From: weekly listing (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Jan 22 2006 - 07:50:49 PST
This week [January 22 - 29, 2006] in avant garde cinema
NEW FILM/VIDEO:
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"For Love" by 80Juan80
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=228.ann
"multiple titles" by Mark O'Connell
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=227.ann
"William Blake project" by Geert Wachtelaer
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=226.ann
NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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Festival Images Contre Nature (Marseille, France; Deadline: March 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=489.ann
Sixth Annual Bicycle Film Festival (New York, NY, United States; Deadline: February 17, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=490.ann
the white space/scsi-morlock (Den Haag, the netherlands; Deadline: March 31, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=491.ann
ten minutes older (London, UK; Deadline: February 28, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=492.ann
the Play Ground (Duluth, Minnesota, USA; Deadline: February 18, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=493.ann
Portable Cinema Series (san francisco, ca USA; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=494.ann
Hull Screen (Hull; Deadline: May 31, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=495.ann
Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo, New York; Deadline: January 24, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=496.ann
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: April 28, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=497.ann
MadCat Women's International Film Festival (San Francisco, CA; Deadline: May 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=498.ann
DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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Athens International Film and Video Festival (Athens, OH U.S.A.; Deadline: January 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=443.ann
Echotrope (Omaha Ne USA; Deadline: February 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=454.ann
Staten Island Film Festival (Staten Island, NY, USA; Deadline: February 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=466.ann
WAVES Asian/Asian-American Film Festival (Iowa City; Deadline: February 17, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=474.ann
Asian American International Film Festival (New York, NY 10011; Deadline: February 03, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=478.ann
Videoex festival Zürich (Zürich Switzerland; Deadline: February 03, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=479.ann
Rio Cinema (London, England; Deadline: February 28, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=483.ann
The Journal of Short Film, Volume 3 (Columbus, OH; Deadline: February 28, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=487.ann
Sixth Annual Bicycle Film Festival (New York, NY, United States; Deadline: February 17, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=490.ann
ten minutes older (London, UK; Deadline: February 28, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=492.ann
the Play Ground (Duluth, Minnesota, USA; Deadline: February 18, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=493.ann
Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo, New York; Deadline: January 24, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=496.ann
Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Reverence: the Films of Owen Land (Formerly Known As George Landow) –
Program 1 [January 22, Los Angeles]
* The Year of Living vicariously [January 23, Brooklyn, New York]
* Adolescent Boys, and Living Rooms [January 23, Houston, Texas]
* Lotte Reiniger "The Adventures of Prince Achmed" [January 23, Los Angeles, California]
* The Free Screen - Seoungho Cho In Person! [January 25, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Magic Lantern Presents "The Gun Show" [January 26, Providence, RI]
* Open Screening [January 26, San Francisco, California]
* Tony Oursler's "Life of Phillis" & Stephanie Barber's "Dogs" [January 27, Milwaukee, Wisconsin]
* New York Guitar Festival: Alex De Grassi + A Story of Floating Weeds [January 28, Flushing, Queens]
* Reverence: the Films of Owen Land (Formerly Known As George Landow) –
Program 2 [January 29, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 2006
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1/22
Los Angeles: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
REVERENCE: THE FILMS OF OWEN LAND (FORMERLY KNOWN AS GEORGE LANDOW) –
PROGRAM 1
Owen Land, formerly known as George Landow, was one of the most original
and celebrated American filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s. This is the
only Los Angeles presentation of this major retrospective organized by
LUX in London. Tonight's films include Bardo Follies, What's Wrong with
This Picture, and Institutional Quality. $8 general; $6 students/seniors
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MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2006
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1/23
Brooklyn, New York: Ocularis
http://www.ocularis.net
8 PM, 70 North 6th Street
THE YEAR OF LIVING VICARIOUSLY
"Amir Muhammad's outraged and absurdist film-essays are at the vanguard
of a new wave in Malaysian cinema." - The Believer Following other
screenings in Rotterdam, the west coast, and elsewhere, Ocularis is
proud to begin its new season with the New York premiere of Amir
Muhammad's The Year of Living Vicariously. Shot in 2004 by a Malaysian
filmmaker in the midst of Indonesia's first direct presidential
elections, this split-screen documentary chronicles the making of Riri
Riza's Gie, a landmark biopic about an Indonesian Chinese student
activist during the politically turbulent 1960s. The actors, crew and
extras are interviewed as a microcosm to find out more about
contemporary Indonesia. Subjects are identified by name rather than job
title, so an extra can get more camera-time than the top-billed actor.
And against the hectic backdrop of the film set, Muhammad emerges with a
complex portrait of a nation and its politics. Underscored at times with
humor and popular mythology, The Year of Living Vicariously affirms his
status as one of the most dynamic new figures in world cinema.
1/23
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.
1/23
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
LOTTE REINIGER "THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED"
Featuring Otociné Germany, 1926, 65 min., b/w tinted and toned, silent,
35mm archival print The first full-length animated feature in movie
history, Lotte Reiniger's Die Abenteur des Prinzen Achmed is a dazzling
and sensuous rendering of fables from The Arabian Nights: Tales From a
Thousand and One Nights made with silhouette cutouts set on illuminated
glass backdrops. This historic film is accompanied by a live performance
by the experimental music ensemble Otociné, which uses conventional
instruments, objects and recorded material to create an unpredictable
score.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2006
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1/25
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
6:30 p.m., Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas St. West
THE FREE SCREEN - SEOUNGHO CHO IN PERSON!
Cinematheque Ontario presents THE FREE SCREEN (formerly The
Independents). The Free Screen is your window on the vast and rewarding,
but often overlooked, world of unconventional, non-commercial cinema –
those films and videos made by committed artists working outside of
mainstream channels of production and distribution. These artists prefer
to work free from the restrictive aesthetic conventions and commercial
concerns of the movie business, a position which allows them to explore
the possibilities of the art of cinema to the fullest. The Free Screen
presents work by artists engaged in fields ranging from avant-garde film
and animation to hybrid documentaries, essay films and video art, often
with the artists in attendance to present their work. – Chris Gehman,
Free Screen programmer. SEOUNGHO CHO IN PERSON! This is the first
Toronto appearance for New York-based Korean video artist Seoungho Cho.
Cho's work has screened at many key international venues, including the
Lux Centre, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Pusan Metropolitan Museum
of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. His videos combine an
unusual clarity of form, structure and tactility with a profound sense
of mystery. In these intensely focused, lyrical videos, every element is
carefully isolated and recombined using elaborate digital editing and
processing, holding in tension the energies of technology, the social
landscape, and the psyche. Opening this survey of Cho's recent videos,
1/1 (USA 2001 4 minutes video) is a playful performance in which the
artist's manual manipulation of a videotape releases the images trapped
within it. 97/67 (USA 2001 7 minutes video) wittily extends this idea by
applying a commercial bar code scanner to everyday objects and body
parts, transforming the data into sound and text. COLD PIECES (USA 1999
11.5 minutes video) subjects images of running water to intricate and
rigorous editing procedures that alter our perceptions of scale, time,
and speed, while in UNTITLED (USA 2004 12.5 minutes video), a similar
plastic use of space is applied to extreme close-ups of industrial
machinery in a Korean factory. w.s.2 (USA 2004 8 minutes video Music:
Anne Lebaron) combines desert images from White Sands with a compelling
score by Anne Lebaron. In HORIZONTAL SILENCE (USA 2003 8.5 minutes
video), Cho works with severely cropped images of a city street; here,
observation and transformative estrangement become a single act. About
SHOW YOUR TONGUE (USA 2005 5.5 minutes video), we prefer to hold our
tongues – come and see it for yourself! Co-presented by the Toronto Reel
Asian International Film Festival. All screenings in this series are
FREE, non-ticketed events. Programming suggestions and submissions are
welcome. All Cinematheque Ontario screenings are held at the Art Gallery
of Ontario's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas St. West, Toronto (McCaul Street
entrance). All screenings are restricted to individuals 18 years of age
or older, unless noted otherwise. For more information, visit the
Official website, www.bell.ca/cinematheque, the year-round Box Office at
Manulife Centre (55 Bloor Street West, main floor, north entrance), or
call 416-968-FILM.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2006
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1/26
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
9:30 pm, 204 South Main
MAGIC LANTERN PRESENTS "THE GUN SHOW"
Bang! Bang! B-b-b-b-bang! In honor of the New Year, Magic Lantern raises
its celluloid pistol towards the sky and fires it repeatedly into the
air! Boom! Pop! Popopop! With all the excitement of a fireworks finale,
Magic Lantern sets off cinematic explosion after cinematic explosion to
deafen your eyes and blind your ears! Welcome 2006, this is the GUN
SHOW! So grab your Laser Tag, your Paintball gun, and maybe even that
Slingshot your neighbor's dad gave you for your 12th birthday (the one
you used to scare the birds away so they wouldn't get shot) and bring
'em on down to join the pile of films we've got about Man's Best
Friend... Equal parts celebration and mourning, Magic Lantern is proud
to present A Hollywood Western Remix (in CinemaScope), The (Performance
Art) Shot Heard 'Round the World, A World War II-Era Superman Cartoon,
At Least 60 Explosions, A Long Hard Look At The Atom Bomb, and More.
Featuring: Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine by Peter
Tcherkassky (17:00, Cinemascope, 2005), Report by Bruce Conner (13:00,
16mm, 1963-67), Automatic Meat Probe by Shawn Morrissey (5:00, 16mm,
2001), Shoot by Chris Burden (4:00, video, 1971), 60 Explosions by
Jennifer Matotek (1:20, video, 2004), Superman and the Japoteurs by
Seymour Kneitel (10:00, 16mm, 1942), Crossroads by Bruce Connor (36:00,
16mm, 1976) TRT 87:00 $5
1/26
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia Street @ 21st
OPEN SCREENING
See fresh perspectives and formula shattering techniques in film, video
and music art from the Bay Area and beyond! One hour of shorts are
accepted monthly on an open revolving basis, and the refreshments are
darn good. FREE admission for exhibitors. Door, Bar: 7:00pm, Projector:
7pm. SUBMISSIONS: CUE and LABEL all tapes w/ name, contact, title and
length. Mail dubs to: "openscreening" 992 Valencia , SF 94110. 1-2 week
advance submissions strongly recommended. Email inquiries do not
guarantee a space. Tapes do. Max trt: 20min. DVD, miniDV/DVcam, sVHS, sm
beta, 8mm and 16mm. All genres. Student, "in progress", and segments
welcome. Contact: (address suppressed)
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2006
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1/27
Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Woodland Pattern Experimental Film/Video series
http://www.woodlandpattern.org
7pm, Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E. Locust
TONY OURSLER'S "LIFE OF PHILLIS" & STEPHANIE BARBER'S "DOGS"
Woodland Pattern opens its 2006 seasons with two puppet shows of sorts,
each crafting works of impressive, even moving, complexity via the
tantalizing resourcefulness of the handmade. Tony Oursler's ramshackle
epic is one of his earliest video narratives, and, per Electronic Arts
Intermix, who provided the tape, "In this psychosexual, low-tech epic,
Oursler creates an outrageous theatrical world, fashioning characters
from unlikely found objects. Willfully primitive, often grotesque, and
crafted with an ingenious visual shorthand, 'Life of Phillis' inhabits
an ironic landscape fabricated from the detritus of pop culture." Once
-local-just-recently-Baltimorean-filmmaker Stephanie Barber shares with
us her film "dogs." "dogs" presents two ruminating canines (papier mache
puppets, voiced by Paul Dreuke and Nick Frank) discussing art making,
taking chances, and risking wrong choices. The film is Socratically
wrought and remarkably tender. Presented by the UWM Department of Film.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2006
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1/28
Flushing, Queens: Flushing Town Hall
http://www.flushingtownhall.org
8:00 PM, 137-35 Northern Blvd
NEW YORK GUITAR FESTIVAL: ALEX DE GRASSI + A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS
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 28th, guitarist and composer Alex de
Grassi will perform an original score he composed for A Story of
Floating Weeds (Ukigusa Monogatari, 1934) by the world-renowned Japanese
director Yasujiro Ozu. De Grassi is regarded as one of the world's top
fingerstyle, steel-string acoustic guitarists. De Grassi has the ability
to weave together melody, counter-melody, bass, harmony, rhythm, and
cross-rhythms, ultimately creating a highly orchestrated sound from a
solo guitar. In addition to his custom six-string, de Grassi will play a
few one-of-a-kind guitars, including a 39-string "Flying Dream"
instrument that incorporates sympathetic strings (strings that resonate
not by being plucked or bowed, but by their proximity to other strings)
and extended bass and treble harp strings. A short will precede the
feature---excerpts from Teinosuke Kinugasa's A Page of Madness (Kurutta
Ippeiji, 1926) will be screened accompanied by an improvisation by
guitarists Henry Kaiser and Loren Connors. 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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SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 2006
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1/29
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
8:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
REVERENCE: THE FILMS OF OWEN LAND (FORMERLY KNOWN AS GEORGE LANDOW) –
PROGRAM 2
Owen Land, formerly known as George Landow, was one of the most original
and celebrated American filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s. This is the
only Los Angeles presentation of this major retrospective organized by
LUX in London. Tonight's films include The Film that Rises to the
Surface of Clarified Butter, Wide Angle Saxon, and Diploteratology.
Tonight only at 8 pm. $8 general; $6 students/seniors.
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