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This week [April 16 - 23, 2006] in avant garde cinema
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Museum of Contemporary Cinema Foundation (Deadline: May 30, 2006)
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NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
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"integrated illusions" by fox
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"Eigengift" by Michael Betancourt
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"Shimmer Crash" by Brook Hinton
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"Trace Garden" by Brook Hinton
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Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago; Deadline: May 01, 2006)
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vBrooklyn video festival (Brooklyn, NY, USA; Deadline: May 01, 2006)
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Chicago International Children's Film Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: May 30, 2006)
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Experimental Film Festival in Seoul (Seoul. South Korea; Deadline: May 13, 2006)
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Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin (Paris; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
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Artist' Television Access (San Francisco, ca 94110; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
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Atists' Television Access (san francisco, ca, usa; Deadline: May 19, 2006)
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Imaginaria Film Festival (Conversano, Italy; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
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Portable Cinema Series (san francisco, ca USA; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
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Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: April 28, 2006)
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MadCat Women's International Film Festival (San Francisco, CA; Deadline: May 15, 2006)
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Perform.Media (Bloomington, IN USA; Deadline: May 15, 2006)
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theARTDISK (Chicago, IL., USA; Deadline: May 01, 2006)
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Zeitgeist International Film Fstival (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
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Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: April 21, 2006)
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Milwaukee International Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI, USA; Deadline: April 24, 2006)
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TIE-The International Experimental Cinema Exposition (Denver, Colorado, U.S.; Deadline: April 28, 2006)
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Hell on Reels [Astoria Moving Picture Festival] (Astoria, NY, USA; Deadline: April 28, 2006)
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TO BE DECIDED (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
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Reel Venus Film Festival (New York, NY USA; Deadline: May 12, 2006)
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2006 Planet Ant Film & Video Festival (Detroit, MI; Deadline: May 01, 2006)
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MadCat Women's International Film Festival (San Francisco; Deadline: May 15, 2006)
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Milwaukee Short Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI, USA; Deadline: April 22, 2006)
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Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago; Deadline: May 01, 2006)
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vBrooklyn video festival (Brooklyn, NY, USA; Deadline: May 01, 2006)
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Experimental Film Festival in Seoul (Seoul. South Korea; Deadline: May 13, 2006)
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Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin (Paris; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Allen Ross' the Grandfather Trilogy and Missing Allen: the Man Who Became
A Camera [April 16, San Francisco, California]
* Experimenta India At the Images Festival Program 1: Retrospective [April 16, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* International Shorts Program 4: Light Comes Through My Kitchen Window [April 16, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Anton Perich Presents: Starring Taylor Mead [April 17, Brooklyn, New York]
* Prelude Polypoetry Festival Krikri 2006 [April 17, Gent, Belgium]
* Alan Sekula "Lottery of the Sea" [April 17, Los Angeles, California]
* Experimenta India At the Images Festival Program 2: New Genres New Forms [April 17, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* International Shorts Program 5: Rage For Order [April 17, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* The Joy of Life [April 18, Berkeley, California]
* Chiapas Media Project: Alexandra Halkin In-Person [April 18, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* International Shorts Program 6: A Social Contract [April 18, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* S Is For Students [April 18, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Video: Recent and Strange, Hybrid Autos, Part2: Cinnamon [April 19, Berkeley, California]
* Media Archeology: Software Cinema Presents Share [April 19, Houston, Texas]
* Vincent Grenier In Person! [April 19, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Super 8 Late 1 [April 19, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* A Sort of Homecoming: Canadian Artist Spotlight On vincent Grenier [April 19, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* "But It Is Not the End": the Experimental Ethnography of Nicolas Guillen
Landrian [April 19, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* "Cure For the Cable Guy" [April 19, ohio]
* The Time We Killed [April 20, Chicago, Illinois]
* Media Archeology: Software Cinema Presents Tommy Becker and Rick Silva [April 20, Houston, Texas]
* Super 8 Late 2 [April 20, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Futurisms: Film, Architecture, Urbanism [April 20, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* International Shorts Program 7: Strange Flowers of Reason [April 20, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Media Archeology: Software Cinema Presents Lovid and Yacht [April 21, Houston, Texas]
* Electromediascope [April 21, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Drawn Towards Danger: Animating violence [April 21, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* International Shorts Program 8: the Wild Ones [April 21, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Media Archeology: Software Cinema Presents Nate Boyce and My Robot Friend [April 22, Houston, Texas]
* 7th Annual Bare Bones International Film Festival [April 22, Muskogee, OK 74401]
* Pranks and Interventions [April 22, San Francisco, California]
* Live Images 6: Willy Le Maitre's 3d World [April 22, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Closing Night Gala: Peggy Anne Berton's the Legend of Buck Kelly [April 22, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Media Archeology: Software Cinema Presents Madeline Minx [April 23, Houston, Texas]
* Filmforum Presents Films From the Closet of Terry Cannon [April 23, Los Angeles, California]
* Anticipation and Memory: Films By Larry Gottheim [April 23, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 2006
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4/16
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm and 8:50pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street
ALLEN ROSS' THE GRANDFATHER TRILOGY AND MISSING ALLEN: THE MAN WHO BECAME
A CAMERA
This program is part of San Francisco Cinematheque's RECENT AVANT-GARDE
PRESERVATIONS series. The 7:30 pm program contains Allen Ross' The
Grandfather Trilogy, which is described in the filmmaker's own words as
"a radical approach to portraiture" and plays as a "long sustained
accident" and a "record of a divinely shadowed presence." Made between
1979 and 1981, consisting of Papa, Thanksgiving 1979, and Buriels, the
trilogy is a unique, unsettling, and moving document of
intergenerational relationships. Through frequent use of disorienting
camera angles, lingering images of stasis and uncomfortable breaks in
conversation, The Grandfather Trilogy embodies the troubled yet
ultimately close relationship between the filmmaker and his subject,
allowing them their own space and time while reflecting on the intimate,
yet intrusive, process of documentation. The 8:50 pm program contains
Missing Allen by filmmaker Christian Bauer. Allen Ross, experimental
filmmaker, co-founder of Chicago Filmmakers, and cinematographer for
numerous television documentaries, vanished in 1995. After his
disappearance, his friend and fellow documentary filmmaker Bauer decides
to try to find him, or at least understand what happened. Although the
deeper questions raised by this unsettling documentary are never
answered, Missing Allen is a haunting investigation into America's dark
side of religious cults and fringe groups, a tribute to Ross as a person
and filmmaker, and a reflection on how little we sometimes know each
other. It features interviews with Chicago filmmakers Tom Palazzolo,
Bill Stamets, and others. This program is presented in Association with
Chicago Filmmakers. ADMISSION: $8 general, $5 Cinematheque Members,
Seniors, Disabled, Students (w. ID), advance tickets: 415-978-ARTS
4/16
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:00pm, Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West
EXPERIMENTA INDIA AT THE IMAGES FESTIVAL PROGRAM 1: RETROSPECTIVE
$10/8 Curated by Shai Heredia. In the late 60's and early 70's, a small
group of radical film artists made use of found footage, animation and
stylized montage to develop an alternative syntax for the state funded
documentary films made through The Films Division of India. By
recontextualizing these films within a context of experimental film
ethnography, this program celebrates the works of these visionary
filmmakers and recognizes the only modern Indian movement of
experimentation with film form in India - Shai Heredia
4/16
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
9:00pm, Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAM 4: LIGHT COMES THROUGH MY KITCHEN WINDOW
Beauty is not far from you. Around the home, around the yard, across the
street in the park. These are domestic portraits; the quotidian quoted
and captured. Work by Hans Michaud (USA), Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
(Canada), Nicky Hamlyn (UK), Madalena Miranda (Portugal), Rachel
Echenberg (Canada).
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MONDAY, APRIL 17, 2006
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4/17
Brooklyn, New York: Ocularis
http://www.ocularis.net
8 PM, 70 North 6th Street
ANTON PERICH PRESENTS: STARRING TAYLOR MEAD
In the early Seventies, Anton Perich produced/directed approximately
twenty video movies, starring Taylor Mead, for his weekly cable TV show.
At that time, when the tapes were repeatedly censored by the cable
broadcast network, they created a major scandal within the world of
television, and Ocularis is proud to present three of them this evening.
In The Aging Rock Star, Mead plays the title character planning a
million dollar comeback when all of his former and current wives, along
with his long lost daughter and her boyfriend, appear at his door asking
for money. Claiming to be poor, he eventually seduces said boyfriend and
sails off to Catalina. Later, in Ulysses, Mead is cast as an unhealthy
zillionaire who, after long travels from institution to institution,
returns home to his luxurious, sprawling SoHo loft, only to find it
transformed into a children's camp, managed by his wife's new husband.
Dr. Tinkerbelle reintroduces her patient to his former wife and takes
him through the mansion to meet a variety of characters, including some
visitors from Transylvania. And finally, in Washington Rasputin, Mead
stars as a senile grandmother who owns CBGB and is heiress to a great
American family fortune. Sometimes, she turns into the handsome
Sylvester who pretends to be dead. As her aging grandchildren come out
of the woodwork, they are subjected to Mead's bizarre saga of the family
history, one illustrated with somber portraits of their decadent
ancestors hanging on the walls. And they have to sing for their dinner.
With an introduction by Anton Perich and Taylor Mead.
4/17
Gent, Belgium: artcinema OFFOFF Film-Zien vzw
http://www.offoff.be
20:00, Lange Violettestraat 237
PRELUDE POLYPOETRY FESTIVAL KRIKRI 2006
POLYPOETRY FILMS BY Arthur Pétronio / Gabriel Cuer: Verbophonie 20 min
Ide Hintze : Li – Li – Meta –Mana met Henri Chopin 5 min Paul De Vree:
Mijn Evanaaste 8 min Alain Aris-Misson: Conversation with my old friens
Paul de Vree 7 min Emilie Lauwers : Zeg eens A 4 min Valeri Scherstjanoi
& Hartmut Andryczuk: Tiergarten 15 min Jerry Heymans: Reclining Spine 4
min Bernard Heidsieck: experpts from 'Hommage a Filliou' 5 min Rod
Summers : Mail Art DADA Skank 5 min
4/17
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
ALAN SEKULA "LOTTERY OF THE SEA"
World premiere USA, 2006, 180 min., DigiBeta Iconoclast photographer and
documentarian Allan Sekula unfolds a series of variations shot in the
Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Japan and other maritime countries around
two of his major obsessions: globalization and the sea. In this
rumination on the sea as "primordial source of sublimity," Sekula
explores a matrix of narratives—Greek myths, American movies, and
stories of longshoremen, lost sailors and displaced populations—and
reflects on the globalizing effects of Adam Smith's notion of the
seafaring life as a form of gambling. In person: Allan Sekula
4/17
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:00pm, Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West
EXPERIMENTA INDIA AT THE IMAGES FESTIVAL PROGRAM 2: NEW GENRES NEW FORMS
$10/8 curated by Shai Heredia As Indian filmmakers are increasingly
exposed to alternative visual forms and styles, new relationships have
developed to the moving image. These path-breaking personal films are
experimental ethnographic documents of the filmmakers' urban contexts.
By exposing the complex cultural relationship they share with the medium
and process of filmmaking, these artists explore ideas around migration,
gender, sexuality and religion. This is a showcase of works of emerging
Indian film artists who have crafted a fresh personal syntax and
challenge conventional perceptions of genre and form. — Shai Heredia
4/17
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
9:00pm, Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAM 5: RAGE FOR ORDER
A program dense with references to the rarefied, nosebleed stratosphere
of European high culture — Ottoman architecture and formalist poetry,
classical myth and orchestral music — unravels amidst the inverted
pathetic fallacy of a blossoming, eternal high summer. The fruits of the
Old World's less venerable aspirations are, inevitably, never far from
underfoot. Works by Barbara Meter (The Netherlands), Ken Kobland (USA),
Ichiro Sueoka (Japan), Jayne Parker (UK), Xavier Lukomski (Belgium).
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TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2006
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4/18
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30, 2575 Bancroft Way @ Bowditch
THE JOY OF LIFE
Vantage Points: New Documentaries by Women The Joy of Life Jenni Olson
(U.S., 2005) Artist in Person Local filmmaker Jenni Olson's haunting
documentary examines two heightened states of emotion, two forms of
falling. One, described in a first-person voiceover accompanied by
luminous shots of Bay Area locations, is the capacity to notice
everything as one falls in love, whether with a person or a place. The
poignant, static images of the first section frame alleyways, faded
signs, neighborhood stores, brilliant skies, and glassy water. It's a
nontraditional view of a lost Bay Area, echoed by a detailed recounting
of a lesbian's longings for current, ex-, and potential girlfriends.
Another falling is evoked in a history of suicide jumps off the Golden
Gate Bridge, illustrated in contemplative, unpopulated images. Numbering
over 1,300, the suicides include a friend of the filmmaker. With its
filmic, literary, and statistical references, The Joy of Life builds a
resonant argument for a suicide barrier on the bridge, and while the
film has played a pivotal role in igniting discussion over this issue,
to date the outcome remains uncertain.
4/18
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 p.m., Albright College Center for the Arts
CHIAPAS MEDIA PROJECT: ALEXANDRA HALKIN IN-PERSON
The Chiapas Media Project provides video equipment, computers and
training to indigenous and campesino communities in Southern Mexico. The
resulting videos offer a unique, firsthand perspective on the lives and
struggles of these communities in Chiapas and Guerrero, Mexico. Program
will be introduced by Alexandra Halkin, project founder/coordinator and
documentary producer (Guggenheim recipient, 2004; videos available from
Women Make Movies, NY). On the program: The Land Belongs to Those Who
Work it (2005, 15 min.)- The federal government sold valuable land to a
private company without the permission of the community members: a
critical look at so-called eco-tourism; We are Equal: Zapatista Women
Speak (2004, 18 min.)- an upfront and critical look at gender relations
within the Zapatista communities; Eyes on What's Inside: The
Militarization of Guerrero (2004, 35 min.) –Inez and Valentina, two
indigenous women from Guerrero were raped by Mexican soldiers. This tape
offers an inside perspective on the economic, social and political
factors (including the role of the military, narcotrafficking, etc.)
that lead to these rapes. (Spanish with English subtitles).
4/18
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:00pm, Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAM 6: A SOCIAL CONTRACT
Pay what you can! How do you separate from your surroundings, either
collectively or individually, to stake a claim in a constructive future?
These films and video feature characters aiming at just that. Attempts
to shake free the thick impasto of hegemonic depression, to move past
restraints of order and requirement, to rebel quietly or even with a
wink towards the unceasing gaze. Works by Augustin Gimel (France),
Shelly Silver (USA), Hala ElKoussy (Egypt), Michael Brynntrup (Germany),
John Price (Canada).
4/18
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
9:00pm, Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West
S IS FOR STUDENTS
Pay what you can! Our annual survey of Student film and video from
around the world.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2006
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4/19
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30PM, 2575 Bancroft Way @ Bowditch
VIDEO: RECENT AND STRANGE, HYBRID AUTOS, PART2: CINNAMON
Cinnamon Kevin Jerome Everson (U.S., 2006) Bay Area Premiere! Between
the starting tree and the gearshift is an eternity of little moments,
some filled with the bulky growl of revving fuelies, others, the intense
silence within the driver's stare. Using a style best described as
theatrical documentary, Kevin Jerome Everson's punchy Cinnamon scopes
Erin, a young African American woman, as she waits out the endless
moments until the next quarter mile pits her reflexes against the clock,
the track, and the uncertain mechanics of a pro-stock dragster. Her
mentor John, the rare African American racing pro, reads the drag strip
like a complex topo of shifting viscosities. Away from the track, Erin
is a desk jockey, a loan officer held in a limbo of businesslike
distraction. Behind the wheel of John's fuel-fed monster, she is pure
focus, waiting for a surge of horsepower to propel her toward redline.
Detailed like a precision machine, Cinnamon is a quiet film that roars.
4/19
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8pm, 800 Aurora Street, Houston, TX 77009
MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY: SOFTWARE CINEMA PRESENTS SHARE
Tickets are $8 per show or $20 for a festival pass and are available by
contacting Aurora at 713.868.2101 or (address suppressed) A
multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual
environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are
able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ
wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your
clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join.
www.sharedj.com
4/19
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
VINCENT GRENIER 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,
Free Screen programmer. VINCENT GRENIER IN PERSON! A SORT OF HOMECOMING.
Despite having made over two dozen films in the last thirty years,
Québécois artist Vincent Grenier is largely unknown in the Canadian
experimental film scene, joining the ranks of many expatriate artists
who have made their names abroad (notably Michael Snow and Joyce
Wieland). Grenier's body of work has accumulated into a reserve of
cinematic ingenuity, one which takes a consistent delight in confronting
how and what we see. It is time for a sort of homecoming, in the guise
of this small retrospective. Early films such as INTÉRIEUR INTERIORS (TO
A.K.) (Canada/USA, 1978, 15 minutes, b&w, silent, 16mm), CATCH
(Canada/USA, 1975, 5 minutes, silent, 16mm), and WORLD IN FOCUS
(Canada/USA, 1976, 20 minutes, silent, 16mm) expose the cinema's
three-dimensional swindle, exploiting the optical paradoxes of depth
attributed to a flat screen. Other films explore formal notions of
colour, like SURFACE TENSION #2 (Canada/USA, 1995, 4 minutes, silent,
16mm) – which uses an old colour separation technique – and HERE
(Canada/USA, 2002, 7 minutes, video), which digitally manipulates light
falling on his son's playground. TIME'S WAKE (ONCE REMOVED) (Canada/USA,
1987, 14 minutes, b&w, silent, 16mm) and TABULA RASA (Canada/USA, 2004,
7.5 minutes, video) are the strongest examples of Grenier's impulse to
include a human element in his formal studies. TIME'S WAKE re-examines
footage of Grenier's family home, using windows and reflections to
replicate the passing of memory. TABULA RASA supplements a visual
exploration of the institutional design of a public high school with
students' musings about superheroes and space. Co-presented by the
Images Festival, April 13-22, 2006. 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.
4/19
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
11:00pm, Cameron House, 408 Queen Street West
SUPER 8 LATE 1
Pay what you can! Following our inaugural Super 8 Late programs in 2005,
the Images Festival again takes up residency in the backroom of the
Cameron Public House to showcase two programs of late night Super 8
films. Sticking to our "no-video" policy, everything in these programs
will be shown in glorious small-gauge Super 8 film. Works by Martha
Davis (Canada), Dagie Brundert (Germany), Robert Riendeau (Canada),
Daichi Saito (Canada), Miho Uehara (Japan), Yannick Koller (France),
Trish Van Huesen (Canada), Albert Gabriel Nigrin (USA), Carl Brown
(Canada), Alex Rogalski (Canada), Karen Johannesen (USA), John Porter
(Canada), David Ellsworth (USA), Andre Pilon (Canada).
4/19
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
6:30pm, Cinematheque Ontario, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street W.
A SORT OF HOMECOMING: CANADIAN ARTIST SPOTLIGHT ON VINCENT GRENIER
The Images Festival 2006 Canadian Spotlight is, ironically, aimed on an
artist who has spent a good portion of his life working in the United
States. Despite having made over two dozen films in the last thirty
years, Québécois artist Vincent Grenier is largely unknown in the
Canadian experimental film scene, joining the ranks of many expatriate
artists who made their names abroad (notably Michael Snow and Joyce
Weiland). In his absence, Grenier's body of work has accumulated into a
sort of foreign reserve held in cinematic ingenuity, one which takes a
consistent delight in confronting our habits of how and what we see. It
is time for a sort of homecoming, in the guise of this small
retrospective.
4/19
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
9:00pm, Cinematheque Ontario, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street W.
"BUT IT IS NOT THE END": THE EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF NICOLAS GUILLEN
LANDRIAN
curated by Susan Lord. $10.10/$6 Nicolás Guillén Landrián ("Nicolasito")
— nephew of the great Cuban national poet Nicolás Guillén — joined the
ICAIC (The Cuban Film Institute) in 1961 as production assistant to
Manuel Octavio Gómez and worked on Gómez's poetic documentary, A History
of a Battle. Working thereafter alongside Sara Gómez, Santiago Alverez,
Juan C. Tabio and members of the Grupo Sonido Experimental (the
Experimental Sound Group), Nicolasito when on to make some of the most
formally inventive and socially insightful films of the first decade of
ICAIC. He was trained as a visual artist and deeply informed by Cuban
conceptual photography and the experimentalism of ICAIC; and in films
such as From Havana, 1969, we can see his connections to the montage and
emulsion experiments of his American counterparts. Like Sara Gómez,
Nicolasito was deeply interested in the contradictions between the
Revolution's dreams and the geographical and social margins. He was also
always oriented to tender work of being and, thus, toward death. The
tension between the political and the ontological drove his productions
— from the framing and reframing of the look to the sound-image
experiments that connect his subjects to a world of spiritualism and
revolutionary commitment. This program contains a cross-section of his
work, from the ethnographic to the wildly experimental. Nicolás Guillén
Landrián died in Miami 22 July 2002. He was 65 years old. — Susan Lord
4/19
ohio:
http://stevehofstetter.com/
see dates, see dates & locations
"CURE FOR THE CABLE GUY"
My friend, Steve Hofstetter, is a comedian that's getting a ton of
attention right now. His new album, "Cure for the Cable Guy" addresses
the trend of easy comedy in America, and he's already been featured by
the Washington Post, The New York Times, and Sirius Satellite Radio.
Even though it's the first week of his first album, it climbed all the
way to ..32 on itunes, which is unheard of for a debut by a comedian. I
think you'd really enjoy his material - in addition to Larry the Cable
Guy, the album is also an intelligent and hysterical look at false
patriotism, body image issues, religious fervor, and more. Bret Love
from the Atlanta Journal Constitution called him "a younger, edgier
Seinfeld if he was influenced by the late Bill Hicks. Hofstetter's
biggest following is on the internet, where he has half a million
friends on facebook and myspace combined." Anyway, if you want to check
him out, he's at http://stevehofstetter.com/ Thanks in advance! Li
Schussel email suppressed
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4/20
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/
6:00 p.m., 164 N. State St.
THE TIME WE KILLED
Director Jennifer Reeves in person! Set in the unhinged months that
stretched from 9-11 to the invasion of Iraq, Jennifer Reeves'
award-winning feature debut achieves a quiet power through rough-edged,
handcrafted means. Best known as an accomplished abstract filmmaker,
Reeves wrings bitter truth, confused paranoia, and impotent rage from
those days, infusing them into the story of an agoraphobic poet, Robyn
(real-life poet Lisa Jarnot). Robyn sequesters herself in a small
Brooklyn apartment as global events unravel; a day without leaving
becomes a week, then blurs into months. But the outside nevertheless
intrudes: Bush calls for war on TV, concerned friends leave messages,
neighbors' arguments seep through the walls. Robyn's verbal and visual
stream of consciousness provides an internal narrative in more ways than
one, as her observations blend into a lyrical swirl of sunny reverie,
muted trauma, and inescapable reality. (Ed Halter, Village Voice)
Jennifer Reeves, 2005, USA, 94 min. 16mm.
4/20
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8pm, University of Houston
MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY: SOFTWARE CINEMA PRESENTS TOMMY BECKER AND RICK SILVA
Tickets are $8 per show or $20 for a festival pass and are available by
contacting Aurora at 713.868.2101 or (address suppressed) Tommy
Becker's videos combine spoken word, performance, music and costume
design to create sentimental vignettes in which faceless individuals
consistently find themselves in states of adversity. Music, sounds and
spoken monologues accentuate Becker's performance-based works,
highlighting the humorous yet melancholy states of his characters as
they struggle to shift perspectives, overcome alienation or refine
behavioral patterns. Rick Silva uses the software Google Earth like a DJ
or VJ would use turntables or a video mixer. He captures satellite video
of pixilated landscapes and glitchy fly-overs and uses them as source
material for live audio/visual performances and installations.
www.tommybecker.com, www.ricksilva.net
4/20
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
11:00pm, Cameron House, 408 Queen Street West
SUPER 8 LATE 2
Night number two of our exciting Super 8 Late sidebar! More work from
the One Take Super 8 Event as well as gorgeous new pieces by Helga
Fanderl, Karen Johannesen, Jeanne Liotta and Dominik Lange, complemented
by archival finds from Stan Brakhage, Saul Levine and Nicky Hamlyn. All
films will be shown on their original Super 8 where their true opulence
shines through, unhindered by bad video transfers. PWYC!
4/20
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:00pm, Goethe Institut, 163 King Street West
FUTURISMS: FILM, ARCHITECTURE, URBANISM
Curated by Marc Glöde. Film is often a testing ground for what the
future city could actually be: it can address questions of where cities
are located, how they are built, or how public and private spaces
relate. It can also focus on the architectural possibilities of new
building materials, forms, and shapes. The cinematic imagination of the
future city is a tool to explore new conceptions and perceptions of
space. — Marc Glöde
4/20
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
9:00pm, Goethe Institut, 163 King Street West
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAM 7: STRANGE FLOWERS OF REASON
PWYC! Observable behaviours. Curious paths. What one can see outside a
window or walking amongst the crowds. Work by Shizuko Tabata (Japan),
Guy Sherwin (UK), Rebecca Baron (USA), Yuiko Matsuyama (Japan), Sandee
Moore (Canada).
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FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 2006
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4/21
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8pm, Domy of Café Brasil, 2604 Dunlavy Street
MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY: SOFTWARE CINEMA PRESENTS LOVID AND YACHT
Tickets are $8 per show or $20 for a festival pass and are available by
contacting Aurora at 713.868.2101 or (address suppressed) LoVid
(Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus) scrambles ordinary TV output into
hyperkinetic audiovisual abstraction using homemade electronic devices,
repurposed analog toys, and low-res video loops. In the duo's real time
performances, an intense, variable audio signal disrupts the video's
horizontal raster lines into swirling or stroboscopic patterns.
www.lovid.com Jona Bechtolt (Yacht) is a technological multi talent. His
sound and video production can be found generously scattered throughout
the internet, and in numerous popular live incarnations. With his
project, YACHT, he makes textural dance-based compositions and
performances, described by some as a "positive energy rainbow dome music
from a next-generation west coast healer." He documents its movement via
video, text, and images on his deeply archival and well-maintained blog.
www.teamyacht.com
4/21
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
Songs, Cycles and Stories. Songs and poems linked to the rhythms of
nature, the earth and its peoples have been preserved and transmitted
through oral traditions for millennia. These stories celebrate and
re-imagine the complexity and diversity of generations of human
experiences of life on this planet. The films and videos in Songs,
Cycles and Stories extend this practice of finding beauty and magic in
everyday life and also critically engage timeless knowledge, historical
references and contemporary experiences of media culture. There is a
kind of political activism in these works of personal cinema that calls
into question imposed cultural conformity while preserving knowledge and
documenting experiences by travelers into other dimensions and worlds.
As story-tellers, these artists experiment with relationships between
sound and image and combine fictional, appropriated and documentary
techniques while exploring personal identity and self-discovery within a
changing world. –Patrick Clancy. Two works by Helen Mirra (USA), video.
The Ballad of Myra Furrow, 1994, 5:00 min. I, Bear, 1995, 5:00 min.
Three films by Matt McCormick (USA). Grounded, 2004, 4:30 min., 16mm
film shown on video. Towlines, 2004, 22 min., 16mm film shown on video.
Going to the Ocean, 2001, 8 min., 16mm film. Behold Goliath by Tom Kalin
(USA), video. Two short excerpts from an ongoing feature film project
based on the stories of writer and critic Alfred Chester. Every Evening
Freedom, 2002, 2:45 min. Some Desperate Crime on my Head, 2003, 2:57
min. The Star Eaters, Peggy Ahwesh (USA), 2003, 24 min., video. Lake,
Rebecca Dolan (USA), 2000, 2 min., video.
4/21
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:00pm, Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West
DRAWN TOWARDS DANGER: ANIMATING VIOLENCE
Curated by Jon Davies. $10/8 Animation, always an imaginative or
personal interpretive vision, is capable of depicting events
unrestrained by the laws of physical time and space that govern
live-action films. Especially in the depiction of traumatic events,
which often have the effect of shattering one's very experience of the
world, animation is an incredibly rich expressive form precisely due to
its innate dissociation from the real. Many animated works that confront
war, genocide or interpersonal strife focus on children, or use animals
as surrogates and metaphors. This adherence to an "immature" or "naive"
visual or narrative style is an ideal way of loosening the conventions
around the depiction of violence, especially those of the mainstream
news media. Instead these films and videos bask in the glow of their own
(deceptive) inauthenticity, playfulness and artificiality, suggesting
that childish imagination might be a more humane and thoughtful lens for
representing politics and pain. — Jon Davies
4/21
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
9:00pm, Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAM 8: THE WILD ONES
Escapees from order, uncouth and undomesticated — and in 3D! Get out of
your cage and revel in their freedom, the perilous liberty of a bug or a
weed or a motherless child. Works by Maia Cybelle Carpenter (USA),
Chu-Li Shewring (Malaysia), Guy Ben-Ner (Israel), Zoe Beloff (USA).
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4/22
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8pm, The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, 2402 Munger Street
MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY: SOFTWARE CINEMA PRESENTS NATE BOYCE AND MY ROBOT FRIEND
Tickets are $8 per show or $20 for a festival pass and are available by
contacting Aurora at 713.868.2101 or (address suppressed)
Informed by healthy doses of perceptual psychology and an ethic of mind
expansion, Nate Boyce's work utilizes aural and visual noise as a medium
through which purely phantasmagoric spaces are accessed. Locally
recognized as one of San Francisco's most stalwart producers of
perceptually disorienting video, his work has been exhibited
internationally, and has worked with artists such as Tussle, Matmos, and
the Soft Pink Truth. Technically the world's first no-man band, My Robot
Friend is Howard Robot joined by a tight knit cadre of other machines
and humanoids. www.myrobotfriend.com www.tigerbeat6.com
4/22
Muskogee, OK 74401: Facility for the Common Man
http://barebonesfilmfest00.tripod.com/id93.html
6:00 PM, The Roxy Theatre, 220 W. Okmulgee
7TH ANNUAL BARE BONES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
FACILITY FOR THE COMMON MAN 7:00 TRT COMEDY WRITER/PRODUCER - MARK
KOCHANOWICZ DIRECTOR - RON PEROZZI CINEMATOGRAPHER - JENA SERBU EDITOR -
MARK KOCHANOWICZ ORIGINAL MUSIC - JOHN AVARESE LIBERTY BELL FILMS
PHILADELPHIA, PA www.libertybellfilms.com A germophobe's day is
interrupted by a bowl of chili. Cast: MARK KOCHANOWICZ MEGHAN HEIMBECKER
WILLIAM J. JOHNSTON LEONARD WILCOX MARC KRINSKY BILLY FINNIGAN DATE:
SATURDAY, APRIL 22 TIME SLOT: 6:00-8:00 PM VENUE: ROXY
4/22
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
PRANKS AND INTERVENTIONS
In the first of a pair of culture-jamming gigs, we host three incendiary
media miscreants and a mixed bag of new (and old) tricks. In a
mid-career retrospective of the Keatonesque Tom Borden, we witness his
gutsy, occasionally scatological performances, spanners in the works of
the commercial machine. Also slated is the Metavid project, a 30-min.
show n’ tell by Michael Dale and Aphid, who have managed to hack
the C-SPAN closed-caption window, inputting critical info on featured
Congressmen in real-time. The jam-boree kicks off with a set of inspired
and inspiring guerrilla tactical jokes from the Yes Men, the Biotic
Baking Brigade, a Boston Tea Party-crasher, and prankster godfather Joey
Skaggs. Broadcast live by Neighborhood Public Radio.
4/22
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:00pm, Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West
LIVE IMAGES 6: WILLY LE MAITRE'S 3D WORLD
A performed stereographic video projection with multi-channel,
spacialized audio. Edia progresses through a sequence of real-time
manipulations of 3D scenes that can be viewed from an infinite number of
perspectives. Passing through spheres, clusters and volleys of data
textured with panoramic video, we encounter a series of characters and
plots with an unpredictable tendency to morph into each other and their
environment. "A stereographic visualization of being between cosmos and
the quanta. Sonic gas permeates, charged with event radiation, while
tiny vesicles form a battery of chemical messengers, conjuring memory's
image channel. Time is revealed volumetrically to be circular and its
present vectored to every past." — Willy Le Maitre
4/22
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
9:00pm, Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West
CLOSING NIGHT GALA: PEGGY ANNE BERTON'S THE LEGEND OF BUCK KELLY
"Where does a body go between the time it goes missing and the time it
is found?" Peggy Anne Berton has been shooting Super 8 for over twenty
years, collecting a myriad of adventures and stories along the way. She
can often be found in the back room of the Cameron House, telling these
tales to the live soundtracks of Marc St-Aubin during Peggy Anne's Beat
Super 8 Soliloquies. Now, with The Legend of Buck Kelly, she has woven
excerpts from her collection of over 400 Super 8 rolls into a feature
length video.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2006
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4/23
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8pm, DiverseWorks, 1117 East Freeway
MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY: SOFTWARE CINEMA PRESENTS MADELINE MINX
Tickets are $8 per show or $20 for a festival pass and are available by
contacting Aurora at 713.868.2101 or (address suppressed)
Singer-songwriter for the poptronica band PUSHY, Madeline Minx brings
her solo act to Aurora. Her self-directed, self-produced weekly
television show "Pushy TV" can be seen on Cable Access (Channel 29, San
Francisco). She has written, directed, and performed in numerous plays,
short films, and music videos, and is both creator and subject of Get
Pushy, a feature-length documentary following her quest to climb to the
top of the pop charts. www.getpushy.com
4/23
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
FILMFORUM PRESENTS FILMS FROM THE CLOSET OF TERRY CANNON
Filmforum's 30th anniversary! An ongoing series. Filmforum founder Terry
Cannon visits with a variety of short experimental films that he
purchased, traded for, and received as gifts while running Filmforum.
Most never publicly screened! Including works by Kurt Kren, Willie
Varela, Bruce Posner, Craig Rice, and Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci
Lucchi.
4/23
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street
ANTICIPATION AND MEMORY: FILMS BY LARRY GOTTHEIM
This program is part of San Francisco Cinematheque's RECENT AVANT-GARDE
PRESERVATIONS series. From his late-sixties series of sublime
"single-shot" films to the dense sound/image constructs of the
mid-seventies and after, the cinema of Larry Gottheim is the cinema of
presence, of observation, and of deep conscious engagement. While
addressing genres of landscape, diary and assemblage filmmaking,
Gottheim's work properly stands alone in its intensive investigations of
the paradoxes between direct, sensual experience in collision with
complex structures of repetition, anticipation and memory. Tonight's
program includes new prints of Blues, Doorway, and Tree of Knowledge
(from the four-part series, Elective Affinities) plus Your Television
Traveler and The Opening, part of the in-progress Chants & Dances for
Hand, based on material shot in Haiti. Larry Gottheim in person.
ADMISSION: $8 general, $5 Cinematheque Members, Seniors, Disabled,
Students (w. ID). advance tickets: 415-978-ARTS
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