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Date: Sat Dec 16 2006 - 06:42:17 PST
This week [December 16 - 24, 2006] in avant garde cinema
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"The War Within The War" by Brady
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MIP Film Screening Event (Location: Metro Manila, Philippines; No entry deadline)
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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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Evolution 2007 (Leeds, UK; Deadline: March 09, 2007)
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Directors Lounge (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: December 15, 2006)
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Urban Research (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: December 30, 2006)
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3rd Annual Flatland Film Festival (Lubbock, TX USA; Deadline: April 21, 2007)
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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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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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Asbury Shorts of New York 2007 (New York, NY USA; Deadline: December 20, 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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Daughters of Joy! Film + Video Festival (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Deadline: January 15, 2007)
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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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Streaming Festival {The Hague} (The Hague. Netherlands; Deadline: January 14, 2007)
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Davis Feminist Film Festival (Davis, California; Deadline: January 01, 2007)
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Newport Beach Film Festival (Newport Beach, CA USA; Deadline: December 22, 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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London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (London, UK; Deadline: December 22, 2006)
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Urban Research (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: December 30, 2006)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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 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]
* Storefront Films Presents: Interstices: Fluid Architectures [December 19, New York, New York]
* The Secret Life of…Anthology Film Archives [December 22, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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/
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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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2006
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12/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
STOREFRONT FILMS PRESENTS: INTERSTICES: FLUID ARCHITECTURES
Storefront for Art and Architecture is committed to the advancement of
innovative positions in art, architecture and design, embraces cinema
and highlights its significant role in representing the built
environment. With this final installment in the series, the works in
INTERSTICES explore the space between presentation and representation,
between data and fact, experience and ideology and proliferate possible
connections of gestures to affects, and affects to perceptions. The
foregrounding of interstice calls attention to the processing of images,
revealing how random intervals of images can be made into a sequence by
merely juxtaposing them. What emerges is both a critical reflection on
subjective positions and identity politics, and the repeated
displacement of gestures or images into ideologically charged
narratives. Such repetitions undermine the construction of stable
subject positions, re-envisioning what we take for truth as a special
effect or pure affect. INTERSTICES concludes a three-part film series
spanning Oct-Dec. that includes recorded performances of Pia Lindman.
Each screening includes a sub-theme reflecting Lindman's work and
echoing her artistic interests. INTERSTICES explores the space between
presentation and representation, between data and fact, experience and
ideology. To be shown: Pia Lindman WATERLINE (2002, 5 minutes) Casper
Stracke NO DAMAGE (2002, 12.5 minutes) Andrej Zdravic RIVERGLASS (1998,
41 minutes) Krzystof Wodiczko SELECTION FROM "HIROSHIMA PROJECTION"
(2002, 10 minutes) Jenny Perlin WASHING (2002, 4 minutes) Pia Lindman
VIEWING PLATFORM (2002, 2 minutes)
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2006
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12/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7pm, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
THE SECRET LIFE OF…ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
A once-a-season opportunity to lift up the rug that is Anthology Film
Archives and take a peek at the teeming hive of creativity lying just
below the surface, thanks to the film- and video-making efforts of AFA's
staff, friends, fellow-travelers, and devotees. Rumor has it that a
someone or two will be showing brand new super 8 films. Join Anthology
with a fun evening before we all depart for the holiday break!
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