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This week [September 17 - 24, 2006] in avant garde cinema
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University of Iowa
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NEW FILM/VIDEO:
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"Startle Pattern" by Eric Patrick
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"Electra Elf: Vile Buddies" by Nick Zedd
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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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Elastic Gallery (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: September 15, 2006)
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UPDATED! Elastic Gallery / The Ruckel Patzke Project (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: September 15, 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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Distillery Open Studios Screenings (South Boston, MA USA; Deadline: September 13, 2006)
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K Filmfest (Antwerpen; Deadline: September 30, 2006)
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SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL (Park City, Utah, U.S.A; Deadline: October 10, 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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Research Spaces 3: Topos - The Moving Image between Art and Architecture (London, UK; Deadline: October 10, 2006)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Alternative visions: Landscape Suicide [September 19, Berkeley, California]
* Motion Stopped [September 19, San Francisco, California]
* Landscape With Shipwreck: the Films of Philip Hoffman - Program One [September 20, New York, New York]
* Carte Blanche RaphaëL Sevet [September 20, Paris, France]
* Psycho vision: 3d Hallucinations
[September 20, San Francisco, California]
* 25 Fps International Experimental Film and video Festival [September 20, Zagreb, Croatia]
* In Between Days [September 21, Chicago, Illinois]
* Act: Luis Recoder, Sandra Gibson & Daniel Menche [September 21, Ghent, Belgium]
* Landscape With Shipwreck: the Films of Philip Hoffman, Program Two [September 21, New York, New York]
* A Tribute To Shirley Clarke [September 21, New York, New York]
* Maquilapolis [September 21, Oakland, CA]
* Electromediascope [September 22, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Surveillance Times [September 22, San Francisco, California]
* Chicago's Own: the Best of Doc - Documentaries By Columbia College
Students [September 23, Chicago, Illinois]
* Charming Augustine: A 3d Film [September 23, San Francisco, California]
* Psycho-Geographies By Daniel, Brown, Beebe + [September 23, San Francisco, California]
* Passage Through: A Ritual [September 24, Columbia, SC]
* Maquilapolis [September 24, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2006
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9/19
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30PM, 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
ALTERNATIVE VISIONS: LANDSCAPE SUICIDE
Landscape Suicide James Benning (U.S., 1986, 95 mins) James Benning's
films all deal with the American experience—with landscapes, exterior
and internal. In Landscape Suicide he approaches the point at which
place and experience meet, this time in action, in examining two
sensational murder cases: a California teenager who knifed a popular
classmate out of jealousy; and a Wisconsin farmer who shot a
storekeeper's wife, seemingly inadvertently, then mutilated his victim.
Two disturbing interviews with the murderers (compellingly reenacted by
Rhonda Bell and Elion Sacker) are the centerpiece of Benning's
exploration of their environments-very different landscapes that both
produce a terrifying, explosive solitude. "[Benning's]
recontextualization of the killings . . . provides him with as potent a
'story' as he's told until now. . . . The banalities and splendors
within Benning's tight frames are no longer begging to be seen as
things-in-themselves. Instead, the images comprise a world that presses
itself upon you, demanding to be seen" (Katherine Dieckmann, Village
Voice).
9/19
San Francisco, California: MadCat Women's International Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
8:30 pm Movies, Free BBQ 6:30 pm, El Rio 3158 Mission at Precita
MOTION STOPPED
Take an erotic musical tour of the sensual and obscene, go behind the
scenes at an animators studio and journey through cut-out, puppet,
hand-drawn and computer animated worlds. Featuring the US Premiere of
Marie-Joseé Saint-Pierre's McLaren's Negatives a stop-motion homage to
animation hero Norman McLaren reveals the man behind the images.
McClaren is caught off guard and in his element in this beautifully
animated, award-winning documentary. Also premiering award-winning Czech
animator Michaela Pavlåtovå's The Carnival of the Animals. This erotic
animated musical takes viewers on a sensual and obscene tour of the
lives of lascivious characters looking for love anywhere they can find
it. Men, women, birds and their prey roam parks, restaurants and back
alleys searching for pleasure in a fantastical world where genitals pop
up in the most unexpected places. Live music will play to Samara
Halperin's Plastic Fantastic #1. Plus more films from Estonia, Canada,
Norway and the US. For a complete program email your address to
(address suppressed)
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2006
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9/20
New York, New York: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
2000, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue
LANDSCAPE WITH SHIPWRECK: THE FILMS OF PHILIP HOFFMAN - PROGRAM ONE
Anthology Film Archives and The Images Festival, Canada's largest
integrated media arts festival, have teamed up to present a six-month
survey of rarely seen Canadian artists' film and videos: "Six of One,
Half Dozen of the Other: Images from Canada." Many of the works to be
screened are New York City and US premieres and many of the artists will
be present. Series made possible thanks to the generous support of the
Canada Council for the Arts. The series debuts with a two-program survey
of Philip Hoffman (in person), an internationally recognized and awarded
contemporary film artist. A filmmaker of memory and association, Hoffman
creates "personal" yet highly universal works which weave and question
fact and fiction in an experimental "diarist" cinema. Coming from a
documentary background, Hoffman's works follow the aesthetic footsteps
of Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas and Peter Greenway, among others. The
critical compendium 'Landscape With Shipwreck: First Person Cinema and
the Films of Philip Hoffman' was published in 2001 to celebrate
Hoffman's unique contribution to documentary and personal cinema.
"Philip Hoffman's editing…is true to thought process, tracks visual
theme as the mind tracks shape, makes melody of noise and words as the
mind recalls sound." --Stan Brakhage Wednesday, 9/20/06, 8pm Landscape
with Shipwreck: The Films of Philip Hoffman Program One river 1979-1989,
15 minutes, 16mm Ten years in the making, river is a nostalgic and
expressionistic portrait of the Saugeen River in Ontario where the
filmmaker spent much of his youth exploring. passing through/torn
formations 1988, 43 minutes, 16mm Hoffman uses a trip to visit relatives
in Czechoslovakia as springboard for this intricate rumination on
familial bonds and the problems inherent in constructing a family
through migration, translation and collective memory Chimera 1996, 15
minutes, 16mm Chimera consists of diary-like images collected through
Hoffman's world travels. These images have been gathered and
reconstructed with rhythm, light, repetition—a kind of visual jazz
9/20
Paris, France: Collectif Jeune Cinema
http://www.cjcinema.org/
8pm, Les Mercredis Différent du CJC - 21 rue de la Clef, 75005
CARTE BLANCHE RAPHAëL SEVET
WEAR AND TEAR OF IMAGES. It is less the erosion of the film strip that
renders the film fragile or useless, than from having been culled from
our collective unconscious, imagination or memory, due to their poetic
force. "Little Hell" by Raphael Sevet (2004, super-8, 4' silent),
"Pthko" by Mahine Rouhi (2001, 16mm 7' opt), "3'35 of Happiness" by
Isabelle Blanche (2003, Super-8, 3'35 silent), "Rabbit's Moon" by
Kenneth Anger, "Filmic Memories" by Florence de Meredieu (1981, Super-8,
10' mag), "Appunti per un film d'amor" by Stefano Canapa (2005,
performance for 2 16mm projectors, 20')
9/20
San Francisco, California: MadCat Women's International Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
8:30 pm Movies, Free BBQ at 6:30 pm
, El Rio 3158 Mission at Precita
PSYCHO VISION: 3D HALLUCINATIONS
Journey back to your childhood. We'll provide the Viewmasters and the
magic, and you just click and enjoy. Vladimir, the Viewmaster maven,
comes to town with her Vladmaster series, premiering Fear & Trembling,
and others. Also in attendance is Zoe Beloff with her 3D 16mm film and
slide show performance, the psycho-fantastical, hyper-colorized
saturated, colorful world of Claire and Don in Slumberland!Enter the of
Claire and Don in Slumberland. Narrated with psychology films from 1949,
this bizarre journey follows Claire and Don as they are hypnotized and
asked to allow their subconscious to roam in "a free-floating fever
dream of the Cold War era." Slumberland combines the futuristic yet
wonderfully dated feel of Barbarella with the earnest scientific films
of the 1950s that demonstrate innovations in early psychology and
hypnotism. Beloff transforms the viewing experience by asking the
audience to don 3D glasses and believe in Claire and Don's excursion
into the unknown, while simultaneously making a poignant comment on
postwar fear and anxiety. For a complete program email your address to
(address suppressed)
9/20
Zagreb, Croatia: Association for Audio-visual Research 25 fps
http://www.25fps.hr
8 pm, Zagreb, Croatia
25 FPS INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
25 FPS shows short experimental film and video. Festival promotes
innovative accomplishments, film genres and technology hybrids, and
films that rely ond long and exciting heritage of
experimental/underground/avant-garde filmmaking. Festival consists of
Competition, Retrospective and Special Screenings with lectures of
international jury members. 25 FPS has three prizes, each 500 Euros;
Audience Award and Special Mention of the Association for Audio-visual
Research. 25 FPS is located in Zagreb, Croatia; starting in September
and it has four festival days.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2006
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9/21
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
6:00 pm, 164 N. State Street
IN BETWEEN DAYS
Filmmaker So Yong Kim in person! Winner at the Sundance and Berlin film
festivals, SAIC alum So Yong Kim's luminous debut feature is the
delicately observed story of Aimie, a Korean teenager newly immigrated
to Canada. Aimie lives with her single mother in a bleak Toronto housing
block, killing time smoking, window-shopping, and playing video games
with her best, and only friend, Tran. As her feelings for Tran deepen,
however, he turns his attentions to another, more westernized, girl. Set
against the stunning, snow-covered landscape of a Canadian winter, IN
BETWEEN DAYS captures the daily trials of assimilation and the longing
and sexual insecurity of youth. Kim "is a gifted artist…with a rare
appreciation for the poetic possibilities of digital video" (Scott
Foundas, LA Weekly). Her short films, videos, and multimedia
installations (SONG FOR A MOTHER FROG, A BUNNY RABBIT) have been
exhibited throughout Europe, the US, and Japan. In English and Korean.
(2006, So Yong Kim, USA, DigiBeta video, 83 min.)
9/21
Ghent, Belgium: Courtisane
http://www.courtisane.be
20:00, Kunstencentrum Vooruit, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 23
ACT: LUIS RECODER, SANDRA GIBSON & DANIEL MENCHE
Luis Recoder and Sandra Gibson are two filmmakers who create films and
performed film installations of gracefully shifting abstractions,
flickering geometry and real, honest beauty. Looped film, created
without the use of a camera, is gently coaxed by hand into
investigations of pure colour with the aid of water, glass and mist. The
piece has been developed with Daniel Menche, a US experimental musician
whoese approach to sound shares startling similarities to Luis and
Sandra's approach to light and film; pure sound is born of and mediated
by the body and its interaction with objects. Sourcing sound live from
his heart, lungs or larynx or from contact with natural elements, a
stone on glass, wind or water. ACT presents contemporary and historical
works somewhere in between performance, film and visual arts.
9/21
New York, New York: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
2100, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue
LANDSCAPE WITH SHIPWRECK: THE FILMS OF PHILIP HOFFMAN, PROGRAM TWO
Thursday 9/21/06, 9pm Landscape with Shipwreck: The Films of Philip
Hoffman Program Two Kokoro is for Heart 1999, 7 minutes, 16mm "Kokoro is
for Heart features poet Gerry Shikatani and explores the relationships
surrounding language, image and sound, set to the backdrop of a gravel
pit. What is nature? What is natural?" –Philip Hoffman ?O,Zoo! (The
Making of a Fiction Film) 1986, 23 minutes, 16mm Begun as a documentary
on the making of Peter Greenaway's A Zed and Two Noughts (1985),
Hoffman's treatise on reality as a construct turns conventional
documentary film practice on its head. ?O, Zoo! received a Genie Award
nomination for Best Documentary and won the Grand Prize (Experimental
Film) at the Athens International Film Festival. What These Ashes Wanted
2001, 55 minutes, 16mm "What These Ashes Wanted places flesh on the poet
Anne Carson's words, 'death lines every moment of ordinary time.' With
this work Hoffman resides in an acutely intimate time, a daily practice
of loss lived precariously between the terror of psychic disintegration
and the provisional solace taken through public rituals of mourning. The
film is not a story of surviving death, but rather of living death
through a heightening of the quotidian moments of everyday experience."
–Karyn Sandlos, Images Festival 2001 catalogue
9/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:45, 32 Second Ave. (at 2nd St.)
A TRIBUTE TO SHIRLEY CLARKE
On the occasion of the unveiling of a commemorative plaque at the Hotel
Chelsea, there will be a special screening of selected Shirley Clarke
films at Anthology in the Maya Deren Theater. Free admission for
Anthology members and their guests. Prior to the screening at Anthology,
a cocktail reception will take place at the Landmarked Hotel Chelsea,
222 W. 23rd St. at 7th Avenue at 5:30 pm (Shirley Clarke lived at the
Hotel Chelsea, an artists' residence in Manhattan, for 25 years.) The
reception will include an unveiling of a bronze plaque in celebration of
SHIRLEY CLARKE, for her pioneering spirit, as an avant-garde filmmaker
in the 1950s and 60s; an Academy Award winner; and a critics Award
winner at the Cannes Film Festival. In her honor, a dedication in the
form of a "cultural marker" will be unveiled on the Chelsea entrance
façade. She will be the first woman to have this dedication on the
façade. Eight others so honored include Arthur C. Clark (author,
"2001"), Brendan Behan (poet), Arthur Miller (author, playwright). The
reception is sponsored by New York Women in Film and Television and this
event produced by Dr. Carole Chazin.
9/21
Oakland, CA: MadCat Women's International Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
7:30 pm, 3200 Grand Avenue
MAQUILAPOLIS
Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre premiere their riveting political
documentary MAQUILAPOLIS at the 10th Annual MadCat Film Festival on the
eve of their PBS broadcast. This intimate documentary shares the lives
of some members a tightly knit community that sits in the shadow of one
of Tijuana's 800 maquiladoras, multinational factories that thrive off
Mexico's cheap labor force. Carmen, a single mother and one of the more
than one million Mexicans employed at the maquiladoras, works making
television components six nights a week for six dollars a day. She comes
home to a shack she built out of recycled garage doors, in a
neighborhood with no sewage lines or electricity. At 29, she already
suffers from kidney damage and lead poisoning from her years of exposure
to toxic chemicals. However, Carmen is far from a victim—she is a
dynamic young woman, busy making a life for herself and her children.
Carmen and her friends, some of whom become promotoras (community-based
activists), reach beyond the daily struggle for survival to fight for
workers' rights. They take a major television manufacturer to task for
violating labor rights and pressure the government to clean up a toxic
waste dump left behind by a departing factory. The women, armed with the
video cameras Funari and De La Torre provide, also document their lives,
their city and their hopes for the future. As they work for change, the
world changes too: a global economic crisis and the availability of
cheaper labor in China begin to pull the factories away from Tijuana,
leaving an entire community with an uncertain future. Preceded by South
of Ten by Liza Johnson (West Coast Premiere) Using the decimated
landscape of the Mississippi Gulf Coast as its backdrop, Johnson
restages the extraordinary routines of survivors of Hurricane Katrina. A
girl flees a makeshift tent city. A man finds a trombone amidst the
rubble. A worker watches the ocean from under a moving house, while its
owner gazes at the view from her shifting living room. In ten vignettes,
residents of the destroyed Mississippi Gulf Coast act out scenes of
their everyday lives and the relentlessness of labor now required in
their extreme terrain. This screening goes to benefit Global Exchange
and the Wellstone Democratic Club. For a complete program please email
(address suppressed) Tix: $10. Advance tickets available by
calling (415) 255-7296.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2006
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9/22
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. Sshtoorrty, Michael Snow
(Canada), 2005, 20 min., digital video shown on DVD. Intervista (Finding
the Words), Anri Sala (Albania), 1998, 28 min., video shown on DVD,
Albanian with English subtitles. Dammi i colori (Give Me the Colors),
Anri Sala (Albania), 2003, 15 min., video shown on DVD, Albanian with
English subtitles. Tide Table, William Kentridge (South Africa), 2003, 8
min., 16mm film, 35mm film and video shown on DVD. Teignmouth Electron,
Tacita Dean (UK), 2000, 7 min., 16mm film. Bubble House, Tacita Dean
(UK), 1999, 7 min., 16mm film. Sound Mirrors, Tacita Dean (UK), 1999, 7
min., 16mm film.
9/22
San Francisco, California: MadCat Women's International Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
7:30 pm, Artists' Television Access 992 Valencia Street @ 21st Street
SURVEILLANCE TIMES
Renegade independent radio stations keep activism alive by stealing from
the omnipresent corporate airwaves. Phone conversations are overheard
and surreptitiously recorded. Ubiquitous video cameras capture a steady
stream of unguarded moments. These innovative documentaries reveal the
power of modern surveillance technologies, the incumbent whittling away
of civil liberties and the upending of notions of privacy. Tune In by
Esther Johnson (World Premiere) follows the fascinating world of amateur
radio operators. Dealing with the politics of space and social
communication, this film blends documentary and abstract audio to
reflect a world that bridges both do-it-yourself and state-of-the-art
technologies. The Intimacy of Strangers by Eva Weber (West Coast
Premiere) chronicles a clandestine film crew as they prowl the streets
of London capturing phone conversations that take place in public. Weber
"steals" these intimate moments and explores the ever-shrinking gap
between private and public spheres. How Little We Know of Our Neighbours
by Rebecca Baron (SF Premiere) This film traces photography's evolution
from staid portraiture to the introduction in the 1880s of the handheld
camera, which moved photography out of the studio and into the streets.
For the first time, subjects could be photographed in public without
knowledge or consent. Baron simultaneously investigates Britain's Mass
Observation Movement (MOM) — the surreptitious use of photography to
record and scrutinize public behavior. The film follows the history of
the movement from its inception as a progressive, if naïve,
"anthropology of ourselves" through its reincarnation as a civil spy
unit during World War II, and its eventual emergence in the 1950s as a
market research firm. Baron examines MOM's history and the ways in which
it is echoed in a range of present-day phenomena, from police
surveillance to Web cams and reality television, illustrating how our
notions of privacy and self-identification have changed.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2006
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9/23
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
CHICAGO'S OWN: THE BEST OF DOC - DOCUMENTARIES BY COLUMBIA COLLEGE
STUDENTS
Co-Presented by The Michael Rabiger Center for Documentary Select
Filmmakers in Person! From love, group sex, and pets to classical
Chinese opera, the world of indie filmmaking, and the war in Iraq, this
program of short documentary films by Columbia College students, made
between 2001-2005, has something for everyone. Paul & Ginger by Linda
McCullough: A story about a May-December romance turns into a test of
devotion for a newly wed couple. Uncharted Lands by Lynda Brendish: A
typical family home becomes a temple for a magical community devoted to
group sex, but what do the kids think? Who's Mama, Joe Mama by Sean
Jordan: A bad-ass motorcycle mechanic is working on becoming a loving
father. Gift Dogs by Thomas Peyton: Who cares for the dogs that nobody
wants? Thunder Lannyang by Yuting Hsueh: A classical Chinese opera
musician in Taiwan tells the story of his struggle to keep the music
playing against all odds. Under the Lights by Ian Hutchinson: A Chicago
street cop has a duel life as an indie filmmaker and actor. Britt's War
by John Firak: A female suburban soldier returns home with a changed
view of our security in Chicago and the purpose of the war in Iraq. The
evening's Q&A will be moderated by Jeff Spitz, the Documentary
Coordinator at Columbia College.
9/23
San Francisco, California: MadCat Women's International Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission St. @ Third Street
CHARMING AUGUSTINE: A 3D FILM
A story of love, madness and the loss of control in glorious 3D. MadCat
presents the West Coast premiere of Zoe Beloff's Charming Augustine.
This surreal 3D film was inspired by a series of photographs and texts
on hysteria published in the 1880s by the insane asylum Salpêtrière, in
Paris. Based on a case study of the young Augustine who, at fifteen, was
admitted to the hospital after suffering from hysterical paralysis, the
film re-imagines her psychosis, exploring the connections between the
attempts to document her mental states and the prehistory of narrative
film. The doctors were captivated by Augustine's frequent attacks, which
appeared extraordinarily theatrical and photogenic. She became a star,
the "Sarah Bernhardt" of the asylum. To conjure this era that predates
the moving image, Beloff films in a stereoscopic or 3D format to suggest
a different direction that cinema might have taken had it been invented
a decade earlier. 3D Glasses supplied. Also screening at PFA on Sept 26.
For a complete program please email (address suppressed)
9/23
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia
PSYCHO-GEOGRAPHIES BY DANIEL, BROWN, BEEBE +
A bindlestiff of cinematographic essays that are distinguished by
authentic insight and perception: An increasingly mobile cinema practice
has encouraged this quintessentially contemporary subgenre of personal
cinema in which the subject navigates her own sense of
belonging/displacement, through a meditation on landscape Among
tonight's film-pilgrimages are Bill Brown's The Other Side, on the
Mexican–U.S. frontier, Roger Beebe's S A V E, on the melancholia of the
abandoned gas station, Angela Reginato's Mexico City symphony To
Disappear, Dolissa Medina's 19: Victoria, Texas, Katherin McGinnis' San
Quentin 94964, and Morgan Currie's Tales from the Vertical City. PLUS a
sneak preview of Vanessa Renwick's latest project. DOUBLE HEADER!! At
9:30 we'll unspool the sprawling saga of Bill Daniel's Bozo Texino, the
rough-hewn, rough-and-ready ramble on empty railcars in search of the
grandpa of train graffiti. NOTE: 1st show, 8pm; 2nd, 9:30pm. $5 for one;
$7 for both.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2006
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9/24
Columbia, SC: Hopscotch Cinema
6:00 PM, McMaster building, room 214 (Corner of Pickens and Senate)
PASSAGE THROUGH: A RITUAL
When I received the tape of Philip Corner's Through the Mysterious
Barricade, Lumen 1 (after F. Couperin), he included a note that thanked
me for my film, THE RIDDLE OF LUMEN, he'd just seen and which had in
some way inspired this music. I, in turn, was so moved by the tape he
sent I immediately asked his permission to "set it to film." It required
the most exacting editing process ever; and in the course of that work
it occurred to me that I'd originally made THE RIDDLE OF LUMEN hoping
someone would make an "answering" film and entertain my visual riddle in
the manner of the riddling poets of yore. I most expected Hollis
Frampton (because of Zorn's Lemma) to pick up the challenge; but he
never did. In some sense I think composer Corner has -- and now we have
this dance of riddles as music and film combine to make "passage," in
every sense of the word, further possible.
9/24
San Francisco, California: MadCat Women's International Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission St. @ Third Street
MAQUILAPOLIS
Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre premiere their riveting political
documentary MAQUILAPOLIS at the 10th Annual MadCat Film Festival on the
eve of their PBS broadcast. This intimate documentary shares the lives
of some members a tightly knit community that sits in the shadow of one
of Tijuana's 800 maquiladoras, multinational factories that thrive off
Mexico's cheap labor force. Carmen, a single mother and one of the more
than one million Mexicans employed at the maquiladoras, works making
television components six nights a week for six dollars a day. She comes
home to a shack she built out of recycled garage doors, in a
neighborhood with no sewage lines or electricity. At 29, she already
suffers from kidney damage and lead poisoning from her years of exposure
to toxic chemicals. However, Carmen is far from a victim—she is a
dynamic young woman, busy making a life for herself and her children.
Carmen and her friends, some of whom become promotoras (community-based
activists), reach beyond the daily struggle for survival to fight for
workers' rights. They take a major television manufacturer to task for
violating labor rights and pressure the government to clean up a toxic
waste dump left behind by a departing factory. The women, armed with the
video cameras Funari and De La Torre provide, also document their lives,
their city and their hopes for the future. As they work for change, the
world changes too: a global economic crisis and the availability of
cheaper labor in China begin to pull the factories away from Tijuana,
leaving an entire community with an uncertain future. Preceded by South
of Ten by Liza Johnson (West Coast Premiere) Using the decimated
landscape of the Mississippi Gulf Coast as its backdrop, South of Ten
restages the extraordinary routines of survivors of Hurricane Katrina. A
girl flees a makeshift tent city. A man finds a trombone amidst the
rubble. A worker watches the ocean from under a moving house, while its
owner gazes at the view from her shifting living room. In ten vignettes,
residents of the destroyed Mississippi Gulf Coast act out scenes of
their everyday lives and the relentlessness of labor now required in
their extreme terrain. For a complete program please email
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