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This week [February 10 - 18, 2007] in avant garde cinema (part 2 of 2)
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2007
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2/16
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
18:30, Karl-Marx-Allee 133, Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany
URBAN RESEARCH ON FILM - PROGRAM C: ON THE ROAD
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 reviewd -*- 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 C - Fr. 16 Febr. - 6.30 pm -*- On the Road -*-
Berlin, Lisbon, Sao Paulo, Long Island, Mexico City, Parisian Suburbs
and the center of Praha are being depicted by traveling artists. These
films do not pretend knowledge they do not have. The artists offer their
view with a humble gesture that is aware of their state as 'non-resident
aliens.' -*- They work in foreign countries or cities, often sponsored
by international programs or funds. As with the ordinary traveler, the
tourist, the big cities are the main attractions of these travels. With
a diversity of strategies, these artists deal with the status of being
alien. Such strategies are the effort to overcome preoccupations and
pretensions and the preference for details instead of overviews. -*-
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
2/16
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
Pop Music and Consumer Culture. Although the dialog between contemporary
art, mass media and popular culture does initiate revitalizing processes
within different forms of cultural expression, recent technological,
socio-economic and political developments are impacting all aspects of
contemporary life, and human behavior and experience are becoming less
diversified as culture becomes increasingly corporate, totalized and
reductive. Independent experimental production by artists that address
these issues and new forms of communication between individuals and
groups are emerging as an alternative creative economy whose critical
discourses and projects contribute to the diversity of contemporary
global life. –Patrick Clancy The Merchants of Cool, Douglas Rushkoff
(USA) and PBS Frontline, 2001, 53 min., DVD. Ad Vice, Tony Cokes (USA),
1999, 6:36 min., video. Synesthesia: Tony Conrad, Tony Oursler (USA),
1997 – 2001, 45:19 min., video.
2/16
London, England: Tate Modern
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/film
7pm, Bankside, SE1
ROBERT BEAVERS: TO THE WINGED DISTANCE: 5
WINGED DIALOGUE (1967/2000) and PLAN OF BRUSSELS (1968/2000, 21 min)
Winged Dialogue details with growing clarity the desperate beauty and
sexuality of the body animated by its soul, essence blindly reaching
out, touching, in brilliant patterns through and beyond those of the
vanishing images, expressed vividly in the after-image on the mind, on
the soul's eye. (Tom Chomont, a note on Winged Dialogue) Shedding all
traces of narrative, Beavers filmed himself in a hotel room, both at his
work desk and lying naked on the bed, while in rapid rhythmic cutting,
and sometimes in superimposition, the phantasmagoria of people he met in
Brussels and images from the streets flood his mind. (P. Adams Sitney,
Film Comment) STILL LIGHT (1970/2001, 25 min) The first half of the film
explores delicate nuances of lighting, colour and depth as Beavers
shoots the face of a young man in various locales on the Greek island of
Hydra, using a variety of customized masks and filters. The man's face
remains constant throughout, surrounded by iconic elements in the
landscape, like a pulsating Renaissance portrait. Still Light's second
half was shot in the London flat of art critic Nigel Gosling. The two
halves of Still Light bring to mind any number of structuralist
binarisms: youth and age, creation and criticism, action and reflection,
living landscape and mummified text. (Ed Halter, New York Press)
WINGSEED (1985, 15 min) A seed which floats in the air, a whirligig, a
love charm. This magnificent landscape, both hot and dry, is far from
sterile; rather, the heat and dryness produce a distinct type of life,
seen in the perfect forms of the wild grass and seed pods, the herds of
goats as well as in the naked figure. The torso, in itself, and more,
the image which it creates in this light. The sounds of the shepherd's
signals and the flute's phrase are heard. And the goats' bells. Imagine
the bell's clapper moving from side to side with the goat's movements
like the quick side-to-side camera movements, which increase in pace and
reach a vibrant ostinato. (Robert Beavers)
2/16
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. 14.
2/16
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Folklife
http://www.nwfolklife.org
7:00pm, Nesholm Family Lecture Hall at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall at Seattle
Center
CROSSING BORDERS - SHOWING BOMBAY CALLING
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. 7:00 PM Bombay Calling
2/16
Windsor ON: Media City
http://www.houseoftoast.ca/mediacity/festival.html
6 pm, B-Movie Ballroom, 315 Ouellette Ave.
MEDIA CITY 13, REGIONAL ARTISTS PROGRAM
2003-2006 (Ben Good, Detroit, video, 9:30, 2006); New Years Day at
Jean's, 1970 (Kristen Gallerneaux , Windsor, Super-8mm/video, 2:00,
2007); Adopted Memories (Emily Linn, Detroit, video, 18:00, 2006);
Allegory (Michael Davidson, Chatham, video, 12:00, 2006); Memory (Joe
Hambleton, Windsor , video 2:30, 2006); Symmetries (Kyle Canterbury,
Swartz Creek , video, 6:30, 2006); Progress (Joe Hambleton, Windsor,
video, 2:00, 2006); Girls Never Stop Cloudgate Santa Fe (Jesse Bellon,
Windsor, video, 3:30, 2006); Miss Navratilova (Susan Blight, Windsor,
video, 6:00, 2006); Still Life (Charlie Egleston, London, 16mm/video,
7:00, 2006); Vacancy (Brandon Walley, Detroit, Super-8mm/video 6:30,
2006)
2/16
Windsor ON: Media City
http://www.houseoftoast.ca/mediacity/festival.html
8 pm, Capitol Theatre, 121 University W.
MEDIA CITY 13, RETROSPECTIVE SERGEI LOZNITSA (RUSSIA)
Portrait (35mm, 28:00, 2002); Factory (35mm, 30:00, 2004); Halt (35mm,
24:00, 2000). Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker.
2/16
Windsor ON: Media City
http://www.houseoftoast.ca/mediacity/festival.html
9:30 pm, Capitol Theatre, 121 University W.
MEDIA CITY 13, INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM 4
Silk Ties (Jim Jennings, USA, 16mm, 9:30, 2006); What the Water Said
Nos. 4-6 (David Gatten, USA, 16mm, 17:00, 2007); Rack and Slide (Bruce
McClure, USA, 4 x 16mm, 16:30, 2006); There (Robert Todd, USA, 16mm,
9:30, 2006); Risoni (Nicky Hamlyn, England, bipacked 16mm, indefinite,
2006)
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2007
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2/17
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
18:30, Karl-Marx-Allee 133, Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany
URBAN RESEARCH ON FILM - PROGRAM D: ELEGIAC REALISM
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 reviewd -*- 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 D - Sa. 17 Febr. - 6.30 pm -*- Chicago – Elegiac
Realism -*- The bronze lions in front of the well-known late
neo-classicist museum building in Chicago could be the symbol for
relations between humans and animals in cities. Where cityscapes have
become second nature, we do not search for lost rural relations to
nature, or landscapes of wilderness. The longing for animals and for
open urban space still carries desires that act as a friction to urban
realities and create utopian ideas in the sense of W. Benjamin. -*- This
program presents urban American reflections. In Chicago, a new
generation of filmmakers has been coming up, who make use of documentary
approaches together with traditions from art and film avant-garde. A
generation who projects their own views and who asks questions instead
of having answers already ready. -*- 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
2/17
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
2 pm, 164 N. State St.
MICHAEL SNOW: LA REGION CENTRALE
One of the most talked about films in the history of experimental
cinema, Michael Snow's three-hour LA REGION CENTRALE is an epic homage
to the landscape tradition. Shot in remote Quebec with a specially
designed machine capable of rotating the camera in all directions, the
film traces spirals, twirls, and figure-eights as it probes the
surrounding wilderness--fragmenting time, space, and vision. (1971,
Michael Snow, Canada, 16mm, 190 min).
2/17
Mexico City: Ambulante
http://www.ambulante.com.mx
2:30, Laboratorio Arte Alameda
INJERTO PROGRAM #3
Frontierland/Fronterilandia (1995) Directed by Jesse Lerner and Rubén
Ortiz Torres "The title refers not to a location but rather to those
spaces where cultures intertwine. As this film demonstrates, mestizaje
is not so much a racial category as a state of mind, and it can be found
even where nationalists and exoticists from both sides of the
U.S.-Mexico border might least expect it: not just in Southern and Baja
California, but also in Mexico City, South Carolina, Vancouver's
Chinatown, and the homes of European collectors of Pre-Columbian art.
Lerner and Ortiz Torres have fashioned a perfumed nightmare out of the
fragments that make up the post-colonial scene: part traditional
documentary, part postmodern travelogue, part art film, part music
video, part public access agit-prop. Amy more literal description would
be a betrayal of the film's many surprises. Besides homages to Luis
Buñuel and Kenneth Anger, watch for the bravura long take that brings
together Aztec pyramids and Mexico City's plaza del Zócalo as part of a
bleak landscape populated by nuns, vatos, wrestlers and la migra."
--UCLA Film and Television Archives Music: Gabriela Ortiz (with help
from Bizet, Esquivel, Carl Stallings, Los Folkloristas, Elvis Presley
and others). Starring: Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Aztlan Underground, Hugo
Sánchez, David Vázquez, Cameron Jamie, Sergio Zenteno, Pecatrixis,
Atoxxxico y Mictlan. 16 mm., 77 min. In English, Spanish and Nahuatl,
with subtitles in English and Spanish.
2/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
MENKEN PROGRAM 1
Dir: Marie Menken. ANDY WARHOL (1965, 22 minutes) . WRESTLERS (1964, 8
minutes). MOONPLAY (1962, 5 minutes) . DRIPS IN STRIPS (1961, 3 minutes)
. GO! GO! GO! (1962-64, 12 minutes) . LIGHTS (1964-66, 7 minutes) .
SIDEWALKS (1966, 7 minutes) . EXCURSION (1968, 5 minutes) . WATTS WITH
EGGS (1967, 12 minutes). ARABESQUE FOR KENNETH ANGER (1961, 4 minutes).
Total running time: ca. 90 minutes. .
2/17
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. 14.
2/17
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm- Saturday evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between Bowery and Second Ave.)
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE DOCUMENTARY BY PAUL TSCHINKEL- ART/NEW YORK
The Millennium is pleased to present the first of three programs from
PAUL TSCHINKEL's extraordinary video series featuring some of the world
renowned artists working in New York during the last four decades. These
are Benefit Programs for the Millennium. Admission- $10 Contribution.
All proceeds will go to helping the organization meet its increasing
expenses. Much thanks goes to Paul Tschinkel for his support. He will be
present to introduce and discuss the programs. ART/new york, a video
series on contemporary art, was begun in 1979. This unique and extensive
series focuses on the visual arts and brings art, artists and
exhibitions to a broad public interested in the latest developments on
the New York art scene. FEBRUARY 17 (Sat.) ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (79
min.-2006) This is the latest release from Paul TschinkelL. Produced and
directed by Paul Tschinkel, ART/new york now includes 61 programs. For
more information visit: www.artnewyork.org. Mapplethorpe's remarkable
talent as a photographer shines in this documentary featuring a full
assortment of his arresting imges, courtesy of the Robert Mapplethorpe
Foundation. His portraits of famous people, pictures of flowers, and
images of the New York Gay S&M underworld, are all icons of contemporary
photography. His erotic work created considerable controversy when his
posthumous retrospective "The Perfect Moment" was cancelled at the
Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC and later shut down by police in
Cincinnati, Ohio. Robert's ground-breaking photographs made him an
internationally known and mythic figure in art and photography. His
talent, vision and phenomenal success were cut short when he died of
AIDS in 1989.
2/17
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Folklife
http://www.nwfolklife.org
2pm, 4pm, 7pm, 9:30pm, Nesholm Family Lecture Hall at Marion Oliver McCaw
Hall at Seattle Center
CROSSING BORDERS - FOCUS ON MEXICO-US BORDER
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 17 2:00
PM Chulas Fronteras PLUS Musical Talk with Juan Barco 4:00 PM Labor
Across Borders Show Suenos Binacionales Morristown 7:00 PM Al Otro Lado
9:30 PM Crossing Arizona
2/17
Windsor ON: Media City
http://www.houseoftoast.ca/mediacity/festival.html
1 pm, Capitol Theatre, 121 University W.
MEDIA CITY 13, RETROSPECTIVE PETER HUTTON (USA)
New York Near Sleep for Saskia (16mm, 10:00, 1972); Boston Fire (16mm,
8:00, 1979); New York Portrait: Chapter Two (16mm, 16:00, 1981); Lodz
Symphony (16mm, 20:00, 1993); Study of a River (16mm, 16:00, 1997).
Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker.
2/17
Windsor ON: Media City
http://www.houseoftoast.ca/mediacity/festival.html
8 pm, Capitol Theatre, 121 University W.
MEDIA CITY 13, INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM 5
Tests (Olivier Fouchard, France, 16mm/video, 8:00, 2005); Panni (Nicky
Hamlyn, England, 16mm, 3:00, 2005); North Southernly (Vincent Grenier,
USA, video, 6:00, 2005); Plate #26-29 (Ryusuke Ito, Japan,16mm, 8:00,
2007); Nightwalk (Andreas Wutz, Czech Republic, 16mm/video, 14:00,
2006); MorningFilms Double Projection 9/2002-6/2006 (Hans Michaud, USA,
2 x 16mm, 9:00, 2006); View of the Falls from the Canadian Side (John
Price, Canada, 35mm, 7:00, 2006)
2/17
Windsor ON: Media City
http://www.houseoftoast.ca/mediacity/festival.html
9:30 pm, Capitol Theatre, 121 University W.
MEDIA CITY 13, INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM 6
Before I Enter (Bill Morrison, USA, 35mm/video, 8:30, 2005); Habitat
Batracien (Rose Lowder, France, 16mm, 8:30, 2006); Interplay (Robert
Todd, USA, 16mm, 6:30, 2006); Artel (Sergei Loznitsa, Russia,
35mm/video, 30:00, 2006); The Breath (Minyong Jang, Korea, 16mm, 9:30,
2007); Circa 1960 (Chris Curreri, Canada, 16mm, indefinite, 2005)
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2007
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2/18
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 -*-
-*- Closing Party!!! Today!!! -*- Klaus / Team Directors Lounge
2/18
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
V.O. BY WILLIAM JONES - PLUS TWO FILMS BY LUTHER PRICE
Los Angeles filmmaker William Jones' new film, V.O. (2006, 59 mins.,
video) gleans the non-explicit scenes from 1970's and early 1980's gay
porn films (Confessions of a Male Groupie, Kansas City Trucking Co.,
etc.) to form a haunting tapestry of gestures, glances, meetings, and
longing. Pulled out of both their narrative and sexual contexts, these
scenes are simultaneously lyrical and moving as well as cold and
mournful. Jones combines this work by gay adult "auteurs" Fred Halsted,
Joe Gage, Tom De Simone, etc. with soundtrack excerpts from works by
masters of the European art film - Manoel de Oliveira, Jean Renoir, Luis
Bunuel, Werner Schroeter, and others. An uneasy meeting between highbrow
and lowbrow, V.O. creates a palpable tension as it explores a range of
themes through its disparate sources: public spaces and private
behavior, desire and intimacy, death and a will to live, and the
changing landscapes of American cities and social mores. V.O. is a
complex and compelling cine-essay mash-up which reclaims bits of a
fading past and recontextualizes them for a 21st century audience.
Showing with two recent 16mm films by Boston filmmaker Luther Price,
Ribbon Candy (2004) and Silk (2006), which will add back a little bit of
naughty to the program.
2/18
London, England: Tate Modern
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/film
3pm, Bankside, SE1
ROBERT BEAVERS: TO THE WINGED DISTANCE: 6
RUSKIN (1975/1997, 45 min) Ruskin visits the sites of John Ruskin's
work: London, the Alps and, above all, Venice, where the camera's
attention to masonry and the interaction of architecture and water
mimics the author's descriptive analysis of the "stones" of the city.
The sound of pages turning and the image of a book, Ruskin's 'Unto This
Last', forcibly remind us that a poet's perceptions, and in this case
his political economy, are preserved and reawakened through acts of
reading and writing. (P. Adams Sitney, Film Comment) THE STOAS (1991-97,
22 min) The title refers to the colonnades that led to the shady groves
of the ancient Lyceum, here remembered in shots of industrial arcades,
bathed in golden morning light, as quietly empty of human figures as
Atget's survey photos. The rest of the film presents luscious shots of a
wooded stream and hazy glen, portrayed with the careful composition of
19th century landscape painting. An ineffable, unnameable immanence
flows through the images of The Stoas, a kind of presence of the human
soul expressed through the sympathetic absence of the human figure. (Ed
Halter, New York Press) Ruskin will be shown in a brand new print. The
preservation of this film has been made possible by the generosity of
Cineric Inc. and The Guild of St. George.
2/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
MENKEN PROGRAM 2
Dir: Marie Menken. Marie Menken. VISUAL VARIATIONS ON NOGUCHI (1945, 4
minutes). HURRY! HURRY! (1957, 3 minutes) . GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN (1957,
5 minutes) . DWIGHTIANA (1959, 3 minutes, score by Teiji Ito.) .
BAGATELLE FOR WILLARD MAAS (1961, 5 minutes) . NOTEBOOK (1962-63, 10
minutes) . MOOD MONDRIAN (1961, 7 minutes) . EYE MUSIC IN RED MAJOR
(1961, 4 minutes). Total program time: ca. 50 minutes.
2/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
MARIE MENKEN: NEW ANTHOLOGY PRESERVATIONS!
Dir: . Anthology extends its sincere thanks to Joseph J. Menkevich for
loan of the original film materials for this preservation project.
Preservation was made possible by grants from the Women's Film
Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film & Television (THE
GRAVEDIGGERS FROM GUADIX and WOMEN IN TOUCH) and The National Endowment
for the Arts (ZENSCAPES). THE GRAVEDIGGERS FROM GUADIX. ca. 1960, 45
minutes, 16mm, silent. In 1958, Marie Menken traveled to Spain in the
company of Kenneth Anger. They visited the Alhambra in Granada where she
shot her film ARABESQUE FOR KENNETH ANGER. The gorgeous Kodachrome
footage in this compilation was shot at the same time for this
Menken-titled yet unfinished project. In 2003, Martina Kudlá?ek
discovered the original, unedited reels among Menken's belongings held
by the family. GRAVEDIGGERS is a remarkable example of Menken's fluid
handheld movement as well as an instructive peek at how she intuitively
conceived her work behind the camera. With: ZENSCAPES (ca. 1957, 3
minutes, 16mm, color). Meditation and visions of mountains in the
greenhouse of Dwight Ripley and Rupert Barneby. WOMEN IN TOUCH (ca.
1965-1970, 15 minutes, 16mm, silent). Marie Menken died on December
29th, 1970; her husband, Willard Maas, passed away on January 2nd, 1971.
Jonas Mekas recovered the footage comprising this film shortly
thereafter. Much of it seems to come from MIDNIGHT MAASES, a long term
and incomplete project directed by Willard Maas and largely photographed
by David Brooks throughout the late sixties. Mekas assembled these
fragments and kept them in his personal collection for 30 years in a can
that he labeled WOMEN IN TOUCH.
2/18
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.
2/18
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.
OPPOSITIONAL AND STIGMATIZED PROGRAM ONE: FORBIDDEN AND TABOO
February 18 and March 11 Oppositional and Stigmatized Curated by
Caroline Savage and Janis Crystal Lipzin Amos Vogel asserts in Film as a
Subversive Art, "We are inundated by ambiguity, allegory, and
complexity, by an existential humanism devoid of certainty or illusion.
The committed artists of our day, [have] the most nakedly sensitized
antenna extended toward our collective secrets." The artists included in
this four-part series illuminate these secrets with works providing
radical challenges to mainstream cinematic modes of presentation,
production and representation, cinema that is forbidden, shocking,
blasphemous, extremist, defiant. This series will continue on April 8
and April 29 and will include films by Luis Buñuel, Takahiko Iimura and
Hollis Frampton. Sunday, February 18 at 7:30 pm, YBCA Oppositional and
Stigmatized Program One: Forbidden and Taboo This screening includes
work that breaks erotic taboos, going beyond the acceptable. Barbara
Rubin's 1963 Christmas on Earth uses double projection of overlapping
and orgiastic images to present a document of radical heterosexual
cinema and assault the aesthetic discourse on contemporary art forms,
including performance and chance operations involving the projectionist.
Andy Warhol's Blow Job reveals the pleasure of, but not the actual act
of sexual gratification. In Hermes Bird, James Broughton lifts the male
member to the sky. Peggy Ahwesh's The Color of Love and Tony Wu's More
Intimacy use sexually explicit images to confront and reveal taboo,
veiled worlds.
2/18
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Folklife
http://www.nwfolklife.org
2pm, 4pm, 7pm, 9:30pm, Nesholm Family Lecture Hall at Marion Oliver McCaw
Hall at Seattle Center
CROSSING BORDERS - FOCUS ON CANADA-US BORDER
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. Sunday, February 18 2:00
PM Animated Canada Show A family-friendly program with live music Crac!,
Talespinners (3 short animations) 4:00 PM 9/11 and the Canadian Border
The 49th Parallel, The Undefended Border 7:00 PM Medicine Fiddle 9:30 PM
Escape to Canada
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