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Date: Sat Jun 03 2006 - 08:36:44 PDT
This week [June 4 - 11, 2006] in avant garde cinema
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NEW FILM/VIDEO:
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"View" by Mike Celona
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"De Rode Draad" by Jerry King Musser
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=257.ann
"GUILT" by ingo storm
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newworkf&readfile=82.ann
"Here" by Jerry King Musser
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=258.ann
NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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Elastic Gallery/The Ruckel Patzke Project #2 (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: June 10, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=572.ann
SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL (Park City, Utah, U.S.A; Deadline: October 10, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=574.ann
Xperimental Film Festival 5.0 (Nicosia, Cyprus; Deadline: June 29, 2006)
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Cackalacky Film Festival (Charlotte, NC USA; Deadline: August 15, 2006)
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Cucalorus Film Festival (Wilmington, NC, USA; Deadline: July 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=577.ann
MIX NYC: New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film Festival (New York, NY USA; Deadline: July 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=578.ann
DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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Norwich (UK; Deadline: June 16, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=542.ann
London Film Festival (London, UK; Deadline: June 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=552.ann
Los Angeles International Short Film Festival (Hollywood, CA 90028; Deadline: June 17, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=554.ann
Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema (San Francisco, Ca USA; Deadline: June 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=560.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
Studio 27 (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: June 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=571.ann
Elastic Gallery/The Ruckel Patzke Project #2 (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: June 10, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=572.ann
Xperimental Film Festival 5.0 (Nicosia, Cyprus; Deadline: June 29, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=575.ann
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Slant 6: Bold Asian American Images [June 4, Houston, Texas]
* A 30th Anniversary Event Curated By Richard Amromin [June 4, Los Angeles]
* Public Spaces, Personal Eye: the Films of Dominic Angerame [June 4, San Francisco, California]
* "The Psychoacoustic Geographers" [June 6, Amsterdam, The Netherlands]
* Found Magazine“S Cavalcade of Thrills Tour "2006!" [June 6, Houston, Texas]
* Queer Tactics--A Night of Queer Shorts [June 6, San Francisco, California]
* Arsenal Experimental Presents: Slow Space - Film Premiere [June 7, Berlin, Germany]
* "The Psychoacoustic Geographers" [June 7, Rotterdam, The Netherlands]
* "The Psychoacoustic Geographers" [June 8, Antwerp, Belgium]
* Memoir [June 8, Jersey City, New Jersey]
* Floating Cinema On Buffalo Bayou [June 10, Houston, Texas]
* Project8 First Annual Super8 Film Festival [June 10, Vancouver, British Columbia]
* I Am Not A War Photographer By Lynne Sachs [June 11, Brooklyn, New York]
* Filmforum Presents Kate Mccabe In Person [June 11, Los Angeles]
* Kees Kino: the Film Work of Weldon Kees [June 11, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 2006
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6/4
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
3pm, 808 Aurora Street Houston, TX 77009
SLANT 6: BOLD ASIAN AMERICAN IMAGES
Curated by Melissa Hung 713.868.2101, www.aurorapictureshow.org $5
general admission Free with Aurora All-Access Pass Join Melissa Hung,
editor in chief of Hyphen magazine for the sixth annual Slant: Bold
Asian American Images. From an Asian take on Bonnie and Clyde, to an
animated spoof on Sesame Street, to a sarcastic treatise on how to
achieve happiness, to a verbal ass-kicking at a bus stop, the eclectic
mix at Slant showcases the best short films from emerging Asian American
directors. Works by Patrick Epino, Samuel Kiehoon Lee, Rocky Jo, Karen
Lum and Lynn Okimura and more!
6/4
Los Angeles: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
A 30TH ANNIVERSARY EVENT CURATED BY RICHARD AMROMIN
Filmforum presents An Evening curated by Richard Amromin, Administrative
Director of Los Angeles Filmforum in the late 1980s. Filmforum's 30th
anniversary! An ongoing series. Tonight we screen films by people
associated with Filmforum through the years, including works by Albert
Kilchesty, MM Serra, Beth Block, Betzy Bromberg, Michael Guccione, and
Lisa Mann. Filmmakers in person as well. $9 general; $6 students/seniors
6/4
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street at Third
PUBLIC SPACES, PERSONAL EYE: THE FILMS OF DOMINIC ANGERAME
Dominic Angerame In Person As a filmmaker and cinephile, Dominic
Angerame has been behind both the scenes and the lens. Tonight
Cinematheque celebrates his twenty-five years at the helm of Canyon
Cinema, our sister organization and the world-renowned distributor of
experimental film, with an overview sampling of work from early urban
sketches to his current project. Threads of eros, violence and
melancholy weave through the cityscape in the following films:
Demonstration (1968-1974), The Mystery of Life (as Discovered in Los
Angeles) (1982), Freedom's Skyway (1980), A Ticket Home (1982),
Premonition (1995), Anaconda Targets (2004), In the Course of Human
Events (1997), Consume (2003), and Untitled (work-in-progress).
ADMISSION: $8 General, $5 Cinematheque Members, Seniors, Disabled,
Students (w. ID). Advance Tickets: 415-978-ARTS
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TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2006
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6/6
Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Cinema de Balie
http://www.debalie.nl/index.jsp
8:15pm, Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10, 1017 RR
"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)**, Daumė (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 *
6/6
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8pm, 808 Aurora Street Houston, TX 77009
FOUND MAGAZINE“S CAVALCADE OF THRILLS TOUR "2006!"
713.868.2101, www.aurorapictureshow.org $5 general admission Free with
Aurora All-Access Pass In celebration of the brand-new FOUND II book,
FOUND phenoms Davy & Peter Rothbart are headed on a 33-city rampage this
spring for a series of rowdy events. Davy reads the most startling
brand-new finds to land at FOUND HQ; Peter's brand-new songs based on
FOUND stuff will blow your mind and nip at your soul. Found's special
guest, PostSecret's Frank Warren, will be joining the act! Davy Rothbart
is the creator of Found Magazine, which has been praised by publications
as diverse as Spin, GQ, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times and U.S.
News & World Report. He is a regular contributor to NPR's This American
Life, a documentary filmmaker, and the author of the story collection
The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas. Davy lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Peter Rothbart is the musician behind the found lyrics of Poem Adept.
Frank Warren is the creator of the website Postsecret and compiler of
the book Postsecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives.
6/6
San Francisco, California: San Francisco LGBT Center
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org
8pm sharp!, 1800 Market Street at Octavia
QUEER TACTICS--A NIGHT OF QUEER SHORTS
Queer Tactics a Night of Queer Shorts as part of the National Queer Arts
Festival. Curated by local filmmaker, Shani Heckman this evening
features films from nearly every genre: documentary, narrative and
puppet animation. Featuring work by award-winning filmmakers, Jennifer
Gilomen, Sally Rubin, Dara Sklar and Alexa Inkeles with newcomers Chris
Vargas & Justin Kelly also featured. Advanced tickets recommended, this
event will sell-out. All Ages, $5-10 sliding scale. $100 Audience Award
offered! www.queerculturalcenter.org
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 2006
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6/7
Berlin, Germany: Arsenal Experimental/ Friends of German Kinemathek
http://www.fdk-berlin.de/de/arsenal/programm.html
21:00, Arsenal / Friends of German Kinemathek
ARSENAL EXPERIMENTAL PRESENTS: SLOW SPACE - FILM PREMIERE
Slow Space takes the viewer on an unusual visual trip through the city
of Chicago. The journey goes through places roofed and lit by glass
architecture. Scenes set in open urban space and interviews filmed in
private homes complement this passage through public and private places.
Slow Space is a film and art project by Klaus W. Eisenlohr. With his
project, the artist has investigated the relationship between the body
and the urban architectural environment over the time period of three
years. The filmmaker traces a 'Desire for Modernity' in the city's
architecture being shaped by pre- and post-modern forces. -/- Ben
Anderson: "Filmed entirely within the urban constructed environment that
makes up the contemporary North American city of Chicago, Slow Space is
a visually arresting investigation into how space is described, defined
and ultimately experienced. Berlin filmmaker Klaus W. Eisenlohr commutes
this relationship with the outside 'world' via an array of constructed
transparencies in the glass domes and atriums that formed so much of
architecture's modernist preoccupation for a constructed inside/outside
dialectic. Descriptions and ultimately opinions on the status of public
space in Chicago form part of the film's identity via a series of
interviews conducted from the participant's private domains. Looking out
and sealed behind the glass of their window panes a number of Chicagoans
talk about their own experiences on the private/public borders of
contemporary urbanity. Slow Space is a film of many photographs if one
considers it's over 3000 edits. Each frame in this 67 minute film it
seems has been invested with a quality of aesthetic authorship normally
attributed to the production of single images. Employing a staggering
depth of compositional artistry Klaus W. Eisenlohr has enabled a joint
optic relationship to come into view between maker and film spectator
returning the film experience to an almost first time phenomenological
encounter. I am, after seeing the film, reminded of my capacity to see,
absorb and recognize spaces as images and spaces imagined
simultaneously, i.e. to be totally stimulated with my senses activated
to the fields of vision being presented. Seeing this film, it becomes
apparent how visually stimulating the film experience can be." Link:
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/framesSlowSpace.html
6/7
Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Helbaard!
http://www.huishoudschool.tk
9:00pm, Laan van Meerdervoort 211, Den Haag
"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)**, Daumė (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, JUNE 8, 2006
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6/8
Antwerp, Belgium: Cinema Kontra
http://www.kontra.be
9:00pm, Scheld'apen, d'Herbouvillekaai 36, 2020
"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)**, Daumė (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 *
6/8
Jersey City, New Jersey: Urban Image
http://www.urbanimageshowcase.org
5:30PM, Jersey City Museum, 350 Montgomery Street
MEMOIR
Memoir, a showcase of shorts by NJ City University students and alumni
curated by URBAN IMAGE, a collective of media artists based at the
University, will premiere on Thursday, June 8th, at the Jersey City
Museum, 350 Montgomery Street in Jersey City. Admission is free. Memoir
which features personal stories, portraits, and biographical works
produced and directed by Media Arts majors and alumni, will begin with a
reception at 5:30PM. Following opening remarks by Jane Steuerwald, URBAN
IMAGE Coordinator, the screenings will begin at 6:15PM. A question and
answer session with the artists will follow. Founded in the fall of
2004, URBAN IMAGE provides opportunities for emerging artists from the
Media Arts Department to screen their work at arts venues throughout New
Jersey. Memoir will be screened at the Hoboken Historical Museum in the
fall of 2006. The Memoir Showcase includes: My Urban Images by Daniel
Rose, People Pretending To Be Me by Steven Dressler, Doubting Teri by
Teri Clarke, The Infinite Possibilities of the Future by Michael Difeo,
Memorial by Elizabeth Jane Cavanagh, Bereavement by Louis Libitz, Mother
by Melissa Polin, Handsome by Summer Wosu, and I Am Me by Keith Bracker.
The Urban Image Showcase Staff includes: Clint Higgins, cinematographer,
animator, co-curator, and showcase editor; Nicole Mc Neill, co-curator;
Michelle Mumoli, co-curator and showcase editor; Melissa Polin,
co-curator and showcase editor; Michael Smythe, cinematographer,
co-curator and showcase editor; and Jane Steuerwald, URBAN IMAGE
Coordinator.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 2006
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6/10
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
9:00pm, Buffalo Bayou from Sabine to I-45, between Allen Parkway and Memorial Drive
FLOATING CINEMA ON BUFFALO BAYOU
On June 10th, from 9pm until midnight, internationally-acclaimed films
by Andy Warhol, James Benning, and Peter Hutton will travel along the
Buffalo Bayou on The Floating Cinema to celebrate the opening of the new
Sabine-to-Bagby Park in downtown Houston. Transforming a 20-foot barge
with a large outdoor screen, The Floating Cinema will be broadly visible
to pedestrians, bicyclists, and visitors to the park. Parking: Parking
is available at City Lot H (next to Fonde Recreational Center at Sabine
Street and Memorial Drive) and Lot C (Memorial Drive and Houston Street)
and at the Hobby Center for Performing Arts at Bagby and Walker. For
more information www.buffalobayou.org
6/10
Vancouver, British Columbia: The Project8 Collective
http://www.cineworks.ca
8:00pm, Video In Studios, 1965 Main Street
PROJECT8 FIRST ANNUAL SUPER8 FILM FESTIVAL
PROJECT8 PUTS THE SUPER BACK IN 8. Producing a veritable vaudeville, The
Project8 Collective screens a surprise pack of new super-8mm films and
music by established dancers, musicians, activists and old school pros
at Video In Studios. The Project8 Collective has helped reinvigorate an
old film making practice by doing super-8mm film workshops at Cineworks
and The Purple Thistle with artists from various background. The result
equals an array of film works that borrow eclectically from multiple
genres. Celebrating the DIY movement of celluloid, artists have
developed, shot, edited and hand-processed their films, learn that
compelling films can be made without labs and expensive equipment. The
Project8 Collective is a group of small-format filmmakers with an
interest in developing our local film community by present an
alternative to the mainstream narrative production industry. A culture
of producers and viewers who take the medium of film into their own
hands to allow for freer creative expression in a fellowship of
collaboration, skill sharing and support.Admission:$5, Info:
604-872-8337, email suppressed
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SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 2006
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6/11
Brooklyn, New York: Ocularis
http://www.ocularis.net
7 PM, 70 North 6th Street
I AM NOT A WAR PHOTOGRAPHER BY LYNNE SACHS
I AM NOT A WAR PHOTOGRAPHER is a cinematic presentation and talk
exploring my decade-long artistic rather than physical immersion in war.
From Vietnam to Bosnia to WWII Occupied Rome to the Middle East today,
my experimental documentary films push the borders between genres,
discourses, radicalized identities, psychic states and nations through
the intertwining of abstract and reality based imagery. In my talk, I
will introduce precise visual strategies I have discovered in working
with these fraught and divisive themes. Often opting for a painterly
rather than a photographic articulation of conflict, I struggle with
each new project to find a precise language of images and sounds with
which to discuss these volatile moments in history, exposing what I see
as the limits of a conventional, documentary representation of both the
past and the present. Infusions of colored "brush strokes" catapult a
viewer into contemporary Vietnam. Floating drinking glasses moving
across a Muslim cemetery in Sarajevo evoke a wartime without water.
Pulsing, geometric mattes suspended in cinematic space block news
footage of a bombing in Tel Aviv. These and many other examples form my
visual approach to looking at trauma, painful memory, and conflict. By
using abstraction we are not avoiding graphic realism but rather
unpeeling the outer, more familiar layer, hoping to reveal something new
about perception and engagement in cinema. (Lynne Sachs)
www.lynnesachs.com
6/11
Los Angeles: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
FILMFORUM PRESENTS KATE MCCABE IN PERSON
Filmforum presents Kate McCabe in person! An evening with the local
filmmaker, her new feature Sabbia (2006, 79 minutes), an ecstatic and
exploratory film of musical and desert expanses set to the music of
Brant Bjork, and her experimental short Milk and Honey (1994, 16
minutes) $9 general, $6 students/seniors
6/11
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street at Third
KEES KINO: THE FILM WORK OF WELDON KEES
Introduced and Presented by Guest Curator Jenni Olson. Fifty-one years
after his Golden Gate Bridge disappearance, we present the film work of
legendary poet/painter/iconoclast Weldon Kees. During his years in the
Bay Area, Kees collaborated with filmmakers, jazz musicians, and
scholars such as Gregory Bateson, while also writing plays, screenplays
and film reviews (alongside Pauline Kael). Films include: Kees's
haunting portrait of East Bay urban detritus, Hotel Apex; William
Heick's poetic Golden Gate meditation, The Bridge, made with and
featuring Kees; James Broughton's The Adventures of Jimmy, with music by
Kees; and examples of Kees' educational films: the quirky exploration of
mundane routines on San Francisco streets, Approaches and Leavetakings
(with Jurgen Ruesch) and Hand-Mouth Coordination (with Bateson), a look
at the daily routine of a one-year old boy. ADMISSION: $8 General, $5
Cinematheque Members, Seniors, Disabled, Students (w. ID). Advance
Tickets: 415-978-ARTS
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