From: weekly listing (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Sep 24 2006 - 14:29:24 PDT
This week [September 24 - October 1, 2006] in avant garde cinema
Enter your announcements (calls for entries, new work, jobs, for sale,
etc.) at:
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl
NEW FILM/VIDEO:
==============
"Birth" by Ryan Seslow
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=275.ann
"Zeek Shares the Universe" by Ryan Seslow
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=276.ann
NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
=====================
Distillery Open Studios Screenings (South Boston, MA USA; Deadline: September 13, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=617.ann
K Filmfest (Antwerpen; Deadline: September 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=618.ann
Cinematic CD FILM2MUSIC Competition (Los Angeles, CA USA; Deadline: November 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=619.ann
DEADLINES APPROACHING:
======================
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
SF IndieFest (San Francisco CA; Deadline: October 13, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=598.ann
Abrasions: Architecture and Accident (San Francisco, CA USA; Deadline: September 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=605.ann
LiveBox Gallery (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: October 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=610.ann
ArtsUnion (Somerville, MA, USA; Deadline: October 03, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=611.ann
Research Spaces 3: Topos - The Moving Image between Art and Architecture (London, UK; Deadline: October 10, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=612.ann
OpenLens Festival (Eugene, Oregon; Deadline: October 27, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=614.ann
K Filmfest (Antwerpen; Deadline: September 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=618.ann
Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form
at http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl
Also available online at Flicker: http://www.hi-beam.net
THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
==============================
* Passage Through: A Ritual [September 24, Columbia, SC]
* Mark Street In Person With "Rockaway" [September 24, Los Angeles]
* Lucca Film Festival [September 24, Lucca]
* New York Experimental [September 24, New York, New York]
* Maquilapolis [September 24, San Francisco, California]
* Cinema Project Presents Chris Markers "Le Fond De L'air Est Rouge" [September 26, Portland, Oregon]
* Mulholland Drive [September 26, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Wishing Worlds [September 26, San Francisco, California]
* Latenight Film Emporium iv [September 26, Vancouver, British Columbia]
* A Quiet Storm: Live Music Set To Silent Films
[September 27, San Francisco, California]
* Wpa\C Experimental Media Series 2 - Cowboys, Cliches, Codes, &
Conspiracies [September 27, Washington, DC]
* Kelly Reichardt: Old Joy [September 28, Chicago, Illinois]
* Slack video and Friends Present : Cuts From the Fringe iii [September 28, Kingston upon Hull, UK]
* "Two Wrenching Departures" By Ken Jacobs At Moma [September 28, New York, New York]
* Toofy Film Fest 2006 [September 29, Boulder, Colorado]
* Electromediascope [September 29, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Chicago's Own: Recent videos By Depaul Art Faculty [September 30, Chicago, Illinois]
* Erik Davis‘ visionary State + Aron Ranen's Lsd In the 60s [September 30, San Francisco, California]
* Phenomenological! Magic Lantern Presents "The Transcendent Show" [October 1, Chicago, Illinois]
* I’Ll Show You Mine, If You Show Me Yours: An Evening With Melinda Stone [October 1, Los Angeles]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
--------------------------
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2006
--------------------------
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
Los Angeles: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
MARK STREET IN PERSON WITH "ROCKAWAY"
Los Angeles premiere! ROCKAWAY (2005, 74 minutes, Beta SP (from mini-dv
and 16mm film)) Filmforum's Fall season begins with Mark Street in
person with his new feature film! We're delighted to host Mark Street
again with his marvelous exploration of the lives of three girls using a
full array of narrative and documentary techniques. In ROCKAWAY, three
teenage girls from Queens celebrate their last night of high school on
the edge of New York, where the city meets the sand.
9/24
Lucca: VI(S)TA NOVA
http://www.vistanova.it
24-30 September, Cinema Centrale, Teatro di San Girolamo, Complesso di San Micheletto
LUCCA FILM FESTIVAL
The Lucca Film Festival is back. This fascinating Tuscan meeting-point
for lovers of experimental and avant-garde cinema will soon open its
gates for the second time. The event, which is organised by the
association VI(S)TA NOVA and sponsored by the Province and Community of
Lucca, will run from the 24th to the 30th of September in three venues
in the heart of the city: Cinema Centrale, Teatro di San Girolamo and
the Complesso di San Micheletto. This Festival with a special focus on
experimental and low-to-no budget cinema, unique in its kind in Europe,
will be offering this year more than 100 film-premieres. Underground
Cinema will be the main feature of the festival. The distinctive traits
of the films that will be presented in this section are uncompromising
energy and expressive liberty, lustful experimentation and manipulation
of images, undertaken on a low budget. A series of unmissable titles
will trace the history and current paths undertaken by a movement
considered to have been founded by independent filmmakers in the U.S. in
the 60's in direct opposition to the standardised canons of Hollywood.
Our guides on this journey into the world of underground filmmaking are
the legendary directors Kenneth Anger, Adolfo Arrieta, Tonino de
Bernardi, and Stephen Dwoskin, who have made or selected the films. To
quote Stephen Dwoskin, "these films have no fixed scope, no fixed
budget, no fixed audience, no fixed style and often no fixed script.
They are personal works, individually motivated, like any other creative
activity. The painters and poets have become filmmakers." What makes
this section so rich are the various films selected by the
aforementioned directors, who have been given „carte blanche" in
screening movies that have been an important influence on their work or
which are made by younger directors who they wish to promote. Running
throughout the festival will also be a homage to Alan Clarke, English
director who died in 1990 and who according to director Stephen Frears
remains "the best of all of us." Clarke directed only three films
specifically for cinematic release, the bulk of his prolific output
being made for BBC television. A radical, uncompromising and innovative
director, his best work concerned the exposure of injustice towards the
most despised and neglected groups in society. From the sneering racist
skinhead Trevor in Made in Britain played by Tim Roth and proudly
declaring that he is "one of Thatcher's children" to Gary Oldman's Bex,
the yuppie estate agent addicted to football violence in The Firm,
Clarke's dramas laid bare the dark heart of the greed-is-good mentality
of 80's Britain. The Lucca Film Festival will inaugurate this year for
the first time a competition for short and medium-length films where 60
works have been officially selected and will be competing for a prize,
awarded by the jury presided by Adolfo Arrieta as well as an audience
award dedicated to Marco Melani (critic, screenwriter and organiser of
important festivals, who died in 1996). Last but not least the section
"Lost Highways" which aims to discover the different landscapes of
„Cinema on the Road", offering classics and forgotten masterpieces by
directors such as Philippe Garrel, Monte Hellman, Edgar Ulmer and Claude
Lelouch. The directors present at the festival will be Kenneth Anger,
Adolfo Arrieta, Tonino de Bernardi, Steven Dwoskin, Mikhail Kobakhidzé
and Paolo Benvenuti. Among the guests which will be present and active
participants in the events of the festival are Adriano Aprà, Dominique
Noguez, Donatello Fumarola, Cristina Piccino, Silvana Silvestri, and
Chiara Barbo. But the festival is not only about films; there a number
of connected initiatives, an exhibition of the paintings and sculptures
by Alessandra Sawicki in the Complesso San Micheletto and a series of
conferences, round-table discussions and lecture-screenings for
high-school students. Prices and notes: Tickets: 5 euros is the price of
Vi(s)ta Nova membership card, an all-inclusive card which allows you to
attend ALL the screenings of the festival. For further information:
www.vistanova.it.
9/24
New York, New York: The Tank
http://www.thetanknyc.org
8:00 PM, 279 Church Street
NEW YORK EXPERIMENTAL
New York Experimental Sunday, September 24, 2006 8:00 PM The Tank 279
Church Street New York, NY 10013 www.thetanknyc.org From twisted
familial tales and meditations on cross-cultural exchanges to calculated
episodes of self-abuse: an evening of short films from around the globe
by Olivia Janik (US), Hubert Dobler (US/AT), Alana Kakoyiannis (US),
Dahlia Fischbein (US/AR), Rafaël (ES), Galina Sinkina (RU), Arnold
Brooks (US), Shanna Maurizi (US) and others. Also featuring work from
renowned experimental filmmaker Jack Beck! The mission of The Tank is to
provide a welcoming, creative, collaborative, and affordable environment
for artists and activists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas. Through a
wide range of low-cost, high-concept arts and public affairs
programming, The Tank seeks to cultivate a new generation of audience
for live performance, civic discourse, and the work of emerging artists.
For more information visit: http://www.thetanknyc.org
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
(address suppressed)
---------------------------
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2006
---------------------------
9/26
Portland, Oregon: Cinema Project
http://www.cinemaproject.org/
7 p.m., 1219 SW Park Ave.
CINEMA PROJECT PRESENTS CHRIS MARKERS "LE FOND DE L'AIR EST ROUGE"
Presented By Cinema Project and the Northwest Film Center Le Fond de
l'air est rouge Directed by Chris Marker September 26 + 27 2006
Northwest Film Center's Whitsell Auditorium [1219 S.W. Park Ave.] 7:00
p.m. | $7 www.cinemaproject.org 503 232 8269 Cinema Project and the
Northwest Film Center are proud to present the Northwest premiere of
Chris Marker's A Grin Without a Cat .Marker, who has been making and
collaborating on work for over fifty years, is a cinematic essayist and
audio-visual poet. He has directed such classics as Letters from
Siberia, Cuba Si!, La Jetée, and Sans Soleil.. In the 1960's and 1970's
he was actively involved with SLON, a filmmaking collective dedicated to
activist production. Marker reemerged to make films under his own name
again in 1977 with Le Fond de l'air est rouge [A Grin Without A Cat]. In
1968, "revolution was in the air" in Paris, Peking, Prague, and Peoria.
This enormously compelling look at the international Left in the decade
following 1967 is far reaching, idiosyncratic, satiric, committed. In
the sixties, the "universal standard of civilization" assumed from the
fifties began to collapse. The war in Vietnam was the watershed, and
Marker hauntingly depicts its effect. He goes on to show the many
civilian-police battles throughout Europe; the revolution within the
revolution in Asia, South America, Czechoslovakia; the space between the
police lines and the union stewards into which the French Left rushed in
May '68; the assassination of princes (Che Guevara) and the deposing of
kings (Richard Nixon); and those Cheshire cats known as politicians, who
cannot explain why what was in the air never quite materialized on the
ground. Pacific Film Archive September 26 + 27 Le Fond de l'air est
rouge [A Grin without a Cat] Parts I & II [1968-78. 35mm, b&w/color,
sound, 180 min.]
9/26
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright college
MULHOLLAND DRIVE
Mulholland Drive (2001, 145 min.) by DAVID LYNCH. "This voluptuous
phantasmagoria … is certainly Lynch's strongest movie since Blue Velvet
and maybe Eraserhead….From the absurd midnight automobile accident on
the Los Angeles road that opens the movie and gives it its title,
Mulholland Drive makes perfect (irrational) sense…. Mulholland Drive
flows from one situation to the next, one scene seeping into another
like the decomposing corpse … that's at the story's center. Characters
dissolve. Settings deteriorate. Situations break down and reconstitute
themselves, sometimes as fantasy, sometimes as a movie—which is to say,
much of what has previously happened, happens again, only differently….
Whatever Mulholland Drive was originally, it has become a poisonous
valentine to Hollywood." J. Hoberman, Village Voice
9/26
San Francisco, California: MadCat Women's International Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
8:30 Movies. Free BBQ 6:30 pm, El Rio 3158 Mission at Precita
WISHING WORLDS
Works from Pakistan, the Netherlands, Germany and France follow lunatics
in search of a homeland, young lovers in a surreal musical, an
underwater struggle, and much more. Petra Schröder presents the US
Premiere of her film Exploding Buds. This highly stylized narrative
combines camp, unexpected humor, and teen sensuality with the best of a
Hollywood musical. Two girls share an intimacy, sequestering themselves
in a surreal world of make-believe. When one of them stumbles into the
real world and into the arms of a handsome young man, the girls are
shaken from their dream state. They enter a new reality—albeit one
filled with the unexpected twists and turns that only song and dance can
convey. Also screening the West Coast Premiere of Toba Tek Singh by Afia
Nathaniel (Pakistan) It is 1947. The newly created governments of India
and Pakistan wish to exchange lunatics as they would political
prisoners. Bishan Singh, a Sikh confined in an insane asylum for the
past 15 years, doesn't know if his hometown (Toba Tek Singh) is now
located in India or in Pakistan. This tragicomic narrative is a search
for identity in a world gone suddenly mad. And more films. For a
complete program go to our web site or email us for a hard copy at
email suppressed
9/26
Vancouver, British Columbia: Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society
http://www.cineworks.ca
9:30pm, 1131 Howe St
LATENIGHT FILM EMPORIUM IV
Latenight Film Emporium IV 16mm Experimental Tuesday September 26th
9:30pm at Cineworks 1131 Howe (enter through the back lane) Free This is
the fourth installment of the occasional Latenight Film Emporium series.
This one focuses on experimental works crafted and finished on 16mm.
From delicate textures to stark alchemical forms these works explore and
explode the boundaries of celluloid as a medium. Program: Kerry Laitala
- "Out of the Ether" -USA Jason Wade - "Golden Afternoon" -USA Yun Lam
Li - "Trichotomy of Shannon" -Canada Kati Katchever -"Proud Flesh" -USA
C. J. Brabant - "h2o+5I-2H+1 -ver.2.0 " -Canada Christoph Runne -
"Unfolding" -Canada Ben Donoghue - "Exciter Lamp: Flashlight picture and
sound #2" -Canada
-----------------------------
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2006
-----------------------------
9/27
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
A QUIET STORM: LIVE MUSIC SET TO SILENT FILMS
Australian filmmaker Sally Golding and sound artist Joel Stern present
an improvisational three-projector performance, Bloodless Landscape.This
improvisational dance of light and movement is accompanied by live
experimental sound by Joel Stern. An investigation of psychic noise, the
cinematic apparatus, and expanded possibilities of performance, Golding
manipulates three projectors simultaneously, using handmade film,
feedback systems, contrapuntal Foley noise, exposed sprockets and
flicker, along with a collection of lenses and prisms. Plus lush 16mm
experimental films by Kerry Laitala, Courtney Hoskins, Anna Lange and
Sheri Wills set to live music by Tartufi and The Secrets of Family
Happiness. For a complete program see the MadCat web site or email us at
(address suppressed)
9/27
Washington, DC: Washington Project for the Arts\Corcoran
http://www.wpaconline.org
7:00 - 9:00 pm, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th Street
WPA\C EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA SERIES 2 - COWBOYS, CLICHES, CODES, &
CONSPIRACIES
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 21, 2006 The Washington Project for the
Arts\Corcoran Presents: Cowboys, Cliches, Codes, and Conspiracies –
Designing narrative strategies and meanings in experimental media Night
#1 of WPA\C's Experimental Media Series 2 Curated by Peggy Parsons
(Head, Department of Film Programs, National Gallery of Art) Cowboys,
Cliches, Codes, and Conspiracies – Formal and narrative strategies in
experimental and digital media --- recycling old formats, borrowing
styles and symbols, mixing fact and fiction, playing off old and new
storytelling devices, merging collage and animation, and augmenting
texture and color --- will be examined in works featured in Night #1 of
the WPA\C Experimental Media Series 2. A special appearance by
performance/media artist Ben Coonley will kick off the evening.
Featuring: Untitled – Lisa Blatt - Washington, DC Digital Poem #1 –
Paris Bustillos - Washington, DC Figure in the Carpet – Jennifer
Levonian - Philadelphia Seasonal Quartet, Winter Movement – Chris Lynn -
Maryland Pushing Cowboys – Lilly McElroy - Chicago ADAGIO - Roger Ngim -
San Francisco In Places – Erik Olofsen - Amsterdam State of the Union –
Randall Packer - Washington, DC Oil: You Can Depend On It – Rob Parrish
- Washington, DC Shroud of Security – James Schneider - Washington, DC
Sigh – Ann Steuernagel - Massachusetts Nature on a Leash – Gail Scott
White - Virginia Live Power Point performance & 3D video by: Ben
Coonley, New York - Remapping the Apparatus: Cinematographic Specificity
and Hybrid Media [Otto Content Wizards] - Valentine for Perfect
Strangers - 3D Trick Pony - The Best Gifts Information: Day: Wednesday,
September 27, 2006 Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm Location: Corcoran Gallery of
Art Armand Hammer Auditorium 500 17th Street, NW Washington, DC (New
York Avenue entrance) For inquiries regarding the WPA\C Experimental
Media Series 2, please contact Ding Ren, WPA\C Program Director at
202.639.1828 or e-mail (address suppressed) WPA\Corcoran is an
independent, non-profit 501 c(3) organization whose mission is to
promote excellence in contemporary art in the region by presenting
experimental exhibitions and performances, stimulating dialogue between
emerging and established artists, and involving artists in educational
programs that benefit local residents. WPA\Corcoran was formed in 1996
as an organization that unites the independent spirit and regional focus
of the former Washington Project for the Arts (est. 1975) with the
institutional strength and historical perspective of the Corcoran
Gallery of Art. WPA\C is based at the Corcoran, where it initiates and
supports a broad range of projects both at the museum and at off-site
locations in Washington, DC.
----------------------------
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2006
----------------------------
9/28
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
6:00 pm, 164 N. State Street
KELLY REICHARDT: OLD JOY
Kelly Reichardt in person! Best known in recent years for her
accomplished short films (ODE, TRAVIS), Kelly Reichardt's latest
award-winning feature is an elegiac road movie shot on the highways and
in the lush backwoods of the Pacific Northwest. Alt-country star Will
Oldham and Daniel London play estranged friends, one on the verge of
fatherhood, the other has no strings attached. As the two struggle to
reconnect during a weekend camping trip, they travel deeper into the
past over progressively political terrain, on a journey of
reconciliation and loss. With original score by Yo La Tengo. "OLD JOY is
about the miles we put on our lives and the directions known and unknown
still facing us…one of the most persuasive portraits of generational
malaise—and tentative hope—to come from an American director in recent
memory." (Manohla Dargis, The New York Times). Reichardt's 2002 short
THEN, A YEAR (14 min.) will precede the feature. (2002-06, USA, various
formats, ca. 90 min.)
9/28
Kingston upon Hull, UK: Slack Video
http:// www.slackvideo.org
7.30 pm, Lamp, 2 Norfolk Street, Hull, UK
SLACK VIDEO AND FRIENDS PRESENT : CUTS FROM THE FRINGE III
As part of Hull International Short Film Festival Thursday 28th
September @ The Lamp, 2 Norfolk Street, Hull 7:30pm - midnight Free
entry. For your viewing and listening pleasure, Slack Video and Friends
will be presenting an eclectic evening mix of narrative and experimental
films and animations from Yorkshire based artists, filmmakers and
animators. The evening will consist of short programmes from several
other Yorkshire based screening organisations, a selection of works
obtained through our own regular open submission programme, selected
films from past screenings and a scattering of live soundtrack to film
performances and live audiovisual manipulations throughout the evening.
Also screening @ 7.30pm - 'Mind The Gap' - A Documentary exploring the
London bombings of 2005 and the incosistencies of the 'official' story
All this can be enjoyed alongside drinks and light refreshments in the
free and open environment of the back room of The Lamp bar.
9/28
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org
8:30pm, MoMA
"TWO WRENCHING DEPARTURES" BY KEN JACOBS AT MOMA
"Two Wrenching Departures" 2006. Directed by Ken Jacobs. In October
1989, estranged friends Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith died within a week
of each other. Ken Jacobs met Smith through Fleischner in 1955 at CUNY
night school, where the three were studying camera techniques. This
feature-length work, first performed in 1989 as a live Nervous System
piece, is a "luminous threnody" (Mark McElhatten) made in response to
the loss of Jacob's friends. Approx. 90 min. World premiere. (introduced
by Jacobs).
--------------------------
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2006
--------------------------
9/29
Boulder, Colorado: Team Toofy Productions, LLC
http://www.toofy.com
various, 2032 14th Street
TOOFY FILM FEST 2006
Toofy strives to present audiences with the finest independent art
available. Enjoy 2 nights of music and fashion at Trilogy Wine Bar and
Lounge and Seven Eurobar, and two full days of short and feature length
films at the Boulder Theater.
9/29
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. Visiting Artist Michael Snow In
Person *Corpus Callosum, Michael Snow (Canada), 2002, 92 min., digital
video.
----------------------------
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2006
----------------------------
9/30
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00 pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
CHICAGO'S OWN: RECENT VIDEOS BY DEPAUL ART FACULTY
Co-Presented by the Art and Art History Dept. at DePaul University
Artists in Person! DePaul University has quietly been building a
talented group of video artists among the faculty and students in the
Art Department. Tonight we present some recent video work by faculty
members at DePaul. Ferris Wheel (2004) by Jenny Walters: A lover
attempts to admonish the author over the din of amusement park noise on
a Ferris wheel. Ghetto (2006) by Steve Harp: Some thoughts on tourism,
borders, history, assimilation, and foreignness. Glitches, Hitches, and
Hiccups (1) and 2 (2004) by Susan Giles: Brief moments captured
unintentionally on tape by numerous people while traveling throughout
the world. Dizzy Heights (2006), by independent videomaker Gregory
Nemec, is a video piece based on paintings by DePaul faculty member
Matthew Girson. Chests (2004) by Dolores Wilber: Two men bashing their
chests together over and over. Tunnel (2002) by Gagik Aroutiunian: A
luminous passageway reveals itself as a space inhabited by mysterious
spectral figures. For the Unseen (2006, work-in-progress) by Chi-Jang
Yin: A memoir of a reconstructed and fragmented relationship is
presented by the absence of the subject.
9/30
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia
ERIK DAVIS‘ VISIONARY STATE + ARON RANEN’S LSD IN THE 60S
It's no surprise that California's spiritual landscape is as diverse as
its natural surroundings. Acclaimed cultural critic Erik Davis' 45-min.
slideshow, The Visionary State, weaves voice and image into a compelling
narrative of religion, architecture, and consciousness, from
neo-paganism to televangelism, UFO cults to austere Zen Buddhism. Davis
brings together the immigrant and homegrown religious influences, part
of the region's character from its earliest days, drawing connections
between seemingly unlike traditions and celebrating the diversity of
California's spiritual composition. Michael Rauner's evocative
photographs depict the sites and structures where these traditions have
taken root and flourished. PLUS Aron Ranen's peripatetic journey to
discover the secret history of psychedelics, with appearances by Ram
Dass, Paul Krassner, and MK-ULTRA experts (and victims)
-----------------------
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2006
-----------------------
10/1
Chicago, Illinois: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
8:00, Cinema Borealis, 1550 N Milwaukee Ave
PHENOMENOLOGICAL! MAGIC LANTERN PRESENTS "THE TRANSCENDENT SHOW"
Close your eyes, picture a soft place, and repeat after me:
CINEMMMMMMMMMMMMA. And again: CINEMMMMMMMMMMMMA. Let the lights behind
your eyelids form patterns, let the stars, crucifixes, spirographs,
fractals, pentagrams, and mandalas dissolve into you and each other and
into the darkness that makes up 40% of your moviegoing life. Reach your
hand out past the void that is and was yourself and join your aura with
that always-flickering light you've come to know as Magic Lantern. Cast
off your mortal coil, watch the sun bless the ocean with your third eye,
and let the trance foam drip from your un-mouth as you're spirited away
into a world of light and sound at a varying frame rate of 18, 24, and
29.97 frames per second. A world where Angela Lansbury is your host,
where seizures sing out against war, where the Velvet Underground rocks
in triplicate, where ethereal landscapes melt, where West African
laborers channel colonial powers, where Manson dopplegangers are desert
wanderers, and where the Glory of Light as Nature is At Long Last
Revealed. If you think you're ready, then you are - open your eyes and
repeat after me: CINEMMMMMMMMMMMMA... FEATURING: Feeling Free with 3D
Magic Eye Poster Remix by Shana Moulton (8:13, video, 2004), Saint
Flournoy Lobos-Logos and the Eastern Europe Fetus Taxing Japan Brides in
West Coast Places Sucking Alabama Air by Will Hindle (12:00, 16mm,
1970), Melter 02 by Takeshi Murata (4:00, video, 2003), Andy Warhol's
Exploding Plastic Inevitable with the Velvet Underground by Ronald
Nameth (12:00, 16mm on video, 1966), Les Maitres Fous by Jean Rouch
(35:00, 16mm, 1954), Piece Mandala/End War by Paul Sharits (5:00, 16mm,
1966), The Visitation by Nathaniel Dorsky (18:00, 16mm, 2002) TRT 94:00,
$5
10/1
Los Angeles: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
I’LL SHOW YOU MINE, IF YOU SHOW ME YOURS: AN EVENING WITH MELINDA STONE
A somewhat anachronistic film maker, curator and researcher, Melinda
Stone dabbles in it all to create an eclectic show that highlights her
on-going interest in land use, amateur filmmaking and outdoor film
extravaganzas. A kind of present day film impresario, Stone borrows from
the past and infuses each of her unique shows with sing-alongs and other
participatory fare. Come find out what she means and check out her
recent offerings including selections from her most recent site-specific
film events – The California Tour and A Trip Down Market 1905/2005, a
brand new sing-along, and Audience Analysis film.
Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form
at http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl
The weekly listing is also available online at Flicker:
http://www.hi-beam.net
__________________________________________________________________
For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.