{"id":39734,"date":"2016-05-24T03:59:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T07:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=39734"},"modified":"2016-05-23T09:27:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T13:27:28","slug":"associate-professor-to-screen-film-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/05_24_2016\/associate-professor-to-screen-film-in-england","title":{"rendered":"Associate professor to screen film in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holly Hey, UT associate professor and head of film, has been invited to screen her film, \u201cthe dum dum capitol of the world,\u201d at Future Now: The Aesthetica Art Prize Symposium in York, England,Thursday and Friday, May 26-27.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cthe dum dum capitol of the world\u201d will be shown as part of the specially curated selection of artists\u2019 films and moving image works selected from the winners of the Aesthetica Short Film Festival over the last several years. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?attachment_id=39781\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39781\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hey-stills.jpg\" alt=\"Hey stills\" width=\"540\" height=\"660\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-39781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hey-stills.jpg 540w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hey-stills-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a>Hey\u2019s film screened at the 2015 Aesthetica Short Film Festival and will be showcased with high honor among the best at the Future Now: The Aesthetica Art Prize Symposium. \u201cthe dum dum capitol of the world\u201d received the LEF Moving Image Award.<\/p>\n<p>She said the first-person experimental documentary is a moving-image meditation that contemplates landscape, home, recollection, queerness and time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe project uses personal history to reflect on universal themes about home, life, love, parenting, memory and death,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Hey began the project in 2005 when she received funding from the LEF Moving Image Foundation. She later received funding from The University of Toledo in 2012 and completed the film in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Future Now: The Aesthetica Art Prize Symposium is an extension of Aesthetica Magazine, a British art and culture publication that covers photography, visual art, music, film and theater. It has a readership of more than 284,000 and national and international distribution. <\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_39780\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?attachment_id=39780\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39780\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39780\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hey-head-shot.jpg\" alt=\"Hey\" width=\"360\" height=\"239\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hey-head-shot.jpg 360w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hey-head-shot-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hey<\/p><\/div>The symposium will consist of more than 40 speakers who will address diverse art topics. It also offers learning and networking opportunities through the industry sessions for artists.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, who holds a master of fine arts degree in filmmaking from the Art Institute of Chicago, makes a broad range of work that can be seen in galleries, film festivals, live performances and on television. Her works have screened both nationally and internationally, and the National Educational Telecommunications Association distributed her major release, \u201cRat Stories,\u201d which aired on PBS affiliates in the United States, British Columbia and Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the event, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aestheticamagazine.com\/art-prize\/symposium\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holly Hey of the UT Theatre and Film Department will travel to York, England, to screen her film titled \u201cthe dum dum capitol of the world\u201d at Future Now: The Aesthetica Art Prize Symposium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1,7,51],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39782,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39734\/revisions\/39782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}