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This week [January 15 - 22, 2006] in avant garde cinema
NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
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"Trauma" by Chris Ohlson
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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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Calgary ImaginASIAN 2006 Film Festival (Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Deadline: March 13, 2006)
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Festival Images Contre Nature (Marseille, France; Deadline: March 01, 2006)
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Sixth Annual Bicycle Film Festival (New York, NY, United States; Deadline: February 17, 2006)
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the white space/scsi-morlock (Den Haag, the netherlands; Deadline: March 31, 2006)
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ten minutes older (London, UK; Deadline: February 28, 2006)
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the Play Ground (Duluth, Minnesota, USA; Deadline: February 18, 2006)
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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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Athens International Film and Video Festival (Athens, OH U.S.A.; Deadline: January 30, 2006)
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Echotrope (Omaha Ne USA; Deadline: February 01, 2006)
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Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival (Iowa City, IA USA; Deadline: January 16, 2006)
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Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival 2006 (Portland, OR, USA; Deadline: January 20, 2006)
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britspotting 06 - British and Irish Filmfestival Berlin (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: January 15, 2006)
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Asian American International Film Festival (New York, NY 10011; Deadline: February 03, 2006)
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$100 Film Festival (Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Deadline: January 18, 2006)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Independent Exposure X Versions 1 & 2 [January 15, Anchorage, Alaska]
* Art of vision [January 15, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Encore - Openlens Short Film and video Festival Presentation [January 15, Eugene, Oregon]
* Special Seminar: 30 Days In Hell: the Making of Devil's Rejects [January 15, Eugene, Oregon]
* Avant Garde Solid Gold: Canyon Cinema [January 15, Houston, Texas]
* Clickflicks.Net To Go Live Onjanuary 15th, 2006 [January 15, New York, New York]
* Magellan Programs 1 & 2 [January 16, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Adolescent Boys, and Living Rooms [January 16, Houston, Texas]
* Crossroads: Avant-Garde Films From Pittsburgh [January 17, Berkeley, California]
* Independent Exposure Spring Edition 2005 [January 17, Colorado Springs, CO]
* Walden [January 18, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* I Don't Know these People: Film & video About Celebrity & Anonymity [January 19, San Francisco, California]
* Independent Exposure Autumnal 2005 Edition [January 20, Phoenix, AZ]
* New York Guitar Festival: Leni Stern + the Goddess [January 21, Flushing, Queens]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 2006
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1/15
Anchorage, Alaska: Microcinema International
http://www.microcinema.com
8 pm, Out North - 3800 DeBarr Road
INDEPENDENT EXPOSURE X VERSIONS 1 & 2
2005 marks the 10th Anniversary of the Independent Exposure short film
and video screening program. This program, on its own, or coupled with
Version 2 is the definitive retrospective of the 1300+ unique and
diverse short films and videos presented in Independent Exposure over
the past ten years.
1/15
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org/index.shtml
6 pm, 24 Quincy Street
ART OF VISION
Directed by Stan Brakhage US, 1961-1965, color, 250 min. Among the most
influential (and, having produced nearly 400 films, arguably the most
prolific) figures in the history of the American avant-garde, Stan
Brakhage (1933-2003) created, early in his career, a monumental work
aptly titled Art of Vision. Within it one finds the complete Dog Star
Man (1963), a five part "cosmological epic" that tells the story of a
woodsman's journey through the seasons and up a mountain, where he will
plant, tear down, and then chop a white tree. A systematic investigation
of form and structure that synthesizes the earlier film's multiple
layers (themselves cinematic explorations marked by splices,
hand-painted film, negative footage, scratches, and other techniques),
Brakhage considered Art of Vision a full extension of Dog Star Man's
singular themes. The resultant visual symphony, composed of overlapping
and enmeshing suites, is an experience described by poet Robert Kelly as
"a new continent of the eye's sway. Mind at the mercy of the eye at
last."
1/15
Eugene, Oregon: DIVA Center
http://www.proscenia.net/diva/calendar.htm
3:00 PM, DIVA Center 110 W. Broadway
ENCORE - OPENLENS SHORT FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL PRESENTATION
January 15 - OPENLENS SHORT VIDEO FESTIVAL - ENCORE Presentation Time:
3:00 PM Admission: $2-5.00 ss An screening of this year's OpenLens Short
Video Festival will take place on Sunday afternoon. This program has
been selected by the OpenLens Jury Committee from over 35 entries.
Special host for this afternoon is Screen Writer and Director Neal
Miller who's feature, "Raising Flagg" is now playing in Portland and
Eugene.
1/15
Eugene, Oregon: DIVA Center
http://www.proscenia.net/diva/calendar.htm
6:00 PM, DIVA Center 110 W. Broadway
SPECIAL SEMINAR: 30 DAYS IN HELL: THE MAKING OF DEVIL’S REJECTS
January 15 - Special Seminar: 30 Days in Hell: The Making of Devil's
Rejects Time: 6:00 - 8:50 PM Admission: Free Many young filmmakers
planning their first movie often choose to make a horror film adventure.
Such movies include special effects, action, and all those frightening
things that making a film fun. DIVA's master of the horror film genre,
Henry Weintraub, explores The Making of Devil's Rejects, a documentary
about the 30 day production schedule for the film by Rob Zombie. The
documentary is ranked among the best ever created for DVD release. Part
1 begins with pre-production including: scripting, casting, make-up
tests, location scouting, costume design, set design, table reads,
storyboards (lack thereof)… right up to the first day of shooting. Part
2 details the first six days of shooting. Part 3 takes the viewer
through days seven to 14 and includes the final "Free Bird" sequence,
the chicken ranch murders, events at Spaulding's house and the Sheriff's
station and the cut Dr. Satan scene. Part 4 covers the opening shoot out
and all events at the Firefly house from days 15 to 21. Part 5 covers
the last 9 days of shooting, which focuses mainly on the events at
Charlie's Frontier Fun Town, and ends with Rob and everyone saying
thanks and farewell. There is no post-production coverage in this
documentary. Given the graphic nature of horror films know there may be
a fright or two resulting from all the fake gore used in this film.
There is much to learn and appreciate about this type of filmmaking.
1/15
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
3pm, 800 Aurora Street
AVANT GARDE SOLID GOLD: CANYON CINEMA
This program kicks off Aurora's new, semi-annual series Avant Garde
Solid Gold, highlighting historically significant experimental and avant
garde film. Composed of a selection of the most prominent shorts in
Canyon Cinema's (San Francisco, CA) historic collection of avant-garde
cinema, this program of pioneering filmmakers made an indelible mark on
film culture, redefining the film medium itself. Ranging from hand
painted masterpieces to the lurid colors of trash cinema, the audience
will feast on retinal and rhythmic delights. Films by Stan Brakhage,
Oskar Fischinger, Len Lye, Bruce Conner, Gunvor Nelson, Paul Sharits,
Kenneth Anger, George Kuchar, Martin Arnold, Peter Tscherkassky, and
Bruce Baillie. About the Curator Currently serving as staff and Board of
Canyon Cinema, Michelle Silva is cutting away on several film projects
with Bruce Conner, visuals for Japanese sound artist Otomo Yoshihide,
and assisting the Curt McDowell project in addition to making her own
personal works.
1/15
New York, New York: ClickFlicks.net
http://www.clickflicks.net
8:00 am, New York City
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MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2006
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1/16
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org/index.shtml
6:30 and 9 pm, 24 Quincy Street
MAGELLAN PROGRAMS 1 & 2
Introduction by Gerald O'Grady January 16 (Monday) 6:30 pm Magellan-
Program 1 Cadenza I and XIV [Birth of Magellan] Directed by Hollis
Frampton US, 1977-80, color, silent, 11 min. Mindfall I and VII [Birth
of Magellan] Directed by Hollis Frampton US, 1977-80, 36 min. Matrix
[First Dream] Directed by Hollis Frampton US, 1977-79, silent, 28 min.
Noctiluca [Magellan's toys #1] Directed by Hollis Frampton US, 1974,
color, silent, 4 min. Straits of Magellan: Drafts & Fragments
[Panopticons] (excerpt) Directed by Hollis Frampton 1974, US, color
silent, 25 min. January 16 (Monday) 9 pm Magellan- Program 2 Straits of
Magellan: Drafts & Fragments [Panopticons] (excerpt) Directed by Hollis
Frampton 1974, US, color, silent, 27 min. Apparatus Sum [Studies For
Magellan #1] Directed by Hollis Frampton US, 1972, b&w, silent, 3 min.
Winter Solstice [Solariumagelani] Directed by Hollis Frampton US, 1974,
color, silent, 33 min. Otherwise Unexplained Fires [Memoranda Magelani]
Directed by Hollis Frampton US, 1976, color, silent, 14 min. For Georgia
O'Keefe [Pares Magelani] Directed by Hollis Frampton US, 1976, silent,
3.5 min. Not The First Time [Tempera Magelani] Directed by Hollis
Frampton US, 1976, silent, 5 min. Tiger Balm (Memoranda Magelani #1)
Directed by Hollis Frampton US, 1972, color, silent, 10 min. Gloria!
Directed by Hollis Frampton US, 1979, color, 9.5 min.
1/16
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8:30pm doors open, 9pm screening, Aurora @ Clark's, 314 Main Street near Preston
ADOLESCENT BOYS, AND LIVING ROOMS
(Not for the faint of heart). These audios + videos are forcibly lonely
and nihilistically sweet. They'll pin you down and slowly drip spit on
you, whether you're practicing crossovers on a suburban driveway or
pile-drivers in a backyard wrestling ring. I've got the moves if you've
got the skills (together we could make a great team). Works by Harrell
Fletcher and Jess Hilliard, Miranda July, John Rubin, Anthony Powers,
Messieurs Delmotte, Jesse Sugarmann and Mike Long, Alex Villar, Jennifer
Reeder, and Jon Leone. About the Guest Curator Astria Suparak founded
the Pratt Institute Film Series in 1997, which expanded to include
multidisciplinary performance, live music, and on-site installations.
After programming over one hundred events in New York City, she spent
the next four years touring Europe, Mexico, America and Canada with
curated screenings and exhibitions. Publications and projects include
the artist booklet Diagrams from Waiting, featured in the feminist
journal LTTR, the videotape compilation Some Kind of Loving produced by
Joanie 4 Jackie, and the on-going research series American Girls, made
in collaboration with teen students and published by British art
magazine Black Diamond. She has served on the national nomination
committee for The Media Arts Fellowships (formerly known as the
Rockefeller Grants) over the last two years. Suparak's projects have
taken her to eleven countries. Her work can be seen in numerous
publications, in streets across North America, and in the collections of
museums and institutions including Massachusetts College of Art
(Boston), Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (UK), and the
University of California, San Diego. She is 27 years old and based in
Montreal.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2006
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1/17
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30 PM, PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way @ Bowdich
CROSSROADS: AVANT-GARDE FILMS FROM PITTSBURGH
Presented in conjunction with the publication of Crossroads: Avant-Garde
Film in Pittsburgh in the 1970s by Robert Haller, who was our guest last
November. "Pittsburgh has contributed more to cinema than George Romero
and Flashdance. [This program, curated by Robert Haller,] illustrates
that the city's proximity to the vibrant New York avant-garde, coupled
with the arrival of new film arts groups and facilities, led to a
significant streak of experimental filmmaking in the 1970s."-Ed Halter,
Village Voice
1/17
Colorado Springs, CO: Microcinema International
http://www.microcinema.com
8 pm, Watch This Space - 802 N. Weber
INDEPENDENT EXPOSURE SPRING EDITION 2005
An international collection of short films and videos from animation to
documentary and experimental to dramatic narrative. Like a field of
wildflowers, this eclectic and diverse collection of shorts ushers in
Spring with beauty, creativity, life, and possibility.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2006
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1/18
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org/index.shtml
7 pm, 24 Quincy Street
WALDEN
Screening on January 18 (Wednesday) 7 pm Walden Directed by Jonas Mekas
US, 1969, color, 180 min. With Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Carl Th.
Dreyer, Timothy Leary, Gregory Markopoulos, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol,
Jack Smith, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Velvet Underground, Ken Jacobs, Shirley
Clarke, Michael Snow, Richard Foreman, John Lennon, Yoko On
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2006
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1/19
San Francisco, California: New Nothing Cinema
8 pm, 16 Sherman St.
I DON'T KNOW THESE PEOPLE: FILM & VIDEO ABOUT CELEBRITY & ANONYMITY
I Don't Know These People thursday jan 19th drink at 7 show at 8 or so
new nothing cinema 16 sherman street between 6th and 7th off folsom in
san francisco featuring work by Audrey Chung, Sam Green, Douglas
Katelus, Anne McGuire, Thad Povey, Scott Stark, and more... brought to
you by Douglas Katelus and Katherin McInnis
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2006
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1/20
Phoenix, AZ: Microcinema International
http://www.microcinema.com
10pm & 12 pm, Modified Arts - 407 E. Roosevelt St
INDEPENDENT EXPOSURE AUTUMNAL 2005 EDITION
A collection of international short films contemplating the social,
political, personal, romantic and artistic changes brought on by the
changing winds of Autumn.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 2006
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1/21
Flushing, Queens: Flushing Town Hall
http://www.flushingtownhall.org
8:00 PM, 137-35 Northern Blvd
NEW YORK GUITAR FESTIVAL: LENI STERN + THE GODDESS
Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts and The New York Guitar
Festival present two evenings of performances at Flushing Town Hall by
two of the world's great guitarists---Leni Stern and Alex De
Grassi---accompanied by silent films from China and Japan in the 1920s
and 1930s. • On Saturday January 21st, guitarist and composer, Leni
Stern will perform a new score she composed for The Goddess (Shen Nu,
1934), a classic of Chinese silent film that stars Ruan LingYu. Stern is
a five-time winner of Gibson's Best Female Jazz Guitarist. Her widely
acclaimed When Evening Falls (2004) drew inspiration from the music of
Kenya, India, Louisiana, Palestine, and the East Village. LA Weekly
calls Stern "one of the world's most fully realized songwriters and
guitarists." One short will precede the feature-the surviving reel of
the adventure story Lotus Blossom (1921). The film will be accompanied
by guitarist Brandon Ross and cellist Michelle Kinney, performing a new
composition of Ross's. A versatile musician, Ross has worked with a wide
range of performers from popular stars such as Meshell Ndegeocello,
Graham Haynes, Arrested Development and Cassandra Wilson. For more info,
please visit: http://www.flushingtownhall.org/spec_event.html Location:
Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd., Flushing, NY 11354 (one block
east of Main Street in Downtown Flushing, at the corner of Linden Pl.)
Tickets: $20/$16 members ▪ Box Office: (718) 463-7700 x222 Subway:
7-train to Main Street/Flushing ▪ Free parking available
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