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This week [September 10 - 17, 2006] in avant garde cinema
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"Electra Elf: Vile Buddies" by Nick Zedd
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"More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda" by Scott Stark
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Research Spaces 3: Topos - The Moving Image between Art and Architecture (London, UK; Deadline: October 10, 2006)
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OpenLens Festival (Eugene, Oregon; Deadline: October 27, 2006)
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The Journal of Short Film (DVD) (Columbus, OH, USA; Deadline: November 08, 2006)
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Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, CANADA; Deadline: November 17, 2006)
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Eerie Horror Film Festival (Erie, Pa. USA; Deadline: September 09, 2006)
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Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: September 15, 2006)
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Pleasure Dome (Toronto; Deadline: September 15, 2006)
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Polymer at the Hunter Museum of American Art (Chattanooga, TN, US; Deadline: September 15, 2006)
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SF IndieFest (San Francisco CA; Deadline: October 13, 2006)
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Abrasions: Architecture and Accident (San Francisco, CA USA; Deadline: September 30, 2006)
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LiveBox Gallery (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: October 01, 2006)
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ArtsUnion (Somerville, MA, USA; Deadline: October 03, 2006)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Hell On Reels [Astoria Moving Picture Festival] [September 10, Astoria, Queens, New York]
* Cinnamon By Kevin Everson [September 10, Chicago, Illinois]
* Wavelengths: Programme 4 [September 10, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* The Intimate Distance: A Tribute To Mark Lapore (1952-2005) [September 11, New York, New York]
* Follow Me To Certain Death [September 11, Portland, Oregon]
* Wavelengths: Programme 5 [September 11, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Films By Abraham Ravett [September 12, Berkeley, California]
* The Dwellers [September 12, San Francisco]
* Pd.03: Daydream Nation...Swedish Artist Films + Music videos [September 13, New York, New York]
* Cuidado! Magic Lantern Presents "The Danger Show" [September 13, Providence, RI]
* Local Ladies: A Madcat Retrospective [September 13, San Francisco]
* Pigs, A New 4-Channel Work By Pawel Wojtasik [September 14, Brooklyn, New York]
* Terra Incognita: Films & videos By Ben Russell [September 14, Chicago, Illinois]
* Garden of Light Cinema Series [September 14, New York, New York]
* Remembering Arthur [September 14, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Estes Park Film Festival [September 15, Estes Park, Colorado]
* Electromediascope [September 15, Kansas City, Missouri]
* World Premiere: Electra Elf : vile Buddies & Ave X. [September 15, New York, New York]
* Rural Women: Documentaries From Iran and Hungary [September 15, San Francisco, California]
* Free To Be…You and Me Invitational [September 16, Chicago, Illinois]
* Anxious Animation Release Party [September 16, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2006
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9/10
Astoria, Queens, New York: Hell on Reels [Astoria Moving Picture Festival]
http://www.hellonreels.org
8:00 PM, 12-21 Astoria Blvd.
HELL ON REELS [ASTORIA MOVING PICTURE FESTIVAL]
HELL ON REELS [Astoria Moving Picture Festival] SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 10th,
2006 DOORS OPEN 8:00 PM | FILMS BEGIN 8:30 PM @ Hell Gate Social 12-21
Astoria Blvd. Astoria, NY 11102 http://www.hellonreels.org ADMISSION IS
FREE!!! Hell on Reels [Astoria Moving Picture Festival] cordially
invites you to the 4th and final installment of the Summer Series 2006
on Sunday, September 10th, 2006. The festival will once again feature
exceptional short format moving picture works from around the globe,
from Australia to Italy, and Astoria to San Francisco. Admission is FREE
and the screening is outdoors in the garden to take full advantage of
the NYC summer before it fades away! ABOUT THE FESTIVAL: Hell on Reels
[Astoria Moving Picture Festival] was founded in 2006 as a forum for the
exhibition of exceptional and unique short format moving picture works.
The intention of the festival is to promote creative dialogue and
collaboration among participants within the local Queens community,
greater NYC metropolitan area and global moving picture society. Named
in reference to the infamous Hell Gate Bridge, spanning NYC's East
River, Hell on Reels [Astoria Moving Picture Festival] encourages the
submission of all genres, including documentary, narrative, music video,
animation, installation, design and experimental films. For more
information including the full screening program, directions and venue
information please visit: http://www.hellonreels.org Come out and
support the indie + avant-garde film community! Hope to see you there
and bring popcorn + friends! Hell on Reels [Astoria Moving Picture
Festival] is graciously hosted by: Hell Gate Social 12-21 Astoria Blvd.
Astoria, NY 11102 http://www.hellgatesocial.com 718-204-8318
9/10
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
CINNAMON BY KEVIN EVERSON
Kevin Everson's exceptional second feature, Cinnamon (2006) is intimate
look at the diversity of African-American life. Told in a hybrid
narrative-documentary style, the film centers on drag racing. Home
scenes of the Bowles family alternate with preparations for racing,
practice runs, and the races themselves. The focus, however, is on
individual improvement rather than competition - a metaphor for a way of
living. Former racer John Bowles is now the mechanic and coach for his
wife Rhonda, brother Larry, 12-year old daughter Ashley, and another
driver - mortgage loan officer Erin. Everson seamlessly combines the
documentary (the Bowles family) with the fictional (Erin's scenes -
she's played by actress Erin Stewart) into an impressionistic drama
about the quest for perfection, filtered through the grit, grime,
repetition, and exhilaration of drag racing.
9/10
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Toronto International Film Festival
http://www.bell.ca/filmfest
8:45 p.m., 750 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 2J2
WAVELENGTHS: PROGRAMME 4
With Schuss!, Nicolas Rey has created a delightfully confounding work
that reinvigorates the experience of film-viewing. Rey describes Schuss!
as an "Alpine film," implying a documentary about skiing, but the first
few sentences of voice-over already suggest broader, more complex
themes. As Schuss! unfolds in a series of chapters with puckish titles
like "Arlette Puts on Her Skis" and "Bold Bamboozle," it expands to
sketch out a history of the aluminum industry, the shifting economy of
France's Romanche valley, and the relationship between the leisure
industry and local public interests, making reference to the history of
film along the way. As a sagacious chronicler, Rey's method is to place
his materials (skiers, studies in landscape, archival footage,
historical documents and more) in clusters whose relations to one
another are initially unclear, then gradually develop connections.
Winter sports, the aluminum industry, the cinema – each has its origins
in the late nineteenth century, and each can be taken as a case study in
capitalist development. Schuss! is Rey's second slalom into an
idiosyncratic and compelling style of long-form essay/documentary film
(his previous work was the three-hour epic Les Soviets plus
l'électricité, shot entirely on dated Soviet Super 8 film stock).
Formally, Schuss! continues Rey's exploration of unusual materials and
processes; much of the colour footage has been created using a method
that dates back to 1908. Colour is built up through the successive
filtration of a black-and-white image through three primary-colour
filters, and the resulting footage has a peculiar, radically distinct
cast. For Rey, the alchemic possibilities of the film lab are an
integral part of the creative process, and make Schuss! as compelling
visually as it is thematically. The German word schuss describes a fast,
straight, downhill run on skis, with no slowing down. Does this
correspond to the structure of the film or its subject? Do we now look
back at the twentieth century as a fast downhill slide, bottoming out in
the conditions of contemporary global capitalism? Rey's aim is not to
propagandize, but, in his words, to "question habits of thought – my own
first of all." The Toronto International Film Festival presents
Wavelengths. For ticket information please call (416)968-FILM or go to
www.e.bell.ca/filmfest. All Wavelengths screenings will be held at the
Al Green Theatre.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2006
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9/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8pm, 32 Second Ave. (at 2nd St.)
THE INTIMATE DISTANCE: A TRIBUTE TO MARK LAPORE (1952-2005)
Mark LaPore—though deeply influenced by the practices of the Lumière
brothers, Andy Warhol, and Robert Bresson—expanded a tradition of
experimental documentary filmmaking practiced by Cavalcanti, Wright,
Rouch, Gardener, the MacDougals, Hutton and Gehr, conducting profoundly
cinematic, highly-distilled personal investigations into the nature of
cultural flux and reverie. He shot extensively in rural Sudan, Sri
Lanka, New York, Myanmar, India and Idaho. LUNATIC PRINCESS 2005, 4 min,
b&w, sound, digital video. A magical loop of transfigured time with a
daughter of snow, an orphan of the storm. With the slightest nod towards
Hans Christian Anderson via Jang Sun-woo's melodramatic prelude to The
Resurrection of the Little Match Girl. KOLKATA 2005, 35 minutes, 16mm,
b&w, sound. "A portrait of North Kolkata (Calcutta), this film searches
the streets for the ebb and flow of humanity and reflects the changing
landscape of a city at once medieval and modern." –Mark LaPore "LaPore
revisits and rephrases some of the elements presented in The Glass
System adding a new dimension to his explorations of shots of extended
duration (in the spirit of both Warhol and the Lumières) in one of his
most spare and eloquent films." –Mark McElhatten THE SLEEPERS 1989, 16
minutes, 16mm, color, sound. "A film about how notions of culture are
often defined by information received indirectly—information which
frequently violates the particulars of people and place and makes
questionable one's ability to portray specific individuals as
representatives of culture." –Mark LaPore THE GLASS SYSTEM 2000, 20
minutes, 16mm, color, sound. "A portrait primarily of Calcutta but by
inclusion and inference some personal notion of 'lost' New York—'a place
which exists in a dream where life in the streets was both complicated
and fleeting.' LaPore explores some selective, inevitable trajectories
of young girls within this Indian urban society, their vulnerability,
composure, aptitudes and perils. -Mark McElhatten UNTITLED (FOR DAVID
GATTEN) By Mark LaPore and Phil Solomon, 2005, 5 minutes, color, sound,
digital video. "Mark and I made this for our friend David Gatten, as a
prayer, an offering, a 'get well soon' card... for all three of us. It
was made on the last night that I saw Mark, my best friend of 32 years."
–Phil Solomon Total program time: ca. 90 minutes.
9/11
Portland, Oregon: Oregon Department of Kick Ass
http://www.odoka.org
8pm, TBA/PICA The Works 226 SE Madison
FOLLOW ME TO CERTAIN DEATH
On September 11, the Oregon Department of Kick Ass presents an evening
of films assembled by Vanessa Renwick which cast a meditative gaze on
death in many forms. Everything is a matter of life and death. Daniel
Menche's thundering live soundtrack propels her latest wildlife epic
Hope and Prey. 9 is a Secret ponders mystical visitations from crows and
ravens after Renwick changes her name. The found footage gem, Britton,
S. Dakota is constructed solely of haunting portraits of children filmed
standing in the street of a desolate town in depression era America.
Also screening: two Vietnam era artifacts—Travis Wilkerson's harrowing
and hopeless National Archive, v. 1 and Bill Daniel's Selective Service
System Story, which revisits a filmmaker who shot himself in the foot on
film to make a statement against the Vietnam War and to get out of the
draft. The evening commences with Wilkerson's Superior Elegy, a portrait
of a 25 hour-long improvisational concert held in Duluth, Minnesota in
honor of a murdered friend. Despite being scheduled for the weekend
following September 11, 2001, the event's organizers chose to perform as
planned. In so doing, the event acquired an unintended poignancy. The
resulting film reads almost like a prayer: quiet, formal, and full of
inexplicable power.
9/11
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Toronto International Film Festival
http://www.bell.ca/filmfest
9:00 p.m., 750 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 2J2
WAVELENGTHS: PROGRAMME 5
A host of landscapes leads us on an unparalleled journey, from imagined
realms of plenitude to the beauty and magic glimpsed in the everyday.
Chris Curreri's enchanting Circa 1960 achieves profound results with
minimal means. The image is of the blank side of a photograph pricked
with pinholes that follow the contours of the unseen image on the back.
Gradual changes in lighting, recalling the techniques of
nineteenth-century dioramas, gently but dramatically shift our
perceptions of this imagined place, which hovers somewhere between the
second and third dimensions. In The Zone of Total Eclipse, Mika Taanila
has re-edited scientific film footage made of a solar eclipse in Finland
in 1945. From this he produced two separate reels – one positive (The
Sun), the other negative (The Moon) – that are superimposed on one
another in projection, creating a kind of "additive eclipse." A richly
rewarding visual experience and an homage to the pioneers of scientific
filmmaking, The Zone of Total Eclipse evokes any number of metaphoric
interpretations. It is awesome in the true sense of the word. One of the
great cinematographers of the city, Jim Jennings returns to Wavelengths
with Silk Ties, a kinetic, chiaroscuro study of partial views –
buildings, people and objects half-glimpsed in mirrors, and from behind
cars and trucks. The film returns repeatedly to images of the sky seen
between looming buildings, suggesting that the clutter and density of
urban life generates an urge towards another kind of space. Olivo
Barbieri, two of whose visually confounding site specific films we
presented last year, has embarked on a new series entitled Seascapes.
Seascape #1 Night, China Shenzhen 05 is comprised of high-definition
nighttime video images of a very busy oceanfront beach in Shenzhen, the
high waves and circulating crowds of swimmers echoed in the rhythmic
shifts of speed used in editing. The Toronto International Film Festival
presents Wavelengths. For ticket information please call (416)968-FILM
or go to www.e.bell.ca/filmfest. All Wavelengths screenings will be held
at the Al Green Theatre.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2006
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9/12
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30PM, 2nd Ave and 2nd Street
FILMS BY ABRAHAM RAVETT
Abraham Ravett's recent film, LUNCH WITH FELA (2005), 59 min. color &
B/W. sound, will be screened along with THE MARCH(1999), 25 min. sound,
16mm, at Pacific Film Archives. For more details, please see:
http://helios.hampshire.edu/~arPF
9/12
San Francisco: MadCat Women's International Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
8:30 pm, El Rio 3158 Mission Street at Precita
THE DWELLERS
Founded in 1996, MadCat is the longest running women's film festival in
San Francisco and the only avant-garde women's film festival in the US.
MadCat celebrates a milestone 10th birthday this September 12-27 in SF,
Berkeley and Oakland. With over 85 films screening, from 17 countries
MadCat presents a unique and expansive look at women's filmmaking
internationally. See avant-garde and documentary films and videos, live
music, viewmaster presentations, 3D films and more. MadCat 10 kicks off
with THE DWELLERS — An ode to dwellers everywhere, whether in the city,
the country or the dry plains of the desert. Documentary and surreal
images explore home and how we place ourselves in this world. Greta
Snider premieres new Viewmasters from her 3D documentary series. Also
screening works by Maryam Kashani, Kerry Laitala, Angela Reginato,
Chelsea Walton. With live music by Paper Boats and Silian Rail.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2006
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9/13
New York, New York: Package Deals
http://www.packagedeals.org
7:30pm, The Tank, 279 Church Street btwn Franklin + White
PD.03: DAYDREAM NATION...SWEDISH ARTIST FILMS + MUSIC VIDEOS
Package Deals.03: Daydream Nation // 9.13.06 The Tank, 279 Church Street
btwn Franklin + White, 7:30pm, $7 Advance tickets can be purchased
through SmartTix (www.smarttix.com) New Swedish video lands at The Tank
(www.thetanknyc.org) in Tribeca on Wednesday, September 13th at 7:30pm.
"PD03: Daydream Nation," a curated lineup of animated shorts, music
videos, and artist films rarely seen outside of their native Nordic
kingdom, showcases work from some of the best and most creative Swedish
imaginations around. A far cry from the beloved Saturday cartoons of
mornings past, Daydream Nation's roster of animated video offers a
vision of Sweden all grown-up, bringing unorthodox and often unsettling
imagery to life. Taboo intimacies, couples on the brink, lonely mopers,
and more than a few decapitation and dismemberment scenes find
themselves juxtaposed against the nicer things in life: colorful
origami, toy cars, dancing ladies with parasols, horses, and pretty
blonde party girls. So is Sweden, then, a nation of dreamers? Well, this
program, featuring vibrant work from the cosmopolitan streets of
Stockholm, the up-and-coming communities of arty Göteborg, the maritime
landscape of southernmost Malmö, and various expatriate outposts,
suggests so. Daydream Nation's diverse program includes art world
favorites Nathalie Djurberg and Cecilia Lundqvist, whose works are more
commonly found in galleries and museums, as well as films by well-known
music video directors and filmmakers, such as Andreas Korsár and Jonas
Odell (whose award-winning ode to the pleasures and pitfalls of losing
one's virginity, "Never Like the First Time," took home a Golden Bear at
this year's Berlinale). Likewise, Sweden's world-class contemporary
music scene is ably represented, running the gamut from the macabre
electronica of The Knife to the saccharine pop of The Concretes, the
Envelopes, and El Perro Del Mar. "Kullaberg," Jacob Stålhammar's
pastoral performance piece featuring Sweden's favorite Burt
Bacharach/Stephin Merritt mashup, Jens Lekman, provides
installation-like viewing as the evening's pre-program offering. A
one-night cultural smorgasbord, "Daydream Nation" will feature an
after-party immediately follows the screening. Complimentary cocktails
will be served courtesy of Svedka Vodka, and decks are to be manned by
DJ Anja Degerholm from Malmö. Artist magazines by the Loyal and Hockey
Rawk collectives will also be available. "Daydream Nation" showcases
artist films by Cecilia Lundqvist, Jonas Odell, Jens Lekman and Jacob
Stålhammar, Nathalie Djurberg, Henrik Åkerberg, Johannes Nyholm, Peter
Larsson, and Björn Renner. Music videos by The Knife, The Concretes, El
Perro del Mar, Envelopes, The Radio Dept, Jose Gonzalez, Erik de Vahl,
and Peter, Bjorn, and John. Package Deals is a multidisciplinary music
and film screening series bringing the best in film, art and music from
selected cities and places around the world to New York City. Following
a program's premiere, it then evolves into a Touring Package, which
travels to diverse sites in the months to come. "Daydream Nation" will
begin touring in early 2007. Package Deals is curated by Kelly Shindler
and Deirdre Corley. For more information, please visit
www.packagedeals.org or email (address suppressed)
9/13
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
9:30pm, Cable Car Cinema, 204 S Main St.
CUIDADO! MAGIC LANTERN PRESENTS "THE DANGER SHOW"
Summer is gone and the trees shall be emptying their branches soon
enough, but before you start growing your beard long(er) and digging
a(nother) root cellar in anticipation of Cold Days To Come, pause and
take a look around you. Do you feel that electric charge in the air? Is
your arm hair standing on end? That's the spark of Danger, my friend,
and it takes but a tiny falling leaf (on fire) to Set Things Ablaze.
We'd say "Take Warning," but we at Magic Lantern reckon it's better to
throw you directly to the wolves. We're sure you'll come out unscathed,
and when you emerge from this 8-part celluloid-gauntlet of cut-out eyes,
cut-off tongues, industrial safety films, the threat of Communism,
horses on fire, skyscraper tilt-walkers, a pinhole apocalypse, and
people not having sex, you'll never have a thing to worry about again.
And if you don't make it? Well, I'm afraid that the same statement
applies. Featuring: I Know What I'm Doing and Other Shop Myths by the
University of Illinois at Chicago (5:00, 16mm, 1970), Paranoia Trillogy
Part One: The Chemical Bath by Xander Marro (6:00, 16mm, 2001), Dream of
the Wild Horses by Denys Colomb de Daunant (9:00, 16mm, 1960), NOEMA by
Scott Stark (11:00, 16mm, 1998), Spills and Chills by the Vitaphone
Corporation (10:00, 16mm, 1949), Seventy-Nine Spring Times of Ho Chi
Minh by Santiago Alvarez (25:00, 16mm on video, 1969), T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G
by Paul Sharits (12:00, 16mm, 1968), Last Days by Ben Russell (5:00,
16mm, 2004) TRT 83:00 $5
9/13
San Francisco: MadCat Women's International Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
8:30 pm movies. 6:30 pm Free BBQ, El Rio 3158 Mission Street at Precita
LOCAL LADIES: A MADCAT RETROSPECTIVE
Local Ladies: A MadCat Retrospective A selection of some of the best
16mm film from the past TEN years of MadCat. Experimental and
documentary works by: Donna Carter, Anna Geyer, Samara Halperin, Greta
Snider, Chelsea Walton, Chris Willging, and others. Also see Transfixed
by Kerry Laitala and premiering Jeanne Liotta's lush Kodachrome film
Eclipse.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2006
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9/14
Brooklyn, New York: Monkey Town
http://www.monkeytownhq.com
6-10 PM, Monkey Town, 58 North 3rd Street, Williamsburg
PIGS, A NEW 4-CHANNEL WORK BY PAWEL WOJTASIK
PIGS is a 4-channel video projection. The viewer will have a chance to
become intimate with the trials and tribulations, joys and terrors, that
constitute a pig's life. Much of the camera work is at a close range, so
one gets to sense the almost palpable presence of those wonderful,
magical animals. At the same time the pig farm can be conceived of as a
stand-in for our own human society. In this case, the farm is Bob Combs'
RC Farm, located in Las Vegas, Nevada. The pigs on the farm are treated
humanely. They are provided with ample space, good facilities, and
leftover food from the buffets and casinos. Under those conditions pigs
can truly revel in their nature. Exquisite vegetarian food will be
served.
9/14
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
6:00 pm, 164 N. State Street
TERRA INCOGNITA: FILMS & VIDEOS BY BEN RUSSELL
Ben Russell in person! Senses co-mingle, past becomes present, and
geography is turned upside down in filmmaker and SAIC alum Ben Russell's
short films and videos. Shot throughout South and North America, these
works play on the history and fantasies of the New World, mixing
photography, ethnography, psychedelia, and ceremony to chart a
kino-atlas of the west's collective unconscious. DAUMË (2000, 7 min.),
THE TAWNY (2003, 11 min.), the quarry (2002, 4 min.), MICHOACAN: LA
MUERTA (w/Sabine Gruffat, 2006, 8 min.), BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS NUMBER
ONE (2005, 7 min.), TERRA INCOGNITA (2002, 10 min.), MICHOACAN: EL
TRAIDOR (w/Sabine Gruffat, 2006, 8 min.), BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS NUMBER
TWO (2006, 9 min.), and THE RED AND BLUE GODS (2005, 8 min.). (2000-06,
Chile/Mexico/USA, various formats, ca. 75 min.)
9/14
New York, New York: 6th St. and Ave. B Garden
http://www.6bgarden.org/
8:30 pm, corner of 6th St. and ave B - East Village
GARDEN OF LIGHT CINEMA SERIES
GARDEN OF LIGHT Film Series: Sane/Insane - Who Decides? You? - YVONNE
RAINER'S "Journeys From Berlin, 1971" weaves narratives relating to the
Baader-Mainhof gang's capture and possible brainwashing to commit
suicide, Russian anarchism in the 19th C., and modern psychotherapy,
investigating the use of institutionalized psychology as a tool of
social control. Excerpts from Barbet Schroeder's "The Charles Bukowski
Tapes" also included. Mature Audience. Thursday, September 14th, 8:30pm
- FREE.
9/14
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Public Pictures
http://public-pictures.com.previewyoursite.com/
TBA, Toronto International Film Festival
REMEMBERING ARTHUR
REMEMBERING ARTHUR World Premiere The life and work of multi-award
winning and Oscar® nominated Canadian filmmaker Arthur Lipsett is
remembered in this intimate documentary. Martin Lavut, a close friend of
the innovative and legendary Montreal-born artist, explores Lipsett's
creative genius and influence on the world of filmmaking before his
tragic suicide in 1986. REMEMBERING ARTHUR will be preceded by Lipsett's
bold and brilliant first film VERY NICE, VERY NICE (1961), a wry and
cynical commentary on modern life told in a rapid-fire montage style.
Producer: Dennis Mohr, Director: Martin Lavut
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2006
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9/15
Estes Park, Colorado: SDI Entertainment
http://www.sdientertainment.com
12:00 PM - 12:00 AM, 130 Moraine Ave
ESTES PARK FILM FESTIVAL
Celebrating our inaugural year, the 2006 Estes Park Film Festival will
showcase 9 feature-length films and 26 short films from across the
country. The festival will take place at the Historic Park Theatre in
beautiful Estes Park, Colorado from September 15th - 17th, 2006 with an
awards ceremony on the final night. In addition to the films, the Estes
Park Film Festival will also serve as a fundraising event to help
renovate and restore the Historic Park Theatre to its original cinematic
elegance. Advance Tickets and Festival Passes are available to purchase
on the festival web site: www.sdientertainment.com
9/15
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
Future Past. Photographs, films, videos and DVDs all contribute to the
spatialized dimensions of an ever-expanding present. Many of the people,
places and events that we see in these images no longer exist, yet they
potentially endure into the future as traces within image dataspace and
as mute artifacts of an incomplete historical context. The artists in
Future Past explore archaeological aspects of these subjects and
experiences and create varieties of non-linear works where different
phases or conditions of time become material, and future, present and
past co-exist along with sound and image in layered simultaneous
dimensions. Bill Morrison's films present a unique material index of
cinematic time through his interactions with self-generating, eruptive
presences of the deteriorating emulsions of film footage that he has
collected from various archives. Films whose future was almost past are
now taking on another life in Morrison's new works. Anri Sala examines
the construction sites and time sinks of socio-political utopias and
dystopias in relation to everyday life. These are places that the
imagined future's aura still enfolds even when their vectors into the
present have apparently been interrupted or not understood. William
Kentridge traces the temporal simultaneity of subjective reality where
memory and possibility are encompassed by the hazardous conditions of a
dynamic and multi-layered present existence. Tacita Dean investigates
the future's ruins as alien presences masked as part of the present. She
searches for and discovers sites of utopian projection at the outer
limits of culture, habitation and survival. Michael Snow's spatialized
oscillations within the periodicity of cinema compress and superimpose a
dynamic image of the present. Snow's recent works, such as *Corpus
Callosum, make humorous and ironic incursions into the architecture of
dialectical form within the continuum of the layered dimensions of many
of his previous works. –Patrick Clancy. Light Is Calling, Bill Morrison
(USA), 2004, 8 min., 35mm film shown on DVD. Music by Michael Gordon.
Who By Water, Bill Morrison (USA), 2006, 17 min., 35mm film shown on
DVD. Music by Michael Gordon. The Highwater Trilogy, Bill Morrison
(USA), 2006, 31 min., 35mm film shown on DVD. Music by David Lang and
Michael Gordon. Libretto by Deborah Artman Before I Enter How To Pray
What We Build. Gotham, Bill Morrison (USA), 2004, 26 min., 35mm film
shown on DVD. Music by Michael Gordon.
9/15
New York, New York: Penetration Films & Television
http://electraelf.com
9 PM, Pioneer Theatre, Ave A between 3rd & 4th St.
WORLD PREMIERE: ELECTRA ELF : VILE BUDDIES & AVE X.
The Adventures of Electra Elf : Vile Buddies starring Saint Rev Jen,
Brenda Bergman, Alison Gordy, Faceboy, Joseph Mauricio, Angry Bob.
Episode 14 in the groundbreaking tv series written & directed by Nick
Zedd, Vile Buddies stars Alison Gordy (Sopranos; singer for Johnny
Thunders) as Tantalus, masked queen of fetish wear who wreaks havoc
flying on a giant bat as an agent for a terrorist organization using
weather as a weapon. When Fluffer (Rev Jen Jr.) crashlands in Gramercy
Park, getting arrested for trespassing, Electra Elf (Rev Jen) must raise
her bail by competing in a wrestling tournament against Tantalus and
guest star Brenda Bergman! A collossal mismatch? Action, adventure and
scathing satire with guest appearance by Angry Bob as Biff Hitler! Also
screening: LORD OF THE COCK RINGS by Nick Zedd AVE. X by Joe Gallant.
Porn feature starring Nick Zedd
9/15
San Francisco, California: MadCat Women's International Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
7:30 pm, Artists' Television Access 992 Valencia Street @ 21st Street
RURAL WOMEN: DOCUMENTARIES FROM IRAN AND HUNGARY
These unique documentaries depict women with entirely different
approaches to gaining independence. Water and Atefeh by Nahid Rezaei —
In a water-deprived Iranian village, Atefeh stands alone defending her
fields from Mother Nature's arid whims. Unafraid of hard work and tough
negotiations, Atefeh stands her ground, a lone woman, to save her
livelihood. The Angelmakers by Astrid Bussink — several women in a small
town in Hungary change their fate and that of the town through a series
of irreversible acts of desperation.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2006
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9/16
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
FREE TO BE…YOU AND ME INVITATIONAL
With a Live Performance by Roommate of Songs from the Original Film!
Filmmaker (and Roommate Member) Kent Lambert in Person! Inspired by a
film artist's recent discovery that his 16mm collection contained
multiple copies of Marlo Thomas' celebrated 1974 television film Free To
Be...You and Me (which featured Alan Alda, Carol Channing, Michael
Jackson, Mel Brooks, Harry Belafonte, and others), Brooklyn-based
Ocularis devised a scheme to put his reels to good use. More than twenty
film and video artists were invited to rework, restage, respond to,
satirize, criticize, or in their own way create short works inspired by
the original's all-too-memorable segments, including "It's All Right to
Cry," "William Wants a Doll," "Ladies First," and "Parents Are People."
Recognized as an important cultural document of the shift in values our
country experienced during the 1970s, Free To Be...You and Me
(originally a book and concept album) stirred conversation among people
of all ages on hitherto unspoken issues like divorce, media awareness,
and, maybe most cohesively, the identity politics of gender and race.
The results of the invitational address these and other concerns in
fascinating, entertaining, and unexpected ways. Filmmakers include Peggy
Ahwesh, Lynne Sachs, Michael Gitlin and Jacqueline Goss, Ximena Cuevas,
Kent Lambert, Bradley Eros, Darrin Martin, Laura Parnes, Jason Cortlund
and Julia Halperin, Seth Kirby, Spencer Parsons, Jennifer Matotek,
Mighty Robot, Stephanie Gray and Kelly Spivey, Nao Bustamante, Ben
Coonley, Big Noise Films, Joshua Thorson, Tyler Coburn, and Ray Sweeten.
9/16
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia
ANXIOUS ANIMATION RELEASE PARTY
OCD's newest DVD release, Anxious Animation, features six contemporary
media artists who take us into surreal worlds of delirium and paranoia,
and tonight we'll be showing the films in their original 16mm format. In
Altair and Pony Glass, the reigning prince of cut-and-paste, Lewis
Klahr, nourishes intensely private visions on the compost heap of
collective unconscious through old magazines, comic books, and cocktail
iconography. Complex, poetic, and pervaded by themes of loss, Janie
Geiser simultaneously creates and deconstructs fantasies through
doll-like figurines, cut-outs, and found objects in her cryptic
narratives Immer Zu and Lost Motion. In the Bats and Moschops, Jim
Trainor's handmade animations explore the inner lives of animals that
appear strangely self-aware even as they instinctually copulate, feed,
fight, kill and die. The Bay Area collective of Rodney Ascher, Syd
Garon, and Eric Henry (in person) conjure diabolical visions with
digital savvy in Wheels of Torment, Somebody Goofed, and Sneak Attack,
accompanied by the manic music of Buckethead and DJ Q-Bert.
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