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Part 1 of 2: This week [December 2 - 10, 2006] in avant garde cinema
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Streaming Festival {The Hague} (The Hague. Netherlands; Deadline: January 14, 2007)
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MEDIA CITY (Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: November 24, 2006)
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Images Contre Nature (Marseille, France; Deadline: March 01, 2007)
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BROOKLYN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Brooklyn, NY; Deadline: March 15, 2007)
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Boston Underground Film Festival (Boston, MA, USA; Deadline: November 30, 2006)
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Chicago Motions Graphics Festival 2007 (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: December 08, 2006)
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Newport Beach Film Festival (Newport Beach, CA USA; Deadline: December 22, 2006)
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Northwest Folklife Documentary Film Festival (Seattle, WA; Deadline: December 01, 2006)
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Lake County Film Festival (Libertyville, IL, USA; Deadline: December 20, 2006)
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IFFBoston (Boston, MA; Deadline: December 31, 2006)
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offcuts (london, UK; Deadline: December 25, 2006)
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Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival (Portland, Oregon; Deadline: December 15, 2006)
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Asbury Shorts of New York 2007 (New York, NY USA; Deadline: December 20, 2006)
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Flatpack Festival (Birmingham, UK; Deadline: December 15, 2006)
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Magmart | video under volcano (Naples, Italy; Deadline: December 31, 2006)
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Naples / Tam Tam Digifestival (Naples, NA, Italy; Deadline: December 31, 2006)
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Experimenta 2007 (Bangalore, India; Deadline: December 15, 2006)
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Reel Shorts (Saratoga Springs, NY. U.S.A.; Deadline: December 07, 2006)
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Starting from Scratch (Amsterdam; Deadline: December 10, 2006)
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Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, Wisconsin, USA; Deadline: December 29, 2006)
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EYE AM: Women Behind the Lens (MNN.org-Manhattan Neighborhood Network) (NY, NY, USA; Deadline: December 20, 2006)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* La Commune By Peter Watkins [December 2, Baltimore, MD]
* Luz Y Tiempo: Historia Parcial Del Cine Experimental Y videoarte
Britanico 1968-2006 [December 2, Madrid]
* Phil Weisman/ Bob Fleischner Program [December 2, New York, New York]
* Prelinger's Industrial and Institutional Films: A Field Guide + [December 2, San Francisco, California]
* Luz Y Tiempo: Historia Parcial Del Cine Experimental Y videoarte
Britanico 1968-2006 [December 3, Madrid]
* Vertigo [December 5, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Nathaniel Dorsky's Hours For Jerome [December 5, San Francisco, California]
* "The Desert Show" [December 6, Chicago, Illinois]
* Xie Fei's Song of Tibet [December 6, New York, New York]
* The Secret Story: Films By Janie Geiser [December 7, Chicago, Illinois]
* Prix Jean vigo [December 7, New York, New York]
* Xie Fei's Song of Tibet [December 7, New York, New York]
* Like A Dream That Vanishes: the Films of Barbara Sternberg [December 7, New York, New York]
* Voom Hd Lab Presents: New Selections From Our High Definition Artist
Residency [December 7, New York, New York]
* Berks Area Film & video Show [December 7, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Karen Mirza & Brad Butler: Creative Projection [December 7, Stuttgart, Germany]
* Expanded Cinema Screening 1 [December 7, Stuttgart, Germany]
* Expanded Cinema: Opening Reception [December 7, Stuttgart, Germany]
* “I Am Not A War Photographer” - An Illustrated Talk By Lynne Sachs and
Screening of States of Unbelonging [December 8, Chicago, Illinois]
* 3rd Annual Immi Fest 2006 [December 8, Eugene, Oregon]
* En Plein Air (Shorts Programme) [December 8, New York, New York]
* Joan Jonas: Portrait of the Artist With Dog [December 8, New York, New York]
* Expanded Cinema: the Future of Expanded Cinema [December 8, Stuttgart, Germany]
* Tony Conrad: Pickled Film [December 8, Stuttgart, Germany]
* Expanded Cinema: Screening 2 [December 8, Stuttgart, Germany]
* Expanded Cinema: William Raban [December 8, Stuttgart, Germany]
* 3rd Annual Immi Fest 2006 [December 9, Eugene, Oregon]
* Prix Jean vigo [December 9, New York, New York]
* Joan Jonas: Portrait of the Artist With Dog [December 9, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Stan Brakhage: the Pittsburgh Trilogy [December 9, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Stan Brakhage: Text of Light [December 9, New York, New York]
* Joan Jonas: Portrait of the Artist With Dog [December 9, New York, New York]
* Alfonso Alvarez + Overdub Club + [December 9, San Francisco, California]
* William Raban: Expanded Cinema & Structural Film [December 9, Stuttgart, Germany]
* Expanded Cinema: Screening 3 [December 9, Stuttgart, Germany]
* Expanded Cinema: Bruce Mcclure [December 9, Stuttgart, Germany]
* Thom andersen Presents New video Work By William E. Jones [December 10, Los Angeles]
* Joan Jonas: Portrait of the Artist With Dog [December 10, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Robert Breer [December 10, New York, New York]
* Joan Jonas: Portrait of the Artist With Dog [December 10, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Conner/Conrad [December 10, New York, New York]
* Bruce Mcclure: Demonstration [December 10, Stuttgart, Germany]
* Expanded Cinema: Screening 4 [December 10, Stuttgart, Germany]
* Tony Conrad: Film Performances [December 10, Stuttgart, Germany]
* James Tenney On Film [December 10, Valencia, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2006
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12/2
Baltimore, MD: Red Emma's Collective
http://www.redemmas.org/event/542/
6:00 PM, St. John's Church 27th and St. Paul
LA COMMUNE BY PETER WATKINS
Join us for the Baltimore premiere of director Peter Watkins '
iconoclastic masterpiece of documentary reenactment, La Commune, which
retells the story of the Paris Commune of 1871. Watkins, whose
film-making career spans over 4 decades, is famous for his unorthodox
techniques of filmmaking, including his use of non-professional actors
with a real connection to the subject matter(in La Commune, most of the
Communards are portrayed by altermondialist activists), his creative use
of anachronism and meta-narration(in La Commune he interpolates
television journalists into the historical context to better address
issues of revolutionary representation) and his non-commercially-
dictated approach to film length(La Commune clocks in at just over five
and a half hours, which is why were serving up vegan dinner halfway
through, and inviting everyone to bring something more comfortable than
the chairs we'll provide - think couches, pillows, lawn chairs...)
12/2
Madrid: La Enana Marron
http://www.laenanamarron.org/home.htm
21.30, La Enana Marron, Sale de Cine Independiente, Travesia San Mateo 8, bajo dche, Madrid 28004
LUZ Y TIEMPO: HISTORIA PARCIAL DEL CINE EXPERIMENTAL Y VIDEOARTE
BRITANICO 1968-2006
A selection of British artists film and video produced between
1968-2006. PROGRAMME II: THE WEATHER, George Barber, video, 2 min, 1996;
I AM, David Blandy, video, 2 min, 2004; PERPETUAL MOTION IN THE LAND OF
MILK AND HONEY, AL+AL, video, 6 min, 2004; SUNDIAL William Raban, video,
1'30 min, 1992; 1001 COLOURS ANDY NEVER THOUGHT OF, George Barber,
video, 4 min, 1984; DO YOU LOVE ME? Alnoor Dewshi, video, color, 2'47
min, 2001; EAD THE BALL, Simon Richardson, video, color, 4 min, 2001;
WORST CASE SCENARIO, John Smith, video, 18 min, 2004; FRAMES, Annabel
Nicolson, 16mm, 6 min, color, muda, 1971-72; FROM MEMORY, Riccardo
Iacono. 16mm, color, mudo, 15 min, 1994-2003; Total running time: 62
min. (Curated by David Reznak and Riccardo iacono)
12/2
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm- Saturday evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between Bowery & 2nd Avenue)
PHIL WEISMAN/ BOB FLEISCHNER PROGRAM
THE FUGITIVE CHEF (37 min.-2006), KLADNO* (20 min.-2005) by PHIL
WEISMAN, MAX'S SHIRT (5 min.-1975), CURTAIN CALL (5.5 min.-1976), A TIRE
FILM (6.5 min.-1976), PARADISE (3 min.-1978) by BOB FLEISCHNER. Phil
Weisman will be having his first program at Millennium. A filmmaker,
teacher and founding member lof the Coll;ective for Living Cinema, he
will present a quartet of films by Bob Fleischner as well as premiere
two of his own. "Although I tend to, at times while working, have a
running dialogue with the films I have known and loved, it is Bob's
mid-70's films that are particularly moving to me, several having a
profound effect on the making of THE FUGITIVE CHEF. I'd like to honor
the man whose work is rarely screened and add a complementary set of
works of my own. Think of this as a two-person show with Bob in
absentia."- POW On the FUGITIVE CHEF-"The death of the filmmaker Bob
Fleischner, my childhood friend Jeff Tenzer and my father Marc Weisman,
all in 1989 hastened an already made decision to leave the avant-garde
community and seek respite elsewhere. The resolution didn't alter my
desire to work at filmmaking or even attempt, or occasionally to alter
its known forms; it simply restated it within a different context. THE
FUGITIVE CHEF is a fractured personal documentary (with other genres
thrown in) shot mostly in Brooklyn and at the MacDowell Colony."- POW.
12/2
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street
PRELINGER’S INDUSTRIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FILMS: A FIELD GUIDE +
Indubitably the world's leading expert on industrial films, Mr. Rick
Prelinger graces our gallery once again with selections from this new
encyclopedia published by the National Film Preservation Foundation.
Drawing from a life spent slaving in the archives, Rick's commentary
provides fascinating historical context for these magnificent
educational-film artifacts. Projected in both video and 16mm, his
program does justice to this relatively new branch of film archaeology,
while also providing for a richly engaging cinema experience. Among the
recovered specimens are Your Name Here; Why Not Live?; A Is for Atom;
Once Upon a Honeymoon; and Ask Me, Don't Tell Me. PLUS Megan
Prelinger-Shaw's Cabinet of Curiosities.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2006
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12/3
Madrid: La Enana Marron
http://www.laenanamarron.org/home.htm
20.30, La Enana Marron, Sale de Cine Independiente, Travesia San Mateo 8, bajo dche, Madrid 28004
LUZ Y TIEMPO: HISTORIA PARCIAL DEL CINE EXPERIMENTAL Y VIDEOARTE
BRITANICO 1968-2006
A selection of British artists' film and video produced between
1968-2006. PROGRAMME V: TRAFFIC, Roderick Buchanan, video, 2 min, 2001;
THE KISS, John Smith, video, 5 min, color, 1999; THE RUMOUR OF TRUE
THINGS, Paul Bush, video, 25 min, 1996; THE NIGHTINGALE, Grace Ndiritu,
video, 7 min, 2004; THE DEFENESTRASCOPE, Steven Ball, video, 6 min,
2003; BIOGENESIS, William Latham, video, 6 min, 1993. running time 51
min. (curated by David Reznak and Riccardo iacono).
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2006
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12/5
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers
http://www.berkdfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright College
VERTIGO
Vertigo (1958, 129 min.) by ALFRED HITCHCOCK.. One of the greatest films
ever made (voted number 2 on the 2002, Sight and Sound "Critics Top Ten
Poll" and number 3 on the Village Voice "100 Best Films of the 20th
Century" critics poll, 1999 ). " …a masterpiece: I can think of no film
that makes romance more palpable and affecting. As Scottie Ferguson
(James Stewart) follows Madeleine (Kim Novak), the wife of a wealthy
acquaintance who has hired him to help unravel the mystery of her
wanderings around San Francisco, the city's hilly topography, a redwood
forest, and the seacoast all become metaphors for the illusion of
romantic infatuation….The compositions and colors are profoundly
alluring — never has Hitchcock's famously preplanned imagery been more
sensual and seductive. But every image is also undermined by a deep
instability: sensuous colors, shifting camera angles, and the
inward-directed camera movements all create an imbalance that denies the
viewer any firm ground. The "vertigo" shots — in which Scottie and his
view seems to recede and advance at once — make explicit the push-pull
that undermines every composition."- Fred Camper, Chicago Reader
12/5
San Francisco, California: SFAI Film Salon
8 pm, San Francisco Art Institute, 800 Chestnut Street, Lecture Hall
NATHANIEL DORSKY’S HOURS FOR JEROME
Nathaniel Dorsky in person! As a preamble to the upcoming premiere of
his new film at the SF Cinematheque, we have invited Nathaniel Dorsky to
show his earlier Hours for Jerome. Drawing inspiration from the medieval
illuminated Book of Hours, Dorsky traces the seasons through resonant
and poetic film language. The everyday becomes transformed through
intuitive editing and visual rhythms. His filmmaking explores the
transcendental nature of film, creating a unique style where images
resonate across the cut in an accumulative, magical effect. The
screening will also include 17 Reasons Why, a film using the unique
quadriptych form of unsplit regular 8mm film. ".. allowing things to be
seen for what they are offers a more open, more fertile ground than the
realm of predetermined symbolic meaning. After all, the unknown is pure
adventure." – Nathaniel Dorsky, Devotional Cinema ---------- The SFAI
Film Salon is a weekly film screening program, organized by SFAI film
students. Screenings are free and open to the public. Supported by the
SFAI Student Union and Legion Of Graduate Students. For more information
email: ckennedyATwebmail.sfai.edu or voneillATwebmail.sfai.edu
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2006
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12/6
Chicago, Illinois: Gallery 400
http://www.dimeshow.com/desert.htm
7:00pm, 400 South Peoria Street
"THE DESERT SHOW"
The snow is piling up around your Chicago head and your Windy City toes
are turning a lovely frostbite blue, but don't stand there shivering for
too long, Dear Friend. Presented in conjunction with the gallery show
"John Arndt: Empire" (on view 11/14-12/23), your pals at Gallery 400
have got that scalding sun you've been looking for, so come out of the
cold and settle into the desert heat for an evening of warm cinema-sand
in your eyes and ears. Let the light from the projector tan your pale
skin, let it reflect the dust and sky and silence of your memory as you
buckle up for a road trip into the drier and emptier parts of the world.
With the Road Runner as your host, you'll skitter past UFO landing
sites, scorpion play pens, artstar auto graveyards, nuclear test sites,
and arrive at a new understanding of that vast and neverending silence
that lies just outside yourself... FEATURING: Highway Runnery (Road
Runner Cartoon) by Chuck Jones (7:00, 16mm, 1953), Roswell by Bill Brown
(20:00, 16mm, 1994), Playing with Scorpions by John Marshall (4:00,
16mm, 1972), Cadillac Ranch Show by Ant Farm (16:40, video, 1974/1994),
Topsoil by Effi Weiss and Amir Borensein (8:35, video, 2003), Desert
Rose by Cordelia Swann (26:00, 16mm/Betacam, 1996), Lake of the Spirits
by Timoleon Wilkins (7:00, 16mm, 1998) TRT 89:00
12/6
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org
6:15pm, 11 West 53rd Street
XIE FEI’S SONG OF TIBET
Shot in Tibet with a Tibetan cast, Song of Tibet, about a woman and the
three men in her life, is a sweeping multigenerational epic played out
against the chaos of a society in turmoil. Direc-tor Xie Fei was a
teacher to many Fifth Generation Chinese filmmakers, including Chen
Kaige and Tian Zhuangzhuang. Organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior
Curator, Department of Film. Presented in collaboration with the AMS
Foundation for the Arts, Sciences and Humanities, and the China
International Culture Exchange Center (CICEC). Yeshe Doma
(Yixihuoma/Song of Tibet). 2000. China. Directed by Xie Fei. With
Danzengzuoga, Laqoing. In Mandarin, Tibetan; English subtitles. 104 min.
New York premiere. Wednesday, December 6, 6:15; Thursday, December 7,
8:45. T1
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2006
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12/7
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
6:00 pm, 164 N. State Street
THE SECRET STORY: FILMS BY JANIE GEISER
Janie Geiser in person! Janie Geiser is at the forefront of today's
experimental animators. Drawing on her renowned work in puppet-theater,
her films use the miniaturized scale of paper cutouts, dollhouses, and
antique toys to create mysterious, multilayered worlds of cryptic
messages, enigmatic women, and half-forgotten dreams. Tonight, she
presents an overview of her cinematic work to date, including VAPOR
DRAMA (2004, 7 min.), TERRACE 49 (2004, 5 min.), ULTIMA THULE (2002, 10
min.), THE FOURTH WATCH (2000, 10 min.), SPIRAL VESSEL (2000, 7 min.),
LOST MOTION (1999, 11 min.), IMMER ZU (1997, 9 min.), and THE SECRET
STORY (1996, 9 min.). Tonight's program is part of a conference and
series of related workshops and screenings on animation hosted by SAIC's
Department of Film, Video, & New Media. For more information, visit
www.fvnm.info. (1996-2004, USA, 16mm, ca. 70 min.)
12/7
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org
6:30pm, 11 West 53rd Street
PRIX JEAN VIGO
Created in 1951 and awarded annually, the Prix Jean Vigo was established
in the name of the French filmmaker who made his indelible mark with
Zéro de conduite and L'Atalante before his death at the age of
twenty-nine. In a yearlong tribute to the award and the filmmakers it
has honored, the Department of Film presents works by past winners. All
films are in French with English subtitles, unless otherwise noted.
Organized by Véronique Godard, Prix Jean Vigo Committee; and Jytte
Jensen, Curator, and Leigh Goldstein, Executive Assistant, Department of
Film. Grateful thanks for the advice of the current Prix Jean Vigo
Committee and its President, Luce Vigo, and for the generous
collaboration of the Consulate General of France, New York; the Cultural
Services of the French Embassy, New York; and for their invaluable
support of our subtitling efforts, Titra-Film and Alex Kuczynski.
Remparts d'argile (Ramparts of Clay). 1970. France/Algeria. Directed by
Jean-Louis Bertucelli. Screenplay by Jean Duvignaud. With Leila Schenna.
A young Tunisian woman wordlessly revolts against her community. Working
from Duvignaud's book about the backbreaking labor and daily habits of a
Tunisian salt-mining community, Bertucelli filmed on location in
Tehouda, a village in southern Algeria. 87 min. Enfants des courants
d'air.1959. France. Directed by Edouard Luntz. The lonely life of a boy
living on the degraded outskirts of Paris. 24 min. Thursday, December 7,
6:30 (T1); Saturday, December 9, 2:00 (T2)
12/7
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org
8:45pm, 11 West 53rd Street
XIE FEI’S SONG OF TIBET
Shot in Tibet with a Tibetan cast, Song of Tibet, about a woman and the
three men in her life, is a sweeping multigenerational epic played out
against the chaos of a society in turmoil. Direc-tor Xie Fei was a
teacher to many Fifth Generation Chinese filmmakers, including Chen
Kaige and Tian Zhuangzhuang. Organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior
Curator, Department of Film. Presented in collaboration with the AMS
Foundation for the Arts, Sciences and Humanities, and the China
International Culture Exchange Center (CICEC). Yeshe Doma
(Yixihuoma/Song of Tibet). 2000. China. Directed by Xie Fei. With
Danzengzuoga, Laqoing. In Mandarin, Tibetan; English subtitles. 104 min.
New York premiere. Wednesday, December 6, 6:15; Thursday, December 7,
8:45. T1
12/7
New York, New York: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
2000, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue @ 2nd Street
LIKE A DREAM THAT VANISHES: THE FILMS OF BARBARA STERNBERG
THE IMAGES FESTIVAL AND ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES PRESENT: SIX OF ONE,
HALF-DOZEN OF THE OTHER: IMAGES FROM CANADA PROGRAM 5: LIKE A DREAM THAT
VANISHES: THE FILMS OF BARBARA STERNBERG Barbara Sternberg in person!
This calendar continues the 6-month screening series of Canadian
artists' film and video organized by Anthology and The Images Festival,
Toronto. Following our successful spotlight of Philip Hoffman in
September, this season sees programs devoted to three Canadian media
artists: the well-respected Barbara Sternberg, the reinvented Robert Lee
and the emergent Leslie Peters. Each solo program will be paired with a
show of short works by artists that navigate similar conceptual
terrains. Look for our final spotlights on Richard Fung, Clive Holden
and John Porter in the winter season. Barbara Sternberg's
twenty-five-year career has brought forth a distinctly personal oeuvre
of filmmaking that emphasizes the rhythms of light and the magical
displacement of the everyday. Her work reveals a lyrical attention to
image and intuition, allowing us to tumble through ideas and visions
that are joined with the sinews of thought. Like the work of Gertrude
Stein, who is a deep influence on Sternberg, these films employ
repetition and personal vision as a way to engage with the ephemeral
passions of life. BURNING (2002, 7 minutes, 16mm, silent) "Your life is
like a candle. Whether you are aware of it or not, it is burning." –Sri
Sri Ravi Shankar A multiplicity of diverse images, cut together
rhythmically, flicker with energy, fire, light, life. TRANSITIONS (1982,
10 minutes, 16mm) "TRANSITIONS pictures a woman dressed in white caught
between "asleep and awake". The bed is drawn in the same white cast of
its occupant, and together they constitute an arena of projection, a
blank scrim on which the filmmaker inscribes the dreams of her
protagonist." –Mike Hoolboom OPUS 40 (1979, 15 minutes, 16mm) "OPUS 40
is set in a New Brunswick foundry, looking on as men perform the simple
and repetitious gestures that forge oven parts. Their movements are
treated as a series of themes and variations… OPUS 40 (the title derives
from the 40-hour work week) is at once a documentary on labour and a
meditation on repetition." –Mike Hoolboom LIKE A DREAM THAT VANISHES
(1999, 41 minutes, 16mm) Music by Rainer Weins. "Sternberg intercuts
interview fragments of philosopher John Davies, shot the year before he
died, with fleeting images taken from everyday life – fall leaves, a
teenager's party, flowing water, children at a playground – all shot in
the filmmaker's characteristic handheld camera style… What unites
Sternberg's disparate material is a concern with the temporality of all
existence, a preoccupation not so much with death as with the
fleetingness of every moment of experience. The themes of the film are
closely tied to fundamental aspects of cinema: the image perpetually
vanishes, only to be replaced, instantaneously, by another image."
–Chris Gehman, THE CANADIAN FILM ENCYCLOPEDIA Series made possible
thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts (Media Arts Section) and the
Canadian Consul General, New York City Special thanks to Anthology Film
Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org (212-505-5181) Subway: F,
V to Lower East Side–Second Ave; 6 to Bleecker Street $8; students,
seniors and members $5
12/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
VOOM HD LAB PRESENTS: NEW SELECTIONS FROM OUR HIGH DEFINITION ARTIST
RESIDENCY
Voom HD Lab will present the work of artists and filmmakers who push the
limits of expression in high-definition video. VOOM HD Lab is an
outreach program of VOOM HD Networks that encourages artists and
filmmakers to explore the new medium of HDTV. Selected participants are
given production support that includes access to a professional
high-definition production facility. They work in an atmosphere of
complete creative freedom. This screening includes emerging and
established filmmakers, a number of whom will be present for a Q & A
discussion after the screening. Works to be shown: Leslie Thornton
SAHARA MOJAVE (12 min) A little trip to Hollywood via North Africa,
circa 1900; Pawel Wojtasik LANDFILL (5 minutes) This video describes the
formation of the landfill, a potent symbol of our consumer society; Lili
Chin MAY MAD GAB (4.5 min) A mis-registered camera-roll depicts a
playful distortion of language and form; Angie Eng SCHPILIN AQUI (tbd)
Play Here is a 'cinepoem' about the mix of the spanish and jewish
traditional culture that has dominated the area since WWII; David Kramer
MORE FUNERALS THAN WEDDINGS IN MY FAMILY (tbd) A satire about external
forces driving a family to the brink as they persue the trappings of the
American Dream; Birgit Rathsmann THE UNICORN HUNT (9.5 minutes) An
adaptation of the Unicorn Tapestries leads to beautiful slapstick
horror; Theo Angell TREE GRAFTREETIS (5 min) Delve inside a psychedelic
collage where trees and graffiti create a magical landscape; Jennifer
Reeves LIGHT WORK I (8 min) Crystals, medicine and sumptuous
optical-printing transcend an audio/visual collaboration originally
performed in Scotland; Leighton Pierce MY PERSON IN THE WATER (5.5 min)
A woman moving in the water and the gaze of a man creates a desire for
merge among the knowledge of separateness; Ben Fries SOFT SCIENCES (12
min) You have beautiful eyes. Why is this?; Ali Hossaini UNPERCEPTION
NOW (4 min) Kalaeidiscopic impressions of the other-worldly landscapes,
life-forms and cultures of Madagascar; Fred Barney Taylor ATLANTIS (5.5
min) New York bridges take lyrical form in their state of transition,
strength and beauty; Trine Nedreass UNDERBELLY (10 min) Trapped in a
claustrophobic environment of uncertainty, life is an endless cycle of
limbo and panic; Benton C Bainbridge NORTH BROTHER (10 min) North
Brother Island of New York City is revealed in the collision of urban
ruins and rampant nature; Ellen Zweig THE LONELY GIRL (10 minutes) A
video that depicts what home means to an immigrant – not just the
location of home, but the home that lives inside a person's heart;
12/7
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers
http://www.berkdfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright College
BERKS AREA FILM & VIDEO SHOW
Recent works by Berks County film & video artists and students, most of
who will be present at the show.
12/7
Stuttgart, Germany: WKV-Stuttgart
http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en
1pm, Schlossplatz 2
KAREN MIRZA & BRAD BUTLER: CREATIVE PROJECTION
Artists Karen Mirza and Brad Butler wil lead a practice-based workshop
in creative projection that explores different approaches to EXPANDED
CINEMA. Participants will be encouraged to experiment with
unconventional modes of projection, and investigate the sculptural
nature of film as a spatial and temporal medium. (Part of the symposium
EXPANDED CINEMA: SPACE / TIME / STRUCTURE.)
12/7
Stuttgart, Germany: WKV-Stuttgart
http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en
7pm, Schlossplatz 2
EXPANDED CINEMA SCREENING 1
Introduced by Karen Mirza & Brad Butler. PAN FILM (Gill Eatherley, 1972,
triple projection, 8 mins) Representation of a personal space through
visual counterpoint, and positive / negative shifts. GAS STATION (Robert
Morris, 1969, double projection, 34 mins) Gas Station explores the lived
experience of space and the fixed viewpoint of the camera. PLAY (Sally
Potter, 1971, double projection, 7 mins) Seen from the filmmaker's
window, the choreographic play of twin children is fractured into
cinematic space. WHERE A STRAIGHT LINE MEETS A CURVE (Karen Mirza & Brad
Butler, 2003, double projection, 30 mins) "A durational sculpture, of
real and imagined activity shot entirely in one room. It is a film
concerned with the objective reduction of space, a film 'about' the
recording and representation of space and the politics of the viewing
space of film itself." (Part of the symposium EXPANDED CINEMA: SPACE /
TIME / STRUCTURE)
12/7
Stuttgart, Germany: WKV-Stuttgart
http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en
8:30pm, Schlossplatz 2
EXPANDED CINEMA: OPENING RECEPTION
Introduction and drinks, followed by a screening of LINE DESCRIBING A
CONE (Anthony McCall,, 1973, film environment, 30 mins) Over time, a
projected beam of light is transformed into an apparently solid volume
that stretches across the room, inviting the audience to experience it
from all perspectives. (Part of the symposium EXPANDED CINEMA: SPACE /
TIME / STRUCTURE)
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2006
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12/8
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
“I AM NOT A WAR PHOTOGRAPHER” - AN ILLUSTRATED TALK BY LYNNE SACHS AND
SCREENING OF STATES OF UNBELONGING
Lynne Sachs in Person! I Am Not a War Photographer is a cinematic
presentation and talk exploring Sachs' decade-long artistic rather than
physical immersion in war. From Vietnam to Bosnia to WWII Occupied Rome
to the Middle East today, her experimental documentary films push the
borders between genres, discourses, radicalized identities, psychic
states and nations through the intertwining of abstract and reality
based imagery. In her talk, she will introduce precise visual strategies
she has discovered in working with these fraught and divisive themes.
Often opting for a painterly rather than a photographic articulation of
conflict, she attempts with each new project to find a precise language
of images and sounds with which to discuss these volatile moments in
history, exposing what she see as the limits of a conventional,
documentary representation of both the past and the present. Included
are selections from Which Way is East: Notebooks from Vietnam;
Investigation of a Flame; www.House-of-Drafts.org; and a new
work-in-process. The program also includes Sachs' newest film, showing
in its entirety. States of Unbelonging (2005) is a personal and moving
documentary essay about Sachs' investigation into the life and death of
a young Israeli woman, Revital Ohayon, who was a mother, a filmmaker, a
teacher, and a Jew. This shared identity draws Sachs to Revital's story
and her search for the person behind the news accounts leads her on a
journey that resonates with meaning beyond the private life of one
person and the filmmaker looking for answers.
12/8
Eugene, Oregon: DIVA Center
http://www.proscenia.net/diva/calendar.htm
8:00 PM, DIVA Center 110 W. Broadway
3RD ANNUAL IMMI FEST 2006
The Third Annual Festival of Improvised Music and Moving Image (IMMI
Fest) once again delights the aural and visual senses December 8th and
9th at the DIVA Center 110 W. Broadway. IMMI Fest features classic
silent film, freely improvised music and progressive video, all melded
together for maximum spontaneity and simultaneous sensory pleasure. The
festival showcases west coast musicians and media artists in an intimate
listening and viewing environment for optimal audience exposure. The
Knotty Ensemble of Vancouver, BC/ Eugene host the festival. The ensemble
features Jared Burrows - guitar, accordion, and clarinet; Rob Kohler -
bass; Sonya Lawson - viola; Daniel Heila - flute and winds, and Stan
Taylor - drums. The Knotty Ensemble is joined by The Three Pipes from
Mills College in Oakland, California. The group consists of Charity
Chan, Noah Phillips, and Jordan Glen whose work together is an evocation
of alternative timbres informed by the immediacy of physical gesture in
live performance. Trombonist Scott Thomson, a key member of the thriving
Toronto improvisation scene, will join The Three Pipes in Eugene.
Festival highlights include experimental short video works as well as
classic silent films accompanied by a live improvisation. The classic
film TABU (1931) by F. W. Murnau and Robert J. Flaherty (Nanook of the
North fame) will be screened Friday evening. On Saturday, A STORY OF
FLOATING WEEDS (1934) by Yasujiro Ozu will be featured. Both programs
begin at 8:00pm. General Admission is $5.00. Students $3.00 with School
photo I.D. For more information contact IMMI Fest Director Daniel Heila,
(address suppressed) Or, call 344-3482. Full details on the DIVA
Media Arts Calendar at www. proscenia.net/diva/calendar.htm
12/8
New York, New York: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
2000, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue @ 2nd Street
EN PLEIN AIR (SHORTS PROGRAMME)
THE IMAGES FESTIVAL (TORONTO) AND ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES PRESENT: SIX
OF ONE, HALF-DOZEN OF THE OTHER: IMAGES FROM CANADA, PROGRAM 6: EN PLEIN
AIR (shorts program) The abundance of land has always figured into the
Canadian imagination. These works show their makers acutely aware of
their context, both geographic and aesthetic. References to painters
like Agnes Martin and the Group of Seven play out against new visions of
what effect landscape has on one's sense of place. Larissa Fan COMING +
GOING (2005, 3 minutes, 16mm) FILMMAKER IN PERSON! A portrait of the
energy of urban life in split-screen. COMING + GOING was shot on one
roll of regular-8 film, with all editing and split-screen effects
created in-camera. Ellie Epp TRAPLINE (1976, 18 minutes, 16mm) "Filmed
in a London, UK swimming pool, TRAPLINE is a painterly film conveying a
state of limbo…giving one the feeling of being trapped between the
unconscious and consciousness." –Tina Keane, READINGS Chris Gallagher
SEEING IN THE RAIN (1981, 10 minutes, 16mm) On a bus route through
downtown Vancouver, a fixed shot and a rainstorm create the opportunity
for an exploration of the cinematic "wipe." Philip Barker A TEMPORARY
ARRANGEMENT (1995, 12 minutes, 16mm) FILMMAKER IN PERSON! "The film
began as an experiment: to study the human form suspended in a body of
water – a search for commonality. However, during the filming, a shift
occurred in the agenda. Individual dramas unfolded as each person had to
confront their ability – or inability – to relinquish control to the
water. A personal narrative evolved as I intimately observed my friends
and family coming to terms with this natural force." –Philip Barker Dana
Claxton BUFFALO BONE CHINA (1997, 12 minutes, video) An experimental
video metaphorically recalls First Nations peoples' loss of the buffalo
and the historical use of buffalo bone to make fine china. John Price
THE VIEW NEVER CHANGES (1996, 6 minutes, 16mm) "Carefully composed as
both a gentle and highly critical portrait of the filmmaker's
relationship with his father, this beautifully hand-processed film
manages to offer a balanced study heavy with the weight of family
history and family ties." –Alex Mackenzie David Rimmer SURFACING ON THE
THAMES (1970, 5 minutes, 16mm) "The loveliest Rimmer film shows a river
boat slowly steaming past the Houses of Parliament – so slowly that it
seems not to be moving, and surrounded by such luminous mistiness that
one critic is supposed to have thought he was looking at a Turner
painting rather than at film footage. Gradually the surface of the film
begins to wrinkle slightly, to spot, to show minor blemishes – in a
sense to assert itself above and before the rich density it contains."
–Roger Greenspun, NEW YORK TIMES Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof SONG OF THE
FIREFLY (2002, 4 minutes, 35mm) SONG OF THE FIREFLY transports the
viewer to an open field on a warm summer night, where the luminous dance
of the fireflies can be experienced. Joanna Empain MOUVANCES (2005, 4
minutes, video) A wandering over a landscape. Observation, but also the
desire for proximity. The scenery alternates and metamorphoses. Vincent
Grenier NORTH SOUTHERNLY (2006, 7 minutes, video) "Changes of
directions, in the wind, the edges, the shapes, a joyous and mesmerizing
Intrigue. Perhaps another way to put it is to describe this piece as a
humorous digital cine take on the long cultural history of the lessons
left by the great Chinese painters of the 13th century for whom shapes
and edges were often all one and the same." –Vincent Grenier Series made
possible thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts (Media Arts Section)
and the Canadian Consul General, New York City. Special thanks to
Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
(212-505-5181). Subway: F, V to Lower East Side–Second Ave; 6 to
Bleecker Street $8; students, seniors and members $5
12/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7pm, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
JOAN JONAS: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST WITH DOG
A documentary of the artist Joan Jonas by Brigitte Cornand, (2006, 75
minutes, video); This intimate journey into the poetical world of one of
the major contemporary artists of our time, Joan Jonas. This documentary
begins with the opening of the exhibition "Joan Jonas: Five Works" at
the Queens Museum in 2003. Journeying from the artist's New York studio
to her house on Cape Breton, filmmaker Brigitte Cornand documents her
numerous encounters with the Jonas, capturing her at work on "The Scent,
the Shape, the Feel of Things," a large-scale performance piece inspired
by the work of the late German art-historian-extraordinaire Aby Warburg,
and culminating in the piece's 2005 premiere at Dia:Beacon. (The piece
had an encore presentation at Dia:Beacon in October 2006.) The program
will also include several recent videos by Joan Jonas, presented in
collaboration with Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). "Like many members of
her influential generation, Joan Jonas stopped making sense in the late
1960's, replacing narrative continuity with a fragmented multimedia
performance style that incorporates drawing, sculpture and video;
emphasizes everyday objects and gestures; and often uses amateur dancers
and musicians. Such strategies personify the art of the early 1970's,
with its love of process, heightened banality and accident. To these Ms.
Jonas has always added interests of her own: folk tales and songs,
shamanistic ritual and mythic beings, favored props and, sometimes, one
of several soulful white dogs she has owned. A result is an air of
unabashed lyricism, a wildness that is less artistic device than
elemental condition, basic to life since the beginning of human
consciousness." —Roberta Smith, New York Times
12/8
Stuttgart, Germany: WKV-Stuttgart
http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en
11am, Schlossplatz 2
EXPANDED CINEMA: THE FUTURE OF EXPANDED CINEMA
An open meeting. Guest artists and invited speakers will discuss issues
related to the presentation and documentation of EXPANDED CINEMA works,
addressing important questions concerning the conservation, presentation
and study of this filmic performance art. EXPANDED CINEMA often demands
the direct participation of the artist-creator, resisting re-enactment
and reconstruction in their absence. Each projection is different,
embracing chance and variation, and adapted to its exhibition
environment, making it impossible to encapsulate a definitive
performance. Given these conditions, how can such works be adequately
recorded and studied outside of the live experience, whilst retaining
the unique characteristics of this dynamic, ephemeral art form ? (Part
of the symposium EXPANDED CINEMA: SPACE / TIME / STRUCTURE)
12/8
Stuttgart, Germany: WKV-Stuttgart
http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en
3pm, Schlossplatz 2
TONY CONRAD: PICKLED FILM
In a radical approach to film preservation, Tony Conrad will discuss and
prepare 'Pickled Film', methodically mixing raw film stock, vinegar,
vegetables and spices.
12/8
Stuttgart, Germany: WKV-Stuttgart
http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en
7pm, Schlossplatz 2
EXPANDED CINEMA: SCREENING 2
OPENING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: 1896 (Ken Jacobs, 1990, 16mm film, 9
mins) An archival film from the turn of the century, transformed into
impossible 3D. MORNINGFILMS DOUBLE PROJECTION 8/2001-10/2004 (Hans
Michaud, 2004, double projection, 5 mins) A celluloid sketchbook
composed to a strict mathematical scheme. CERTAINES OBSERVATIONS (Rose
Lowder, 1979, double projection, 14 mins) "Certain observations are used
to define notions regarding the appearance of things in true or apparent
motion." SANS TITRE 84 (Yann Beauvais, 1984, double projection, 14 mins)
Photographs of the Arc de Triomphe, split into strips, reformed and
transformed. GURTRUG NO. 2 (Werner Nekes, 1967, double projection, 13
mins) Two triangular images, vertically aligned, form an X in space and
time. DOPPELPROJEKTION (Ernst Schmidt Jr., 1969, double projection, 5
mins) Doppelprojektion explores the transformation of events from
physical space into visual space.
12/8
Stuttgart, Germany: WKV-Stuttgart
http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en
8:30pm, Schlossplatz 2
EXPANDED CINEMA: WILLIAM RABAN
English artist William Raban is one of the leading practitioners of
EXPANDED CINEMA, mixing the materialist aesthetic with time-lapse and
observational documentary. Tonight's programme draws on key works from
the 1970s, and features the world premiere of a new arrangement of 'Wave
Formations'. SURFACE TENSION (William Raban, 1976, double projection, 15
mins) ANGLES OF INCIDENCE (William Raban, 1973, double projection, 10
mins) MOONSHINE (William Raban, 1974, double projection, 8 mins)
DIAGONAL (William Raban, 1973, triple projection, 5 mins) WAVE
FORMATIONS (William Raban, 1977-2006, quintuple projection, 20 mins)
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