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Date: Sat Jan 28 2006 - 07:45:24 PST
This week [January 29 - February 5, 2006] in avant garde cinema
NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
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"70´s story" by 80Juan80
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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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Portable Cinema Series (san francisco, ca USA; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
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Hull Screen (Hull; Deadline: May 31, 2006)
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Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo, New York; Deadline: January 24, 2006)
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Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: April 28, 2006)
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MadCat Women's International Film Festival (San Francisco, CA; Deadline: May 15, 2006)
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Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL USA; Deadline: April 01, 2006)
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Toofy Film Fest 2006 (Boulder, CO USA; Deadline: July 01, 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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Staten Island Film Festival (Staten Island, NY, USA; Deadline: February 01, 2006)
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WAVES Asian/Asian-American Film Festival (Iowa City; Deadline: February 17, 2006)
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Asian American International Film Festival (New York, NY 10011; Deadline: February 03, 2006)
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Videoex festival Zürich (Zürich Switzerland; Deadline: February 03, 2006)
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Rio Cinema (London, England; Deadline: February 28, 2006)
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The Journal of Short Film, Volume 3 (Columbus, OH; Deadline: February 28, 2006)
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Sixth Annual Bicycle Film Festival (New York, NY, United States; Deadline: February 17, 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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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Reverence: the Films of Owen Land (Formerly Known As George Landow) –
Program 2 [January 29, Los Angeles, California]
* Adolescent Boys, and Living Rooms [January 30, Houston, Texas]
* Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab "Gilaneh" [January 30, Los Angeles, California]
* An Evening With Lynn Marie Kirby [January 30, New York, New York]
* David Lamelas: Time Is A Fiction [January 30, New York]
* Independent Exposure 11th Season Premiere [January 30, San Francisco, California]
* Magic Lantern Presents "The Snowblind Show" [February 1, Providence, RI]
* The Free Screen - Fred Frith: Step Across the Border [February 1, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Soft Science [February 2, Chicago, Illinois]
* Independent Exposure 11th Season Premiere [February 3, Houston, Texas]
* For the Record (Catalog of Motion) [February 3, San Francisco, California]
* Diane Bonder Program [February 4, New York, New York]
* <I>Camp</I>: the Factory Responds To Sontag [February 5, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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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MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2006
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1/30
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.
1/30
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
RAKHSHAN BANI-ETEMAD AND MOHSEN ABDOLVAHAB "GILANEH"
Los Angeles premiere Iran, 2005, 84 min., 35mm Rakhshan Bani-Etemad,
Iran's premier woman director, and long-time collaborator Mohsen
Abdolvahab condemn the horrors of war in a new film that is as
emotionally intense as it is timely. In 1988, peasant widow Gilaneh
(Fatemeh Motamed Arya) sees her son Ismaeel drafted into the Iran-Iraq
War as her pregnant daughter is set to travel to Tehran to find her
husband, an army deserter. The film's second half jumps ahead 15 years
later: Gilaneh is now caring for the bedridden Ismaeel—a war veteran
ravaged by chemical weapons—as the United States begins its assault on
Baghdad…
1/30
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art/Mediascope
http://www.moma.org/visit_moma/momafilm/
8pm, 11 West 53 Street
AN EVENING WITH LYNN MARIE KIRBY
Lynn Marie Kirby (San Francisco) inventively draws upon vernacular
imagery from domestic life and the American landscape, transforming the
material in the process. She also explores the unique properties of the
mechanical and the digital. Her work bridges the cinema and
conceptual-art worlds by putting tools to unanticipated uses, whether
editing by remote control, reframing production gear as subject, or
turning the editing console into an instrument for live performance.
Kirby's multimedia practice establishes the "frame" as a delimited space
of improvisation and openness-for artist and viewer alike-in works of
astonishing beauty and vibrancy. The program includes C to C: Several
Centuries After the Double Slit Experiment (1995); Study in Choreography
for Camera Remote (2001); and pieces from the Latent Light Excavation
series (2004-05). Program 90 min.
1/30
New York: Ocularis
http://www.ocularis.net
8 PM, 70 North 6th Street
DAVID LAMELAS: TIME IS A FICTION
LUX's touring program, Time is a Fiction, comprises five early 16mm
films by David Lamelas, best known as one of the pioneers of the
Conceptual Art practice that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. Over the
last thirty years, he has produced an extraordinary body of films and
videos which consistently challenge our conventional understanding of
how meaning is made and information is imparted. In this program of some
of his early films, Lamelas experiments with both the elliptical
constructs of fiction which frame and contain meaning, and the verité
qualities of durational documentation and straight to camera testimony.
Born in Argentina, Lamelas was originally a sculptor, but came to
prominence when he represented his country at the Venice Biennale with a
piece called Office of Information about the Vietnam war on Three
Levels: The Visual Image, Text and Audio. It was here that he met
Antwerp-based gallerists from Wide White Space and Marcel Broodthaers,
and the contacts he made helped to precipitate his later move to Europe.
After Venice he moved to London, where he studied on a sculpture
scholarship at St. Martins School of Art which was still in the grip of
monolithic abstraction under the direction of Anthony Caro. But it was
during his time in England, whilst using photographs and text as
material, that Lamelas began working in film. Through a desire to
"produce sculptural forms without any physical volume", the core
concerns of his work emerged: time, space and language. During the
subsequent years Lamelas has lived and made work across Europe and in
America, each location exerting its specific influence on his work. And
it is this personal experience of relocation and his efforts to
understand and assimilate new cultures, that gives his conceptualist
concerns a warmth and humour. For Lamelas, location and place are
primary: "space has a reality, it exists'". Yet about time he asserts,
"Time doesn't exist, our consciousness constructs it. Time is a
fiction." Work to be screened: Reading of an Extract from Labyrinths by
J.L. Borges, 1970, 5 min; To Pour Milk Into a Glass, 1972, 8 min; Time
as Activity (Düsseldorf), 1969, 13 min;A Study of Relationships Between
Inner and Outer Space, 1969, 20 min; The Desert People, 1974, 48 min.
Curated by Jacqueline Holt.
1/30
San Francisco, California: Microcinema International
http://www.microcinema.com
8 pm, 111 Minna Gallery
INDEPENDENT EXPOSURE 11TH SEASON PREMIERE
A collection of diverse and encouraging short films and videos from
around the world that kick off the ELEVENTH season of Independent
Exposure!
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2006
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2/1
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
9:30 pm, 204 South Main
MAGIC LANTERN PRESENTS "THE SNOWBLIND SHOW"
*FILMMAKER DEBORAH STRATMAN IN PERSON* Fresh from a long trek through
the snowcapped mountains of Chicago, Los Angeles, and Western China,
ever-itinerant film/video/large-object-maker (and two-time Magic Lantern
participant in "The Fear and Anger Show") Deborah Stratman has at long
last snowshoed her way to the craggy peaks of Providence, Rhode Island.
Along with the 10lbs of foil-sealed astronaut food and her reflecting
heat blanket, Deborah has brought with her an assortment of her own
films and videos that will certainly light your way through the blinding
snowstorm known in these parts as "February." Not unlike a New England
flurry, Deborah's work blurs the line between experimental and
documentary genres and has been seen everywhere from the Whitney
Biennial to the Rotterdam Film Festival to an apartment in Mexico City.
So put on your winter scarf, buy yourself a hot cocoa, and settle in for
a night of Icelandic Sheep-Sheering, Mystic Jellyfish, Scottish
Physicists, and Oh So Much More. Featuring: Upon a Time (10:00, 16mm,
1991), Waking (7:00, video, 1994), On the Various Nature of Things
(25:00, 16mm, 1995), From Hetty to Nancy (44:00, 16mm, 1997) TRT 86:00
$5
2/1
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 - FRED FRITH: STEP ACROSS THE BORDER
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,
Programmer, The Free Screen. FRED FRITH: STEP ACROSS THE BORDER This
extraordinary and moving film has been called "the most important mix of
music and film since the early '70s. . . . What Frith – and this film –
represent is where rock might have gone . . . if rock had continued to
develop its improvisational edge" (Peter Goddard, Toronto Star). STEP
ACROSS THE BORDER (Directors: Nicolas Humbert & Werner Penzel; West
Germany/Switzerland 1990 90 minutes 35mm) could be described simply as a
documentary about the great British electric guitar player, composer,
and improviser Fred Frith, but this would fail to convey the deep
affinities between the filmmakers' approach to cinema and the open-ended
exploration of music taken up by Frith and his collaborators around the
world. As the directors explain, "in STEP ACROSS THE BORDER two forms of
artistic expression, improvised music and cinema direct, are
interrelated. In both forms it is the moment that counts, the intuitive
sense for what is happening in a space. Music and film come into
existence out of an intense perception of the moment, not from the
transformation of a preordained plan. . . . The other connection
concerns the work method: the film team as band. Much as musicians
communicate via the music, our work, too, was realized within a very
small and flexible team of equals." The winner of countless awards, STEP
ACROSS THE BORDER was recently included by the editors of Cahiers du
cinéma on a list of the one hundred most important films of all time.
STEP ACROSS THE BORDER features Fred Frith, John Zorn, Iva Bittová, Tom
Cora, Haco, Jonas Mekas, Robert Frank et al. Please note: 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, FEBRUARY 2, 2006
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2/2
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/2006/february/edge.html
6:00 p.m., Gene Siskel Film Center / 164 N. State
SOFT SCIENCE
Curator Rachel Mayeri in person! 1998-2004, various, Canada/USA, 65 min.
Some of the most astonishing art projects exist behind laboratory doors.
This collection of video-curiosities, curated by filmmaker Rachel
Mayeri, brings together work by artists and scientists in experiments
with ebullient nanogears, tethered flies, and the ever-elusive idea of
Reason. IT DID IT (Peter Brinson, 2000, 17 min.); SOFT SCIENCE "CINEMA
OF ATTRACTIONS" (Joe Milutis and Rachel Mayeri, 2004, 4 min.); BUG GIRL
(Su Rynard, 2003, 6 min.); RE-ANIMATION 3, 4 & 2 (Kaipo Newhouse, 2003,
2 min.); AMEISING 1 (Sean Dockray, 2003, 2 min.); STORIES FROM THE
GENOME: AN ANIMATED HISTORY OF REPRODUCTION (Rachel Mayeri, 2003, 15
min.); I AM TODAY'S LESSON PLAN (Darrin Martin and Torsten Z. Burns,
2004, 11 min.); and THE BATS (Jim Trainor, 1998, 8 min). Co-presented
with the Video Data Bank. BetaSP video.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2006
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2/3
Houston, Texas: Microcinema International
http://www.microcinema.com
8 pm, Axiom Theatre, 2524 McKinney
INDEPENDENT EXPOSURE 11TH SEASON PREMIERE
A collection of diverse and encouraging short films and videos from
around the world that kick off the ELEVENTH season of Independent
Exposure!
2/3
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30, California College of the Arts, 1111 Eighth Street
FOR THE RECORD (CATALOG OF MOTION)
These recent works merge history and historical record in varied dances
of repetition and release, meditating on the plight of the photographed
human subject, suspended in time and fixed on film as ancient insects in
amber. Using material drawn from appropriated sources, these films
preserve original contexts, uses, and intentions while placing them into
vibration and resonance with newer meanings, considerations, and
experiences. Screening: Carolyn Faber's For The Record, Peter Kubelka's
Poetry And Truth, Leslie Thornton's Another Worldy, and two by Ken
Jacobs: Mountaineer Spinning and A Tom Tom Chaser—a digital-era
consideration of his 1969 classic.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2006
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2/4
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm- Saturday evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between Bowery & 2nd Ave.)
DIANE BONDER PROGRAM
A program of 16mm films and films transferred to video, I REMEMBER NOW,
WE NEVER DANCED, I MISS YOU, GOODBYE (8 min.-2006), YOU ARE NOT FROM
HERE (10 min.-2005), CLOSER TO HEAVEN (15 min.-2003), IF YOU LIVED HERE
YOU'D BE HOME BY NOW (15 min.-2001), IF (12 min.-2000), DEAR MOM (13
min.-1996), DANGEROUS WHEN WET (5 min.-1992) A frequent participant in
the Millennium's personal Cinema Series as well as a user of the
organization's editing and optical printing services, Diane Bonder has
always been a welcome presence. Over a period of 12 years she has
produced many eloquent and very personal films that explore issues of
belonging, landscape and loss. On I REMEMBER...-"Everyday movement
weaves into a dance of memory and loss. A study of formal opposites in
motion; constantly coming together and pulling apart,"- Diane Bonder
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2006
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2/5
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7pm and 9pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
CAMP: THE FACTORY RESPONDS TO SONTAG
Susan Sontag wrote "Notes on Camp" in 1964, which put performance of
identity on the road to high culture. Warhol's 1965 rejoinder, Camp
features Mario Montez, Gerard Malanga, Baby Jane Holzer, Tally Brown,
Jack Smith, and others in a variety show format put on in the foil
festooned Factory. Malanga emcees and recites poetry, Tally Brown
imitates Yma Sumac, Paul Swan dances, and Smith's over-the-top
minimalism is just short of a refusal to perform that implies camp is
not a pose or a praxis, but a way of life. Also screening is the short
compilation of Screen Tests, Four of Andy Warhol's Most Beautiful Women.
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