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This week [October 28 - November 5, 2006] in avant garde cinema (part 1 of 2)
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ZEMOS98 (Sevilla, Spain; Deadline: November 01, 2006)
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Naples / Tam Tam Digifestival (Naples, NA, Italy; Deadline: December 31, 2006)
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Experimenta 2007 (Bangalore, India; Deadline: December 15, 2006)
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Reel Shorts (Saratoga Springs, NY. U.S.A.; Deadline: December 07, 2006)
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Apple Cider Screening (Chicago, IL USA; Deadline: October 30, 2006)
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Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (Ithaca, New York, U.S.; Deadline:
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The Delta International Film and Video Festival (Cleveland, MS USA;
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Daughters of Joy! Film + Video Festival (Montreal, Quebec, Canada;
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PEC Independent Film Championship (Colorado Springs, CO; Deadline: November
30, 2006)
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Method Fest (El Segundo CA; Deadline: December 01, 2006)
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Videologia (Volgograd, Russia; Deadline: November 01, 2006)
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The Journal of Short Film (DVD) (Columbus, OH, USA; Deadline: November 08,
2006)
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Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, CANADA; Deadline: November 17, 2006)
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Cinematic CD FILM2MUSIC Competition (Los Angeles, CA USA; Deadline:
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MONTELLY FILM FESTIVAL (Lausanne /switzerland; Deadline: December 01, 2006)
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Omaha Film Festival (Omaha, Ne, USA; Deadline: November 08, 2006)
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Single Reel Film & Video Festival (New York, NY, USA; Deadline: December
01, 2006)
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ZEMOS98 (Sevilla, Spain; Deadline: November 01, 2006)
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Apple Cider Screening (Chicago, IL USA; Deadline: October 30, 2006)
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Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (Ithaca, New York, U.S.; Deadline:
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Experimental Films and Music: Public Halloween Party [October 28,
Austin, TX]
* Urban/ Rural Landscapes Explored In video and Film [October 28,
Greenbelt, MD]
* Games People Play [October 28, London, England]
* Distance and Displacement [October 28, London, England]
* One Way Boogie Woogie / 27 Years Later [October 28, London, England]
* Jack Smith & the Destruction of Atlantis [October 28, London, England]
* Halloween Special 2nd of 2 Shows [October 28, New York, New York]
* Let Me Start By Saying (Shorts Programme) [October 28, New York, New York]
* Who Is Bozo Texino? the Secret History of Hobo Graffiti [October 28,
New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Bruce Baillie [October 28, New York, New York]
* Laitala's Halloween Spooktacular! [October 28, San Francisco, California]
* 'the Celestial Library' [October 29, Brooklyn, New York]
* Incendiary video: Selections From the Media Burn Archive [October 29,
Chicago, Illinois]
* Within You, Without You [October 29, London, England]
* Kenneth Anger 35mm Preservations With Kenneth Anger In Person !
[October 29, London, England]
* Anger Me [October 29, London, England]
* Shine On [October 29, London, England]
* Inward & Outward Journeys - Films By Sarah Miles and Laura
Waddington [October 29, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Bruce Baillie, Douglass Crockwell, Jordan Belson
[October 29, New York, New York]
* Videos By Paris-Based Yann Beauvais & Rio-Based Edson Barrus [October
29, New York, New York]
* Winter Fire: Swiss Filmmaker Hannes Schupbach In Person [October 29,
San Francisco, California]
* Live Performance: Luis Recoder + Sandra Gibson [October 30, London,
England]
* Storefront Films: Interstices [October 31, New York, New York]
* El [October 31, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* 30 Years of the video Data Bank: George Kuchar and Anne Mcguire In
Conversation [November 1, Chicago, Illinois]
* Bandits of Orgosolo [November 1, London, England]
* Robert Wilson's Overture For Ka Mountain and Guardenia Terrace: A Story
About A Family and Some People Changing [November 1, New York, New York]
* The Free Screen - Recent Works By Gunvor Nelson! [November 1, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada]
* 30 Years of the video Data Bank: George Kuchar video Screening
[November 2, 30 ]
* The video Data Bank Celebrates 30 Years! Anne Mcguire: videos
[November 2, Chicago, Illinois]
* The video Data Bank Celebrates 30 Years! the World of George Kuchar
[November 2, Chicago, Illinois]
* 30 Years of the video Data Bank: Anne Mcguire video Screening
[November 2, Chicago, Illinois]
* Flex Program 1 [November 2, Gainesville, FL]
* Flex Program 2 [November 2, Gainesville, FL]
* Ten Short Films By vittorio De Seta [November 2, London, England]
* Northern Transmissions: the Sounds of Scandinavia Now On Film & video
[November 2, New York, New York]
* 30 Years of the video Data Bank: Gene Youngblood: Secession From the
Broadcast [November 3, Chicago, Illinois]
* Flex Program 3 [November 3, Gainesville, FL]
* Flex Program 4 [November 3, Gainesville, FL]
* Flex Program 5 [November 4, Gainesville, FL]
* Blows Against the Empire Presented By Craig Baldwin [November 4,
Gainesville, FL]
* Flex Program 6: Craig Baldwin Juror Screening [November 4,
Gainesville, FL]
* Flex Program 7 [November 4, Gainesville, FL]
* Myth and Music: “Sita Sings the Blues” [November 4, San Francisco,
California]
* Sumatran Folk Cinema + Morocco: Musical Brotherhoods [November 4, San
Francisco, California]
* Flex Program 8 [November 5, Gainesville, FL]
* Flex Program 9 [November 5, Gainesville, FL]
* An Evening With Elisabeth Subrin [November 5, Los Angeles, California]
* Rakkaus On Aarre (Love Is A Treasure) [November 5, New York, New York]
* Taste of Iceland Film Festival [November 5, Seattle, Washington]
* Retrospectives (Meet the Jury): Sandra Gibson [November 5, Utrecht,
Holland]
* Heartstrings: Coleen Fitzgibbon & Paul Sharits [November 5, Utrecht,
Holland]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2006
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10/28
Austin, TX: Spunky Monkey Ranch
8pm, South First behind End of an Ear
EXPERIMENTAL FILMS AND MUSIC: PUBLIC HALLOWEEN PARTY
Films, videos, music and audio installations. White Zombie with Bela
Lugosi will screen after 8pm. Medical benefit for Lori Varga, $5
suggested donation.
10/28
Greenbelt, MD: utopia film festival second annual experimental film/video
festival
http://www.utopiafilmfestival.org/program.shtml
6;00pm, Greenbelt Municipal Building
URBAN/ RURAL LANDSCAPES EXPLORED IN VIDEO AND FILM
Utopia's Second Annual Experimental Film/Video Festival. Saturday,
October 28, 2006. Time: 6:00 PM Location-Greenbelt Maryland's Municipal
Building. Go here for more details Urban/Rural Landscapes explored in
Video and Film 1.Boulder/Brooklyn (Nicole Koschmann) A correspondence
through images from Brooklyn, NY to Boulder, Colorado. 2. Flow (Scott
NYERGES)-A meditation on the creeks and rivers of Austin, Texas during
the spring and summer rendered in paint and pixels. 3.The Lights and
Perfections (Paul Clipson) A bug's eye view of the world, mysterious and
wonderful-plant studies and urban landscapes woven into soft focus home
movies. 4. Clouds and the Docklands (Chris Lynn)Vignette 4 in the London
series is an examination of the of the Docklands in London juxtaposed
with rain and clouds. 5. Tide mills (Nick Collins)The poetry of the UK
seacoast on any given day. 6.(rock/hard place)(Roger Beebe)A film that
attempts to bring the Urban and rural landscape together in one frame,
so the viewer can question the significance. Shot in Morro Bay,
California 7.The Taste of the South (Mar Solis) Shot in Spain this is a
vivid portrait of Easter week. 8. Translumination (Craig Herndon) An
abstract journey in sound and colour. Last year's festival included
films and videos by: Robert Robertson; Lynn Loo; Jud Yalkut; Simon
Morgan; Michael Yarochevsky.
10/28
London, England: London Film Festival
http://www.lff.org.uk
2pm, NFT 3, National Film Theatre, Waterloo, SE1
GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU (Miranda Pennell / UK 2005 / 4 mins) 'Twenty-one
dancers are held by your gaze. Losing contact can be traumatic.'
OLYMPICS 2005 TRACK AND FIELD (Shannon Plumb / USA 2005 / 18 mins) From
the opening ceremony to awarding the medals, Plumb plays all the
characters in this burlesque of the trials and triumphs of the summer
games. Rooted in silent comedy, its homespun style references equal
parts Keaton and Riefenstahl, and is the vehicle for a series of witty
observations. SWEET NIGHTINGALE (Victor Alimpiev / Russia 2005 / 7 mins)
In a theatre, a crowd perform a series of choreographed gestures facing
the stage. Left unexplained, this mysterious ceremony appears more
symbolic than absurd. PROPRIO APERTO (Judith Hopf, Nayascha Sadr
Haghighian, Florian Zeyfang / Germany 2005 / 6 mins) An off-season
stroll through the temporary ruins of the Giardini, home of the national
pavilions at the Venice Biennale. UNTITLED (FOR DAVID GATTEN) (Phil
Solomon & Mark LaPore / USA 2005 / 5 mins) Made as a 'get well card' for
a friend, this uncharacteristic work invokes a sense of absence, and
ultimately loss. BLOCKING (Pablo Marin / Argentina 2005 / 3 mins) By
contravening archival guidelines on water damage, the original image is
erased from a 'mistreated' filmstrip, to be replaced by an organic
explosion of colour. KRISTALL (Matthias Müller, Christophe Girardet /
Germany 2006 / 15 mins) Shards of emotions from Hollywood melodrama are
combined in a Chinese box of reflection and refraction. Kristall is a
cinematic hall of mirrors, which ruptures and multiplies the anxieties
of narcissistic, star-crossed lovers. CONTEMPLANDO LA CIUDAD (Angela
Reginato / USA 2005 / 4 mins) 'Perfectly without affect, a girl sings
along with a pop tune, transporting herself through space and time to
Mexico City circa 1978.'
10/28
London, England: London Film Festival
http://www.lff.org.uk
4pm, NFT 3, National Film Theatre, Waterloo, SE1
DISTANCE AND DISPLACEMENT
LET THERE BE WHISTLEBLOWERS (Ken Jacobs / USA 2005 / 18 mins) Advancing
the techniques of his 'Nervous System' performances, Jacobs now treats
archival film footage with electronic means, shifting his exploration of
visual space into the digital domain. All aboard the mystery train for a
journey from actuality to abstraction. Steve Reich's 'Drumming' provides
added momentum. UNFINISHED PASSAGES (Brett Kashmere / Canada 2005 / 17
mins) Archival images and a contraflow of texts trace the migration of
the artists' grandfather from London to Saskatchewan. 'Using the shadow
play of light and darkness as a metaphor for human memory Unfinished
Passages reframes his forced immigration/orphan experience through the
developing lens of the cinema.' THIS IS MY LAND (Ben Rivers / UK 2006 /
8 mins) A portrait of Jake Williams, who lives a hermetic lifestyle in a
remote house in the woods of Aberdeenshire. Folk film for the new
millennium. THE OTHER SIDE (Bill Brown / USA 2006 / 43 mins (In this
rich and revealing essay film, Brown shares his experiences of
travelling from Texas to California, recounting a history of the
landscape, its inhabitants and those that pass through. The border
between Mexico and the USA is crossed by thousands of undocumented
persons each year, and hundreds do not survive the journey through the
desert to the other side. Incorporating a personal voiceover and
interviews with migrant activists, this visually striking film examines
the border as a site of aspiration and insecurity.
10/28
London, England: London Film Festival
http://www.lff.org.uk
6:30pm, NFT 3, National Film Theatre, Waterloo, SE1
ONE WAY BOOGIE WOOGIE / 27 YEARS LATER
ONE WAY BOOGIE WOOGIE / 27 YEARS LATER (James Benning / USA 1977-2005 /
120 mins) In 1977, concerned about the decaying nature of his native
Milwaukee, Benning shot One Way Boogie Woogie, an hour long film
composed of 60 shots of industrial urban landscape: smokestacks,
sidewalks, three Volkswagens, people few and far between, an animal here
and there. In characteristic fashion, Benning's apparently simple,
static shots are exercises in meticulous painterly composition, and
their careful sequencing ensures that the director's playful humour is
given full expression. For 27 Years Later, Benning returned to Milwaukee
to shoot 'the same film again'. The shot by shot re-staging uses very
obviously different stock – the colours are brighter, there's a
distinctly modern tone. Buildings are showing their age, or gone; people
likewise. Seen together, these two films offer a cogent illustration of
how America has changed in the intervening years, fraying in places,
gentrified in others. Benning's method, and his affinity with his
subjects is extraordinary – as if he completely absorbs the landscape,
imbues it with geo-political and cultural relevance, and re-presents it
to us in a unique mix of formal rigour and mischievous invention.
10/28
London, England: London Film Festival
http://www.lff.org.uk
9pm, NFT 3, National Film Theatre, Waterloo, SE1
JACK SMITH & THE DESTRUCTION OF ATLANTIS
JACK SMITH & THE DESTRUCTION OF ATLANTIS (Mary Jordan / USA 2006 / 96
mins)' The only person I would ever copy. He makes the best movies.'
(Andy Warhol) Diving headlong into the exotic world of Jack Smith, this
is a ravishing celebration of a seminal figure of contemporary art,
experimental theatre, fashion, film and photography. A devotee of 'moldy
glamour', Smith was shooting fanciful tableau vivants in 1957, later
naming his ensemble the 'Superstars of Cinemaroc' way before Warhol had
a Silver Factory. His ethereal masterpiece Flaming Creatures is an epic
fantasy, featuring blonde vampires and bohemians cavorting amid a tangle
of naked bodies. Fêted by Fellini, but denounced by Playboy for
'defiling at once both sex and cinema', the film was became a totem in
the battle against censorship. Dismayed and resentful, Smith reacted to
this unwanted attention by never completing another film. To become a
product was to be embalmed. Returning to the ephemeral medium of
performance, he appeared amongst piles of meticulously arranged garbage
with Yolanda, a toy penguin with jewel-encrusted brassiere. Utterly
opposed to the concept of rented accommodation, Smith railed against
'landlordism', transforming his dilapidated apartment into an homage to
Babylonian architecture. This documentary opens up Ali Baba's cave,
mixing commentary from friends and enemies with the glistening treasures
of Smith's own creation. An abundance of rare photographs, footage and
audio bear testament to his uniquely baroque vision.
10/28
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm- Saturday evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between Bowery & 2nd Avenue)
HALLOWEEN SPECIAL 2ND OF 2 SHOWS
Jack Stevennson, American film writer, archivist, distributor, curator,
has been living in Denmark since 1993. His specialties include vintage
American exploitation films and Danish cinema. OCTOBER 28 (Sat.)
WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES (Balch/ Burroughs Version) (75 min.) 16mm.
"This macabre 1922 masterpiece stands as the most extreme and
controversial work of silent cinema- and one of the most visionary. A
perennially revived cult favorite, it often materializes around
Halloween and still manages to enchant modern viewers. It was the work
of obsession created in mysterious circumstances and its Danish director
Benjamin Christensen led a life that was almost as mysterious. This
lecture is based on my book THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BENJAMIN CHRISTENSEN
which draws on research into original Danish source material and which
brings to light heretofore unexamined aspects of the story."- J.S>
10/28
New York, New York: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
2000, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue @ 2nd Street
LET ME START BY SAYING (SHORTS PROGRAMME)
Let Me Start by Saying… With the ease of video and the beauty of small
format film, Canadian artists have long found themselves through their
stories and histories. Lisa Steele, The Ballad of Dan Peoples (1976, 8
min, video) "I made this tape shortly after my grandfather's death as a
memory of his voice and speech patterns. The tape is a woven song of
sorts, made up of many stories that he told and retold to me when I was
a child. The stories were about his childhood; the tape is more about
how memory is transmitted and retained than about the specifics of any
one particular narrative".–Lisa Steele Zachary Longboy, The Stone Show
(1999, 9 min, video) Visually poetic, this video diary explores the
artists reunion with his family and his culture after years of
separation. Raphael Bendahan, Le Jardin [du Paradis] The Garden (1982,
20 min, 16mm) Stories in English and French oscillate in this
examination of the life of an immigrant in a land (Québec) where the
definition of home is deeply contested. Mary J. Daniel, Confessions of a
Compulsive Archivist (2004, 7 min, video) One day, Mary J. Daniel finds
her mother's collection of dress patterns, arranged in a peculiar way.
Alexandra Grimanis, Mothers of Me (1999, 15 min, 16mm)"'Mothers of Me'
is a visually glorious, abstract study in which the filmmaker explores,
partly out of fear, the women in her family, their history of insanity
and their response to a repressive environment. Through the use of
close-ups and fragmented composition we are compelled to participate in
her examination." -Stacey Donen, Toronto International Film Festival,
1999 Robert Cowan, Remembrance and Goodbye (1968, 9 min, 16mm) A
personal melancholia concerning the death of my mother with my own
personal memory images of school, home, lost first love and fears of my
own obliteration. –Robert Cowan Mike Hoolboom, Jack (2002, 15 min, 16mm)
Six months after his long voyage into this world, Jack takes his place
in the high chair. While reproduction is his birthright, he is puzzled
by a strange creature with glass eyes, with a motor in place of a heart.
For months there was only sound and now there are only pictures. Series
made possible thanks to the gracious support of the Canada Council for
the Arts, (Media Arts Section) and the Canadian Consul General of New
York City. Special thanks to Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
10/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
TWO SHOWS! 6 & 8:30pm, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St
WHO IS BOZO TEXINO? THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOBO GRAFFITI
This experimental documentary explores the 100-year-old tradition of
hobo and railworker graffiti. It's the result of Daniel's 20-year study
of "monikers " and is fabricated from hours of 16mm and super 8 film,
most of it shot on freight trips across the western US. It includes
interviews with some of the railroad's greatest graffiti legends:
Colossus of Roads, The Rambler, Herby (RIP) and the granddaddy of them
all, Bozo Texino. Taking inspiration from Robert Frank and Jack Kerouac,
theis gritty and picaresque chronicle functions as both a subcultural
documentary and a stylized fable on wanderlust, outsider identity, and
railroad mythology. Check out billdaniel.net for his Bozo Texino tour
blog.
10/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:15, 32 Second Ave @ 2nd St
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BRUCE BAILLIE
Two films by Bruce Baillie: MASS FOR THE DAKOTA SIOUX (1963-64, 21 min)
and QUIXOTE (1964-65, 45 min): Meditations on America by a filmmaker
whom Willard van Dyke once called the most American of all contemporary
filmmakers. Annette Michelson has referred to Bruce Baillie as one of
the few political American filmmakers.
10/28
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia
LAITALA’S HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR!
Cooked up by the Kat's meow, filmmaker Kerry Laitala stirs her cauldron
of cinematic treats to offer a spine-tingling spook frolic of scary
shorts in our annual celebration of All-Hallow's Eve. Those who dare to
enter our haunted house will be delightfully frightened by the Mistress
Kat's eerie ambience of vintage sound-effects vinyl, whilst a
phantasmagoria of lurid 16mm imagery dances devilishly across our
screen. Sorceress' apprentice Katherin McGinnis slithers through the
assembled Guignol enthusiasts with a litany of horror shorts, including
Mary Ellen Bute's Spook Sports, Clifton Childree's She Sank on Shallow
Bank, David Cox' Dr. Yes, Scott Beach's World of Wax, excerpts from the
Addams Family, Psychorama, and the jaw-dropping slow-mo driver's-ed
grotesque, The Day I Died. After a few of the Kat's own gothic
film-poems, the show grinds to a gruesome end with the climactic reel of
Robert Gaffney's Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster. Mulled wine for
all souls!
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2006
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10/29
Brooklyn, New York: Proteus Gowanus
http://www.proteusgowanus.org
7pm, 543 Union St. @Nevins
'THE CELESTIAL LIBRARY'
PROTEUS GOWANUS THE LIBRARY EXHIBIT presents THE CELESTIAL LIBRARY:
films by JEANNE LIOTTA A SELECTION of MADE and FOUND slim volumes IN
16MM and video on the material subjects of landscape, science, and
natural philosophy etc. Hymns to the VOID, the STARS in their courses,
the EARTH under your feet wobbles and DRIFTS. titles may include: Work
for the Night is Coming; El Cielo field recordings 1, 8, and 9; Eclipse;
The Land of Enchantment; One Day This May No Longer Exist; What Makes
Day and Night; Muktikara; Science's Ten Most Beautiful, #2 and #10; What
We as Humans Trying Fallibly Forever; SUNDAY OCT 29 AT 7PM PROTEUS
GOWANUS GALLERY AND READING ROOM 543 UNION STREET @NEVINS BKLYN NYC by
the union st bridge over the gowanus canal RSVP as seating is limited
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10/29
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00 pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
INCENDIARY VIDEO: SELECTIONS FROM THE MEDIA BURN ARCHIVE
Tom Weinberg in Person! The Media Burn Independent Video Archive,
located here in Chicago, is quite likely the most important and
comprehensive collection of independent non-fiction videotapes in the
US. Comprised of more than 3000 works produced from 1972-2002, it
reflects the unique and vital vision of alternative media makers as they
address the critical historical, political, and social issues of the
past 30 years. Media Burn is the project of Tom Weinberg, one of the
pioneers of guerilla video and independent television production.
Weinberg was one of the co-founders of TVTV, formed in 1972 to provide
alternative coverage of the presidential conventions that year, the
creator of the still-running WTTW independent film showcase Image Union,
and producer of the landmark non-fiction series The '90s for PBS. For
tonight's program, Weinberg will present a "guided tour" of the Media
Burn archive, with both clips and complete works representing the
diversity of the archive's holdings.
10/29
London, England: London Film Festival
http://www.lff.org.uk
2pm, NFT 3, National Film Theatre, Waterloo, SE1
WITHIN YOU, WITHOUT YOU
SONG AND SOLITUDE (Nathaniel Dorsky / USA 2006 / 21 mins) As a guest of
the Festival in 2004, Nathaniel Dorsky gave an inspirational
lecture-screening on 'Devotional Cinema'. His new film is a sombre work,
which further refines his vision of an intimate, poetic cinema that
creates a space for personal reflection. 'Its balance is more toward an
expression of inner landscape, or what it feels like to be, rather than
an exploration of the external visual world as such.' MURIEL'S SONG
(Grant Wiedenfeld / USA 2006 / 3 mins) 'A hand-painted, hand-processed
film only bent thru the lens of the projector and your pearly-crowned
pair. Never before have light and shadow sung so well without a camera.'
ACROSS THE VALLEY (Nick Collins / UK 2006 / 20 mins) Across The Valley
is a beautifully photographed response to the landscape and environment
of the Cévennes Mountains in Southern France. Employing time-lapse and
other techniques, the film charts variations in the distant and
immediate surroundings over a range of seasons. KOLKATA (Mark LaPore /
USA 2005 / 35 mins) This luminous study of North Calcutta is one of the
last completed films by the American film-maker who died last year. It
combines personal and ethnographic elements in an experimental
documentary that looks at, and into, another culture with empathy and
fascination. 'This film searches the streets for the ebb and flow of
humanity and reflects the changing landscape of a city at once medieval
and modern.'
10/29
London, England: London Film Festival
http://www.lff.org.uk
4pm, NFT 1, National Film Theatre, Waterloo, SE1
KENNETH ANGER 35MM PRESERVATIONS WITH KENNETH ANGER IN PERSON !
'Kenneth Anger is a unique film-maker, an artist of exceptional talent."
(Martin Scorsese) Kenneth Anger's iconic films are an extraordinary
demonstration of the transformative power of cinema. With support from
The Film Foundation, the UCLA Film Archive has recently made glorious
new 35mm prints of four of Anger's works. This special screening offers
aficionados and the uninitiated an opportunity to see these landmark
films as they have never been seen before. We are delighted to welcome
Kenneth Anger to the Festival to present this screening. FIREWORKS
(Kenneth Anger/USA 1947/15 mins) The rarely seen original version,
featuring a spoken prologue by the film-maker. 'A dissatisfied dreamer
awakes, goes out in the night seeking a 'light' and is drawn through the
needle's eye. A dream of a dream, he returns to a bed less empty than
before.' LA LUNE DES LAPINS [Rabbit's Moon] (Kenneth Anger/USA-France
1950-71/16 mins) The only Anger film shot on 35mm has never been printed
on that format until now. This is the longer edit from 1971,
synchronized to haunting doo-wop ballads. 'A fable of the unattainable
(the Moon) combining elements of Commedia dell'Arte with Japanese myth.
A lunar dream utilizing the classic pantomime figure of Pierrot in an
encounter with a prankish, enchanted Magick Lantern.' SCORPIO RISING
(Kenneth Anger/USA 1963/29 mins) Immensely influential for its use of
pop music, Anger's ironic critique of motorcycle gangs invokes Scorpio,
the sign that rules machines, sex and death. 'A 'death mirror held up to
American culture' - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and
cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of the American motorcyclist. The
machine as totem from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black
leather and bursting jeans.' KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (Kenneth Anger/USA
1965/4 mins) A slow and sensuous study of the hot rod craze. 'To the
soundtrack of 'Dream Lover' a young man strokes his customized car with
a powder puff.'
10/29
London, England: London Film Festival
http://www.lff.org.uk
7pm, NFT 3, National Film Theatre, Waterloo, SE1
ANGER ME
ANGER ME (Elio Gelmini / Canada 2006 / 72 mins) A portrait of Kenneth
Anger, legendary pioneer of independent film-making. Raised in
Hollywood, a spell as the Changeling Prince in A Midsummer Night's Dream
(1935) provided his first taste of the fantasy world of the movies. The
nine films Anger made between 1947 and 1980 are shown together as the
'Magick Lantern Cycle', emphasising his belief in cinema as magical
weapon. An authority on Aleister Crowley, his dazzling montage invokes
myth and ritual, exploring taboo subjects and popular culture with a
complex iconography. From the homoerotic fantasy Fireworks to the
transcendental Lucifer Rising, his influence reaches beyond the
avant-garde and into the mainstream, touching the work of Jarman, Lynch,
Scorsese and countless others. Anger's fascination with film history,
memorabilia and scandal eventually led to the bestseller Hollywood
Babylon, a dark exposé of Tinseltown's seamy side. He inadvertently
invented the music video with Scorpio Rising, and his acquaintances
ranged from Anaïs Nin and Alfred Kinsey to the Rolling Stones. Anger Me
takes the form of an extended monologue, in which this visionary artist
talks at length about his extraordinary life and remarkable body of
work.
10/29
London, England: London Film Festival
http://www.lff.org.uk
9pm, NFT 3, National Film Theatre, Waterloo, SE1
SHINE ON
SAME DAY NICE BISCOTTS (Luther Price / USA 2005 / 6 mins) A bleak but
touching incantation composed from 13 identical prints of an early 70s
documentary on elderly Afro-Americans. Time has taken its toll on the
raw material too: now faded and worn, it is steeped in pathos. KRYPTON
IS DOOMED (Ken Jacobs / USA 2005 / 34 mins) The original Superman radio
play from 1940 accompanies the mind-bending 'Nervous Magic Lantern,' a
filmless projection system that twists light into a perpetually
throbbing mass of impossible depth. Presented by the film-maker as a
metaphor for the onset of WWII, the apocalyptic narrative could be read
as allegory for the present, a world of instability with the potential
of environmental collapse. THE COUNTER GIRL TRILOGY (Courtney Hoskins /
USA 2006 / 6 mins) In an inventive response to the cosmetics industry,
Hoskins has created imagery from some unusual materials discovered while
working as a sales assistant on a make-up counter. BLAH BLAH BLAH
(Dietmar Brehm / Austria 2006 / 13 mins) Hotwiring history, the
film-maker excavates his image bank of 16mm footage to reveal an
archaeology of clandestine pursuits that hovers between ennui and
agitation. Brehm's week beats your year. SURFACING (Barbara Sternberg /
Canada 2005 / 10 mins) An exodus of ghostly footsteps pass through the
frame beneath layers of scratched emulsion, suggesting the transience of
being and a state of emergence beyond the everyday. AND WE ALL SHINE ON
(Michael Robinson / USA 2006 / 7 mins) 'An ill wind is transmitting
through the lonely night, its signals spreading myth and deception along
its murky path. Conjuring a vision of a post-apocalyptic paradise, this
unworldly broadcast reveals its hidden demons via layered landscapes and
karaoke, singing the dangers of mediated spirituality.'
10/29
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
INWARD & OUTWARD JOURNEYS - FILMS BY SARAH MILES AND LAURA WADDINGTON
Filmforum continues our 30th anniversary series with former director
Mark Rance hosting INWARD & OUTWARD JOURNEYS - films by Sarah Miles and
Laura Waddington – recent work from the UK. Sarah Miles's film "No
Place" (2005) combines personal memories with documents of popular and
contemporary culture to explore notions of femininity. Waddington's
films "Cargo" (2001) and "Border" (2004) are visually stunning and
atmospheric documentaries of remote peoples. General admission $9,
students/seniors $6. Cash and check only
10/29
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:15, 32 Second Ave @ 2nd St
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BRUCE BAILLIE, DOUGLASS CROCKWELL, JORDAN BELSON
Jordan Belson: ALLURES (1961, 9 minutes); RE-ENTRY (1964, 6 minutes);
CARAVAN (1952, 3 minutes); MANDALA (1953, 3 minutes); SÉANCE (1959, 4
minutes); COSMOS (1969, 7 minutes); WORLD (1970, 7 minutes): "Our
greatest abstract film poet: he has found how to combine the vision of
the outer and the inner eye." –Gene Youngblood........and......Bruce
Baillie: CASTRO STREET (1966, 10 minutes); ALL MY LIFE (1966, 3
minutes); HERE I AM (1962, 11 minutes): Songs and poems of everyday
reality. (Funding for the preservation and restoration of HERE I AM
graciously provided by Sony Pictures
Entertainment.).......and.......Douglass Crockwell: GLENS FALLS SEQUENCE
(1964, 8 minutes): "The basic idea was to paint continuing pictures on
various layers with plastic paint, adding at times and removing at
times, and to a certain extent these early attempts were successful."
–D.C.
10/29
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8pm, 32 Second Ave @ 2nd St
VIDEOS BY PARIS-BASED YANN BEAUVAIS & RIO-BASED EDSON BARRUS
Paris- and Rio-based Yann Beauvais and Edson Barrus will present recent
videos and the premiere of a new collaboration. Beauvais, who founded
Light Cone in Paris, is widely recognized for his work in film, video,
and media installations, and for his theoretical writings and for
curating experimental film and video worldwide. Edson Barrus, the
founder of Res do Chão in Rio, is best known as a visual artist and
curator of international reputation; he has recently turned his eye to
video. Their works explore the people and rhythm of Rio de Janeiro
(MAKING OFF); Tiananmen Square after a snowstorm (UNTITLED BEIJING), and
the light and mood of Mount Sainte Victoire (ELSEWHERE). Videos to be
shown: Edson Barrus MAKING OFF (2006, 21 min, video); Yann Beauvais SANS
TITRE BEIJING / UNTITLED BEIJING (2006, 6 min, video); Yann Beauvais and
Edson Barrus D'AILLEURS / ELSEWHERE (2006, 53 min, video).
10/29
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street at Third St.
WINTER FIRE: SWISS FILMMAKER HANNES SCHUPBACH IN PERSON
San Francisco Cinematheque @YBCA presents Winter Fire: Films by Hannes
Schüpbach Hannes Schüpbach In Person Sunday, October 29, 7:30 pm $8
regular /$6 Cinematheque members, students, seniors /$6 YBCA members
With a meticulous attention to detail and exquisite sensuality, Hannes
Schüpbach's beautifully photographed films are elegant weaves of color
and light, forming meditative and precisely timed tapestries of wonder
and revery. Similar to the rigorously lyrical works of Robert Beavers
and Nathaniel Dorsky, Schüpbach's films transcend their diaristic
origins and present the world anew, as luminous silent mystery. He joins
us tonight from his native Switzerland to present Toccata, Falten and
Winter Feuer.
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2006
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10/30
London, England: London Film Festival
http://www.lff.org.uk
7pm, ICA Theatre, The Mall, SW1
LIVE PERFORMANCE: LUIS RECODER + SANDRA GIBSON
New York artists Luis Recoder + Sandra Gibson create innovative and
engaging light works in which they interact with and manipulate the
projected image. Though their work is grounded in cinema, it goes beyond
an understanding of what film is, taking into consideration the
architecture and conditions of the performing / viewing situation and
the physical and emotional presence of light itself. From the inventive
ways that they create images on the film strip to the use of multiple
projection in live performance, Recoder + Gibson are two of the most
vital young artists active in the field of 'expanded cinema'. Rarely
seen in the UK, their work has been featured in the Whitney Biennial and
many major festivals. This untitled piece was developed in collaboration
with experimental musician Daniel Menche and first presented at 'Kill
Your Timid Notion' in Dundee earlier this year. The performance uses
multiple 16mm projectors and an ingenious method of refracting and
transforming the beams of light. As the work unfolds, Recoder + Gibson
subtly manipulate the projectors, creating a constantly changing and
hypnotic sequence of abstract imagery reminiscent of Rothko and colour
field painting. Please Note: Arrive Early ! This piece will be running
as an installation from 19.00 and will shift into the live performance
sometime after 19.30. The performance will be between 60-90 minutes
long.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2006
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10/31
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Ave @ 2nd St
STOREFRONT FILMS: INTERSTICES
Storefront for Art and Architecture is committed to the advancement of
innovative positions in art, architecture and design, embraces cinema
and highlights its significant role in representing the built
environment. The works in INTERSTICES explore the space between
presentation and representation, between data and fact, experience and
ideology and proliferate possible connections of gestures to affects,
and affects to perceptions. The foregrounding of interstice calls
attention to the processing of images, revealing how random intervals of
images can be made into a sequence by merely juxtaposing them.
INTERSTICES is divided into a three-part film series spanning Oct-Dec.
and includes recorded performances of Pia Lindman. Each screening has a
sub-theme reflecting Lindman's work and echoing her artistic interests.
Day One: Mediated Gestures: Pia Lindman VIDEO COMP OF "NEW YORK TIMES"
PERFORMANCES (2005, 12 min); Jean-Luc Godard HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA
(1988-98, Pt. IV Pt. B: Les signes parmi nous, 28 min); Charlotte Pryce
"X" (1988, 6 min); Pat O'Neill TROUBLE WITH THE IMAGE (1996, 38 min);
Garine Torossian GIRL FROM MOUSH (1993, 5.5 min)
10/31
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers
http://www.berkdfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright College
EL
EL (This Strange Passion) (1953, 92 min.) by LUIS BUNUEL- A subversive
Surrealist masterpiece masked as a soap opera. "I worked as I always did
in Mexico: a film was proposed to me and instead of accepting it
outright I tried to work out a counterproposal. Though my proposal was
still commercial, it nevertheless seemed a better way of expressing some
of the things I wanted to say."- Bunuel. "Released at the pinnacle of
his prolific Mexican period, El remains one of Luis Buñuel's crowning
achievements. "Ironically, there's absolutely nothing Mexican about Él;
it's simply the portrait of a paranoiac, who, like a poet, is born, not
made," says the director in his autobiography. Though set in Mexico and
ripe with authentic details from daily life, Él is less a portrait of
machismo gone awry than it is a brutal and absurd glimpse at one man's
runaway paranoia." Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine (Spanish with English
subtitles)
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2006
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11/1
Chicago, Illinois: Video Data Bank
http://vdb.org
6pm, SAIC Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Drive
30 YEARS OF THE VIDEO DATA BANK: GEORGE KUCHAR AND ANNE MCGUIRE IN
CONVERSATION
To coincide with the launch of a special Video Data Bank DVD
compilation, The World of George Kuchar, the artist and his friend and
colleague Anne McGuire appear together on stage for a conversation
encompassing art, food, and life.
11/1
London, England: London Film Festival
http://www.lff.org.uk
9pm, NFT 1, National Film Theatre, Waterloo, SE1
BANDITS OF ORGOSOLO
BANDITS OF ORGOSOLO (Vittorio de Seta / Italy 1961 / 98 mins) Newly
restored by Italy's L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in co-operation
with the Cineteca Nazionale in Rome - and unveiled to huge acclaim at
this year's Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival in Bologna - Bandits of
Orgosolo (together with the director's earlier short documentaries) -
reveals Vittorio De Seta as a true master of post-war Italian cinema.
His own photographer and scriptwriter, Sicilian-born De Seta tells (in
the words of passionate admirer Martin Scorsese) 'a simple story: a
shepherd, unjustly accused of a crime, is chased through an arid and
silent landscape. His sheep starve, and, destitute, he is forced to
become a bandit'. Set on the mountains of Barbagia, in Sardinia, and
using local, non-professional actors, the film 'reveals an archaic
world, unspoiled by society. Its people speak an ancient dialect and...
see the modern world as foreign and hostile'. Neorealism, says Scorsese,
has been taken to another level by De Seta, as if he 'were an
anthropologist who spoke with the voice of a poet'. Moving but
unsentimental, harsh yet caring, and beautifully photographed by De Seta
in black-and-white, Bandits is a film not to be missed by those yet
untouched by De Seta's unique voice.
11/1
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Ave @ 2nd St
ROBERT WILSON'S OVERTURE FOR KA MOUNTAIN AND GUARDENIA TERRACE: A STORY
ABOUT A FAMILY AND SOME PEOPLE CHANGING
Overture for KA MOUNTAIN AND GUARDenia TERRACE (Robert Wilson, 1972, 80
min, 16mm, silent. Filmmaker Unknown) was performed live by Robert
Wilson and the Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds at 147 Spring Street, New
York City, for six hours each day, from 6 to 9 AM and from 6 to 9 PM,
between April 24 and April 30, 1972. The sizeable cast featured such
downtown luminaries as dance critic and poet Edwin Denby, dancer Andy De
Groat, theater critic Stefan Brecht, and the director's grandmother,
Alma Hamilton. This new preservation print was made directly from the
camera-original 16mm recently discovered in Anthology's basement along
with a group of empty film cans. Archivists at Anthology and The New
York Public Library for the Performing Arts (the repository of the
Robert Wilson Audio/Visual Collection) were able to salvage the film and
identified it as the most extensive extant documentation of OVERTURE. No
soundtrack has surfaced for this film, but its majestic images and wild
inventiveness are like a music all their own. This encore screening will
be a definite event for all Wilson aficionados as well as the
uninitiated. *A discussion will follow the screening.
11/1
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 - RECENT WORKS BY GUNVOR NELSON!
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."Gunvor Nelson's poetically expansive work. . . .
has made her one of the most experimental of artists, with no definable
'style,' but rather a sustained aesthetic illumination of such elusive
and intimate matters as childhood, aging, displacement, memory, women's
roles, death, and the symbolic forces of nature" (Museum of Modern Art,
New York). Swedish-born filmmaker Gunvor Nelson was a key figure in the
vibrant American West Coast film scene from the mid-Sixties through the
early Nineties, when she returned to her native Sweden, where she has
continued to work in film, video, painting and drawing. The creator of
several classics of personal cinema, Nelson has been a restless
filmmaker, forever moving in new directions. This second programme of
Gunvor Nelson's work is comprised exclusively of recent videos,
beginning with TRACE ELEMENTS (Sweden, 2003, 10 min. video), a reflexive
work that "highlight[s] the act of shooting based on the idea that the
active, ever-searching camera never quite finds its target" (Nelson). In
the surprising and mesmerizing epic TRUE TO LIFE (Sweden, 2005, 38 min.
video), the garden becomes a site for a literal confrontation between
camera and nature, while NEW EVIDENCE (Sweden, 1999, 22 min. video)
presents material from the installation Collected Evidence: 52 Weeks.
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.
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