Capturing one of several installations on video

April 5 - 9 2006
Ybor Festival of the Moving Image

The 2006 Ybor Festival of the Moving Image concluded a successful four days of film screenings, art exhibits, live performances and workshops.

Produced by the Hillsborough Community College (HCC), the Ybor Festival of the Moving Image is one of Florida's most celebrated film festivals.

The 2006 festival was the fourth year of presenting exciting cinema to Tampa Bay audiences, showing more than 90 features, documentaries, shorts and animations from countries including Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Italy, Japan, Turkey and the United States.

The five-day Ybor festival is unique among festivals in including a moving image component in related mediums such as art installations, theater, dance, visual and performance art.

Les Blank Retrospective

Two new works by Tampa-born filmmaker Les Blank were featured in a retrospective of his work at the Fourth Annual Ybor Festival of the Moving Image. The artist attended the festival and discussed his films at workshops.

Les Blank at work

Blank is best known for a series of poetic films that led critic Vincent Canby, writing in the New York Times, to declare that Blank "is a master of movies about the American idiom. . ., one of our most original filmmakers."

Born in Tampa, Florida, in 1935, Blank's numerous awards include the British Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary (Burden of Dreams, 1982), Grand Prize, Melbourne Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival (In Heaven There Is No Beer, 1985). These titles and numerous other films will be screened over the five-day festival in celebration of Blank's exemplary work as a documentary filmmaker.

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