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Date: Sat Sep 30 2006 - 10:14:13 PDT
This week [October 1 - 8, 2006] in avant garde cinema
part 1 of 2
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NEW FILM/VIDEO:
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"I Love U" by Andrew Wilson
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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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K Filmfest (Antwerpen; Deadline: September 30, 2006)
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Cinematic CD FILM2MUSIC Competition (Los Angeles, CA USA; Deadline:
November 01, 2006)
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MONTELLY FILM FESTIVAL (Lausanne /switzerland; Deadline: December 01,
2006)
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CinemaJAZZ Jam (Kansas City, MO USA; Deadline: October 15, 2006)
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Kansas City Film Jubilee (Kansas City, MO USA; Deadline: October 15, 2006)
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Independent Film Festival of Boston (Boston, MA, U.S.A.; Deadline: January
31, 2007)
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The Play Ground (Duluth, MN, USA; Deadline: January 26, 2007)
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offcuts (london, UK; Deadline: December 25, 2006)
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Omaha Film Festival (Omaha, Ne, USA; Deadline: November 08, 2006)
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Adelaide Film Festival (Adelaide, Sth Aust Australia; Deadline: October
16, 2006)
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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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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
Videologia (Volgograd, Russia; Deadline: November 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=592.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)
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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)
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)
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Cinematic CD FILM2MUSIC Competition (Los Angeles, CA USA; Deadline:
November 01, 2006)
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CinemaJAZZ Jam (Kansas City, MO USA; Deadline: October 15, 2006)
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Kansas City Film Jubilee (Kansas City, MO USA; Deadline: October 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=622.ann
Adelaide Film Festival (Adelaide, Sth Aust Australia; Deadline: October
16, 2006)
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JOB AVAILABLE:
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University of Iowa
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MISCELLANEOUS:
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Editing Master Class - Final Cut Pro
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=misc&readfile=80.ann
Music for Video
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Phenomenological! Magic Lantern Presents "The Transcendent Show"
[October 1, Chicago, Illinois]
* Personal and Particular [October 1, London, England]
* ILl Show You Mine, If You Show Me Yours: An Evening With Melinda Stone
[October 1, Los Angeles]
* Essential Cinema Dziga Vertov A Sixth of the World [October 1, NYC]
* Essential Cinema - Carriage Trade [October 1, NYC]
* Essential Cinema Dziga Vertov Shagai, Soviet! [October 1, NYC]
* Irit Batsry : RTrospective vidO (Sept22 -Oct.8) [October 1, Paris,
France]
* Avant-Garde Film History: Notes On Marie Menken [October 1, San
Francisco, California]
* The All-Around Reduced Personality - Outtakes [October 2, Portland,
Oregon]
* Retrospective of Available Work By Mark Lapore [October 3, Boston,
Massachusetts]
* Suzan Pitt's Surreal Landscapes [October 3, Los Angeles, California]
* Irit Batsry : RTrospective vidO (Sept22 -Oct.8) [October 3, Paris,
France]
* Kuchar Brothers 8mmS: Mike Kuchar In-Person [October 3, Reading,
Pennsylvania]
* Half Life [October 4, Liverpool, UK]
* Magic Lanterns and the Evolution of Film Narrative [October 4, Los
Angeles, California]
* Screening Room then and Now With Robert Gardner and Jonas Mekas
[October 4, NYC]
* Phenomenological! Magic Lantern Presents "The Transcendent Show"
[October 4, Providence, RI]
* The Echoing Wall [October 5, Barcelona, Spain]
* Avi Mograbi In Person (Avenge But One of My Two Eyes) [October 5,
Boston, Massachusetts]
* Jodi: Max Payne Cheats Only [October 5, Chicago, Illinois]
* Opening Night: Filmmakers On the Edge - the Calarts Spirit [October 5,
Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema Dziga Vertov Entuziasm [October 5, NYC]
* Light From the Underground [October 6, Lawrence, Kansas]
* Forevermore: Biography of A Leach Lord [October 6, Los Angeles,
California]
* Three-Five People 2001 [October 6, Los Angeles, California]
* Illuminated Corridor: Mobility [October 6, Oakland, CA]
* Irit Batsry : RTrospective vidO (Sept22 -Oct.8) [October 6, Paris,
France]
* Argument - By Anthony Mccall and andrew Tyndall [October 7, Chicago,
Illinois]
* Light From the Underground [October 7, Lawrence, Kansas]
* Textures, Places, Memories [October 7, Los Angeles, California]
* (Post)Studio Artists [October 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Fun Animated Creatures [October 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Lines That Divide [October 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Walk On the Wild Side: Experiments In Animation [October 7, Los
Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema Dziga Vertov Three Songs About Lenin [October 7, NYC]
* Essential Cinema Dziga Vertov the Man With A Movie Camera [October 7,
NYC]
* The Great Divide [October 7, New York, New York]
* Saul Levine: Notes From the Underground [October 7, New York, New
York]
* ...Dissolves Into Air [October 7, New York, New York]
* Kenneth Anger [October 7, New York, New York]
* Irit Batsry : RTrospective vidO (Sept22 -Oct.8) [October 7, Paris,
France]
* Bryan Boyce's Cult Jams + Music videos + [October 7, San Francisco,
California]
* Gerard Malanga Introduces vinyl [October 7, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Gerard Malanga At Cinematheque Ontario [October 7, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada]
* Warhol - the Chelsea Girls At Cinematheque Ontario [October 7,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Light From the Underground [October 8, Lawrence, Kansas]
* (Re)Discovering the Work of Adam Beckett [October 8, Los Angeles,
California]
* Essential Cinema Dziga Vertov the Eleventh Year [October 8, NYC]
* Above and Below [October 8, New York, New York]
* Paolo Gioli [October 8, New York, New York]
* Ernie Gehr [October 8, New York, New York]
* Mind and Matter [October 8, New York, New York]
* Irit Batsry : RTrospective vidO (Sept22 -Oct.8) [October 8, Paris,
France]
* Films of Marie Menken [October 8, San Francisco, California]
* Toronto theatrical Premiere of Warhol's Empire! [October 8, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2006
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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
London, England: Candid Arts Trust
4pm, 3 Torrens St,
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR
Recent Works by Malcolm Le Grice and Diana Ford. For this screening we
bring together recent works by two artists who might be considered to
occupy diametrically opposite positions in their careers and in the
world, but whose work shares an formal materialist aesthetic ground, a
personal and particular exploratory approach. Malcolm Le Grice has
enjoyed a long career as one of the UK's most influential and prolific
experimental filmmakers. His influence as an artist, writer and academic
has had a far-reaching and long-lasting effect in the world of artists'
moving image. He continues to take an open and playful approach to his
experimental work in digital video media. Diana Ford is a young artist
from Perth, Australia, one of the most isolated cities on the planet.
Her work derives its impetus from subjective influences and situations
close to home, while her aesthetic sensibility is driven by curiosity
about the potential for moving image manipulation. Malcolm Le Grice:
Digital Aberration (4 min, video, 2004) Portraits and Particulars:
Critical Moments (for Jean Piaget) (1 min, video, 2004); Autumn Horizon
Number 3 (6 min, video, 2005); Unforgettable (that's what you are) (5
min, video, 2002-2005); Lecture to an Academy (10 min, video, 2005);
Anthony Dundee (2 min, video, 2006); Waiting for Ian (3 min, video,
2006); H2O-0C-24.02.06-12.01GMT - 03,50.40W - 50.16.30N (3 min, video,
2006); Denisined - Sinedenis (3 min, video, 2006); Finnegan Again (3
min, video, 2006); Of Keys and Beauty (2 min, video, 2006) Diana Ford:
Desertus (1 min, 16mm/video); Doco (1 min, 16mm/video); Edit (2
min,16mm/video); WW5 (2 min, 16mm/video); Iris (1 min, 16mm/video); Face
(1 min, 16mm/video); Mouse (3 min, 16mm/video); NT3D (1 min, video);
Objective (4 min, 16mm/video); Planet Cancer (1 min, video); Routine (1
min, 16mm/video); Something Bush (4 min, video).
10/1
Los Angeles: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
ILL 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 A The California Tour and A Trip Down Market 1905/2005, a
brand new sing-along, and Audience Analysis film.
10/1
NYC: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30, 32 second Ave
ESSENTIAL CINEMA DZIGA VERTOV A SIXTH OF THE WORLD
1926, 74 minutes. "The film drama is the Opium of the peopledown with
Bourgeois fairy-tale scenarioslong live life as it is!" D.V.
10/1
NYC: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00, 7:30, 32 second Ave
ESSENTIAL CINEMA - CARRIAGE TRADE
Warren Sonbert CARRIAGE TRADE 1973 version, 61 minutes. "My magnum opus.
Travels over four continents in six years." W.S. "With CARRIAGE TRADE,
Sonbert began to challenge the theories espoused by the great Soviet
filmmakers of the 1920s; he particularly disliked the 'knee-jerk'
reaction produced by Eisenstein montage. In both lectures and writings
about his own style of editing, Sonbert described CARRIAGE TRADE as 'a
jig-saw puzzle of postcards to produce varied displaced effects.' This
approach, according to Sonbert, ultimately affords the viewer
multi-faceted readings of the connections between shots through the
spectator's assimilation of 'the changing relations of the movement of
objects, the gestures of figures, familiar worldwide icons, rituals and
reactions, rhythm, spacing and density of images.'" Jon Gartenberg
10/1
NYC: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:15, 32 second Ave
ESSENTIAL CINEMA DZIGA VERTOV SHAGAI, SOVIET!
Dziga Vertov SHAGAI, SOVIET! 1925-26, 73 minutes.
10/1
Paris, France: Irit Batsry Studio
http://www.iritbatsry.com
17, Jeu de Paume
IRIT BATSRY : RTROSPECTIVE VIDO (SEPT22 -OCT.8)
LE JEU DE PAUME EN COLLABORATION AVEC LE FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE FILMS
DE FEMMES DE CRETEIL ET DHEURE EXQUISE !, PRSENTE LA PREMIRE
RTROSPECTIVE DES VIDOS D'IRIT BATSRY. programme :
iritbatsry.com/events/JDP_Prog.htm Artiste de renomme internationale,
Irit Batsry travaille principalement la vido et les installations,
ainsi que la photographie. Ses ouvres figurent dans des collections
prestigieuses, notamment celles du MoMA et du Whitney Museum New York.
Lintgralit de ses vidos (1981-2006) est programme au Jeu de paume,
du 22 septembre au 8 octobre 2006, en prsence de l'artiste. Cette
rtrospective permettra de suivre une ouvre qui explore la mmoire
collective et personnelle, qui sonde la manire dont le rel est
reprsent et transform au travers de notre perception, par la
technologie et par notre imagination. La rtrospective se droulera en 6
programmes de projections vido et de confrences THE JEU DE PAUME
PRESENTS IRIT BATSRYS FIRST VIDEOTAPES RETROSPECTIVE ORGANIZED IN
COLLABORATION WITH THE FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE FILMS DE FEMMES DE
CRETEIL AND HEURE EXQUISE ! Irit Batsry, is an artist of international
reknown working in video, installation and photography. Her work is in
prestigious institutional collections, such as those of the MoMA and the
Whitney Museum in New York and will be the subject of a video
retrospective (1981-2006) to take place at the Jeu de Paume in Paris
from September 23rd until October 8th, 2006. The artist will be present.
Irit Batsrys work evokes collective and personal memory and inquires
into the way reality is represented and transformed through our
perception, technology and imagination. The retrospective includes 6
programs of screenings and lectures: (Please note: all lectures are in
French and most videotapes are shown in their French Version). full
program : iritbatsry.com/events/JDP_Prog.htm
10/1
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
AVANT-GARDE FILM HISTORY: NOTES ON MARIE MENKEN
San Francisco Cinematheque @YBCA presents American Avant-Garde History:
Notes on Marie Menken by Martina Kudlcek. (2006, 97 minutes, Bay Area
premiere) Sunday, October 1, 7:30 pm $8 regular /$6 Cinematheque
members, students, seniors /$6 YBCA members Following her 2002
documentary, In the Mirror of Maya Deren, Martina Kudlcek's Notes on
Marie Menken continues her examination of the pioneers of avant-garde
filmmaking. Using personal interviews from with Menken's Stan Brakhage,
Peter Kubelka, Jonas Mekas, Kenneth Anger and others and fortuitous
archival footage of Menken and her milieu, including rare glimpses of
Andy Warhol, and an original score by John Zorn, Kudlacek reveals
Menken's creative life's work and affirms her powerful legacy to
avant-garde film history. Martina Kudlcek (In the Mirror of Maya Deren)
turns her archivist's eye and passion for the avant-garde to a less
publicly feted woman: Marie Menken, star of Chelsea Girls and pioneering
filmmaker in her own right. Notes on Marie Menken includes rare footage
of Menken and her milieu (Warhol, Gerard Malanga, husband Willard Maas)
as well as interviews with friends and colleagues Stan Brakhage, Jonas
Mekas, Kenneth Anger, and others. Revealing Menken's creative life,
Kudlcek affirms her powerful legacy to avant-garde film history.
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2006
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10/2
Portland, Oregon: 40 Frames
http://www.40frames.org
8PM, 425 SE 3rd #400
THE ALL-AROUND REDUCED PERSONALITY - OUTTAKES
The All-Around Reduced Personality - Outtakes (1977, black &
white/sound, 98 mins) by Helke Sander. Plays October 2nd and 3rd, 2006.
"Helke Sander presents the everyday life of her stressed heroine [played
by Sander's herself] with a great deal of irony and sympathy and just as
much remoteness. Because Edda's life is representative of that of most
modern women, she is a figure with whom the viewer could identify if the
director did not always carefully undermine any tendency towards
illusionism, be it through her comments, her citations from films and
literature, by inserting newspaper excerpts and radio broadcasts and
above all through the pictures of Berlin, the Wall, the refuse, the
piles of rubble and the graffiti. This women's film is simultaneously a
film about Berlin, a city that is torn asunder in the same way as the
heroine's life, a life in installments. In bits, yet complete. "Because
everything is complete and if you break it into parts, it will become
complete again, each part for itself" - a citation from the East German
author Thomas Brasch who emigrated to the west in 1976. Helke Sander
manages to combine the two parts of her film - the situation of the
wrecked city and the wrecked life of her heroine - in such a way as to
produce a dual portrait of great stringency and concentration, a
portrait in which the long sequences of ruined houses, refuse heaps and
the omnipresent Wall, the short, fast extracts from Edda's daily life
never make themselves independent, always remaining linked to one
another without the film losing its open experimental character."
(Annette Meyhofer)
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2006
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10/3
Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts College of Art
http://emulsionalchemy.org
8pm, Massachusetts College of Art Film Department
RETROSPECTIVE OF AVAILABLE WORK BY MARK LAPORE
Retrospective of Available Work by Mark Lapore Mass Art Film Society Two
Repeat Screenings October 3rd and 4th 2006, 8pm. Free to all. Donations
to buy prints of Mark Lapore's Work for the Mass Art Library will be
appreciated. Mass Art Film Society will present two retrospective
screenings of available work by beloved filmmaker and Massachusetts
College of Art Professor, Mark Lapore (1952-2005) on October 3rd and 4th
2006. The two repeat screenings will include the following works: The
Sleepers, The Glass System, Depression in the Bay of Bengal, The Five
Bad Elements, Kolkata, Untitled (for David Gatten) and possibly more.
The screenings are free to all and will begin at 8pm in the East
Building of Massachusetts College of Art, Screening Room 1. "Mark LaPore
- though deeply influenced by the practices of the Lumire 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 thenature of cultural flux
and reverie. He shot extensively in rural Sudan, Sri Lanka, New York,
Myanmar, India and Idaho." - Mark McElhatten THE GLASS SYSTEM 2000, 20
minutes, 16mm, color, sound. A DEPRESSION IN THE BAY OF BENGAL 1996, 28
minutes, 16mm, color, sound. THE FIVE BAD ELEMENTS 1997, 32 minutes,
16mm, b&w, sound. KOLKATA 2005, 35 minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound. UNTITLED
(FOR DAVID GATTEN) By Mark LaPore and Phil Solomon 2005, 5 minutes,
color, sound, digital video.
10/3
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd Street
SUZAN PITT'S SURREAL LANDSCAPES
Internationally acclaimed independent animator Suzan Pitt, who first
took the film world by storm in 1979 with the landmark short Asparagus,
is back with a new gem, El Doctor (2006, 35mm). Five years in the
making, this dark, visually stunning 23-minute film is entirely hand
painted by a small group of artists in Los Angeles and Mexico. A rare
and mind-altering animated painting, El Doctor features historic Mexican
music recordings. Also on the program: revival screenings of Asparagus
(20 min., 35mm) and Joy Street (1995, 24 min., 35mm), plus Persistence
of Vision (2006)a new documentary about Pitt's work by Blue and Laura
Kraning. In person: Suzan Pitt
10/3
Paris, France: Irit Batsry Studio
http://www.iritbatsry.com
17 h, Jeu de Paume
IRIT BATSRY : RTROSPECTIVE VIDO (SEPT22 -OCT.8)
LE JEU DE PAUME EN COLLABORATION AVEC LE FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE FILMS
DE FEMMES DE CRETEIL ET DHEURE EXQUISE !, PRSENTE LA PREMIRE
RTROSPECTIVE DES VIDOS D'IRIT BATSRY. programme :
iritbatsry.com/events/JDP_Prog.htm Artiste de renomme internationale,
Irit Batsry travaille principalement la vido et les installations,
ainsi que la photographie. Ses ouvres figurent dans des collections
prestigieuses, notamment celles du MoMA et du Whitney Museum New York.
Lintgralit de ses vidos (1981-2006) est programme au Jeu de paume,
du 22 septembre au 8 octobre 2006, en prsence de l'artiste. Cette
rtrospective permettra de suivre une ouvre qui explore la mmoire
collective et personnelle, qui sonde la manire dont le rel est
reprsent et transform au travers de notre perception, par la
technologie et par notre imagination. La rtrospective se droulera en 6
programmes de projections vido et de confrences THE JEU DE PAUME
PRESENTS IRIT BATSRYS FIRST VIDEOTAPES RETROSPECTIVE ORGANIZED IN
COLLABORATION WITH THE FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE FILMS DE FEMMES DE
CRETEIL AND HEURE EXQUISE ! Irit Batsry, is an artist of international
reknown working in video, installation and photography. Her work is in
prestigious institutional collections, such as those of the MoMA and the
Whitney Museum in New York and will be the subject of a video
retrospective (1981-2006) to take place at the Jeu de Paume in Paris
from September 23rd until October 8th, 2006. The artist will be present.
Irit Batsrys work evokes collective and personal memory and inquires
into the way reality is represented and transformed through our
perception, technology and imagination. The retrospective includes 6
programs of screenings and lectures: (Please note: all lectures are in
French and most videotapes are shown in their French Version). full
program : iritbatsry.com/events/JDP_Prog.htm
10/3
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright college
KUCHAR BROTHERS 8MMS: MIKE KUCHAR IN-PERSON
Underground film legend, MIKE KUCHAR, (NYC) will present a program of
rarely seen 8mm (printed to 16mm preservation prints by Anthology Film
Archives, with the support of the National Film Preservation Foundation,
The Film Foundation and Cineric Inc.) comic masterworks that he created
along with his twin brother GEORGE KUCHAR in the late '50's and early
'60's. The Thief and the Stripper (1959, 25 min., 8mm to 16mm) -Three
years to complete It dares to lay bare the naked carcass of a
generation gone mad with moral decay. An early film, depicting today's
youth raw and brutal." G.K.; A Town Called Tempest (1963, 33 min.,
8mm to 16mm)- Rarely has the cinema equaled such spectacle! Seldom have
movies probed so deeply in the rotten core of hypocrisy and weakness!
"What happened that afternoon that left a town in shambles, its people
in search of God?" G.K. Night of the Bomb (1962, 18 min., 8mm to 16mm)
- Teenage lust and deranged delinquence combine to create a cautionary
tale for the ages. The Chernobyl of Comedy! Anita Needs Me (1963, 16
min., 8mm to 16mm) -"All the horrors and guilt of the human mind
exposed! It reaches deep into the workings of a woman's cravings. Your
emotions will be squeezed." G.K. I Was a Teenage Rumpot (1960, 10
min., 8mm to 16mm)- A documentary about people like you and me, people
with a zest for life."- G.K.
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2006
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10/4
Liverpool, UK: FACT, Liverpool
http://www.fact.co.uk
6.30pm, FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ, England
HALF LIFE
Curated by James Harding as part of FACT's experimental and adventurous
film programme SEEN - 'Half Life' brings together a selection of artists
film & video which reflect the production of energy and its expenditure
within city spaces. Mark Aerial Waller's Glowboys (1999) is a surreal
take on nuclear power production and its effect on workers and the
surrounding environment. The title refers to the nickname given to the
contract employees who would willingly risk greater exposure to
radiation. Uranium Hex (1988) by Sandra Lahire examines uranium mining
in Canada with a particular focus on the women who work there and the
debilitating effects on health. Siegfried A. Fruhauf's La Sortie (1998)
takes inspiration from the pioneering Lumire Brothers film - Workers
Leaving a Factory first shown in 1894. Through abstract montage the film
creates an accelerating pace of visual energy culminating in an evitable
breakdown. In stark black and white and colour super 8 film, Matt
Hulse's elaborate animation Half Life (2004) portrays an imaginary
dystopian office environment in which workers are subjected to gruelling
routines amidst an atmosphere of arbitrary surges of energy. Nightwork
(1998) by Miranda Pennell contrasts the hyper-real surface appearance of
life in the office with the dark interior voices of the people who work
there. In the Vasulka's video - In the Land of the Elevator Girls (1981)
Japanese elevator girls take the viewer on a ride to the various floors
of a department store. On arrival the doors open to reveal an assortment
of digitally manipulated landscapes on the other side. Carola Dertnig
made A Room with a View in the Financial District (2002) whilst on an
artist's residency at the World Trade Centre in New York in June 2001.
Working in abandoned offices high up in both towers she discovered the
debris of dot.com failure, the remains of meetings,lunches and coffee
breaks. Programme: 1. MARK AERIAL WALLER - GLOW BOYS, UK, 1999, 14 mins,
video 2. SANDRA LAHIRE - URANIUM HEX, UK, 1988, 11 mins, video 3.
SIEGFRIED A. FRUHAUF - LA SORTIE, AUSTRIA, 1998, 6 mins, 16mm 4. MATT
HULSE - HALF LIFE, UK, 2004, 6 mins, video 5. MIRANDA PENNELL - NIGHT
WORK, UK, 1998, 14 mins, video 6. STEINA & WOODY VASULKA - IN THE LAND
OF THE ELEVATOR GIRLS, USA, 1981, 10 mins, video 7. CAROLA DERTNIG - A
ROOM WITH A VIEW IN THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT, 2002, 5 mins, video Total
Programme Length: 66 mins. 'Supported by a grant from Arts Council
England'
10/4
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Academy Linwood Dunn Theatre, 1313 North Vine Street, Hollywood
MAGIC LANTERNS AND THE EVOLUTION OF FILM NARRATIVE
Note different day, time, and place! At the Academy of Motion Pictures
Arts & Sciences. Presented by David Francis of the Library of Congress
and Joss Marsh, professor of Victorian Studies and Indiana University,
in cooperation with Los Angeles Filmforum
http://www.oscars.org/events/magic_lanterns/index.html Mixing historical
commentary with period showmanship using an original triunial
(three-level) lantern, presenters David Francis and Joss Marsh trace the
origin and development of those dreams in the context of the cartoons,
illustrated books, narrative paintings (a peculiarly English genre) and
other visual art forms of the period. The program particularly
highlights the importance of Charles Dickens and Victorian temperance
propaganda to both lanternists' storytelling and the early development
of narrative film.
10/4
NYC: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 second Ave
SCREENING ROOM THEN AND NOW WITH ROBERT GARDNER AND JONAS MEKAS
SCREENING ROOM THEN AND NOW WITH ROBERT GARDNER AND JONAS MEKAS
SCREENING ROOM was a 1970s Boston television series that for almost ten
years offered independent filmmakers a chance to show and discuss their
work on a commercial (ABC-TV) affiliate station. The series was
developed and hosted by filmmaker Robert Gardner, whose films include
DEAD BIRDS (1964), RIVERS OF SAND (1972) and FOREST OF BLISS (1986).
This unique program dealt even-handedly with animation, documentary, and
experimental film, welcoming such artists as Jan Lenica, John and Faith
Hubley, Jean Rouch, Ricky Leacock, Robert Breer, Les Blank, Peter
Hutton, Caroline Leaf, Mary Beams and many others. Recently, The Museum
of TV and Radio in New York City transferred the two-inch video masters
of the original programs, nearly 100 of which were produced during the
series' run, and they are currently being edited for DVD release.
Co-presented by the New York Film/Video Council. On October 12, 1981,
Jonas Mekas visited SCREENING ROOM. On this historic program, Mekas
screened work by Stan Brakhage, Joseph Cornell, Maya Deren and others,
as well as excerpts from his film, PARADISE NOT YET LOST. He also
discussed his efforts to establish a new location for Anthology Film
Archives, showing a picture of the former courthouse which would become
home to AFA. Jonas Mekas, Robert Gardner and other special guests will
be present to revisit the series. Preceded by a reception at 6:30.
10/4
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
9:30pm, Cable Car Cinema, 204 S Main St.
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 conjoin 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: CINEMMMMMMMMA... 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
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2006
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10/5
Barcelona, Spain: Museo Joan Abello
http://www.museuabello.com/esp/aparador_mercealsina_esp.html
10 - 23:30, C/ Berenguer III, 122 08100 Mollet del Valls
THE ECHOING WALL
As it couldn't be any other way, the Aparador, and its singular
characteristics as a space and its artistic orientation, has been the
instigator of a series of concepts that have given shape to the project
Confluences in an interval or Maps of Remembrance that will be developed
in a cycle of 12 interventions until summer 2007. This inaugural
Aparador is a door that opens. In thins sense you can visualize some of
the frame ideas from which the invited artists are working. I didn't
want to make it obvious that this project is developed in Mollet. And
for that matter the references to the urban weaving and to the lines of
confluences have been inspired by Mollet's own city structure. Neither
have I intended to make it obvious that the Aparador is part of the
Museu Abell and in some way I was also inspired by the fascination for
the generating of discourses that can be found in the Abell's
collection. All the subjective constructions feed, and feed themselves,
of the collective constructions. Any kind of maps, be it personal,
emotional, intellectual or of experience, drink from the most
unsuspected wells. Even fate could incise them in a determined manner.
The fact that the projects that will be received in the Aparador are
generated in different places ( Barcelona, Lleida, London, Berlin,
Vienna..) Situate us in dynamics that are parallel and complementary to
ours. Therefore I think the street, of which the Aparador is a reverse
window, is part of a collective space to which all of us are called,
precisely because a convocation isn't necessary. It became an open and
free space. So the project, that is executed by individuals that fate
calls to participate in, has sense from the moment it is used from the
street. The Aparador is thus the interval. Because of this, the Aparador
in the street contributes with its elements to configurate an identity
laboratory where we generate our interdependences. We, you, construct
and deconstruct, codify and decode, and that way we establish between us
a not always obvious bond, that is our passing by this space. Some of
the artists that will participate in this cycle are the following:
Albert Bayona, Luis Bisbe, Juan delGado, Christiane Forstnig, Katrin
Korfmann, Enric Maur or Consol Rodrguez..
10/5
Boston, Massachusetts: Balagan Experimental Film/Video Series
http://www.coolidge.org/balagan/
7:30PM, Coolidge Corner Theatre - 290 Harvard St. Brookline, MA
AVI MOGRABI IN PERSON (AVENGE BUT ONE OF MY TWO EYES)
Balagan is thrilled to present the Boston Premiere of Israeli filmmaker
Avi Mograbi's powerful documentary AVENGE BUT ONE OF MY TWO EYES.
Inspired by the legendary myths of Samson and Massada, Avenge is a wry,
provocative and mournful documentary on present-day Israel that ponders
the relationship between the Jewish struggle for freedom and the
Palestinian resistance - a struggle played out most dramatically in the
two intifadas, the second of which is still ongoing.
10/5
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
6:00 pm, 164 N. State Street
JODI: MAX PAYNE CHEATS ONLY
JODI in person! Digital provocateurs JODI (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk
Paesmans) pioneered Web art in the mid-'90s, upending the conventions of
the emerging medium to create anarchic programs that simulated computer
crashes, viruses, and error messages. The duo has wrought similar havoc
on computer programs and video games, radically disrupting the language
of these systemsincluding interfaces, commands, errors, and codeto
subvert the relationship between computer technology and its users.
Tonight, in a rare public appearance, JODI will demonstrate their latest
game modifications, MAX PAYNE CHEATS ONLY (2005,
http://maxpaynecheatsonly.jodi.org/), a series of "cheats" the duo
compiled from the ultra-violent New York vigilante game Max Payne, along
with their ground-breaking modifications of the game Quake 1, UNTITLED
GAME (1996-2001), id Software's game Wolfenstein 3D, SOD (1999,
http://sod.jodi.org/), and the early '80s game Jet Set Willy, JET SET
WILLY VARIATIONS 1984 (2002, http://jetsetwilly.jodi.org/).
Co-presented by CATE, SAIC's Visiting Artist Program, and the Department
of Interactive Arts & Media at Columbia College Chicago. (1996-2005,
Netherlands, various formats, ca. 60 min.)
10/5
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
OPENING NIGHT: FILMMAKERS ON THE EDGE - THE CALARTS SPIRIT
FRAGMENTS FROM A LOVER'S DISCOURSE Highlights from The Museum of Modern
Art's Tomorrowland: CalArts in Motion Pictures REDCAT: OCTOBER 5-8
(THURSDAY-SUNDAY) Drawing from the sweeping array of film, video and
animation featured in MoMA's blockbuster retrospective in New York
earlier this year, this unique four-day program offers Los Angeles
filmgoers a rich panorama of some of the most innovative and
artistically daring work made at the California Institute of the Arts
over the past 35 years. Opening Night: Filmmakers on the Edge - the
CalArts Spirit An exciting sample of 9 films and videos (1974-2006),
including: NY Shuffle. 1983. James Mangold. The director of Walk the
Line and Heavy interprets a song by Graham Parker and the Rumor. 5 min.
Wormholes. 1993. Stephen Hillenburg. A fly's-eye view of Relativityland
by the creator of Spongebob Squarepants. 7 min. Rick and Steve: The
Happiest Gay Couple in All the World. 2000. Q. Allan Brocka. An
outrageous sitcom, told with Playmobile figures, about America's
favorite boy-toys. 8 min. The Mom Tapes. 1974-75. Ilene Segalove.
Groundbreaking videos that parody the pleasures and terrors of a Beverly
Hills adolescence. 10 min. Ciao Bella or Fuck Me Dead. 1978. Betzy
Bromberg. "Manic exhibitionism and sexual raunch" (J. Hoberman) in late
1970s New York. 13 min. TRT: 114 min
10/5
NYC: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 second Ave
ESSENTIAL CINEMA DZIGA VERTOV ENTUZIASM
Dziga Vertov ENTUZIASM 1931, 68 minutes.
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