From: Mark McElhatten (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2006 - 17:33:16 PDT
The 10th Annual Views from the Avant - Garde at the 44th New York Film
Festival website is still in progress but nearly complete.
The schedule is viewable at:
www.filmlinc.com/nyff/program/avantgarde/avantgarde.html
You may scroll down and view the schedule, clicking on the lead image
to get to full descriptions of each piece on a particular program or
click on the program title on the left side of the screen. Images are
currently thumbnail details that will in the future lead to a full size
image.
The following artists will be in attendance; Kenneth Anger, Abigail
Child, Scott Stark, Soon-mi Yoo, Michael Robinson, Leslie Thornton,
Saul Levine, Wago Krieder, Leighton Pierce,Vincent Grenier, Tomonari
Nishikawa,David Gatten,Jim Jennings, Guy Sherwin, Ken Jacobs, Gretchen
Skogersen,Ernie Gehr, Helga Fanderl, Luther Price, Fred Worden ,Ben
Russell, Kerry Laitala, Jennifer Reeves, Bruce McClure, Guy Maddin and
Isabella Rossellini and others.
You may want to purchase tickets on-line. The performances of Guy
Maddin's Brand Upon the Brain are sold out.
The programs are as follows:
Saturday October 7 at 12:30 for full details:
www.filmlinc.com/nyff/program/avantgarde/thegreatdivide.html
1: THE GREAT DIVIDE
Mirror World Abigail Child (U.S., 2006, 12m)
More Than Meets The Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda Scott Stark (U.S., 2006,
20m)
Dangerous Supplement Soon-Mi Yoo (Korea/U.S., 2006, 14½m)
The General Returns from One Place to Another Michael Robinson (U.S.,
2006, 11m)
site specific_ROMA 04 Olivo Barbieri (Italy, 2004, 12m)
Sahara Mohave Leslie Thornton (U.S., 2006, 12m)
You Don’t Bring Me Flowers Michael Robinson (U.S., 2005, 8m)
Liberté et patrie (Freedom and Homeland) Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie
Miéville (Switzerland, 2002, 22m)
Total Running Time: 111m
Saturday October 7 at 3:15
www.filmlinc.com/nyff/program/avantgarde/saullevine.html
2: SAUL LEVINE: NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND
Saul Levine in person.
Restoration 16mm blows-ups of 8mm films by the National Film
Preservation Foundation, Anthology Film Archives and BB Optics
Note to Pati (U.S., 1969, 8m)
Note to Coleen (U.S., 1974, 5m)
New Left Note (U.S., 1968-1982, 26m)
The Big Stick/An Old Reel (U.S., 1967-1973, 17m)
Note to Poli (U.S., 1982-83, 2m) 16mm blow up made by Caroline Avery.
Total running time: 58m
Saturday October 7 at 5:30
www.filmlinc.com/nyff/program/avantgarde/dissolvesintoair.html
3 … DISSOLVES INTO AIR
The Riddle of Lumen Stan Brakhage (U.S., 1972, 13m) Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences preservation print
Between Two Deaths Wago Kreider (U.S., 2005, 6m)
My Person in the Water Leighton Pierce (U.S., 2006, 5m)
Cat’s Cradle Stan Brakhage (U.S., 1959, 6m) AMPAS preservation print
This and This Vincent Grenier (U.S., 2006, 10m)
Clear Blue Sky Tomonari Nishikawa (U.S., 2006, 4m)
0778 man.road.river Marcellvs l (Brazil, 2004, 9m)
Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: Base-Plus-Fog David Gatten (U.S.,
2006, 10m)
Song and Solitude Nathaniel Dorsky (U.S., 2006, 21m)
Total Running Time: 85m
Saturday October 7 at 8:15
www.filmlinc.com/nyff/program/avantgarde/kennethanger.html
4: KENNETH ANGER
Kenneth Anger in person
35mm blow-up restorations by UCLA, preserved through the Avant-Garde
Masters program funded by The Film Foundation and administered by the
National Film Preservation Foundation
Fireworks (U.S., 1947, 15m)
Rabbit’s Moon (U.S.,1971, 16m)
Scorpio Rising (U.S., 1963, 29m)
Kustom Kar Kommandos (U.S.,1965, 3m)
Total Running Time: 63m
Sunday October 8 at 1:00
www.filmlinc.com/nyff/program/avantgarde/aboveandbelow.html
5: ABOVE AND BELOW
Silk Ties Jim Jennings (U.S., 2006, 9½m)
Crossings Robert Fenz (U.S., 2006, 5m)
Views from Home Guy Sherwin (U.K., 2006, 12m)
Block Emily Richardson (U.K., 2006, 11m)
site specific_LAS VEGAS 05 Olivo Barbieri (Canada/Italy, 2005, 12m)
PUSHCARTS OF ETERNITY STREET Ken Jacobs (U.S., 2006, 10m)
This Is my Heart Edson Barrus (Brazil/France, 2004, 1m)
His Eye on the Sparrow Bruce Conner (U.S., 2006, 4½m)
Threshold of Transience aka The Dike of Transience Gulya Nemes
(Hungary, 2005, 13m)
Drive–Thru Gretchen Skogerson (U.S., 2006, 19½m)
Total Running Time: 97m
Sunday October 8 at 3:30
www.filmlinc.com/nyff/program/avantgarde/paologioli.html
6: PAOLO GIOLI
The Perforated Operator (L’operatore perforato) (Italy, 1979, 10m)
Filmarilyn (Italy, 1992, 10m)
Quando l’occhio trema (Italy, 1989, 11m)
Traumatograph (Traumatografo) (Italy, 1973, 25m)
Images Disturbed by an Intense Parasite (Immagini disturbate da un
intenso parassita)
(Italy, 1970, 45m)
Total running time: 101m
Sunday October 8 at 6:00
www.filmlinc.com/nyff/program/avantgarde/erniegehr.html
7: ERNIE GEHR
in person with :
Serene Velocity (U.S., 1970, 23m) 35mm blow-up MoMA preservation print
Table (U.S., 1976, 16m)
The Morse Code Operator (Or The Monkey Wrench) (U.S., 2006, 23m)
Before the Olympics (U.S., 2006, 15m)
Total running time: 77m
Sunday October 8 at 8:30
www.filmlinc.com/nyff/program/avantgarde/mindandmatter.html
8: MIND AND MATTER
Reel 4 (Fountain with Black Sculptures, Heavenly Curtains, Airplanes
II, Daffodils in the River, St. Jacob’s Tower, Water, Swings,
Bulrushes) Helga Fanderl (Germany/France, 2000-03, 21m)
Nodes Stan Brakhage (U.S., 1981, 3m) AMPAS preservation print
Untitled#9 Greg Sharits (U.S., 1977, 10m) Anthology Film Archives
preservation print
Turbulant Blue Luther Price (U.S., 2006, 10m)
Everyday Bad Dream Fred Worden (U.S., 2006, 6m)
Black and White Trypps #2 Ben Russell (U.S., 2006, 8m)
Orbit Kerry Laitala (U.S., 2006, 8m)
Light Work 1 Jennifer Reeves (U.S., 2006, 8m)
Transit Greg Sharits (U.S., 1970s, 20m) Anthology Film Archives
preservation print
Apparent Motion Paul Sharits (U.S., 1975, 22m) Anthology Film Archives
preservation print
They Wakened Later, Simultaneously, Much Refreshed Bruce McClure
projection performance (U.S., 2006, 15m)
Total running time: 131m
Sunday October 15 at 4:00 & 8:00
www.filmlinc.com/nyff/program/avantgarde/branduponthebrain.html
SPECIAL PRESENTATION:
GUY MADDIN’S BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! LIVE
(Canada, 2006, 95m)With a Castrato, a Foley Artist An Orchestra And
Isabella Rossellini as The Narrator
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