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Date: Sat Mar 11 2006 - 15:00:16 PST
This week [March 12 - 19, 2006] in avant garde cinema
NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
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"Christmas Toy Lights Me" by John Porter
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Flatland Film Festival (Lubbock, TX USA; Deadline: April 01, 2006)
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Perform.Media (Bloomington, IN USA; Deadline: May 15, 2006)
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Dinnerware Contemporary Arts (Tucson, AZ, USA; Deadline: March 31, 2006)
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tentative (Chicago, Illinois, USA; Deadline: April 12, 2006)
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TBA (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: March 22, 2006)
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theARTDISK (Chicago, IL., USA; Deadline: May 01, 2006)
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Microcinema International (Houston, TX, United States; Deadline: March 31, 2006)
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Victoria Erotica Film Festival (Victoria BC Canada; Deadline: March 15, 2006)
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Microcinema International (Houston, TX, United States; Deadline: March 30, 2006)
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Calgary ImaginASIAN 2006 Film Festival (Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Deadline: March 13, 2006)
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the white space/scsi-morlock (Den Haag, the netherlands; Deadline: March 31, 2006)
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Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL USA; Deadline: April 01, 2006)
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Silverlake Film Fest - Lost Weekend (Los Angeles, CA USA; Deadline: March 15, 2006)
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Studio 27 (San Francisco, CA USA; Deadline: March 31, 2006)
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syntocin (The Hague; Deadline: April 15, 2006)
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2nd piXelDANce ViDeo aRt feStiVaL (Thessaloniki, Greece; Deadline: March 20, 2006)
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National Queer Arts Festival (san francisco, ca 94110; Deadline: March 15, 2006)
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Billyburg Short Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY, USA; Deadline: April 01, 2006)
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ARTSFEST FILM FESTIVAL (Harrisburg, PA USA; Deadline: April 07, 2006)
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Flatland Film Festival (Lubbock, TX USA; Deadline: April 01, 2006)
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Dinnerware Contemporary Arts (Tucson, AZ, USA; Deadline: March 31, 2006)
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tentative (Chicago, Illinois, USA; Deadline: April 12, 2006)
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TBA (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: March 22, 2006)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Quantum Leaps [March 13, Houston, Texas]
* Jem Cohen "Chain" [March 13, Los Angeles, California]
* Quantum Leaps With Astria Suparak! [March 13, PROVIDENCE, R.I.]
* Vive L’Amour [March 14, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Domestic Duet: Works By Jordan Biren and Jennifer Reeder [March 15, Berkeley, California]
* Quantum Leaps With Astria Suparak! [March 15, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Be Somebody; Seminal videos By Paul Wong and Lisa Steele & Kim Tomczak
(In Person) [March 15, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Phil Collins: videos 1999 - 2005 [March 16, Chicago, Illinois]
* Line Describing A Cone - Norwegian Premiere ! [March 16, Oslo, Norway]
* Astria Suparak [March 16, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
* Syncopated vision: Fever Dream Cinema - With Ken Vandermark Performing! [March 18, Chicago, Illinois]
* Quantum Leaps With Astria Suparak! [March 18, QUANTUM LEAPS with Astria Suparak!]
* The Unauthorized Biography of Dick Cheney + [March 18, San Francisco, California]
* Follow Me To Certain Death: An Evening With Vanessa Renwick [March 19, Los Angeles, California]
* States of <I>Unbelonging</I> [March 19, San Francisco, California]
* Star Spangled To Death By Ken Jacobs [March 19, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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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MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2006
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3/13
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8:30pm doors open, 9pm screening, Aurora @ Clark's, 314 Main Street near Preston
QUANTUM LEAPS
Guest Curator Astria Suparak 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.
3/13
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
JEM COHEN "CHAIN"
Los Angeles premiere USA/Germany, 2004, 99 min., DigiBeta In this
provocative mix of documentary and fiction, the Alpert Award-winning
filmmaker lays out beautifully composed images shot throughout the
United States, Europe and Australia, and links them through two loose
narratives: A Japanese executive, Tamiko (Miho Nikaido), travels to
America on business while a runaway, Amanda (Mira Billotte), haunts a
shopping mall, looking for work and a place to crash. Cohen's collage of
spaces cut off their original (sub)urban surroundings produces an
uncanny repetition: two nearly affectless women trapped in the generic
byproducts of globalization. In person: Jem Cohen
3/13
PROVIDENCE, R.I.: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
9:30pm, The Cable Car Cinema, 204 S. Main St.
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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TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 2006
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3/14
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 p.m., Albright College Center for the Arts
VIVE L’AMOUR
Vive L'Amour (1994, 118 min.) by TSAI MING-LIANG. Tsai, born in
Malaysia, now working in Taiwan, "has created in his second film a
masterful work reminiscent of the great Michelangelo Antonioni. [Tsai
has also acknowledged the influence of Truffaut, Fassbinder and
Bresson]…."Vive" tells of three diverse characters who are linked by
chance to an empty high-rise luxury duplex-apartment in Taipei, which is
used as an escape from the antiseptic outside world. In the apartment
furnished only with a bed, the three characters escape from reality by
daydreaming, fantasizing about sex or indulging in sex –Dennis Schwartz.
Won the Golden Lion (Best Film) in '94 Venice Film Festival. (Mandarin
with English subtitles)
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2006
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3/15
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30 PM, 2575 Bancroft Way @ Bowditch
DOMESTIC DUET: WORKS BY JORDAN BIREN AND JENNIFER REEDER
The suburb is a place of charmed suspension. But it's not an innocent
place; rather, it cautions, in a disquieting whisper, that at any moment
the stillness could be rent. Though wildly different in manner, Jordan
Biren and Jennifer Reeder are uncanny chroniclers of this unspoken
warning. Biren's newest advisory, My Mother's House (2006, 20 mins,
DVCAM), tracks a home emptied of its reassuring order, but not the
phantom memories. It's like a Thomas Kinkade painting with a chill
factor. The earlier My Mother's Family (1997, 13:40 mins, DVCAM) is a
whimsical fairy tale of stasis. Still images simulating a family album
contain an impenetrable secret, revealed only by the text that follows.
In Reeder's magical high-definition noir The Heart & Other Small Shapes
(2006, 29:30 mins, High Definition Video), the characters are enveloped
in a muffled atmosphere. Their embraces, studied and distant, are no
different than the inanimate objects nearby. In fact, in this miraculous
doldrum, the inanimate comes alive. Reeder's unnerving A Room with the
Walls Blasted to Shreds and Falling (2001, 34 mins, Beta SP) gazes at a
suburb smothered in mystery. Like a still life with motion, the tidy
streets, mesmerizing traffic, and spruce interiors suggest that some
epiphany will soon disrupt the subdivision.
3/15
Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts College of Art
http://emulsionalchemy.org
8pm, The Cable Car Cinema, 204 S. Main St.
QUANTUM LEAPS WITH ASTRIA SUPARAK!
See March 13 @ Magic Lantern (Providence, RI)
3/15
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome
http://www.pdome.org/
8 pm, 334 Queen St. W. Rivoli (back room)
BE SOMEBODY; SEMINAL VIDEOS BY PAUL WONG AND LISA STEELE & KIM TOMCZAK
(IN PERSON)
Paul Wong, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak were among the winners of the
2005 Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Tonight we
honour them with a program of their short work from the late seventies
and early eighties that exemplifies their commitment to performance as a
tool for political change, critiquing fallacious mass media
representations with wit and charm. Video works include: Paul Wong's
Prime Cuts (1981) and 7 Day Activity (1977); Steele & Tomczak's Working
the Double Shift (1984); Kim Tomczak's A Demonstration of the Fear of
Pain (1980); and Lisa Steele's The Damages (1978) and Makin' Strange
(1978).
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THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2006
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3/16
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/
6:00 p.m., 164 N. State St.
PHIL COLLINS: VIDEOS 1999 - 2005
Phil Collins in person! UK photographer and video artist Phil Collins'
works are a savvy blend of politics and pop culture. Working in
embattled regions around the globe—Belfast, Belgrade, Baghdad, Bogotá—he
takes on mass media representations of these geopolitical flashpoints by
casting residents in pop-song-scored performances both charming and
discomforting. In they shoot horses (2004), nine young Palestinians
compete in an eight-hour disco marathon staged in a lurid pink
gymnasium; in el mundo no escuchará (2004) Colombian Smiths fans sing
along to backing tracks (a rerecording of the album The World Won't
Listen by Bogotá musicians) against photographs of Mediterranean holiday
villas and tropical sunsets; and in baghdad screentests (2002), Iraqis
channel Warhol while preparing for the United States' "last resort."
Collins will screen an exclusive CATE mix of these videos along with:
how to make a refugee (1999); dünya dinlemiyor (2005); the louder you
scream, the faster we go (2005); and the return of the real (2005). Phil
Collins, 1999-2005, Colombia/Iraq/Spain/Turkey/UK, 100 min. Various
formats.
3/16
Oslo, Norway: Atopia
19.00 to 22.00, UKS Lakkergata 55d 0187
LINE DESCRIBING A CONE - NORWEGIAN PREMIERE !
As part of the series Celluloid2006, Atopia present the first ever
Norwegian screening of Line Describing A Cone, the legendary 'solid
light' film by Anthony McCall. This film (made in 1973) becomes
sculpture, installation and performance as it reveals itself with
stunning simplicity over the course of 30 minutes. The film will be
projected four times during the evening. Free entry + bar.
3/16
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The University of the Arts
http://www,uarts.edu
7:30 PM, Connelly Auditorium; Terra Building; 211 South Broad St.
ASTRIA SUPARAK
Mar. 16: Astria Suparak curates site-specific film, video and audio
shows for international art museums and galleries, film and
culturalfestivals, and bands. Suparak founded the Pratt Institute Film
Series in 1997, which expanded to include multidisciplinary performance,
live music, and on-site installations. After programming over one
hundred events in New York City, she spent the next four years touring
Europe, Mexico, America and Canada with curated screenings and
exhibitions. She has served on the national nomination committee for The
Media Arts Fellowships (formerly known as the Rockefeller Grants) over
the last two years.This autumn she will complete Quantum Leaps for
Impakt in the Netherlands: an inspirational program of new video which
catalogues heroes, compresses history, and hallucinates futures.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2006
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3/18
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
SYNCOPATED VISION: FEVER DREAM CINEMA - WITH KEN VANDERMARK PERFORMING!
Syncopated Vision is a new spin-off of our popular Chicago Ear and Eye
Control series, which will feature films and videos accompanied by live
music. Taking advantage of the more intimate space of our screening
room, each show will feature a solo artist or small group. We are
pleased to premier this new series with acclaimed Chicago musician Ken
Vandermark, who will play to a surrealist-inspired selection of eclectic
shorts. The program will include: The Infernal Cauldron (1903) and The
Damnation of Faust (1903) by Georges Melies; The Red Spectre (1905) by
Ferdinand Zecca; footage of the Hindenburg Disaster and the Tacoma
Bridge collapse; Chimp the Fireman (1948); Harry Smith's Mirror
Animations (1979) Runaway (1969) by Standish Lawder; Douglass
Crockwell's Glens Falls Sequence (1946) and Long Bodies (1947); plus
additional works to be announced. Special admission for this program:
$10 general; $9 students; $6 Chicago Filmmakers members. Chicago
Filmmakers members' free admissions do not apply to this screening.
3/18
QUANTUM LEAPS with Astria Suparak!: Small Change Screenings
http://www.smallchangescreenings.com/
9pm, probably at Vox Populi, 1315 Cherry Street, 4th Floor.
QUANTUM LEAPS WITH ASTRIA SUPARAK!
See March 13 @ Magic Lantern (Providence, RI)
3/18
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF DICK CHENEY +
On the third anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we invite all
dissenters to vent some righteous outrage at arguably the war’s
prime mover, (Vice) President Cheney. We were lucky enough to snag this
Canadian made-for-TV expose that shines the light of day on this sleazy,
greasy war pig, a man who extols the virtues of torture, and wants
land-mine production brought back online. So let’s call it a Pig
Roast, with pork (and tofu) sausages freely dispensed. Stoney Burke will
emcee and Pod will deejay, setting up a block of scorching agit-prop,
with Ed Holmes in Cheney drag, the Yes Men on the campaign trail, Bryan
Boyce’s ventriloquist trick, and hell yeah, a Hummer bonfire! Our
post-protest lounge opens at 7:30, showcasing DJ Pod’s latest CD
releases.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 2006
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3/19
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
FOLLOW ME TO CERTAIN DEATH: AN EVENING WITH VANESSA RENWICK
Films by Vanessa Renwick and others. In the personal documentary work of
Portland-based Vanessa Renwick, edgy and grim poetry informs a steady,
deliberate stare at extreme states of existence. Humans and other
animals take decisive action. Everything is a matter of life and death.
3/19
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St
STATES OF UNBELONGING
Former Bay Area artist Lynne Sachs comes to Cinematheque to screen her
newest cine-essay States of Unbelonging, made in collaboration with her
Israeli friend and former student Nir Zats. Intrigued by the life of a
young Israeli filmmaker, Revital Ohayon, who was murdered with her two
children, Sachs begins a digital correspondence with Zats as a means of
exploring the meanings and aftermath of this violent act. Approaching
the Middle East conflict through this singular event, the film's layered
and multiple images and sounds—of Israel and Brooklyn, of private and
public spaces—weave their sensitive and increasingly complex tale
through dialogue with Zats and others.
3/19
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome
http://www.pdome.org/
3 pm, 491 College St.
STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH BY KEN JACOBS
The calendar returns once again to the 19th of March, this time marking
the third anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. Desiring to reflect on
this travesty in our own way, Pleasure Dome presents the Toronto
premiere of Ken Jacobs's epic film (presented on DVD), Star Spangled to
Death (6 hours, 42 min.). Begun in 1957, Star Spangled to Death has been
Jacobs's long-running project to encapsulate the more bestial side of
American Manifest Destiny. Initially filming with his friend and
collaborator, Jack Smith, cavorting around the Lower East Side as the
bohemian "Spirit Not of Life but of Living," Jacobs has grafted on more
and more layers over the course of the last half-century. Please note:
the screening will be presented with three intermissions.
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