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This week [February 25 - March 4, 2007] in avant garde cinema
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FUNDING:
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Museum of Contemporary Cinema Foundation (Deadline: May 10, 2007)
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NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
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"A Trip Down 3rd Street: Scenic Highlights from the SFMUNI T-Line" by Brook Hinton
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MISCELLANEOUS:
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seeking images of filmmakers at work
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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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Strawberry Super 8 Film Festival (Cambridge; Deadline: April 01, 2007)
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20thcentury (on video) (Athens, Greece; Deadline: July 27, 2007)
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Animated Bike -In II (Vancouver, British Columbia, C; Deadline: June 30, 2007)
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MadCat Women's International Film Festival (San Francisco, CA, US; Deadline: May 21, 2007)
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PARIS UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL {PIUFF# 3} (Paris / France; Deadline: March 10, 2007)
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PARIS STRIP FILM FESTIVAL (Paris, France; Deadline: February 26, 2007)
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Images Contre Nature (Marseille, France; Deadline: March 01, 2007)
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BROOKLYN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Brooklyn, NY; Deadline: March 15, 2007)
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Evolution 2007 (Leeds, UK; Deadline: March 09, 2007)
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FAST WOMEN (Boston, MA, USA; Deadline: March 16, 2007)
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WPA\C Experimental Media Series - ColorField Remix (Washington, DC, USA; Deadline: March 07, 2007)
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San Francisco International Film Festival (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: March 23, 2007)
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ARTSFEST FILM FESTIVAL (9th Annual) from MOVIATE (Harrisburg, PA USA; Deadline: March 30, 2007)
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Feminism(s): Film, Video, Politics (West Hartford, CT; Deadline: February 25, 2007)
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Aurora Picture Show's Slant 7 (Houston, TX USA; Deadline: March 01, 2007)
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The End of the Pier International Film Festival (UK; Deadline: March 01, 2007)
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Rubric (Denver, Colorado; Deadline: March 01, 2007)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Jordan Biren: “From My Mother's Family To My Mother's House” and
“Inspired Envelopes of Space” [February 25, Houston, Texas]
* Robert Beavers: My Hand Outstretched: 6 [February 25, London, England]
* Robert Beavers: My Hand Outstretched: 7 [February 25, London, England]
* Robert Beavers: My Hand Outstretched: 8 [February 25, London, England]
* Huot Program 3 [February 25, New York, New York]
* Starting In San Francisco/ Going On Curated and Presented By Charles
Boone [February 25, San Francisco, California]
* Dual Sp/Place [February 26, New York, New York]
* Alternative visions: Pine Flat [February 27, Berkeley, California]
* Unessential Cinema Presents: the Standard Gauge and the Irregular Fit [February 27, New York, New York]
* Then, Not Nauman: Conceptualists of the Early 70s [February 28, Berkeley, California]
* Newfilmmakers Invites You To A Night of Twelve Movies [February 28, New York, New York]
* Newfilmmakers: Short Film Program [February 28, New York, New York]
* . . . via Lima, Veracruz Y Valparaiso At Cinematheque Ontario [February 28, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* A Home-Made Optics: Films & videos By Leighton Pierce [March 1, Chicago, Illinois]
* The Great Wall of Oakland [March 2, Oakland]
* The Nixon White House Staff Super 8 Films [March 3, Chicago, Illinois]
* Art/New York- Program # 3, Paul Tschinkel's Nam June Paik- Prisoner of
the Cathode Ray [March 3, New York, New York]
* Art/New York- Program # 3, Paul Tschinkel's Nam June Paik- Prisoner of
the Cathode Ray [March 3, New York, New York]
* Stoney Burke's Dvd Release Celebration! [March 3, San Francisco, California]
* Re-Defining video: Work By Kyle Canterbury [March 4, Chicago, Illinois]
* Film Art Phenomena: Works By Nicky Hamlyn, Nicky Hamlyn In Person [March 4, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2007
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2/25
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
3pm, 800 Aurora St.
JORDAN BIREN: “FROM MY MOTHER’S FAMILY TO MY MOTHER’S HOUSE” AND
“INSPIRED ENVELOPES OF SPACE”
Steve Seid, of the Pacific Film Archive describes the work of media
artist Jordan Biren as, "subtle works combining a naturalistic pictorial
sense and text, either inscribed in the image or recited." "The now
brittle, now effusive language often operates as a direct challenge to
the droll moving images." For his first program, Biren will present
three videos of his own work, combining his imagery—subtle filmic homage
to the likes of Chris Marker, David Lynch and Thomas Kinkade—with his
texts, in a pastiche of colliding remembrances. Films include My
Mother's Family, From Here Home and My Mother's House. On Sunday, Biren
will present works from William Jones and Janie Geiser, in addition to
his own piece Stellbar.
2/25
London, England: Tate Modern
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/film
12pm, Bankside, SE1
ROBERT BEAVERS: MY HAND OUTSTRETCHED: 6
SOTIROS (1976-78/1996, 25 min) In Sotiros, there is an unspoken dialogue
and a seen dialogue. The first is held between the intertitles and the
images; the second is moved by the tripod and by the emotions of the
filmmaker. Both dialogues are interwoven with the sunlight's movement as
it circles the room, touching each wall and corner, detached and
intimate. (Robert Beavers) AMOR (1980, 15 min) Amor is an exquisite
lyric, shot in Rome and at the natural theatre of Salzburg. The
recurring sounds of cutting cloth, hands clapping, hammering, and
tapping underline the associations of the montage of short camera
movements, which bring together the making of a suit, the restoration of
a building, and details of a figure, presumably Beavers himself,
standing in the natural theatre in a new suit, making a series of hand
movements and gestures. A handsomely designed Italian banknote suggests
the aesthetic economy of the film: the tailoring, trimming, and
chiselling point to the editing of the film itself. (P. Adams Sitney,
Film Comment)
2/25
London, England: Tate Modern
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/film
2pm, Bankside, SE1
ROBERT BEAVERS: MY HAND OUTSTRETCHED: 7
?????? (Efpsychi) (1983/1996, 20 min) The details of the young actor's
face – his eyes, eyebrows, earlobe, chin, etc. – are set opposite the
old buildings in the market quarter of Athens, where every street is
named after a classic ancient Greek playwright. In this setting of
intense stillness, sometimes interrupted by sudden sounds and movements
in the streets, he speaks a single word, "teleftea", meaning the last
(one), and as he repeats this word, it moves differently each time
across his face and gains another sense from one scene to the next,
suggesting the uncanny proximity of eroticism, the sacred and chance.
(Robert Beavers) 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) THE
HEDGE THEATRE (1986-90/2002, 19 min) Beavers shot The Hedge Theatre in
Rome in the 1980s. It is an intimate film inspired by the Baroque
architecture and stone carvings of Francesco Borromini and "St. Martin
and the Beggar," a painting by the Sienese painter Il Sassetta. Beavers'
montage contrasts the sensuous softness of winter light with the lush
green growth brought by spring rains. Each shot and each source of sound
is steeped in meaning and placed within the film's structure with
exacting skill to build a poetic relationship between image and sound.
(Susan Oxtoby, Toronto International Film Festival)
2/25
London, England: Tate Modern
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/film
5pm, Bankside, SE1
ROBERT BEAVERS: MY HAND OUTSTRETCHED: 8
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) THE GROUND (1993-2001, 20
min) What lives in the space between the stones, in the space cupped
between my hand and my chest? Filmmaker/stonemason. A tower or ruin of
remembrance. With each swing of the hammer I cut into the image and the
sound rises from the chisel. A rhythm, marked by repetition, and
animated by variation; strokes of hammer and fist, resounding in
dialogue. In this space which the film creates, emptiness gains a
contour strong enough for the spectator to see more than the image – a
space permitting vision in addition to sight. (Robert Beavers)
2/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
HUOT PROGRAM 3
Dir: Robert Huot. FADES AND CLOSE-UPS (1978, 7 minutes, Super-8mm, b&w,
sound). An intimate, collaborative portrait of two lovers, Huot and
artist Carol Kinne. SUPER-8 DIARY 1979. 1980, 60-minute excerpt of
200-minute film, Super-8mm, color, sound. Huot's first Super-8 diary
film continues many of the motifs of the earlier diaries, but with the
high-spiritedness of a man now entirely at home in his world and with a
newfound exuberance about Super-8 filmmaking: "Convenience, Lower Cost,
Good Sound Quality, and Demystified Image: or, Why I Like Super-8" was
the title of a piece Huot contributed to THE CINEMANEWS (no. 81: 2-6),
soon after he finished SUPER-8 DIARY 1979. The film is segmented into
half-hour modules. HOLLIS FRAMPTON 1936-84 (1984, 9 minutes, Super-8mm,
color, sound). An elegy to Frampton, filmed at Frampton's funeral in
Buffalo in 1984. SOUND MOVIE (1972/2005, 10 minutes, DVD, color, sound).
Returning to a roll of film of Twyla Tharp walking through the woods,
shot in 1972 (and included in THIRD ONE-YEAR MOVIE), Huot finished a
project that was conceived in the early 1970s, but put on hold because
of his complicated feelings about Tharp at the time of their divorce.
2/25
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.
STARTING IN SAN FRANCISCO/ GOING ON CURATED AND PRESENTED BY CHARLES
BOONE
Our city is widely recognized as a significant pad from which flights of
artistic discovery have long been launched. These works by recent San
Francisco Art Institute graduates demonstrate ongoing pursuits of
exploration and excellence, showing clearly the broad range of
investigation and viewpoint Bay Area creativity represents. Taeko
Horigome's Facing the Dragon explores personal intimacy, plus both tough
control—and radical loosening—of her processes. Minyong Jang's newest
work, The Breath, looks inventively at quiet beauties of the natural
world. Joshua Kanies' Zen of John Muir and Scar lyrically focus on our
planet, but are concerned with man's relationship to it. In Rue
Vaugirard, L'Amour Physique, Matthew Swiezynski patiently expands time
in his observations of quotidian minutiae mediated by technology.
Finally, Christina Battle explores filmic tactility in her 35mm works
Hysteria, Traveling With Eyes Closed Tight, The Distance Between Here
and There, and Migration. (Charles Boone)
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2007
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2/26
New York, New York: NY film-makers coop
http://film-makerscoop.com
7:30PM, Collective:Unconscious 279 Church Street
DUAL SP/PLACE
DUAL SP/PLACE curated by Lili White & Cara Weiner Featuring film video
and installation "standing on the corner my mind a million miles away" —
old blues song Circumnavigating around ideas about ourselves, the arts
and architecture — We travel between 2 intersecting but distinct places:
the material body exists in time and place while emotion mind soul
occupies another space. One can be seen and the other is often perceived
by only one person in an instance.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2007
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2/27
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30PM, 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
ALTERNATIVE VISIONS: PINE FLAT
Pine Flat Sharon Lockhart (U.S., 2005, 138 mins) Sharon Lockhart in
Person The long static shot has been used to beautiful, often demanding,
ends by filmmakers as diverse as the Lumière Brothers, Jean-Marie Straub
and Danièle Huillet, Andy Warhol, and James Benning. For Pine Flat,
Sharon Lockhart, who is also a photographer, collaborated with a group
of youths living in a small town in the Sierra foothills. As they worked
together over three years, an intimacy developed, and the kids shared
the places they valued and the rhythms of their everyday life. Slowly a
film emerged: a girl reading alone, a boy asleep outside, some kids
playing in the river, others traipsing among the trees are depicted in
twelve ten-minute shots. While Pine Flat provides a portrait of rural
life and landscape, the pregnant shots also contain the promise of
narrative. Tender and endearing, the film gives the young people
unusually extended time on the screen, and allows us to contemplate how
we experience the passing of time.
2/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
UNESSENTIAL CINEMA PRESENTS: THE STANDARD GAUGE AND THE IRREGULAR FIT
35mm has been the commercial standard theatrical production/projection
gauge since the nineteen-teens. 28mm, 16mm, 9.5mm, 8mm and Super-8mm (to
name a few) are technically considered to be amateur formats. Today,
digital video is quickly usurping the place of celluloid film in our
multiplexes. Inspired by the 35mm detritus floating around in our vast
collection, tonight's show spotlights some of the intrinsic
possibilities of this endangered format. Expect to see unfamiliar images
(and soundtracks) upside down and backwards, misaligned,
double-projected, grossly out-of-focus, spilling off the screen on to
the wall, and so on and so forth. If anything, this will make for a
blindingly bright program.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2007
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2/28
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30PM, 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
THEN, NOT NAUMAN: CONCEPTUALISTS OF THE EARLY 70S
Body Armor Works by Vito Acconci, Paul McCarthy, Susan Mogul, Rita
Myers, Charlemagne Palestine As a vessel for internal states, the body
need only be activated. Then these deep-seated states can be summoned
via performance in a kind of psychodramaturgy. Charlemagne Palestine was
known for his highly energetic, visceral exercises. In Internal Tantrum,
he attempts to expel interior distress by chanting and swaying with
remarkable focus. Rita Myers's Slow Squeeze is a self-conscious
shrinking from the world's weight. As the camera zooms in, the artist
compresses her body to fit the ever-diminishing frame. Through a
coercive struggle, Vito Acconci's Pryings describes a resistance to
intimacy. Trying to pry open the eyes of fellow performer Kathy Dillon,
Acconci engages the body as a bearer of reluctant desire. Desire is not
so reluctant in Susan Mogul's Take Off, a pun-inflected response to
Acconci's notorious 'Undertone'. Here, Mogul transforms Acconci's "girl
under the table" into a woman who, seated directly across from the
viewer, brazenly discusses the virtues of her vibrator. Paul McCarthy is
a Dionysian delight, pushing his body through raw and provocative
investigations. Interspersed throughout the program, the Black and White
Tapes illustrate his early adventures in taste, good, bad, and artful.
2/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NEWFILMMAKERS INVITES YOU TO A NIGHT OF TWELVE MOVIES
Dir: Various. Kat Kosmala LINEAR PROGRESSION (2005, 4 minutes, video).
Martin Matthews WHEN DAD & MOM FOUGHT (2005, 15 minutes, mini-DV).
William Harkings MARCUS' STORY (2004, 25 minutes, mini-DV). Sarah Stuve
THE JONAS UPLOAD (2006, 10 minutes, mini-DV). James Wilkins SPRINGTIME
(2006, 5 minutes, 16mm).
2/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NEWFILMMAKERS: SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Dir: Various. Eduarda Ribeiro COKE (2005, 4 minutes, 16mm). Todd
Redenius IN MEMORY OF (2006, 16 minutes, mini-DV). Ian Ogden COPPERHEAD
ROAD (2005, 15 minutes, 35mm). Martin Matthews THE FAITHFUL (2005, 13
minutes, mini-DV). Adam Hall THE DISCIPLINE OF D.E. (2006, 12 minutes,
16mm). .
2/28
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
6:30 p.m., 317 Dundas Street West
. . . VIA LIMA, VERACRUZ Y VALPARAISO AT CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO
. . . VIA LIMA, VERACRUZ Y VALPARAISO. Remarkable for their balance of
political and aesthetic concerns, these black-and-white films document
daily life through the lens of history. Marcos Arriaga's 3 x 16 was shot
in his hometown of Lima and in Toronto, where he now lives. This
triptych, edited in camera, consists of perceptive depictions of a
public square in Lima, the view from his mother's rooftop, and work at a
Toronto film festival. MAGNAVOZ is Jesse Lerner's elegant adaptation of
Xavier Icaza's Estridentista essay on Mexico's future. Writing in 1926,
Icaza fused poetry with polemics in an attempt to distinguish Mexico's
"true voice" amid the cacophony of those who would presume to speak for
the nation. Lerner illustrates this vanguard text with archival images,
reconstructions, and a complex mix of audio elements. Direct without
being didactic, this film presents a lively picture of a nation and a
people in flux. In 1962, Joris Ivens was invited to Chile to teach,
where he made ...A VALPARAISO with his students. In this masterpiece,
Ivens documents life in this old port city built on forty-two hills. We
see its stairways and slums, funiculars and fishermen as Chris Marker's
commentary reveals the city's unseen dimensions. A smashed mirror near
the end of the film jolts us out of the quotidian and into the broader
currents of history with colour images of the past and the children who
would be the future. World Premiere! Marcos Arriaga in Person! 3 x 16.
Director: Marcos Arriaga. Canada, 2006, 10 min. 16mm b&w. Canadian
Premiere! MAGNAVOZ. Director: Jesse Lerner. USA, 2006, 26 min. 16mm b&w.
35MM ARCHIVAL PRINT! …A VALPARAISO Director: Joris Ivens. Commentary:
Chris Marker. Chile/France, 1963, 37 min. 35mm b&w and colour. 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.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2007
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3/1
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
6 pm, 164 N. State St.
A HOME-MADE OPTICS: FILMS & VIDEOS BY LEIGHTON PIERCE
LEIGHTON PIERCE IN PERSON! Since the 1980s, many of the films and videos
of Iowa-based artist Leighton Pierce have painted a lush portrait of
Midwestern life. Tonight's program compiles his rich domestic
observations--a gurgling, backyard fountain in GLASS (1998); the
repetitive clatter of children's feet on the porch in THE BACK STEPS
(2001); and the plucking of a solitary, stretched length of twine in 50
FEET OF STRING (1995)--to reveal everyday drama lurking in the quietude.
Also on the program: WOOD (2000) and PUPPY-GO-ROUND (1996). Co-presented
by CATE and the Experimental Film Club at the University of Chicago,
which will present "A Wandering Optics" on Friday, March 2. (1995-2001,
Leighton Pierce, USA, various formats, ca. 90 min).
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FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2007
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3/2
Oakland: Illuminated Corridor
http://www.illuminatedcorridor.com/
7:00pm, West Grand between Broadway and Valley
THE GREAT WALL OF OAKLAND
Performative projection and live music from myrmyr,Shudder, and a work
for string ensemble by Dan Plonsey [performed by Myles Boisen, Merlin
Coleman, George Cremaschi, Jeff Hobbs, Lisa Mezzacappa, Jonathan Segel,
John Shiurba and Bill Wolter] with new performative projection by
Cinepimps [Alfonso Alvarez, Keith Arnold and Lucio Menegon]***** This
Corridor seeks to illuminate the north facade of the former Breuner's
Furniture Store, on West Grand between Broadway and Valley in Oakland.
This "Great Wall" a seven-story windowless tabula rasa stretching the
length of a city block— provides one of Oakland's most spectacular urban
canvases. The Corridor will take place in three one-hour movements: Key
Route Inn, myrmyr's meditation on the building that flanked 2201
Broadway's north façade, destroyed by fire in the 1930s; The Great Wall,
Shudder's contrapuntal exploration of the current identity of the site,
and Good Times, a new anthem drawn from the momentum of urban
redevelopment, composed by Dan Plonsey and realized by string ensemble.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2007
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3/3
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
THE NIXON WHITE HOUSE STAFF SUPER 8 FILMS
Rare "Home-Movies" from the Nixon Administration! An extraordinarily
rare and unique glimpse into our not-too-distant past, this program
features a selection of the more than 200 rolls of Super-8mm film shot
by several members of President Richard Nixon's staff between 1969 and
1973, including John Ehrlichman and Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman. The
originals, confiscated by the FBI from Ehrlichman's office in 1973, are
now housed at the National Archives and Records Administration. The
films screening (1969-71, approx. 73 mins., silent) feature an array of
official functions and special guests to the White House - from the
mundane, to the fascinating, to the bizarre. Included are scenes from a
performance of the musical 1776; a Presidential visit to the United
Nations; various staff meetings and photo ops; Nixon visiting a
Washington Redskins football practice; activities during Armed Forces
Day; and appearances by Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, Indira Ghandi,
Bob Hope, and Pat Boone. 16mm preservation prints courtesy of BB Optics
(special thanks to Bill Brand) with permission from the National
Archives and Records Administration.
3/3
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm- Saturday evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between Bowery & 2nd Avenue)
ART/NEW YORK- PROGRAM # 3, PAUL TSCHINKEL'S NAM JUNE PAIK- PRISONER OF
THE CATHODE RAY
ART/new york, a video series on contemporary art, was begun in 1979.
Paul Tschinket is the creator, producer, and director. NAM JUNE PAIK-
Prisoner of te Cathode Ray (54 min.-2000) Nam June Paiuk (1932-2006) was
the founding father of video art. For more than four decades he had
explored and exploited television technology and used it as an artist's
medium. Paik confessed that he had become the "prisoner of the cathode
ray." Over the years he created an impressive, visionary and influential
body of work that was not only shown world-wide but also greatly
influenced both commercial and artistic media. Interviews are with NAM
JUNE PAIK, art dealers' DOROTHY GOLDEEN and HOLLY SOLOMON and JOHN
HANHARDT, then the senior curator of film and media arts at the
Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Paul Tschinkel will be present to
introduce and discuss this work. In addition we are expecting a guest
speaker.
3/3
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm- Saturday evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between Bowery & 2nd Avenue)
ART/NEW YORK- PROGRAM # 3, PAUL TSCHINKEL'S NAM JUNE PAIK- PRISONER OF
THE CATHODE RAY
ART/new york, a video series on contemporary art, was begun in 1979.
Paul Tschinket is the creator, producer, and director. NAM JUNE PAIK-
Prisoner of te Cathode Ray (54 min.-2000) Nam June Paiuk (1932-2006) was
the founding father of video art. For more than four decades he had
explored and exploited television technology and used it as an artist's
medium. Paik confessed that he had become the "prisoner of the cathode
ray." Over the years he created an impressive, visionary and influential
body of work that was not only shown world-wide but also greatly
influenced both commercial and artistic media. Interviews are with NAM
JUNE PAIK, art dealers' DOROTHY GOLDEEN and HOLLY SOLOMON and JOHN
HANHARDT, then the senior curator of film and media arts at the
Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Paul Tschinkel will be present to
introduce and discuss this work. In addition we are expecting a guest
speaker.
3/3
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
STONEY BURKE’S DVD RELEASE CELEBRATION!
Stoney's fearless voice of liberty has given so much to the Bay Area
over the years that the SF Board of Supervisors recently declared a
Stoney Burke Day! Putting his body on the line, the epitome of free
speech in action, our favorite street comedian has railed against war
and injustice for decades now, earning for him a place in the hearts of
many citizens—and several stays in jail! Finally, the best recorded
performances of this live-improvising raconteur have been compiled into
a Greatest Hits collection, taking us through the turbulent years
between 1977–2007. Stoney opens the show with a set of political
stand-up, and then introduces each piece with an improvised comic
anecdote. Doors open at 8pm for a meet 'n' greet amidst free Nutella and
jaunty roller-rink melodies from David Cox on the mighty Korg.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2007
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3/4
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00 pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
RE-DEFINING VIDEO: WORK BY KYLE CANTERBURY
SPECIAL REPEAT SCREENING! Due to the great response and standing room
only crowd for our first screening (and the bitter cold temperatures),
we will be doing a special repeat screening of the video work of Kyle
Canterbury. [This is a repeat of the February 3 show.] Chicago
Filmmakers is extremely pleased to present the first one-person show
(and first ever U.S. screening) of the work of Kyle Canterbury, an
extraordinarily talented new experimental video artist who lives in
Michigan. Canterbury has been making videos for only a little over a
year, and his work is already some of the most exciting and dynamic film
or video of any kind of the last decade or more. Oh, and he's only 17
years old! Canterbury has developed a palette of techniques that
emphasize the specificity and artistic potential of the video medium
unlike anyone else. He uncovers a stunning array of textures, formal
compositions, and rhythmic patterns in the normally flat video image.
Fred Camper has written: "I do not think it is too grand to declare that
Canterbury has done for video something like what Brakhage has done for
film. In his hands, after less than a year of work, this medium, which
so many have found severely limited, has become as supple, as pliable,
as sensuous, and as rhythmically various, as film was for Brakhage."
Canterbury will screen 24 short works, including 19: passage, A VIDEO,
EVODI, and Fragments from a Room (all 2006). Visit Fred Camper's website
for extensive commentary on Canterbury's work and ten of the videos
screening: www.fredcamper.com/Film/Canterbury.html
3/4
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.
FILM ART PHENOMENA: WORKS BY NICKY HAMLYN, NICKY HAMLYN IN PERSON
Composing his work "in camera," the films of Nicky Hamlyn incorporate
each shooting's unique character, producing open-ended outcomes while
questioning matter and perception. Quoting from his Film Art Phenomena
(published 2003): "I see my films as arising out of an encounter between
a situation or location or subject, and a camera/production strategy. I
have been inspired partly by Robert Morris' reading of Jackson Pollock's
paintings as resulting from the interactions of horizontal canvas, paint
viscosity, stick, gravity, arm mechanics. Morris' behavioristic take on
Pollock redeems it from an expressionistic reading." Screening:
Minutiae, Hole, Not Resting, Pistrino, Water, Matrix, Penumbra, Object
Studies, and Transit of Venus, which records two consecutive passes of
Venus across the sun. (Caroline Savage)
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