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This week [January 20 - 28, 2007] in avant garde cinema (part 1 of 2)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Apichatpong Weerasethakul Shorts Program [January 20, Chicago, Illinois]
* Adam Kendall and Vortex [January 20, Houston, Texas]
* Azazel Jacobs the Goodtimeskid [January 20, New York, New York]
* Ken Jacobs Two Wrenching Departures [January 20, New York, New York]
* Ocularis At 10 [January 20, New York, New York]
* John Cage One11 and 103 [January 20, New York, New York]
* Films By LÁSzlÓ Moholy-Nagy [January 20, New York, New York]
* Vancouver Film Experiments [January 20, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Adam Kendall and Vortex [January 21, Houston, Texas]
* Filmforum Presents An Evening With Gary Kibbins [January 21, Los
Angeles, California]
* Azazel Jacobs the Goodtimeskid [January 21, New York, New York]
* Ken Jacobs Two Wrenching Departures [January 21, New York, New York]
* Strike / Stachka [January 21, New York, New York]
* John Cage One11 and 103 [January 21, New York, New York]
* Mike Kelley [January 22, Los Angeles, California]
* The Goodtimeskid By Azazel Jacobs [January 22, New York, New York]
* Two Wrenching Departures By Ken Jacobs [January 22, New York, New York]
* Ocularis At 10 [January 22, New York, New York]
* In the Poem About Love You Don’T Write the Word Love [January 22, New
York, New York]
* Yoko Ono: Rape [January 23, Berkeley, California]
* Day Is Done (Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions #2–#32)A
Film By Mike Kelley [January 23, Los Angeles, California]
* The Goodtimeskid By Azazel Jacobs [January 23, New York, New York]
* Two Wrenching Departures By Ken Jacobs [January 23, New York, New York]
* Together Again: Collectively Created Compilations [January 24,
Berkeley, California]
* Like Mangoes In July: the videos of Richard Fung [January 24, New
York, New York]
* "The Remake Show" [January 24, Providence, RI]
* Chicago Motion Graphics Festival 2007 [January 25, Chicago, Illinois]
* Feedback: the video Data Bank, video Art, and Artist Interviews
[January 25, New York, New York]
* Facing South (Shorts Programme) [January 25, New York, New York]
* Facing South [January 25, New York, New York]
* Film Love: andy Warhol 1 [January 26, Atlanta, Georgia]
* "Jud Yalkut: Twenty Years of Digital video 1980-2002" [January 26,
Dayton, Ohio]
* I Am Not A War Photographer: Films of Lynne Sachs [January 26, New
York, New York]
* Film Love: andy Warhol 2 [January 27, Atlanta, Georgia]
* Essential Cinema - Sergei Eisenstein [January 27, New York, New York]
* I Am Not A War Photographer: Films of Lynne Sachs [January 27, New
York, New York]
* Japanese Animation Trips [January 27, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Meet the Maker - Documentary Filmmaker Joanna Kohler Presents Boxers
[January 28, Chicago, Illinois]
* Filmforum Presents the World Premiere of Erika Suderberg's New Work
“Decline and Fall" [January 28, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema - Sergei Eisenstein [January 28, New York, New York]
* I Am Not A War Photographer: Films of Lynne Sachs [January 28, New
York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 2007
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1/20
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL SHORTS PROGRAM
A special repeat screening of the hard to see short works of acclaimed
Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Weerasethakul has become one
of the leading figures in World Cinema, with his stylistic and
unconventional feature films Mysterious Object at Noon, Blissfully
Yours, and Tropical Malady. But he really got his filmmaking start here
in Chicago at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his
exhibition start at Chicago Filmmakers, one of the first venues to show
his work. Tonight's program features a generous selection of his amazing
short films and videos. Malee and the Boy (1999): A collaborative
project with a 10 year-old boy who is in charge of the microphone. He
roams around Bangkok to gather sounds for the project. The narrative,
presented in text, is taken from a Thai comic book. Like the Relentless
Fury of the Pounding Waves (1995): On a hot day in a small town a mystic
radio fills the air with the sounds of a melodramatic play, The Sea
Goddess. Also showing are Windows (1999), 0116643225059 (1994), Nokia
Shorts (2003), thirdworld (1997), and This And Million More Light (2003)
1/20
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8pm, 800 Aurora St.
ADAM KENDALL AND VORTEX
The A/V trio of Adam Kendall and Vortex (Satoshi Takeishi and Shoko
Nagai) perform collaborative multimedia pieces stressing improvisation
and rules-based techniques. The trio process their video and sounds in
real-time, integrating their images and music with custom video
software, acoustic keyboards and percussion, and electronic
audio-devices. The result is a dynamic range of abstraction and
literalism and an ongoing interplay of A/V motifs and textures. Their
shows will feature new work specifically intended for their appearance
at Aurora Picture Show.
1/20
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00, 9:00, 32 Second Ave
AZAZEL JACOBS THE GOODTIMESKID
Azazel Jacobs THE GOODTIMESKID KEN AND AZAZEL JACOBS Anthology is
pleased to present premiere engagements of new feature-length films by
two members of the unceasingly prolific and preternaturally talented
Jacobs clan. From Essential Cinema stalwart and avant-garde luminary Ken
Jacobs comes TWO WRENCHING DEPARTURES, a new video version of an earlier
Nervous System projector performance-piece, while, representing the next
generation of Jacobs (which also includes his sister and fellow
filmmaker Nisi), Azazel follows his accomplished feature debut, NOBODY
NEEDS TO KNOW, with the equally wonderful THE GOODTIMESKID. Azazel
Jacobs THE GOODTIMESKID A story about stolen love and stolen identities,
shot on stolen film. 2005, 77 minutes, 35mm, color. Starring Sara Diaz,
Gerardo Naranjo, Azazel Jacobs. "THE GOODTIMESKID is the relaxed and
episodic story of two men with the same name who cross paths one day,
and the girl [caught] between them who gets the chance to escape her
daily routine. As their lives intertwine and unravel, they embark on a
personal odyssey together, affected only by those they encounter along
the way. Jacobs (NOBODY NEEDS TO KNOW), son of avant-garde filmmaker Ken
Jacobs, draws on influences from Jarmusch to his own father, but has an
original voice, clear and resonant. He uses subtle shifts in sound and
music, a voyeuristic camera and unexpected narrative jump cuts to create
a unique vision of the people inhabiting the engaging universe he and
his cohorts have created." –Shaz Bennett, AFI FEST 2005 "Minimalist to
the max, THE GOODTIMESKID emerges as an absurdist and nearly wordless
urban dance between two men and a woman over 24 hours in Los Angeles.
Building his dry comedy out of a basic confusion of names, an Army
recruitment slip and one man's curiosity, Jacobs creates a droll,
meandering and defiantly uncommercial film…[he] is able to juggle his
expression of love for the films of Chaplin, Jacques Rivette and Aki
Kaurismäki along with a light-hearted application of sustained silences
and barely articulated behavior." –Robert Koehler, VARIETY "In the
spirit of the indie heyday, when names like Alex Cox, Stephen Frears,
Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch were the currency of cinema's promise,
comes Azazel Jacobs, hopefully the new bearer of the long-smoldering
punk cinema torch. THE GOODTIMESKID is a wonderfully observant and
comical character study made with nothing but pocket change and a love
of movies." –hypersquared
1/20
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00, 32 Second Ave
KEN JACOBS TWO WRENCHING DEPARTURES
Ken Jacobs TWO WRENCHING DEPARTURES 2006, 90 minutes, video, b&w, sound.
Ken Jacobs TWO WRENCHING DEPARTURES 2006, 90 minutes, video, b&w, sound.
In October 1989, estranged friends Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith died
within a week of each other. Ken Jacobs met Smith through Fleischner in
1955 at CUNY night school, where the three were studying camera
techniques. This feature-length work, first performed in 1989 as a live
Nervous System piece is a "luminous threnody" (Mark McElhatten) made in
response to the loss of Jacobs' friends.
1/20
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org
8:30, MoMA, 11 West 53 St
OCULARIS AT 10
OCULARIS AT 10 JANUARY 20 & 22 Founded in 1996 as a rooftop film series
in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Ocularis evolved into a weekly cinema at
Galapagos Art Space. Artforum called Ocularis "one of the most
innovative film venues in New York." In commemoration of a highly
eventful decade, this retrospective screening—collectively curated by
ten key Ocularis organizers past and present (Donal O'Ceilleachair,
Marie Losier, Jonathan Howell, Isabelle Dupuis, Karyn Riegel, Henriette
Huldisch, Moira Tierney, Sophie Fenwick, Lauren Cornell, and Thomas
Beard)—reflects the diversity of programming that established Ocularis's
reputation as a vibrant forum, outside galleries and museums, for the
contemporary moving image. Organized by Charles Silver, Associate
Curator, Department of Film. Jejeune (Nouvelle Vache). 1998. USA.
Directed by Bruce McClure. 6 min. The Girl with Three Socks/Shalmont
Field/Speed Reader. 2002. USA. Directed by Shannon Plumb. 6 min. The
Moschops. 2000. USA. Directed by Jim Trainor. 13 min. Isle of Flowers.
1989. Brazil. Directed by Jorge Furtado. 12 min. Little Flags. 2000.
USA. Directed by Jem Cohen. 7 min. Endless Obsession. 2001. USA.
Directed by Glen Fogel. 6 min. Les Malles. 1989. Senegal. Directed by
Felix Samba N'Diaye. 13 min. Nettezza Urbana. 1948. Italy. Directed by
Michelangelo Antonioni. 9 min. Welcome to My Homey Page. 2003. USA.
Directed by Paper Rad. 3 min. Pixillation. 1970. USA. Directed by
Lillian Schwartz. 4 min. Program 79 min. Saturday, January 20, 8:30
(introduced by Donal O'Ceilleachair, Founder; and Thomas Beard, former
Program Director, Ocularis); Monday, January 22, 5:00
1/20
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00, 32 Second Ave
JOHN CAGE ONE11 AND 103
MODE RECORDS PRESENTS John Cage ONE11 AND 103 1992, 94 minutes, 35mm,
b&w, sound. Produced and directed by Henning Lohner, cinematography by
Van Carlson. Filmmaker Henning Lohner in person! Special note: the film
will be screened with alternate soundtracks each night. John Cage
created his only feature-length film in the year he died. A sublime
performance for camera-person and light, ONE11 is, in Cage's words, "a
film without subject. There is light but no persons, no things, no ideas
about repetition and variation. It is meaningless activity which is
nonetheless communicative, like light itself, escaping our attention as
communication because it has no content to restrict its transforming and
informing power." The final impression is of another, timeless place –
freely roaming amidst the clouds or, perhaps, under the sea. Chance
operations were used with respect to the shots and the editing of the
film. The light environment was designed and programmed by John Cage and
Andrew Culver. The orchestral work 103 musically accompanies ONE11. Like
the film, 103 is 90 minutes long, divided into seventeen parts – its
density varies from solos, duos, trios to full orchestral tuttis. "ONE11
AND 103 is very strong, very daring, and finally completely
mesmerizing." –Louis Malle This is the first screening of a 35mm print
in New York since its premiere in 1992. This screening is presented by
Mode Records in conjunction with ONE11's first release on DVD.
1/20
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Ave
FILMS BY LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY
Introduction by Hattula Moholy-Nagy, daughter of László Moholy-Nagy and
director of The Moholy-Nagy Foundation. Presented in collaboration with
the Whitney Museum of American Art. From his innovative photographs,
including his 'camera-less' photograms and photomontages, to his
experiments with novel synthetic materials such as Perspex and Rhodoid,
László Moholy-Nagy explored the changing nature of art in the face of
new technology. As he wrote, "[P]ainting, photography, and film are
parts of one problem although their techniques may be entirely
different. They belong to the same realm; that is, to visual expression,
where cross-fertilizations are possible." Tonight, six of his
experimental and documentary films will be screened: MARSEILLE VIEUX
PORT (1929, 9 minutes) LIGHT DISPLAY: BLACK-WHITE-GREY (1930, 5.5
minutes) BERLIN STILL LIFE (1931, 9 minutes) URBAN GYPSIES /
GROSSSTADT-ZIGEUNER (1932, 11 minutes) THE LIFE OF THE LOBSTER (1936, 16
minutes) THE NEW ARCHITECTURE AT THE LONDON ZOO (1936, 15.5 minutes)
1/20
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Hungry Ghost Cinema
8:00pm, Cinecyle, 129 Spadina (down the lane)
VANCOUVER FILM EXPERIMENTS
Vancouver Film Experiments, At Cinecycle, 129 Spadina Ave. (down the
lane),January 20, 8:00pm New and recently recycled works by some of the
wet-coast's most celebrated, subtle, and secret celluloid artists. From
nuanced film based textures to digitally rendered outputs and stripped
down dark noise aesthetics, it's all here. Reinventing the Vancouver
style, this program balances the violence of the downtown eastside with
an investigation of geographies that evokes an intricate and saturated
view on handmade film and the BC landscape. Almost all Toronto
premieres, these films are likely to migrate a fault-line or two.
Virtually all formats will be crossed in the night: Super 8, 16mm, 35mm
and video. Note: Film-artist and curator Ben Donoghue will be in
attendance for a live optical sound performance along with filmmaker Amy
Kazymerchyk for questions. Films and Videos by: Alex Mackenzie, Amanda
Dawn Christie, Amy Kazymerchyk, Ben Donoghue, Chris Brabant, Christoph
Runne, Julie Saragosa, Yun Lam Li, Zoe Gordini. $5-10 at the door.
Please contact email suppressed for more info, previews,
interviews.
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007
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1/21
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
7pm, 800 Aurora St.
ADAM KENDALL AND VORTEX
The A/V trio of Adam Kendall and Vortex (Satoshi Takeishi and Shoko
Nagai) perform collaborative multimedia pieces stressing improvisation
and rules-based techniques. The trio process their video and sounds in
real-time, integrating their images and music with custom video
software, acoustic keyboards and percussion, and electronic
audio-devices. The result is a dynamic range of abstraction and
literalism and an ongoing interplay of A/V motifs and textures. Their
shows will feature new work specifically intended for their appearance
at Aurora Picture Show.
1/21
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
FILMFORUM PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH GARY KIBBINS
New video work by Gary Kibbins, media artist and writer. He currently
teaches in the Department of Film Studies, Queen's University, Kingston,
Canada. Until 2000 he taught at the California Institute of the Arts. A
book of essays and scripts was published in 2005: Grammar & Not-Grammar:
Selected Scripts and Essays by Gary Kibbins, ed. Andrew J. Paterson.
Tonight's works include APRIL 1967 (2005), 10 Phrase Studies (2005), The
Harvest Is In (2006), Jesuscallingthelittlechildrenuntohim (2006), and
P&Not-P (1994; 16mm)
1/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00, 9:00, 32 Second Ave
AZAZEL JACOBS THE GOODTIMESKID
Azazel Jacobs THE GOODTIMESKID A story about stolen love and stolen
identities, shot on stolen film. 2005, 77 minutes, 35mm, color. Starring
Sara Diaz, Gerardo Naranjo, Azazel Jacobs. See notes for Wednesday,
January 20.
1/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00, 32 Second Ave
KEN JACOBS TWO WRENCHING DEPARTURES
Ken Jacobs TWO WRENCHING DEPARTURES 2006, 90 minutes, video, b&w, sound.
See notes for Wednesday, January 20.
1/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30, 32 Second Ave
STRIKE / STACHKA
Sergei Eisenstein STRIKE / STACHKA 1925, 106 minutes, b&w. With Russian
intertitles. English synopsis available. Eisenstein's interest in the
Freudian father complex drives this psychological scenario in which
non-actors step forward to acknowledge the viewer, illustrating
Eisenstein's desire to penetrate to the heart of cinema, sidestepping
realism by "being real." Governmental restrictions made STRIKE the only
completed film of a series intended to portray the road to revolution.
1/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Ave
JOHN CAGE ONE11 AND 103
John Cage ONE11 AND 103 1992, 94 minutes, 35mm, b&w, sound. Produced and
directed by Henning Lohner, cinematography by Van Carlson. Filmmaker
Henning Lohner in person! Special note: the film will be screened with
alternate soundtracks each night. See notes for Saturday, January 20.
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MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 2007
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1/22
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd st
MIKE KELLEY
World theatrical premiere 2005–06, 150 min., DigiBeta A major new video
work by the Los Angeles artist, Day Is Done is a feature-length musical
that examines American subcultures and folk events through the restaging
of 31 carnivalesque productions intermixed into a meandering
semi-narrative. Each reconstruction is a live-action scene that has been
extrapolated from photographs found in high school yearbooks, with such
familiar diversions from the day-to-day routine as dress-up days,
memorial speeches, religious spectacles, fashion shows, singles' mixers
and musical follies. Kelley disrupts the traditional structures of such
events to construct a dizzying daisy chain of performances that results
in an institutional landscape populated by dancing Goths, singing
vampires, hick storytellers, horse dancers, and the Virgin Mary. Written
and directed by Mike Kelley, with original music by Mike Kelley and
Scott Benzel and choreography by Kate Foley. In Person: Mike Kelley $6
Student with valid ID $8 General
1/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 Second Ave @ 2nd St
THE GOODTIMESKID BY AZAZEL JACOBS
See notes for January 20
1/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00pm, 32 Second Ave @ 2nd St
TWO WRENCHING DEPARTURES BY KEN JACOBS
See notes for January 20
1/22
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org
5:00, MoMA, 11 West 53 St
OCULARIS AT 10
OCULARIS AT 10 JANUARY 20 & 22 Founded in 1996 as a rooftop film series
in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Ocularis evolved into a weekly cinema at
Galapagos Art Space. Artforum called Ocularis "one of the most
innovative film venues in New York." In commemoration of a highly
eventful decade, this retrospective screening—collectively curated by
ten key Ocularis organizers past and present (Donal O'Ceilleachair,
Marie Losier, Jonathan Howell, Isabelle Dupuis, Karyn Riegel, Henriette
Huldisch, Moira Tierney, Sophie Fenwick, Lauren Cornell, and Thomas
Beard)—reflects the diversity of programming that established Ocularis's
reputation as a vibrant forum, outside galleries and museums, for the
contemporary moving image. Organized by Charles Silver, Associate
Curator, Department of Film. Jejeune (Nouvelle Vache). 1998. USA.
Directed by Bruce McClure. 6 min. The Girl with Three Socks/Shalmont
Field/Speed Reader. 2002. USA. Directed by Shannon Plumb. 6 min. The
Moschops. 2000. USA. Directed by Jim Trainor. 13 min. Isle of Flowers.
1989. Brazil. Directed by Jorge Furtado. 12 min. Little Flags. 2000.
USA. Directed by Jem Cohen. 7 min. Endless Obsession. 2001. USA.
Directed by Glen Fogel. 6 min. Les Malles. 1989. Senegal. Directed by
Felix Samba N'Diaye. 13 min. Nettezza Urbana. 1948. Italy. Directed by
Michelangelo Antonioni. 9 min. Welcome to My Homey Page. 2003. USA.
Directed by Paper Rad. 3 min. Pixillation. 1970. USA. Directed by
Lillian Schwartz. 4 min. Program 79 min. Saturday, January 20, 8:30
(introduced by Donal O'Ceilleachair, Founder; and Thomas Beard, former
Program Director, Ocularis); Monday, January 22, 5:00
1/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Ave @ 2nd St
IN THE POEM ABOUT LOVE YOU DON’T WRITE THE WORD LOVE
Anthology presents a film/video series as part of Artists Space's
exhibition IN THE POEM ABOUT LOVE YOU DON'T WRITE THE WORD LOVE. This
project brings together works by several generations of artists and
filmmakers whose practices engage – in tacit and explicit ways – the
overwhelming media culture in which we live. Displacement is a seam that
emerges and retreats through more than 30 works: a selection of film and
video installations, sculptures, paintings, drawings, collages, and
photographs. These works demonstrate a fundamental incompleteness,
deferring any sense of a true image, reinforcing the confused neurotic
state between entities, and challenging the status of the "visual."
Works to be shown: Marcel Broodthaers LA PIPE COULEUR (1969-71, 4 min,
16mm, b&w/color) Marcel Broodthaers CECI NE SERAIT PAS UNE PIPE (UN FILM
DU MUSÉE D'ART MODERNE) / THIS WOULDN'T BE A PIPE (1969-71, 2.5 min,
35mm, b&w) Marcel Broodthaers LA PIPE SATIRE (1969, 2 min, 35mm, b&w);
AND: Ayreen Anastas PASOLINI PA* PALESTINE (2003, 60 min, DVD, color,
sound) Inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Seeking Locations in
Palestine for the Gospel According to Saint Matthew (1963), Anastas
adapts a new script which attempts to repeat Pasolini's endeavors and
resuscitates his missed opportunities.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2007
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1/23
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30PM, 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
YOKO ONO: RAPE
RapeYoko Ono, John Lennon (U.K., 1969) To make Rape, Ono's cameraman Nic
Knowland picked up a woman in a London cemetery and pursued her,
relentlessly, through the streets, into a friend's flat and finally to
her own place. Speaking only German and Italian, she can neither discern
why she is being filmed nor make her stalkers go away; other women
appear to be accomplices. She becomes frantic. Usually interpreted as a
realization in the extreme of the paparazzi syndrome, Rape speaks
(rather screams) to the cinema, as well. And specifically, to woman as
she is captured in the cinema—her inability to communicate from "behind
the screen," pursued by a (phallic) lens and microphone, the camera so
close as to refuse the whole picture, a cameraman whose silence is
power. (77 mins) Preceded by shorts: Freedom (Yoko Ono, U.S., 1970).
Yoko tries to free herself from her brassiere, in slow motion. (1 min)
Fly (Yoko Ono, John Lennon, U.S., 1970). One of Ono and Lennon's most
beautiful films explores the idea of the female body on screen as a fly
explores the naked body of a woman, lying prone. Here the high-pitched
sounds of Ono's music find their natural niche. (25 mins)
1/23
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, REDCAT at the Walt Disney Concert Hall 631. W 2nd St.
DAY IS DONE (EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY PROJECTIVE RECONSTRUCTIONS #2–#32)A
FILM BY MIKE KELLEY
World theatrical premiere 2005–06, 150 min., DigiBeta Day Is Done, a
major new video work by the Los Angeles artist, is a feature-length
musical that examines American subcultures and folk events through the
restaging of 31 carnivalesque productions intermixed into a meandering
semi-narrative. Each reconstruction is a live-action scene that has been
extrapolated from photographs found in high school yearbooks, with such
familiar diversions from the day-to-day routine as dress-up days,
memorial speeches, religious spectacles, fashion shows, singles' mixers
and musical follies. Mon Jan 22, Tuesday Jan 23 | 8 pm | $8–6 Jack H.
Skirball Screening Series In Person: Mike Kelley
1/23
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 Second Ave @ 2nd St
THE GOODTIMESKID BY AZAZEL JACOBS
See notes for January 20
1/23
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00pm, 32 Second Ave @ 2nd St
TWO WRENCHING DEPARTURES BY KEN JACOBS
See notes for January 20
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2007
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1/24
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30PM, 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
TOGETHER AGAIN: COLLECTIVELY CREATED COMPILATIONS
Generic Remix Project Curated by Nancy Buchanan (U.S., 2006) Nancy
Buchanan in Person The power of the generic is its utter familiarity. It
is a form of visual shorthand, relying on indistinct features to summon
the sense of an entire class or category. The reduction of the
remarkable, the expunging of the unexpected is what the generic is all
about. This becomes unexpectedly and remarkably evident when we look at
that storehouse of moving images described as "stock," film footage
reused as all-purpose, non-particular padding. Curator Nancy Buchanan
was fascinated by the generic categorizations themselves, the products
of an odd diminution of difference. After purchasing copyright-free
stock footage, Buchanan engaged a group of never-bland artists to
interrogate "what is supposedly the 'norm' for categories such as
'nature,' 'family,' 'health,' 'history,' etc. as defined by commercial
suppliers." The remixed result is a defamiliarizing bit of stock
therapy. The artists are: Nancy Buchanan, Doug Goodwin, Hilja Keading,
Carole Kim, Tom Leeser, Les LeVeque, Eve Luckring, Pat O'Neill, Astra
Price, Natasa Prosenc, Joseph Santarromana, Erika Suderburg, Jocelyn
Taylor. (43 mins) Preceded by short: Exquisite Corpse (U.K., 2004).
Rachel Cornish curated this classic "corpse" in which artists riff on
the creative clues of earlier contributions. Included are shorts by
Eileen Bonner, Rachel Cornish, Sally Irvine, Liliana Lopez, Fritz
Stolberg, and Teresa Whiting. (20 mins)
1/24
New York, New York: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
2000, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue
LIKE MANGOES IN JULY: THE VIDEOS OF RICHARD FUNG
THE IMAGES FESTIVAL AND ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES PRESENT: SIX OF ONE,
HALF-DOZEN OF THE OTHER: IMAGES FROM CANADA PROGRAM 7; RICHARD FUNG LIKE
MANGOES IN JULY: THE VIDEOS OF RICHARD FUNG (RICHARD FUNG in person!)
This calendar continues the 8-month screening series of Canadian
artists' film and video organized by Anthology and The Images Festival,
Toronto. Following our successful spotlights on Philip Hoffman, Barbara
Sternberg, Robert Lee and Leslie Peters, this season sees spotlights on
three Canadian media artists: the activist Richard Fung, the poet Clive
Holden and the Super 8 stalwart John Porter. Richard Fung will be paired
with a program of shorts with pieces by artists reflecting on the USA
including Gilles Groulx, Joyce Wieland, Arthur Lipsett, Richard Kerr and
John Price. Wednesday January 24, 8:00 pm Like Mangoes in July: the
videos of Richard Fung (Richard Fung in person!) "Richard Fung has been
a key figure in the Canadian and international video art community for
over twenty years. Fung's work as an artist, theorist and activist has
consistently challenged fixed notions of identity and comfortable
Canadian ideas about our nation's historic virtues. He has recognized
the ways in which sexual identity, ethnic identity, family history and
language determine an individual's self-conception in complicated and
overlapping ways, and how important that conception is to how we live in
the world." – Chris Gehman Islands (2002, 9 minutes, video) In 1957,
John Houson used Tobago as the set for the war drama, Heaven Knows, Mr.
Allison. One of Fung's uncles worked as an extra on the shoot, playing a
Japanese soldier. With Islands, Fung brings this background role to the
fore. My Mother's Place (1990, 49 minutes, video) "Rita Fung, the
artist's mother, is the granddaughter of Chinese indentured labourers
brought to Trinidad in the mid-nineteenth century…My Mother's Place
weaves interviews with Rita Fung and four women thinkers, an
autobiographical narration, home movies, and documentary footage of the
Caribbean to explore the formation of consciousness of race, class, and
gender under colonialism." – Chris Gehman School Fag (Made with Tim
McCaskell, 1996, 16 minutes, video) Much has been said about the trauma
of coming out as a gay man or lesbian. Shawn Fowler never had that
problem - everyone always knew. From his early yearnings to play Wonder
Woman in preschool neighbourhood games, to losing the much publicized
prom competition at his high school, Shawn offers a fresh account of
homophobia and resistance. Sea in the Blood (2000, 26 minutes, video)
"Comprised of a moving and subtle mix of home movies, family
photographs, line drawings and titles, Sea in the Blood eloquently
expresses the sensibility of one who has lived much of his life with
loved ones suffering from incurable illnesses. Fung's relationship with
his late sister Nan, who eventually succumbed to a rare blood disease
called Thalassaemia, is described with unflinching honesty and a light
touch." – Chris Gehman Series made possible thanks to the Canada Council
for the Arts (Media Arts Section) and the Canadian Consul General, New
York CitySpecial thanks to Anthology Film Archives!
1/24
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
9:30pm, Cable Car Cinema, 204 S Main St.
"THE REMAKE SHOW"
This remake show is not the same old same old re-dressed for 2007. It's
about something different, it's about how remaking, reframing and
revising can lead to reconsiderations and revelations, to clarifications
and complications. Without the slightest fear of redundancy, all of
tonight's videos concern themselves with the act of repetition. They
remake a range of documents including a socialist home movie, a
Vietnam-era documentary film, one of Patty Hearst's missives, and a
series of secret files from the not so distant past. These videos focus
on the process of literal recollection and they call our attention to
the role that memory and media play in the re-presentation of history.
These works illustrate how re-vision and re-voicing can produce spaces
in which resonances between the past and the present can be made visible
and audible. FEATURING: What Farocki Taught by Jill Godmilow (30:00,
video, 1998), Intervista by Anri Sala (26:00, video, 1998), Symbionese
Liberation Army (SLA) Screed #29 by Sharon Hayes (3:00, Video, 2003),
Telegraph by Jesal Kapadia (3:30, video, 2005), It's Not My Memory of
It: Three Recollected Documents by Speculative Archive (25:00, video,
2003), Notes by Jenny Perlin (3:20, 16mm, 2006). TRT: 90:50, $5
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 2007
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1/25
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Motion Graphics
http://www.mgchicago.com
various times over weekend, various locations, see website in description below
CHICAGO MOTION GRAPHICS FESTIVAL 2007
Chicago Motion Graphics Festival 2007 The Premier Midwestern Event
catering to 3D and Compositing Effects January 25-28th 2007, various
locations downtown Chicago This four-day festival pairs daily
educational opportunities with nightly industry events. [ Thr ] Screen
Magazine's Star Awards (see the nominees,
http://screenmag.tv/feature.aspx?fid=1572 ) [ Fri ] Motion Graphics
Interactive Mixer @ Bridges Media Group [ Sat ] Two Hi-Def Screenings of
Festival Winners @ the Chicago Cultural Center [ Sun ] Forward thinking
online event in the virtual worlds of SecondLife.com The educational
conference hosts workshop, lectures, panels and classes on all four
days. Check the website below for a complete list of topics and
presenters. Also check out our website below for Festival Badges and
individual tickets on sale now! Also, Join us Wednesday night for our
free informational Pre-party and DVD launch on Wed, Jan 24th @ Dulcene,
1431 N. Milwaukee Ave. from 7pm - 12am. www.MGChicago.com Also check our
website for a poster: http://www.mgchicago.com/poster.pdf Feel free to
post it at work places and message boards.
1/25
New York, New York: Video Data Bank
http://www.vdb.org
6 p.m., The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019
FEEDBACK: THE VIDEO DATA BANK, VIDEO ART, AND ARTIST INTERVIEWS
MoMA PRESENTS SCREENINGS OF VIDEO ART AND INTERVIEWS WITH WOMEN ARTISTS
FROM THE ARCHIVE OF THE VIDEO DATA BANK// Video Art Works by Laurie
Anderson, Miranda July, and Yvonne Rainer and Interviews With Artists
Such As Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner Are Presented// FEEDBACK: THE
VIDEO DATA BANK, VIDEO ART, AND ARTIST INTERVIEWS// Program 1: Excerpted
interviews by women artists, curators, and writers show issues that have
influenced the development of feminist thought from the 1960s to the
present. Interviewees include Marcia Tucker, Joan Mitchell, and Lee
Krasner. Program includes the New York DVD premiere of Trio A by Yvonne
Rainer. Program 70 min. // Introduced with commentary by Kate
Horsfield//
1/25
New York, New York: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
2000, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue
FACING SOUTH (SHORTS PROGRAMME)
THE IMAGES FESTIVAL AND ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES PRESENT: SIX OF ONE,
HALF-DOZEN OF THE OTHER: IMAGES FROM CANADA PROGRAM 7: FACING SOUTH This
calendar continues the 8-month screening series of Canadian artists'
film and video organized by Anthology and The Images Festival, Toronto.
Following our successful spotlights on Philip Hoffman, Barbara
Sternberg, Robert Lee and Leslie Peters, this season sees spotlights on
three Canadian media artists: the activist Richard Fung, the poet Clive
Holden and the Super 8 stalwart John Porter. Richard Fung will be paired
with a program of shorts with pieces by artists reflecting on the USA
including Gilles Groulx, Joyce Wieland, Arthur Lipsett, Richard Kerr and
John Price. Thursday January 25, 2007, 8:00 pm Facing South A program of
self-recognition, often clouded by the influence of politics and culture
from the neighbours to the south. Arthur Lipsett, 21-87 (1964, 9
minutes, 16mm) Described as "a wry commentary on machine-dominated man,
the man to whom nothing matters, who waits for chance to call his
number", Lipsett haunted trim-bins at the NFB and shot in New York and
Montréal to piece together this misanthropic look at spirituality and
science. Gilles Groulx, Les héritiers (1954/1998, 13 minutes, 16mm) Les
héritiers, an initimate portrait of Montréal in the 1950's, was the
first film by Gilles Groulx, who later became a prominent representative
of Québec's "cinema direct" documentary movement with such films as
Golden Gloves and Le chat dans le sac. Shot with a hand-held Bolex and
edited surreptitiously during his spare time in the Radio Canada
newsroom, we will never know if Groulx considered Les héritiers to be
complete; he died in 1994 before the film was rediscovered in 1998. –
Jeremy Rigsby Joyce Wieland, Rat Life and Diet in North America (1968,
14 minutes, 16mm) "… may be about the best (or richest) political movie
around. It's all about rebels (enacted by real rats) and police (enacted
by real cats). After long suffering under the cats, the rats break out
of prison and escape to Canada. There they take up organic gardening,
with no DDT in the grass. It is a parable, a satire, an adventure movie,
or you can call it pop art or any art you want - I find it one of the
most original films made recently." - Jonas Mekas Richard Kerr, The Last
Days of Contrition (1988, 35 minutes, 16mm) An exploration of the
Canadian and American landscapes, and the relationship between the two.
The narrative deals with a journey through timeless, vacant American
landscapes (baseball stadiums, Venice Beach, Mojave Desert, and a US
Missile Base). The photographic strategy is influenced by a
consciousness of light, a quintessential characteristic of American
photography. "I documented the American landscape in the tradition of
the early formalist photographers (Walker Evans, Paul Strand, etc.)
allowing there to be content in form. The Last Days of Contrition
straddles two cultural forces while developing an understanding about
our Canadian origins and muses. – Richard Kerr John Price, gun/play
(2006, 8 minutes, 35mm) Price's camera peers over the rushes like a
hunter. Three incongruent and gloriously hazy sequences discover the
malice in the bucolic. Series made possible thanks to the Canada Council
for the Arts (Media Arts Section) and the Canadian Consul General, New
York CitySpecial thanks to Anthology Film Archives! Thursday, January
25, 8 pm Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue @ 2nd Street, New York
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.
1/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00pm, 32 Second Ave @ 2nd St
FACING SOUTH
A program of self-recognition, often clouded by the influence of
politics and culture from Canada's neighbors to the south. Arthur
Lipsett 21-87 (1964, 9 minutes, 16mm) Lipsett haunted trim-bins at the
National Film Board and shot in New York and Montréal to piece together
this misanthropic look at spirituality and science. Gilles Groulx LES
HÉRITIERS (1954/1998, 13 minutes, 16mm) "LES HÉRITIERS, an intimate
portrait of Montréal in the 1950's, was the first film by Gilles Groulx,
who later became a prominent representative of Québec's 'cinema direct'
documentary movement. Shot with a hand-held Bolex and edited
surreptitiously during his spare time in the Radio Canada newsroom, we
will never know if Groulx considered LES HÉRITIERS to be complete; he
died in 1994 before the film was rediscovered in 1998." –Jeremy Rigsby
Joyce Wieland RAT LIFE AND DIET IN NORTH AMERICA (1968, 14 minutes,
16mm) "… [M]ay be about the best (or richest) political movie around.
It's all about rebels (enacted by real rats) and police (enacted by real
cats). After long suffering under the cats, the rats break out of prison
and escape to Canada. There they take up organic gardening, with no DDT
in the grass. It is a parable, a satire, an adventure movie, or you can
call it pop art or any art you want – I find it one of the most original
films made recently." –Jonas Mekas Richard Kerr THE LAST DAYS OF
CONTRITION (1988, 35 minutes, 16mm) An exploration of the Canadian and
American landscapes, and the relationship between the two. "I documented
the American landscape in the tradition of the early formalist
photographers (Walker Evans, Paul Strand, etc.), allowing there to be
content in form. THE LAST DAYS OF CONTRITION straddles two cultural
forces while developing an understanding about our Canadian origins and
muses." –Richard Kerr John Price "gun/play" (2006, 8 minutes, 35mm)
Price's camera peers over the rushes like a hunter. Three incongruent
and gloriously hazy sequences discover the malice in the bucolic.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2007
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1/26
Atlanta, Georgia: Eyedrum
http://www.eyedrum.org
8:00 PM, 290 Martin Luther King Jr Dr Suite 8
FILM LOVE: ANDY WARHOL 1
In addition to being one of the twentieth century's most famous artists,
Andy Warhol was also one of the most influential filmmakers of the
1960s. With their outrageous conceptual gestures, voluble personalities,
and provocative content, Warhol's films became notorious and bridged
underground and mainstream cinema as never before. | But most of
Warhol's important early films have never been released on video and to
this day exist only as 16mm prints. In a two-night series of screenings
at Eyedrum, Frequent Small Meals presents a rare opportunity to view
some of these much-discussed but little-seen films. | On Friday January
26, we present two classics from Warhol's early minimalist phase,
Haircut (No. 1) and Eat. In his early films, Warhol trained the camera
on a single activity for a lengthy period, with an often extraordinary
sense of composition. He then projected the films at a slightly slower
speed, creating a dreamlike movement and revealing how much there is to
see in small gestures. Despite their beauty, the radical simplicity of
these films scandalized audiences. Haircut and Eat are accompanied by a
selection of "screen tests," the three-minute portrait films (which
Warhol produced by the hundreds) of famous and infamous visitors to the
artist's Factory studio. | PROGRAM: Haircut (No. 1) (1963), 16mm, 24
minutes; Four of Andy Warhol's Most Beautiful Women (1964-70), 16mm, 15
minutes; Eat (1964), 16mm, 35 minutes | See January 27 calendar entry
for Saturday's program details | Andy Warhol 1 and 2 is a Film Love
event, programmed and hosted by Andy Ditzler for Frequent Small Meals.
More information on Frequent Small Meals music, film, and art events can
be found at www.frequentsmallmeals.com
1/26
Dayton, Ohio: Miami Valley Cooperative Gallery
7 pm, Sinclair Community College, Bld. 12, W 3rd Street
"JUD YALKUT: TWENTY YEARS OF DIGITAL VIDEO 1980-2002"
This screening is a selection of works made by Jud Yalkut during video
residences at the Experiental Television Center in Owego, NY, from
1982-2002. Pieces include: "Self-Portrait II," "The Garden of Paradise",
"Light Display: Color," and "Noh Age Video." There will be an artist
talk and a reception following.
1/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Ave @ 2nd St
I AM NOT A WAR PHOTOGRAPHER: FILMS OF LYNNE SACHS
WHICH WAY IS EAST: NOTEBOOKS FROM VIETNAM (1994, 33 minutes, 16mm. Made
in collaboration with Dana Sachs.) When Sachs and her sister Dana travel
north from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, conversations with Vietnamese
strangers and friends reveal to them the flip side of a shared history.
"The film has a combination of qualities: compassion, acute observation,
an understanding of history's scope, and a critical ability to discern
what's missing from the textbooks and TV news." –THE INDEPENDENT;
Screening with: INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME: THE CATONSVILLE NINE (2001, 45
minutes, 16mm) On May 17, 1968, three priests, a nurse, an artist and
four others walked into a Maryland draft board office, grabbed hundreds
of selective service records and burned them with home-made napalm.
Sachs' film is an intimate look at this unlikely band. "One of the 10
Best Films of the Year" –Phillip Lopate, FILM COMMENT
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