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This week [December 9 - 17, 2006] in avant garde cinema
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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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2007 Milkbar International Live Film Festival (Oakland, CA USA; Deadline: December 16, 2006)
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Her Shorts Women’s International Video Festival (Tucson, AZ, USA; Deadline: January 01, 2007)
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britspotting - British/Irish Filmfestival (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: January 15, 2007)
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Toofy Film Fest (Boulder, CO USA; Deadline: June 01, 2007)
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Visual Music Marathon (Boston, MA; Deadline: January 22, 2007)
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London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (London, UK; Deadline: December 22, 2006)
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Beijing Da Art Space (BDAS) (Location: Beijing, China; No entry deadline)
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Past into Present: Found Footage Film/Video Series (Location: Chicago, IL, USA; No entry deadline)
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Lake County Film Festival (Libertyville, IL, USA; Deadline: December 20, 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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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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Davis Feminist Film Festival (Davis, California; Deadline: January 01, 2007)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Poto and Cabengo [December 10, Brooklyn, New York]
* 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]
* Slack video Presents: A Chrismas Special iv? [December 11, Hull, United Kingdom]
* Mediascope 2006 [December 11, New York, New York]
* Audio Verite: the Hobart Variations [December 13, New York, New York]
* "The Hollywood Show" [December 13, Providence, RI]
* Truth, Lies, Secrets - Film/Video Showcase [December 14, Jersey City, New Jersey]
* Prix Jean vigo - Dis-Moi Que Je RêVe (Mooncalf). [December 14, New York, New York]
* Unessential Cinema Presents: What Is On Shelf #510? [December 14, New York, New York]
* Open Screening [December 15, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Joseph Cornell: Program #1 [December 15, New York, New York]
* Open Screening [December 16, Chicago, Illinois]
* Prix Jean vigo - Dis-Moi Que Je RêVe (Mooncalf). [December 16, New York, New York]
* The New vision Cinema Program [December 16, New York, New York]
* The New vision Cinema Presents Electra Elf [December 16, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Alexandr Dovzhenko's Zvenigora [December 16, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Joseph Cornell: Program #2 [December 16, New York, New York]
* New Experimental Works [December 16, San Francisco, California]
* Bill Brand: Mistakes, Out Takes and Good Deeds
[December 17, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Alexandr Dovzhenko's Arsenal [December 17, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Alexandr Dovzhenko's Earth / Zemlya [December 17, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2006
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12/9
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
12/9
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org
2:00pm, 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)
12/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30pm, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
JOAN JONAS: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST WITH DOG
see notes for Friday, December 8, 7pm
12/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5pm, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STAN BRAKHAGE: THE PITTSBURGH TRILOGY
EYES (1970, 36 minutes, 16mm, silent) After wishing for years to be
given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more "mystical" occupations
of our Times – some of the more obscure Public Figures which the average
imagination turns into "bogeymen"... viz.: Policemen, Doctors, Soldiers,
Politicians, etc.: – I was at last permitted to ride in a Pittsburgh
police car, camera in hand, the final several days of September 1970 –
this opportunity largely due to the efforts of a Pittsburgh newspaper
photographer, Mike Chikiris – who was sympathetic to my film show at The
Carnegie Institute and responded to my wish as stated on that occasion –
therefore pleaded my "cause" eloquently with Police Inspectors of his
acquaintance: my thanks to him, to Sally Dixon of The Carnegie Institute
and to the Policemen who created the situation that made this film
possible. (S.B.); DEUS EX (1971, 34 minutes, 16mm, silent) I have been
many times very ill in hospitals; and I drew on all that experience
while making DEUS EX in West Penn. Hospital of Pittsburgh; but I was
especially inspired by the memory of one incident in an emergency room
of San Francisco's Mission District: while waiting for medical help, I
had held myself together by reading an April-May 1965 issue of "Poetry
Magazine": and the following lines from Charles Olson's "Cole's Island"
had especially centered the experience, "touchstone" of DEUS EX, for me:
Charles begins the poem with the statement "I met Death –" And then: "He
didn't bother me, or say anything. Which is / not surprising, a person
might not, in the circumstances; / or at most a nod or something. Or
they would. But they wouldn't, / or you wouldn't think to either, / it
was Death. And / He certainly was, the moment I saw him." The film
begins with this sense of such an experience and goes on to envision the
whole battle of hospital on these grounds, thru to heart surgery seen as
equivalent to Aztec ritual sacrifice... the lengths men go to avoid so
simple and straight a relationship with Death as Charles Olson managed
on/in "Cole's Island." (S.B); THE ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE'S OWN EYES
(1971, 32 minutes, 16mm, silent) "…Stan Brakhage, entering, with his
camera, one of the forbidden, terrific locations of our culture, the
autopsy room. It is a place wherein, inversely, life is cherished, for
it exists to affirm that no one of us may die without our knowing
exactly why. All of us, in the person of the coroner, must see that, for
ourselves, with our own eyes. It is a room full of appalling particular
intimacies, the last ditch of individuation. Here our vague nightmare of
mortality acquires the names and faces of others. This last is a process
that requires a witness; and what 'idea' may finally have inserted
itself into the sensible world we can still scarcely guess, for the
camera would seem to be the perfect Eidetic Witness, staring with
perfect compassion where we can scarcely bear to glance." (Hollis
Frampton); Total running time: ca. 102 minutes.
12/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STAN BRAKHAGE: TEXT OF LIGHT
THE TEXT OF LIGHT (1974, 67 minutes, silent) Brakhage's tour-de-force
exploration of refracted light in an ashtray. "All that is, is light."
–Dun Scotus Erigena
12/9
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
see notes for Friday, December 8, 7pm
12/9
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia
ALFONSO ALVAREZ + OVERDUB CLUB +
With their hand-printed, toned, and processed direct-animation images
from both camera and trash bin, cinemagicians Thad Povey and recent
Phelan awardee Alfonso Alvarez bring back their wall of 16mm
projections, this time with an expanded Overdub Club line-up: Suki
O'Kane on vibes and drums joins Lucio Menegon with his electric
six-string sonics and loops. The opening set showcases the work of Bay
Area stalwart Alvarez, whose award is certainly warranted by decades of
optically-printed cine-poetry. PLUS the newest from the SFJ collective,
To the Beat. Note special admission: $6.
12/9
Stuttgart, Germany: WKV-Stuttgart
http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en
3pm, Schlossplatz 2
WILLIAM RABAN: EXPANDED CINEMA & STRUCTURAL FILM
Using film examples, William Raban will give a personal account of
EXPANDED CINEMA at the London Film-Makers' Co-operative throughout the
1970s, demonstrating how some of the multi-screen and film performance
works came into being and will describe their relationship within a
broader structural film aesthetic.
12/9
Stuttgart, Germany: WKV-Stuttgart
http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en
7pm, Schlossplatz 2
EXPANDED CINEMA: SCREENING 3
RAZOR BLADES (Paul Sharits, 1965-68, double projection, 25 mins) "By
opposing the eyes and ears against the mind, 'Razor Blades' cuts deeply,
both in our psychic and visceral bodies." #5 (Joost Rekveld, 1994,
triple projection, 6 mins) A luminescent action painting of abstract
light forms in kinetic motion. TRIAGE (Carl Brown & Michael Snow, 2004,
double projection, 30 mins) Each artist worked independently on one
panel of a double screen 'exquisite corpse'
12/9
Stuttgart, Germany: WKV-Stuttgart
http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en
8:30pm, Schlossplatz 2
EXPANDED CINEMA: BRUCE MCCLURE
McClure creates hypnotic and immersive film experiences from a minimal
quantity of audio-visual information. Loops constructed by bleaching
clear frames from opaque emulsion are manipulated live by the filmmaker,
using guitar effects pedals and adapted 16mm projectors, which have been
modified in order to vary their intensity, speed and framing. NETHERGATE
(Bruce McClure, 2006, film performance, variable duration) UNTITLED
(Bruce McClure, 2006, film performance, variable duration)
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2006
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12/10
Brooklyn, New York: PROTEUS GOWANUS GALLERY AND READING ROOM
http://www.proteusgowanus.com
7 PM, 543 Union St. @Nevins
POTO AND CABENGO
POTO AND CABENGO (Jean-Pierre Gorin, USA/GERMANY 1979, 75') A
documentary about the six year old twins, Gracie and Ginny Kennedy, who
appear to be speaking their own language. Linguists and the media are
excited and the girls become stars, until it is revealed that their own
language is a pidgin mix of their father's English and their mother's
German. Gorin's investigative presence, acting as a counter-balance to
the news coverage, gives the film its edge. He presents an unflinching
portrait of a fragmented American dream. Part of our yearlong
interdisciplinary library exhibit, the screenings are a celebration of
the public library, and The Donnell Media Center's incredible
circulating 16mm film collection at NYPL. Programmed by Jeanne Liotta
for Proteus Gowanus.
12/10
Los Angeles: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
THOM ANDERSEN PRESENTS NEW VIDEO WORK BY WILLIAM E. JONES
Filmforum's continues its Celebration of its 30th Anniversary with Thom
Andersen presenting New Video work by William E. Jones Ninth in a
series! William E. Jones's new body of work was inspired by his parallel
career in the gay adult video industry. In the course of viewing
hundreds of hours of porn, he has developed a fascination with its
marginalia: establishing shots revealing urban landscapes of the recent
past, charmingly inept dialogue scenes, and close-ups of performers,
many now dead. This material, while of no particular commercial use, can
be seen as an invaluable document of a lost world of eroticism and
sociability. The show includes "v. o." (video, color, 59 minutes, 2006),
"More British Sounds" (video, color, 8 minutes, 2006), and "Film
Montages (for Peter Roehr)" (video, color, 11 minutes, 2006)
12/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
JOAN JONAS: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST WITH DOG
see notes for Friday, December 8, 7pm
12/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30pm, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ROBERT BREER
FORM PHASE I (1952); FORM PHASES II (1953); RECREATION (1956, 2
minutes); JAMESTOWN BALOOS (1957, 6 minutes); EYEWASH (1959, 3 minutes);
BLAZES (1961, 3 minutes); PAT'S BIRTHDAY (1962, 13 minutes); BREATHING
(1963, 5 minutes); FIST FIGHT (1964, 9 minutes); 66 (1966, 6 minutes);
69 (1969, 5 minutes); 70 (1971, 5 minutes); GULLS AND BUOYS (1972, 8
minutes); FUJI (1973, 9 minutes); Total running time: ca. 85 minutes.
The happy, joyful, playful abstractionist of the avant-garde. Early
works and late masterpieces.
12/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7 pm, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
JOAN JONAS: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST WITH DOG
see notes for Friday, December 8, 7pm
12/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CONNER/CONRAD
CONNER / CONRAD Bruce Conner: A MOVIE (1958, 12 minutes) and REPORT
(1965, 13 minutes) Films by the master and poet of the collage film;
and, Tony Conrad: THE FLICKER (1966, 30 minutes, 16mm) Mathematical and
rhythmical orchestration of white and black frames. Funding for the
preservation of this film provided by The National Film Preservation
Foundation; Total running time: ca. 65 minutes.
12/10
Stuttgart, Germany: WKV-Stuttgart
http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en
3pm, Schlossplatz 2
BRUCE MCCLURE: DEMONSTRATION
Bruce McClure will discuss his work and give a practical demonstration
of his uniquely modified projectors and sound processing units.
12/10
Stuttgart, Germany: WKV-Stuttgart
http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en
7pm, Schlossplatz 2
EXPANDED CINEMA: SCREENING 4
CASTLE ONE (Malcolm Le Grice, 1966, 16mm film, 20 mins) One of the
earliest expanded works, "The Light Bulb Film" questions the role of the
spectator in film viewing experience. PROJECTION INSTRUCTIONS (Morgan
Fisher, 1976, 16mm film, 4 mins) Every film must be performed by the
projectionist. This one requires extra attention. LIGHT MUSIC (Lis
Rhodes, 1975-77, projection environment, 25 mins) A dynamic and
interactive sound and light environment in which image and sound are
inextricably linked.
12/10
Stuttgart, Germany: WKV-Stuttgart
http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en
8:30pm, Schlossplatz 2
TONY CONRAD: FILM PERFORMANCES
Tony Conrad presents two performances that propose alternative systems
of film production and refer back to a sequence of interventionist works
he made in the mid-1970s 'Bowed Film' combines Conrad's interests in
film and musical minimalism. For 'Sukiyaki', unexposed film strips are
stir-fried in the traditional manner prior to their unique projection.
BOWED FILM (Tony Conrad, 1974, film performance, variable duration)
SUKIYAKI (Tony Conrad, 1973, film performance, variable duration)
12/10
Valencia, California: Cal Arts
http://www.calarts.edu/
11:30 AM-1:30 PM, 24700 McBean Parkway
JAMES TENNEY ON FILM
Seven incredible films in which either James Tenney or his music
appears. Reel 5 (...). Stan Brakhage. 1998. 16mm. Cat's Cradle. Stan
Brakhage. 1959. 16mm. Fuses. Carolee Schneemann. 1964-7. 16mm. Christ
Mass Sex Dance. Stan Brakhage. 1991. 16mm. Matins. Stan Brakhage. 1988.
16mm. Desistfilm. Stan Brakhage. 1954. 16mm. Interim. Stan Brakhage.
1952. 16mm. This screening is but one component of a festival devoted to
the music of James Tenney, taking place at Calarts from Friday, December
8th to Sunday, December 10th. No admission.
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2006
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12/11
Hull, United Kingdom: Slack Video
http:// www.slackvideo.org
8.30pm, Lamp, Norfolk Street
SLACK VIDEO PRESENTS: A CHRISMAS SPECIAL IV?
An evening of 'potentialy festive' experimental and narrative short film
from local, national and international artists, animators and film
makers.
12/11
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org
8:00pm, 11 West 53rd Street
MEDIASCOPE 2006
Dedicated to experimentation with cinematic form and content, MediaScope
presents emerging and recognized artists who discuss their work with the
audience. The program explores filmmaking and videomaking, as well as
Web-based, installation, and digital art practices. Organized by Sally
Berger, Assistant Curator; Jytte Jensen, Curator; Laurence Kardish,
Senior Curator; and Joshua Siegel, Assistant Curator, Department of
Film; and Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Media.
MediaScope is supported by Jennifer McSweeney. Special thanks to First
Run Features. An Evening with Ou Ning. Guangzhou/Beijing documentarian
and graphic designer Ou Ning discusses The DaZhaLan Project (2005–06),
produced with artist Cao Fei. The video portrays Qianmen—one of the last
remaining historic quarters of Beijing, which sits just south of
Tiananmen Square and is a vestige of traditional Chinese life—and
follows the city's urbanization process, tracing conflicts caused by the
imbalance between modernization and tradition. Qianmen residents, the
artists, and crew reflect change in the face of the vast demolition and
building projects leading up to the 2008 Olympics. 90 min.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2006
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12/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8pm, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
AUDIO VERITE: THE HOBART VARIATIONS
Our Audio Vérité series usually dips into the copious collection of
reel-to-reel recordings and other aural finds that are squirreled away
at Anthology. For this very special event we will focus on the
fluctuation of sound and image in the work of Joseph Cornell. We tend to
think of films – even avant-garde classics – as having fixed
soundtracks, but some are actually quite flexible. Joseph Cornell played
records from his collection with his films, occasionally even using
different music, so that no two screenings were identical. Working from
some of the alternative musical variations outlined in his personal
notes, this show will demonstrate some of the possible mutations that
exist for his found-footage masterpiece ROSE HOBART (1936). We will also
examine the soundtrack suggestions for other of his films. In addition,
rare Cornell-related audio from our vault will be played for the first
time. And, we will see and hear Composer-In-Residence John Zorn's
thrilling soundtrack variations on Cornell's THE MIDNIGHT PARTY, as
performed at a live concert at Anthology. Happy Birthday, Joseph
Cornell! This Audio Vérité event is presented with the assistance of
Bradley Eros and Jeanne Liotta, researchers of Cornell's film
collection.
12/13
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
9:30pm, 204 South Main Street
"THE HOLLYWOOD SHOW"
FILMMAKERS LUTHER PRICE AND SHANAY JHAVERI IN PERSON! Glamour! Scandal!
Spectacle! As 2006 winds to a close, join the stars of Magic Lantern as
we deliver the glitter and sparkle of Hollywood as you've never seen it
before. Known worldwide for its Formulaic Star Vehicles, Special Effects
Blockbusters, and Happy Meal McDonalds Tie-ins, Hollywood is normally
cast as the Iceberg to the Avant-Garde's Titanic. All of that changes
tonight as Experimental Cinema and Mainstream Narrative join each other
onstage in their sparkliest strapless dresses to bring you Eight Motion
Picture Events that level a mixture of Love, Ambivalence, and Critique
at what Kenneth Anger called the
Wonder-World-of-Make-Believe-and-the-Home-of-Heavenly-Bodies. 'Tis the
season for Oscar-hopefuls, so cast your vote for Magic Lantern and walk
the Cable Car's Red Carpet for a one-time celebration and condemnation
of the Stars and Spectacle of Tinseltown. Oh, Hollywood! FEATURING:
Collages d'Hollywood by Richard Kerr (8:30, 35mm, 2003), Outer Space by
Peter Tscherkassky (10:00, 35mm CinemaScope, 1999), Untitled Hollywood
Film by Shanay Jhaveri (7:00, video, 2006), Turbulent Blue by Luther
Price (10:00, 16mm, 2006), Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy by Martin
Arnold (15:00, 1998, 16mm), 4 Vertigo by Les LeVeque (9:00, video,
2000), Home Stories by Matthias Müller (6:00, 16mm, 1991), Mayhem by
Abigail Child (20:00, 16mm, 1987) TRT 83:50 $5
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2006
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12/14
Jersey City, New Jersey: Urban Image Showcase
http://www.urbanimageshowcase.org
6:00PM, Jersey City Museum, 350 Montgomery Street
TRUTH, LIES, SECRETS - FILM/VIDEO SHOWCASE
TRUTH, LIES, SECRETS a showcase of short films and video works by New
Jersey City University students and alumni curated by URBAN IMAGE, a
collective of media artists based at the University, will premiere on
Thursday, December 14, at 6:00PM at the Jersey City Museum, 350
Montgomery Street in Jersey City. Admission is free. Street parking is
readily available. Mining the depths of the artistic imagination, the
work featured in TRUTH, LIES, SECRETS explores what may be true or
false, confessional, diaristic, unknown, or hidden. The showcase
includes documentary, satire, personal narrative, and experimental
mixed-media works. Following opening remarks by Jane Steuerwald, an NJCU
professor of media arts and program coordinator, the screenings will
begin at 6:15PM. A question and answer session with the artists will
follow. NOISE IN MIND by Yutaka Ueda of New York City is a visually
stunning experimental piece that poses some of the central questions to
human existence. Through the masterful integration of sound and image
the artist leads viewers to consider the profound questions that have
been asked by every generation and every culture since the beginning of
time. LIFE AFTER DEATH by Summer Wosu of Jersey City defies the
conventions of science and life by proving that death is not the end of
life but rather the beginning. The mind of the main character doubles as
a battleground and canvas for this war against the finite nature of
death. TRANSMISSION by Rick Torres of Jersey City explores the HIV AIDS
epidemic and its effect on Hudson County residents. Professionals in
local organizations share their experiences with the never-ending battle
to help their patients despite limited resources. This powerful
documentary also explores the stigma associated with HIV testing,
possible cures, sex and abstinence education, and the incredible costs
of medications. D-INFORMATION by Louis Libitz of Syracuse, NY is an
experimental piece that examines the proliferation of digital technology
in the 21st century and explores the process of acquiring, consuming,
and processing digital information and visual data. FOCUS by Jimmy
Santiago of Nutley, NJ delivers an intensely personal story through
satire and metaphor. The central story focuses on the artists countless
humiliations because of his learning disability. In this exceptionally
unique narrative, dolls, slow-tracking shots, and references to horror
films are used to transfix the audience and draw it into the artists
mind. TRISHOLOGY 101 by Patricia Gonzalez of Union City, NJ is a glimpse
into some of the most life-changing events of the artists life.
Flashbacks experienced after a fainting spell, are dramatized in this
powerful and personal piece. Some of these vivid memories have been
buried for years and others are present in her life every day. TWO WEEKS
AGO I GOT A TATTOO by Juneyup Yi of New York City is an award-winning
documentary short that explores the motivation, process, and artistry of
a black dragon tattoo commissioned by a young Slovakian man in New York
City. I by Sonya Davidova of Jersey City is a work that features a Slam
poem written specifically for the piece, and explores the notions of
family and blood, the idea of an oceans worth of separation, and the
tears that result from certain emotional states, all related to water.
Founded in the fall of 2004, URBAN IMAGE provides opportunities for
emerging artists from the NJCU Media Arts Department to screen their
work at arts venues throughout New Jersey. TRUTH, LIES, SECRETS will
also be screened at the Margaret Williams Theater, NJ City University,
on Thursday evening, February 8th, 2007 and will travel to the Hoboken
Historical Museum in the spring of 2007.
12/14
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org
8:00pm, 11 West 53rd Street
PRIX JEAN VIGO - DIS-MOI QUE JE RêVE (MOONCALF).
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.
Dis-moi que je rêve (Mooncalf). 1998. France. Written and directed by
Claude Mouriéras. With Frederic Pierrot, Vincent Deneriaz. Divided over
whether their mentally handicapped son should be institutionalized, a
middle-aged couple and their younger children begin family therapy.
Mouriéras sets his drama in the isolated surroundings of a farm embedded
in the French Alps. Courtesy Pathé. 96 min. Thursday, December 14, 8:00
(T1); Saturday, December 16, 2:00 (T2)
12/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8PM, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
UNESSENTIAL CINEMA PRESENTS: WHAT IS ON SHELF #510?
Anthology's on-site cold vault contains more than 9,000 reels in all
gauges. Essential Cinema prints and elements are kept in alphabetical
order; other collections are stored in a variety of ways. But no one
knows or remembers what the deal is with the films on shelf #510.
Negatives and positives, these cans have languished on our most
mysterious of shelves for far too long. Tonight we will witness the
unearthing of such whodunits as UNKNOWN NEGATIVE (COLOR) WITH BEES,
CARNIVAL, GEORGE WASHINGTON, PLAYGROUND-OUTTAKES and a truly odd reel of
hairy, naked Eastern Europeans doing what we hope is performance art.
Also on the bill is yet another installment of DOUBLE PROJECTION
THEATER.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2006
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12/15
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm- Friday evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between Bowery and Second Ave.)
OPEN SCREENING
Open Screening- open to all. First-come-first-served. Bring films,
videos and/or come as viewer. Finished works only, limited to a maximum
of 20 minutes per person. We can show DVD, mini-DV, VHS Videotape, 16mm,
S8mm, R8mm, Slides. Doors open at 7pm. Admission by Contribution.
12/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30PM, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JOSEPH CORNELL: PROGRAM #1
The poet of magic realities. Pioneer of recycled (found) images. ROSE
HOBART and the Trilogy (COTILLION, MIDNIGHT PARTY & CHILDREN'S PARTY)
are some of the earliest collage films created. The others were filmed
by Cornell at some of his favorite locations. Works to be shown: ROSE
HOBART (1939, 20 minutes, sound) COTILLION (1940s-1969, 8 minutes) THE
MIDNIGHT PARTY (1940s-1968, 3.5 minutes) THE CHILDREN'S PARTY
(1940s-1968, 8 minutes) CENTURIES OF JUNE (1955, 10 minutes) AVIARY
(1955, 11 minutes) GNIR REDNOW (1955, 5 minutes) NYMPHLIGHT (1957, 8
minutes) A LEGEND FOR FOUNTAINS (1957-85, 17 minutes) ANGEL (1957, 3
minutes) Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2006
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12/16
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00 pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
OPEN SCREENING
Bring it on! Show us your narrative, documentary, experimental,
animation, music video, parody, western, sci-fi, flash animation,
pixelvision, mystery, action-adventure, happy-ending, tragedy, etc. (you
get the idea!). Or just come to watch. We'll show whatever comes in the
door (except x-rated stuff, sorry!). Accepted formats: Mini-DV, DVD,
VHS, and 16mm. Recommended maximum length is 15 minutes, but we'll try
to accommodate everything, no matter how long. Free raffle for "prizes"!
Admission is free.
12/16
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org
2:00pm, 11 West 53rd Street
PRIX JEAN VIGO - DIS-MOI QUE JE RêVE (MOONCALF).
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.
Dis-moi que je rêve (Mooncalf). 1998. France. Written and directed by
Claude Mouriéras. With Frederic Pierrot, Vincent Deneriaz. Divided over
whether their mentally handicapped son should be institutionalized, a
middle-aged couple and their younger children begin family therapy.
Mouriéras sets his drama in the isolated surroundings of a farm embedded
in the French Alps. Courtesy Pathé. 96 min. Thursday, December 14, 8:00
(T1); Saturday, December 16, 2:00 (T2)
12/16
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm- Saturday evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between Bowery and Second Ave.)
THE NEW VISION CINEMA PROGRAM
"Continuing in the tradition of the Invisible Film Series, the New
Vision Cinema Series will present a broad range of films and videos from
an equally diverse selection of film and video cineastes, many of whom
are culled from the vast selection of film and video makers who had
formerly comprised the Invisible Film Series. Represented will be works
by such cinema visionaries as Nick Zedd, Mike Kuchar, Nisi Jacobs,
Howard Guttenplan, Tim Reardon and Edward Doty, familiar faces all to
those who frequent Millennium. Also debuting works in this, our premiere
edition of the New Cinema Series, will be filmmakers, Todd Heyman, Kelly
Sebatian, and James Tully. Debuting as well at this presentation will be
a collaborative effort by the show's co-curator, Michael Park, and
musician Martin Rev (Formerly of the rock group, Suicide). Other
heretofore-unannounced surprises may also be presented in this showing.
The event promises to be a most memorable rebirth of the original
Invisible Film Series concept initially conceived by the I.F.S.'s
founder, Jennifer MacMillan, so please make the effort to attend what is
to be a most engaging launching of a new chapter in this film series."-
Michael Park. The New Vision Film Series is co-curated by M. Park and
Valerie D'orazio.
12/16
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8 PM, 66 East 4th Street
THE NEW VISION CINEMA PRESENTS ELECTRA ELF
ELECTRA ELF: VILE BUDDIES Written & directed by Nick Zedd, Vile Buddies
stars Rev Jen as Electra Elfwith Faceboy, Brenda Bergman, Joseph
Maurecio, Mike Raphone and special guest star Alison Gordy (Sopranos;
singer for Johnny Thunders) as Tantalus, masked queen of fetish wear who
wreaks havoc flying on a giant bat as an agent for a terrorist cell
utilizing weather as a weapon. When Fluffer the flying chihuahua (Rev
Jen Jr.) crash-lands in Gramercy Park, getting arrested for trespassing,
Electra Elf must raise bail by competing in wrestling matches against
Tantalus and new co-worker at ASS Magazine Brenda Harridan! The scathing
Electra Elf series has been blacklisted from lesser venues like
Anthology and the NY Underground Film Festival whose curators are afraid
to show Zedd's work which openly ridicules the illegitimate regime in
control of our goverment and corporate media. Also to be represented
will be works by Mike Kuchar, Nisi Jacobs, Howard Guttenplan, Tim
Reardon, Edward Doty, Todd Heymann, Kelly Sebastian and James Tully plus
a collaboration by Michael Park and Martin Rev.
12/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00PM, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ALEXANDR DOVZHENKO'S ZVENIGORA
(1928, 96 minutes, silent.) Dovzhenko's second film, attacked by Soviet
critics for being so beautifully rendered as to actually lessen its
political impact, remains today a "cinematic poem" as the director named
it. Dovzhenko wrote: "I did not so much make the picture as sing it out
like a songbird." Episodic, folkloric, and allegorical, it is a mythic
search for hidden treasure by two brothers.
12/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30PM, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JOSEPH CORNELL: PROGRAM #2
Rare Cornell; more magic cinema from the master collagist. Variations of
films made by Cornell, plus collage films discovered by archivists after
his death. BOYS' GAMES (11 minutes) BY NIGHT WITH TORCH AND SPEAR (9
minutes) NEW YORK–ROME–BARCELONA–BRUSSELS (10 minutes) VAUDEVILLE
DE-LUXE (12 minutes) WHAT MOZART SAW ON MULBERRY STREET (ca. 1957, 9
minutes) JOANNE, UNION SQUARE (1955, 8 minutes) CLOCHES À TRAVERS LES
FEUILLES (ca. 1957, 4 minutes) CHILDREN (ca. 1957, 8 minutes) Total
running time: ca. 80 minutes.
12/16
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia
NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS
For our semi-annual N.E.W. night, we're cookin' up a visual feast of
film and video delicacies, with many of the chefs here in our kitchen!
Among the artistes servin' up the eye candy, and offerin' food for
thought, are Yin-Ju Chen, Matt Day, Enid Blader, and Vanessa Renwick.
ALSO David Cox' To-get-her, Vicki Bennett's Remote Controller, Kyle
Silfer's Pellucid World, Diane Nerwin's FUH2, and others TBA. The
evening—and season itself—climaxes with Damon Packard's half-hr.
comedy-of-errors Lost in the Thinking. PLUS plenty of holiday goodies!
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2006
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12/17
New York, New York: The Tank
http://www.thetanknyc.org
8:00 PM, 279 Church Street
BILL BRAND: MISTAKES, OUT TAKES AND GOOD DEEDS
NEW YORK EXPERIMENTAL: Bill Brand: Mistakes, Out Takes and Good Deeds -
Sunday - December 17 - 8:00 pm - The Tank - 279 Church Street – New
York, NY - 10013 > New York Experimental, The Tank's monthly
experimental film and video screening series, is pleased to present an
evening of works by renowned experimental filmmaker and preservationist,
Bill Brand. Ranging from structuralist experimentations of the 1970's to
intimate explorations of the body through the lens of hereditary
disease, the program will also feature an improvisational
installation/performance of never before seen or rarely screened bits
and pieces from Brand's studio including selected optical printing
out-takes from among his hundreds of BB Optics projects since 1976. The
program will include the following works: It Dawn Down (5 minutes,
1974), Angular Momentum (20 minutes, 1973, Chuck's Will's Widow (13
minutes, 1982) and Suite (30 minutes, 1996-2003). > For more information
on the work of Bill Brand please visit www.bboptics.com > For more
information on New York Experimental contact email suppressed and
visit www.thetanknyc.org.
12/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00PM, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ALEXANDR DOVZHENKO'S ARSENAL
(1928-29, 87 minutes, silent) One of Dovzhenko's few completely
independent films, from script to screen. ARSENAL is a civil-war epic
envisioned in unusual, painterly images: a fallen soldier – drunk on the
enemy's laughing gas – his frozen body still baring its teeth long after
the battle and his life are over.
12/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00PM, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ALEXANDR DOVZHENKO'S EARTH / ZEMLYA
(1929-30, 82 minutes, silent) A poetic expression of love for both
nature and Ukrainian culture by the man who was alternatively branded a
deserter by Ukrainians and a Ukrainian nationalist by Russian Soviets.
Dovzhenko champions the progression of life, class struggle, and new
attitudes for a town changed by a tractor and a fallen hero.
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