Correction: title of screening is "HEAP US 'ROUND OUR RUINS", NOT "HEAP 
US 'ROUND OUR ROOMS"!
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

No Festival Required and Space 55 Present
HEAP US ROUND OUR RUINS: AN INTERSTATE FILM CIRCUIT
Experimental Films by Ben Balcom and Joshua Frederic Weissbach
Saturday, November 7 2009 7 pm (doors at 6:45 pm)
Space 55, 636 East Pierce, Phoenix AZ 85004
Venue website http://www.space55.org
NFR website http://www.nofestivalrequired.wordpress.com
Admission $6.00, 1 dollar off with student i.d. or “NFR Support Card”

Join NFR in welcoming experimental filmmakers Ben Balcom and Joshua 
Frederic Weissbach in their cross-country cinema tour, with a stop in 
downtown Phoenix. Films screened will reflect both documentary and 
non-narrative subjects and use intricate sound and visual imagery to 
express the filmmaker’s point of view and emotions.

This ain’t no TRANSFORMER 2. Deep movies for deep thinkers.

Ben Balcom- Hampshire College fostered his interests in filmmaking, 
literature and philosophy. His culminative thesis project was a 33 
minute, three part handprocessed film that explored the functions of 
formal, emotional, and political filmmaking through various devices of 
narrative and abstraction. After graduating he lived in Northampton, MA 
for a year and continued to work on creating systems of visual poetry 
and mythology through the super-8 and 16mm film mediums. Before his 
departure he was awarded a grant from the Northampton Arts Council for 
his upcoming film project we are the multitudes, which will be screened 
in Northampton June 2010.

Joshua Frederic Weissbach - Weissbach received his Bachelor of Arts in 
Film Production from Hampshire College in May 2009. He was also the 
recipient of the 2008 Cary Grant Film Award and a 2008 Princess Grace 
Undergraduate Film Scholarship, both from the Princess Grace Foundation 
– USA, which aided in the production of his most recent film interiors 
of the liquid gap. He also received 2006 and 2009 Hampshire Independent 
Productions Grants, and a 2009 Tom Joslin Fund Grant. Weissbach’s work 
has been screened domestically and internationally at 2004 Northampton 
Independent Film Festival where he won Best Film of Five College Area, 
2006 Antimatter Underground Film Festival, 2008 Museum Fundación Curros 
Enríquez, 2009 Hinterland Film Festival, 2008/2009 Five College Student 
Film and Video Festival, 2005/2006 Hygienic Film Festival, 2008 Montague 
Phantom Brain Exchange, and 2006/2007 No Festival Required Microcinema. 
He has also shown his film and photo work at collaborative art showcases 
in Western Massachusetts, and Outono Fotográfico: Ateneo de Ourense in 
Ourense, Spain. His work on The Addresses, a series of experimental 
documentaries, has taken him to such places as Havana, Venice, and New 
Jersey.

-- 
Steve Weiss
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Executive Director, No Festival Required-for submissions  and screening info go to
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