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Date: Sat Feb 03 2007 - 14:01:33 PST
This week [February 3 - 11, 2007] in avant garde cinema (part 2 of 2)
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2007
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2/11
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
3pm, 800 Aurora St.
TALES FROM THE DATASTREAM JUKEBOX
Storytelling meets the sampling culture. Live video, sharp narration,
and a stream of vintage movie stills interweave to create a universe of
runaway nanobots, psychic anarchists, and frustrated cyborgs. An
immersive evening of strange tales and startling imagery from The
Psychasthenia Society, bringing you the finest in satire, beats, and
visuals.
2/11
London, England: Tate Modern
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/film
3pm, Bankside, SE1
ROBERT BEAVERS: TO THE WINGED DISTANCE: 4
PALINODE (1970/2001, 21 min) In Palinode, a disk-shaped matte
continually shifting in and out of focus alternately blocks part of the
image or contains it. Its respiratory rhythm matches operatic fragments
of Wladimir Vogel's 'Wagadu', as the camera studies a middle-aged male
singer in Zurich, singing, eating, window shopping, meeting a young
girl. The filmmaker told himself, "Don't let yourself know what that
film is about while you are making it." (P. Adams Sitney, Film Comment)
DIMINISHED FRAME (1970/2001, 24 min) There is in Diminished Frame a
balance between a sense of the past seen in the views of West Berlin,
filmed in black & white and a sense of the present in which I film
myself showing how the colour is being created by placing filters in the
camera's aperture. It is the space of the city and of the filmmaker. I
searched for signs of war's aftermath and a few moments of ordinary
existence. (Robert Beavers) THE PAINTING (1972/1999, 13 min) The
Painting intercuts shots of traffic navigating the old-world remnants of
downtown Bern, Switzerland, with details from a 15th-century altarpiece,
"The Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus". The painting shows the calm,
near-naked saint in a peaceful landscape, a frozen moment before four
horses tear his body to pieces while an audience of soigné nobles looks
on; in the movie's revised version, Beavers gives it a comparably
rarefied psychodramatic jolt, juxtaposing shots of Gregory Markopoulos,
bisected by shafts of light, with a torn photo of himself and the
recurring image of a shattered windowpane. (J. Hoberman, The Village
Voice)
2/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
PROGRAM 5: BEAT MYSTERIES
While not necessarily known outside of their immediate circles, Dion
Vigne and Edward Silverstone Taylor each left behind a small body of
remarkable moving images. This program features recently preserved
examples of their works courtesy of Pacific Film Archives. While Vigne
documented his neighborhood and environment using experimental film
techniques, Taylor created his own optical projector machine, the
Lucitron, which allowed him to create varied colors and patterns. In
addition, we are screening an impressionistic documentary about Vigne's
life, times and movies as well as a short by the incomparable
Christopher MacLaine. Special thanks to Kathy Geritz and Mona Nagai at
PFA for their assistance with this program. Christopher MacLaine SCOTCH
HOP (1959, 5.5 minutes, 16mm, sound). Preserved by Anthology Film
Archives. A tribute to Scottish culture; the joys of bagpipes. Edward
Silverstone Taylor. LUCITRON (3 minutes, 16mm, silent). COSMOSIS (4
minutes, 16mm, silent). SOL (5 minutes, 16mm, silent). Preservation
prints courtesy Pacific Film Archives. David Sherman TO RE-EDIT THE
WORLD (2002, 32 minutes, VHS). Assembled from the contents of four boxes
of films shot in the 50s and 60s by San Francisco filmmaker Dion Vigne,
spinning through a lost history, a disappearance of names and faces and
works and words of the characters who comprised one of the great
chapters in American Underground filmmaking. At the center of this San
Francisco re-history is the unknown Beat filmmaker - Dion Vigne - a
character who we never see but rather feel through the influences of his
more renowned contemporaries - Christopher MacLaine, Jordan Belson, the
Whitney Brothers, Alfred Hitchcock, Kenneth Anger and Anton LaVey. Dion
Vigne. NORTH BEACH (SHORT VERSION) (1958, 5 minutes, 16mm, sound)
Preservation print courtesy Pacific Film Archives. . STROBOSCOPIC IMAGES
1 (1964, 6 minutes, 16mm, sound) Preservation print courtesy Pacific
Film Archives.
2/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 & 7:00 & 9:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NOTES ON MARIE MENKEN
See Feb. 9.
2/11
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission st. at 3rd st.
BAY AREA ROOTS FLESH OF THIS WORLD: FILMS BY SANDRA DAVIS
"Looking back, it seems that all my films have been explorations of
corporeal and sensual being—in the world, in the self, even if each was
engendered by different event, and periods of life." The work of San
Francisco-based Sandra Davis contrasts exacting editing structures with
lush, even abstract, photographic imagery. Intended to appeal to the
body as much as the mind, Davis' work bravely manifests a fusion of
interior subjectivity and the external world. Featured tonight is the
Bay Area premiere of Ignorance Before Malice, "a true story—and the
aesthetic sequel of the filmmaker's recovery process following an auto
accident. Parallel voices of narrativized testimony describing a woman's
struggle to heal within the American medical system, and a personal
rumination on the journey through a sudden rupture of health into
disability." Also screening are Davis' An Architecture of Desire, Une
Fois Habitee, and Crepescule: Pond and Chair.
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