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Date: Sat Nov 04 2006 - 09:20:34 PST
This week [November 4 - 12, 2006] in avant garde cinema (part 2 of 3)
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2006
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11/9
Baltimore, Maryland: MicroCineFest
http://www.microcinefest.org
7 PM, MicroCineFest at The G-Spot, 2980 Falls Road
MICROCINEFEST 2006 NIGHT ONE
7 PM - BYGONE SHORTS: The Broken Blossom of the Wilted Rose (Elizabeth
Gourley); Donkey Harvest (Allan Levasseur Brown); Fading Star (John
Standiford); She Sank On Hollow Bank (Clifton Childree & Nikki
Rollason); Something Awful (Clifton Childree). 9 PM - Danielson: A
Family Movie (JL Aronson).
11/9
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
6:00 pm, 164 N. State St.
THE OUTER EAR FESTIVAL OF SOUND: FRÉDÉRIC MOFFET & JEAN GENET
CATE and the Outer Ear Festival of Sound team up to present this special
screening of Frédéric Moffet's award-winning video, JEAN GENET IN
CHICAGO (2006, 26 min.) and Genet's only film, the queer masterpiece UN
CHANT D'AMOUR (1950, 26 min.). Completed at the Experimental Sound
Studio (the organization that puts on Outer Ear), JEAN GENET IN CHICAGO
reimagines the events surrounding the 1968 National Democratic
Convention in Chicago through Genet's eyes—marching with the radicals
while gazing at the cops' uniformed thighs. Genet mines these tensions
himself in the erotically-charged UN CHANT D'AMOUR, which pits sexual
desire against political power in the relationship between two male
prisoners and their male guard. The Outer Ear Festival of Sound
(November 3-22, 2006) is the only comprehensive interdisciplinary sonic
arts festival in the Midwest. For more information, visit
www.expsoundstudio.org. (1950-2006, France/USA, ca. 75 min., various
formats).
11/9
New York, New York: MIX NYC
http://www.mixnyc.org
10 PM, 3LD Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St. (at Rector St.)
GENDERFLUX: NOT SO BLACK AND WHITE
Kaden Harriet Storm, 2006, USA, video, color and B&W, sound, 8 min. A
short documentary that follows Kaden Rushford, a 29-year-old
female-to-male transgender individual as he considers the complex issues
concerning identity, sexuality, and his pursuit of the 'right' body. As
he prepares to undergo chest reconstructive surgery, he shares his
experience as a trans guy, including his internal struggles as well as
his navigation of a society that recognizes only two genders. This
documentary invites us to consider the notion that gender identities
extend beyond strict definitions of male and female. Venus is a Boi Girl
Eli Max Blu, 2004, USA, Super 8mm, color, sound, 3 min. New York
Premiere Alien gender benders from Seattle. Gender Play Philipe
Lonestar, 2005, USA, video, color, sound, 10 min. New York Premiere Set
in a children's playground, this film uses colorful images of gender
variant people and audio interviews to portray how each person
transgresses labels and roles and play with gender and sexual identity.
Not So Black Or White Col Cruise, 2006, United Kingdom, video, sound, 4
min. World Premiere The ineptness ascribed to those whom are 47 XXY by
primarily the medical profession, has permeated into other professional
circles inclusive of the general public, thereby unfortunately brain
washing them with negative overt generalizations, based on unscholarly
and/or biased work with little or no' follow-ups' of those in the lived
experience, which is irresponsible and unprofessional. Is it possible
for the mind to be free from knowledge and belief as gender conformity
descends upon us? That knowledge in relationship created disorder. Some
of us rebel, some of us conform. Gender is a construct to keep control
and to separate. To be related is to live; that is life; that is
existence. As Einstein said, "our separation from each other is an
optical illusion of consciousness". Love is Shit Ali Kennedie, 2006,
USA, video, color, sound, English, 10 min., World Premiere A young
trans-female's lament for longed-for love in the West Village. Tough
Enough Lukas Blakk, 2006, Canada, video, color, sound, 4 min. "Tough
Enough" is a short experimental film which looks at how being outside of
a mainstream gender identity can shut you off from even the simplest
touch. As a young queer child, touching people of either sex can be
extremely loaded. What can one do to confront this? This filmmaker
decides to be tackled repeatedly in order to "shock" their body into
feeling. Le Saut dans le Vide Pierre Yves Clouin, 2004, France, video,
color, silent, 2 min. USA Premiere Now or never. The Contender Gracie
Bucciarelli, 2006, USA, video, sound, 6 min. New York Premiere Inspired
by the non-professional athletes of the neighborhood, this film features
the alter ego boxer of Stormy Henry Knight. As The Contender, he/it
embraces intention, exhibition and the struggle to connect within a
strange and timeless environment that is both internal and external. Boy
Wonder Kery Isabel Ramierez, 2005, USA, video, color,.sound, 12 min.
Luis struggles in a double life as straight male provider by day and
transvestite prostitute by night, to satisfy his homophobic family. The
Arousing Adventures of Sailor Boy Jenny Bisch, 2002, Canada, 16mm,
color, sound, 9 min. A naive mariner is out on the town in this frisky,
vaudeville-flavored piece. His search for the hermaphrodite of his
dreams is scratched into each frame of this work, which played the New
Directors/New Films series in 2004. DAS OVO Michael Brynntrup, 2005,
Germany, video, color, sound, German w/ English subtitles, 17 min. 'It's
not about how a drag queen moves, it's what she sets in motion.' -Ovo
Maltine, 16/04/1966 - 08/02/2005 Christoph Josten was Ovo Maltine. She
died on 8 February, 2005 at Berlin's Auguste Viktoria hospital, eleven
weeks after suddenly being diagnosed with lymphatic cancer. She had
lived with the HIV virus for 13 years. "Ovo (the egg)" – read one
obituary – "lay down in Berlin's nest of queens and brooded on a number
of political projects: a hotline for gay victims of assault, Act Up,
AIDS benefit events, the legalization of marijuana, the recognition of
prostitution as a profession, transgender visibility…"
11/9
New York, New York: MIX NYC
http://www.mixnyc.org
7 PM, 3LD Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St. (at Rector St.)
MIX BRASIL: SEX, GAMES, CLOISTER, BARBECUE GRILL, AND OTHER STORIES
Part of the Brazilian short film competition program screened at the
13th edition of MIX Brasil Festival, these films are elements of an
unfamiliar landscape, a place where trends are refused and sexual
diversity is expressed on very peculiar terms. Sex and a Barbecue Grill
(Espeto de Pau) André Queiroz & Victor Brandt, 2005, 16mm, 6 min. What's
the best present a porn actor could receive from his wife? Sex or a
barbecue? Games (Jogos) Eduardo Aguilar, 2004, video, 8 min. A story
about waking up and reinventing oneself each morning. Sex and Cloister
(Sexo e o Claustro) Claudia Priscilla, 2005, 35mm, 13 min. A documentary
made in Mexico City, about a unique individual and his thoughts and
feelings about sex and religion. Eletrodomestica Kleber Mendonça Filho,
2005, 35mm, 22 min. Middle class, the 90s, 220 Volts. Masturbation
(Masturbação) Gregório Graziosi & Adriana Machado, 2005, video, 1 min.
From sewing to cumming. If you're the guy who used to flirt with me at
the bus stop, watch this film (Se você é o cara que flertava comigo no
ponto de ônibus, veja esse filme) Thiago Alcântara, 2005, video, 10 min.
A routine encounter at the bus stop turns into infatuation. Texticulos
de Mary and Other Stories (Textículos de Mary e Outras Histórias) Flávia
da Rosa Borges, 2004, video, 24 min. The self-appointed spokesperson of
marginalized people, rock band Textículos de Mary (Mary´s Testicles) ,
had a brief career characterized by controversy. An outrageous band with
enough balls to assume their homosexual identity on stage, before it was
swallowed up by conformity.
11/9
New York, New York: MIX NYC
http://www.mixnyc.org
8 PM, 3LD Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St. (at Rector St.)
EVERY BODY MOVES AGAINST CONTROL: PILOT TV
Responding to the concept of "feminist tresspass," Piloteers conjured a
make-over/take-over of corporate media across queer, feminist, artistic,
cultural, and political borders. A Call and an Offering: Pilot TV Dylan
Mira & Latham Zearfoss, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 24 min. This
short documentary chronicles Pilot TV: Experimental Media for Feminist
Trespass, a temporary autonomous television studio built in Chicago in
2004. Splicing the experiential anecdotes of Pilot organizers with a
melange of finished works, A Call and An Offering posits a psychedelic
blueprint for future Piloteers, with the hopes that trespassing
mainstream media is possible. Electric At The Cosmic Age Lodge A.K.
Burns, 2005, USA, video, color, sound, 3 min. "In the absence of
daylight, we are haunted by ghosts and moths, which pass through walls
and create holes in beloved fabrics." AK Burns currently resides in New
York City, and works to explore relationships of body/non-bodies and
quanticodal fabrication, by aggressively embracing/exploiting the less
defined. LOVE/TORTURE Ulrike Mueller, 2005, USA, video, color, sound, 7
min. LOVE/ TORTURE performs a text about pain and sexualized pleasure,
but not necessarily shared pleasure. It investigates emotional
relationships and contemporary subjectivities. Confronted with both the
bleakly simple (people are torturing and killing, people are being
tortured and killed) and the utterly confusing (people are torturing and
killing, people are being tortured and killed), this video proposes for
viewers to shift their attention and identify with the role of the
perpetrator rather than the victim. M.A.T. Megan Palaima, 2005, USA,
video, color, sound, 13 min. M.A.T. is the meeting (ground) between
Affect and Technology. Before a live, participating audience, M.A.T.
positions wrestling bodies as Affect in conflict with guest Techno
Witches. The [space (in)between] summons you to INTERVENTION. So Real
Latham Zearfoss, 2005, USA, video, color, sound, 10 min. This is the
true story of what happens when 4 people (and 1 chicken) stop being
polite, and start being real…SO REAL. Maggots and Men Trailer Oakie
Treadwell, 2005, USA, video, B&W, sound, 4 min. Trailer for the
work-in-progress Maggots and Men, an experimental historical narrative
set in post-revolutionary Russia that re-tells the story of the 1921
uprising of the Kronstadt sailors with gender anarchy as the subtext. A
scene for the film was shot at Pilot. Their Bodies Are Filled With a
Liquid That Tends to Spread Becca Taylor & Madsen Minax, 2005, USA,
video, B&W, sound, 7 min. An animation project about a secret love
affair between the captain of the high school wrestling team and the
yearbook photographer. Voice over narratives were made at Pilot,
improvising the love story. TV Good Enough to Read Lanka Tattersall,
2005, USA, video, color, sound, 3 min.. Reading is fun and revolting.
Lanka Tattersall updates the nostalgic American children's TV show,
Reading Rainbow, as a strategy of literary dissemination/acculturation
by reading "The Dada Manifesto 1918." Social Movement Emily Roysdon,
2005, USA, video, color, silent, 7 min. This video images a literal and
metaphoric setting of the stage. It is concerned with memory, what and
how we remember, as well as the associative arts of archiving and social
movements. The project attempts to simultaneously create and perform the
stage, to frame performance and memory through slow repetitious
gestures, constantly(!) preparing the document of our presence, and the
monument of our persistence. Sing-along Skin-along Dewayne Slightweight,
2006, USA, performance, 14 min. Sing-along Skin-along is an ecstatic
experiment combining hand-made amplifiers and monitors embedded in
hand-made bodies. A shameless inquiry into the habits of other girls and
their methods of liberation, this symphony takes action but is no
marching band.
11/9
New York, New York: MIX NYC
http://www.mixnyc.org
9 PM, 3LD Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St. (at Rector St.)
BEAUTIFUL DECAY: ARCHITECTURE/LANDSCAPE
This experimental program explores our attachment to familiar
environments and the entanglement of our memory and identity with the
space we inhabit. Debris Justin Kelly, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 8
min. In this quirky surreal short, Katy, a stewardess, wakes hours after
having fallen from her plane. Confused, she wanders about the lush
industrial wasteland until she's recognized by Rhani and Heather, (two
other fallen stewardesses) patrolling the area on bikes. Together, they
bike to Rhani's favorite beach for a picnic, where they bond over
apples, until Katy's bosses (the pilot and head stewardess) unexpectedly
arrive and attempt to take her away. Fish Under Delancey Kelly Spivey,
2006, USA, 16mm, color, sound, 29 min. I learned from Eileen Myles, that
to be a poet in NYC, you have to be able to write any time, any place,
with any noises, smells and people you may be surrounded by. I wanted
this film to feel like a poet's—shot from the hip, fluid in meaning,
mysterious yet compelling. I started with an idea to use the murals in
the subways as the raw material for animations. Then I decided to create
environments that would lead the viewer somewhere and then drop them
off. This is what the subway does. The power of narrative is a curious
thing I want to play with and taunt. This idea that we are told a story
- I like to see how much I can get viewers themselves to engage and
create their own version of what's happening in the film. (The poet
Eileen Myles and my friend Meredith Seery star in the film as
themselves.) The Sea Calls Us Home Annie Simpson & Seth Kirby, 2005,
USA, video, color, sound, 2 min. A lone figure wakes to find herself at
the boundary of land and sea and longs to return to where the sea meets
the sky. Situated in the liminal spaces of memory and dreams, and
weaving allegorical narratives with historical events, The Sea Calls Us
Home is the first in a four-part cycle exploring how childhood stories
shape adult realities. Featuring sound by New York-based electronic
musician Ray Sweeten. World's Worst Architecture Cameron Groves, 2005,
Canada, S8mm to video, B&W, sound, 8 min. In World's Worst Architecture,
two guys recount their courtship over gritty black & white Super 8
images of the soulless modern buildings of Toronto and their idyllic
vacation spot on the shores of Lake Huron. With the grainy footage, it
looks like a historical film, but the voiceovers combine to give it an
evocative sense of urban life and the difficulties and fundamental
problems with modern relationships. Ultimately, it's eerie and a little
sad. But very true. Portrait #2: Trojan Vanessa Renwick, 2006, USA, 35mm
to video, color, sound, 6 min. Trojan Nuclear Facility, Oregon's
powerful iconic landmark, goes adios."The astonishing five-minute color
film was shot in 35MM and transferred to video, sporting a perfectly
synched musical score by Quasi's Sam Coomes. No narrative, just a
picturesque haunting reminder of our lives under the totem of a nuclear
state. Long defunct, the monumental tower was imploded earlier this year
and Renwick (of Oregon Department of Kick Ass) decided to capture the
haunting silhouette that has simply stood there menacingly for years.
She calmly documents its demise, which is very much an anti-climax. The
short film adores its subject, the towering cement structure. Over a
varying course of time, with lapse and stills we view a building painted
in pastel light, stark at night, at dawn and dusk. Its inevitable course
in its history would be told through a moment in time when it was no
more. In essence, the very moment of implosion infers the ultimate
destructive potential of its former chilling power. Score by Sam Coomes
of Quasi. Merci Blick, 2004, France, 35mm to video, B&W, sound, French
with English subtitles, 5 min. Rehabilitations, destructions,
constructions in a few years deeply modified the Chorier-Berriat
district of Grenoble. Merci observes the transformation of this
industrial district into a district of businesses via an electromagnetic
filmic rhythm near to the movement which involved the modification of
the landscape. Shadows and Stone Dana Rubin, 2005, Israel, video, color,
sound, English subtitles, 5 min A static shot of the foot traffic that
flows through a hole in the wall that separates the Palestinians from
the Israelis. Reste-La Frederic Tachou, 2006, France, 35mm, B&W, sound,
12 min. One night, I had a dream about my father. I saw a familiar home.
The unity of the architecture of the house had come apart, creating an
unusual conglomeration of rooms, windows and spaces. The film shows
these—'spaces inside me'—haunted by the presence of the person who just
died. Love is a Battlefield 2006, performance, c. 7 min. Lollo Birgitta
is comprised of Cecilia Grimm and (M)Lollo. They have been performing
doubles trapeze together for close to 2 years. They enjoy creating work
that engages and entertains the audience. Tonight you will see the
struggles of the gay movement abstracted through the use of the popular
80's song, Love is a Battlefield. Though the struggle for civil rights
is a real one, ultimately it is ridiculous to have to fight for your
right to love as you please. But i don't have to tell you all that.
11/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7pm, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STAN BRAKHAGE
STAN BRAKHAGE Films made during the early period of one of modern
cinema's greatest innovators, including one of his early experiments
with sound. Films to be shown: PASHT (1965, 5 minutes) THE WONDER RING
(1955, 4 minutes) FLESH OF MORNING (1956, 25 minutes) FIRE OF WATERS
(1965, 10 minutes, sound) WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (1959, 12 minutes)
11/9
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
NEITHER HERE NOR THERE
Thursday, November 9 at 7:30pm Ninth Street Center for Independent Film
145 Ninth Street Neither Here Nor There Loren Chasse and Keith Evans In
Person Co-Sponsored by Ninth Street Independent Film Center The carrier
wind listens to itself. Sound and image artists Loren Chasse and Keith
Evans present a special handcrafted multi-media event, beginning with
the observers/ audience entering into an intimate performance space and
concluding in a screening room. For Chasse and Evans, awareness of
landscape is a creative, physical phenomenon, and intention in
performance creates an ecology of attention. Using idiosyncratic
cinematic systems constructed from old projectors and sound devices with
found materials grafted onto them, Chasse and Evans open
apparatus-bodies in absurd and mysterious ways.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2006
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11/10
Baltimore, Maryland: MicroCineFest
http://www.microcinefest.org
6 PM, MicroCineFest at The G-Spot, 2980 Falls Road
MICROCINEFEST 2006 NIGHT TWO
6:00 PM - Human BEEing w/shorts: Argus (Freddy Maskeroni); Bubblecraft
(Geoff Marslett); Casket Climber Insect God (Brian Lonano);,
Celebration's New Skin (Bump); Celestial Broadcast for Mrs. Jones
(Kathleen Quillian): Greenie Travels (Bogdan Szabo); The Human BEEing
(Tony Shea); In The Nick (Jason Middleton); Oomper Oomper (Michael
Robinson); The Struggle (Luku Trembath); Team Queen (Leah Meyerhoff).
8:00 PM - Experimiscellaneous Shorts: All (Arturo Menchaca); All That
Remains (Stephanie Maxwell & Michaela Eremiasova); The Boy In The Air
(Lyn Elliot); Caress (Mendel Hardeman); Dollar Disobedience (Bill
VanDall); Given: The Undead (Adam Trowbridge); The Joy Of Leisure
(Daniel J. Anderson); Kyrie Eleison (Mendel Hardeman); Let's Get Out Of
Here (Rahne Alexander); LIFE (Daehwan Cho); Nebulous 1 (David Wanger);
The One And The Many (André Silva); (rock/hard place)Roger Beebe; S A V
E (Roger Beebe); Tempera (John Rouse); Yellow Cab (Michael L. Schmidt).
10:00 PM - My Life As An Underdog (Boris Gavrilovic & Leon Martin).
11/10
HULL, ENGLAND: Hull Film
http://www.hullfilm.co.uk/
10 + 17th @ 7.30pm, Hull Screen|University of Lincoln|George
Street|Hull|HU1 3BW
DANCE MOVES
Dance Moves HULL FILM presents DANCE MOVES a special two-part film
programme taking place during the TWO WEEKENDS dance festival The
marriage of dance, performance and film creates a very particular
dynamic. The negotiation of the live performer with the mechanics of
filmmaking makes for a naturally questioning form. The fusion, at its
best, asks important questions about the nature of the body on the
screen, how movement should be framed, what gesture can mean, how rhythm
is exploited. How much can be said by not speaking, by asking us to
look? RIZE PART ONE Feature Film programme Friday November 10th 7.30pm
Hull Screen|University of Lincoln|George Street|Hull|HU1 3BW RIZE David
LaChapelle 2005|86'|col|35mm|USA/UK|Rated:PG Rize reveals a
groundbreaking dance phenomenon that's exploding on the streets of South
Central, Los Angeles. Taking advantage of unprecedented access, this
documentary film brings to first light a revolutionary form of artistic
expression borne from oppression. The aggressive and visually stunning
dance modernizes moves indigenous to African tribal rituals and features
mind-blowing, athletic movement sped up to impossible speeds. Rize
tracks the fascinating evolution of the dance: we meet Tommy Johnson
(Tommy the Clown), who first created the style as a response to the 1992
Rodney King riots and named it "Clowning", as well as the kids who
developed the movement into what they now call Krumping. The kids use
dance as an alternative to gangs and hustling: they form their own
troupes and paint their faces like warriors, meeting to outperform rival
gangs of dancers or just to hone their skills. For the dancers, Krumping
becomes a way of life – and, because it's authentic expression (in
complete opposition to the bling-bling hip-hop culture), the dance
becomes a vital part of who they are.
11/10
London, England: Paul Tarrago + Jennet Thomas
http://www.wemakeourowntv.com
midday to 6pm, Friday to Sunday, Alma Enterprises, 1 Vyner Street, London
E2 9DG
WE MAKE OUR OWN TELEVISION
10th Nov - 17th Dec 2006 WE MAKE OUR OWN TELEVISION: New video work by
Paul Tarrago + Jennet Thomas Alma Enterprises Open: Friday-Sunday 12pm -
6pm Preview Thursday 9th Nov 6pm-9pm WE MAKE OUR OWN TELEVISION is a
collaborative venture between Paul Tarragó and Jennet Thomas, taking the
form of a video installation show on tour internationally from September
2006 - June 2007. In Because of the War a dapper Yellow Man Lecturer
looks the viewer squarely in the eye and delivers an account of how it
all came to pass: the conflict, the changes, everyday acts of
transubstantiation, leading to a world where magick and ritual are
suburban norms. Part slide show, with occasional forays into narrative
interludes, this free verse instructional starts to shift the viewer's
gaze-although a world governed by Neo-Absurdist un-sense, there's a
burgeoning sense of familiarity. This not-quite-here, with its skewed
and confusing folklore, isn't as elsewhere as first seems. The Badger
Series has issues, and attempts-each episode-to resolve them. Recasting
a glove puppet show through his own present day sensibilities, Tarragó
himself assumes the role of the kindly uncle mentor to a household of
capersome woodland creatures while modern themes are introduced.
Mortality, sanity, depression, altered states of consciousness and
transgressive art practices are all negotiated as part of everyday
living. Meanwhile the show is mindful to adhere the old structural
formulae, with entertainment numbers and routines appropriate to the
scaled down sitcom world that they occupy. The series is equal parts
moral instruction and narrative play, mediated through the forced fit of
an experimental filmmaker as children's entertainer. WE MAKE OUR OWN
TELEVISION features video work that defies classification - a hybrid of
underground film, experimental art practices and personal folk cinema.
visit the project website at www.wemakeourowntv.com For further
information contact Sara Watkins at email suppressed or 07973 272543
gallery website at www.almaenterprises.com
11/10
London, England: Tate Modern
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/film
7pm, Bankside, SE1
SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT: BRITISH AVANT-GARDE FILM OF THE 1960S & 1970S
The 1960s and 1970s were groundbreaking decades in which independent
filmmakers challenged cinematic convention. In England, much of the
innovation took place at the London Film-Makers' Co-operative, an
artist-led organisation that enabled filmmakers to control every aspect
of the creative process. LFMC members conducted an investigation of
celluloid that echoed contemporary developments in painting and
sculpture. The physical production of a film became integral to its form
and content as Malcolm Le Grice, Lis Rhodes, Peter Gidal and others
explored the material and mechanics of cinema, making radical new works
that contributed to a new visual language. SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT: PROGRAMME
1: The Materialist tendency characterised the hardcore of British
filmmaking in the early 1970s. Distinguished from Structural Film, these
works were primarily concerned with duration and the raw physicality of
the celluloid strip. SLIDES (Annabel Nicolson) AT THE ACADEMY (Guy
Sherwin) SHEPHERD'S BUSH (Mike Leggett) FILM NO. 1 (David Crosswaite)
DRESDEN DYNAMO (Lis Rhodes) VERSAILLES I & II (Chris Garratt) SILVER
SURFER (Mike Dunford) FOOTSTEPS (Marilyn Halford). Curated by Mark
Webber. A "Shoot Shoot Shoot" DVD is published by LUX/Re:Voir.
11/10
New York, New York: MIX NYC
http://www.mixnyc.org
10 PM, 3LD Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St. (at Rector St.)
POUR UNE NUIT (& OTHER NAUGHTY BITS)
Pour une nuit is a series of five sexy short scenes, each recording an
intense affair between two real live queers. Each participant chose a
partner and discussed erotic fantasies prior to filming, yet events
unfold naturally, with little attention to the camera's prying gaze. The
result is magnetic. Jouvet's players act out their desires and delve
into sexual practices as varied as the queer community itself. Pussy
Buffet Kadet Kuhne & Ursula Rodriguez, USA, video, color, sound, 6 min.
Desserts down there. Right After They Pet Me Janene Higgins, 2002, USA,
Mini DV, color, sound, 3 min. As the torch singer laments the fact that
she's a great lay, the video thumbs its nose at the idea that girls
aren't supposed to want it. Music: "I'm Good for Nothing but Love" by
Martin/Ballard; sung by the fabulous Ruth Etting. Pour Une Nuit (One
Night Stand) Emile Jouvet, 2006, France, video, color, sound, French
with English subtitles, 81 min. New York Premiere You can't always get
what you want, unless you take matters into your own hands and do it
yourself. Introducing queer young French director and photographer
Emilie Jouvet, who gladly took matters in hand and recorded them to
create the unforgettably sexy short film series Pour une nuit. Jouvet is
the proud creator of this groundbreaking queer "sex-art" piece, also
known as the first dyke and boi porno ever made in France. Get ready for
an erotic and gritty romp into the broad universe of queer sexuality,
beautifully handmade for your viewing pleasure.
11/10
New York, New York: MIX NYC
http://www.mixnyc.org
10:30 PM, 3LD Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St. (at Rector St.)
V.O.
Rites of PTAH Micki Pellerano, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 4 min.
World Premiere Punk boy sex magick. V.O. William Jones, 2006, USA,
video, color, sound, 59 min. V.O. consists (mainly) of sound quotes from
more-or-less mainstream-foreign classics, by the likes of de Olivera,
Renoir, Buñuel, Kaurismäki, Schroter, Eimgholz, and Debord, (None of
which, by the way, are currently distributed in the USA) plus excerpts
from American gay porno classics from the 70s and 80s, works by
established masters like Tom de Simone (Confessions of a Groupie, 1970),
Fred Halsted (L. A. Plays Itself, 1972), or Joe Gage (in particular his
proletarian trilogy made between 1976 and '78: Kansas City Trucking Co.,
El Paso Wrecking Corp., and L. A. Tool & Die). Nothing is ever done to
hide the fact that these parts don't belong together per se, the sounds
and images hit each other, violently, relentlessly, with solely the
subtitles – the words these sounds mean, a layer all its own – as
something like and equilibrating force in it all. These layers don't
question each other; they start to hit on each other. They play with
each other becoming one in an awesome evocation of love and passion, its
conditions and guises. Plus…a surpise Super8mm film!
11/10
New York, New York: MIX NYC
http://www.mixnyc.org
7 PM, 3LD Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St. (at Rector St.)
A DIFFERENT TAKE: QUEER YOUTH SPEAK OUT
In summer 2006, MIX NYC initiated its queer youth media training
program, A Different Take, and joined other such successful public
programs as REACH LA in offering lesbian, gay, bi- and transgender youth
the tools and training to gain power as media-makers by expressing their
perspectives through video production. Delivering their own State of the
Union, the young auteurs represented here, many from A Different Take or
from REACH LA's video production workshop, break down authentic queer
stories with heart, craft and insight. Inside Out Jessica Scott, 2006,
USA, video, color, sound, 8 min., World Premiere A lesbian teen's
multi-media, confessional of life on the streets and in shelters.
Cruzando La Frontera Maria Cruz, 2006, video, color, sound, 4 min. A
passionate, poetic take on crossing the U.S. border Love is Shit Ali
Kennedie, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 10 min., World Premiere A
young trans-female's lament for longed-for love in the West Village. I'm
Gonna Die A Virgin Osuna, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 8 min.
Immortality and love. A yearning for love, for affection and the
constant fear of dying young and alone. Boy Wonder Kery Isabel Ramierez,
2005, USA, video, color, sound, 12 min. Luis struggles in a double life
as straight male provider by day and transvestite prostitute by night,
to satisfy his homophobic family. Billy Butch's Rockin' Rampage Catey
McSweeny, Jeanna Tejada, 2006, video, color, sound, 9 min. A spoof of
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood that deals with dating issues in the lesbian
youth community. My Crazy Life Carlos Arguello, 2005, USA, video, color,
sound, 8 min. An animated short that playfully portrays the realities of
a young gay Latino male living in South Central Los Angeles. The short
explores friendship, education, homophobia and racism but in a dynamic,
youth-friendly animation style. This innovative approach is designed to
engage young people in meaningful conversation about difficult topics,
shared from the perspective of their peers. Featuring the voice and
video footage of 19 year-old Enzo Ybarra. Green Room Matt Palazzolo,
2005, USA, video, color, sound, 6 min. New York Premiere "Green Room" is
a rare opportunity for the parallels between growing up in a digital
society and queer youth to collide. Through the archival footage and an
intense existing process, "Green Room" offers unique insight into the
experience of modern queer teen in the form of a visual autobiography.
11/10
New York, New York: MIX NYC
http://www.mixnyc.org
8 PM, 3LD Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St. (at Rector St.)
VIDEO BURNOUT
I don't know that this video program is really about drugs and
television at all; of course it's about something…it could simply be a
small reflection of an archaeology of a train of thought, and perhaps
that's all it really needs it be. In the least, it's about watching.
Joshua Thorson, Guest Curator Edie After Hours Seth Kirby, 2005, video,
color, sound, 2 min. An analogue disco processing, from the Maysles'
Grey Gardens, of Edie dancing with the American flag as the world around
her whirls into jagged bits of feedback. N.B.: strobing effect, if you
are epileptic or otherwise strobe-sensitive please use caution. DARK
STARS Marisa Olson, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 2 min. Samples from
VHS video games and internet video are fed back through analog
processors in this witty and poetic comment on race and Warholian fame.
Ringo Zapruder Dale Hoyt, 1981, video, color, sound, 5 min. A remake of
Brackage's Desistfilm that also asks whether the hysteria of
Beatle-mania might have had something to do with their first single's
release date falling just six days after the Kennedy assassination. II:
MK & A Sarah McKiel, 2006, video, color, sound, 1 min. Sarah McKiel's
project NSM Fashions includes a book, and a long sequence of videos,
mostly made about and during television viewing. This video watches,
repeatedly and in slow-mo, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen on Saturday Night
Live screaming. Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Paul Bush, 2001, video, color,
sound, 5 min. The 1941 film version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde remade
with a schizophrenic photographic apparatus. This video concretizes the
thematic by transposing it into the structural. Based on the novel by
Robert Louis Stevenson. The Possible Fog of Heaven John Knecht, 1993,
USA, video, color, sound, 10 min. Speaking for the first time from the
afterworld, Elvis describes his experience of Heaven. This is told
through the tape's structure, predicated upon the King's last
prescription. II: Caitlin Sarah McKiel, 2006, video, color, sound, 1
min. From NSM Fashions. Caitlin, from Degrassi Junior High, in a rainy
and somber moment writhes across the screen. pulse pharma phantasm Les
LeVeque, 2002, video, color, sound, 6 min. A frame-by-frame weaving of
nine different pharmaceutical television commercials into a pulsating
hallucination. N.B.: strong strobing effect, if you are epileptic or
otherwise strobe-sensitive please use caution. I Did It Peter Brinson,
2001, video, color, sound, 17 min. Using the scientific method, Brinson
evaluates himself and his video before and after taking Prozac to
determine whether or not he needs anti-depressants and if they have an
effect on his storytelling. I: Subplot Sarah McKiel, 2006, video, color,
sound, 3 min. From NSM Fashions. An interventionist approach to the
experience of experiencing America's Top Model, in this special instance
where models meet a publicist to talk about self-image and, by proxy,
eating disorders: dissecting it, enveloping it, and turning away.
Mummenclean Anonymous, 2005, video, color, sound, 2 min. A conceptual
Swiss cleaning service thwarts it's own productivity after discovering
some un-consumed cocaine; the disco returns. Docu-Duster Donigan
Cumming, video, color, sound, 3 min. To be a man, to be a hero, to be a
wife; three conflicting voices inhabit the filmmaker as he re-enacts the
climax of Delmar Daves' 3:10 to Yuma. Jean Genet in Chicago Frederic
Moffat, 2006, video, color, sound, 26 min. A queer re-writing of the
events surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
from the point of view of French writer Jean Genet, whose presence
unearths the difficult alignment of political and sexual desires. II:
Length of the Body Sarah McKiel, 2006, video, color, sound, 1 min. From
NSM Fashions. "We don't want to have shoulders for earrings—like this."
An exercise show is examined in a moment of absurd parlance.
11/10
New York, New York: MIX NYC
http://www.mixnyc.org
9 PM, 3LD Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St. (at Rector St.)
PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS
This collection of shorts is sure to appeal anyone with an interest in
the intersections between sexuality, creativity and fetishism from the
fringes to the silly and the sublime. Guy 101 Ian Gouldstone, 2005, UK,
video, color, sound, 9 min. An S/M internet fantasy incorporating
computer animation. This piece explores cyber-desire gone wrong...or
right, depending on your taste. Both funny and sobering. Killer Fags Ian
Jarvis, 2005, Canada, video, color, sound, 3 min. Killer Fags attempts
to explore how negative stereotypical societal images translate into the
construction of a larger and more dangerous gay homophobic identity.
This film juxtaposes images of Hollywood homosexuality with famous gay
serial killers to reveal some alarming conclusions. The Heart Scewer (Le
Nicoeur) Herve Joseph Lebrun, 2005, France, video, color, sound, 17 min.
At dawn of spring, at the foot of the Atlas Mountains, a young
traveller, thirsty for... sex, steals the heart of a rich exiled boy
recluse in his "douar"... The Heartscrewer is a post-porn poetic
metaphor of furtive male passion, under the ochre light of Morocco.
Yankee Lust Clark Nicolai, 2006, Canada, video, color, sound, 3 min.
Shot at the Folsom Street Fair in 2000, this piece enjoys the beauty of
leather daddies in all their glory. No longer hidden in the darkness of
the backrooms, they proudly stroll the sunlight streets of San Francisco
in their best gear. Pop Porn Party Panik Qulture, 2005, France, video,
color, sound, 4 min. A roll of packing tape and a few dildos can lead to
an exciting adventure beyond the binary gender system. Set to the music
of Klaus Nomi. Feetish Eliza Steinbock & Christina Schafer, 2005, The
Netherlands, video, color, sound, 4 min. A foot's eye-view of a hot
multi-gender toe orgy in a public restroom. IML: Dog Eat Dog Charles
Lum, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 12 min. An exploration of people
who are dogs and the people who love them. Shot at the International Mr.
Leather conference, this piece uses experimental video techniques to
portray an experimental lifestyle. Bad Boy Velveeta Krisp, 2005, Canada,
video, B&W, sound, 5 min. Two women and a dog training session. We won't
ruin the surprise....but consider yourself warned. Stick It To Hetero
Culture (La Culture hétéro vous savez ou je me la mets?) Panik Qulture,
2004, France, video, color, sound, 6 min. The Parisian radical queer art
collective Panik Qulture confronts the public with their own style of
"just say no" street theater. Chick On Chick Sepideh Saii & Maya Seuss,
2005, Canada, video, color, sound, 3 min. An homage to The Miss Nomer
Collective's docu/porn "Girl on Girl," the satirical video "Chick on
Chick" explores the sexuality and sensuality between chicks, in and out
of the coop. Raz D'ep Lionel Soukaz, 2002, France, video, B&W, 5 min.
This piece of ritual shaving is a parody of the 1979 Lionel Soukaz & Guy
Hocquenghem film "Race d'Ep." Albrecht Becker, Arsch Ficker Faust Ficker
Herve Joseph Lebrun, 2004, France, video, B&W, sound, 7 min. Albrecht
Becker (1906-2002) was one of the last people to have survived the Nazi
suppression of homosexuals, which started in 1933, with the
implementation of paragraph 175. Becker had started to 'decorate' his
body in 1943, practicing the art of tattoos and piercing and taking
photos of his progressive transformations. Lebrun puts the spotlight on
the body of Becker with photographs resembling landscapes of a body,
which by its constant mutations and history, left a mark on its century.
11/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 9:30pm, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
NY THEATRICAL PREMIRE! "ME & MY BROTHER" BY ROBERT FRANK
ME AND MY BROTHER (1965-68 (re-edited 1997), 91 min (re-edited 85 min),
35mm, b/w and color) Anthology is thrilled to present the first New York
Theatrical Premiere Run of Robert Frank's ME AND MY BROTHER, his
stunning first feature-length film, which places documentary footage of
poets Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and Peter's brother Julius within
a fictional framework. Constantly delineating real and imaginary
situations and moving back and forth between gorgeous color and
black-and-white, the film describes the inner and outer worlds of
Julius, a catatonic, who silently observes the world around him. The
film was re-edited in 1997 to mark the passing of Allen Ginsberg and
also features the late Joseph Chaikin, founder of the revolutionary
Off-Broadway company, Open Theater. ME AND MY BROTHER's re-edited
version "re-premiered" in 1998 at the San Francisco International Film
Festival. ME AND MY BROTHER is a capturing film, which on the surface is
about mental illness and the society's response to it. Montage, split
screen, disrupted sense of time and unconventional sound are used in
this film, which is a also a study of the fine line between documentary
film and reality, and the relationship between film and fact.
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