From: weekly listing (email suppressed)
Date: Sat May 20 2006 - 15:34:19 PDT
This week [May 21 - 28, 2006] in avant garde cinema
NEW FILM/VIDEO: FEATURE:
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"Day2" by Gareth Crook
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newworkf&readfile=81.ann
"Attrition" by Garet Crook
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=253.ann
"Dollar Disobedience" by Bill VanDall
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=254.ann
"The Journal of Short Film" by Karl Mechem
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=255.ann
ITEM FOR SALE:
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super-8 camera
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=sale&readfile=5.ann
6 plates Steenback 16mm editing system
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=sale&readfile=6.ann
NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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Ask the Robot (New York, NY; Deadline: May 29, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=563.ann
Under Ten (Oakland, CA; Deadline: May 28, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=564.ann
New Bedford Film Festival (new bedford ma, USA; Deadline: May 31, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=565.ann
35th Festival du Nouveau Cinema - Montreal (October 18 - 28, 2006) (Montreal (Qc) CANADA; Deadline: June 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=566.ann
San Diego Women Film Festival (San Diego, CA, USA; Deadline: July 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=567.ann
Elastic Gallery (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: September 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=568.ann
Elastic Gallery / The Ruckel Patzke Project (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: June 05, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=569.ann
Dallas Video Festival (dallas, tx USA; Deadline: May 26, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=570.ann
Studio 27 (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: June 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=571.ann
DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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25 FPS (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: June 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=477.ann
Hull Screen (Hull; Deadline: May 31, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=495.ann
Call for filmmaking stories (Toronto, Canada; Deadline: June 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=510.ann
Antimatter Underground Film Festival (Victoria, BC, Canada; Deadline: May 31, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=512.ann
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
Chicago International Children's Film Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: May 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=546.ann
Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (Lausanne, Switzerland; Deadline: May 31, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=562.ann
Ask the Robot (New York, NY; Deadline: May 29, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=563.ann
Under Ten (Oakland, CA; Deadline: May 28, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=564.ann
New Bedford Film Festival (new bedford ma, USA; Deadline: May 31, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=565.ann
Elastic Gallery / The Ruckel Patzke Project (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: June 05, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=569.ann
Dallas Video Festival (dallas, tx USA; Deadline: May 26, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=570.ann
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Filmforum Presents the Short Documentaries of Krzysztof Kieslowski, Part
2. [May 21, Los Angeles, California]
* Kidlat Tahimak's Perfumed Nightmare [May 21, San Francisco, California]
* Illuminated Corridor Outdoor Performative Projection [May 21, San Francisco, California]
* "The Psychoacoustic Geographers" [May 22, Gent, Belgium]
* Sharon Lockhart "Pine Flat" [May 22, Los Angeles, California]
* 8 & 16 Mm Film Works Klaus W. Eisenlohr [May 23, Freiburg]
* Screening of Shadows [May 24, Los Angeles, California]
* Anthony Burr and Jennifer Reeves [May 24, NY]
* "The Psychoacoustic Geographers" [May 24, Rotterdam, The Netherlands]
* The Xy Chromosome: Moving Image Performance With Lynne Sachs and Mark
Street [May 25, Brooklyn, New York]
* "The Psychoacoustic Geographers" [May 25, Nijmegen, The Netherlands]
* International video Dance Festival, Tel-Aviv [May 25, Tel-Aviv]
* 25 Letters By Grahame Weinbren [May 26, New York, New York]
* Down N Dirty #4..Behind the Scenes In Queer Filmmaking Presents Bill
Basquin! [May 27, San Francisco, California]
* Costabile + Boyce + Dav Is [May 27, San Francisco, California]
* The Short Documentaries of Krzysztof Kieslowski, Part 3 [May 28, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2006
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5/21
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
4:00 and 7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE SHORT DOCUMENTARIES OF KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI, PART
2.
These lovely short works show the film master develop from film school
to early political films, as well as provide a fascinating look at
Poland in the days of Communism. Tonight:?Refrain (1972,)?The Principles
of Safety and Hygiene in a Copper Mine (1972)?Between Wroclaw and
Zielona Gora (1972),?Workers 1971: Nothing About Us Without Us
(1972)?Bricklayer (1973, released in 1981)
5/21
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street at Third
KIDLAT TAHIMAK'S PERFUMED NIGHTMARE
Exuberant, witty, and politically incisive, Tahimik's now classic 1977
feature/essay Perfumed Nightmare takes a wry look at American cultural
influence and globalization from the artist's playful and idiosyncratic
perspective. The nightmare is the "cocoon of American dreams" which the
film evokes and then parodies. From Tahimik's childhood village, where
Voice of America, movies, and space travel transform his lively
imagination, the film moves to Paris and Bavaria where he tastes the
fruits of the capitalism alongside an American bubble gum entrepreneur.
Produced with the help of Werner Herzog, Perfumed Nightmare "reminds one
that invention, insolence, enchantment –even innocence– are still
available on film" according to Susan Sontag. Presented in Association
with the Center for Asian American Media. ADMISSION: $8 General, $5
Cinematheque Members, Seniors, Disabled, Students (w. ID). Advance
Tickets: 415-978-ARTS
5/21
San Francisco, California: The Illuminated Corridor
http://www.illuminatedcorridor.com
8:48pm, Capp Street between 16th & Adair
ILLUMINATED CORRIDOR OUTDOOR PERFORMATIVE PROJECTION
The San Francisco debut of the Illuminated Corridor comes to the street
outside The LAB in a night of collaborative intermedia, performative
projection, live music and public art. Under the dynamic umbrella of the
Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival's Collision Series, the Corridor has
assembled seven ensembles featuring the work of over two dozen
filmmakers, media artists and musicians. Together they will relight a
historic city block and thread a story in cinematic sound and vision
along its facades. Inside the LAB, four intermedia ensembles (The
Deletist, Neigborhood Bass Coalition, Nullspace and Soundshack) will
create immersive environments with video, film, dance, theater, and
sonic arts. Artists include the Cinepimps with Alfonso Alvarez, Keith
Arnold, Steve Dye, Jeff Hobbs, Alan Korn and Joe Rut Epic [Abridged]
with Christian Bruno, Charles Kremenak, Steve Dye, Biagio Azzerelli,
Eric Steinberg and Arturo Cesares Cecilia Elguero Killer Banshee (Eliot
Daughtry and Kriss De Jong) Sarah Lockhart with Aurora, Damon Smith and
Weasel Walter Kathleen Quillian and Gilbert Guerrero and Sun-X (Peter
Nyboer and Eric van Osdel) free street performance $7-$15 sliding scale
admission to indoor performance About the Corridor
www.illuminatedcorridor.com The Illuminated Corridor is a next step in
outdoor cinema: a nomadic public art installation that creates
site-specific illumination of public space, drawing on local traditions
of film and live music. Launched in the Summer of 2005 by a
collaboration of over 50 Bay Area filmmakers, media artists, sound
artists and musicians, the Illuminated Corridor catalyzes new work,
showcases diverse collaborations between performative projectionists and
performing artists, and covers a vast territory of film and music
genres.
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MONDAY, MAY 22, 2006
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5/22
Gent, Belgium: Artcinema OFFOFF
http://www.offoff.be
8:00 pm, Begijnhof ter hoyen, Lange Violettestraat 237, 9000
"THE PSYCHOACOUSTIC GEOGRAPHERS"
BEN RUSSELL AND JONATHAN SCHWARTZ IN PERSON! Emotional exiles from the
Land of Opportunity, experimental filmmakers Ben Russell and Jonathan
Schwartz come to Europe on the first leg of their infinite world tour –
equipped with 16mm films, vocal distortion effects and optical sound
tracks, these kindred spirits engage in a kino-cartography of the
audiovisual contract. Through a combination of psychedelic cinema,
mash-up animations, ethnographic mask ceremonies, and pinhole lenses
these two intrepid explorers map out a new world of Image and Sound
where vision travels in waveforms and sound flickers like explosions in
the night. Featuring: Black and White Trypps Number One (7:00, 16mm,
silent, 2005)*, The Red and Blue Gods (8:00, 16mm, live sound, 2005)*,
Pre-Hibernation News (6:00, 16mm, 2005)**, Sunbeam Hunter (3:00, 16mm,
2006)**, Daumë (7:00, 16mm, 2000)*, Den of Tigers (19:00, 16mm, 2002)**,
Terra Incognita (10:00, 16mm, 2002)*, For Them Ending (3:00, 16mm,
2005)**, Black and White Trypps Number Two (9:30, 16mm, silent, 2006)*
(*by Ben Russell, **by Jonathan Schwartz) * * * * *
http://www.magiclanterncinema.com/tour.htm
5/22
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
SHARON LOCKHART "PINE FLAT"
Los Angeles premiere USA, 2006, 135 min., 16mm Artist and filmmaker
Sharon Lockhart has crafted an exquisite, meditative portrait of youth
in the small rural village of Pine Flat in the foothills of the Sierra
Nevada. Pursuing and expanding her fondness for long takes and static
compositions, she captures in 12 shots moments of fragility, innocence,
playfulness and sometimes sadness. Shot over the course of two and a
half years, the film explores the tension between documentary
portraiture and narrative desire. Pine Flat is a singular film as
complex as it is spare, endearing as it is demanding. In person: Sharon
Lockhart
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TUESDAY, MAY 23, 2006
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5/23
Freiburg: Kommunales Kino Freiburg/ Wiehre Bahnhof
http://www.freiburger-medienforum.de/kino/0506/avantgarde.html
19:00, Kommunales Kino Freiburg/ Wiehre Bahnhof, Urachstr. 40, D- 79102 Freiburg, Germany
8 & 16 MM FILM WORKS KLAUS W. EISENLOHR
Since 1991, filmmaker and photographer Klaus W. Eisenlohr has undertaken
visual explorations with his camera. He started off with making Super-8
films, which have been in-camera edited with no further manipulation.
This personal stance is being continued in his 16mm films through his
own special way of rhythm of movements and edits. His research on
architecture and spatial relations took him from Berlin to Chicago,
where he has gone deeper into reflections on urban development and the
vanishing of public space. "Klaus W. Eisenlohr is writing filmic diaries
with his mechanical camera. He has made his recordings with Super-8 and
16mm in underground tunnels in London, on athmospherical sky views at
Berlin Alexanderplatz and about an amiable train stop in the
no-mans-land. In his film language, we, the audience, discover the ways
- besides the travel notes, rhythmical textures and structures that make
us alert - of how Klaus W. Eisenlohr is using his camera like a
typewriter keybord to tell intimate stories." (Telemach Wiesinger) Link:
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/index.html
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 2006
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5/24
Los Angeles, California: UCLA Film & TV Archive
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu
7:30 pm, James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall, UCLA
SCREENING OF SHADOWS
SHADOWS (1959, United States) Directed by John Cassavetes In SHADOWS,
filmmaker John Cassavetes fashions the sociological as personal,
improbably (and brilliantly) dissecting race and identity in postwar
America with a cool jazz verve. Ben and Lelia are brother and sister,
light-skinned African-Americans who pass for white in the demimonde of
'50s New York. Dark-skinned Hugh is Ben and Lelia's protective elder
brother. As the siblings wander the city, work, party and brawl, their
desires and anxieties float to the surface, coalescing into an ineffable
poetics of being. Here, in his first feature, the novice director is
already keying in on character study and episodic structure, hallmarks
of Cassavetes' later films. Producer: Maurice McEndree, Nikos Papatakis.
Screenwriter: John Cassavetes. Cinematographer: Erich Kollmar. Editor:
John Cassavetes, Maurice McEndree, Len Appelson. Cast: Hugh Hurd, Lelia
Goldoni, Ben Carruthers, Anthony Ray. 35mm, 87 min. In Person: Ross
Lipman, UCLA Film & Television Archive
5/24
NY: Tonic
http://www.tonicnyc.com/
8 pm, PO Box 136 Planetarium Station
ANTHONY BURR AND JENNIFER REEVES
wed may 24 8 p.m. tonic nyc anthony burr & jennifer reeves light mood
work disorder / he walked away A live collaboration between noted
experimental filmmaker jennifer reeves and musician anthony burr,
performed with 3 16mm projectors, live electronics and bass clarinet.
This program was first performed in dundee scotland in february 2006 as
part of the festival: kill your timid notion. The tonic performance will
be a slightly stripped down version. The two works are performed as a
single whole, bridged by a musical interlude. Light Mood Work Disorder
Film artist Jennifer Reeves and musician Anthony Burr collaborated to
make this live film and music performance, which mixes and subverts
symbols of science, industry, medicine and madness. Up to 4 screens and
4 channels of multi-layered music immerse the audience in colorful
rhythmic molecular forms, morphing frequencies and visual textures,
which are broken down to the particle level. Found images from the 20th
century educational films are literally sewn together with melted down
pharmaceuticals affixed directly to the film, and form a concentrated
fusion with pulsating electronic sounds, bass clarinet and organ.
Illustrations of synapses, dendrites, electromagnetic waveforms and
assembly-lines both create and describe the movement of the sound and
light waves that envelop the audience. As the performance ensues, the
intensity builds to a point of irresistible danger and rupture. He
Walked Away A double-projection film made for live music, He Walked Away
reframes and layers shots and outtakes from earlier Reeves films on
landscape, portraiture and direct-on-film work. The score composed by
Anthony Burr was intended to be paired with that of Light Work Mood
Disorder and recasts the same austere harmonic material of that work in
a more explicitly "musically" coded framework. "Much in the way
musicians will mine their previous compositions to create evolved new
works, HE WALKED AWAY is a distinct work that holds a nostalgic story of
what my eyes have witnessed in 10 years: the discoveries, losses and
growing pains I now see as beautiful and essential." -J. Reeves
5/24
Rotterdam, The Netherlands: WORM
http://www.wormweb.nl
9:00pm, Achterhaven 148, 3024 RC
"THE PSYCHOACOUSTIC GEOGRAPHERS"
BEN RUSSELL AND JONATHAN SCHWARTZ IN PERSON! Emotional exiles from the
Land of Opportunity, experimental filmmakers Ben Russell and Jonathan
Schwartz come to Europe on the first leg of their infinite world tour –
equipped with 16mm films, vocal distortion effects and optical sound
tracks, these kindred spirits engage in a kino-cartography of the
audiovisual contract. Through a combination of psychedelic cinema,
mash-up animations, ethnographic mask ceremonies, and pinhole lenses
these two intrepid explorers map out a new world of Image and Sound
where vision travels in waveforms and sound flickers like explosions in
the night. Featuring: Black and White Trypps Number One (7:00, 16mm,
silent, 2005)*, The Red and Blue Gods (8:00, 16mm, live sound, 2005)*,
Pre-Hibernation News (6:00, 16mm, 2005)**, Sunbeam Hunter (3:00, 16mm,
2006)**, Daumë (7:00, 16mm, 2000)*, Den of Tigers (19:00, 16mm, 2002)**,
Terra Incognita (10:00, 16mm, 2002)*, For Them Ending (3:00, 16mm,
2005)**, Black and White Trypps Number Two (9:30, 16mm, silent, 2006)*
(*by Ben Russell, **by Jonathan Schwartz) * * * * *
http://www.magiclanterncinema.com/tour.htm
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THURSDAY, MAY 25, 2006
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5/25
Brooklyn, New York: Monkeytown
http://www.monkeytownhq.com/xy.html
7:30 and 10pm, 58 N. 3rd St. btwn Wyatt and Kent
THE XY CHROMOSOME: MOVING IMAGE PERFORMANCE WITH LYNNE SACHS AND MARK
STREET
Two 80 min. screenings. Reservations suggested. An impressionistic
odyssey for the eyes becomes both haunting and delightful in this moving
image dream expedition.... In the grand tradition of the Cartesian and
chromosomal construct, Lynne Sachs will take on the X axis video screens
in dialogue with Mark Street’s Ys. Where will we all end up? What
depths and heights await us? Anxiety, serenity and awe mingle and mix as
we watch these ephemeral images. What looks like a tree can quickly turn
into a train or telephone pole or an angry bowl of soup, as our audience
hangs on for dear life. Lynne creates theatrical gestures and tableaux
using hands, toys, a plate of cherry pie, and a miniature of the Empire
State Building (to name a few of the hundreds of objects). Mark produces
photochemically conjured flowers, fishing tackle, and shards of found
film - - all flying by at a variety of speeds in the spirit of a Man Ray
print. His Trailer Trash images (culled from theatrical movie trailers)
hold Hollywood up to a funhouse mirror. Mark and Lynne negotiate the
thin line between representation and abstraction in each second of this
moving image extravaganza.
5/25
Nijmegen, The Netherlands: Extrapool
http://www.extrapool.nl
8:30pm, Tweede Walstraat 5, 6511 LN
"THE PSYCHOACOUSTIC GEOGRAPHERS"
BEN RUSSELL AND JONATHAN SCHWARTZ IN PERSON! Emotional exiles from the
Land of Opportunity, experimental filmmakers Ben Russell and Jonathan
Schwartz come to Europe on the first leg of their infinite world tour –
equipped with 16mm films, vocal distortion effects and optical sound
tracks, these kindred spirits engage in a kino-cartography of the
audiovisual contract. Through a combination of psychedelic cinema,
mash-up animations, ethnographic mask ceremonies, and pinhole lenses
these two intrepid explorers map out a new world of Image and Sound
where vision travels in waveforms and sound flickers like explosions in
the night. Featuring: Black and White Trypps Number One (7:00, 16mm,
silent, 2005)*, The Red and Blue Gods (8:00, 16mm, live sound, 2005)*,
Pre-Hibernation News (6:00, 16mm, 2005)**, Sunbeam Hunter (3:00, 16mm,
2006)**, Daumë (7:00, 16mm, 2000)*, Den of Tigers (19:00, 16mm, 2002)**,
Terra Incognita (10:00, 16mm, 2002)*, For Them Ending (3:00, 16mm,
2005)**, Black and White Trypps Number Two (9:30, 16mm, silent, 2006)*
(*by Ben Russell, **by Jonathan Schwartz) *
http://www.magiclanterncinema.com/tour.htm *
5/25
Tel-Aviv: International Video Dance Festival, Tel-Aviv
11:00AM-01:00AM, Tel-Aviv Cinematheque
INTERNATIONAL VIDEO DANCE FESTIVAL, TEL-AVIV
The first International Video-Dance Festival will be held at the
Cinematheque of Tel-Aviv, Israel May 25 – 27, 2006. The Festival calls
for artists from all art fields, to kindly send audiovisual pieces,
realized in any format, using original or re-staged choreography filmed
or recorded onto video. Mere documentations of stage choreographies
won't be accepted. The festival will be accepting also audiovisual
pieces in the documentary genre and audiovisual pieces that are to be
exhibited as an installation. Notice, that the festival wishes to view
varied works made by artists with no limitation regarding date of
production and to whether screened before in other venues. All works
need be sent to the festival until January 31st, 2006 accompanied by
name of artist/s, piece title, email address, mailing address,
telephone, name of director, name of choreographer, name of performers,
name of music composer, name of producer, Duration, format and system,
year of production, any other related information or description of
piece. The Festival Mailing Address: Avi Feldman / Alon Garbuz The
Tel-Aviv Cinematheque International Video-Dance Festival, Tel-Aviv 2
Sprinzak St. Tel-Aviv 64738 Israel Please do not hesitate to contact Avi
Feldman for any further information: email suppressed * Sender of piece
will be held as possessing all copyright and screening rights and as
allowing the festival to use the piece for festival purposes, screenings
and as part of the festival's video library.
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FRIDAY, MAY 26, 2006
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5/26
New York, New York: Tribeca Film Festival
http://tribecafilmfestival.org
10:45 am, AMC Loews 34th Street 312 West 34th Street
25 LETTERS BY GRAHAME WEINBREN
See May 1st listing for details
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SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2006
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5/27
San Francisco, California: Femina Potens Gallery
http://www.feminapotens.com
8:00 pm, 465 So. Van Ness
DOWN N DIRTY #4..BEHIND THE SCENES IN QUEER FILMMAKING PRESENTS BILL
BASQUIN!
Femina Potens Gallery showcases its innovative monthly film series Down
& Dirty: the Intimate World of Queer Filmmaking Saturday, May 27, 2006,
featuring selected shorts from queer filmmaker Bill Basquin. The ongoing
series features film and dialogue with Bay Area Queer Filmmakers as part
of Femina Potens 2006 Film Screenings. Celebrate and promote local
queer, trans, and women video artists as we feature intimate
conversations with local filmmakers, a shot-by-shot analysis of the
filmmaking process, stories from behind the scenes, and the inside scoop
on San Francisco's filmmaking community followed up by Q & A from the
audience. Bill Basquin's work in the Bay Area has spanned nearly a
decade. His first short, The Ride, premiered in Frameline and was one of
the first Bay Area shorts to explore gender. All of Basquin's films have
been shot on celluloid film, to some, this is considered a 'dying
format' in the digital age, his choice to use this format will be
discussed as well as his experiences at Sundance Film Festival, 2006.
His recent black and white documentaries about farm life and masculinity
are breathtaking glimpses at a world often forgotten. Basquin's work is
always thoughtful, meditative and engages the viewer with wit. Artist
Bio: Bill Basquin is searching for the fusion between urban and rural
within his own life. He was born into a small railroad town in north
central Indiana, moved to Wisconsin, grew up, built a lot of theatre
sets, worked for a photographer, went to college, drove a cab, then
moved to San Francisco in 1995 where he has since become an
award-winning film director and lighting professional. The list of his
independent film work is long and varied, including: Live, Nude, Girls
UNITE!; Maquiapolis; By Hook or By Crook; The Pearl Suspended; Come
Nightfall; and Strand: a Natural History of Cinema. As a director and
cinematographer, he recently completed a series of short films about
farming, rural life and families, of which the most recent, Range,
screened at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. His forthcoming project,
Soiled, is an experimental documentary that re-imagines the city as a
place where people practice agriculture. He is currently a member of the
Board of Film Arts Foundation. www.billbasquin.com
5/27
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
COSTABILE + BOYCE + DAV IS
The Bay Area is especially blessed with an emerging generation of sound
artists who work with hacked and hot-rodded computer applications
towards the creation of an entirely new kind of audiovisual
performance—a real-time electronic cinema that is ingenious and
refreshing. Here are three young wizards emerging from the SFAI nexus:
Sue Costabile manipulates objects and images in an exquisitely abstract
dance of color and form; Nate Boyce takes a more aggressive approach to
sound and image editing via a dangerous Jitter habit; and John Davis
undresses a film projector with Piezo mics and handheld lenswork in a
sublimely kinesthetic cine-poem. $6.
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SUNDAY, MAY 28, 2006
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5/28
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
4:00 and 7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
THE SHORT DOCUMENTARIES OF KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI, PART 3
The rarely-screened films show the progression of this cinematic master
through the years, and provide an incredible look at Poland in the days
of Communism. Tonight:?X-Ray (1974)?Hospital (1977)?From the Point of
View of the Night Porter (1977)?Seven Women of Different Ages
(1978)?Talking Heads (1980),?Railway Station (1980)
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