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Date: Sun Feb 12 2006 - 14:52:15 PST
This week [February 12 - 19, 2006] in avant garde cinema
NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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straight8 SF (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: February 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=501.ann
Woodstock Film Festival (Woodstock, NY ; Deadline: July 10, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=502.ann
Silverlake Film Fest - Lost Weekend (Los Angeles, CA USA; Deadline: March 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=503.ann
Open APPerture Short Film Festival (Boone, NC, USA; Deadline: March 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=504.ann
Studio 27 (San Francisco, CA USA; Deadline: March 31, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=505.ann
syntocin (The Hague; Deadline: April 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=506.ann
DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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Solstice Film Festiestival (St. Paul, MN USA; Deadline: March 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=347.ann
Her Shorts: 1st Annual Women’s International Video Festival and Symposium (Tucson, AZ, USA; Deadline: March 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=472.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
Victoria Erotica Film Festival (Victoria BC Canada; Deadline: March 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=481.ann
The Delta International Film and Video Festival (Cleveland, MS USA; Deadline: March 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=482.ann
Rio Cinema (London, England; Deadline: February 28, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=483.ann
Pioneer Theater (New York, NY; Deadline: March 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=486.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
Calgary ImaginASIAN 2006 Film Festival (Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Deadline: March 13, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=488.ann
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
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
straight8 SF (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: February 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=501.ann
Silverlake Film Fest - Lost Weekend (Los Angeles, CA USA; Deadline: March 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=503.ann
Open APPerture Short Film Festival (Boone, NC, USA; Deadline: March 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=504.ann
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Directors Lounge [February 12, Berlin, Germany]
* Saint Etienne Presents Two Films About London [February 12, Brooklyn, New York]
* Immi Fest 2006 [February 12, IMMI Fest 2006]
* Visual Noises: Sound Films By Stan Brakhage [February 12, San Francisco, California]
* Monthly Open Screening #25 [February 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Urban Research On Film [February 13, Berlin, Germany]
* Hot On the Heels of Love [February 13, Brooklyn, New York]
* How To Be A Canadian [February 13, Houston, Texas]
* Films By Peter Tscherkassky [February 14, Berkeley, California]
* Urban Research On Film [February 14, Berlin, Germany]
* Urban Research On Film [February 15, Berlin, Germany]
* Magic Lantern Presents "The Manifest Destiny Show" [February 15, Providence, RI]
* The Free Screen - Praise! Recent Work By Barbara Sternberg [February 15, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Directors Lounge [February 16, Berlin, Germany]
* A Heart and Other Small Shapes: Jennifer Reeder videos 1995 – 2006 [February 16, Chicago, Illinois]
* David Gatten's Secret History of the Dividing Line: A True Account In
Nine Parts [February 16, Montreal (Quebec) Canada]
* Urban Research On Film [February 17, Berlin, Germany]
* Kill Your Timid Notion [February 17, Dundee, Scotland, UK]
* Sin and Redemption: An A/V Geeks 16mm Mini Film Series - Screening I:
Drinky Drink [February 17, Houston, Texas]
* Electromediascope [February 17, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Hwy 5 Film Festival 2006 [February 17, Marietta , Georgia]
* Women of Color Film Festival [February 17, New York, New York]
* Fame As Form: A Lightness of Being [February 17, San Francisco, California]
* Urban Researcn On Film [February 18, Berlin, Germany]
* Troop 1500: Girl Scouts Beyond Bars [February 18, Chicago, Illinois]
* Kill Your Timid Notion [February 18, Dundee, Scotland, UK]
* Sin and Redemption: An A/V Geeks 16mm Mini Film Series - Screening 2:
Creeky Christian Cinema [February 18, Houston, Texas]
* Urban Research On Film [February 19, Berlin, Germany]
* How Little We Know of Our Neighbors By Rebecca Baron [February 19, Chicago, Illinois]
* Kill Your Timid Notion [February 19, Dundee, Scotland, UK]
* An Evening With Peter Tscherkassky and Eve Heller [February 19, Los Angeles, California]
* Shirley Clarke's 1961 <I>The Connection</I> [February 19, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006
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2/12
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
from 4:00 pm, Directors Lounge, Karl-Marx-Allee 137
DIRECTORS LOUNGE
see February 9, 2006 for details
2/12
Brooklyn, New York: Ocularis
http://www.ocularis.net
7 PM, 70 North 6th Street
SAINT ETIENNE PRESENTS TWO FILMS ABOUT LONDON
Please join Ocularis, Plexifilm, Savoy Jazz, and Saint Etienne for a
special presentation of Finisterre: A Film About London as well as an
advance screening of What Have You Done Today, Mervyn Day?, with Q&A and
DJ sets by Saint Etienne between and after each screening. Finisterre: A
Film About London by Paul Kelly and Kieran Evans - 7 PM Presented and
scored by Saint Etienne, the film takes us on a journey from the suburbs
into the heart of the city over an imaginary 24 hours. Along the way we
hear from characters that have influenced or been a part of the Saint
Etienne story. Finisterre features the observations and reminiscences of
Lawrence from Felt/Denim, Mark Perry, the editor of original punk
fanzine Sniffin' Glue, as well as Vic Godard from Subway Sect and artist
Julian Opie, folk singer Vashti Bunyan, London-centric author Shena
Mackay, and Nick Sanderson from Earl Brutus. Through the interviews and
imagery we see London from an insider's perspective. The result is a
hymn to London, and an extraordinary record of the city today. Digitally
shot and edited, Finisterre evolved alongside the Saint Etienne album of
the same name. Initially conceived as a way of channelling the money
allocated for music videos into something more substantial, it became in
every sense an independent production. Its development is unique: early
sequences were projected as visuals behind the band during their latest
tour, while the film played recently to cinema audiences in London and
Tokyo. What Have You Done Today, Mervyn Day? - 9 PM "The group's second
collaboration with the director Paul Kelly, after the London elegy
Finisterre. Concentrating on the Lea Valley, the east-London ghostland
of derelict industrial estates that once dealt in plastic, petrol and
printing, through which a teenage paperboy dreamily wanders, Mervyn Day?
is potently evocative. Like an Iain Sinclair book, we see ugly, ordinary
London through Kelly's eyes, until its strange beauty begins to surface.
It is set on 7 July, the day after the Olympic announcement that will
mean development erasing this zone. Radio-news fragments about the
London bombings serve as an evil counterpoint. To this visual hymn to
the dream-London of their songs, Saint Etienne add melancholy flutes,
guitar pulses and choral harmonies. It's a triumphant cross-media
performance. At its finish, the band are cheered as if they've played
their greatest hits. The piece's impact is proven at the interval bar,
where everyone talks urgently about their own slice of London. A primal
sense of place has been awoken." - Nick Hasted, The Independent, on a
screening at Barbican in London
2/12
IMMI Fest 2006: DIVA Center
http://www.proscenia.net/diva/calendar.htm
11:00 AM - 11:00 PM, DIVA Center 110 W. Broadway
IMMI FEST 2006
The Second Annual Festival of Improvised Music and Moving Image art
(IMMI Fest II - 2006) runs February 10, 11, and 12 at the DIVA Center
110 W. Broadway in Eugene. Audiences will experience free improv music
and progressive video art melded together for maximum spontaneity and
simultaneous sensory pleasure. The festival showcases both local and
northwest musicians and media artists in an intimate listening and
viewing environment for optimal audience exposure. Host artists are the
Knotty Ensemble of Vancouver, BC/Eugene and the JiRCs VJ collective of
Eugene. Highlights include Friday evening acoustic improv and
experimental short works, Saturday live improvised soundtrack for a
classic silent film. Also late night electro-pop-DIY-noise oriented
showcases both nights. Workshops, discussions, and demonstrations
continue throughout the weekend. The festival wraps up Sunday with a
final resounding squonk! As the IMP Orchestra (consisting of host
musicians, guests and master class participants) comes together and lets
it all loose to the flickering brilliance of the JiRCs VJ collective.
Workshop information: 342-3019 or (address suppressed) Event
information: www.proscenia.net/diva/calendar.htm. DIVA Center: 344-3482.
2/12
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St
VISUAL NOISES: SOUND FILMS BY STAN BRAKHAGE
In his development of myriad radical cinematic languages over his long
filmmaking career, Stan Brakhage frequently promoted a profound
aesthetics which frequently positioned intense silences as ground for
his complex and subtle visual compositions. In his interest in
non-verbal expression, he was greatly inspired by music and his rare
forays into sound filmmaking stand as some of the most unique
sound/image statements in the history of cinema. Tonight's program
presents a survey of this work, including Boulder Blues and Pearls and…,
Fire of Waters, Christ Mass Sex Dance, Crack Glass Eulogy, Kindering,
"…" (Reel 5), and Passage Through (A Ritual).
2/12
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: CineZine
http://www.super8porter.ca
7:00 pm, CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Avenue
MONTHLY OPEN SCREENING #25
See January 8 for details
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2006
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2/13
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
6:30 pm, Directors Lounge, Karl-Marx-Allee 137, 10243 Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany
URBAN RESEARCH ON FILM
Special Program at Directors Longe 2006 curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr --
urban space as chance -- Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Stadtrandzone Mitte in
Kronsberg, 2005, DE, 11:17, DVD -/- Daniel Kunle and Holger Lauinger,
Nicht Mehr | Noch Nicht, 2004, DE, 82:00, DVD -/- extra: Katja
Striefler/Region Hannover, GVH Tu was dann tut sich was, 2003, DE,
13:00, DVD, Berlin Premiere
2/13
Brooklyn, New York: Ocularis
http://www.ocularis.net
8 PM, 70 North 6th Street
HOT ON THE HEELS OF LOVE
It's all you need, sure, but it's also Hell, a stranger, a battlefield
and colder than death. Prepare your heart for Valentine's Day with this
lip-smacking Whitman's sampler of love. That many-splendored thing
brings together stalkers, straphangers, doppelgangers and enormous pink
poodles. And never forget: it's a bitch and it stinks, but it's also
forever. Work to be screened: Hop on the Bus, Gus, Jeff Krulik, 1996, 2
min; Joe Dimaggio 1, 2, 3, Anne McGuire, 1991, 7 min; You Gotta Problem,
Toni Basil, 1982, 3 min; Lovemaking, Scott Bartlett, 1970, 13 min; Love
is All, Oliver Harrison, 1999, 4 min; Mit Mir, Kerstin Cmelka, 2000, 3
min; Papillon d'amour, Nicolas Provost, 2003, 4 min; Endless Obsession,
Glen Fogel, 2001, 5 min; The Memo Book (Aus Der Ferne), Matthias Müller,
1989, 28 min. Programmed by Thomas Beard and Ed Halter.
2/13
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8:30pm doors open, 9pm screening, Aurora @ Clark's, 314 Main Street near Preston
HOW TO BE A CANADIAN
Guest Curator Astria Suparak with Brett Kashmere The second largest
country in the world, Canada houses a population less than California's
34 million. The birthplace of You Can't Do That on Television, Tom
Green, and the inspiration for American Pie, Canada has been a chief
exporter of adolescent gross-out comedy for two decades. No MTV,
Madonna, Mister Roger's Neighborhood or melting pot, but Much Music,
Alanis Morissette, Mr. Dressup's tickle trunk and government-mandated
Multiculturalism. Works by Brett Kashmere, Jake Kennedy, Shari Boyle,
Jubal Brown, Daniel Barrow, Jon Sasaki, Dorion Berg, Jim Munroe, Jeremy
Bailey, Daniel Cockburn, Paige Gratland, and Tom Sherman.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2006
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2/14
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30 PM, 2575 Bancroft Way @ Bowditch
FILMS BY PETER TSCHERKASSKY
Artist in Person Austrian filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky's stunning
films have been described as "a meeting point of cogent theoretical
preoccupations and a kind of anarchic punk energy" (Rhys Graham, Senses
of Cinema). Constructed out of recycled images from home movies, early
cinema, and studio productions, and employing rephotography, contact
printing, and blow-ups, they recontextualize and rethink the meanings of
found footage while also foregrounding the materiality of film itself in
unique and breathtaking ways. Most dramatically, in Outer Space (1999,
10 mins, B&W, 'Scope, 35mm), the image and soundtrack from a horror film
tear and break apart, splintering the screen and assaulting the heroine
and the fictional space itself. In his most recent film, the
exhilarating Instructions for Light and Sound Machine (2005, 17 mins,
B&W, 35mm), Tscherkassky puts the cowboy hero at (in his words) "the
mercy of the filmmaker," while in his homage to Man Ray, Dream Work
(2001, 12 mins, B&W, 'Scope, 35mm), the filmmaker employs displacement
and condensation to dream for us an intense, sensual, and vital cinema.
Also screening: Freeze Frame (1983, 10 mins, B&W/Color, 16mm) and Happy
End (1996, 12 mins, B&W, 35mm). • (Total running time: 61 mins, From
SixPack Films)
2/14
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
4:00 pm, Cafe Sybille, Karl-Marx-Allee 72, 10243 Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany
URBAN RESEARCH ON FILM
Special Program at Directors Longe 2006 curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr --
karl-marx-allee special -- Ben Anderson, flawed — skin, Berlin's
Karl-Marx-Allee, 2005, DE, 44:30, DVD -/- With following discussion of
Mr. Schneider (Karl-Marx-Allee Inititive Documentation Center) and Ben
Anderson
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2006
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2/15
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
6:30 pm, Directors Lounge, Karl-Marx-Allee 137, 10243 Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany
URBAN RESEARCH ON FILM
Special Program at Directors Longe 2006 curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr --
location, territory and (hi)story -- Thomas Comerford, Land Marked/
Marquette (series), 2005, USA, 23:00, 16mm, European Premiere -/- Dave
Ellsworth, Time, and the River, 2004, USA, 73:51, DVD, European Premiere
(out of UK)
2/15
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
9:30 pm, 204 South Main
MAGIC LANTERN PRESENTS "THE MANIFEST DESTINY SHOW"
*FILMMAKER BILL BROWN IN PERSON* Hot on the heels of Valentine's Day,
Magic Lantern closes its eyes, spreads out its arms, and waits to
open-mouth kiss that cinematic heartthrob you all know as Bill Brown.
Sure, he'll be all dust and sweat from his long wagon train ride east
from Detroit, but you can bet your Indian Head Nickel that Bill won't
let a trip like that wear him out. After all, he's this century's
itinerant Mark Twain - tousled brown hair and dry wit and incisive
observations about the Land We Stand On and the Heart That Beats Inside
Us All. Equipped with little more than a Bolex, a microphone, and a mule
of some sort, Bill's been wandering the outskirts of Our Fair Continent
for the last millenium, in search of the deeper truths about Borders and
History and Where We Fit Into It All. Already a favorite son of Magic
Lantern (you saw his film Confederation Park in "The Geography Show"),
we've invited Bill to the Biggest Little to present two of his newest
films in person - and sure, the Gold Rush of '49 would be a good excuse
to miss him, but we all know that happened at least 150 years ago...
Featuring: Mountain State by Bill Brown (20:00, 16mm, 2003), The Other
Side by Bill Brown (43:00, 16mm, 2006) TRT 63:00 $5
2/15
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 - PRAISE! RECENT WORK BY BARBARA STERNBERG
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. PRAISE! RECENT WORK BY BARBARA STERNBERG
With more than thirty years of activity in film, video, and other arts
behind her, Barbara Sternberg has created one of the largest and most
distinctive bodies of work in Canadian experimental film. Informed by
feminist thought and literature (particularly Gertrude Stein and
Virginia Woolf), the tradition of the personal film, and an intense
engagement with the everyday, Sternberg's films draw a world of feeling
and meaning from quotidian images. As she has stated in an interview,
her films tend to "work through an accumulation of the everyday, more
through a glance than a look, less a controlling gaze than an
observational one." Since the completion of a series of large-scale
works in the mid to late Nineties, her practice has moved away from
language and extended themes to a more intense moment-to-moment
engagement in filming and editing. This survey of three recent films and
one video includes BURNING (Canada 2002 7 minutes silent 16mm), a rapid,
rhythmic montage that evokes the brevity of life, and SURFACING (Canada
2004 10.5 minutes 16mm; Music: Rainer Wiens), a revival of concerns for
repetition and variation that have been important throughout her films.
Also, two world premieres: TABULA RASA (Canada 2003 16.5 minutes video),
which juxtaposes iconic images of the Virgin Mary – eternally young,
eternally welcoming, eternally weeping – with medical diagnoses and
images of the filmmaker's own aging flesh; and PRAISE (Canada 2005 26
minutes b&w silent 16mm), a buoyant poem in black and white. TABULA RASA
and PRAISE are world premieres. Barbara Sternberg will introduce
tonight's programme. 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 16, 2006
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2/16
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
from 6:00 pm, Directors Lounge, Karl-Marx-Allee 137
DIRECTORS LOUNGE
see February 9, 2006 for details
2/16
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/2006/february/edge.html
6:00 p.m., 164 N. State St.
A HEART AND OTHER SMALL SHAPES: JENNIFER REEDER VIDEOS 1995 – 2006
Jennifer Reeder in person! Eleven years ago, School of the Art Institute
of Chicago alum Jennifer Reeder took the art world by storm with her
riot grrl super hero White Trash Girl. Since then, she has continued to
mine the charged landscape of the profane with sublime portraits of
adolescence, sexual desire, and the Midwest. Tonight's program features
the Chicago premiere of her latest video, A HEART AND OTHER SMALL SHAPES
(2006, 30 min.) and a mini-retrospective of her work to date, including:
LULLABY (1999, 13 min.); THE DEVIL INSIDE (1995, 8 min.); NEVERMIND
(1999, 18 min.); and TWIN DECKS (with Jon Leone, 2001, 6 min.). Jennifer
Reeder, 1995-2006, USA, 75 min.
2/16
Montreal (Quebec) Canada: Cinema Parallele @ Ex-Centris
http://www.ex-centris.com/
5pm / 9pm, 3536 St. Laurent Blvd
DAVID GATTEN'S SECRET HISTORY OF THE DIVIDING LINE: A TRUE ACCOUNT IN
NINE PARTS
David Gatten, whose work has been presented at the Whitney Biennale, San
Francisco and Ontario cinematheques and several international
experimental film festivals, is presently at work on a seven-film cycle
exploring the Byrd family of Virginia during the 18th century. Created
largely using cameraless techniques such as direct animation and contact
printing, this cycle of films explores the intersection of the printed
word and the moving image, tracing the contours of private lives and
public histories. FILMS INCLUDE: "Secret History of the Dividing Line"
(David Gatten, USA, 1996-2002, 20 min, silent, b&w 16mm); "The Great Art
of Knowing" (David Gatten, USA, 2004, 37 min, silent, b&w 16mm);
"Moxon's Mechanick Exercises, or, The Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to
the Art of Printing" (David Gatten, USA, 1999, 26 min, silent - 18 fps,
b&w 16mm); "The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost & Found" (David Gatten, USA,
2001, 16 min, silent - 18 fps, color and b&w 16mm). TRT: 97m plus
discussion. Presented collaboratively by the Loop Collective (Toronto)
and the Double Negative Collective (Montreal) in association with the
Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2006
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2/17
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
6:30pm, Directors Lounge, Karl-Marx-Allee 137, 10243 Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany
URBAN RESEARCH ON FILM
Special Program at Directors Longe 2006 curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr --
transfers in post-modern space -- Virginie Laganière, The Corridor,
2005, Canada, 2:26, DVD German premiere -/- Papa'n Razzi aka Kemmy
Thyssen, in 'na City, 2005, DE, 7:23, DV Berlin premiere -/- Wolfgang
Bellwinkel, weg, 2005, DE, 88:00, DVD -/- extra: Chi-Jang Yin, ICON
2005, USA, 5:00, DVD
2/17
Dundee, Scotland, UK: Kill Your Timid Totion - Dundee Contemporary Arts
http://www.killyourtimidnotion.org
various: Fri from 7pm, Sat/ Sun from 1pm, Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate
KILL YOUR TIMID NOTION
KYTN looks at radical experiments in music, film and art and revels in
the moment where together they jump of the map, or at least stagger
sideways into new territory. it features radical performances from
musicians and filmmakers, expanded cinema screenings and a series of
revelatory and mind/ear-expanding film screenings. Friday: Symposium
including [inc Tony Conrad, Rob Gawthrop, Zoe Irvine], Emma Hart +
Benedict Drew, Tony Conrad with Nikos Veliotis, Mark Wastell, Angharad
Davies, Bruce McClure Solo, Saturday: film programme 1: COLOUR [inc.
Schwentner, Iimura, Helliwell], Tony Conrad: THE FLICKER, Film Programme
2: SOUND [inc. Kubelka, Kren, Bruckmayr], Paul Sharits: Epileptic
Seizure Comparison, Sandra Gibson + Luis Recoder + Daniel Menche,
Hototogisu + Bruce McClure, Chistian Marclay's Screen Play: Steve
Beresford, John Butcher, Paul Lovens. Sunday: Film Programme 3: RETRO
[inc. Bartlett, Lawder], Film Programme 4: SPACE [inc. Koner, Sherwin],
Film Programme 5: DRAMA [inc. Abigail Child, Tscherkassky], Jennifer
Reeves + Anthony Burr, Emma Hart + Benedict Drew, Kazuo Imai + Atsuhiro
Ito, Expanded Cinema: Light Music.
2/17
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
7pm doors, 7:30pm screening, Saint Arnold Brewing Company, 2522 Fairway Park Drive
SIN AND REDEMPTION: AN A/V GEEKS 16MM MINI FILM SERIES - SCREENING I:
DRINKY DRINK
Spend your weekend with everybody's favorite educational film collector,
Skip Elsheimer of A/V Geeks, experiencing a night of [hiccup] SIN
followed by another of [amen] REDEMPTION. The first thematic screening,
Drinky Drink, is at Saint Arnold Brewing Company, proceeded by Creepy
Christian Cinema at Aurora Picture Show. Stop by Houston's greatest
microbrewery, Saint Arnold Brewing Company, for a screening of films
about our love of alcohol and its positive and negative effects. Titles
include Alcohol is Dynamite, A Case for Beer, Alco Beat, Curious Habits
of Man, An Ounce of Prevention, and Nightmare. Plus PSAs and commercials
about the delights and evils of alcohol! About the Curator Skip
Elsheimer co-founded, maintains and shows films from the A/V Geeks
Educational Film Archive (www.avgeeks.com). He has more than 8,500 films
that he keeps in the spare bedrooms and basement of his house in
Raleigh, NC.
2/17
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
Love and Obsession presents a series of works by artists and filmmakers
who combine elements of documentary and fictional techniques while
expressing the psychological and cultural dimensions of the lives of a
variety of real and invented characters. Seduction, rejection, control,
jealousy and revenge are explored as the boundaries between love,
obsession and desire become blurred in these often ironically
tragicomedic human stories. Sophie Calle and Gregory Shephard's video
documentary, Double-Blind, is a diaristic reality media event told from
two simultaneous, but different perspectives. Their investigations of
identity, sexuality, individual behavior, power and voyeurism take place
within the context of their personal relationship during a 1992 road
trip across the United States. –Patrick Clancy. Double-Blind, Sophie
Calle (France) and Gregory Shephard (USA), 1992, 76 min., video shown on
DVD.
2/17
Marietta , Georgia: Hwy 5 Film Festival 2006
http://highway5filmfest2006.blogspot.com/
11:30 PM, Hwy 5
HWY 5 FILM FESTIVAL 2006
First Annual Hwy 5 Film Festival 2006
2/17
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
7:30pm, 66 EAst 4th Street (Between Bowery & 2nd Ave.)
WOMEN OF COLOR FILM FESTIVAL
FEB. 17 (Fri), FEB. 18 (Sat), FEB> 19 (Sun) THROUGH HER EYES WOMEN OF
COLOR FILM FESTIVAL 2006 IN NEW YORK CITY. This is the third annual film
festival featuring a collection of thought-provoking films by and about
Women of Color (African-American, Native-American, Asian, Latina,
Caribbean, Middle Eastern, East Indian and African). We will be
presenting short and feature narrative films, and experimental works,
including, TAHARA by SARA RASHAD, NEITHER MILK, NOR YOGURT by ARTI JAIN,
ALL OUR SONS< FALLEN HEROES OF 9/11 by LILLIAN BENSON & SHANNON GEE, BAD
FLIRTING 101 by JANELLE JACKSON, THE VELVET CUFFS by JACQUEILINE
JENNINGS, DIRTY CLOTHES by FAYTHALLEGRA COLEMAN, and many other films.
For a complete festival schedule of film screenings, panels and
locations. Please log onto: www.womenofcolorpro.citymax.com, or call 212
501-3842, or email - email suppressed
2/17
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30, California College of the Arts, 1111Eighth St
FAME AS FORM: A LIGHTNESS OF BEING
Some say glamour is the mirror of emptiness. But to others pop is an
ethereal substance, though they mold it like plastic. Star Exercise by
Karla Milosevich revives the idle verbal output of Jamie Lee Curtis
while Badass Supermama by Etang Inyang engages Pam Grier's characters as
not quite role model. Anne McGuire stalks Mr. Coffee in Joe DiMaggio
1,2,3, and the pixelvision intimacy of Barbie's Audition spies Joe
Gibbons on the casting couch. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Kota
Ezawa marks the eternal return of the Kennedy/Lincoln parallel. In 1974,
Pullout/Fallout by Daniel Barnett turned a James Bond trailer into
political commentary. In Bruce Conner's Marilyn Times Five Monroe poses
and repeats "I'm through with Love" while Sid Laverents' Multiple
Sidosis made this amateur a star through form alone. Plus Andy Warhol's
TV Episode 6 features Carlene Carter, Pee Wee Herman, Sparks, and Frank
Zappa.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2006
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2/18
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
6:30 pm, Directors Lounge, Karl-Marx-Allee 137, 10243 Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany
URBAN RESEARCN ON FILM
Special Program at Directors Longe 2006 curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr --
city passages -- -/- Roger Warren Beebe, SAVE 2005, USA, 5:00, 16mm
European Premiere -/- Cornelia Erdmann, 7 Minuten zum Thema Tankstelle,
2001, DE, 7:00, DVD -/- Claus Bach, Stadtrundfahrt, 1998, DE, 23:00,
DVD -/- Noëlle Georg, A Promessa, 2004, Portugal, 4:15, DVD -/- Diane
Bonder, You Are Not From Here, 2005, USA, 9:00, vhs
2/18
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
TROOP 1500: GIRL SCOUTS BEYOND BARS
Part of the Documentary in Action: The Prison Series. Co-Presented by
Women Make Movies. Troop 1500: Girl Scouts Beyond Bars (2004, 68 mins.)
by Ellen Spiro and Karen Bernstein. Their mothers may be convicted
thieves, murderers and drug dealers, but the girls of Troop 1500 want to
be doctors, social workers and marine biologists. With meetings once a
month at Hilltop Prison in Gatesville, Texas, this innovative Girl Scout
program brings daughters together with their inmate mothers, offering
them a chance to rebuild their broken relationships. Intimately involved
with the troop for several years, the directors took their cameras far
beyond meetings to explore the painful context of broken families. Troop
1500 poignantly reveals how an inspired yet controversial effort by the
more than 90-year old Girl Scouts organization is working to help these
at-risk young girls deal with their unique circumstances and break the
cycle of crime within families.
2/18
Dundee, Scotland, UK: Kill Your Timid Totion
http://www.killyourtimidnotion.org
1pm, Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate
KILL YOUR TIMID NOTION
see 17th Feb 06 for details
2/18
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8pm, Aurora Picture Show, 800 Aurora Street
SIN AND REDEMPTION: AN A/V GEEKS 16MM MINI FILM SERIES - SCREENING 2:
CREEKY CHRISTIAN CINEMA
Churches have been using film to spread their message since the early
20th century. Of the thousands of films made for churches and
synagogues, the A/V Geeks have picked some of the strangest and
creepiest. Films include Youth Suicide Fantasy: Does Their Music Make
Them Do It?, Stalked, He Restoreth My Soul, PSAs and other odd religious
shorts. Spend your weekend with everybody's favorite educational film
collector, Skip Elsheimer of A/V Geeks, experiencing a night of [hiccup]
SIN followed by another of [amen] REDEMPTION. The first thematic
screening, Drinky Drink, is at Saint Arnold Brewing Company, proceeded
by Creepy Christian Cinema at Aurora Picture Show. About the Curator
Skip Elsheimer co-founded, maintains and shows films from the A/V Geeks
Educational Film Archive (www.avgeeks.com). He has more than 8,500 films
that he keeps in the spare bedrooms and basement of his house in
Raleigh, NC.
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2006
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2/19
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
6:30 pm, Directors Lounge, Karl-Marx-Allee 137, 10243 Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany
URBAN RESEARCH ON FILM
Special Program at Directors Longe 2006 curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr --
desire for modernity -- Mariana Vassileva, Journal, 2005, DE, 6:00, DVD
-/- Chi-jang Yin, Glass House, 2005, USA, 9:00, DVD -/- Ben Speth,
Satellite, 2005, Australien, 75:00, vhs -/- extra: Dirk Holzberg, n*ich
eskalopp, 1999, DE, 3:40, DV
2/19
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
HOW LITTLE WE KNOW OF OUR NEIGHBORS BY REBECCA BARON
Filmmaker Rebecca Baron in Person! How Little We Know of Our Neighbors
(2005, 50 mins., video), a new documentary by award-winning Los Angeles
filmmaker Rebecca Baron, is "an engrossing study of the Mass Observation
movement in Britain. Founded in 1937, Mass Observation was an eccentric
social science enterprise that used hidden cameras to record and
scrutinize behavior in public spaces. Initially concerned with
anthropology, the outfit became a civil spy unit during World War II
before re-emerging as a market research firm in the '50s. Baron--who has
shown her work at the New York, Rotterdam, Oberhausen and Vienna
festivals--considers this fascinating history in relation to
contemporary issues of surveillance, public self-disclosure and
privacy." (Redcat Theater). Showing with The Idea of North (1995, 14
mins., 16mm), a beautiful and mysterious film about an ill-fated polar
expedition.
2/19
Dundee, Scotland, UK: Kill Your Timid Totion
http://www.killyourtimidnotion.org
1pm, Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate
KILL YOUR TIMID NOTION
see 17th Feb for details
2/19
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
AN EVENING WITH PETER TSCHERKASSKY AND EVE HELLER
Filmforum welcomes from Austria these two superb filmmakers, featuring
Tscherkassky's glorious Cinemascope films and Heller's hypnotic works.
2/19
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St
SHIRLEY CLARKE'S 1961 THE CONNECTION
A dancer/choreographer turned filmmaker, Shirley Clarke was one of the
few women making any kind of film in the 1950s and '60s. Her first
feature, made after several avant-garde shorts and before her
better-known The Cool World and Portrait of Jason, was restored last
year by UCLA from original 35mm negatives. Based on Jack Gelber's play
about a group of junkies hanging out in a New York loft waiting for
their fix, The Connection is part beat narrative, part interrogation of
documentary form, part portrait of a subculture. Noted for Clarke's
innovative camera-choreography, it was banned for its obscenity but won
the Critic's Prize at Cannes.
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