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Date: Sat Oct 14 2006 - 21:33:05 PDT
This week [October 15 - 22, 2006] in avant garde cinema
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JOB AVAILABLE:
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Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design
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University of Colorao, Denver
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FUNDING:
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conflict zone film fund
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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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Magmart Festival (Naples, Italy; Deadline: October 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=628.ann
Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival (Portland, Oregon;
Deadline: December 15, 2006)
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Asbury Shorts of New York 2007 (New York, NY USA; Deadline: December 20, 2006)
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Flatpack Festival (Birmingham, UK; Deadline: December 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=631.ann
Single Reel Film & Video Festival (New York, NY, USA; Deadline: December
01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=632.ann
Magmart | video under volcano (Naples, Italy; Deadline: December 31, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=633.ann
Dereel Independent Film Festival (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Deadline:
February 03, 2007)
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Research Spaces III: Topos - The Moving Image between Art and Architecture
(London, UK; Deadline: October 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=635.ann
ZEMOS98 (Sevilla, Spain; Deadline: November 01, 2006)
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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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Videologia (Volgograd, Russia; Deadline: November 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=592.ann
OpenLens Festival (Eugene, Oregon; Deadline: October 27, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=614.ann
The Journal of Short Film (DVD) (Columbus, OH, USA; Deadline: November 08,
2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=615.ann
Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, CANADA; Deadline: November 17, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=616.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
CinemaJAZZ Jam (Kansas City, MO USA; Deadline: October 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=621.ann
Kansas City Film Jubilee (Kansas City, MO USA; Deadline: October 15, 2006)
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Omaha Film Festival (Omaha, Ne, USA; Deadline: November 08, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=626.ann
Adelaide Film Festival (Adelaide, Sth Aust Australia; Deadline: October 16,
2006)
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Research Spaces III: Topos - The Moving Image between Art and Architecture
(London, UK; Deadline: October 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=635.ann
ZEMOS98 (Sevilla, Spain; Deadline: November 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=636.ann
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 11201/11211 [October 15, Brooklyn, New York]
* Memoir [October 15, Hoboken, NJ 07030]
* Rare Films By Bruce Baillie: the Canyon Cinemanews Years [October 15,
San Francisco, California]
* Therefore I Live, Part 2: In the Garden of Film [October 16, Atlanta,
Georgia]
* Re-Animation: An Evening With Lewis Klahr [October 16, Los Angeles,
California]
* The Walking Picture Palace: Films By Stephanie Barber [October 17, New
York, New York]
* The Free Screen - Carl Brown In Person! [October 18, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada]
* Rocky Mountain Twilight - Wpa\C Experimental Media Series 2 - Night 2
[October 18, Washington, DC]
* Akram Zaatari: This Day [October 19, Chicago, Illinois]
* Piss Fest! [October 19, Portland, Oregon]
* Ata Film and video Festival [October 19, San Francisco, California]
* Split Pillow Showcase: Soulmaid [October 20, Chicago, Illinois]
* Split Pillow Showcase: Soulmaid [October 21, Chicago, Illinois]
* Package Deals Presents...The Field Guide To North America: A Comparative
Survey [October 21, Reykjavik, Iceland]
* Ed Halter's Future Combat Systems [October 21, San Francisco, California]
* Split Pillow Showcase: Soulmaid [October 22, Chicago, Illinois]
* New York Experimental: the Work of Chiaki Watanabe 2002-2006 [October
22, New York, New York]
* Thread, Frame, and Flicker: Recent 16mm Films [October 22, San
Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2006
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10/15
Brooklyn, New York: dumba collective
http://www.moiratierney.net
7pm, ground floor, 57 jay st
11201/11211
Sunday Oct 15 7pm 11201/11211 Super-8mm film by Moira Tierney with live
music by Guillaume Laurent, Rajeev Maddela & Dave Millen at the Dumba
Collective ground floor, 57 Jay St (between Front and Water) 718-8756420
F train to York St free! (Friday October 13th - Sunday October 14th
D.U.M.B.A. IS OPEN
art/community/lust/rage/music/performance/activism/love)
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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MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2006
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10/16
Atlanta, Georgia: Eyedrum
http://www.eyedrum.org
8:00 pm, 290 Martin Luther King Jr Dr Suite 8
THEREFORE I LIVE, PART 2: IN THE GARDEN OF FILM
Therefore I Live: Home Movies, Personal Cinema, and the Avant-Garde.
Part 2, In the Garden of Film *** The garden as sanctuary. Home as the
place of private life, the family, and sexuality. Home as the Garden of
Eden, and the body as home. The body of film: film as a physical object,
the filmstrip as home of the image. Home movies as art, and art films
made from (and in) the artist's home. *** We begin with Marie Menken's
ecstatic, handheld Glimpse of the Garden. Rose Lowder's film of a field
of sunflowers is painstakingly photographed frame by frame. Lowder
changes the focus in between each frame, creating an atmosphere of
shimmering movement without moving the camera. Stan Brakhage's garden
film reprises his famous Mothlight, through the application of leaves,
seeds and other organic material directly onto the filmstrip. *** Two
groundbreaking body films - Willard Maas and Marie Menken's poetic study
of the human form and Stan Brakhage's kinetic film of two friends making
love - are followed by Carolee Schneemann's landmark film Fuses. For
Fuses, Schneemann and her partner filmed their lovemaking over many
months, then Schneemann subjected the filmstrip to a variety of
processes: handpainting and etching, bleaching, baking, hanging the
filmstrips in lightning and rain. The result is an intense exploration
of physicality, and one of the most visually sumptuous films of the
1960s. *** We end the screening with Colorado filmmaker Frank
Biesendorfer's gorgeously filmed record of domestic life, sexuality, and
family travels - multiple superimposed layers revealing the beauty in
the everyday. *** Marie Menken, Glimpse of the Garden (1957), 16mm,
color, silent, 5 minutes; Rose Lowder, Les Tournesols (1982), 16mm,
color, silent, 3 minutes; Stan Brakhage, The Garden of Earthly Delights
(1981), 16mm, color, silent, 2 minutes; Willard Maas/Marie Menken,
Geography of the Body (1943), 16mm, black & white, sound, 7 minutes;
Stan Brakhage, Loving (1956), 16mm, color, silent, 4 minutes (new
print!); Carolee Schneemann, Fuses (1967), 16mm, color, silent, 23
minutes; Pip Chodorov, End Memory (Nocturne) (1995), 16mm, color, sound,
5 minutes; Frank Biesendorfer, Little B and MBT (2004), 16mm, color,
sound, 28 minutes *** In the Garden of Film is dedicated to Scott
MacDonald, historian, scholar and chronicler of experimental film, in
gratitude for his writings and inspiration. *** THEREFORE I LIVE is a
Film Love event, programmed and hosted by Andy Ditzler for Atlanta
Celebrates Photography and Frequent Small Meals.
10/16
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd Street
RE-ANIMATION: AN EVENING WITH LEWIS KLAHR
Los Angeles premieres Independent filmmaker Lewis Klahr works with
cutout animation because of his love for materials that give him access
to memory and history, and the kinetic interspace they create between
the personal and the cultural. His films explore "the pastness of the
present." They involve a recombination of elements, a retelling of forms
and events, a slowing down of time—and can be most accurately described
as re-animation. From his abundant body of work, Klahr has selected
three pieces never before shown in Los Angeles: Marietta's Lied (1998,
4:30 min, 16mm), Pharaoh's Belt (1994, 43 min., 16mm) and Daylight Moon
(A Quartet) (2002–04, 40 min., 16mm). In person: Lewis Klahr
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2006
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10/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7 pm, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
THE WALKING PICTURE PALACE: FILMS BY STEPHANIE BARBER
Stephanie Barber will be in person and show her meticulously crafted,
odd and imaginative films which, when screened together like this, lurch
the viewer from formalism to ridiculousness, tragedy to humor and almost
sneakily begin to make perfect sense. Nine films will be shown including
her most recent films Catalog (2005) and total power, dead dead dead
(2005) along with: they invented machines - shipfilm, - metronome-
flower, the boy, the librarian - a little present (for my friend
columbus the explorer) - letters, notes - dogs. "Cryptic skeins, filmic
koans, like light-tossed ships in a bottle, the films of Stephanie
Barber break against the waves of a world abridged, miniature worlds
speaking through the eyes and listening through the mouth, decoys –
imitations of life with a heartbeat as authentic as your own." –Mark
McElhatten
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2006
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10/18
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
6:30 p.m., Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street West
THE FREE SCREEN - CARL BROWN IN PERSON!
Cinematheque Ontario presents THE FREE SCREEN (formerly The
Independents). The Free Screen is your window on the vast and rewarding,
but often overlooked, world of unconventional, non-commercial cinema -
those films and videos made by committed artists working outside of
mainstream channels of production and distribution. These artists prefer
to work free from the restrictive aesthetic conventions and commercial
concerns of the movie business, a position which allows them to explore
the possibilities of the art of cinema to the fullest. The Free Screen
presents work by artists engaged in fields ranging from avant-garde film
and animation to hybrid documentaries, essay films and video art, often
with the artists in attendance to present their work. - Chris Gehman,
Free Screen programmer. Carl Brown's "documentaries of perception
explode across the screen in colours that would make Disney blush,
transforming even the simplest objects into teeming washes of longing
and despair. Brown's painterly vigils . . . mark him as a unique figure
of the Canadian fringe" (Mike Hoolboom). Brown is among the world's
major innovators in the experimental use of film chemistry, placing him
among a small cabal of cinematic alchemists that includes Jürgen Reble
and Phil Solomon. His works have typically been feature-length, and are
marked by a cyclical editing style and remarkably intense, unusual
surface colours and textures. In BLUE MONET, Brown's latest film, he
introduces a subtle and beautiful palette different from that seen in
any of his previous work, particularly in its blues, violets, and
indigos. Brown has long admired the paintings of Claude Monet,
particularly his water lilies, and his film takes them as a touchstone,
vividly rendering the relationship between process and object. Toronto
Premiere! BLUE MONET Director: Carl Brown (Canada, 2006, 60 minutes,
Double 16mm projection) All screenings in this series are FREE,
non-ticketed events. Programming suggestions and submissions are
welcome. All Cinematheque Ontario screenings are held at the Art Gallery
of Ontario's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas St. West, Toronto (McCaul Street
entrance). 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.
10/18
Washington, DC: Washington Project for the Arts\Corcoran
http://www.wpaconline.org/mediaseries%202/mediaseries2.htm
7:00 - 9:00 pm, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th Street, NW
ROCKY MOUNTAIN TWILIGHT - WPA\C EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA SERIES 2 - NIGHT 2
Night 2 – Wed, October 18 – Curated by Paul Roth (Curator of Photography
and Media Arts, Corcoran Gallery of Art , Washington) Rocky Mountain
Twilight - First Person Cinema from Boulder, Colorado Featuring films
by: Stan Brakhage - Rage Net (1988, 16mm silent) - Black Ice (1994, 16mm
silent) - Commingled Containers (1997, 16mm silent) My Life as a Bee
(2002, 16mm, silent) – Robert Schaller Clouds (2003, 16mm, silent) –
Andrew Busti Hail and Fire (2003, 16mm) – Victor Jendras Sand Castle 2
(2001, 16mm, silent) – Mary Beth Reed Phantom Canyon (2006, 35mm) –
Stacey Steers Cocteau Cento (2003, digital video) – Dan Boord & Luis
Valdovino Song of Kali (2004, 16mm) – Thomas Helman Bautismo (2000,
16mm) – Casey Koehler Twilight Psalm II: Night of the Meek (2002, 16mm)
– Phil Solomon Program running time: 87:00
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2006
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10/19
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
6:00 pm, 164 N. State Street
AKRAM ZAATARI: THIS DAY
Akram Zaatari in person! In 1982, 16-year-old Akram Zaatari watched the
Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon from his balcony in Saida,
documenting the bombings in a diary of snapshots. The resulting
images—at once beautiful and terrifying—make up his stunning 2004 video
SAIDA. JUNE 6, 1982 (4 min. loop) and have haunted his work ever since.
One of the founders of the Arab Image Foundation, the internationally
renowned artist and curator has devoted himself to capturing,
collecting, and archiving the everyday history of the region. Tonight,
Zaatari will screen SAIDA and his 2003 feature, THIS DAY (86 min.), an
elegant meditation on the photography of the Middle East—from exotic
portraits of nomadic Bedouins in the Syrian Desert to television clips
of Beirut today. Special thanks to Northwestern University's Weinberg
College of Arts and Sciences and Department of Art History, the
Fulbright Visiting Specialist Program, and SAIC's Department of Art &
Technology Studies for helping to make Zaatari's appearance possible.
(2003-04, Lebanon, various formats, ca. 90 min.)
10/19
Portland, Oregon: Sour Apple Productions
http://www.zonkerfilms.com
7pm, Hollywood Theater, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd
PISS FEST!
Zonker Films and Sour Apple Productions in partnership with Film Action
Oregon present the 5th Annual Portland International Short Short Film
Fest! (or as we like to call it, the PISS Fest!). PISS Fest! showcases
films from around the globe that run the gamut of themes and styles—from
the dark and avant-garde to the hilariously absurd—with the only common
thread among them being running time: ten minutes or less. The 5th
Annual PISS Fest! will be held October 19-21, 2006 at the Historic
Hollywood Theatre in Portland, Oregon. More information can be found at
www.zonkerfilms.com The 2006 PISS Fest! is produced in partnership with
Film Action Oregon.
10/19
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7:30 pm, 992 Valencia St.
ATA FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL 2006 San Francisco, CA
– Artists' Television Access announces the first ATA Film & Video
Festival, showcasing 25 short, original, independent and underground
films by local,national and international film and video artists. The
ATA Film & Video Festival will screen October 19 & 20, 2006 at Artists'
Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA. Doors will
open at 7:30pm, screenings start at 8pm. The public is invited to stay
for the opening night party on Thursday night and for the closing night
party on Friday night, after each screening. The films in the program
range from the politically poignant "Ha Ha Ha America" by local
filmmaker JD Ligon, an Official Selection at Sundance 2006, to Vanessa
Woods' experimental animation "The Touch," a visual interpretation of
Anne Sexton's poem of the same name. The program is arranged into four
different themes which were decided from the final selections: "War,"
"Truce," "Quixotic Quips," and "GNP" In addition to the screenings, the
work of seven other filmmakers will be displayed in ATA's Installation
Window during the month of October. Artists' Television Access is a
nonprofit, all-volunteer, artist-run, experimental media arts gallery
that has been in operation since 1984. ATA hosts a series of film and
video screenings, exhibitions and performances by emerging and
established artists and a weekly cable access television program. ATA
Film & Video Festival Program: Thursday, October 19, 2006: "War" The
Wizard of Oz, part II (Paz Tornero); La guerra (War) (Luiso Berdejo &
Jorge C. Dorado); El Soldado Trifaldon (Brigadier Trifaldon) (Alejandra
Egana & Paz Puga); Selective Service System Story (Bill Daniel); Animal,
Animal (Tommy Becker). "Truce" Spektro De'l Tempo (Ilona Berger);
Consenting Adults (Neil Ira Needleman); Myth #7 (Sahar Mozaffar); The
Touch (Vanessa Woods); Bump Past Cut Up Through Windows (Nasturtium)
(Paul Clipson); Pump (Sinisa Kukic); You Can't Get There From Here (Liss
Platt). Friday, October 20, 2006: "Quixotic Quips" Bars and Tone (Gordon
Winiemko); Come Deer Children (Tommy Becker);Pigeons (Tony Benna & David
Elliott); Clean (PJ Raval); Reset (Mack McFarland); G Gordon Liddy
(Lucas Ketelle); 3 out of 4 (Stephen Slappe); The Promise of
Bio-Marketing the Human Mind (Carl Diehl); Fulltime (Artur Muradyan);
Staring Newscasters (Jesse England). "GNP" Suprematist Kapital (Yin-Ju
Chen & James T. Hong); The Cost of Free (Astra Price); HA HA HA America
(JD Ligon). ATA Film & Video Festival Installation: October 2006
Sensorial Hack & Petting for pleasure – FurReal S(t)imulation (Brenda
Jean Grell); Clouds (Mark O'Connell); Interstate (part one) (Cortlund
Halperin); Happy Again (Gregg Biermann); (Post-) Cold War Dreamscape
(Clark Buckner); You are not the only one (Dan Gilsdorf); Authority Head
Exorcism (Daniel King) ATA Film & Video Festival Website:
http://festival.atasite.org ATA Website: http://www.atasite.org
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2006
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10/20
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
SPLIT PILLOW SHOWCASE: SOULMAID
Selected Cast and Crew in Person at Each Screening! Co-Presented by
Split Pillow Split Pillow's newest film, soulMaid (2006), is a
larger-than-life romantic comedy full of camp, heart and religious
fanaticism like you've never seen. Raised by hippie Mormon nudists,
Moses (Joe Schenck) has made a decent life for himself in the big city
cleaning houses in his underwear. When his temporal lobe epilepsy
returns and he begins having seizures again after months of remission,
things look even better. The seizures bring religious-like visions and
Moses sees the face of his soulmate. Days later, Moses and David (Tom
Bailey) meet face to face and begin a whirlwind romance. But the
seizures don't stop and Moses's visions become increasingly bizarre as a
spurned goddess named Glintentica encourages Moses to cleanse the souls
of those around him. Disturbed by Moses's erratic behavior, David, along
with Moses's roommate Ruth (Becca Connolly), race to find a way to
prevent Glintentica's return to our reality and try to save Moses's own
soul in the process. Split Pillow is proud to open its 5th season with
this hilarious new feature written and directed collaboratively by
award-winning filmmakers Jeff Maccubbin, Jeffrey McHale, Dan Mohr and
Joe Steiff and featuring outstanding performances by Schenck, Bailey and
Connolly.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2006
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10/21
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
SPLIT PILLOW SHOWCASE: SOULMAID
See October 20.
10/21
Reykjavik, Iceland: Sequences Real Time Festival/Package Deals
http://sequences.is/
7pm, Tjarnabíó, Tjarnagata 101
PACKAGE DEALS PRESENTS...THE FIELD GUIDE TO NORTH AMERICA: A COMPARATIVE
SURVEY
What exciting musical movements grow on both sides of the US-Canadian
border, and where do their aesthetics converge and diverge? This curated
"Field Guide" of music videos and short films takes an irreverent look
at the creative yield above and below the 49th parallel. Each chapter
juxtaposes one country's output against the other's, through such
classic textbook themes as Flora and Fauna, Mating Rituals, and Tribes.
Indie rock, techno, nouveau psychedelia, freak folk, and art rock music
videos join a lineup of experimental short films to form a survey of two
vast cultural landscapes.
10/21
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia
ED HALTER’S FUTURE COMBAT SYSTEMS
Curator-at-large and author of From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video
Games, Ed Halter storms into Other Cinema to present this explosive
collection of hi-tech military media, dug up in the course of writing
his book: pro-war promos produced by the Pentagon, video game companies,
defense contracting firms, and personal-computing Republicans. Thrown
into the mix are critical interventions from artists Eddo Stern, Paul
Slocum, Dara Greenwald, and Kent Lambert, exploring everything from
cyber-strategy to Bin Laden's Christ complex. Ed will be signing books
after his Q & A
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2006
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10/22
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
SPLIT PILLOW SHOWCASE: SOULMAID
See October 20.
10/22
New York, New York: The Tank
http://www.thetanknyc.org
8:00 PM (Doors), 279 Church Street
NEW YORK EXPERIMENTAL: THE WORK OF CHIAKI WATANABE 2002-2006
A screening of works from visual music artist Chiaki Watanabe's recently
released compilation DVD, "muX", in addition to her recent video series,
o.t.m. "muX" is a collection of six visual music works created between
2002 and 2006. The title of this compilation is derived from the digital
processing term "muXing": fusing audio and visual data into one. muX
represents the best of Watanabe's works, including those featured in the
NY Video Festival, European Media Art Festival, Microcinema
International, MOMA and ICA London. All live visual works were performed
with various experimental, electronica and avant classical sound artists
in NY and abroad. "o.t.m." (on the move) is a series of abstract video
collages consisting of footage captured from everyday life, including
the street, vehicles, and nature. The collages are composed of
observations of fragments of moments. These fragments form patterns,
creating a pulse for each moment. In "o.t.m." she weaves each of these
moments into a poetic tapestry. Watanabe's work has been presented
internationally in various venues ranging from media art and video
festivals such as the New York Video Festival, Microcinema
International, European Media Art Festival (DE), Viper New Media
Festival (CH) to art institutions including MOMA, ICA (UK), Austin
Museum of Digital Art , and Kunsthall (NO). She has performed at venues
throughout New York City including Location One, Dance Theater Workshop,
The Knitting Factory, The Kitchen and Merce Cunningham studio. * muX is
made possible with support from the Experimental Television Center's
(ETC) Finishing fund. The Experimental Television Center (ETC) is
supported by The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and Media
The Foundation. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Susan Agliata -
email suppressed - 212.563.6269 FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT:
http://www.thetanknyc.org and http://www.nicknack.org
10/22
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
THREAD, FRAME, AND FLICKER: RECENT 16MM FILMS
San Francisco Cinematheque @YBCA presents Sinew of Cinema: Work by
Angelina Krahn and Tomonari Nishikawa, Angelina Krahn and Tomonari
Nishikawa In Person. Sunday, October 15, 7:30 pm $8 regular /$6
Cinematheque members, students, seniors /$6 YBCA members. The art of
cinema may be ultimately optical and auditory, but its processes are
chemical, electrical and material. Two young Bay Area-based film
artists, Krahn and Nishikawa refract landscape and gesture through the
technology called cinema and orchestrate its traces into expressive
nuance and delicate visual pleasure. They will each screen a selection
of their work with rent and re-sewn 16mm film, hand processed emulsions,
pinhole and slit-aperture videos and pixilated films.
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