This week [February 10 - 18, 2007] in avant garde cinema (part 1 of 2)

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Milwaukee International Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI USA; Deadline: April
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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  * Dyke Delicious Series - Something Romantic Is In the Air [February 10,
Chicago, Illinois]
  * Tales From the Datastream Jukebox [February 10, Houston, Texas]
  * Seminal Cinema Program 3: Films By Lawrence Jordan [February 10, New
York, New York]
  * Notes On Marie Menken [February 10, New York, New York]
  * Semina Circle Program 4: Seminal Shorts [February 10, New York, New York]
  * Julian Samuel Program [February 10, New York, New York]
  * Crossing Borders - Northwest Folklife Documentary Film Festival
[February 10, Seattle, Washington]
  * Daddy Knows Best; Guy Ben-Ner In Person [February 10, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada]
  * Urban Research On Film - Program B: City Labs [February 11, Berlin,
Germany]
  * Tales From the Datastream Jukebox [February 11, Houston, Texas]
  * Robert Beavers: To the Winged Distance: 4 [February 11, London, England]
  * Program 5: Beat Mysteries [February 11, New York, New York]
  * Notes On Marie Menken [February 11, New York, New York]
  * Bay Area Roots Flesh of This World: Films By Sandra Davis [February
11, San Francisco, California]
  * Directors Lounge [February 12, Berlin, Germany]
  * The Celestial Library: Films By Jeanne Liotta [February 12, Los
Angeles, California]
  * Notes On Marie Menken [February 12, New York, New York]
  * Directors Lounge [February 13, Berlin, Germany]
  * Media City 13, Opening Screening [February 13, Detroit]
  * Suki Hawley & Michael Galinsky: Half-Cocked & Radiation [February 13,
New York, New York]
  * Notes On Marie Menken [February 13, New York, New York]
  * Directors Lounge [February 14, Berlin, Germany]
  * Newfilmmakers [February 14, New York, New York]
  * Notes On Marie Menken [February 14, New York, New York]
  * North American Premiere of Notes On Film 02 At Cinematheque Ontario
[February 14, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
  * Media City 13, International Program 1 [February 14, Windsor ON]
  * Media City 13, International Program 2 [February 14, Windsor ON]
  * Directors Lounge [February 15, Berlin, Germany]
  * Copy-It-Right! Selections From the Phil Morton Memorial Research
Archive [February 15, Chicago, Illinois]
  * Notes On Marie Menken [February 15, New York, New York]
  * Media City 13, Retrospective Helga Fanderl (Germany) [February 15,
Windsor ON]
  * Media City 13, International Program 3 [February 15, Windsor ON]
  * Urban Research On Film - Program C: On the Road [February 16, Berlin,
Germany]
  * Electromediascope [February 16, Kansas City, Missouri]
  * Robert Beavers: To the Winged Distance: 5 [February 16, London, England]
  * Notes On Marie Menken [February 16, New York, New York]
  * Crossing Borders - Showing Bombay Calling [February 16, Seattle,
Washington]
  * Media City 13, Regional Artists Program [February 16, Windsor ON]
  * Media City 13, Retrospective Sergei Loznitsa (Russia) [February 16,
Windsor ON]
  * Media City 13, International Program 4 [February 16, Windsor ON]
  * Urban Research On Film - Program D: Elegiac Realism [February 17,
Berlin, Germany]
  * Michael Snow: La Region Centrale [February 17, Chicago, Illinois]
  * Injerto Program #3 [February 17, Mexico City]
  * Menken Program 1 [February 17, New York, New York]
  * Notes On Marie Menken [February 17, New York, New York]
  * Robert Mapplethorpe Documentary By Paul Tschinkel- Art/New York
[February 17, New York, New York]
  * Crossing Borders - Focus On Mexico-Us Border [February 17, Seattle,
Washington]
  * Media City 13, Retrospective Peter Hutton (Usa) [February 17, Windsor ON]
  * Media City 13, International Program 5 [February 17, Windsor ON]
  * Media City 13, International Program 6 [February 17, Windsor ON]
  * Directors Lounge [February 18, Berlin, Germany]
  * V.O. By William Jones - Plus Two Films By Luther Price [February 18,
Chicago, Illinois]
  * Robert Beavers: To the Winged Distance: 6 [February 18, London, England]
  * Menken Program 2 [February 18, New York, New York]
  * Marie Menken: New Anthology Preservations! [February 18, New York, New
York]
  * Notes On Marie Menken [February 18, New York, New York]
  * Oppositional and Stigmatized Program One: Forbidden and Taboo
[February 18, San Francisco, California]
  * Crossing Borders - Focus On Canada-Us Border [February 18, Seattle,
Washington]

Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2007
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2/10
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00pm social hour; 8:00pm screening, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)

  DYKE DELICIOUS SERIES - SOMETHING ROMANTIC IS IN THE AIR
   An early Valentine's Day treat. We're cooking up something romantic to
   get you in the mood for the V-day. Make certain to join us for the
   Social Hour before the film. With Cupid on the prowl, you never know
   what might happen.

2/10
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8pm, 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.

2/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

  SEMINAL CINEMA PROGRAM 3: FILMS BY LAWRENCE JORDAN
   Dir: Lawrence Jordan. Long considered an experimental animator, Lawrence
   Jordan has made over 60 films in all genres and styles. A high-school
   friend of Stan Brakhage and a one-time assistant to Joseph Cornell, he
   quickly became entrenched in the vibrant San Francisco art/poetry scene
   after settling there in the mid-50s. This program includes works made in
   collaboration with and featuring faces from this vital scene. Many of
   these brand-new prints are the product of a recent preservation project
   undertaken by Anthology with the cooperation of Pacific Film Archives.
   Preservation of Jordan's films at Monaco Film Lab supported by the
   National Endowment for the Arts, the National Film Preservation
   Foundation and Sony Pictures Entertainment. VISIONS OF A CITY
   (1957-1978, 8 minutes, 16mm, sound). "The protagonist, poet Michael
   McClure, emerges from the all-reflection imagery of glass shop and car
   windows, bottles, mirrors, etc., in scenes which are also accurate
   portraits of both McClure and the city of San Francisco in 1957. I don't
   think of this as an 'early film' anymore, since it never came together
   until 1978. Now it's tight." -L.J. TRIPTYCH IN FOUR PARTS (1958, 12
   minutes, 16mm, sound). Featuring appearances by Berman, his wife
   Shirley, and their baby son, Tosh, TRIPTYCH is a report from the North
   Beach San Francisco scene of the late-50s. Poets Philip Lamantia and
   Michael McClure are seen, as is painter John Reed. "A spiritual drug
   odyssey seeking religious epiphany, a thing which many people believed
   in at that time." -L.J. HYMN IN PRAISE OF THE SUN (1960, 8 minutes,
   16mm, sound). New preservation print. A celebration of the filmmaker's
   daughter's birth. The blazing garden as a metaphor for the cycle of
   life. THE 40 AND 1 NIGHTS (OR JESS' DIDACTIC NICKELODEON) (1961, 6
   minutes, 16mm, sound). New preservation print. A 24-frame-per-second
   tour of the collages of the masterful Jess Collins. JEWEL FACE (1964, 6
   minutes, 16mm). New preservation print. Sculptor George Herms remains
   one of the premiere assemblage artists of our times. Jordan's portrait
   of his friend Herms has rarely been screened. THE DREAM MERCHANT (1965,
   3 minutes, 16mm, sound). New preservation print. "A dance of eclectic
   objects. A play of demented dolls, wheels and geriatric clocks." -L.J.
   ORB (1973, 5 minutes, 16mm, sound). New preservation print. "A compact,
   full-color cut-out animation as ephemeral as the colors swimming on the
   surface of a soap bubble." -L.J. FINDS OF THE FORTENIGHT (1980, 9
   minutes, 16mm, silent). New preservation print. "This is a very
   different animation. A series of surreal titles are rapidly alternated
   with the cut-out animation movements. The titles are often simple and
   the words and images combine easily into an eerie flickering
   superimposition. But I also was interested in pressing this technique to
   the limit of informational overload. Sometimes the eye is lost in the
   flashing barrage of words and pictures. Sound would have been too much,
   so I left it silent. The titles are by collage artist and painter, Jess
   Collins." -L.J.

2/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 & 7:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

  NOTES ON MARIE MENKEN
   Dir: Martina Kudlácek. NEW YORK THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN! . . NOTES ON
   MARIE MENKEN explores the almost forgotten story of the legendary artist
   Marie Menken (1909-1970) who became one of New York's outstanding
   underground experimental filmmakers of the 1940s through the 1960s,
   inspiring artists such as Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, Jonas Mekas, and
   Kenneth Anger. Providing a glimpse into her social and artistic struggle
   and radical integrity, NOTES sketches a portrait of the artist in
   personal-diary style. The film features never-before-seen footage by
   Menken salvaged from basements and storage vaults, including a camera
   "duel" for Bolexes waged by Menken and Warhol. "Marie was one of the
   first filmmakers to improvise with a camera and edit while shooting. She
   filmed with her entire body, her entire nervous system. You can feel
   Marie behind every image, how she constructed the film in tiny pieces
   and through the movement and the rhythm - it is this that so many of us
   seized upon and have developed further in our own work…[S]he gave us a
   new beginning. She took the film - the non-narrative film, the poetic
   film, the language of film - in a completely new direction, away from
   classic filmmaking and into a new adventure." -Jonas Mekas. "Martina
   Kudlá?ek has made a name for herself creating bio-docs on experimental
   cinema personalities such as Maya Deren (IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN)
   and Alexander Hammid (AIMLESS WALK). Her latest brings into focus the
   underground film icon Marie Menken, best known for her role as the
   protagonist in Andy Warhol's CHELSEA GIRLS. Menken's role in Warhol's
   underground classic…brought her a certain degree of fame, [but] people
   often forget that she was a talented filmmaker in her own right.
   Kudlá?ek's fascinating, oneiric diary NOTES ON MARIE MENKEN follows the
   reminiscences of her friends and colleagues. Various interviewees
   recount how the public marital theatrics of Menken and her husband,
   filmmaker Willard Maas, became the inspiration for the
   perennially-battling older couple in Edward Albee's WHO'S AFRAID OF
   VIRGINIA WOOLF?..Beginning with the excavation of Marie's rusty film
   cans, old photographs, and papers housed in a storage locker, Kudlá?ek
   brings Menken vividly back to life." -Jon Gartenberg, TRIBECA FILM
   FESTIVAL.

2/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

  SEMINA CIRCLE PROGRAM 4: SEMINAL SHORTS
   Dir: . This show highlights the extended circle of filmmaker friends
   floating around the Berman scene. Listed below is a taste of what will
   be screened. Expect many more movies in all formats and some very
   special, rarely-if-ever screened surprises. Program will include: Bruce
   Conner BREAKAWAY (1966, 5 minutes, 16mm, sound). Choreographer, singer,
   and Berman-circle regular, Toni Basil is the luminous star of Bruce
   Conner's groundbreaking BREAKAWAY. She sings and dances in this strobing
   forwards-and-backwards tribute to beauty and grace in motion. Bruce
   Conner THE WHITE ROSE (1967, 7 minutes, 16mm, sound). Jay De Feo's
   massive painting, THE ROSE, took more than eight years to complete. In
   THE WHITE ROSE, Conner records the removal of this 2,300-plus pound
   painting out the window of De Feo's studio. We are screening a brand new
   print for this occasion. Stan Brakhage TWO: CREELEY/MCCLURE (1965, 5
   minutes, 16mm, silent). Portraits of poets Robert Creeley and Michael
   McClure. Russel Tamblyn RIO REEL (1968, 8 minutes, 16mm, silent).
   Preservation print courtesy of Academy Film Archives. Actor/artist
   Russel Tamblyn is better known as Riff in WEST SIDE STORY and Dr. Jacoby
   on TWIN PEAKS than as an avant-garde filmmaker. In the 60s, however,
   Tamblyn did shoot and create experimental shorts with his 8mm film
   camera. This film is an unpretentious example of his lyrical style and
   sensibility. Jonas Mekas HARE KRISHNA (1966, 4 minutes, 16mm, sound).
   Mekas was a long-distance friend of Berman. This short documents a
   Sunday afternoon with another longtime Berman comrade, Allen Ginsberg.
   Plus much more!.

2/10
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm- Saturday evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between Bowery and Second Ave.)

  JULIAN SAMUEL PROGRAM
   SAVE AND BURN (80 min.-2004) "Julian Samuel, a Montreal-based filmmaker
   born in Pakistan, continues his exploration of the contemporary world of
   libraries in this 80 minute documentary. By cuting back and forth from
   Irish and English library events to the history of the Library of
   Alexandria, Egyptian public libraries, and current programs in the
   Bibliotheca Alexandrina, like one on unemployment and youth, the viewer
   is counter-conditioned to reject Western racism. Samuel wants to show
   the West that we are the inheritors of the great Arab-Asian tradition of
   libraries going back thousands of years- not its enemy. The facts are
   piled on, not using the standard Ken Burns-style of slow discourse, but
   rather throwing the facts at us, using optical printing, aiming to
   create a much more com[lex gestalt in our minds. This is extremely
   refreshing to someone who has watched a thousand such films, and found
   them boring. His style is more like the Hong Kong master Wong Kar-Wai or
   Godard, demanding that the viewer has a universe of imaqes already in
   his mind, waiting for someone to link them together in new ways."- Steve
   Fesenmaier.

2/10
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Folklife
http://www.nwfolklife.org
1pm, 3:30pm, 7:30pm , Nesholm Family Lecture Hall at Marion Oliver McCaw
Hall at Seattle Center

  CROSSING BORDERS - NORTHWEST FOLKLIFE DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
   CROSSING BORDERS Northwest Folklife Documentary Film Festival
   Friday-Sunday, February 9-11 and 16-18, 2007 Nesholm Family Lecture Hall
   at Seattle Center Northwest Folklife puts a human face on some of
   today's hot issues with the Crossing Borders theme of the first
   Northwest Folklife Documentary Film Festival. Films and speakers examine
   the experiences of ordinary people who straddle, challenge and transcend
   the boundaries separating us from one another. Topics range from
   immigration tales to gender stereotypes, from unlikely peace movements
   to cross-border musical traditions. The program even includes a
   family-friendly session of animation and music. Visit www.nwfolklife.org
   for schedule, film descriptions and tickets. Saturday, February 10 1:00
   PM: Spirit Wrestlers PLUS Discussion with Doukhobor scholar Andrei
   Bondoreff 3:30 PM: Linda & Ali CO-SPONSORED by Arab Center of Washington
   7:30 PM Busting Out PLUS Filmmaker Q&A with Laurel Spellman Smith

2/10
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome
http://www.pdome.org/
8 pm, 129 Spadina Ave.

  DADDY KNOWS BEST; GUY BEN-NER IN PERSON
   Israeli artist Guy Ben-Ner visits Toronto for the first time to
   introduce a survey of videos from 1999 to present. Ben-Ner is a
   go-for-broke storyteller whose art recuperates the underappreciated
   comedy quotient from early performance and video art, with nods to Chris
   Burden, Vito Acconci, Dennis Oppenheim, Martha Rosler, William Wegman,
   Roman Signer, Richard Serra and Joan Jonas, among others. He
   intersperses deft tributes to avant-garde artists into longer pantomimes
   that are fantastically inventive, imaginative and economical, conjuring
   the cinema spirit of both pioneering Hollywood, embodied in Buster
   Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith, and the American underground,
   exemplified by Ron Rice, the Kuchar Brothers and Jack Smith. Ben-Ner's
   Moby Dick collapses Herman Melville's epic novel into a robust 12-minute
   silent abridgement entirely played out in the kitchen of the artist's
   apartment. In Elia – A Story of an Ostrich Chick the family takes a walk
   in the park dressed in backward fitting bird costumes; the little
   adventures of their day are narrated in the manner of a 1950s-period
   Disney nature short. Other works on the programme include Berkeley's
   Island, House Hold and Wild Boy.

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2007
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2/11
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
18:30, Karl-Marx-Allee 133, Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany

  URBAN RESEARCH ON FILM - PROGRAM B: CITY LABS
   Urban Research on Film at 3rd Directors Lounge -*- 8 - 18 Febr 2007 in
   Berlin -*- This year's program has an emphasis on work from Helsinki,
   Chicago and Berlin. The themes are: -*- Fr. 09 Febr. Vectorial Space -
   the topological point of view -*- So. 11 Febr. City Labs - interventions
   and interaction by artists -*- Fr. 16 Febr. On the Road - artit's
   impressions from abroad -*- Sa . 17 Febr. Elegiac Realism - Chicago's
   cityscape reviewed -*- please check http://www.richfilm.de/DL2007.html
   -*- Urban Research on Film is an ongoing film and video screening
   project selected by Klaus W. Eisenlohr for Directors Lounge in Berlin.
   Urban Research presents artists and filmmakers who address the progress
   of urbanity and who are concerned with urban space and public space in
   their work. -*- Program B - So. 11 Febr. - 6.30 pm -*- City Labs -*- The
   camera leaves the non-engaged point of view, the tripod. The artist's
   observations shift to interaction, the documentarist gets her hands on
   the story of a village. And the film script is being formed by the
   reality of the protagonists (youngsters living in Tallinn). -*- The
   collected films are results from interventions with youths and adults,
   or derive from the self-experience of the maker. As they are a spatial
   practice themselves, the films mirror these perceptions from engaging
   interventions in the urban environment. -*- This is a special program at
   Directors Lounge February 8—18, 2007. -*- Director's Lounge program at a
   glance -*- http://directorslounge.net/DL2007/program.html -*- Klaus /
   Team Directors Lounge

2/11
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
3pm, 800 Aurora St.

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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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2007
-------------------------

2/12
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
18:00 - 24:00, Karl-Marx-Allee 133, Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany

  DIRECTORS LOUNGE
   The 3rd Directors Lounge will take place from 8. - 18. February. -*-
   Expect video art and experimental film from all flavors and parts of the
   world. Beside the works from the open call are several curated programs,
   cooperations with fellow projects and institutions ensure ten
   cosmopolitan days. -*- Director's Lounge program at a glance: -*-
   http://directorslounge.net/DL2007/program.html -*- Extensive (yet
   incomplete) program here: -*-
   http://directorslounge2007program.blogspot.com/ -*- Background infos,
   juciy facts and gossip will be added here: -*-
   http://directorslounge2007.blogspot.com/ -*- Once again we will offer a
   hideaway, a meeting point as a relaxed space for filmmakers,
   videoartists and everybody interested in experimental forms of cinema
   and videoart. -*- 8 - 18th february, 2007 Berlin, Friedrichshain, Karl
   Marx Allee 133, -*- no admission fee -*- daily from 6 pm open end -*-
   -*- Opening party, Thursday 8 February 8 pm -*- -*- Klaus / Team
   Directors Lounge

2/12
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd st

  THE CELESTIAL LIBRARY: FILMS BY JEANNE LIOTTA
   Los Angeles premieres This ravishing program is an ode to the void, the
   stars in their courses, and the shifting earth below. New York
   avant-garde filmmaker and installation artist Jeanne Liotta is known for
   work—both found and made—that embraces the sensuousness of natural
   phenomena as much as the physical aspects of her chosen media. She is on
   hand for a selection of recent films and multiple projection
   pieces—including the short Eclipse (2005, 3:30 min., 16mm), last seen at
   the Whitney Biennial. Using the otherworldly luminosity of Super 8
   Kodachrome to great effect, this gem of a film beholds a lunar eclipse
   from a New York City rooftop. In Person: Jeanne Liotta $6 Student with
   Valid ID $8 General

2/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 & 9:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

NOTES ON MARIE MENKEN
See Feb. 9.

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2007
--------------------------

2/13
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
18:00 - 24:00, Karl-Marx-Allee 133, Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany

2/13
Detroit: Media City
http://www.houseoftoast.ca/mediacity/festival.html
8 pm, Detroit Film Center, 1227 Washington Blvd.

  MEDIA CITY 13, OPENING SCREENING
   Pine Flat (Sharon Lockhart, USA, 16mm, 138:00, 2006) A co-presentation
   with the Detroit Film Center's New Cinema Series and the "Shrinking
   Cities" exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
   and Cranbrook Art Museum.

2/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

  SUKI HAWLEY & MICHAEL GALINSKY: HALF-COCKED & RADIATION
   Dir: . Suki Hawley. HALF-COCKED. 1994, 90 minutes, 16mm. Co-written and
   shot by Michael Galinsky. Shot in 1994, HALF-COCKED is a flash-frame
   rock & roll snapshot taken before alternative became just another word
   for something else to sell. Five disaffected teens steal a van full of
   music gear and pretend to be a band in order to avoid going home. The
   film stars young musicians playing facsimiles of themselves. More
   document than documentary, HALF-COCKED gains relevance as the years roll
   by. "If I were going to make a list of the finest rock films of all
   time, I wouldn't hesitate to put HALF-COCKED near the top of the list.
   Oh, sure, it's crude and rough around pretty much every single edge, but
   it's also weirdly slick, ingeniously inventive and constantly engaging,
   a fictionalized document of a certain time and place that manages to
   fuse an idealized, impressionistic snapshot of the era with the smelly,
   hungry and desperate reality of the whole enterprise…If you've never
   seen the film before, I envy your discovery of [it]. If you haven't seen
   the film in awhile, enjoy your rediscovery." -Gabe Soria. &. Suki Hawley
   & Michael Galinsky. RADIATION. 1998, 60 minutes, video. RADIATION,
   Hawley/Galinsky's follow-up to HALF-COCKED, was shot in Spain in late
   1997. A Spanish tour manager, Unai, is set to take the American band
   Come on tour when everything falls apart. Left with no money, no band to
   tour with, and a bunch of speed to get rid of, Unai grabs an American
   performance artist and hits the road. Things look up for a while but
   inevitably they all fall apart and the journey ends with a bang. The
   film includes appearances and performances by Stereolab, Come, Will
   Oldham, Two Dollar Guitar and El Inquilino Communista.

2/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 & 9:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

NOTES ON MARIE MENKEN
See Feb. 10.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2007
----------------------------

2/14
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
18:00 - 24:00, Karl-Marx-Allee 133, Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany

2/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 & 7:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

  NEWFILMMAKERS
   Dir: Various. Jeremy Carpel THE ROOFER (2005, 9 minutes, 16mm). Dakkan
   Abbe JESSIE & JILL (2006, 17 minutes, mini-DV). Christopher Dalrymple
   THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN (2006, 30 minutes, video).

2/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 & 9:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

NOTES ON MARIE MENKEN
See Feb. 10.

2/14
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
6:30 p.m., 317 Dundas Street West

  NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE OF NOTES ON FILM 02 AT CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO
   NOTES ON FILM 02 Director: Norbert Pfaffenbichler Austria 2005/06 96
   min. video b&w Cast: Ursula Strauss, Lutz Wiskemann What better way to
   spend Valentine's Day than by watching a slow-burn breakup film? Whether
   or not you are in love, with or without a date, NOTES ON FILM 02 should
   be of interest for its sheer daring and originality – you won't have
   seen anything like it. A major discovery at the Diagonale festival in
   Graz, Austria (with some proclaiming it the Austrian film of the year),
   Norbert Pfaffenbichler's feature debut draws its inspiration from Robert
   Frank's 1963 short film O.K. END HERE, about a relationship on the rocks
   in a Manhattan apartment. Transposing the story to an indistinct
   Modernist mecca, lengthening it by more than an hour and, most
   radically, editing the whole thing based on mathematical equations
   derived from his digital editing software programme, Pfaffenbichler
   creates an unprecedented clash of film-video language within what would
   otherwise have been a traditional narrative framework. Thus, Antonioni's
   detachment meets Final Cut Pro meets Fibonacci. The metric structure of
   the film recalls the rigour and headiness of Peter Greenaway's work, but
   NOTES, which could have just as easily been called "26 Slight Variations
   on an Image," risks a Warholian sense of bewilderment. The
   black-and-white digital cinematography by experimental filmmaker Dariusz
   Kowalski is precise and beautiful, while the digital blue screen is both
   alarming in its supposed incongruousness and calming in a Derek Jarman
   BLUE kind of way. In spite of its conceptual nature, NOTES ON FILM 02 is
   exceedingly moving. We suggest bringing a date. All Cinematheque Ontario
   screenings are held at the Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall, 317
   Dundas St. West (McCaul Street entrance), Toronto. For ticket
   information, visit the Official website, www.cinemathequeontario.ca, the
   year-round Box Office at Manulife Centre (55 Bloor Street West, main
   floor, north entrance), or call 416-968-FILM.

2/14
Windsor ON: Media City
http://www.houseoftoast.ca/mediacity/festival.html
8 pm, Capitol Theatre, 121 University W.

  MEDIA CITY 13, INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM 1
   Cabinet (Tim Shore, England, video, 18:30, 2006); The General Returns
   from One Place to Another (Michael Robinson, USA, 16mm/video, 11:00,
   2006); Latitudes (Julia Barco, Mexico, Super-8mm/video, 7:00, 2005); NYC
   Weights and Measures (Jem Cohen, USA, 16mm/video, 6:30, 2006); Pack (Ton
   van Zantvoort, Netherlands, video, 3:30, 2005); Mrs. Hodge's Frequent
   Use of Air Freshener (Nooshin Farhid, England, video, 17:00, 2005)

2/14
Windsor ON: Media City
http://www.houseoftoast.ca/mediacity/festival.html
9:30 pm, Capitol Theatre, 121 University W.

MEDIA CITY 13, INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM 2
At Sea (Peter Hutton, USA, 16mm, 55:00, 2007)

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2007
---------------------------

2/15
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
18:00 - 24:00, Karl-Marx-Allee 133, Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany

2/15
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
6 pm, 164 N. State St.

  COPY-IT-RIGHT! SELECTIONS FROM THE PHIL MORTON MEMORIAL RESEARCH ARCHIVE
   Charismatic video pioneer Phil Morton influenced an entire generation of
   video and digital artists, founded SAIC's Video Department, laid the
   groundwork for what has since become the Video Data Bank, and developed
   Copy-It-Right, an anti-copyright ethic that set the precedent for the
   current open-source movement. His name has been largely forgotten,
   however, and his legacy was cut short by his death in 2003. Curated by
   SAIC professor Jon Cates, tonight..s selection of Morton's
   ground-breaking work launches the opening of the Phil Morton Memorial
   Research Archive, housed in the Film, Video, & New Media Department at
   SAIC. (1969-1990, Phil Morton, USA, various formats, ca. 90 min).

2/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 & 9:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

NOTES ON MARIE MENKEN
See Feb. 10.

2/15
Windsor ON: Media City
http://www.houseoftoast.ca/mediacity/festival.html
8 pm, Capitol Theatre, 121 University W.

  MEDIA CITY 13, RETROSPECTIVE HELGA FANDERL (GERMANY)
   21 films 1991-2006, 2-3 minutes each, screened on the original
   Super-8mm. Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker.

2/15
Windsor ON: Media City
http://www.houseoftoast.ca/mediacity/festival.html
9:30 pm, Capitol Theatre, 121 University W.

  MEDIA CITY 13, INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM 3
   Wayfarers (Igor Strembitsky, Ukraine, 35mm, 10:00, 2005); Catalogue of
   Birds: Book 3 (Jayne Parker, England, 16mm/video, 15:30, 2006); Muriel's
   Song (Grant Wiedenfeld, USA, 16mm, 3:00, 2006); Qualities of Stone
   (Robert Todd, USA, 16mm, 11:00, 2006); Song and Solitude (Nathaniel
   Dorsky, USA, 16mm, 21:00, 2006); Hunting Loops (Nick Collins, England, 2
   x 16mm, 10:00, 2006)

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