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Date: Sat Jan 20 2007 - 09:08:07 PST
This week [January 20 - 28, 2007] in avant garde cinema (part 2 of 2)
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 2007
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1/27
Atlanta, Georgia: Eyedrum
http://www.eyedrum.org
8:00 PM, 290 Martin Luther King Jr Dr Suite 8
FILM LOVE: ANDY WARHOL 2
Frequent Small Meals presents the second of a two-night series on this
influential but rarely screened filmmaker. | Space is one of Warhol's
most unusual films, made during the "superstar" phase of his career.
Warhol assembled a cast of Factory denizens, and asked them to read a
script from cue cards. However, as the filming proceeds, the cast
becomes more interested in interacting with each other than in following
the script. Warhol allows this breakdown to happen, and lets his usually
static camera travel through the ensuing mayhem. | PROGRAM: Space
(1965), 16mm, 67 minutes | 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
1/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30pm, 32 Second Ave @ 2nd St
ESSENTIAL CINEMA - SERGEI EISENSTEIN
1925, 74 minutes, b&w. With Russian intertitles. English synopsis
available. Eisenstein's constructivist montage and rigid,
super-structured plot share equal weight with a seemingly spontaneous,
inflamed emotion.
1/27
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
SHORT FILMS BY LYNNE SACHS AND BOSNIAN-AMERICAN COLLABORATIVE WEBSITE
PRESENTATION TORNADO (2001, 4 minutes, video) A cine-poem shot from the
perspective of Brooklyn where much of the paper and soot from the
burning towers fell on September 11. Sachs' fingers obsessively handle
these singed fragments of resumes, architectural drawings and calendars,
normally banal office material that takes on a new, haunting meaning.
FIRST STEPS IN A TERRA INCOGNITA (2002, 4 minutes, video) A young
American woman travels to Bosnia to contemplate life there after a
period of war. The camera is her being, moving quietly in and out of
apartments and mosques in Sarajevo, across cultures, between the real
and the imaginary. THE HOUSE OF DRAFTS: A BOSNIAN-AMERICAN COLLABORATIVE
WEBSITE (2002, 15 min presentation, visit www.house-of-drafts.org) Made
in collaboration with Jeanne Finley. THE SMALL ONES (2006, 5 minutes,
video) During WWII, the US Army hires Sachs' cousin, a doctor, to
reconstruct the bones – small and large – of dead American soldiers.
Composed of highly abstracted war imagery and children at a birthday
party. INVISIBLE (work-in-process, 30 minutes, video) Sachs will show a
longer experimental narrative version of her film about Sandor Lenard
(see THE SMALL ONES), her iconoclastic cousin who survived the horrors
of WWII only to run breathlessly to the jungles of Brazil.
1/27
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome
http://www.pdome.org/
8 pm, 952 Queen St. West
JAPANESE ANIMATION TRIPS
A special benefit screening of Japanese animated shorts to raise money
for LIFT's newly established award, The Roberto. The Japanese Animation
Trips programme was guest-curated by Ken Okubo for the special drugs and
cinema-themed sidebar White Light at the 2006 International Film
Festival Rotterdam. The programme features: Nobuhiro Aihara's surreal,
abstract Trip (with Keiichi Tanaami) and Yellow Night; Kurosaka Keita's
Sea Roar (Umi no uta) set in a traditional fishing village where ancient
ceremonies are held to burn old boats and pray for their spirits;
Fujiwara Osato's Souvenirs of Japan (Omiyage), the story of an old lady
who owns a busy souvenir shop in a tourist area remembering her
hardships before, during, and after the war; Finally, Hiratake Shinya's
unforgettable French (Furansu jin) uses 6,000 spectacular wood block
prints to recount the adventures of a Japanese boy wandering around
France, hallucinating due to the foreignness of the environment and its
strange language.
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2007
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1/28
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
MEET THE MAKER - DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER JOANNA KOHLER PRESENTS BOXERS
Minneapolis based filmmaker Joanna Kohler will be presenting her new
documentary Boxers, which is showing before its official release in a
nearly complete work-in-progress version. Kohler will be discussing the
film and her working methods as a documentarian and will be seeking
feedback from the audience for her final edit. Boxers is a compelling
look at an all-female amateur boxing team as they train for an
international competition. Partly shot at the Windy City Boxing Gym on
Chicago's South Side, Boxers documents the lives of these role-breaking
women as they traverse the male-dominated boxing world. Special
Admission: Free for Chicago Filmmakers members; $5 general.
1/28
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF ERIKA SUDERBERG’S NEW WORK
“DECLINE AND FALL"
An experimental feature-length documentary about aerial bombing,
reconstruction, mass protest, and monumentality. Spanning historical and
present day images from Rome, Yucatán, Berlin and Los Angeles this work
seeks to examine empire; its artifacts, structures and collapse.
1/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30pm, 32 Second Ave @ 2nd St
ESSENTIAL CINEMA - SERGEI EISENSTEIN
OCTOBER / OKTYABR 1928, 143 minutes, b&w. With Russian intertitles.
English synopsis available. Eisenstein celebrates the baroque in
OCTOBER, as opposed to the Greek classicism of POTEMKIN, disappointing
contemporary audience expectations. "Intellectual cinema" starts here.
1/28
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
STATES OF UNBELONGING (2006, 63 minutes, BetaSP. Made in collaboration
with Nir Zats, music by Ted Reichman.) The core of this reflection on
war, land, the Bible and filmmaking is a portrait of Revital Ohayon, an
Israeli filmmaker and mother killed in a terrorist act on a kibbutz near
the West Bank. A film essay on the violence of the Middle East that
ponders issues of identity, crisis in the region, and the hope for
union. "Both humanist reverie and implicit cautionary tale." –VILLAGE
VOICE With: THE SMALL ONES (2006, 5 minutes, video) See notes for
Saturday, January 27.
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