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Date: Sat Nov 04 2006 - 13:30:49 PST
This week [November 4 - 12, 2006] in avant garde cinema (part 3 of 3)
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2006
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11/11
Baltimore, Maryland: MicroCineFest
http://www.microcinefest.org
6 PM, MicroCineFest at The G-Spot, 2980 Falls Road
MICROCINEFEST 2006 NIGHT THREE
6:00 - Two-Headed Cow (Tony Gayton, Produced by Lisa Mae Wells
Fincannon, Bill Cody, Craig Fincannon, Frank Capra, Jr.). 8:00 - Comedy
Shorts: Ancestors (Cable Hardin); Bzzzzzzz (Lee Gordon Demarbre); Cox &
Combes' Washington (Brad Neely); Fuck Pillows (Nikc Miller); Idiot Bush
Press Conference (Bardot); Illusionators (Jason Woliner/Human Giant); In
Defense of Definitions (Don Swaynos); Look Out! It's Going To Blow!
(Mike & Patrick Malloy); Nelson: Rock & Roll Detectives (Jay Barba &
Brian Farrelly); So You Wanna Be… (Jay Barba & Brian Farrelly); Theory,
Fact, or Fiction? (Take English). 10:00 - "You Shall Not Authority Me!"
Matthew Silver shorts: Bush Satan Peace (Matthew Silver); Dead To The
World And It's Only Tuesday (Matthew Silver); Dionarap (Matthew Silver &
Andre Brongniart); Disco Man (Matthew Silver); Escape (Matthew Silver);
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (Bogdan Szabo & Matthew Silver); Journey Men
(Matthew Silver); La Gallina Matadora (Matthew Silver & Manuel
Pimentel); Radiation Can Give You Brain Tumors (Matthew Silver).
11/11
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
SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT: PROGRAMME 2: Despite the LFMC workshop's central role
in production, not all the work was derived from experimentation with
printing and processing. Filmmakers also used language, landscape and
the body to create works that explore the essential properties of the
medium. THRESHOLD (Malcolm Le Grice) SEVEN DAYS (Chris Welsby) KEY
(Peter Gidal) MOMENT (Stephen Dwoskin) DECK (Gill Eatherley) COLOURS OF
THIS TIME (William Raban) ASSOCIATIONS (John Smith). Curated by Mark
Webber. A "Shoot Shoot Shoot" DVD is published by LUX/Re:Voir.
11/11
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org
8:00pm, 11 West 53rd Street, Titus2
JENNI OLSON'S THE JOY OF LIFE
The Joy of Life. 2005. USA. Directed by Jenni Olson. The landscape is
San Francisco. Light shifts across its hills and the Golden Gate Bridge.
The voice-over, by Harriet "Harry" Dodge, tells two heart-wrenching
stories: the history of the Bridge as a mecca for suicides, and the
search for love by a young woman seeking another woman. Lawrence
Ferlinghetti reads his ode to San Francisco, "The Changing Light," and
the opening and closing music is by poet and presumed Golden Gate
suicide victim Weldon Kees. Organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior
Curator, Department of Film. Courtesy Strand Releasing and Frameline. 65
min. New York premiere. Saturday, November 11, 8:00; Thursday, November
16, 6:00.
11/11
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm- Saturday evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between 2nd Avenue and the Bowery)
New York
ROBERT FLOWERS ONE-PERSON PROGRAM
110303 (18 min-2003), SKYCLIMBER (9.5 min.-2005), LIGHT-BEARER (9.5
min.-2005), STEREOSCOPIC EXPERIMENT FOR AUDIENCE No. 1 (8 min.-2006),
GRIDCODE (2 min.-2006), UNIDENTIFIED FOREIGN OBJECTS (UFO's) (6.5
min.-2006), WAR-HEADS (15 min.-1993) 16mm film, Robert Flowers, based in
Dallas, Texas, brings with him a collection of elegant, mostly abstract,
digital video works and a 16mm film. "The effects of our
industrial/digital age are examined in Robert Daniel Flowers' quietly
poetic 110303 in which repeated machinelike shapes and superimposed
moving rectangles recall modern buildings and the monotony of the
assembly line."- Fred Camper. "A symphony of data, computations, and
architecture at the micro level; where circle and line form grids which
collide, overlap, intersect, and co-exist."- R.F. On WAR-HEADS- "Created
as a reaction against the original Gulf War, WAR-HEADS' macabre
connotations are perhaps more valid today than a decade ago. It is a
dark, militaristic satire (that isn't funny) structured in four ordered
parts of equal value: Commercial, Stealth, Funeral and Ritual (Dance)."-
R.F.
11/11
New York, New York: MIX NYC
http://www.mixnyc.org
10 PM, 3LD Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St. (at Rector St.)
BACKALLEY JUKEBOX
Backalley Jukebox is the first travelling screening of it's kind ever to
showcase the filth and the fury of the queer music film & video culture.
If You Want It Giles O'Dell, 2005, USA, color, sound, 4 min. Scream Club
become a 2 headed bug cruising the insect disco for Beth Ditto from the
Gossip in this animated love letter. You Are My Sister Charles Atlas,
USA, 4 min. We are all beautiful, we are all sisters; an experimental
visual tribute by Antony and the Johnsons featuring Boy George. Ballad
For Win and Regine Sara St. Onge, 2005, Canada, 4 min. A little fantasy
from Final Fantasy at work helps pass the time. The Boyfriend Song Kevin
Drew, 2005, Canada, 4 min. Gentlemen Reg plays a Basement Make Out Party
with something for everyone. I Believe in the Good Life Joel Gibb, 2005,
Canada, video, color, 4 min. Even With the Hidden Cameras in the jury,
this bad apple just wants to get off. Keep On Livin' Paper Tiger TV,
Safespace/Rodney Street, 2002, USA, video, color, sound, 4 min. Le Tigre
sings the anthem and these queer kids don't take no for an answer. Call
Out the Lions Cody Critcheloe, 2004, USA, video, color, sound, 4 min.
Kansas City to NY and back to Kansas City again as The SSION reminds us:
Don't sit in the corner waiting for your chance. Promofunk Ryan Junell,
2003, USA, video, color, sound, 4 min. Watch the pink moustache paint
the town fagtastic with Soft Pink Truth electro-nod to 70's crisco disco
clones. Pants into the Sun Bernadette Houde, 2006, Canada, S8 to video,
color, sound, 5 min. Zombies vs. the Queer Dance Rebellion led by
Lesbians on Ecstasy. Burger Baby Eric October, 2003, USA, video, color,
sound, 2 min. This song (by Gravy Train!!!!) comes to life as a Josie &
The Pussycats style cartoon, where Chunx is knocked up by a hamburger,
and must decide if she should keep her burger baby. Double Fantasy 2
Justin Kelly, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 6 min. In the spirit of
Yoko & John's hotel bed-in for love over war, Hey Willpower stages a
dance-in for world peace. Game On Kids on TV, 2005, Canada, color,
sound, 4 min. Signature Kids On TV beats and cockwolf treats in these
vignettes about hooking up complete with horny robots and whip cream.
Filthy, Gorgeous John Cameron Mitchell, USA, 2005, color, sound, 4 min.
Scissor Sisters and New York City explode with decadent dancing freaks.
Team Queen Leah Meyerhoff, 2006, USA, video, color, sound 4 min. The new
girl in school is thrown into a topsy-turvy madhouse of high school
hellcats. The cheerleaders are drag queens, the nerds are nymphomaniacs,
the punks breathe fire and the prom band is none other than the
all-girl, post-punk phenomenon Triple Creme. Starring the best of New
York burlesque, including Murrary Hill, Julie Atlas Muz, Scarlet
Sinclair, Molly the Dolly, Tigger, and Scotty the Blue Bunny. Nothin'
Pretty Katrina Del Mar, USA, 2002, video, sound, 5 min. Shot over the
beautifully dreary skies of Brooklyn, the film makes suffering visible
in its gritty depiction of pain and loss through scraping concrete,
crumbling facades, broken glass and dripping paint. "There's nothin
pretty in my world," sings Karen Curious, the fiery frontwoman of New
Professionals, a band ringing bells back to the Pretenders and Joan Jett
& the Blackhearts. A Miracle Daniel Barrow, 2005, Canada, video, color,
sound, 4 min. The Hidden Cameras enlist animator Daniel Barrow to bleed
life into a lonely boy and his headphones. Strip Mall Glass Justin
Kelly, 2005, USA, video, color, sound, 6 min. Veronica Lipgloss and the
Evil Eyes lead a decadent filth parade through the streets of San
Francisco.
11/11
New York, New York: MIX NYC
http://www.mixnyc.org
11 PM, 3LD Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St. (at Rector St.)
TRENCHCOAT CROWD
Scuzzy seats and sticky floors might always have a place on 42nd Street,
but the porn cinemas are gone forever—and at a cost that could not be
calculated in property values. According to Samuel R. Delany, the Runyon
of the red-light district, New York's porn theaters were "not at all
[romantic]. But because of the people who used them, they were humane
and functional, fulfilling needs that most of our society does not yet
know how to acknowledge." Triple Axxxel Kicking off, literally, with a
fabulously raunchy spin across the icy hot surface of competitive figure
skating. Le Nicoeur (The Heartscrewer) Herve Joseph Lebrun, 2005,
France, video, color, sound, 17 min. USA Premiere At the dawn of Spring,
at the foot of the Atlas Mountain, a young traveler thirsty for...sex,
steals the heart of a rich exiled boy recluse in his 'douar.' Right
After They Pet Me Janene Higgins, 2002, USA, video, color, sound, 3 min.
New York Premiere 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. All Male Mash Up William Jones, 2006, USA, video,
color, sound, 29 min. New York Premiere The short All male mash Up is
spare, even minimalist: Only scenes taken from 70s/80s gay porno, of men
playing out and around with different forms of maleness, ending with a
happy couple by the sea. It's porno made art through the glances of a
loving man – or is it a reality of love that can be found in porno if
one looks with care – or a remembrance of realities past, of times more
willing to indulge in ambiguities? It's all of it at once, as it always
is with Jones. The Naked-Boy Business, part 1 Andre Hereford, 2006,
video, color, sound, 7 min, World Premiere A tongue-in-cheek take on
straight boys' attitudes about the sexualized male body, using
man-on-the-street interviews, "found" footage of modern-day semi-nude
celebrities, sexy excerpts of the director's own work, and new photos
and video shot by naked-boy legend Peter Berlin.
11/11
New York, New York: MIX NYC
http://www.mixnyc.org
6 PM, 3LD Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St. (at Rector St.)
INTERVENTION
Resist! Resist! Raise your queer fist! Whether in response to police
brutality, censorship, discrimination, illegal surveillance and
entrampment or simple heterosexism, these videos demonstrate, in both
senses, that there is work to be done in the world at large. Patriotic
Pascal Lievre & Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, 2005, Canada, video, color,
sound, 4 min., New York Premiere The language of anti-terrorism takes an
unexpected form in this seductive propaganda video, Lievre and
Nemerofsky Ramsay's first collaborative work. Every Other Day of the
Week Liz Singer, 2005, Canada, video, color, sound, English, 7 min.
"Every Other Day of the Week" wonders, plays with and ponders the where
of dykedom today. Kanbrik, or Allah's Outcast Hervé Joseph Lebrun, 2005,
France, video, color, sound, Arabic w/ English subtitles, 8 min. A young
man is thinking about his dead lover. The Atlas Mountains landscape and
the muezzin chants give rhythm to this parable of vanished desire. Bonne
fete a toi, Stonewall! (Happy birthday to you, Stonewall!) Anonimo,
2004, video, B&W, sound, 2 min. Two minutes of archival video
commemorating the 35th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in NYC in
1969, considered by some to be a defining moment for the gay liberation
movement in the west. With music by Bikini Kill. Savoir Aimer Pascal
Lievre, 2004, Canada, video, color, sound, French w/ English subtitles,
2 min., USA Premiere On screen, a man stripped to the waist is singing
"Savior Aimer," a song by Florent Pagny; he will be slapped 32 times
while singing. This video shows how to resist violence using a
humanistic song as a sole weapon. Zap Les Supers He(te)ros Panik
Qulture, 2004, France, video, color, sound, French, no subtitles, 3 min.
NY Premiere Dressed as The Incredibles, activists storm the Disney Store
in Paris attacking the bourgeois values on display there and in the
Pixar film. Drag Queen Marathon Tom Rubnitz, 1986, USA, video, color,
sound, 5 min. A dragumentary about a day in the life of a score of drag
queens on the lookout for ever-elusive photo opportunities. Featuring
Sister Dimension, Hapi Phace, Dagmar Onassis, and others. They visit
Lincoln Center, Tiffany's, the Guggenheim, Central Park, SoHo and other
locales. Untitled (Go Home Bob) Szu Burgess, 1995, Canada, video, color,
sound, 3 min. NY Premiere News coverage & documented footage of the
"Riot" waged against hate mongering evangelist Bob Larson by the
students & staff at the University of Winnipeg in 1995. Entre content a
Prague From the Politically Erect Compilation, 2006, video, color,
sound, 7 min. Visual archives of the pink bloc, shot at the IMF/World
Bank demonstration in Prague in September 2000. Clashes with cops,
actvists interviews and a radical rapper! Enraged By A Picture Zanele
Muholi, 2005, South Africa, color, sound, 14 min. A Photographer, Muholi
is celebrating her exhibition in Johannesburg. Efficiently
confrontational, the exhibition causes a stir and provokes an outcry on
a subject that is particularly taboo: being black, and, in this case,
being lesbian. Forthright and beautifully shot, each monochrome photo
captures the present reality of the photographer's subjects - the daily
discomfort, double lives, abuse and hatred. The photographs present a
window into their world. This absorbing documentary explores that
world's reality.
11/11
New York, New York: MIX NYC
http://www.mixnyc.org
7 PM, 3LD Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St. (at Rector St.)
DISNEY'S NIGHTMARE: ANIMATION
guy101 Ian Gouldstone, 2005, UK, video, color, sound, 9 min. A man hears
a story about a hitchhiker from the other side of the Internet.
dirtyglitter 1: Damien Aron Kantor, 2005, USA, video, color, sound, 14
min. A precariously intoxicated hustler finds photographs of himself in
a gallery and sets out on a cross-town mission to find the mysterious
artist who created the enigmatic images, unaware of just how much impact
the man may have on his own imminent salvation/demise. Shot entirely on
greenscreen and stylishly animated, dirtyglitter 1: Damien explores
pansexual excess and the dichotomous world that unhinges the boundaries
between filth and glam. Non Objective Composition Anaisa Nascimento,
2004, Brazil, video, color, sound, 2 min, USA Premiere "Non Objective
Composition" is an animation about feelings, a history of looking
inside, subjectively showing visually what we can see beyond the eyes.
e-spam-o Italiano Bob Mataranglo, 2004, USA, video, color, sound,
Italian with English subtitles, 6 min. Animated video exploring
contemporary issues of the internet and cultural constructions of penis
size. In a humorous manner, iconic characters of high art and popular
culture intermingle in a fantasy, shamelessly exploiting men and their
insecurities. Tattoo Girl Tom De Pekin, 2005, France, video, color,
sound, French, 4 min. NY Premiere Animated music video. Anonymous, 1855
Madi Piller, 2005, Canada, video, sound, 2 min. Antique photographs are
animated in a subtle manner to rebuild the past through the voyeur's
eye. Devil Inside Tom De Pekin, 2004, France, video, color, sound,
French, 3 min. New York Premiere He's in everyone. Sensing the World by
Echo Mark Taylor, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 18 min. New York
Premiere Sensing the World by Echo is a "Frankenstein's monster" of a
movie stitched together with parts robbed from the B-movie graveyard of
horror and sci-fi films. A colorful, animated paper collage, the film is
assembled from scraps of 1950s and '60s children's books, home and
how-to manuals, science texts and encyclopedias. Sensing the World by
Echo tells an unconventional narrative about growing up feeling like an
alien from outer space and of finding one's place in a mad, mad world.
Sexy Girl and Carpenter Dongkeun Lee, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 4
min. The sexy angel comes down to ground and takes a shower in the wall.
Unendangered Cameron Groves, 2006, Canada, video, color, sound, 5 min.
US Premiere Using collage images, cryptic inter-titles and a swelling
score, Unendangered follows the adventures of a blond with a gun sent on
a sex mission by a Greek statue. Skyscraper Modern Todd Daniel, 2006,
USA, video, color, sound, 5 min. New York Sing, Deco, Swing. Tommlin &
Janice: A Fragile Love Story Linsey Bostwick, 2006, USA, video, color,
sound, 4 min. Tommlin & Janice, two single lesbians, meet and fall into
a fast romance. But like so many budding relationships in this rough
town, it dies before it blooms. The lesbians are played by bobby pins
and boy, can those bobby pins work it out!
11/11
New York, New York: MIX NYC
http://www.mixnyc.org
8 PM, 3LD Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St. (at Rector St.)
LTTR PRESENTS: THE DEAD, THE ABSENT AND FICTITIOUS
This is our recognition of all things un-see-able. Is it in your mind,
in your blood? Is it your dream or deep evil? Is it your grandma or your
hero's unfinished last work? You paint wide with your camera and think
big. The point is that it doesn't have to be new. Does it make sense? Or
state the absence of it? –LTTR, Guest Curators. Marble Mouth Au Revoir
Curtis Carman, 2006, USA, 2 min. It's a marble bust of everything I
wanted to say to you my love, before you were gone. Dead In The Desert
Marriage (Math Bass & James Pei-Mun Tsang), 2006, USA, video, color,
sound, 4 min. History collapses in this operatic fantasy of failed
utopias and the new queer dawn. To Pee In Public Places Itziar Okariz,
2001-2006, Spain/USA, video, color, sound, 9 min. Ongoing project,
Action. Peeing standing up, performed in public and private spaces. The
Last Day of November Bill Basquin, 2001, USA, B&W, 16mm, 4 min. ....a
gestural study of a family of deer hunters as they move from the field
to the barn. 21 YEARS Moyra Davey, 2005, USA, 1 min. 21 Years: a
miniscule totem to scribbling, shot on the last remaining roll of
outdated Kodachrome in the door of the fridge. Requiem For A Friend
Susanne Winterling, 2006, Germany, 1 min. is there an anticipation of
loosing a friend??? does shooting try to keep it alive??? or postpone
the death? passion and pathos are black...... East River Park Zoe
Leonard & Nancy Brooks Brody, USA, 1991, 7 min. No description, upon
request. Social Movement Emily Roysdon, 2005, USA, 8 min. 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. Me Chris Spinelli, 2005-2006, USA, 12 min. Part video
confessional, part satire, part docu-bio, Me (2005-2006) is loosely
based on the the life of vanguard interior decorator and businesswoman,
Elsie de Wolfe (1865-1950). Munchausen Susanne Oberbeck, 2006, UK,
video, color, sound, 3 min. NY Premiere In the music video for No Bra's
"Munchausen" two compulsive men i mean liars are trying to outdo each
other in a sexually charged pissing contest. Lez Side Story Hedia Maron
& Faye Driscoll, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 11 min. Female gangs
battle for turf when a forbidden love gets in the way. Taking self-love,
hate and fate to a new level, Lez Side Story is a queer take on a
legendary tale. Spektro De'l Tempo Ilona Berger, 2005, USA, 2 min. In
1974 the filmaker's mother left Moscow for sunny California where she
died soon afterwards, leaving scant primary documents. A tape of her
interview with a Soviet director, the conjurings of a grandmother, and
the Esparantist cousin from Odessa at his most spectral, are fragments
from this story. The neutral intermediaries of monuments and other
statuary, ex lovers and other people's grandparents gallantly fill the
gaps. Spektro De'l Tempo is cartography rendered in flypaper, memory
held in the sweet glue of revisionist history, and a nod to families
real and invented. Who Do You Think You Are Lovett/Codagnone, 1997, USA,
video, color, sound, 5 min. Lovett/Codagnone present gender and sexual
orientation as a form of drag, proposing the possibility of a collapse
of gender distinctions and sexual assumptions. LOVE/TORTURE Ulrike
Mueller, 1995, USA, video, 6 min. LOVE/TORTURE performs a text about
pain and pleasure proposing for viewers to identify with the role of the
perpetrator rather than the victim. fat/soft/normal/skinny Dafne
Boggeri, 2005, Italy, 3 min. body is shaking, mixing contents and codes
of communication to invent new linguistic solutions... sound produced by
two metal spheres in an almost empty 400ml spray paint can
11/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30PM, 7:30PM 9:30PM, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
NY THEATRICAL PREMIERE OF "ME & MY BROTHER" BY ROBERT FRANK
See November 10 for details.
11/11
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia
SNIDER’S 3-D DIMENSIONAL BODIES + KRIST +
Greta Snider circles back to our gallery with a compelling new mode of
documentary: Stereoscopic portraits of individuals talking intimately
about their own bodies. In collaboration with Johunna Grayson, these
revealing personal profiles invite us into an unprecedented encounter
with private choices about gender, sexuality, and modification, guided
by the subjects' own voices. ALSO on the program is the live-cinema
performance of Lee Krist, hand-cranking his hand-processed 16mm motion
pictures, towards an enhanced sensuality of the photochemical craft. The
evening opens with an expansive survey of Snider's experimental
landscape slides, DIY-developed through an exquisite aesthetic of
alchemical poetry.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2006
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11/12
Baltimore, Maryland: MicroCineFest
http://www.microcinefest.org
4 PM, MicroCineFest at The G-Spot, 2980 Falls Road
MICROCINEFEST 2006 NIGHT FOUR
4:00 PM - Documentary Shorts: Between 2 Deaths (Wago Kreider); Birdstate
(Geoff Adams); Geophoria (Sheila Wells); A Good Strong Roof (Tony
Gault); Image Of The City (Evan Mather); Scenic Highway (Evan Mather);
Shadow Of Liberty (Geoff Adams); Shittiest Mixtape Boombox Blast (Human
Giant/Jason Woliner). 6:00 PM - Narrative Shorts: The Bread Squeezer
(Kasia Kowalczyk); Carniceria (Jon Nunan); Day Of The Cabbage! (Jeff
"Jeffu" Warmouth); Dimension X (Nick Kunin); Disconnected (Karl Lind);
Fear Is A Lot Like Love (James Strzelinski); Perfidia (Rosario
Garcia-Montero); Roboctopus (Robert Paraguassu); Snoozer (Jason
Affolder). 8:00 PM - Stomp! Shout! Scream! (Jay Wade Edwards). 10:00 to
11:00 PM - Festival Wrap-Up and Wind-Down.
11/12
New York, New York: MIX NYC
http://www.mixnyc.org
6 PM, 3LD Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St. (at Rector St.)
HERE COME THE QUEERDOS!
These aren't the gays next door! The Perfect Ones Matt Johnstone & Nao
Bustamonte, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 9 min. New York Premiere An
amnesia stricken suburban housewife wanders into an underground punk
club and discovers a new way of life. Sensing the World by Echo Mark
Taylor, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 18 min. New York Premiere
Sensing the World by Echo is a "Frankenstein's monster" of a movie
stitched together with parts robbed from the B-movie graveyard of horror
and sci-fi films. A colorful, animated paper collage, the film is
assembled from scraps of 1950s and '60s children's books, home and
how-to manuals, science texts and encyclopedias. Sensing the World by
Echo tells an unconventional narrative about growing up feeling like an
alien from outer space and of finding one's place in a mad, mad world.
Swallowing Butch (The Haunting, 1963) Douglas Green, 2005, video, color,
sound, 4 min. New York Premiere Douglas Green is literally haunting the
1963 horror movie The Haunting by inserting one single frame of original
video into a small clip from the film. This hidden frame is made more
visible as the speed of the clip is repeatedly slowed to expand time,
opening up a close reading that queers the representation of lesbian
desire and the supernatural that the original film imagines. The Process
David Kagan, 2004, USA, video, B&W, sound, 20 min. The Process is a film
about the intricate, private worlds human beings create amid surrounding
chaos. It asks the question: do we do this to keep our sanity, or is it
a dangerous departure from reality? The Process tells of one man's
struggle for human contact. The nameless hero lives as a recluse,
terrified of the world beyond his door. The man fears his anxiety will
forever lock him away from the company of humans. The man's "fairy
godmother" arrives in the form of a black crow. The specter communicates
a process by which the hero will be able to construct a lover. Coif
Melanie McGraw, 2004, USA, video, B&W, sound, 6 min. When Caroline is a
little girl she discovers static electricity and has the bright idea of
using it to give her hair a little 'lift.' But Caroline's family insists
on controlled, sprayed, perfectly coifed hair. Her mother let's her know
that 'wild hair' is not acceptable by coifing Caroline's hair. Now at 17
years old with the same ridiculously coifed hair, Caroline dreams of
having flowing hair like the long-haired lovelies that she sees around
her. She must break the chains in which her family binds her.
Transgender Express Laure Schwarz, 2006, Switzerland, video, color,
sound, French with English subtitles, 11 min. World Premiere Laure
Schwarz plays a game called Kill the Breasts! , she wins and reaches the
second level: Silicone World War. Her dog brings her back to reality and
she decides to take a shower before going out. When in the bathroom,
everything begins to shudder and Laure finds herself propelled in outer
space and time. She wakes up on planet Surgery, whose inhabitants are
surgical failures. Her contact gives her a flask and tells her that when
aboard the Transgender spaceship she will discover her true mission.
After having wandered in space, she finds herself in a transgender
cabaret in the spaceship. The show unveils the key to the intrigue: she
must reactivate an almost extinct race by playing a LP record. Two
fireflies take Laure, now Ladybruce, to Ladybruceland planet. As she
puts the record on‚ her own clones begin to appear. dirtyglitter 1:
Damien Aron Kantor, 2005, USA, video, color, sound, 14 min. A
precariously intoxicated hustler finds photographs of himself in a
gallery and sets out on a cross-town mission to find the mysterious
artist who created the enigmatic images, unaware of just how much impact
the man may have on his own imminent salvation/demise. Shot entirely on
greenscreen and stylishly animated, dirtyglitter 1: Damien sexplores
pansexual excess and the dichotomous world that unhinges the boundaries
between filth and glam. The Terrorist She-Freaks of Texas Bug Davidson &
Holly M. Lewis, 2005, USA, video, color, sound, 24 min. New York
Premiere After detaining immigrants, silencing journalists, and
demonizing intellectuals, the leaders of the New America decide that
they need a New Enemy to distract the restless citizenry...THE QUEERS!
When the new leaders discover that most Americans are willing to deny
human rights to sexual minorities, the government whips the nation into
a frenzy of hatred towards gays and transsexuals-- a frenzy that
culminates in the mass extermination of THE GAY MENACE! Yet the new
leaders make one fatal mistake: after rounding up the majority of
American gay males, they assume that queer females will surrender
without a fight. But the New Government quickly comes to realize that
even the U.S. Army is no match for the loveable wacky militant dykes and
trannies rising up from the depths of the Homosexual Underground.
11/12
New York, New York: MIX NYC
http://www.mixnyc.org
7 PM, 3LD Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St. (at Rector St.)
HOW DO I LOOK?
Fest der Liebe (Celebration of Love) Rexi Tom Weller & Ruben Malchow,
2005, Germany, video, B&W, sound, 8 min. New York Premiere "Fest de
Liebe" is a critical commentary to the prologue of Leni Reifenstahl's
"Celebration of Beauty". The movie questions the devices used to produce
"Celebration of Beauty" while poking fun at the projected propagandist
values and storytelling of the controversial Nazi filmmaker. Topically,
"Fest der Liebe" is not about toned muscles or alluring body movements
but questions whether there is an Eros outside the norm. Body Image Paul
Sixta, 2006, The Netherlands, S8mm to video, B&W and color, sound, 20
min. New York Premiere Memories and emotions are stored not only in the
brain but in the entire body. During a shiatsu massage, Tim's body
slowly lets memories surface and tell the stories. Rated F Terra Poirier
& Donna Lee, 2005, Canada, video, color, sound, 8 min. Blunt revelations
of intimacies between deviant women. Join in on an investigation of the
secret laws of flatulence in lesbian relationships. The Contender Gracie
Bucciarelli, 2005, USA, video, B&W, sound, 6 min. Challenging cultural
assumptions about strength and gender, this short suggests training for
the revolution of 'Self.' 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. Savoir Aimer Pascal
Lievre, 2004, France, video, color, sound, 2 min. On screen, a man
stripped to the waist is singing "Savoir Aimer", a song by Florent
Pagny; ne is slapped 32 times while singing. This video demonstrates the
ability to resist violence using a humanistic song as a sole weapon. How
to Ass Ejaculate Panik Qulture, 2005, France, video, color, sound,
French with English subtitles, 7 min. Fun with body parts and erogenous
zones. A genderqueer parody of the feminist classic, "How to Female
Ejaculate." Acnecore Philipe Lonestar, 2005, USA, video, color, sound, 4
min. It's not hip-hop, it's pimp-pop. Pimples, the new sex fetish.
Celebrate pimple-poppin' with Olympia's queer female hip-hop sensation
Scream Club. Barbered Andrew Power, 2006, Canada, video, color, sound, 4
min. USA Premiere Elliptical, funny and perhaps mildly disturbing,
"Barbered" features a performed beard trimming, layered into an ethereal
pop song, and delivers a temperate hybrid of how-to and music video. Not
So Black or White Col Cruise, 2005, UK/Australia, video, B&W, sound, 4
min. New York Premiere The intersex narrator of this animation talks
about his changing experiences of his body. Pleasure Zone Dayna McLeod,
2005, Canada, video, color, sound, 18 min. Catch all the hard-hitting
action between the Pussy Packers and the Ass Alley Anglers in Dayna
McLeod's satirical how-to instructional video, Pleasure Zone. Commentary
by 6-time league MVP Cocky Revulva and Pleasure Zone announcer Dayna
McLeod keep you abreast of all the passes, plays and penalties in the
hard-hitting game of pornography-live from the Pleasure Dome stadium.
11/12
New York, New York: MIX NYC
http://www.mixnyc.org
8 PM, 3LD Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St. (at Rector St.)
THE ODYSSEY
This epic event will include the world premiere screening of The
Odyssey, as well as readings from the extraordinary myth by Homer. This
long-awaited premiere event of the groundbreaking film by 32 queer and
trans filmmakers, will have live music featured in the film. Odyssey
giveaways to the first 24 people to arrive! Book 1 - Miriam Klein Stahl:
gouache paintings – Flash animation. Music: "Odyssey Song" by Boff Orr
of Chumbawumba A Goddess Intervenes: The Trojan War has ended; an angry
Poseidon shipwrecks Odysseus on Calypso's island; Athenalobbies for
Odysseus on Olympos; his wife Penelope is plagued by suitors at home in
Ithaka. Book 2 - Elizabeth Bonaventura & Anita Chao: Super8mm –
stop-motion animation & green screen Hero's Son Awakens: Odysseus and
Penelope's son Telemakhos is disgusted with Penelope's suitors; Athena
sends him a sign; he sets off in search of news of his father. Book 3 -
Gretchen Hildebran: Super8mm – live action Lord of the Western
Approaches: Telemakhos arrives at Nestor's kingdom; Nestor's son
Peisistratos joins Telemakhos inhis quest. Book 4 - Bernadine Mellis:
line drawings animated in FinalCutPro The Red-Haired King and His Lady:
Telemakhos and Peisistratos arrive at the kingdom of Menelaos and Helen;
Menelaoshas word that Odysseus is trapped on Calypso's island. Book 5 -
Kara Lynch: digital photography, digital video, watercolor – stop-motion
animation & live action Sweet Nymph and Open Sea: The gods persuade
Calypso to help Odysseus; she builds him a raft; angry to find Odysseus
hasbeen assisted, Poseidon sends a storm that destroys the raft;
Odysseus drifts ashore on Skheria. Book 6 - Davina Semo: digital video –
clay/object animation The Princess at the River: On Skheria, Athena
prompts Princess Nausikaa to go to the river; she meets Odysseus there
and invites him to her parents' palace. Book 7: Kara Hearn, digital
video – live action Gardens and Firelight: King Alkinoos & Queen Arete
welcome the stranger, Odysseus. Book 8: Paula Cronan, found and
manipulated footage and sound, written by Laurie Weeks & Paula Cronan
The Songs of the Harper: King Alkinoos & Queen Arete entertain the
stranger, Odysseus. Book 9: Laura Mays & Rebecca Yaffe, digital still
camera – live action New Coasts and Poseidon's Son: Odysseus reveals his
identity and begins to tell the king and queen the story of his journey
from Troy. Book 10: Rebecca Lee & Corinna Press, digital video – wooden
puppet/object animation, photographed & edited by Bernadine Mellis, with
Samuel R. Delany as Odysseus The Grace of the Witch: Odysseus continues
the story of his adventures. Book 11: Bernadine Mellis, found Super8
footage courtesy of the Mellis/Pomerantz Family A Gathering of Shades:
Odysseus continues the story of his adventures. Book 12 (Sirens):
Samuael Topiary, super 8, digital video, internet images – live action,
manipulated footage Sea Perils and Defeat: Odysseus concludes the story
of his journey and his arrival at Skheria. Book 12 (Cattle): Jason Coyle
& Laska Jimsen, digital video – live action Sea Perils and Defeat
continued. Book 13: Mendal d Polish, Irit Reinhemer & Q, found footage,
digital video, still photography – live action One More Strange Island:
Odysseus sails home to Ithaka on King Alkinoos's ship; Athena greets
Odysseus on the shores of Ithaka, disguises him as a beggar, and sends
him to find his old swineherd. Book 14: Michael Hyde and Courtney
Dailey, digital video – live action, Music: "Hands Away" by Interpol
Hospitality in the Forest: Odysseus, still in disguise, goes to his
swineherd's hut; the swineherd tells "the beggar" about the suitors.
Book 15: Miranda F. Mellis, VHS-C, digital photography – live action How
They Came to Ithaka: Telemakhos leaves Menelaos & Helens and returns to
Ithaka. Book 16: Bill Basquin, super8mm – live action Father and Son:
"The beggar" reveals himself to Telemakhos; they plot the death of the
suitors. Book 17: EE Miller, super 8 – live action The Beggar at the
Manor: Odysseus, again disguised as a beggar, returns to his house and
is abused by the suitors. Book 18: lamby morreale, digital video – live
action Blows & A Queen's Beauty: "The beggar" fights a real beggar;
Athena visits Penelope. Book 19: Mary McDermott, super 16 – live action
Recognitions and a Dream: Penelope questions "the beggar." Book 20:
Paula Cronan, manipulated video images Signs and A Vision: Odysseus
plots his revenge; Penelope prays for her own death. Book 21: Zoe
Strauss, digital video – live action The Test of the Bow: Penelope tests
the suitors; they fail; "the beggar" wins the contest. Book 22: Eileen
Myles, digital video – live action Death in the Great Hall: Odysseus
sheds his disguise; he and Telemakhos kill the suitors and hang the
maids. Book 23: Shayne Case, Dori Midnight & Signe Mae Olson, digital
video – live action The Great Rooted Bed: Penelope doubts Odysseus; she
tests him; they are reunited. Book 24: Miriam Klein Stahlm, gouache
paintings – Flash animation Warriors, Farewell: The shades of the
suitors are brought to Hades by Hermes; Athena brings peace to the town
of Ithaka
11/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30PM, 7:30PM, 9:30PM, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
NY THEATRICAL PREMIERE OF "ME & MY BROTHER" BY ROBERT FRANK
See Nov. 10 for details.
11/12
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
TRUE TO LIFE
Sunday, November 12 at 7:30pm Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701
Mission Street (corner of Third) Tickets: 415-978-ARTS True to Life:
Gunvor Nelson and the Swedish Landscape Gunvor Nelson In Person
Presented in Association with Pacific Film Archive Joining us from her
native Sweden, much-loved Bay Area artist and teacher Gunvor Nelson
returns to Cinematheque and Pacific Film Archive with several new video
works. The half-hour True to Life is a lush close-up study of a garden
in which flowers and plants bare their life force and cycle to Nelson's
probing digital camera. This is accompanied by two earlier collage films
combining cinematography and animated painting. Light Years journeys
through the Swedish landscape and reflects on time and displacement
while Field Study #2 is a delightful cinematic enigma. Nelson has two
additional screenings at PFA, see www.bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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