me flowers
Festival Internacional De Curtas
Do Rio De Janeiro,
Brazil, Light Is Waiting
The International Experimental
Cinema Exposition (TIE), Montreal,
Victory Over the Sun
TIE Retrospective at the Guild Cinema, Albuquerque, you dont bring me
flowers
TIE Retrospective at the Wexner Center, Columbus, The General Returns...
TIE Retrospectives at San Francisco Cinemateque
Program One, Yeurba Beuna Center
for the Arts, The
General Returns...
Program Two, California College of the Arts, And We All Shine On
International Bunker Film Festival, Ventimiglia, Italy, The General
Returns...
Chroma Festival, Guadalajara, Mexico, Light Is Waiting
Holy Epileptic Trip, shorts program, Cinema Nova, Brussels, Light Is
Waiting
The Nature of Our Looking, British Film Institute, London, you
dont bring me flowers
Leeds International Film Festival, The General Returns From One
Place To Another
Ann Arbor Film Festival, The General Returns..., you dont bring me
flowers
Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour (13 North American venues), The General Returns...
Media
City Film and Video Festival, Windsor, ON, The General Returns...
Three Rivers Film Festival, Pittsburgh, And We All Shine On
The Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, The General Returns,,,, And We
All Shine On
The
Kids Are Alright: New Future Visions, California State University, Chico, Light Is Waiting
The Imminent Failure Show, Magic Lantern Screening Series, Providence,
Light Is Waiting
The Imminent Failure Show, The Ice Factory, Chicago, Light
Is Waiting
4th Monkey Town Semiennial, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, Light Is
Waiting
Damaged Goods, shorts program, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, you dont bring
me flowers
UIC
MFA Thesis Exhibition,
Gallery 400, Chicago, The World Is Not Enough (inkjet prints)
Interludes and Magic Light, shorts program, Chicago
Filmmakers, Light Is Waiting
Super 8 Returns, invitational shorts program, Chicago Filmmakers, untitled
Chicago Underground Film Festival, And We All Shine On
Lower Level Vision, Vega Estates, Chicago, And We All Shine On
Diamonds At Dusk, shorts program, 6325 N. Lakewood, Chicago, you dont
bring me flowers
2006 The New York Film Festival: Views From the Avant
Garde, Lincoln Center, The General
Returns From One Place To Another, you dont bring me flowers
Viennale: The Vienna International Film Festival, you dont bring me flowers
The
Times BFI London Film Festival, And We All Shine On
The Times BFI London Film Festival Tour, you dont bring me flowers
ICA London,
Edinburgh Filmhouse, Showroom Cinema in Sheffield
FLEX: Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, Gainsville, The General
Returns...
Cinematexas
International Film Festival, Austin, The General Returns...
Platforma
Video International Film Festival, Athens, Greece, The General Returns...
Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany, you dont bring
me flowers
The International Experimental Cinema Exposition (TIE), Denver, The General Returns...,
And We All Shine On
TIE 2006 Preview Showcase, First Person Cinema, Boulder, And We All Shine On
Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Chicago, And We All Shine On
Media
City Film and Video Festival, Windsor, ON, you dont bring me flowers
Images
Festival, Toronto, you
dont bring me flowers
A Little Planet, shorts program, Harbourfront Center, Toronto, you dont bring me
flowers
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC, you dont bring me
flowers
The
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, you dont bring me flowers
Formfit, UIC Great Space, Chicago, The
General Retuns From One Place to Another
2005 The Times BFI London Film
Festival, you dont bring me flowers
Cinematexas
International Film Festival, Austin, you dont bring me flowers
The
International Experimental Cinema Exposition (TIE), Denver, you dont bring me
flowers
TIE
Filmmakers Gallery,
Assembly Gallery, Denver, Untitled Panoramas (inkjet prints)
Onion
City Experimental Film Festival, Chicago, you dont bring me flowers
Landscape Studies: Place and
Space, Chicago
Filmmakers, Birds of North America
The Truth Behind Fairy Tales, shorts program, Victory Hall,
Newark, Birds of North America
The
Beautiful Show, Padlock Gallery, Philadelphia, Hours for West Spencer (c-prints)
2004 Images
Festival, Toronto, Chiquitita
and the Soft Escape
An
Invitation to Stand Me Up, shorts program, The Parlor, Philadelphia, Motel Flora
MOOV
HD, high definition
experimental film channel, Chiquitita and the Soft Escape
Matador
Records Interpol
Spaces, various
cities, First Cousins (video installation)
London: The
Ragged School, Berlin: Galerie Tristesse, Paris: Agns B. Gallery,
New York: 199 Lafayette Street, Los Angeles: Subliminal Projects Space
2003 The
International Experimental Cinema Exposition (TIE), Colorado Springs,
Chiquitita
and the Soft Escape
Thaw International Film and Video Festival, Iowa City, The War of 1987
Ann
Arbor Film Festival,
Opening Ceremonies
Onion
City Film Festival,
Chicago, Motel
Flora, Chiquitita and the Soft Escape
Brooklyn
Underground Film Festival, The War of 1987
Prevues Student Showcase, New York and Los Angeles, Tidal
2002 Ann
Arbor Film Festival,
Carpenter
Onion
City Experimental Film Festival, Chicago, Carpenter, Tidal
AWARDS:
2nd
Prize, 2008 Media
City Film Festival, Victory Over the Sun
2nd Prize, 2008 Milwaukee Underground Film
Festival, Light Is Waiting
Honorable Mention, 2008 Ann Arbor Film Festival, Victory
Over the Sun
Most Promising Filmmaker, 2007 Ann Arbor Film Festival,
multiple titles
2nd
Prize, 2007
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, And We All Shine On
Honorable
Mention, 2007 Media
City Film Festival, The General Returns...
Best International Film, 2006 Images Festival, Toronto, you dont bring
me flowers
Best of Festival, 2006 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, you dont
bring me flowers
2nd Prize Short Film, 2006
FLEX Festival, Gainsville, The General Returns...
University Fellowship, University of Illinois at Chicago 2005-2006
Provost Award for Graduate Research, University of Illinois at Chicago,
Spring 2006
Faculty Award, Ithaca College Cinema and Photography Department, May 2003
Honorable Mention, 2003 Ann Arbor Film Festival, Opening Ceremonies
Honorable Mention, 2002 Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Tidal
James
B. Pendleton Production Grants, Ithaca College, multiple awards 2001-2003
SELECTED
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2008 Fox, Michael. Heres To You, Mr. Robinson. SF Weekly April 23-29, 2008.
Harmanci,
Reyhan. Movie
Mashups. San Francisco Chronicle April 24, 2008.
Huston,
Johnny Ray. Twin
Olson Meltdown. San Francisco Bay Guardian April 16, 2008.
Sicinski, Michael. Songs Sung Blue: The Films of Michael Robinson. Cinemascope Issue 33,
winter 2008.
2007 Camper, Fred. Nothing Compares 2 U: Films & Videos by
Michael Robinson. Chicago Reader
September 20, 2007.
Elms, Anthony. Aint A Bird That Knows Your Tune: Sound In Recent
Moving-Image Work.
Art
Papers November/December
2007.
Friel, Patrick. Buried Treasures. Timeout Chicago Issue 129: August 16-22, 2007.
Halter, Ed. Lincoln Center South. The Village Voice October 9, 2007.
Halter, Ed. Holland Days. The Village Voice February 6, 2007.
Holcomb, Mark. The eyes have it in Views From The Avant-Garde. Timeout
New York
Issue
637: October 4-10, 2007.
Meyers, Jeff. 13th Media City Festival: Imagination Station. Metro Times:
Detroits Weekly
Alternative February 7, 2007.
Sicinski, Michael. NYFF. Views. 1.. Green Cine Daily October 17, 2007:
http://daily.greencine.com/archives/004738.html
2006 Avery, Caroline. Images Fever. Filmprint: The
Magazine of the Liason of Independent
F ilmmakers of Toronto March/April 2006 issue.
Sicinski, Michael. New York Dispatch 11. Green Cine Daily October 15, 2006:
http://daily.greencine.com/archives/002616.html
Stark, Scott. Views on Views From the Avant-Garde. Flicker October 25, 2006:
http://www.hi-beam.net/fw/fw33/0683.html
2002 Shen, Ted. Onion City Experimental Film
Festival. Chicago Reader November 15, 2002.
CURATORIAL:
Now
Is The Winter,
Moscow, Russia and Ithaca, NY, 2007
Proekt Fabrika and the State
Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, May 2007
Cornell Cinema and Ithaca
College, Ithaca, NY, October 2007
Curator
of screenings in association with an international exhibition and symposium,
supported by a major grant from the Trust for Mutual Understanding
Small Change Experimental Cinema Collective, Philadelphia, December 2003-March 2005
Cofounder and programmer of
monthly film and video screening series, various venues
RELATED
EMPLOYMENT:
Visiting
Assistant Professor,
State University of NY at Binghamton, August 2008-May 2009
Adjunct
Instructor,
University of Illinois at Chicago, August 2006-May2007
Designed and taught Intro
to Time Based Arts classes at the School of Art and Design
Director of Photography, Undercurrents: Escape from Freedom, August 2004
Operated camera for an
independent documentary video by Drake Baer
16MM PRINT
DISTRIBUTION:
Canyon
Cinema, San
Francisco, Chiquitita
and the Soft Escape
ARTIST
WEBSITE:
http://www.poisonberries.net