This week [March 26 - April 2, 2006] in avant garde cinema

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MISCELLANEOUS:
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K203 motor needed
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Society of the Spectacle on video
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=misc&readfile=68.ann
New film industry resource web site
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=misc&readfile=69.ann
Oldy, moldy 16mm stock WANTED
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=misc&readfile=70.ann

NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
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"Circumstantial Evidence" by Jerry King Musser
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=239.ann
"Forbidden Film" by Thorsten Fleisch
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=240.ann

SERVICES:
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Film composer and soundtrack design
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=services&readfile=73.ann

JOB AVAILABLE:
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Free Speech TV
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=jobs&readfile=11.ann

NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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00130Gallery (Helsinki, Finland; Deadline: August 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=521.ann
Zeitgeist International Film Fstival (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=522.ann
Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) (New York, NY USA; Deadline: April 14, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=523.ann
Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: April 21, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=524.ann
Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: September 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=525.ann
Daily Constitutional (Richmond, VA; Deadline: April 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=526.ann
Milwaukee International Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI, USA; Deadline: April 24, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=527.ann
TIE-The International Experimental Cinema Exposition (Denver, Colorado, U.S.; Deadline: April 28, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=528.ann
Hell on Reels [Astoria Moving Picture Festival] (Astoria, NY, USA; Deadline: April 28, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=529.ann
TO BE DECIDED (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=530.ann
7th Annual Woodstock Museum Film & Video Festival (Woodstock; Deadline: April 03, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=531.ann
{PIUFF # 3 } (Paris / France; Deadline: February 22, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=532.ann
PARIS UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL {PIUFF# 3} (Paris / France; Deadline: March 10, 2007)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=533.ann
synthetic zero loft (Bronx, NY, USA; Deadline: April 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=534.ann
Cinematexas International Short Film Festival (Austin, Texas, USA; Deadline: June 02, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=536.ann
Reel Venus Film Festival (New York, NY USA; Deadline: May 12, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=537.ann
Firefox Flicks (Mountain View, CA; Deadline: April 14, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=538.ann
2006 Planet Ant Film & Video Festival (Detroit, MI; Deadline: May 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=539.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
Imaginaria Film Festival (Conversano, Italy; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=484.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
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
Portable Cinema Series (san francisco, ca USA; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=494.ann
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: April 28, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=497.ann
Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL USA; Deadline: April 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=499.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
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
ARTSFEST FILM FESTIVAL (Harrisburg, PA USA; Deadline: April 07, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=513.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
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
Zeitgeist International Film Fstival (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=522.ann
Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) (New York, NY USA; Deadline: April 14, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=523.ann
Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: April 21, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=524.ann
Daily Constitutional (Richmond, VA; Deadline: April 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=526.ann
Milwaukee International Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI, USA; Deadline: April 24, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=527.ann
TIE-The International Experimental Cinema Exposition (Denver, Colorado, U.S.; Deadline: April 28, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=528.ann
Hell on Reels [Astoria Moving Picture Festival] (Astoria, NY, USA; Deadline: April 28, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=529.ann
TO BE DECIDED (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=530.ann
7th Annual Woodstock Museum Film & Video Festival (Woodstock; Deadline: April 03, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=531.ann
synthetic zero loft (Bronx, NY, USA; Deadline: April 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=534.ann
Firefox Flicks (Mountain View, CA; Deadline: April 14, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=538.ann

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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Open Screening [March 26, Chicago, Illinois]
* "What You Looking At?" [March 26, Greenwich, London, UK]
* Filmforum's 30th Anniversary Series! Replicating 1976 [March 26, Los Angeles, California]
* Making History In Avant-Garde Film: Benning's Utopia [March 26, San Francisco, California]
* Quantum Leaps With Astria Suparak! [March 27, Amherst NY]
* The Endeless Story of Fluxus [March 27, Gent, Belgium]
* Quantum Leaps [March 27, Houston, Texas]
* Independent Exposure 2006 - Spring Edition [March 27, San Francisco, California]
* Closeup [March 28, Gent, Belgium]
* The Grandfather Trilogy: Alan Ross [March 28, Portland, Oregon]
* John Columbus In- Person [March 28, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Closeup [March 29, Gent, Belgium]
* The Grandfather Trilogy: Alan Ross [March 29, Portland, Oregon]
* Magic Lantern Presents "The Childhood Show" [March 29, Providence, RI]
* Free Screen- the Lives of Animals [March 29, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Greta Snider's view-Master Documentaries [March 29, Vancouver, British Columbia]
* The Screening - An Evening of Shorts and Works In Progress [March 30, Brooklyn, New York]
* Paul Chan Presents the Tin Drum Trilogy [March 30, Buffalo, New York]
* Shuddhabrata Sengupta and the Raqs Media Collective [March 30, Chicago, Illinois]
* Closeup [March 30, Gent, Belgium]
* Scott Nyerges [March 30, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
* Open Screening [March 30, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Stan Brakhage Screening [March 30, Victoria, British Columbia]
* Chain Presented By Jem Cohen, Artist In Person [March 31, Buffalo, New York]
* Closeup [March 31, Gent, Belgium]
* Oshima Double Feature: Death By Hanging and Diary of A Shinjuku
Thief [March 31, San Francisco, California]
* Quantum Leaps With Astria Suparak! [March 31, Washington, DC]
* Closeup [April 1, Gent, Belgium]
* Break the Silence On Palestine [April 1, San Francisco, California]
* Filmforum Presents Curtis Harrington and His Experimental Short Films. [April 2, Los Angeles, California]

Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.

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SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 2006
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3/26
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)

OPEN SCREENING
  Does your back-yard version of Harry Potter have him teamed up with
  Frodo and Gandolf to battle the forces of evil? Does your remake of King
  Kong star your cat because you couldn't convince the Lincoln Park Zoo to
  loan you an ape? What ever your film or video is, we want to see it!
  Come on over to show your work or just to watch. We'll show whatever
  comes in the door (except x-rated stuff, sorry!). Accepted formats:
  Mini-DV, DVD, VHS, 16mm, and Super-8mm (call first if you're bringing
  S8). Recommended maximum length is 15 minutes, but we'll try to
  accommodate everything, no matter how long. Free raffle for "prizes"!
  Admission is free.

3/26
Greenwich, London, UK: Greenwich Film Festival (UK)
http://www.greenwichfilmfestival.org.uk
4pm, Greenwich Picturehouse, 180 Greenwich High Road, SE10

"WHAT YOU LOOKING AT?"
  "What You Looking At?" Greenwich Film Festival are thrilled to present a
  day of film on the edge of frame...with 2 programmes of uncompromising
  works for the screen by artists fro UK and abroad. Sunday 26th March
  4.00pm UNREQUITED LOVE 77 mins 15tbc Dir:Chris Petit Wr: based on Chris
  Dart novel Prod: Keith Griffiths Includes Dir./Prod Q&A UK Premiere of
  Chris Petit's Unrequited Love a film about the enigma of obsessive love,
  the delusions of belief and religion. Unrequited Love is about stalking.
  The film is based on the novel by Greg Dart and, according to the film
  makers, it is 'a film essay on cinema, absence, Hitchcock and Antonioni:
  a story of waiting, self-delusion, panic, fear of violence, modern
  technology(e-mail, mobiles, surveillance cameras) which defines both the
  urban stalker and the new breed of terrorist. Their methods duplicate:
  irrational and targeted. Stalking operates in the borders between normal
  love and pathological fantasy. Stalking wants nothing better than to
  move in and close the gap. Stalking is an externalised form of
  self-destruction. Stalkers are the fundamentalists of love.' Petit's
  unique, essayist film style is difficult to capture in a few words. He
  introduces discrepancies between image, music and sound, uses extreme
  wide-angle shots from impersonal security cameras and close-ups of
  action, makes post-modern use of other people's texts , with which he
  evokes a mood of alienation, confusion and passion in a possibly inhuman
  world. Chris Petit: 'What a film is aboutand how I film it are the same:
  subject dictates style.I like films that show a process; here, the
  emotional transfer between stalker and stalked.' (EH) CHRIS PETIT
  documentary maker and author of thrillers and novels. After he made his
  d�but in 1979 with the road movie Radio On, he went on to make several
  features, including the filming of P.D. James' An Unsuitable Job for a
  Woman. In the course of his development as film maker, Petit has
  displayed an increasing desire to experiment with narrative forms and a
  growing fascinationfor the compositional possibilities of new digital
  technologies. Sunday 26th March 6.30pm INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONIST Plus
  drinks reception in the luxe and relaxed screening room. Avant-garde
  filmmaking meets performance art in this lively, eclectic programme of
  video work made by internationally renowned artists from around the
  globe. Come and experience some thought provoking films that will
  stimulate and excite the creative in you. Artists include: Roi Vaara,
  Martin Zet, Graeme Miller, Roddy Hunter, Pierre Bastien and Karel Doing,
  Robin Deacon, Grayson Perry, Chelpa Ferro, Andre Stitt. Screenings of
  International Exhibitionists programmes have been held in venues in the
  UK and Europe since 2001. This screening is sponsored by the University
  of Greenwich, Department of Creative Critical and Communication Studies.
  Cyril Le Petit, from International Exhibitionist, will be in attendance
  at the screening to answer your questions on the complex nature of
  exhibiting film work that sits outside the box. ALL WELCOME

3/26
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.

FILMFORUM'S 30TH ANNIVERSARY SERIES! REPLICATING 1976
  First in a series. We're kicking it off with a replication of
  Filmforum's first all Avant-Garde film show, held on Friday, February
  20, 1976. This five-film program still holds up as a strong show of
  experimental work, including a couple of films that are far too little
  known today. Including Mother's Day (James Broughton, 1948), Desistfilm
  (Stan Brakhage, 1954), Mass for the Dakota Sioux (Bruce Baillie,
  1963-64), Plastic Haircut (Robert Nelson, 1963), and People Near Here
  (Ron Finne, 1969)

3/26
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St

MAKING HISTORY IN AVANT-GARDE FILM: BENNING'S UTOPIA
  Jeffrey Skoller continues his investigation of avant-garde film's
  multi-faceted relation to history with tonight's screening of James
  Benning's Utopia. Visually reminiscent of the "California Trilogy" in
  its carefully wrought long takes of landscapes�here of Death Valley and
  southwards, past the Mexican border�Utopia "steals" its soundtrack
  wholesale from Richard Dindo's film about the last days of Che Guevara
  and his unsuccessful Bolivian campaign. With the intriguing notion of
  "virtual histories," Skoller examines Benning's piece and its
  insinuations about the political and topographical history of Southern
  California as a "complex interplay between events that actually did
  happen and what can be imagined or desired in relation to them."

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MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2006
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3/27
Amherst NY: University at Buffalo, SUNY North Campus
http://www.buffalo.edu/
6:30pm, Center for the Arts Screening Room (CFA112).

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

3/27
Gent, Belgium: artcinema OFFOFF Film-Zien vzw
http://www.offoff.be
20:00, Lange Violettestraat 237

THE ENDELESS STORY OF FLUXUS
  The Endless Story of FLUXUS � video documentary from the TVF Archive
  Emmett Williams, Ben Vautier, Alison Knowles, Bengt af Klintberg, Ben
  Patterson, Philip Corner, Ay-o, Joe Jones, Yoko Ono, Eric Andersen,
  Geoffrey Hendricks, La Monte Young, Dick Higgins, Mieko Shiomi, Ann No�l
  Duration: 105 min. English no subt.

3/27
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.

3/27
San Francisco, California: Microcinema International
http://www.microcinema.com
8 pm, 111 Minna Gallery

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.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2006
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3/28
Gent, Belgium: artcinema OFFOFF Film-Zien vzw
http://www.offoff.be
20:00, Lange Violettestraat 237

CLOSEUP
  "How would you feel"� if you would meet someone who's turning your life
  upside down? It happens three young men who dedicaded their life to
  film. From the first shoot on, tensions arise. What should have been a
  week-end films appears to be a nightmare. Closeup is an experimental
  psycho thriller with a surprising end and unexpected turning points.
  Exploring the thin border between reality and fiction. Based on true
  facts. Belgium 98 min Director: Fabrice Chan-Chiang Language Dutch /
  French

3/28
Portland, Oregon: Cinema Project
http://www.cinemaproject.org/
7:30pm, 922 SE Ankeny Street

THE GRANDFATHER TRILOGY: ALAN ROSS
  Recently preserved by Chicago Filmmakers, The Grandfather Trilogy is
  Alan Ross' portrait of his grandfather in Bowling Green, South Carolina.
  Ross was a co-founder of Chicago Filmmakers and long time fixture in the
  Chicago filmmaking community. A profoundly moving work that attempts to
  come to terms with death as an event in the living world, The
  Grandfather Trilogy abounds with images which suggest stasis, absence,
  silence, horizontality, and oneness with the earth�a catalog of the
  conditions of death from the point of view of the living. "One of the
  ways I see the trilogy is as a radical approach to portraiture. Most of
  Papa was shot without looking through the viewfinder. There were,
  however, many accidents that happened while the camera was turned on.
  The film plays for me as a long sustained accident. I am grateful for
  this photographic record of a divinely shadowed presence. It is a
  reflection of a kind of space my grandfather generated."

3/28
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright College Center for the Arts

JOHN COLUMBUS IN- PERSON
  25th Black Maria Film & Video Festival, named for Thomas Edison's "Black
  Maria," the world's first film studio, is a (traveling) juried
  competition that has exhibited experimental and avant-garde short films
  from independent film and video makers since 1981. A screening of a
  selection from this year's prizewinners will be introduced by program
  director, John Columbus.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2006
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3/29
Gent, Belgium: artcinema OFFOFF Film-Zien vzw
http://www.offoff.be
20:00, Lange Violettestraat 237

3/29
Portland, Oregon: Cinema Project
http://www.cinemaproject.org/
7:30pm, 922 SE Ankeny Street

THE GRANDFATHER TRILOGY: ALAN ROSS
Repeat of Tuesday's Program.

3/29
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
9:30 pm, 204 South Main

MAGIC LANTERN PRESENTS "THE CHILDHOOD SHOW"
  The days of basement forts and pet turtles and book reading competitions
  and nap time and sleepovers and Spiderman birthday cakes and dressing up
  like princesses and hobos may well be past, but hold on, don't cry
  yourself to sleep just yet: Cinema is the make-believe of the present,
  and your friendly neighbors at Magic Lantern (the ones who give out the
  good candy at Halloween) have invited you to come over for a few hours.
  We already checked with your Mom and Dad, and it's all right - you can
  bring as many of your friends as you want, and you can even invite that
  kinda mean kid cuz we think things might not be so great at home for him
  right now. Yes, you can bring your Smurf lunchbox and your stuffed
  animal with one eye, and no, we won't be showing either The Dark Crystal
  or The Clash of the Titans again; we're happy to say that we've got
  something much better in store, and we're pretty sure you're going to
  like it. Aww, who are we kidding - you'll love it! Where else can you
  watch a kid age ten years in ten minutes, see an anti-capitalist fairy
  tale featuring a goose and a seamstress, play horror-movie-pretend with
  some kids your age, take part in a traditional Yanomamo game of "Let's
  Do Hallucinogens Like Our Parents," re-enact your awkward
  pre-adolescence, or ride a horse to the dulcet tones of Steve Reich?
  Magic Lantern, that's where! Featuring: Home Movies from RI by Anonymous
  (12:00, 16mm, 1948-58), The Scary Movie by Peggy Ahwesh (9:00, 16mm,
  1993) Children's Magical Death by Timothy Asch and Napoleon Chagnon
  (7:00, 16mm, 1974), Isemond by Xander Marro and Mat Brinkman (17:00,
  16mm, 2005), Nest of Tens by Miranda July (27:00, video, 2000), My Name
  is Oona by Gunvor Nelson (10:00, 16mm, 1969) TRT: 82:00 $5

3/29
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

FREE SCREEN- THE LIVES OF ANIMALS
  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,
  Free Screen programmer. LIVES OF THE ANIMALS! Animals were among the
  first subjects of cinematic representation, beginning with Marey's birds
  and Muybridge's horses � and Cecil Hepworth's dog Rover was the first
  British movie star! Filmmakers have found in animals evidence of both
  inter-species empathy and the alien indifference of nature. Animals
  become allegorical stand-ins for people in narratives, and have been the
  subject of patient scientific scrutiny. In this programme, several films
  invite us to reconsider how we look at the animal world. Surrealist
  documentarian Jean Painlev�'s outrageous nature/horror film LE VAMPIRE
  (France, 1939-45, 9 minutes, 16mm), cunningly cut to music by Duke
  Ellington, became for him an allegory about Nazi aggression. RAT LIFE
  AND DIET IN NORTH AMERICA (Canada, 1968, 14 minutes, 16mm), Joyce
  Wieland's witty tale of political utopianism, also refers to the
  political upheavals of its time, but the atmosphere in this case is
  optimistic. Made in the same year, Wieland's CATFOOD (Canada, 1968, 13
  minutes, 16mm), which documents a cat's methodical consumption of a
  fish, is a structural experiment with potent metaphorical implications:
  "The fish in Wieland's film, and the miraculous flesh of the film
  itself, are reconstructed on the rewinds to be devoured again. Here is a
  dionysian metaphor, old as the West. . . . Once we see that the fish is
  the protagonist of the action, this metaphor reverberates to
  incandescence in the mind" (Hollis Frampton). Rebecca Meyers'
  exquisitely photographed and tenderly observed NIGHT LIGHT AND LEAPING
  (USA, 2001, 22 minutes, silent, 16mm) comprises a year in the life of
  the artist's lovely black cat, and the programme closes with Jim
  Trainor's mordant THE BATS (USA, 1998, 8 minutes, 16mm), which
  speculates on the inner musings of cave-dwelling bats. 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. 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.

3/29
Vancouver, British Columbia: Spartacus Books
http://spartacusbooks.org
8:00pm, 319 W. Hastings

GRETA SNIDER'S VIEW-MASTER DOCUMENTARIES
  Greta Snider's View-Master Documentaries Wednesday March 29th, 8:00 pm
  Spartacus Books, 319 W. Hastings by donation Screening and Artist Talk
  with Greta Snider (SF) & Lee Krist (Portland) Review of Needles & Pens
  (SF) Show by Natalija Vekic Before I ever had an inkling that I was
  going to be a filmmaker or heard of Greta Snider, I saw a bootleg copy
  of Hard Core Home Movie. To be honest, I had no experience with
  experimental filmmaking and didn't have the vocabulary to discuss the
  impact of the film, except that it blew my mind. It was made with a punk
  aesthetic that was personal and fun, and captured the raw energy and
  visceral experience of going to a punk rock show. I hadn't in my short
  and inexperienced life seen anything like it. Since that initial
  encounter with Hard Core Home Movie, I have had the pleasure of seeing
  most of Snider's films at independent screenings, festivals and on DVD.
  The films have a hand-made aesthetic and are often personal
  documentaries offering a window into the lives of the visionaries and
  weirdos that populate subcultures on the margins of our homogenous
  consumer society. Despite a stellar fall schedule of art openings and
  screenings, I was feeling extremely anti-social and unwilling to venture
  out into the world. What did the trick, what got me going was a phone
  call from my friend Johunna Grayson, who has been assisting Greta Snider
  on her most recent artistic endeavor. The ladies have been hard at work
  shooting, hand processing and assembling a series of personal portraits
  to be viewed in 3-D with custom built View-Masters. For any of you past
  the age of thirty, the sight of these nostalgia-laden plastic toys might
  just bring a tear to your eye. The View-Master resembles a pair of
  plastic binoculars loaded with a circular reel of slides that spin
  around incrementally to reveal a new 3-D image each time the user pushes
  on a plastic spindle. The invention dates back to 1939 when William
  Gruber combined the 3-D technology of Stereoscopic photographs with
  newly developed Kodachrome film to create the gadget. Vintage "scenic
  reels," often coveted by collectors, depict exotic travel locales and
  were sold in stationary stores like postcards. By the 1950s View-Master
  began to use popular television shows and movies as subjects, especially
  Disney characters aimed at a younger audience. Today, the View-Master is
  used to mass market Hollywood films and the latest popular cartoon
  characters. By turning the reels into an interactive art experience,
  Snider is transforming a mass-produced commercial product into a hand
  made object and capturing the personal histories of regular people, not
  often reflected or celebrated in popular culture. For the upcoming show,
  Greta approached a group of friends and asked them to choose a place in
  San Francisco where they would like to have their portraits taken. Not
  only are the reels portraits of individuals, but they also reveal the
  hidden treasures and underground spaces scattered throughout San
  Francisco. Look for Ivy McClellan's tour of a clandestine cement garden
  near Candlestick Park, Bill Basquin working the dirt on a plot of his
  community garden, and Craig Baldwin emerging from the basement of
  Artists' Television Access. With this latest project, Snider once again
  takes a potentially commercial medium and creates an intimate homemade
  record of peoples' personal lives.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2006
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3/30
Brooklyn, New York:
FlatFoot F�te

7PM, Sputnik - 262 Taaffe Place

THE SCREENING - AN EVENING OF SHORTS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS
  The Screening is a monthly series exploring the creative process through
  shorts and works-in-progress. The intimacy of the gathering allows for a
  loose exchange between filmmakers and an audience of artists and
  creative-influencers. Always welcoming submissions. perks: inspiration,
  networking, collaborative opps, news, cool energy, FREE Screening w. Q&A
  on the following works: Boris Cifuentes Rachel, narrative 8 min. - The
  palpable silence of temptation Dan Lane & David Saltzman Love Crew,
  narrative 10 min. - Courtship enhanced Carla Stockton, Daniel Fine & Ed
  Ludvigsen Uptonanda, narrative 9:30 min. - The power of yoga with pets
  Ekwa Msangi-Omari Dollar Van, narrative 16:30 min. - �and you think your
  job stinks Admission: FREE The Screening Presented by FlatFoot Fete
  Sputnik 262 Taaffe Place - Brooklyn www.barsputnik.com Thursday, March
  30, 2006 7pm - 10pm Queries > email suppressed

3/30
Buffalo, New York: Hallwalls
http://www.hallwalls.org
8 pm & 10 pm, 341 Delaware Ave.

PAUL CHAN PRESENTS THE TIN DRUM TRILOGY
  The videos that comprise THE TIN DRUM TRILOGY are concerned with the
  consequences of the illegal war in Iraq. The trilogy features RE:
  THE_OPERATION based on a set of the artist's drawings that depict
  members of the George W. Bush administration as wounded soldiers in the
  war against terrorism; BAGHDAD IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER, a video essay of
  life in Baghdad before the American invasion and occupation; and NOW
  PROMISE NOW THREAT that uses Omaha, Nebraska as a site and subject from
  which to follow the often unexpected lines connecting people, religion,
  and politics in "red state" America. Paul Chan will be at Hallwalls to
  present his work in person. Limited edition posters by Paul will be
  available for purchase. Event co-sponsored by the Experimental
  Television Center.

3/30
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/
6:00 p.m., 164 N. State St.

SHUDDHABRATA SENGUPTA AND THE RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE
  Shuddhabrata Sengupta in person! Sengupta is a media-maker, writer, and
  co-founder of the Raqs Media Collective, a Delhi-based group of artists
  whose hybridized practice is rooted in both the geography of Delhi and
  the nomadism of the web. They are also co-founders of the Sarai New
  Media Lab, which maintains www.sarai.net, an extensive web site
  investigating the role of media in our increasingly cosmopolitan world.
  Sengupta will give a multi-media presentation on his work with Raqs and
  Sarai. Various formats. Tonight's show is part of [FRAY], a three-part
  mini-series and conference. For more information, visit www.fvnm.info.

3/30
Gent, Belgium: artcinema OFFOFF Film-Zien vzw
http://www.offoff.be
20:00, Lange Violettestraat 237

3/30
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The University of the Arts
http://www,uarts.edu
7:30 PM, Connelly Auditorium; Terra Building; 211 South Broad St.

SCOTT NYERGES
  Scott Nyerges has been making short films and videos since the late
  1990s. His work combines digital video technology with imagery painted
  directly onto 16mm and 35mm filmstrips. His most recent video, "Flow,"
  premiered in January at the Rotterdam Film Festival in Holland. Previous
  films and videos of his have been shown in the United States, Europe and
  Asia, including the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, the Oklahoma City
  Museum of Art and the International Computer Music Conference in
  Barcelona, Spain. Scott lives in Brooklyn.

3/30
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 p.m., Albright College Center for the Arts

OPEN SCREENING
Bring your own films, tapes & DVD's: all works will be screened.

3/30
Victoria, British Columbia: Antimatter Festival / Deluge Contemporary Art
http://www.antimatter.ws
7:30pm, Martin Batchelor Gallery, 712 Cormorant St

STAN BRAKHAGE SCREENING
  With the help of long time MediaNet member Rick Raxlen and new member
  Marilyn Brakhage, MediaNet is pleased to present an evening of films by
  renowned experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage.�Two of the three
  films�were made on Vancouver Island, "Mammals of Victoria" and "Panels
  for the Walls of Heaven."� Marilyn Brakhage will be bringing the third
  film "Christ Mass Sex Dance," which was made in Colorado. The program
  will be about 75 minutes long, and Marilyn will introduce the films with
  a few words. The show will start at 7:30 and is only $5.�Medianet thanks
  its sponsors for the event, Antimatter and Cinevic, and the Martin
  Batchelor Gallery for providing the venue. Info: www.media-net.bc.ca,
  tel: 250-381-4428

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FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2006
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3/31
Buffalo, New York: Hallwalls
http://www.hallwalls.org
8 pm & 10 pm, 341 Delaware Ave.

CHAIN PRESENTED BY JEM COHEN, ARTIST IN PERSON
  Renowned filmmaker Jem Cohen will introduce and discuss his most recent
  feature film CHAIN, a dreamlike travelogue that weaves together
  documentary footage and fiction narratives. Organized by Hallwalls and
  Squeaky Wheel. Co-sponsored by the Central NY Programmer's Group, the
  Experimental Television Center, University at Buffalo's Department of
  Media Studies Graduate Club and UB's Dept of Media Study programming
  committee.

3/31
Gent, Belgium: artcinema OFFOFF Film-Zien vzw
http://www.offoff.be
20:00, Lange Violettestraat 237

3/31
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:00 and 9:10, California College of the Arts, 1111 Eighth St

OSHIMA DOUBLE FEATURE: DEATH BY HANGING AND DIARY OF A SHINJUKU THIEF
  Nagisa Oshima's films of the 1960s combine incisive political commentary
  and riveting psychosexual explorations with a radical Japanese New Wave
  aesthetic. At 7 pm we present his early masterpiece Death by Hanging
  (1968), a Brechtian tour-de-force and one of the strongest indictments
  of capital punishment ever made on film. Based on an actual criminal
  case, the film tells the story of the execution of a Korean worker found
  guilty of rape as it denounces the oppression of Koreans in Japan and
  suggests that murder is the outcome of social repression. At 9:10 pm we
  screen Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969), a look into the sexual and
  cultural politics of young Japanese radicals of 1968 through the tale of
  a book thief/fetishist, with references to Japanese avant-garde theatre,
  French political writing and cinema (Genet, Godard), and Mohammed Ali.

3/31
Washington, DC: National Museum of Women in the Arts
http://www.nmwa.org/
7pm, 1250 New York Avenue NW. NMWA Theatre.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 2006
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4/1
Gent, Belgium: artcinema OFFOFF Film-Zien vzw
http://www.offoff.be
20:00, Lange Violettestraat 237

4/1
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street

BREAK THE SILENCE ON PALESTINE
  reak the Silence, a collective of women muralists in support of
  Palestinian autonomy, have made numerous trips to the Middle East, most
  recently for mural projects in both Gaza and the West Bank. Their
  solidarity work also includes partnering with youth and feminist groups,
  as well as providing trauma relief through the Palestinian Counseling
  Center. Now, Susan Greene and Sara Kershnar have returned to narrate
  slides and share a revelatory video on the devastating impact of the
  Israeli Apartheid Wall. After the presentation, there will be an
  extended Q & A over refreshments and regional music.

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SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 2006
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4/2
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.

FILMFORUM PRESENTS CURTIS HARRINGTON AND HIS EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS.
  The legendary filmmaker in person with his rarely screened short films,
  including Fragment of Seeking (1946, 16mm, 11 min, b&w), Picnic (1948,
  16mm, 22 min, b&w), n the Edge (1949, 16mm, 6 min., b&w), The Wormwood
  Star (1955, 16mm, 10 min., color), and Usher (2002, 35 mm, 40 min.,
  color)

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