From: weekly listing (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Feb 25 2006 - 08:38:08 PST
This week [February 26 - March 5, 2006] in avant garde cinema
NEW FILM/VIDEO:
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"Six Bullets" by Jon Kline
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=236.ann
"_grau" by Robert Seidel
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=235.ann
"The One and the Many" by Andre Silva
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=234.ann
NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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2nd piXelDANce ViDeo aRt feStiVaL (Thessaloniki, Greece; Deadline: March 20, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=507.ann
National Queer Arts Festival (san francisco, ca 94110; Deadline: March 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=508.ann
PEC Independent Film Championship (Colorado Springs, CO; Deadline: November 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=509.ann
Call for filmmaking stories (Toronto, Canada; Deadline: June 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=510.ann
Billyburg Short Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY, USA; Deadline: April 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=511.ann
Antimatter Underground Film Festival (Victoria, BC, Canada; Deadline: May 31, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=512.ann
ARTSFEST FILM FESTIVAL (Harrisburg, PA USA; Deadline: April 07, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=513.ann
Cornerhouse (Manchester, UK; Deadline: March 10, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=514.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
Microcinema International (Houston, TX, United States; Deadline: March 31, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=475.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
Microcinema International (Houston, TX, United States; Deadline: March 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=485.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
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
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
2nd piXelDANce ViDeo aRt feStiVaL (Thessaloniki, Greece; Deadline: March 20, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=507.ann
National Queer Arts Festival (san francisco, ca 94110; Deadline: March 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=508.ann
Cornerhouse (Manchester, UK; Deadline: March 10, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=514.ann
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Two By Bruce Baillie: Quick Billy and Valentin De Las Sierras [February 26, Chicago, Illinois]
* Looking At Surveillance [February 26, Los Angeles, California]
* Luis Recoder & Sandra Gibson [February 26, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]
* <I>Lion's Love</I>: Varda Responds To Warhol [February 26, San Francisco, California]
* Limited theatrical Release / Pieces of A Dream [February 27, Chicago, Illinois]
* How To Be A Canadian [February 27, Houston, Texas]
* Patrick and MichèLe Bokanowski: Angel's Flight [February 27, Los Angeles, California]
* The Digital Film Event [February 28, Berkeley, California]
* Abstraction and visual Music: Contemporary Animation From Los Angeles
Artists [February 28, Los Angeles, California]
* Pawel Wojtasik's Hd video "The Aquarium" [February 28, New York, New York]
* Eyes Without A Face [February 28, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* The Free Screen - Karl Kels In Person! [March 1, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Flick Harrison's Marie Tyrell [March 1, Vancouver, British Columbia]
* The Sharpest Point [March 2, Chicago, Illinois]
* Sound videos: visual Music [March 2, Miami Beach, FL]
* Sandra Gibson + Luis Recoder: Recent Film Installations [March 2, New York, New York]
* Guy Sherwin In Person [March 2, Paris, France]
* Split Pillow Showcase: Chicago360 [March 3, Chicago, Illinois]
* Firestarter: A Biofeedback Performance [March 3, Houston, Texas]
* The International Domefest [March 3, Oakland, CA]
* Split Pillow Showcase: Chicago360 [March 4, Chicago, Illinois]
* Are You Talking To Me, New video From Los Angeles, Volume 7 [March 4, Houston, Texas]
* Lifi [March 4, Los Angeles, California]
* Gregg Biermann Program [March 4, New York, New York]
* Sandra Gibson + Luis Recoder: Recent Film Installations [March 4, New York, New York]
* Arthur Lipsett Revival [March 4, San Francisco, California]
* Split Pillow Showcase: Chicago360 [March 5, Chicago, Illinois]
* Guy Debord Film Retrospective [March 5, New York, New York]
* <I>Making History In Avante-Garde Film</I>: GuzmáN's <I>Chile</I> and
Eisenberg's <I>Cooperation of Parts</I> [March 5, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2006
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2/26
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
TWO BY BRUCE BAILLIE: QUICK BILLY AND VALENTIN DE LAS SIERRAS
Two little-seen classics (plus some extras!) by the great experimental
filmmaker Bruce Baillie. Valentin De Las Sierras (1967, 10 mins.) Skin,
eyes, knees, horses, hair, sun, earth. Old Song of Mexican hero
Valentin, sung by blind Jose Santollo Nasido en Santa Cruz de la
Soledad; Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico. Quick Billy (1967-70, 56 mins,) "is a
personal meditation conducted across an American landscape. 'I consider
Quick Billy a kind of interior documentary,' writes Baillie. The
filmmaker translates The Tibetan Book of the Dead into a dream-like
diary and meditation on American space. This meditation concludes with a
sepia-toned mini-Western—'Set in Kansas in 1893'—featuring Baillie
himself as the eponymous gun-slinging hero. Baillie describes the film
as both 'A Horse Opera in Four Reels' and as a film that offers 'The
experience of transformation between life and death, death and birth, or
rebirth in four reels.' It is, therefore, something of a Western and an
Eastern." (UWM) Showing with 6 uncut camera rolls. Numbered 14, 41, 43,
46, 47, and 52 (16 mins.) The 'rolls' took the form of a correspondence,
or THEATRE, between their author and Stan Brakhage, in the winter of
1968-69. They're kind of magic cousins of the film.
2/26
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
LOOKING AT SURVEILLANCE
Featuring Rebecca Baron's "How Little We Know of Our Neighbors" (2005,
video, 49 minutes) - her experimental documentary on London's history of
surveillance - and Michael Gitlin's "The Birdpeople" (2004, 16mm, 61
min), his multi-faceted look at bird watchers. Both filmmakers in
person!
2/26
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh Filmmakers
http://www.pghfilmmakers.org/
7:00 pm, Melwood Screening Room – 477 Melwood Ave, Oakland
LUIS RECODER & SANDRA GIBSON
These two New York artists will present an innovative performance &
installation using film and light. Gibson and Recoder have shown their
collaborative film performances and installations at film festivals,
museums and galleries around the world. Their work explores the physical
properties of the film medium itself: sculptural, painterly, and
tactile. From the inventive ways they create images on the actual
celluloid strip, to the use of multiple projection that incorporates
site-specific space and live performance, they are two of the most vital
young artists working in the field of expanded cinema today. Their light
installation Light Spill, will be on view in the gallery until March 19.
2/26
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St
LION'S LOVE: VARDA RESPONDS TO WARHOL
A "meta-Warhol movie" according to Vincent Canby, Lion's Love (1969) is
the fruit of Agnès Varda's foray into 1960s US pop and avant-garde
culture. While Viva (of Warhol fame), Rado, and Ragni (both of Hair) are
a ménage-à-trois looking for a future in LA, Shirley Clarke, played
somewhat unwillingly by Shirley Clarke, attempts to leave behind her
experimental work in New York (see The Connection above) for a Hollywood
career, and Bobby Kennedy is assassinated on television. Varda takes on
a few Warhol tropes, but Clarke's uneasy presence and Varda's whimsy
shift the tone. The film is playful and witty, spicing up its
fascination with a bit of cynicism in this tribute to a '60s American
way of life
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2006
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2/27
Chicago, Illinois: One Way Prodyuctions
http://one-wayproductions.com
7pm, 210 W. 87th St.
LIMITED THEATRICAL RELEASE / PIECES OF A DREAM
OPENING IN A LIMITED THEATRICAL RELEASE!!!!! Monday, February 27 -
Thursday, March 2 at 7pm ICE Theaters: Chatham 14 210 W. 87th St.
Chicago, IL 60620 Check theater listings at 773-783-8711 for additional
showtimes running thru March LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD BY HOLLYWOOD! Visit
the movie industry website www.imdb.com to rate the film & post
comments! Tickets on sale February 24th @ box office
RIGHTHERE,,-www.one-wayproductions.com*** to see movie trailer
2/27
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.
2/27
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
PATRICK AND MICHèLE BOKANOWSKI: ANGEL’S FLIGHT
L'Ange (The Angel, France, 1977–82, 70 min., 35 mm), directed by Patrick
Bokanowski. Preceded by Pour un pianiste, composed by Michèle Bokanowski
L'Ange, the legendary opus by French filmmaker and artist Patrick
Bokanowski, offers new adventures in perception in its depiction of the
climbing of a giant stairway—where the characters seem to be prisoners
of an endlessly repeated action on each floor. The film features a score
by Michèle Bokanowski, whose intricately composed musical textures endow
the visuals with a mysterious meaning. Defying all traditional
boundaries, this distinctive collaboration between the Bokanowskis opens
cinema to alternative possibilities of expression: a purely mental
vision and a radical metamorphosis of reality. In person: Patrick and
Michèle Bokanowski
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2006
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2/28
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30, 2575 Bancroft Way @ Bowditch
THE DIGITAL FILM EVENT
Introduction and Booksigning by Trinh T. Minh-ha Filmmaker and UC
Berkeley professor Trinh T. Minh-ha's most recent book The Digital Film
Event looks at how technology changes our perception of reality and
sense of self. To mark its publication, we present a selection of her
digital works. Two recent videos relate to the installation The Desert
Is Watching, presented at the Kyoto Biennale: The Desert Is Watching
(2003, 11.5 mins) is a meditation on the desert landscape; Bodies of the
Desert (2005, 20 mins) features vivid body art and land art by Jean-Paul
Bourdier in which both the desert and the human figure are transformed
by pattern and color. "In the desert, everything moves. Nothing is ever
the same. . . . Otherwise, in the desert, nothing moves" (T. T. M., J-P.
B.). The Fourth Dimension (2001, 87 mins), Trinh's first videotape,
explores the culture of Japan. She "finds great visual pleasure in the
everyday, composing and decomposing the social landscape, while
constructing a poetic grid of temporalities, symbolic meanings, and
ritual. Time is essential—the time of the video frame, the time of the
ritualized past, the time of culture speeding toward its consummation"
(Steve Seid). • (Total running time: 118 mins, Color, DVCAM, From the
artist)
2/28
Los Angeles, California: iotaCenter
http://www.iotaCenter.org
7:30 pm, UCLA James Bridges Theatre (Melnitz 1409)
ABSTRACTION AND VISUAL MUSIC: CONTEMPORARY ANIMATION FROM LOS ANGELES
ARTISTS
Screenings of films followed by discussion with the artists who made
them: Michael Scroggins, Mar Elepano, Jim Ellis, Vibeke Sorensen, JWalt
Adamczyk, and Mondi. Additional films by Jules Engel, Adam Beckett, and
Kathy Smith. Discussion moderated by Jim Latham.
2/28
New York, New York: Alona Kagan Gallery
http://www.alonakagangallery.com
11AM-5:30PM (Tues-Sat), 540 West 29th Street, (bet 10 & 11 Ave)
PAWEL WOJTASIK'S HD VIDEO "THE AQUARIUM"
Runs every day (except Sundays and Mondays) till MARCH 4.// PAWEL
WOJTASIK is a 2005 artist-in-residence of the LAB HD Outreach Program of
the VOOM HD Networks. His work has been shown at Rotterdam Int. Film
Festival, Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, Spain, and is included in the
upcoming San Francisco Int. Film Festival (through Pacific Film
Archives). THE AQUARIUM is a 22-minute HD video art piece shot mostly in
Alaska, in the area affected by the Exxon Valdez oil spill and at the
aquarium built by Exxon on the site. THE AQUARIUM incorporates images of
Alaskan landscape and of sea mammals on exhibit at the aquarium. It is
accompanied by text and electronic music.// THE AQUARIUM is on view
every day (except Sunday and Monday) until March 4.
2/28
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 p.m., Albright College Center for the Arts
EYES WITHOUT A FACE
Eyes Without a Face (1959, 90 min.) by GEORGES FRANJU. A true classic of
the horror genre, this film "is for me the most chilling expression in
cinema of our ancient preoccupation with the nature of identity. Its
core motif is the mask, here an uncanny thing of smooth, hard plastic
worn by a young woman (Christiane) to conceal a face destroyed by an
auto accident…. Her father, an eminent Parisian surgeon, is obsessively
engages in an attempt to reconstruct that face. But his cosmetic project
is a travesty of the impulse to heal, and Christiane, despite her
disfigurement, remains in possession of what her father has lost…- a
spiritual faculty, an idea of the good: a soul.… This is a story about
the potential for evil of science in general and of medicine in
particular, and not coincidentally it's also about patriarchy… the
father's tyranny over his daughter."- Patrick McGrath (French with
English subtitles)
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 2006
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3/1
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 - KARL KELS 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,
Programmer, The Free Screen. KARL KELS IN PERSON! For more than two
decades, German filmmaker Karl Kels has produced a series of unique and
uncompromising films that explore the interactions between animals
(including people), the spaces they inhabit, and the temporality of
film. A former student of Peter Kubelka and Robert Breer, Kels works to
exacting standards, which led him to build his own laboratory to process
his films. Employing a highly restricted working method – fixed camera
positions, no sound, unstaged subject matter – Kels explores the
fictionalization of time in cinema, and the tensions between documentary
footage and plastic editing. Kels's subjects range from haystacks in a
field to hippopotamuses in a zoo or alcoholics on the streets of New
York, but his sensibility is consistent, often humorous, and always
refreshing. "To look at the films of Karl Kels is to discover anew the
extraordinary potential of cinema as a visual language. . . . [They]
become intelligent plays with order and chaos, repetition and change,
expectation and the unforeseen" (Miryam Van Lier, Millennium Film
Journal). Most of the films are Toronto premieres. Special thanks to the
Media City, Windsor, for their assistance with this programme. Kels'
films in tonight's programme include: HAYSTACKS (West Germany 1981 2
minutes 16mm); CONDENSATION TRAIL (West Germany 1982 3.5 minutes 16mm);
SLUICE (West Germany 1983 5 minutes 16mm); BOWERY/FRAGMENT (West Germany
1987 7 minutes 16mm); RHINOCEROSES (West Germany 1987 9 minutes 16mm);
STARLINGS (Germany 1991 6 minutes 16mm); HIPPOPOTAMUSES (Germany 1993 35
minutes 35mm); and PRINCE HOTEL (Germany 1997 7.5 minutes 16mm).
Co-presented with the Goethe-Institut Toronto. Karl Kels will present a
Carte Blanche programme of short films at the Goethe-Institut's Kinowelt
Hall, 163 King St. West, on Thursday, March 2 at 7:00 p.m. See
www.goethe.de/toronto for more information. All screenings in THE FREE
SCREEN 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.
3/1
Vancouver, British Columbia: Spartacus Books
http://www.spartacusbooks.org/
7:00pm, 319 West Hastings (2nd floor)
FLICK HARRISON'S MARIE TYRELL
1974 meets 2006: Underground Vancouver filmmaker Flick Harrison adapts
D.M. Fraser's tour de force, Marie Tyrell VANCOUVER PREMIERE! Marie
Tyrell is a humanizing portrait of a woman on death row, from
inquisitive teen to uncompromising revolutionary leader. Like the 1974
short story by legendary local author D.M Fraser, Harrison's film weaves
multiple perspectives, splintered time and forceful poetic language into
a startling examination of the politics of dissent. * BEST NARRATIVE
FILM - Northwest Film & Video Fest * Mixing painterly compositions,
traditional narrative, and a richly-layered bombardment of symbols and
imagery, Marie Tyrell hijacks the aesthetics of high-art and
hostage-video, of indymedia and indiewood. "This film really knocked me
out; it's a great story, and the style is appropriately rad." - Sam
Green, Director, The Weather Underground Cineworks Independent
Filmmakers Society and Spartacus Books present Film Interactive: a
Cinematic Salon with Flick Harrison Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 7pm At
Spartacus Books, 319 West Hastings - admission by donation Vancouver's
premiere screening of Marie Tyrell, a short film and interactive video
based on a short story by D.M. Fraser followed by conversation with the
filmmaker and Camille Baker, artist and interactive media instructor.
Interactive DVD: Buttons in the video can also "interrogate" the
narrative, and the politics of the film's production, by calling up
documentary segments: for instance, an interview with Erik Paulsson, who
sat on a BC Arts funding jury which rejected Marie Tyrell. Including
original footage of Noam Chomsky, Svend Robinson, Larry Campbell, the
Woodwards Squat, Arts Council Jurists, and antiwar protests. After
screening the video, the Cinematic Salon will see and discuss the
interactive elements. "?Psychedelic polemic? recalls the whole spectrum
of 1970s political energy?" - Geist Magazine Rare Screening: Premiered
at Portland's Northwest Film and Video Fest in November, 2004 - and
awarded Best Narrative Film. Marie Tyrell has since been passed hand to
hand samizdat-style. In the days since the 2003 closure of micro cinema
the Blinding Light, Vancouver has been without a venue to exhibit, and
therefore foster, the work of local, non-mainstream film artists. "Films
by Flick promise to provoke a range of reactions, from simple disgust to
something as noble as social enlightenment." - Katherine Monk, Vancouver
Sun
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THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 2006
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3/2
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/2006/february/edge.html
6:00 p.m., 164 N. State St.
THE SHARPEST POINT
Book launch and screening. Curators and authors Chris Gehman and Steve
Reinke in person! In celebration of the publication of School of the Art
Institute of Chicago faculty member Steve Reinke and Chris Gehman's
recent animation anthology, THE SHARPEST POINT, tonight's program spans
the entirety of animation history, tracing subterranean cinematic
currents peculiar to the form. Curated by Reinke and Gehman, the works
range from Emile Cohl's pioneering FANTASMAGORIE (1908, 2 min.) and the
mind-boggling jazz age surrealism of the Fleischers' SNOW-WHITE (1933, 7
min.) to classic and contemporary works of cameraless abstraction and
recent videos created for gallery exhibition. FREE RADICALS (Len Lye,
1959, 5 min.); ELEMENT OF LIGHT Richard Reeves, 2004, 5 min.); ZUSE
STRIP (Caspar Stracke, 2003, 8 min.); A FEATHER STARE AT THE DARK (Tsuji
Naoyuki, 2002, 17 min.); THE QUICK AND THE DEAD (Stephen Andrews, 2004,
2 min. loop); JAPANESE KITCHEN: THREE STORIES (Tabaimo, 2000, 9 min.);
GREAT EMARICAN MUSIC (Aaron Ray, 2005, 7 min.); RED BUFFALO SKYDIVE
(Jude Norris, 2001, 4 min.). 35mm, 16mm, and BetaSP video. There will be
a book signing in the café/gallery before and after the screening.
1908-2005, Canada/France/Japan/UK/USA, 70 min.
3/2
Miami Beach, FL: Subtropics Experimental Music Festival
http://www.subtropics.org
9 PM, Miami Beach Cinematheque
SOUND VIDEOS: VISUAL MUSIC
This year's Subtropics videos celebrate Visual Music, an art form that
merges the VJ and the abstract film tradition. Some of these works, such
as Emile Tobenfeld's, were originally performed live as concert-style
presentations, while others, such as those by Bill Alves and Beth
Warshafsky, produce interactive relationships between computers, music,
and human gestures. The cutting edge program also includes works by
Andrew D. Lyons, Michael Betancourt, Michael Mantra, Mavie Cahn, Nancy
Herman, and Miami's Rey Parla.
3/2
New York, New York: Diapason Gallery
http://www.diapasongallery.org/
Opening reception: 6 - 8pm, 1026 Sixth Avenue
SANDRA GIBSON + LUIS RECODER: RECENT FILM INSTALLATIONS
Diapason Gallery presents Sandra Gibson + Luis Recoder: Recent Film
Installations. Reception for the artists: March 2 from 6 - 8pm
Exhibition dates: March 4, 18, 25 - 6pm - Midnight
3/2
Paris, France: Collectif Jeune Cinema
http://www.cjcinema.org/
8:00 pm, 21 rue de la Clef
GUY SHERWIN IN PERSON
Guy Sherwin has been making films in London since the 1970s. These are
organic, serial works in which the filmmaking apparatus engages concepts
of space and time. His films, installations and performances have been
featured in many festivals and international avant-garde film events.
Short Film Series 1975-1998 7x3mins silent 21mins Night Train 1979 sound
2mins Views from Home 2005(1987) mini dv 10mins Animal Studies 1998-2003
silent 27mins
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FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 2006
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3/3
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
SPLIT PILLOW SHOWCASE: CHICAGO360
Selected Filmmakers in Person at Each Screening! Co-Presented by Split
Pillow. Chicago360 (2005, 60 mins.) - the premier of an innovative new
documentary by Chicago's own Split Pillow. A time-lapsed history of
Logan Square, a performance art group that turns discarded toys into
musical instruments, a look at how lives and space intersect in
Lakeview, the role of race and class in the changing landscape of Pilsen
and the thought-provoking public art of a late night El rider intersect
in this unique creative documentary collaboration. Join Chicago's
award-winning film incubator Split Pillow as filmmakers CJ Dugan, Jill
Bzibziak, Casey Clark, Erik Gernand and Jim Vendiola take you on an
eclectic tour of some of Chicago's more obscure and interesting places
and personalities.
3/3
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8pm, Brasil Cafe's Patio, 2604 Dunlavy
FIRESTARTER: A BIOFEEDBACK PERFORMANCE
Firestarter (written by Stephen King, staring the young Drew Barrymore)
is screened. Later viewers are invited to strap themselves into our
biofeedback device. Device reads pulse, blood pressure, galvanetic skin
response. By various techniques--meditation, visualization,
hyperventilating--participating viewers can control data coming out of
device. Biodata from device is sent to visual display so users and
audience can see what's going on. Biodata controls movement of a spark
device located across the courtyard. By lowering energy level, users can
lower spark device to ignition area. Once spark device is lowered into
place, users can start fire by raising energy level. First person to
start fire wins! About the Curator Mark Allen is the Founding Director
of Machine Project Los Angeles, a non-profit organization investigating
the connections between art, science, and technology. He is an assistant
professor of art at Pomona College, and artist in residence at the
California Institute of the Arts, Center for Integrated Media. He
currently has possession of five deep fat fryers, and is a table tennis
enthusiast.
3/3
Oakland, CA: Chabot Space & Science Center
http://www.chabotspace.org
7pm and 9pm, 10000 Skyline Blvd.
THE INTERNATIONAL DOMEFEST
The International Domefest at the Chabot Space & Science Center is the
Bay Area premiere of the finalists & winners of the 2004-2005 "Domie"
Awards. The programs feature inspiring examples of immersive digital
art, science, entertainment, education and experimental works created by
artists around the world for digital "full dome" theaters. All shows
will be presented on Chabot's newly installed ultra high definition
state of the art immersive 70' dome environment. In addition, all
attendees are invited to participate in a Sunday morning workshop to get
a more hands-on look at the tools and technology used to create full
dome content and to hear more about the real-time capabilities of the
platform. Sign-ups will be taken at the screenings. Doors open at 6:30.
$1.00 Beer and Pizza will be served. Bring your friends and associates
who are interested in the NEXT BIG THING in animation, film-making,
gaming and experimental art and visualization. Additional discount rates
available for groups of 8 or more. Tickets $13.00. $2.00 discount for
students, Chabot members, or just bring in a copy of this posting. Call
the box office 510 336-7373 to reserve or book online at:
http://www.museumtix.com
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SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 2006
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3/4
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
SPLIT PILLOW SHOWCASE: CHICAGO360
See March 3.
3/4
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8pm, Aurora Picture Show, 800 Aurora Street
ARE YOU TALKING TO ME, NEW VIDEO FROM LOS ANGELES, VOLUME 7
Returning to Aurora for round seven, Mark Allen, founder of Machine
Project, Los Angeles, brings a selection of new video works. Subjects
include being lost in the desert waiting for the shuttle bus, Yeti
psychedelia, speech therapy doppleganger, mechanical horses and a tragic
cowboys, childhood hot dog trauma, and two men named wolf and daffodil.
Videos by Takeshi Murata, Kelly Sears, Julie Lequin, Harry Dodge and
Stanya Kahn, and Adam Lassey and Holly Vesecky.
3/4
Los Angeles, California: Raid Projects
http://www.raidprojects.com
7-10pm, 602 Moulton Ave., The Brewery
LIFI
Raid Projects presents, In the main gallery: LoFi Steve DeGroodt & Brian
Bosworth, In North Gallery: recent work by Kiel Johnson, In the Project
Room: Ellen Hedberg March 4 – April 4 Opening Reception: Saturday, March
4th, 7-10pm. Raid Projects cordially invites you to the opening of LoFi
featuring the work of artists Brian Bosworth and Steve DeGroodt. Both
artists work with common materials including found objects, transforming
them through specific juxtapositions while never disguising their
origins. LoFi describes a particular nature of sound favored by both
artists, one which favors a lack of transparency in the instrument as
opposed to a highly refined, illusionary resolution. As in the work of
John Cage, boundaries which formerly separated intention from accident,
music from noise, and especially the fourth wall between audience and
performer begin to crack and crumble. Steve DeGroodt has shown locally
and internationally, building a reputation in the Los Angeles Art scene
for over twenty years. His work is currently represented by Carl Berg
Gallery in LA. Brian Bosworth is a local California artist who has shown
all over the state since earning his Master's Degree at Claremont
University in 2002. His kinetic work is influenced heavily by the work
of Samuel Beckett. Also in the North Gallery: recent cardboard sculpture
and drawing work by Kiel Johnson. Johnson is represented by Mark Moore
Gallery in Los Angeles. In the Project Room: The sculpture of
artist-in-residence Ellen Hedberg.
3/4
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm Saturday evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between 2nd Ave. & the Bowery)
GREGG BIERMANN PROGRAM
THE HILLS ARE ALIVE (7.5 min.-2005), SPHERICAL COORDINATES (8
min.-2005), THE WATERS OF CASABLANCA (6 min.-2002), CINEMA STUDY (7
min.-2003), HACKENSACK MOTET (5 min.-2006), GOAT SONG (5 min.-2003),
PARADISO (23 min.-2003) Gregg Biermann studied filmmaking, video and
film criticism at SUNY Binghamton, went on to the San Francisco Art
Institute and then to Chicago where he helped organize an experimental
film/video showcase. He has been living in New Jersey since 1998 where
he teaches computer animation production and cinema studies. "My current
work often deals with the power of cinema to transform the familiar
through particular and unusual digital production and editing
strategies. These strategies often reveal unexpected and obscure
qualities of the subject matter, as well as essential features of the
production process or viewing experience itself. My recent works can
only have been achieved in a digital age and so they reflect the often
hidden nature of new media. Examples of this are my epic computer
animated MATERIAL EXCESS as well as the various animated shorts
including ORANGE and WATERS OF CASABLANCA. All of these pieces make
extensive use of the obscure 'filmstrip' function in photoshop. This
strange digital technique is in some ways related to the cameraless
animation techniques of directly manipulating the surface of the strip
of film, which has been practiced in the film avant-garde since Len
Lye's work of the 1930s. However, my own recent works are deeply rooted
in computer graphics, computer animation and digital video and therefore
the look and feel of my recent work also diverges significantly from
that of film. This is especially true of my recent SPHERICAL COORDINATES
which was created with the same 3D animation software used to create
character animation features like SHREK."- Gregg Biermann.
3/4
New York, New York: Diapason Gallery
http://www.diapasongallery.org/index.html
6pm - Midnight, 1026 Sixth Avenue
SANDRA GIBSON + LUIS RECODER: RECENT FILM INSTALLATIONS
Diapason Gallery presents Sandra Gibson + Luis Recoder: Recent Film
Installations. Reception for the artists: March 2 from 6 - 8pm.
Exhibition dates: March 4, 18, 25 - 6pm - Midnight
3/4
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
ARTHUR LIPSETT REVIVAL
We’re honored to present an extremely rare program of films by
legendary Canadian collagist Arthur Lipsett, the found-footage essayist
of the ‘50s and ‘60s who tragically took his own life before
his legacy could be secured. The LA-based Global A group (Johannes and
Lars Auvinen) jet up for an in-person launch of their painstaking
preservation of the Lipsett catalogue core, seriously at-risk with the
crumbling of the Canadian National Film Board stewardship. Re-mastering
in Berlin’s best sound studios, they have gone to the extraordinary
measure of making vinyl pressings of the soundtracks to 21-87; Very
Nice,Very Nice; A Trip Down Memory Lane; and Free Fall. The Brothers
Auvinen will play turntable selections before these titles receive the
very best digital projection from our gallery’s newly-acquired
unit; the collectible records will be available during the show. After
intermission, Lipsett’s half-hr. Fluxes is screened in its original
16mm format.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006
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3/5
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
SPLIT PILLOW SHOWCASE: CHICAGO360
See March 3.
3/5
New York, New York: NOT BORED!
http://www.notbored.org
5 pm tomidnight, Chashama, 217 42d Street NYC
GUY DEBORD FILM RETROSPECTIVE
NOT BORED! presents— GUY DEBORD FILM RETROSPECTIVE Sunday 5 March 2006
In response to the way he was slandered in the French press during its
coverage of the murder of his friend, Gerard Lebovici, on 5 March 1984,
Guy Debord withdrew all six of his films from world-wide distribution.
It wasn't until shortly after his death (a suicide) on 30 November 1994
that two of Debord's films were finally screened on French TV. Finally,
in November 2005, Debord's films were re-released as a collection. Most
of these films have never been screened in New York. In this
retrospective, all six of Debord's films will be shown in chronological
order and in the original French. No subtitles. Translations and other
relevant printed materials will be available. 5 pm Hurlements en faveur
de Sade (1952) 7 pm Sur le Passage de Quelques Personnes (1959) 8 pm
Critique de la Separation (1961) 9 pm La Societe du Spectacle (1973) 11
pm Refutation de tous les Jugements (1975) midnight In girum imus nocte
et consumimu igni (1978) Tickets: $30 for the whole evening, $20 after 9
pm, $10 after 11 pm. Doors open at 4:30pm. CHASHAMA 217 East 42d Street
(between 3rd and 2d Ave.) New York City. NOT BORED! notbored.org
3/5
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St
MAKING HISTORY IN AVANTE-GARDE FILM: GUZMáN’S CHILE AND EISENBERG'S
COOPERATION OF PARTS
Back in the Bay Area to take a position at UC Berkeley, longtime
Cinematheque collaborator Jeffrey Skoller joins us to introduce two
evenings of films discussed in his new book, Shadows, Specters, Shards:
Making History in Avant-Garde Film. Tonight's program features two very
different modes of excavating autobiographical and historical memory. In
Chile, Obstinate Memory, Patricio Guzmán returns to Chile after 25 years
to examine re-membered traces of the Allende coup and its horrific
aftermath, while Daniel Eisenberg journeys across Europe to revisit his
parents' experience surviving the Shoah in Cooperation of Parts. In
both, filmmaking becomes a process of mourning and a means of tracing
the past's continual resurfacing. Please join us for a small reception
and book signing after the screening.
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