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Date: Sat Oct 07 2006 - 06:29:21 PDT
This week [October 7 - 15, 2006] in avant garde cinema
(part 2 of 2)
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2006
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10/13
Hollywood, CA : world premiere "THE TRIPPER"
http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=118864
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, 6801 Hollywood Blvd.
WORLD PREMIERE "THE TRIPPER"
SCREAMFEST 2006 HORROR FILM FESTIVAL world premiere Directed by David
Arquette THE TRIPPER, which is a bloody political satire, revolves
around a group of friends who escape to a modern-day Woodstock concert
for a weekend of debauchery, only to be stalked by a fanatical killer
determined to finish what he started years earlier. The film stars Jamie
King (Sin City), Thomas Jane (The Punisher), Lukas Haas (Alpha Dog),
Jason Mewes (Clerks), Balthazar Getty (Feast), Paul Reubens (Pee-Wee's
Big Adventure, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Brad Hunt (2005 Screamfest
winner for Best Actor in COOKERS). Also with cameos from David Arquette
(Scream), Courteney Cox (Scream)and many more. Running Time - 90mins
Grauman Mann's Chinese 6 6801 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90028
Friday, Oct. 13, 2006 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=118864
10/13
London, England: The Artists' Cinema at the Frieze Art Far
http://www.friezeartfair.com
5pm, Frieze Art Fair, Regents Park, NW1
NOTHING IN COMMON: 40 YEARS OF THE LONDON FILM-MAKERS' CO-OPERATIVE
The London Film-Makers' Co-operative (LFMC) was established 40 years ago
today, on 13 October 1966. An artist-led project, it incorporated a
distribution collection, screening room and film workshop. It grew from
an informal film society into one of the major international centres of
avant-garde cinema and its films form the basis of the current LUX
collection. Many LFMC filmmakers experimented with projection
techniques, creating expanded cinema performances, installations and
multi-screen films, with artists such as Malcolm Le Grice prefiguring
much contemporary practice with his remarkable body of work. In Castle
One, made from scraps of footage found outside commercial film labs, a
photoflood light bulb is hung directly in front of the screen and
flashed intermittently during projection, bleaching out the image,
illuminating the screening room and breaking down the relationship
between film and audience. Gill Eatherley's Aperture Sweep, from her
'Light Occupations' series of film related activities, is a double
screen performance in which Eatherley, armed with a broom (amplified to
be both seen and heard), appears to sweep the screen clean for future
projections. Both pieces attempt a kind of erasure of the onscreen
image, conceptually and physically challenging the roles of maker and
spectator. CASTLE ONE (Malcolm Le Grice, UK 1966, 16mm/performance, 20
mins) APERTURE SWEEP (Gill Eatherley, UK 1973, 16mm/performance, 10
mins) 'Nothing in Common' is a special presentation of The Artists
Cinema, curated by Mark Webber.
10/13
NYC: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 , 32 second Ave
ROBERT GARDNER'S SCREENING ROOM WITH HOLLIS FRAMPTON
1977, 74 minutes, video. 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. In January 1977, Hollis Frampton appeared on
SCREENING ROOM to discuss his work and screen LEMON, PAS DE TROIS,
excerpts from MAXWELL'S DEMON, SURFACE TENSION and CRITICAL MASS, as
well as footage from what ultimately became MAGELLAN.
10/13
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
10:15 p.m., Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street West (entrance off McCaul St.)
TORONTO PREMIERE OF WARHOL'S IMITATION OF CHRIST AT CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO
TORONTO PREMIERE! IMITATION OF CHRIST Director: Andy Warhol. USA,
1967-69, 89 minutes. Cast: Patrick Tilden, Andrea Feldman, Bridget Polk,
Nico, Ondine. Ostensibly based on one of the most widely read Christian
spiritual books in existence (Imitation of Christ or De imitatione
Christi by Thomas à Kempis, first published in 1418), Warhol's IMITATION
OF CHRIST is commonly referred to as his "last art movie" (Stephen
Koch). Originally screened as an eight hour segment from the monolithic
and mythologized twenty-five hour **** (or FOUR STARS), only this
ninety-minute version has survived, though Jonas Mekas, who wrote of it
while first attempting to compile a Warhol filmography, initially
thought it to be lost: "One of the great works, and I doubt that it
exists." Fortunately for us, it does. Shot in moody, saturated filtered
blues and reds, IMITATION OF CHRIST is an unlikely domestic comedy
starring "Superstar" Patrick Tilden who seeks solace from his badgering
parents, played by Ondine and Bridget Polk, his tormenting,
speed-freaking girlfriend, Andrea "Whips" Feldman, and the seductive
advances of his prying, Teutonic maid played by Nico. IMITATION OF
CHRIST is also one of the finest examples of Warhol's use of the strobe
cut. All Cinematheque Ontario screenings are held at the Art Gallery of
Ontario's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas St. West, Toronto (McCaul Street
entrance). Members: $6.00, Student Members: $5.50, Seniors: $5.50,
Non-members: $10.10. All screenings are restricted to individuals 18
years of age or older. For more information, visit the Official website,
www.bell.ca/cinematheque, the year-round Box Office at Manulife Centre
(55 Bloor Street West, main floor, north entrance), or call
416-968-FILM.
10/13
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
8:45 p.m., Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street West (entrance off McCaul St.)
WARHOL'S MY HUSTLER AT CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO
MY HUSTLER Director: Andy Warhol, Charles Wein. USA, 1965, 67 minutes.
Cast: Paul America, Ed Hood, John MacDermott, Genevieve Charbon. This
peephole diptych is a classic of gay cinema, and a precursor to the
Warhol/Morrissey sexploitation films. Like POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL, MY
HUSTLER consists of two equal reels of 16mm, which Warhol employs as an
inspired narrative device. Paul America plays the not-so-obscure object
of desire, a naïve, hunky sunshine boy whose sun tanning becomes the
main show for three bickering friends watching him from a beachfront
home on Fire Island. Ed Hood is all camp as the bourgeois queen who
discovered the blond wonder through Dial-a-Hustler and desperately seeks
to fend off the lascivious intentions of his "fag hag" neighbour,
Genevieve, and those of the "Sugar Plum Fairy," a hardened hustler.
Inside jokes abound in this semi-scripted, semi-improvised predatory
gabfest (when remarking upon America's peroxide blond hair, Genevieve
observes that he has a "47th St. wash"). "[T]he second section is a
small miracle" (Parker Tyler) taking place in a tiny bathroom where the
primping and preening replace the characters' voyeurism with that of the
audience. All Cinematheque Ontario screenings are held at the Art
Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas St. West, Toronto (McCaul
Street entrance). Members: $6.00, Student Members: $5.50, Seniors:
$5.50, Non-members: $10.10. All screenings are restricted to individuals
18 years of age or older. For more information, visit the Official
website, www.bell.ca/cinematheque, the year-round Box Office at Manulife
Centre (55 Bloor Street West, main floor, north entrance), or call
416-968-FILM.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2006
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10/14
Hull, United Kingdom: Hull Art Lab
http://www.hullartlab.org
7.30, Hull Screen, University of Lincoln, George Street, Hull HU1 3BW
BEFORE THE EYES
A programme of films by artists who have explored the connections
between light, space and time. Through the use of metaphor, abstraction
and visual poetry, the impact of science on perceptions of the world
become revealed. Before the Eyes was curated and presented by Rob
Gawthrop of Hull Art Lab as part of Incandescent. Erth John Latham (GB)
1971 25min From outer space to the centre of the world, in which
consciousness is revealed as sedimented history. Distant views of the
approaching Earth punctuated by black and silence and light years are
compressed into a cosmic imaginary. Transit of Venus Nicky Hamlyn (GB)
2005 2min A time lapse record of when Venus passed across the Sun
contextualized with data detailing the various technical parameters
which determined the peculiarity of the image. Uranium Hex Sandra Lahire
(GB) 1988 11min "Uranium Hex" is a pointillist Geiger-counter crackle of
visuals that deploys a number of experimental techniques to find an
image for the radioactivity that slips unseen into the air. - Steven
Bode. Un-fit Jo Pearson GB 1992 1min Originally shown as an interruption
on BBC2's Late Show FIN Silvia Kirchhof and Andreas Tröger (Ger) 1994
14min A kaleidoscopic video collage based on Paul Virilio's theories
regarding how the human race is victimised by its forced progress
through the phenomenon and destructive power of acceleration. (break) As
Seen Through A Telescope George Albert Smith (GB) 1900 1min Voyeuristic
uses for a piece of optical apparatus. La Peine Du Talion (Tit for Tat)
Gaston Velle & Albert Capellani (Fr) 1906 A spectacularly hand-tinted
film of butterflies exerting revenge on a collector. 3 min The Very Eye
of Night Maya Deren (USA) 1959 A celestial dance made entirely in the
negative. 15min Seven Days Chris Welsby (GB) 1974 The camera's shadow
(when sunny) alternating with shots of the sky (when cloudy). Filmed
over one week by a stream in Wales using an astronomical device and
time-lapse photography. 4mins Free Radicals Len Lye (NZ) 1958,
recomposed 1979 4min Made without a camera by scratching directly on
black emulsion Free Radicals is a celebration of energy. Ray Gun Virus
Paul Sharits (USA) 1966 14min A stroboscopic imageless film of
extraordinary intensity. 'With films like Ray Gun Virus, LSD may become
obsolete.' MOMA [Please note that this film is not suitable for people
adversely affected by flashing lights.]
10/14
NYC: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00, 32 second Ave
ROBERT GARDNER'S SCREENING ROOM WITH YVONNE RAINER
1977, 74 minutes, video. 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. In March 1977, Yvonne Rainer appeared on SCREENING
ROOM with film scholar and author Deac Rossell, to screen and discuss
excerpts from her film KRISTINA TALKING PICTURES.
10/14
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia
BOYCE + PEñUELA + PAPERRAD +
In two blocks of eye-poppin' cathode-fucks, OC has invited the Bay
Area's leading exponents of exploratory image-processing. Anchoring the
program is mash-up superhero Nate Boyce, an avatar of the analog video
synthesizer. In the hour ramping up to his live A/V performance, Nate
shares his early influences from the '60s, '70s, and '80s: Paul Sharits,
Stan Vanderbeek, Tom Dewitt, Ernie Gusello, Vivica Sorensen, Ed
Emschwiller, Takeshi Murata, the Vasulkas, and more. For the half-hr.
set following intermission, the promising progenitor of Television for
Ghosts, Shalo Peñuela, similarly embeds his own work within a field of
contemporary cyberdelic practitioners: PaperRad, Forcefield, Johnny
Rogers, and others. Psychonauts prepare for retinal overload with our
gallery's new video projector!
10/14
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
10:30 p.m., Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street West (entrance off McCaul St.)
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO: A SYMPHONY OF SOUND AT CINEMATHEQUE
ONTARIO
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO: A SYMPHONY OF SOUND Director: Andy
Warhol. USA, 1966, 67 minutes. Cast: Lou Reed, Nico, John Cale, NYPD.
Eternally chic, this electrifying time capsule from 1966 has become a
classic of the music documentary genre and "remains the single best
visual record of the Velvet Underground" (Victor Bockris), the Factory's
house band. With Nico, statuesque and spacey, perched on a stool playing
the tambourine and shakers and her Underground mates semi-circling
behind her, this two-reeler captures an intimate extended jam session,
which veers off into psychedelia. Warhol responds to the music with
increasingly erratic wild zooming, disturbing their trance-like
melodies, until a real-life intrusion puts an abrupt end to the
inexhaustible session. Following up on a noise disturbance call, the
NYPD show up at the Factory to investigate the scene and Warhol
naturally kept the camera rolling. All Cinematheque Ontario screenings
are held at the Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas St.
West, Toronto (McCaul Street entrance). Members: $6.00, Student Members:
$5.50, Seniors: $5.50, Non-members: $10.10. All screenings are
restricted to individuals 18 years of age or older. For more
information, visit the Official website, www.bell.ca/cinematheque, the
year-round Box Office at Manulife Centre (55 Bloor Street West, main
floor, north entrance), or call 416-968-FILM.
10/14
Vancouver, British Columbia: free curator
7:30, pacifique cinematheque Vancouver
NEW GHOST ENTERTAINMENT ENTITLED
This is my program in vancouver on oct. 14th. NEW GHOST ENTERTAINMENT
ENTITLED http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/sept_oct_06/orgallery.html
HANDTINTING by Joyce Wieland, DREAM DOCUMENTARY by Fred Marx and PERFECT
FILM by ken Jacobs (all on 16mm) FROM MORN TILL MIDNIGHT / VON MORGENS
BIS MITTERNACHT (by Karlheinz Martin, after the play by Georg Kaiser,
with Erna Morena and Ernst Deutsch) A rarely seen 1920 expressionist
film shown on DVD, coming from the munich filmmuseum, which also did the
restauration of the film. The german intertitles will be translated And
the music is selected by Julian Göthe, Berlin Please also feel yourself
invited to the or-gallery's opening on Friday oct.13!
http://www.orgallery.org/upcoming.htm --
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2006
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10/15
Hoboken, NJ 07030: Urban Image
http://www.urbanimageshowcase.org
4:30 PM, Hoboken Historical Museum, 1301 Hudson Street
MEMOIR
MEMOIR, a showcase of short films and video works by NJ City University
students and alumni curated by URBAN IMAGE, a collective of media
artists based at the University, will screen on Sunday, October 15th,
2006 at the Hoboken Historical Museum, 1301 Hudson Street, Hoboken, NJ,
in conjunction with the 25th Annual Hoboken Artist Studio Tour. The
suggested donation for this event at the Hoboken Historical Museum is
$5.00. Free parking is available at the IN PARK parking garage at the
corner of 12th Street and Shipyard Lane in Hoboken. MEMOIR which
features personal stories, portraits, and biographical sketches produced
and directed by NJ City University Media Arts majors and alumni, will
begin with a reception at 4:00PM. Following opening remarks by Jane
Steuerwald, professor of media arts and program coordinator, the
screenings will begin at 4:30 PM. A question and answer session with the
artists will follow the screening. Program to include: My Urban Images
by Daniel Rose, People Pretending To Be Me by Steven Dressler, Doubting
Teri by Teri Clarke, The Infinite Possibilities of the Future by Michael
Difeo, Memorial by Elizabeth Jane Cavanagh, Bereavement by Louis Libitz,
Mother by Melissa Polin, Handsome by Summer Wosu, and I Am Me by Keith
Bracker.
10/15
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
RARE FILMS BY BRUCE BAILLIE: THE CANYON CINEMANEWS YEARS
San Francisco Cinematheque @YBCA presents Bruce Baillie: The Canyon
CinemaNews Years, Bruce Baillie In Person Sunday, October 22, 7:30 pm $8
regular /$6 Cinematheque members, students, seniors /$6 YBCA members If
any artist has succeeded in portraying the beauty and cruelty of San
Francisco, it is Bruce Baillie. In his marvelous first film, On Sundays,
and the later Mass for the Dakota Sioux, Baillie evokes the city and its
human and physical landscapes in the early sixties. Mournful rather than
celebratory, revealing idiosyncratic details rather than clichéd sites,
Baillie's films include elliptical narrative elements as they weave
images and sounds into exquisite city sonatas. We also screen several
early CinemaNews works by Baillie with Friends: Mr. Hayashi, Here I am,
The Gymnasts, and Termination
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