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Date: Sat Oct 28 2006 - 10:12:54 PDT
This week [October 28 - November 5, 2006] in avant garde cinema (part 2 of 2)
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2006
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11/2
30 : Video Data Bank
http://vdb.org
8pm, Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N State Street
30 YEARS OF THE VIDEO DATA BANK: GEORGE KUCHAR VIDEO SCREENING
Iconic underground film- and video-maker Kuchar screens a selection of
his high-ambition, low-neckline genre works and his diaristic
chronicles.
11/2
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
6:00 pm, 164 N. State Street
THE VIDEO DATA BANK CELEBRATES 30 YEARS! ANNE MCGUIRE: VIDEOS
Anne McGuire in person! In celebration of the Video Data Bank's
30-year-anniversary, CATE hosts a double-feature of sorts with video
artist Anne McGuire and underground legend George Kuchar. Anne McGuire
is a San Francisco-based video artist whose "private cabarets" expose
the formal elements of another era's media mannerisms and lay bare their
cultural mores. Her works contain elements of impersonation and
performance, personal exorcism and autobiography, wit and media
critique. A survey of her short works to date, tonight's program
includes ALL SMILES AND SADNESS (1999, 7 min.) starring George Kuchar, I
AM CRAZY AND YOU'RE NOT WRONG (1997, 11 min.), JOE DIMAGGIO 1, 2, 3
(1991, 7 min.), and TURN TABLE (2005, 4 min.), among others.
Co-presented by the Video Data Bank and CATE. (1991-2006, USA/Taiwan,
BetaSP video, ca. 90 min.)
11/2
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
8:00 pm, 164 N. State Street
THE VIDEO DATA BANK CELEBRATES 30 YEARS! THE WORLD OF GEORGE KUCHAR
George Kuchar in person! In celebration of the Video Data Bank's
30-year-anniversary, CATE hosts a double-feature of sorts with
underground legend George Kuchar and video artist Anne McGuire. George
Kuchar has been working with the moving image for nearly half a century.
First, with his twin brother Mike, producing their ultra-low-budget
underground versions of Hollywood genre films. And then, on his own,
since the 1980s, creating brilliantly edited, hilarious, often diaristic
tapes with dime-store props and not-so-special effects, using friends as
actors, and the "pageant that is life" for his studio. Tonight he will
present a selection of his high-ambition, low-neckline genre tapes and
autobiographic chronicles, coinciding with the launch of a special Video
Data Bank DVD compilation, The World of George Kuchar. The program
includes the weather–imbued HEAVENLY FEATURES (2005, 10 min.), the
people, pets and places of FAULTY FATHOMS (2006, 15 min.), and the world
premiere of his latest opus TEMPLE OF TORMENT (2006, 18 min.), among
others. Co-presented by the Video Data Bank and CATE. (1991-2006,
USA/Taiwan, BetaSP video, ca. 90 min.)
11/2
Chicago, Illinois: Video Data Bank
http://vdb.org
6pm, Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N State Street
30 YEARS OF THE VIDEO DATA BANK: ANNE MCGUIRE VIDEO SCREENING
Anne McGuire will present a selection of her personal, poetic, and witty
video works, including Joe Dimaggio 1, 2, 3 (1993), I Am Crazy and
You're Not Wrong (1997), All Smiles and Sadness, 1999, and the Midwest
premiere of Turn Table (2006).
11/2
Gainesville, FL: FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
http://www.flexfest.org
7 p.m., Thomas Center
FLEX PROGRAM 1
Das Modell (7:00, miniDV, 2006) Florian Gwinner; Transaension (6:30,
16mm, 2006) Dan Baker; int.16/45//son01/30x1 (5:00, BetaSP, 2006) lia;
Ikuma Siku (7:00, DVD, 2005) Glenn Gear; Petrolia (20:00, miniDV, 2005)
Emily Richardson; Moving Staircase (2:30, miniDV, 2006) Rob Tyler; Null
X (6:00, 35mm, 2004) Jan Frederik Groot; Travelogue #6 (2:00, miniDV,
2004) Derek Taylor; Bump Past Cut Up Through Windows (4:30, super8,
2004) Paul Clipson; Luukkaankangas--updated, revisited (8:00, BetaSP,
2004) Dariusz Krzeczek; Harmony (12:00, 16mm, 2004) Jim Trainor
11/2
Gainesville, FL: FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
http://www.flexfest.org
9 p.m., Thomas Center
FLEX PROGRAM 2
Views from Home (10:00, miniDV, 2005) Guy Sherwin; Whirr (2:00, miniDV,
2006) Timo Katz; The Mendi (9:00, miniDV, 2006) Steve Reinke; Evergreen
(15:00, 16mm, 2005) Rob Todd; The Other Side (43:00, 16mm, 2006) Bill
Brown
11/2
London, England: London Film Festival
http://www.lff.org.uk
6pm, NFT 3, National Film Theatre, Waterloo, SE1
TEN SHORT FILMS BY VITTORIO DE SETA
Before directing his first feature, Bandits of Orgosolo, Vittorio De
Seta made a series of remarkable independent short documentaries
depicting life and events in Sardinia and his native Sicily in the 50s,
films now preserved in the Cineteca di Bologna. "When I.. screened
(these documentaries)," wrote Martin Scorsese, "I was stunned... It was
almost as if I had entered the screen and I was there... I was entering
the eye of the filmmaker... Here was cinema in its essence... cinema at
its best, a cinema that had the power to transform."
11/2
New York, New York: Scandinavia House/CMJ Film Festival/Package Deals
http://prod1.cmj.com/marathon/film.php
8pm, 58 Park Avenue at 38th St
NORTHERN TRANSMISSIONS: THE SOUNDS OF SCANDINAVIA NOW ON FILM & VIDEO
Scandinavia rocks in this program of music videos from across the Nordic
region curated by the Package Deals film series. Screening as part of
the CMJ Music Marathon's Film Festival, the lineup presents a
cross-section of Scandinavia's geographically, aesthetically, and
aurally diverse output. From Sweden's macabre dark-wave to the upbeat
Norwegian pop, on to the pastoral digital bliss of Iceland and Finland
and the next wave of indie rock exported from Denmark, these videos will
perk up your ears and eyes. After-party to follow with free drinks
courtesy of Reyka Vodka.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2006
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11/3
Chicago, Illinois: Video Data Bank
http://vdb.org
6pm, Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N State Street
30 YEARS OF THE VIDEO DATA BANK: GENE YOUNGBLOOD: SECESSION FROM THE
BROADCAST
Gene Youngblood is an internationally recognized theorist of media arts
and politics and a respected scholar of the history and theory of
alternative cinemas. His Expanded Cinema (1970), the first book to
consider video as an art form, was influential in establishing the field
of media arts. Continuing to explore the impact of new technologies,
Youngblood will discuss the social, political, and artistic dimensions
of the convergence of moving-image practice, DVD distribution, and the
Internet--a radical and fully democratic new media environment that
exceeds the wildest utopian dreams of the last 35 years and for the
first time allows us to permanently escape the corporate media culture.
11/3
Gainesville, FL: FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
http://www.flexfest.org
7 p.m., WARPHaus Gallery (818 NW 1st Ave.)
FLEX PROGRAM 3
South Dakota Trilogy (3:00, miniDV, 2004) Will O'Loughlen; Zwischen
(2:00, 16mm, 2006) Lori Felker; L'interdit II (7:00, miniDV, 2004) Yuri
Muraoka; Havana, 30th of February (11:50, BetaSP, 2005) Julia Daschner;
Jean Genet in Chicago (26:00, miniDV, 2006) Frédéric Moffet; The General
Returns from One Place to Another (11:00, 16mm, 2006) Michael Robinson;
Wall of Sound Flowers (6:00, 16mm, 2004) Francien van Everdingen; Orbit
(8:00, 16mm, 2006) Kerry Laitala; How She Slept at Night (3:15, miniDV,
2006) Lilli Carré
11/3
Gainesville, FL: FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
http://www.flexfest.org
9 p.m., WARPHaus Gallery (818 NW 1st Ave.)
FLEX PROGRAM 4
Square Millimeter of Opportunity: Cars (2:00, miniDV, 2006) Luke
Lamborn; Demolition 7 (9:00, DVD, 2005) Richie Sherman; Spherical
Coordinates (8:30, miniDV, 2005) Gregg Biermann; Operation Night Crawler
(14:00, miniDV, 2004) Bryan Konefsky; Ask the Insects (8:00, miniDV,
2005) Steve Reinke; For the Birds (6:00, miniDV, 2005) Lilli Carré;
Earthlight (5:30, super8, 2004) Paul Clipson; What the Water Said (No.
4) (5:00, 16mm, 2006) David Gatten; View from a floating raft (8:00,
BetaSP, 2005) Karø Goldt; Black & White Trypps Number 2 (8:00, 16mm,
2005) Ben Russell; Eventide (5:00, BetaSP, 2004) Cassandra C. Jones
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2006
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11/4
Gainesville, FL: FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
http://www.flexfest.org
1 p.m., Hippodrome State Theatre
FLEX PROGRAM 5
Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (17:00, 35mm, 2005) Peter
Tscherkassky; promenade d'apres midi (2:45, 35mm, 2005) Claire Walka;
Dead People (18:30, 35mm, 2005) Roger Deutsch; Mirror Mechanics (7:30,
35mm, 2005) Siegfried A. Fruhauf; Lektion 13 (10:40, miniDV, 2005) Kenji
Ouellet; The White Bunny (7:30, miniDV, 2005) Katja Straub; Mississippi
(6:00, BetaSP, 2005) Arash T. Riahi; L'éclat du mal/The Bleeding Heart
of It (8:00, 35mm, 2005) Louise Bourque; Aim (2:30, 35mm, 2005) Björn
Kämmerer and Karoline Meiberger
11/4
Gainesville, FL: FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
http://www.flexfest.org
11 p.m., 2nd Street Bakery (1511 NW 2nd St.)
BLOWS AGAINST THE EMPIRE PRESENTED BY CRAIG BALDWIN
A curated program of political petards from the recent programs of San
Francisco's Other Cinema, hoisted by OC honcho (and FLEX juror) Craig
Baldwin.
11/4
Gainesville, FL: FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
http://www.flexfest.org
7 p.m., Harn Museum of Art
FLEX PROGRAM 6: CRAIG BALDWIN JUROR SCREENING
Wild Gunman (20:00, 16mm, 1978); RocketKitKongoKit (30:00, 16mm on
video, 1986); plus a newly restored print of Tribulation99 (48:00, 16mm,
1991)
11/4
Gainesville, FL: FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
http://www.flexfest.org
9 p.m., Harn Museum of Art
FLEX PROGRAM 7
The Hills are Alive (7:30, miniDV, 2005) Gregg Biermann; Wrong Time
Capsule (3:00, miniDV, 2006) Martha Colburn; Life & Times of Robert F.
Kennedy Starring Gary Cooper (7:00, miniDV, 2006) Aaron Valdez; Resident
of Earth (15:00, miniDV, 2005) Paul Tarrago; A Junky's Christmas (17:00,
miniDV, 2004) Bryan Konefsky; A Time to Die (9:00, miniDV, 2005) Joe
Gibbons; Soothsayer (13:00, miniDV, 2003) Bobby Abate; The Red and the
Blue Gods (8:00, 16mm, 2006) Ben Russell; Exercise #3 (3:10, miniDV,
2005) Eva Drangsholt
11/4
San Francisco, California: Oddball Films
http://www.oddballfilm.com
8:00PM, 275 Capp Street
MYTH AND MUSIC: “SITA SINGS THE BLUES”
Myth and Music: "Sita Sings the Blues" Plus! Award-Winning Shorts
Screens at Oddball Films On Saturday, November 4th at 8:00 PM Oddball
Films presents "Myth and Music: "Sita Sings the Blues", a screening of
Nina Paley's mythic, animated work-in-progress opus plus animated gems.
Admission is $10.00 (Limited Seating RSVP Preferred). Oddball Films is
located at 275 Capp St. Info and reservations at email suppressed or
415-558-8117. "Sita Sings the Blues" is a unique feature-in-progress
combining the ancient Indian epic Ramayana, the 1920's torch vocals of
the great Annette Hanshaw* and classically informed and inventive
continued With music, humor, and a range of animation techniques, "Sita
Sings the Blues" shows how the genius of the Indian Ramayana transcends
societies and generations, and is as relevant today as it was 3,000
years ago. Don't miss this one-of-a-kind chance to see this mythic,
musical gem plus a stirring selection of her award-winning shorts..
Preceded by these shorts: Fetch! 2-D digital animation. A simple game of
chase through an Escheresque world of optical illusions. Pandorama
Drawing directly on 15perf/70mm ("IMAX") film. A new look at mythology's
demonized heroines, Pandora and the biblical Eve. With over 2500 images!
Lexi 2-D digital Rotoscope animation and video. Painterly Rotoscope of
the filmmaker's San Francisco cat. The Fertility Cycle: 3 offbeat films
about Population and the Environment - 1. The Stork 2-D digital
animation. Bundle of Joy or Population Bomb? "The Stork" illustrates the
equation I=PAT: Impact=Population x Affluence x Technology. 2. The Wit &
Wisdom of Cancer 2-D digital animation. Dialog. Cancer cells discuss
their own environmental issues. 3. Fertco 2-D digital animation. The
industrialization of procreation!
11/4
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia
SUMATRAN FOLK CINEMA + MOROCCO: MUSICAL BROTHERHOODS
Alan Bishop and Mark Gergis introduce two of the newer titles in the
Sublime Frequencies catalogue, a refreshing hybrid of ethnography,
travelogue, and field recordings, made possible with lightweight cameras
and increased access to indigenous cultures. The hr-long Sumatran
collage constitutes a cultural kaleidoscope of the sounds and images
from that Indonesian island. Minang orchestras, Dangdut rock music,
regional television, and night market scenes share space with a segment
of pre-tsunami Bandah Aceh, recorded by David Martinez. Hisham Mayet's
hr.-long Morocco: Musical Brotherhoods from the Trans-Saharan Highway
affords an assortment of musical dramas, live and unfiltered, on the
home turf of the world's most dynamic string/drum specialists…ecstatic
performances for string aficionados of electric ouds, banjos, mandolins,
and the gnawa sentir. Come early, meet the makers, and immerse yourself
in a sumptuous, transporting music and food mix.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2006
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11/5
Gainesville, FL: FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
http://www.flexfest.org
1 p.m., WARPHaus Gallery (818 NW 1st Ave.)
FLEX PROGRAM 8
The Boy in the Air (2:00, miniDV, 2005) Lyn Elliot; Eaten (6:19, miniDV,
2006) Anne Haydock; Big Black Square (6:00, super8, 2004) Paul Clipson;
Her Heart is Washed in Water and then Weighed (12:45, 16mm, 2006) Sasha
Waters; 29 Places I once Called Home (20:00, miniDV, 2006) Shannon
Silva; Lyrical Hermonies (4:30, miniDV, 2006) Mika Kiburz and Julita
Potter; Happy Crying Nursing Home (30:00, miniDV, 2005) Niklas Sven
Vollmer
11/5
Gainesville, FL: FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
http://www.flexfest.org
3 p.m., WARPHaus Gallery (818 NW 1st Ave.)
FLEX PROGRAM 9
Where's My Boyfriend? (2:00, miniDV, 2004) Gretchen Hogue; Double Dummy
(6:40, miniDV, 2004) Jennet Thomas; In Places (4:00, DVD, 2004) Erik
Olofsen; Invisibilities (10:30, miniDV, 2006) Jennifer Proctor;
Nothing's Wrong (1:45, 16mm, 2006) Charlotte Taylor; Muriel's Song
(3:00, 16mm, 2006) Grant Wiedenfeld; Me, Myself & I (3:00, 16mm, 2003)
Kelly Spivey; Ignorance before Malice (30:00, 16mm, 2006) Sandra Davis;
What I'm Looking For (15:00, DVCam, 2004) Shelly Silver
11/5
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
AN EVENING WITH ELISABETH SUBRIN
Award-winning filmmaker Elisabeth Subrin visits Filmforum with her
recent work, featuring "The Fancy" (2000, 36 min. video), a speculative,
experimental work that explores the life of Francesca Woodman
(1958-1981) evoked by the published catalogues of and about her
photographs. Also "Shulie" (1997, 37 min.) and "Well, Well, Well" (Le
Tigre video, 2002, 4 min.) General admission $9, students/seniors $6.
Free for Filmforum members, cash and check only.
11/5
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org
5:00pm, 11 West 53rd Street, Titus2
RAKKAUS ON AARRE (LOVE IS A TREASURE)
Rakkaus on aarre (Love Is a Treasure). 2002. Finland. Written and
directed by Eija-Liisa Ahtila. With Amira Khalifa, Ulrikka Koskela.
Ahtila portrays the marvelous intersection of fantasy and reality in the
lives of five women who slip in and out of the here and now. 55 min.
Sunday, November 5, 5:00. T2
11/5
Seattle, Washington: Iceland Naturally / Package Deals
http://www.packagedeals.org
7pm and 9pm, The Varsity, 4329 University Way N.E.
TASTE OF ICELAND FILM FESTIVAL
One night only! 7pm — Portrait of an Island: How Do You Like Iceland?
and other related shorts How Do You Like Iceland? Dir: Kristin
Ólafsdóttir \ 2005 \ Beta SP \ 67 min The proverbial question all
visitors to Iceland are undoubtedly asked, How Do You Like Iceland?
takes a charmingly informative look at the quirks and wonders of the
Icelandic nation and its people. The documentary features interviews
with a host of foreigners familiar with the ways and means of this small
country, including Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz, the heads of Fat
Cat Records, Monty Python trouper Terry Jones, and others. Peppered
throughout the film are fascinating and irreverent tidbits about
Icelandic culture; amongst them is the fact that Icelanders hold world
records in credit card spending, Cocoa Puffs consumption, and Internet
usage. An entertaining must-see for Iceland enthusiasts. The Last Farm
Dir: Rúnar Rúnarsson \ 2004 \ 35mm \ 15 mins The setting in this
Oscar-nominated short is a remote valley, in which all the farms except
one have been abandoned. An elderly man keeps a secret from the outside
world as he reacts to the possibility that he will no longer be able to
remain on his isolated farm Landslag Dir: Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson \
2004 \ video \ 4 mins A visual nature poem consisting of images taken
from the Skagafjördur region of Iceland. 9pm – Cold Hearts: Icelandic
Artist Films and Music Videos [TRT/90mins] Featuring macabre stop
animation, the secret life of moss, mouse suits, exploding dictaphones,
women who live on clouds, Outkast ballads, and some very creative uses
for whipped cream, Cold Hearts represents the whimsical Icelandic
imagination. 17 artist films and music videos cover expansive aesthetic
ground. Working in locales as diverse as art school in Los Angeles to
the craggy vistas of Skagafjördur in northern Iceland, these young
artists explore their native and adopted worlds in inventive ways.
Intrinsically dark and aloof, yet also refreshingly honest, Cold Hearts
is a glimpse into the curious cultural landscape of Iceland now. From
the fantastical, sometimes disturbing artist films of Unnar Andrea
Einarsdottir to the otherworldly output created by bands such as Mum and
Apparat Organ Quartet, the Icelandic aesthetic is as strange and
beautiful as it is overlooked.
11/5
Utrecht, Holland: Holland Animation Film Festival
http://haff.awn.com
12:30, 3512 GW Utrecht, Hoogt 1
RETROSPECTIVES (MEET THE JURY): SANDRA GIBSON
A 70 minute program for Super 8, 16mm, 35mm, and live projection
performance (w/Luis Recoder).
11/5
Utrecht, Holland: Holland Animation Film Festival
http://haff.awn.com
16:30, 3512 GW Utrecht, Hoogt 1
HEARTSTRINGS: COLEEN FITZGIBBON & PAUL SHARITS
Document (1974-1975) by Coleen Fitzgibbon. Analytical Studies II:
Unframed Lines (1971-1976) by Paul Sharits. Curated by Sandra Gibson.
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