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Patrick Soul
05 June 2008
Patrcik Soul Video Strength to Move On was shot at Studio 207. The video was Directed By Francis Polo. The HD music video was shot on the Red One utalizing the natural light of the studio .
A Spring 2009 release is planed.
Mark Siska shot still images using natural light, studio lights and sillouetes. The photos shot by Mark Siska will be included in a book called Film Shoots. The Book will be avliable on blurb.com May 2009. Several phots from this video shoot for the book can be viwed here.
Read more...Compass Opening Sequence
05 June 2008
The open sequence for the Compass Documentary is currenlty on line for exhibition. Click here to view. This clip was filmed in HD in September 08 at the Prop Theatre, Chicago. It features the voice of Bobbi Gordon a Compass player as she describes her audition for Compass in 1954. The clip is shot in HD and is the style of other recreations the documentary will have. For more info about compass you can view a treatment in pdf format. Click here forRead more...
Studio 207 returns from LA
05 June 2008
December 2008: Studio 207 completed shooting in LA. Interviews with: Shelley Berman, Ed Asner and Mickey Laglaire. A 90 minute cut with the folowing new material will be ready as a work in progress cut end of January 09.
On Thursday the 4th of December , Shelley Berman worked with Molly Halle, Liz Stewart and Nick Marron. Shelley had them work on dramatic scene improv.
You can catch Molly Halle and USS and Rock N' Roll " We only dock in the port of rock” at the IO West Hollywood every Tueday.
Read more...Studio 207 returns from NYC
05 June 2008
October 2008: Mark Siska continues working on Compass: The Birth of Improvasational Theatre. Mark Siska returned form NYC with new material and interviews which include: Jane Alexander, Follow up interviews with Suzanne "Honey " Shepherd, Janet Coleman and Charlse Jacobs. Currenlty there is a 45 minute assemble cut edited by editor Jesse Straton. With the new material just completed in NYC there will be a new 70 minute cut avilaible next week. A final trip to LA will complete principle and follow up photography at end of Oct 08. Read more...
Peripheral Visions
05 June 2008
Preview and buy Peripheral Visions
October 2008. Buffalo NY Artist Bruce Bitmead will be exhibiting a group of drawing which will be placed in public areas of Wicker Park. The show has been refereed to as sketch book to the curb, works of fine art presented in public spaces. “With the growth of advertisement in the public way it has become a visual nuisance” curator Mark Siska states.
Read more...Studio 207 turns Green Screen
05 June 2008
October 2008. Studio 207 turns Green Screen. Retrospective Pictures, Producer Fred Kohen (on camera) and Dierector Jesse Straton (seated) directs, Jason Sieden for a series of internet educational info web-spots shot at Studio 207.
Grand Inquisitor to Screen at Studio 207
05 June 2008
October 8, 2008 8:00 p.m Studio 207 will be screening the Chicago premiere of The Grand Inquisitor 23 min (USA, 2007) a cubist, satirical update of Dostoevsky’s famous fable featuring a right-wing webnews pundit who confronts the Second Coming in an election year. Music by Paul Miller, aka 'DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid.' Tony Torn and Ruth Margraff will attend the screening with special guests TBA.
Read more...Compass doc to re-create Historic Improv Games
05 June 2008
June 2008. Mark Siska and David Shepherd will be re-creating historic Impov games that created the foundation for American Theartrical Improv. Five players from Chicago will work with David Shepherd at Studio 207. The re-creation will be shot in HD to be included in Compass: The Birth of American Improv a documentary currently in production. Players: Ayman Samman, Heather Tyler, Rebeca Miller, Nick Maroon, Jami Primmer.
Document Cafe Antarsia Ensemble
05 April 2008From success of the Cafe Antarsia Ensemble web video, director Mark Siska will be traveling to Sibiu Romania the first week in June 08 to document their perfromance at The Festivalul International de Teatru de la Sibiu.
Sibiu International Theatre Festival is the leading arts festival in contemporary Romania, with a world class line-up of international performers and artists.
Read more...Cafe Antarsia Ensemble Video
05 April 2008Mark Siska completes production on web video for Cafe Antarsia Ensemble
"This is cabaret theater as damnation tongue in chic...with everything
from breathy love songs to darkly urgent ballads with a Balkan flavor."
New York Village Voice
“Ruth Margraff is a performance artist who looks like Shirley Temple, sounds like Marilyn Monroe and has the mentality of Thomas Merton eating alive William S. Burroughs. She’s got a savage imagination and a very sweet affect.
Read more...Anatomy Collective at Studio 207
31 January 2008Opens March 6th @ Studio 207
In this small window into the world of the internet-obsessed, The Anatomy Collective explores questions on the shifting pages of our e-realities. TAC's Artist in Residence Lizz Edele presents her first piece for Chicago audiences that is part reference, part word play, and part propaganda. Read more...
Barak Obama Commercial
31 January 2008Studio 207: Mark Siska Producer/Director. Edit/Art Direction Jesse Startton. Photos By David Little Smith. Featuring the Music by Nikos Brisco, Rami EL Aasser with Ruth Margraff. Sound Recording and Mix Brad Giampaoli. BARAK OBAMA "America Unite For Change" a 30 second commercial view video
Studio 207 in Production on Clark St Bistro
31 January 2008
Studio 207 completes Production on Clark St Bistro.
Studio 207 completes production for Clark St Bistro (working title) a series being directed by Robert McCarthy. Clark St Bistro is being shot in High Definition and follows the local characters at the bistro’s bar as well as the ever changing diverse cliental that frequents the Clark St. Bistro.
Writer and Director Robert McCarthy is a practicing psychiatrist and has created characters based on behaviors. Read more...
Studio 207 records sound for viral marketing video
15 July 2009
Studio 207 records audio and mixes for Retrospective Pictures HD video which will be released end of January.
How to Self-Destruct Making the Least of What's Left of Your Career or What to Do If You Fail at Failing a book by Jason Seiden.
Retrospective Pictures completes principle photography for viral marketing HD video. Studio 207 was on location to record and mix the sound.
Read more...Studio 207 creates promotional web channel
15 July 2009
“ The II Roman Senators web site is chock full of multi media goodies: YouTube Interviews with the cast a crew, as well as a movie style trailer [ produced by studio 207] featuring a sampling of composers Phil Marmet’s original score a psychologically dark and synthesis heavy electronic affair that would not be out of place in a 1980s Michael Mann film and is undoubtedly one of the best things in the show [AGAIN] .
Read more...The Birth of Improv
15 July 2009Bucktown Documentarian Immortalizes Chicago's Compass Players
Collective Studio Artists Show International/US and Chicago Artists
15 July 2009Opening October 13th - Through Nov 3rd
This program includes video, film, installation, performance, photography and painting by International Artist from Austria, Belgium, France, Kaliningrad, and Russia. US artist From LA, Philadelphia, NY and Chicago
Artists including Studio 207 artists Mark Siska, Rafael Levchin, Charlotte Wiesman, Thomas Steiner, Robert Cash, Pavel Nastin, Elena Elbe, Wes Cardino, Elvina Zeltsman, Brian Ramich, Lauren McElroy, Bruce Philip Bitmead and Christopher Smith
Opening: October 13, 7-11 p.m. Show runs through Nov 3rd, 2007. By Appointment during the week.
Read more...Studio 207: NYC September 23, 2007
15 July 2009
Artist community divided
15 July 2009Bucktown artists say Bloomingdale Arts Building plagued with problems
Mark Siska, a resident of the 25-unit condo development at 2418 W.
Read more...Thomas Steiner Studio 207 Art Show Austrian Article
15 July 2009Article written by Elisabeth Mayr-Kern
Read the PDF file of the article.