From: weekly listing (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2006 - 09:45:15 PST
This week [March 5 - 12, 2006] in avant garde cinema
[Resending due to earlier email problem, sorry.]
NEW FILM/VIDEO:
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"Christmas Toy Lights Me" by John Porter
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=237.ann
NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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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
Flatland Film Festival (Lubbock, TX USA; Deadline: April 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=515.ann
Perform.Media (Bloomington, IN USA; Deadline: May 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=516.ann
Dinnerware Contemporary Arts (Tucson, AZ, USA; Deadline: March 31, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=517.ann
tentative (Chicago, Illinois, USA; Deadline: April 12, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=518.ann
DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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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
Microcinema International (Houston, TX, United States; Deadline: March 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=485.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
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
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
Studio 27 (San Francisco, CA USA; Deadline: March 31, 2006)
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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
Cornerhouse (Manchester, UK; Deadline: March 10, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=514.ann
Dinnerware Contemporary Arts (Tucson, AZ, USA; Deadline: March 31, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=517.ann
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Mary Ellen Bute Centennial [March 6, Brooklyn, New York]
* Quantam Leaps [March 6, Houston, Texas]
* In Loving Memory: the Films of Robert Todd [March 7, Portland, Oregon]
* Grey Gardens [March 7, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Quantum Leaps With Astria Suparak! [March 7, Shreveport, Louisiana]
* In Loving Memory: the Films of Robert Todd [March 8, Portland, Oregon]
* Quantum Leaps With Astria Suparak! [March 8, Ruston, Louisiana]
* Independent Exposure 11th Season Premiere [March 8, Seattle, Washington]
* Quantum Leaps With Astria Suparak! [March 9, COLLEGE STATION, TX]
* Dan Sandin: 35 Years of Electronic Art [March 9, Chicago, Illinois]
* Free Independent, International Films At the Hirshhorn [March 9, Washington, DC]
* Video Feedback: Astria Suparak [March 11, Houston, Texas]
* Independent Exposure 2006 - Spring Edition [March 11, Houston, Texas]
* Group Program- Reardon, Greene, Park, Valdez, Zedd [March 11, New York, New York]
* This Is For La Raza [March 11, Regina, Saskatchewan]
* Women of Color Film Festival X 2 [March 11, San Francisco, California]
* Brecke On Darfur + Daniel On New Orleans [March 11, San Francisco, California]
* Interiors and Exteriors: Film, video, and Installation Works By Lynn
Marie Kirby [March 12, Chicago, Illinois]
* Jennifer Reeves In Person With "The Time We Killed" [March 12, Los Angeles, California]
* The Gentle But Searing visions of Soon-Mi Yoo [March 12, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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 to 1 am, Chashama, NYC, 217 42d Street
GUY DEBORD FILM RETROSPECTIVE
Sunday, 5 March 2006: a chronological screening of all six of Guy
Debord's films. No subtitles. Translations and other printed materials
available. $5 each, doors open at 4:30 pm. Chashama: 217 42d Street, at
3rd Ave, NYC 5 pm: Hurlements en faveur de Sade, 1952 7 pm: Sur le
Passage de Quelques Personnes, 1969 8 pm: Critique de la Separation,
1961 9 pm: Society of the Spectacle, 1973 11 pm: Refutation de Tous les
Jugements, 1975 midnight: In girum imus nocte et consumumir igni, 1978
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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MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2006
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3/6
Brooklyn, New York: Ocularis
http://www.ocularis.net
8 PM, 70 North 6th Street
MARY ELLEN BUTE CENTENNIAL
Please join Ocularis in celebrating the centennial of pioneering
animator Mary Ellen Bute. Responsible for some of the earliest abstract
films in America, and later one of the first artists to use
oscilloscopes, she is also known for her collaborations with the likes
of Norman McClaren and Leon Theremin, among others. This evening, we
present a selection of nearly all her shorts. Teaming the formal rigor
of Oskar Fischinger with the zip of a Merrie Melody, Bute's visual music
is renowned for its brilliant use of color, light, and lyrical
geometries. With an introduction by writer and historian Cecile Starr.
Work to be screened: Synchrony, 5 min, 1932, B&W; Rhythm in Light, 3
min, 1934, B&W; Synchrony No. 2, 6 min, 1935, B&W; Dada, 3 min, 1936,
B&W; Parabola, 9 min, 1937, B&W; Escape, 4 min, 1937, Color; Spook
Sport, 8 min, 1939, Color; Tarantella, 5 min, 1940, Color; Polka Graph,
4 min, 1947, Color; Color Rhapsody, 6 min, 1948, Color; Imagination, 3
min, 1948, Color; New Sensations in Sound, 3 min, 1949, Color;
Abstronic, 7 min, 1952, Color. Ticket Price - $6
3/6
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8:30pm doors open, 9pm screening, Aurora @ Clark's, 314 Main Street near Preston
QUANTAM LEAPS
Guest Curator Astria Suparak - present at this screening Quantum leap, a
physics term deriving from the mid 1900s indicating significant and
swift advances (originally via a sudden shift in energy within an atom),
became the title of an early 1990s American television series featuring
a time travelling, body-swapping, do-gooder scientist. In 2005 this
inspirational screening of new video follows suit, cataloguing heroes,
compressing history, and hallucinating futures. Works by Daniel Barrow,
Philippe Blanchard, Daniel Cockburn, Dearraindrop, Emily Vey Duke and
Cooper Battersby, Jim Finn, Caroline Koebel, J. Macdonell, Marriage, Jim
Munroe, Liz Rosenfeld, Seth Price, and Andy Puls.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2006
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3/7
Portland, Oregon: Cinema Project
http://www.cinemaproject.org/
7:30pm, 922 SE Ankeny Street
IN LOVING MEMORY: THE FILMS OF ROBERT TODD
IN LOVING MEMORY—THE FILMS OF ROBERT TODD Robert Todd has made over
twenty films since 1990. His visually stunning body of work, not easily
defined or categorized, comes from a deeply personal place, which is
quiet, thoughtful, and curious. Cinema Project is excited to have Robert
Todd in attendance to present three of his films that look at the
personal, political, and social ways in which we choose to live. Todd's
most recent film, In Loving Memory uses the common ground of our own
mortality as its starting point to explore sovereignty of life and
criminal justice in the US. Using narration, dramatic re-enactments, and
footage shot at maximum-security penitentiaries across the United
States, the film provides a glimpse into the lives of the many men and
women who are living out their last days on death row. Wait [2000, 16mm,
color, sound, 8 min]; Evergreen [2005, 16mm, color, sound, 15 min]; In
Loving Memory [2005, 16mm, color, sound, 47 min]
3/7
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 p.m., Albright College Center for the Arts
GREY GARDENS
Grey Gardens (1976, 94 min.) by DAVID & ALBERT MAYSLES, ELLEN HOVDE,
MUFFIE MYER, SUSAN FROEMKE. The classic, "direct cinema", documentary
shot by the Maysles brothers (Salesman; Gimme Shelter) that presents:
the "unbelievable but true story of Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale and her
daughter Edie, the aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Mother and daughter live in a world of their own behind the towering
privets that surround their decaying 28-room East Hampton mansion known
as 'Grey Gardens,' a place so far gone that the local authorities once
threatened to evict them for violating building and sanitation codes….
'Little Edie' was an aspiring actress of striking beauty who put her New
York life on hold to care for her mother- and never left her side again.
Together they descended into a strange life of dependence and
eccentricity that no one had ever shared until the Maysles arrived with
their camera and tape recorder."- Marjorie Sweeney
3/7
Shreveport, Louisiana: MINI-CINE
http://www.swampland.org/
8pm, 846 Texas Avenue
QUANTUM LEAPS WITH ASTRIA SUPARAK!
QUANTUM LEAPS catalogues heroes, compresses history, and hallucinates
futures. We are in a hyperdated time populated by minor celebrity
comebacks and movie remakes, soundtracked by mash-ups and remixes, and
backdropped by vintage/old school/retro simulacra. Artists now are as
inspired by history they weren't quite conscious for as by their lived
experiences. Here it is possible to amalgamate eras, to break out of
social and gender constraints, and to cobble together a fantasy lineage.
Many of the artists bypass ineffectual adoration for social edification.
Videos by: Daniel Barrow, Philippe Blanchard, Dearraindrop, Emily Vey
Duke and Cooper Battersby, Jim Finn, Caroline Koebel, J. Macdonell, Jim
Munroe, Liz Rosenfeld, Seth Price, Andy Puls. Posters and Magazines by:
Celebrate People's History, Lady Scientist, LTTR. -Curated by: Astria
Suparak. http://www.astriasuparak.com/quantumleaps.htm
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 2006
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3/8
Portland, Oregon: Cinema Project
http://www.cinemaproject.org/
7:30pm, 922 SE Ankeny Street
IN LOVING MEMORY: THE FILMS OF ROBERT TODD
Repeat of Tuesday's Program.
3/8
Ruston, Louisiana: Nomad Nights
http://nomadnights.blogspot.com/
8pm, Lewis', in downtown.
QUANTUM LEAPS WITH ASTRIA SUPARAK!
See March 7, Minicine? (Shreveport) for details.
3/8
Seattle, Washington: Microcinema International
http://www.microcinema.com
7pm & 9pm, Central Cinema - 1411 21st Avenue
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! 1. Epic Drag directed by Dave Griffiths United Kingdom,
Video/Film Art, 2005, Video, B&W, Magnetic Stereo, 00:01:00 2. Man
directed by Annika Glac Australia, Documentary, Narrative, 2004, 35mm,
Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:30 3. Marvelous, Keen Loony Bin directed
by Lizzi Akana United States, Animation, 2005, Animation, Color,
Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:37 4. Chronic directed by Joe Kelly Canada,
Experimental, Avant-Garde, 2003, 16mm, B&W, Optical, 00:03:30 5. A Very
Small Guardrail directed by Andrew Evashchen United States, Documentary,
Avant-Garde, 2005, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:06:01 6.
Communications Factory directed by Jennifer Sachs United States,
Animation, Narrative, 2004, hand-drawn animation, digital compositing,
Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:06:30 7. Option of War, The directed by Nick
Fox-Gieg United States, Animation, Political / Social, 2005, Color,
Magnetic Stereo, 00:06:30 8. Schindler's Lift directed by Boris Despodov
Bulgaria, Documentary, Documentary, 2004, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo,
00:04:30 9. traces directed by Claudia Leger United States, Narrative,
Narrative, 2005, 16mm, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:00 10. Love Is
directed by Dave Schlafman United States, Animation, 2004, Animation,
Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:17 11. Silver Seeds directed by Kimberly
Collmer United States, Animation, Avant-Garde, 2004, DV, Color, Magnetic
Stereo, 00:09:13 12. Torsten Kretchzmar: Entschlossenheit directed by
Steffen Frech United States, Music Video, Music, 2003, DV, Color,
Magnetic Stereo, 00:04:04
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THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 2006
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3/9
COLLEGE STATION, TX: Texas A&M University
http://www.tamu.edu/
7pm, Rudder Hall 302
QUANTUM LEAPS WITH ASTRIA SUPARAK!
See March 7, Minicine? (Shreveport) for details.
3/9
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/
6:00 p.m., 164 N. State St.
DAN SANDIN: 35 YEARS OF ELECTRONIC ART
Chicago artist Dan Sandin is one of the leading figures in the history
of image-based electronic art. With the development of the Sandin Image
Processor (I.P.), the University of Illinois' Electronic Visualization
Lab (EVL), and CAVE virtual reality theater, Sandin has played a role in
the growth of video art, interactive video, immersive electronic
environments, video game technologies, virtual reality, and the open
source movement. And, much of his work has played a defining role in the
aesthetics of digital art today—from realtime video manipulation to
Hollywood special effects. Tonight Sandin will lead us on a whirlwind
tour of his career in a multimedia show featuring rare tapes from his
earliest days with video and examples of his most recent work. Dan
Sandin, 1969-2006, USA, 60 min. Various formats. Tonight's show is part
of [FRAY], a three-part mini series and conference. For more info, visit
www.fvnm.info.
3/9
Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
http://www.hirshhorn.org/programs/films.asp
8pm, Independence Avenue at Seventh Street SW
FREE INDEPENDENT, INTERNATIONAL FILMS AT THE HIRSHHORN
DOCUMENTARIES Programs begin at 12 noon unless otherwise noted. Ring
Auditorium. Chosen Few: El Documental, 2005 March 9, 2006 at 8 pm
Reggaeton is a dance groove fusion of Spanish-language, reggae and
hip-hop. This documentary material, collected between 2003 and 2005 by
"hurban" (Hispanic urban) music producer Manuel Alejandro Ruis (a.k.a.
Boy Wonder) and Cynthia Colon, features performance and interview
footage with past and present Reggaeton DJs and performers, including
Daddy Yankee, Tego Calderon, Nicky Jam, Zion y Lennox, Tempo, and
others. INDEPENDENTS Unless otherwise noted, programs begin at 8 pm, run
approximately 80 minutes and are held in the Ring Auditorium. 13 Lakes,
2004 March 23, 2006 at 8 pm March 24, 2006 at 8 pm 13 Lakes is a
meditative experiment on the patience of gaze, the rapture of natural
vistas, and literal as well as figurative reflection. Master avant-garde
filmmaker James Benning traveled all around the U.S. to find the
"perfect spot" to place his camera (at the foot of a series of lakes)
and then recorded whatever happened for ten minutes. This work presents
the entirety of each carefully framed shot in real time. Presented in
conjunction with the Environmental Film Festival; runs 133 minutes. The
Water Magician, 1933 March 30, 2006 at 8 pm Hiroshi Sugimoto will
perform as benshi, narrating the beginning and epilogue of Kenji
Mizoguchi's masterwork of early Japanese cinema. The silent film will
also be accompanied by shamisen music performed by Kenta Nagai. A
discussion follows the performance. This film is part of Hirshhorn After
Hours. Film courtesy of the collection of the National Museum of Modern
Art, Tokyo. Consolation Service (Lohdutsseremonia), 1999 and Love is a
Treasure (Rakkaus on aarre), 2003 April 20, 2006 at 8 pm April 21, 2006
at 8 pm These two cinematic works by Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila
present a woman's point of view. Consolation Service examines a divorce
by relating a young wife's feelings through experimental film techniques
that blend reality and fantasy. Love is a Treasure consists of portraits
of five women who discuss life-altering moments. Jonas Mekas Primer May
4, 2006 at 8 pm May 5, 2006 at 8 pm Program I, May 4: Mekas's early film
diaries capture the emerging experimental film scene, including Walden,
1964-69, and Happy Birthday, John, 1999, drawn from footage of the 1972
celebration of John Lennon's birthday and the opening of his and Yoko
Ono's Fluxus show at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York. Program
II, May 5: Reminiscense of a Journey to Lithuania, 1972, Mekas's
landmark diary film; runs 180 minutes (Meet the Artist May 11).
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SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2006
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3/11
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
12pm-3pm, Aurora Picture Show, 800 Aurora Street
VIDEO FEEDBACK: ASTRIA SUPARAK
Do you want your video art critiqued but can't afford the high price of
graduate school? Join Aurora for our FREE inaugural video review series
Video Feedback with visiting film and video curators and artists. First
up is Astria Suparak, a roving one woman powerhouse of independent film
and video curation.
3/11
Houston, Texas: Microcinema International
http://www.microcinema.com
8 pm, Axiom Theatre, 2524 McKinney
INDEPENDENT EXPOSURE 2006 - SPRING EDITION
For eleven years now Microcinema International has been providing
audiences from around the world with an eclectic array of international
shorts through their touring festival, Independent Exposure. Independent
Exposure 2006 – Spring Edition brings together shorts from the United
States, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Korea, Belgium and
Singapore. 1. Untitled directed by Rachel Mikulsky United States,
Animation, 2004, Digital Video, B&W/Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:23 2.
Let Go Aviary directed by Sookoon Ang Singapore, Video/Film Art,
Ambient, 2004, Digital Video, B&W, Dolby A, 00:03:21 3. Wrong Place
Wrong Time directed by John Haptas United States, Documentary,
Documentary, 1987, 16mm, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:10:00 4. Hide & Seek
directed by Charlie Canfield United States, Animation, Music, 2005,
Color, Other, 00:02:00 5. Look and Say directed by Nicolas Nikolov
Belgium, Video/Film Art, Alternative, 2005, Digital Video, Color, Dolby
Digital, 00:10:00 6. Moment, The directed by Minyong Jang Korea (South),
Experimental, 0, 16mm, B&W, Silent, 00:05:00 7. How To Disappear
Completely directed by Steve Piper United Kingdom, Narrative, 2004,
Color, 00:08:00 8. Rain directed by Rebecca Ruige Xu United States,
Animation, Art / Artist, 2005, Computer Animation, Color, Magnetic
Stereo, 00:03:34 9. Rocco Never Dies directed by Federico Solmi United
States, Animation, Erotic, 2004, Digital Video, B&W/Color, Magnetic
Stereo, 00:03:00 10. Mrs. Paruzel directed by Annika Glac Australia,
Narrative, Narrative, 2004, 35mm, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:12:28
3/11
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm Saturday Evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between Bowery & 2nd Avenue)
GROUP PROGRAM- REARDON, GREENE, PARK, VALDEZ, ZEDD
THE RESISTANCE : INVISIBLE FILMMAKERS CHALLENGE THE REGIME is a group
show of mostly emerging filmmakers, many of whom are active participants
in the Millennium Film Workshop's ongoing INVISIBLE FILM SERIES. This
program comments on the present political climate in the United States.
Included in the show are works by the following filmmakers, A TERRORIST
ATE MY BRAIN (20 min.-2005) by TIM REARDON, ONE DEAD IN OHIO (7
min.-2005) and 911, Part 2 (10 min.-2002) by ROBERT GREENE, RESIST (18.5
min.-2005) and DOC SOLARIS: MAN OF THE FUTURE (9.5 min.-2005) by MICHAEL
PARK, BIG SCREEN VERSION (3 min.-2003) by AARON VALDEZ, ELECTRO ELF: OF
LICE AND MEN (28 min.-2005) by NICK ZEDD. "The program tackles such
subjects as consumer indifference, violations of the constitution, the
role of conspiracy in terrorism, the ongoing nuclear energy dilemma and
media manipulation all presented in the entertaing fashion we have come
to expect of the INVISIBLE FILM SERIES in styles ranging from high art
to documentary to outright comic strip to totally transgressive, styles
we've come to expect of both the Millennium and THE INVISIBLE FILM
SERIES."- Michael Park, guest programmer.
3/11
Regina, Saskatchewan: Oddball Films
8:30PM, 275 Capp Street
THIS IS FOR LA RAZA
Orale!! Here's a brown and proud program of films about the Latino
experience in the US. The program opens with the documentary "Decision
at Delano"(1967), which portrays Cesar Chavez at a crucial moment in the
farmworkers' struggle. ""Latino: A Cultural Conflict"(1971), shot on the
streets of San Francisco's Mission District over 35 years ago by Brian
Lewis follows teenage Mauricio's alienation in the Anglo community while
teenage "Guy" (date unknown) is a self-reflexive look at the price of
discrimination and colonization in East L.A. "Calle Chula" (1998) is a
portrait of 15-year old Calle, a mixed Salvadoran and Ohlone girl,
Calle, who travels through the Mission District of her and her peoples'
memories. "The Mexican American Speaks: Heritage in Bronze" (1972) is
Encyclopedia Britanica's ambitious group portrait of la raza. This
program includes border tech music, lowrider car clips, rare Mexican
home movies from the 1940s and in person appearances by two from the
Subcine.com(Independent Latino Film+Video) stable, filmmakers Veronica
Majano and Jesse Lerner.
3/11
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:00 and 9:00, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St
WOMEN OF COLOR FILM FESTIVAL X 2
Cinematheque is honored to host the Women of Color Film Festival for a
second year with two shows. WOCFF provides a welcome forum for both
emerging and established artists from one of the most creative but
underrepresented sectors of the film community. The 7 o'clock program
"seeking same" revisits the conundrum of displacement, from the distant
mountains that divide Korea to an emotional homecoming in the
Philippines. These filmmakers, including Soon-Mi Yoo, Tina Bartolome,
Kristina Cervantes-Yoshida, and Isabella La Rocca, attempt to piece
together missing parts and re-envision universal cycles of beginnings
and endings. At 9 o'clock, in "tempest tossed," local and international
filmmakers including Marianne M. Kim, Tamara Rahman, Sonali, and Lauren
Woods uncover their inner frustrations, taking on burdens in
unexpectedly transformative, sometimes tantrum-like ways. From
conflicting identities to unsettling ambiguities, we pay homage to the
fluidity of circumstances that both separate and intertwine us in the
search for self. WOCFF opens at the Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley,
March 2-5. For full information:
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa_programs/women_of_color/.
3/11
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
BRECKE ON DARFUR + DANIEL ON NEW ORLEANS
In this benefit for Doctors Without Borders, we will enjoy an audience
with two globe-trotting troopers who have risked life and lens to
capture images from the sites of two recent (and ongoing) human
disasters. Mark Brecke presents his They Turned Our Desert Into Fire,
which details his Washington, DC photo tour to expose the genocide in
Sudan. Supporting this lively look at a photog’s quest for
political education is Phil Cox’ frontline doc Darfur’s Dirty
War. Opening the evening is our favorite roving reporter, Bill Daniel,
with shocking visual testimony on the apocalyptic post-Katrina
conditions in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward. Special admission:
$6–$20.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2006
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3/12
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
INTERIORS AND EXTERIORS: FILM, VIDEO, AND INSTALLATION WORKS BY LYNN
MARIE KIRBY
Lynn Marie Kirby in Person! For more than 25 years San Francisco-based
artist Lynn Marie Kirby has been exploring the personal and political
through domestic spaces, family life and relationships, interior and
exterior "landscapes." She has used a wide variety of technologies and
media, including 16mm film, Hi 8 video, digital video tools and
scanning, sound and installation. Tonight's program will include a
sampling across her career and across different media. The program will
include her film, Three Domestic Interiors (1993); the video, Paris and
Athens, June (1994), the digital experiments of Photons in Paris (1997-
2001) and Study in Choreography for Camera Remote (2002) as well as
selections from her film to digital series Latent Light Excavations
(ongoing). She will also present a slide presentation and discussion of
some of her installation work. Jytte Jensen from the Museum of Modern
Art writes that Kirby's work is full of "astonishing beauty and
vibrancy."
3/12
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
JENNIFER REEVES IN PERSON WITH "THE TIME WE KILLED"
THE TIME WE KILLED (2004, 94 minutes) portrays the inner life of a
writer unable to leave her New York apartment on the brink of the US
invasion of Iraq. Robyn Taylor tries to kick her growing agoraphobia by
re-imagining her past and contemplating world events of the present.
Documentary material, scripted and improvised scenes are interwoven to
create this beautiful and impressionistic film of true fiction.
3/12
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St
THE GENTLE BUT SEARING VISIONS OF SOON-MI YOO
Korean artist Soon-Mi Yoo kicks off our new series exploring personal
and experimental filmmaking emerging from or engaging with the Pacific
Rim. Combining aesthetic grace with emotional intensity, the personal
with the political, her experimental videos explore Korea's lesser known
peripheral histories. Thus ssitkim: talking to the dead is a moving
essay on grieving and the little known role of 320,000 Korean soldiers
who fought in Vietnam for the United States and carried out mass
civilian killings. ISAHN uses the stereoscopes placed on North Korean
border—where exiled North Koreans can look back at state approved
photographs of "home"—to dwell on the difficulties of displacement and
the pain of being separated across borders. Also screening: faith, the
new supplements, and a work-in-progress.
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