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Part 1 of 2: This week [March 17 - 25, 2007] in avant garde cinema
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* Sound Brakhage - Featuring the Work of Composer James Tenney (1934-2006) [March 17, Chicago, Illinois]
* Harry Smith Program [March 17, New York, New York]
* Film #18: Mahagonny [March 17, New York, New York]
* No 12: Heaven and Earth Magic [March 17, New York, New York]
* 12th Annual Women of Color Film Festival: Festival Curators and Artists
In Person [March 17, San Francisco, California]
* "The Birth of Betty Boop" Or "My Life As A Dog" and "Bad Bugs Bunny: the
Dark Side of Warner Brothers" [March 17, San Francisco, California]
* Melinda Stone Presents Bill Brown [March 17, San Francisco, California]
* "The Last Refuge For the Senses, Or Noise Hippies Against All War" [March 18, Chicago, Illinois]
* Tales From Summer Camp: Youth video From Chicago Filmmakers Digital
Moviemaking Summer Camps [March 18, Chicago, Illinois]
* The Documentaries of Kazuo Hara: the Emperor's Naked Army Marches On [March 18, Los Angeles, California]
* Harry Smith Program [March 18, New York, New York]
* No 12: Heaven and Earth Magic [March 18, New York, New York]
* Film #18: Mahagonny [March 18, New York, New York]
* Normalization Screening – Whw (Zagreb) [March 18, New York, New York]
* 2006 Phelan Awards: Alfonso Alvarez/ Melinda Stone [March 18, San Francisco, California]
* Cinema West 21 [March 19, Denver]
* An Evening With Su Friedrich [March 19, Los Angeles, California]
* No 12: Heaven and Earth Magic [March 19, New York, New York]
* Newfilmmakers Welcomes the Digital Film Academy In New York [March 20, New York, New York]
* No 12: Heaven and Earth Magic [March 20, New York, New York]
* Mark Street and Gregg Biermann With Music By Bradford Reed and Friends [March 21, Brooklyn, New York]
* Newfilmmakers Welcomes the Digital Film Academy In New York [March 21, New York, New York]
* Slingshot Cinema [March 21, New York, New York]
* Super 8 Porter At Anthology - March 21 [March 21, New York, New York]
* Sf Film Society Presents Sf360 Film+Club: Trapped In the Closet
Sing-Along [March 21, San Francisco, California]
* Slingshot Cinema [March 22, New York, New York]
* Super 8 Films and Performance By John Porter [March 22, New York, New York]
* 3rd I: Selections From the Traveling Film South Asia Festival [March 23, Chicago, Illinois]
* Third Coast Festival Listening Room [March 23, Houston, Texas]
* 30 Films By Gregory Zucker [March 23, New York, New York]
* Last Refuge For the Senses Or Noise Hippies Against All War [March 23, Vancouver, British Columbia]
* Chicago's Own: More of the Best of Doc - Documentaries By Columbia
College Students [March 24, Chicago, Illinois]
* Third Coast Festival Listening Room [March 24, Houston, Texas]
* William E. Jones: V.O. & All Male Mash Up [March 24, NFT 3, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT]
* Rocky Mountain Twilight: First-Person Cinema From Boulder, Colorado [March 24, New York, New York]
* Xx-Plicit: Empowering Women Through Film [March 24, New York, New York]
* Takahiko iimura Program [March 24, New York, New York]
* New York Experimental Presents: Volatile Works Collective - Politics &
Poetics [March 24, New York, New York]
* Jim Fetterley Is Charged In the Name of Terror [March 24, San Francisco, California]
* The Syracuse One Take Super 8 Event [March 24, Syracuse NY]
* The Mythology Show [March 24, Vancouver, British Columbia]
* "The Last Refuge For the Senses, Or Noise Hippies Against All War" [March 25, Anacortes, Washington]
* 3rd I: Selections From the Traveling Film South Asia Festival [March 25, Chicago, Illinois]
* Video Slam At Diva [March 25, Eugene, Oregon]
* The Documentaries of Kazuo Hara: Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 [March 25, Los Angeles, California]
* Rocky Mountain Twilight: First-Person Cinema From Boulder, Colorado [March 25, New York, New York]
* The Secret Life of…Anthology Film Archives [March 25, New York, New York]
* Bay Area Roots- Greg Sharits/Dean Snider [March 25, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2007
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3/17
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
SOUND BRAKHAGE - FEATURING THE WORK OF COMPOSER JAMES TENNEY (1934-2006)
This program, presented in tribute to the late composer James Tenney,
features a selection of experimental film master Stan Brakhage's
occasional sound films. Most of Brakhages' 400 or so films were silent,
but his editing and the rhythmic structures of his films were indeed
musical. He made this literal with a handful of films over his lifetime.
Tonight we present several films with sound by or using the music of the
great modern composer, and Brakhage childhood friend, James Tenney, who
died last fall. Included are two of Brakhage's earliest films, the
psychodramas Interim (1953) and Desistfilm (1954), and two later
abstract films Christ Mass Sex Dance (1991) and "..." Reel 5 (1998).
Rounding out the program is Boulder Blues and Pearls and ... (1992),
with music by Rick Corrigan.
3/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
HARRY SMITH PROGRAM
Dir: Harry Smith. EARLY ABSTRACTIONS (1941-57, 23 minutes) . MIRROR
ANIMATIONS (1957, 4 minutes) . LATE SUPERIMPOSITIONS (1964, 28 minutes)
. OZ, THE TIN WOODMAN'S DREAM (1967, 15 minutes). All works preserved by
Anthology Film Archives. "My cinematic excreta is of four varieties: -
batiked animations made directly on film between 1939 and 1946;
optically printed non-objective studies composed around 1950;
semi-realistic animated collages made as part of my alchemical labors of
1957 to 1962; and chronologically super-imposed photographs of
actualities formed since the latter year. All these works have been
organized in specific patterns derived from the interlocking beats of
the respiration, the heart and the EEG Alpha component and should be
observed together in order, or not at all, for they are valuable works,
works that will forever abide - they made me gray." - Harry Smith.
3/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
FILM #18: MAHAGONNY
Dir: Harry Smith. Preservation work undertaken by Cineric, Inc., with
support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the
National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts,
Sony Entertainment, the National Film Preservation Foundation, The Getty
Research Institute and The Harry Smith Archives. This restoration has
been a joint project of Anthology Film Archives and the Harry Smith
Archives. Smith worked obsessively on MAHAGONNY for over ten years,
shooting it from 1970-72 and editing it from 1972-80. Based on the Kurt
Weill and Bertolt Brecht opera RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY,
the film was an epic, four-screen projection which the filmmaker
considered to be his magnum opus and described as a mathematical
analysis of Marcel Duchamp's "Large Glass.". MAHAGONNY is an allegory of
contemporary life; it explores the needs and desires of man amid the
rituals of daily life in New York City. Smith's New York, like Brecht's
Mahagonny, is a place where everything is permitted and the only sin is
not having enough money. Much of the film takes place within the Chelsea
Hotel and contains invaluable portraits of important scenesters such as
Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith and Jonas Mekas. These appearances are
intercut with installation pieces from Robert Mapplethorpe's studio, New
York City landmarks of the era, and Smith's unique, visionary animation.
This 35mm print represents the completion of an ambitious preservation
project by Anthology Film Archives and The Harry Smith Archives. The
film was originally shown ten times at Anthology in 1980 on four 16mm
projectors with the filmmaker present at each screening. This recently
restored print is a composite of all four original 16mm masters (and the
Weill soundtrack) that have been optically printed into a single "tiled"
35mm film image.
3/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 & 7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NO 12: HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC
See 3/15.
3/17
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:00, California College of the Arts 1111 Eighth Street at Irwin Street
12TH ANNUAL WOMEN OF COLOR FILM FESTIVAL: FESTIVAL CURATORS AND ARTISTS
IN PERSON
The Berkeley-based Women of Color Film Festival provides a welcome forum
for both emerging and established artists from one of the most creative
yet continually underrepresented sectors of the film community. This
year's festival commences March 1 at UC Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive,
with four programs screening there over ten days (for complete program
information and screening schedule, please visit
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu). Cinematheque is honored to host the final two
programs of this years' WOCFF. Please join us at 6pm for a pre-screening
reception. 7pm—WOCFF, Program One: Revisioning Fashion Resistance to
Militarism by Kimberley Alvarenga, Take a Walk by Hsin-I Tseng, The Body
in the Park by Shi Liu, The Shooter by Jin Yoo-Kim, Migration by
Christina Battle, What Keeps Me Going by Joenel Scott, Come on Big Empty
by Kirthi Nath, Re/Camara by Rosario Sotelo, and Palpable Invisibility
of Life by Tran T. Kim-Trang. 9 pm—WOCFF, program two: Queering the
Image Game by JJ Goldberger, Rated F by Donna Lee, Girl Cleans Sink by
Sook-Yin Lee, Before Nine by Hana Abdule, Make a Move by Hanifah
Walidah, and other titles to be determined.
3/17
San Francisco, California: Oddball Films
http://www.oddballfilm.com
8pm & 10pm, 275 Capp Street
"THE BIRTH OF BETTY BOOP" OR "MY LIFE AS A DOG" AND "BAD BUGS BUNNY: THE
DARK SIDE OF WARNER BROTHERS"
Oddball Films presents "The Birth of Betty Boop" or "My Life as a Dog",
an animation program exploring the creation of Betty Boop from dog to
woman. Betty Boop, the silly and scintillating cartoon bombshell was
created by the famed Fleisher Brothers animation studios, the surreal
competitors to Walt Disney Studios. Cinema curator, collector and
historian Dennis Nyback appears in person to give us the lowdown on the
"Boop Oop a Doop" girl. PLUS Oddball Film+Video presents Bad Bugs
Bunny", The Dark Side of Warner Brothers, a hilarious cartoon program
featuring censored shorts exploring sex, racism and violence in
animation. Titles include "Sioux Me", showcasing native American
stereotypes, "Ali Baba Bound" featuring a comic look at an Arab suicide
bomber, the classic "Snow White and the Sebben Dwarves" and many more.
Starring that acerbic and obnoxious cartoon rabbit, Bugs Bunny and the
voice of Mel Blanc. All films screened in 16mm film. Portland curator
and archivist appears Denis Nyback in person to put all this into a
historical perspective.
3/17
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
MELINDA STONE PRESENTS BILL BROWN
Following our strand of topographic work, in fact here's the crown
prince of the critical travelogue, Bill Brown, who's in town for a
teaching turn at USF. This review of three of his 16mm pieces will serve
as an entrée to his signature style. Mountain State, an oblique history
of West Virginia, uses historical markers as portals to the ghost
stories of the Appalachian past. Hub City, an examination of both the
real and the imagined Lubbock, Texas (Bill's hometown), meanders between
Buddy Holly, windswept prairies, and truck-stop diners. The Other Side
details the filmmaker's journey through the Southwest, navigating along
the tangled web of social forces and geographic features bound up in
immigration and national-identity issues. The entire evening is
introduced by our darling Dr. Melinda Stone, a fellow psycho-geographer
and an irrepressible game-show hostess, laden with door prizes,
perforated pastries, and concertina sing-alongs! $7.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 18, 2007
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3/18
Chicago, Illinois: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
8:00, Cinema Borealis, 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave
"THE LAST REFUGE FOR THE SENSES, OR NOISE HIPPIES AGAINST ALL WAR"
Run a female artists' collective, brew your own absinthe, attend an
anti-gentrification community board meeting, wheatpaste signs protesting
the war(s), and then lose yourself in what may very well be the Last
Refuge for the Senses. A new breed of noise/post-psychedelia has sprung
up as the only rational response to an increasingly alienating form of
global capitalism, in an increasingly violent-and-joyless politicized
existence – this new media responds with a Chaos of Sound and Light that
seeks to overwhelm you but stops before you're lost, its Kind Hippie
Heart beating out a space for you to occupy and own. From your favorite
Rhode Island filmmakers, we've got Group Trance Rituals, Direct
Dumpster-Dive Animation, History Seen Through the Eyes of Bats, Live
Soundtracks, Cut-Up Eyeballs, Single Frame Collectives, Puppet Chaos,
Analog Transcendence, and So Much More. Featuring music by Lighting
Bolt, Mystery Brinkman, Carly Ptak (Nautical Almanac), the Shirelles vs
the Suicidal Tendencies, Joe Grimm (the Wind-Up Bird), Jodi Buonanno,
and more! These nine films represent the true cinema of deliverance, the
theater of Psychic Hearts and Radical Love. FEATURING: Black and White
Trypps Number Three by Ben Russell (11:30, 35mm, 2007), Paranoia Trilogy
Part One: The Chemical Bath by Xander Marro (6:00, 16mm, 2001), Scream
Tone by Jo Dery (3:00, 16mm, 2002), Echoes of Bats and Men by Jo Dery
(7:00, 16mm, 2005), The Red and the Blue Gods by Ben Russell (8:00,
16mm, live sound, 2005), 01/06 by Mat Brinkman and Xander Marro (13:00,
16mm, 2006), The Great Exodus by Jo Dery (6:30, 16mm, 2005), L'Eye by
Xander Marro (2:00, 16mm, 2004), Third Annual Roggabogga Motion Picture
by Forcefield (6:30, 16mm, 2002) TRT 63:30 $5
3/18
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
6:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
TALES FROM SUMMER CAMP: YOUTH VIDEO FROM CHICAGO FILMMAKERS DIGITAL
MOVIEMAKING SUMMER CAMPS
We are pleased to present a selection of the outstanding work made by
the students, aged 10-18, in our 2005 and 2006 Digital Moviemaking
Summer Camps. Focused on developing creativity and imagination and using
video as an artistic medium, students created several wonderful works,
from fractured fairy tales to faux internet video blogs. Come see what
the directors of tomorrow are doing today! Admission is free.
3/18
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
THE DOCUMENTARIES OF KAZUO HARA: THE EMPEROR’S NAKED ARMY MARCHES ON
Filmforum presents THE EMPEROR'S NAKED ARMY MARCHES ON (1987, 122 min,
16mm, color). Japanese documentarian Hara's remarkable award-winning
film, following the crusade for truth of Okuzaki Kenzo, a radical left
wing activist and also a survivor of the battlefields of New Guinea in
World War II.
3/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
HARRY SMITH PROGRAM
Dir: Harry Smith. EARLY ABSTRACTIONS (1941-57, 23 minutes) . MIRROR
ANIMATIONS (1957, 4 minutes) . LATE SUPERIMPOSITIONS (1964, 28 minutes)
. OZ, THE TIN WOODMAN'S DREAM (1967, 15 minutes). All works preserved by
Anthology Film Archives. "My cinematic excreta is of four varieties: -
batiked animations made directly on film between 1939 and 1946;
optically printed non-objective studies composed around 1950;
semi-realistic animated collages made as part of my alchemical labors of
1957 to 1962; and chronologically super-imposed photographs of
actualities formed since the latter year. All these works have been
organized in specific patterns derived from the interlocking beats of
the respiration, the heart and the EEG Alpha component and should be
observed together in order, or not at all, for they are valuable works,
works that will forever abide - they made me gray." - Harry Smith.
3/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 & 7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NO 12: HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC
Dir: Harry Smith. PRESERVATION PREMIERE!. . Newly preserved with support
from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Preservation work by
Cineric, Inc. . A masterpiece like none other, HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC is
a fever-dream collage animation of inexplicable depth and illogical
means. Beautiful to behold and bizarrely baroque, Smith toiled for years
to create the surreal images and musique concrète soundtrack
contained herein. Surprisingly, Smith never made a negative for this
milestone of underground cinema. Following nearly two years worth of
work, we are thrilled to present this pristine new copy that was made
from the earliest existing print. All attempts at a rational description
fail when compared with Smith's own explanation: "The first part depicts
the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a valuable watermelon,
her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next follows an elaborate
exposition of the heavenly land in terms of Israel, Montreal and the
second part depicts the return to earth from being eaten by Max Muller
on the day Edward the Seventh dedicated the Great Sewer of London.".
"NO. 12 can be seen as one moment - certainly the most elaborately
crafted moment - of the single alchemical film which is Harry Smith's
life work. In its seriousness, its austerity, it is one of the strangest
and most fascinating landmarks in the history of cinema." -P. Adams
Sitney.
3/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
FILM #18: MAHAGONNY
Dir: Harry Smith. PRESERVATION PREMIERE!. . Newly preserved with support
from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Preservation work by
Cineric, Inc. . A masterpiece like none other, HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC is
a fever-dream collage animation of inexplicable depth and illogical
means. Beautiful to behold and bizarrely baroque, Smith toiled for years
to create the surreal images and musique concrète soundtrack
contained herein. Surprisingly, Smith never made a negative for this
milestone of underground cinema. Following nearly two years worth of
work, we are thrilled to present this pristine new copy that was made
from the earliest existing print. All attempts at a rational description
fail when compared with Smith's own explanation: "The first part depicts
the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a valuable watermelon,
her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next follows an elaborate
exposition of the heavenly land in terms of Israel, Montreal and the
second part depicts the return to earth from being eaten by Max Muller
on the day Edward the Seventh dedicated the Great Sewer of London.".
"NO. 12 can be seen as one moment - certainly the most elaborately
crafted moment - of the single alchemical film which is Harry Smith's
life work. In its seriousness, its austerity, it is one of the strangest
and most fascinating landmarks in the history of cinema." -P. Adams
Sitney.
3/18
New York, New York: 16 Beaver Group
http://16beavergroup.org/
7:30 PM, 16 Beaver Street, 4th Floor
NORMALIZATION SCREENING – WHW (ZAGREB)
The screening program tonight offers a complex account of social,
economic, and political phenomena in former Yugoslavia and reveals the
tense relationship between critical artistic practice and official
political agendas. Artists include: Vlatko Gili? (b. 1935, lives and
works in Belgrade and Podgorica), Sanja Ivekovi? (b. 1949; lives and
works in Zagreb), Jasmila Žbani? (b. 1974; lives and works in Sarajevo),
David Maljkovi? (b. 1973; lives and works in Zagreb), Goran Devi? (b.
1971; lives and works in Zagreb), and Johanna Billing (b. 1973, lives
and works in Stockholm). While artistic practices from the 70s (and 80s)
were driven by a direct confrontation with ideologies of domination,
younger artists are questioning the rapid march toward "normalization"
and transition into neo-liberal heaven. The focus of many of Jasmila
Žbani?'s short films, including Images from the Corner (2003), is the
relationship between women and war trauma. Her feature film "Grbavica"
which won the Golden bear at Berlin film festival in 2006 is in USA
cinemas now. Goran Devi?'s film, Imported Crows (2004), looks at the
problematic relationship between his socialist heritage and the present
social climate, which stimulates various types of exclusion,
intolerance, and ethnic mythologies. Video "These Days" by David
Maljkovi? takes us to the former Italian pavilion of the Zagreb Fair,
designed by Italian architect Giuseppe Sambito, and finished in 1961.
Few people in their late twenties and early thirties are sitting in and
around parked cars in front of the building, almost without moving. Both
the Zagreb Fair and the modernist beauty of Italian pavilion in "These
Days" remind us of the time of optimism, development and 'vigorous
growth' of the city, but contrary to previous works by Maljkovi?, people
in this video seem trapped in time. The video Magical World by Swedish
artist Johanna Billing was recorded in Zagreb in 2005. The artist asked
a childrens' choir and orchestra in Zagreb to rehearse the 1968 song
Magical World by not-so-well-known band Rotary Connection. Set in the
worn-out and never-finished surroundings of a socialist-era cultural
center, the melancholic tune sung by young Croatians in patchy English
is understood as a metaphor about the ghost geography of Eastern Europe,
threatened by the pressure to adapt its own culture to that of the
"normal" European standards.
3/18
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.
2006 PHELAN AWARDS: ALFONSO ALVAREZ/ MELINDA STONE
Presented in association with Film Arts Foundation and the San Francisco
Foundation Alfonso Alvarez and Melinda Stone In Person Issued
bi-annually by Film Arts Foundation and the San Francisco Foundation,
the James D. Phelan Award in Film and Video honors California-born
artists "whose body of work is non-commercial in nature, has made a
substantial contribution to the field, and merits recognition for its
creativity and innovation." Working in the proud traditions of West
Coast funk, junk, projector performance, and optical printing, Alvarez'
films—screening will be Down on the Farm, Calling All Cars, La Reina,
and the performed Night Soil—explode with color and sound, are dizzying
and effervescent visual delights. With overlapping passions for amateur
filmmaking and the organization of large-scale and participatory
film/video spectacles, Melinda Stone's work—including A Trip Down Market
1905/2005, and for a brief moment 1906; The Incredible Adventures of a
Primitive Creature and others, including the latest installment of her
How to Homestead series—investigates landscape and culture, while
cultivating a charming and personal homegrown documentary aesthetic.
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MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2007
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3/19
Denver: The Documentary Cinema Institute
http://www.documentaryinstitute.org/
7pm, Globeville Studios, 635 Santa Fe Drive
CINEMA WEST 21
Join us for a program of unique films on regional subjects by local
filmmakers. "Housesitting" is an experimental non-fiction film that
explores the relationship between landscape and the intrusion of Anglo
culture on the American continent. "Housesitting" has been screened at
festivals throughout the country and has received numerous awards
including the Kodak Award for Achievement in Nonfiction at the San
Francisco Art Institute Film Festival. Directed by Tony Gault. "Sister
Bee Sister Bee" is a lyrical documentary about six beekeepers who
encounter startling beauty and spiritual truth in their work with
honeybees. "Sister Bee" follows the arc of the beekeeping year beginning
with spring queens and ending with the fall honey harvest. Directed by
Laura Tyler. The filmmakers will be present for discussion, and
refreshments will be served. $10 per person, free to Filmmakers' Circle
members. Directions at www.globevillestudios.com For more information
contact Carol Beeby email suppressed, 303.444.1351
3/19
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd st
AN EVENING WITH SU FRIEDRICH
Los Angeles premieres Recently honored with a major retrospective at New
York's Museum of Modern Art, Su Friedrich pays a rare visit to the West
Coast to showcase a selection of old and new works, including two Los
Angeles premieres. In Seeing Red (2005, 27 min, DigiBeta), one of her
most deeply personal films to date, Friedrich takes a look back at her
evolution both as a woman and as an artist, tackling her own
insecurities via several on-camera diary entries. The Head of a Pin
(2004, 21 min, DigiBeta) casts a droll eye on the wonderment of city
dwellers faced with nature… in the form of a country spider. In person:
Su Friedrich Program presented in collaboration with Outfest. See
www.outfest.org for additional information.
3/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NO 12: HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC
See 3/18.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2007
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3/20
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NEWFILMMAKERS WELCOMES THE DIGITAL FILM ACADEMY IN NEW YORK
Dir: Various. Ted Ryan HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN? (2006, 6 minutes, 8mm).
Daniel Brothers WINGS (2005, 10 minutes, 16mm). Cindy Konits THE WAY I
SEE IT (2005, 20 minutes, mini-DV). Brandon Lasner MY FRIENDS, THC & ME!
(2006, 19 minutes, mini-DV). Seth Camillo GRAVITY (2006, 4 minutes,
video).
3/20
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NO 12: HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC
See 3/18.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2007
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3/21
Brooklyn, New York: Galapagos Art Space
http://www.galapagosartspace.com/events.html
7:30 PM, 70 n 6th street Williamsburg
MARK STREET AND GREGG BIERMANN WITH MUSIC BY BRADFORD REED AND FRIENDS
An evening of raw and otherworldly moving images and lush rocking music!
Trailer Trash is Mark Street's skewed take on Hollywood detritus: 35mm
movie trailers rescued from the trash and affected by hand and
digitally, holding up a funhouse mirror to the industry of expectations.
Gregg Biermann's The Hills are Alive is a random access and real-time
video improvisation with the musicians to the signature sequence of "The
Sound of Music." With Bradford Reed (pencilina), Julianne Carney
(violin), Geoff Gersh (guitar), Eric Hubel (banjo, theramin) and Jane
Scarpantoni (cello).
3/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NEWFILMMAKERS WELCOMES THE DIGITAL FILM ACADEMY IN NEW YORK
Dir: Various. NewFilmmakers Welcomes The Digital Film Academy in New
York. . . 6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS MOCKS DOCS & MORE. . Ted Ryan HOW DO YOU
KNOW WHEN? (2006, 6 Minutes, 8MM). Daniel Brothers WINGS (2005, 10
Minutes, 16 MM). Cindy Konits THE WAY I SEE IT (2005, 20 Minutes, Mini
DV). Brandon Lasner MY FRIENDS, THC & ME! (2006, 19 Minutes, Mini DV).
Seth Camillo GRAVITY (2006, 4 Minutes, Video).
3/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
SLINGSHOT CINEMA
Dir: John Porter. This calendar continues the 8-month screening series
of Canadian artists' film and video organized by Anthology and The
Images Festival, Toronto. Many of the works to be screened will be New
York City and U.S. premieres, while others have rarely screened in New
York since they were first produced. To celebrate the occasion, a
monograph featuring essays, stills, descriptions and interviews has been
published and will be freely available. In addition, many of the artists
will be with us to present their programs. . Following our successful
spotlights on Philip Hoffman, Leslie Peters, Robert Lee and Barbara
Sternberg, this season focuses on three stellar artists: the activist
Richard Fung, the poet Clive Holden, and Super-8 stalwart John Porter.
Richard Fung will be paired with a program of shorts while Clive Holden
and John Porter will each have two evenings devoted to their own work.
The shorts program in January features pieces by artists reflecting on
the U.S.A. including Arthur Lipsett, Joyce Wieland, Richard Kerr, Gilles
Groulx and John Price. Look for our final two shorts programs in April
2007. The Images Festival is Canada's largest annual event devoted
exclusively to independent and experimental film, video, installation,
live performance and new media. The 20th edition of the Images Festival
runs April 5-14, 2007 in Toronto, Canada. For more information please
visit: www.imagesfestival.com. Organized by Scott Berry, Chris Kennedy
and Jeremy Rigsby (The Images Festival) and Andrew Lampert (Anthology
Film Archives). This series generously supported by the Canada Council
for the Arts, Media Arts Section and the Canadian Consulate General of
New York City. JOHN PORTER'S SLINGSHOT CINEMA. John Porter in person!.
Anyone who's ever stepped foot in a microcinema in Toronto, whether it
was The Funnel (RIP), Cinecycle or the roving venues of Pleasure Dome
will probably have met John Porter. A committed champion of Super-8 film
and a chronicler of the artistic activities of the local film scene,
Porter is a ubiquitous presence at any alternative film event in
Toronto. And on special nights, his filmmaking - he has made over 300
films since 1968, all but a very few of them shot and finished on
Super-8 - is in the spotlight. A true master of his medium, Porter has
used the limits of his chosen technology to propel an unbridled
imagination. Creating contraptions like his Cinefuge, using time-lapse
in his Condensed Rituals and practically seeing through walls in his
amazing Scanning performance series, Porter has created a body of work
that continues to play with our expectations of vision. John Porter will
be in attendance both evenings to personally project selections of his
intimate and engaging Super-8 film oeuvre, showing all of them on their
original format. The screenings will encompass the full spectrum of his
work, from DOWN ON ME, FIREFLY, and PICTURE PITCHER to the
aforementioned performance works. Please check the Images Festival
website in March for detailed program information. "As magical for
contemporary audiences as the original, Georges Méliès
trick-films must have seemed a century ago." -Scott MacDonald, A
CRITICAL CINEMA 3. "Unique in my experience of movies." -J. Hoberman,
VILLAGE VOICE.
3/21
New York, New York: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
8:00 pm, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue @ 2nd Street
SUPER 8 PORTER AT ANTHOLOGY - MARCH 21
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES and THE IMAGES FESTIVAL (TORONTO) present: JOHN
PORTER'S SLINGSHOT CINEMA! (JOHN PORTER in person!) Wednesday and
Thursday, March 21 & 22, 2007, 8:00 pm 2 distinct shows! @ Anthology
Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue @ 2nd Street, NYC This calendar
continues the 8-month screening series of Canadian artists' film and
video organized by Anthology and The Images Festival, Toronto. Following
our successful spotlights on Philip Hoffman, Barbara Sternberg, Robert
Lee and Leslie Peters, this season sees spotlights on three prolific
media artists: the activist Richard Fung, the poet Clive Holden & this
month Super 8 stalwart John Porter. John Porter has been a filmmaker,
performer, photographer and writer in Toronto since 1968. Often called
"the king of super 8" (among other names), he has made 300 films, mostly
super 8, and has performed 70 solo shows internationally. Using film as
a visual art like painting, many of his short films are silent, made in
series' (Camera Dances, crowd portraits, local histories, rituals, toy
stories), and he shows his originals (no copies). While projecting some
he performs live in the audience, in front of the screen, or while
hand-holding the small projector for "surround super 8" in galleries and
for projecting onto passing people and vehicles while "film-busking" on
the street at night. His films are dynamic, humourous and revealing,
enjoyed by people of all ages. His on-going community activism includes
photographing and writing about local underground film activity,
advocating super 8 film and $50 film budgets, and resisting the
dominance of the film industry, the Ontario Film Review Board, and
video. He resisted email and the internet until 2005. Visit his website:
www.super8porter.ca. Wednesday March 21, 8:00 pm: Super 8 Films and
Performance by John Porter. (All films Super 8) Landscape (1977, 1
minute, silent) Mother and Child (1977, 2 minutes, silent) Santa Claus
Parade (1976, 4.5 minutes, silent) Drive-In Movies (1981, 7 minutes)
Exams (1982, 3.5 minutes, silent) Amusement Park (1978/79, 6 minutes,
silent) Firefly (1980, 3.5 minutes, silent) Down on Me (1980/81, 4
minutes, silent) Cinefuge 4 & 5 (1980/81, 4.5 minutes, sound on film) In
the Gutter (2000, 3.5 minutes, wild sound) Christmas Toy Lights Me
(2006, 3 minutes, silent) Toy Catalogue 3 (1996, excerpt 18 minutes,
sound on film) Scanning 5 (1983, 3.5 minutes, silent, film performance)
((Running time: 64 minutes))
3/21
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Film Society
http://www.sffs.org
7pm, Mezzanine, Mezzanine, 444 Jessie Street
SF FILM SOCIETY PRESENTS SF360 FILM+CLUB: TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET
SING-ALONG
SF360 Film+Club Takes Movies Out of the Theater and Puts Them in the
Club The San Francisco Film Society presents the latest SF360 Film+Club,
a monthly social screening series, this time showcasing the artistic
canon of R. Kelly in Trapped in the Closet Sing-Along, 7:00 pm on
Wednesday, March 21 at Mezzanine, 444 Jessie Street, between Mint and
Sixth Street, just off Market. "To say that Trapped in the Closet is
astonishing would severely undersell the sheer audacity, hilarity and
wonder of this work," says Sean Uyehara, programming associate of the
Film Society. "When I learned that curator Henri Mazza will showcase
Trapped within a survey of R. Kelly's artistic canon, it made me want to
cry tears of joy." Trapped in the Closet Sing-Along, an exploration of
the artistry of rapper R. Kelly, is guest curated by Henri Mazza of the
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema of Austin, Texas, who will be hosting the show.
The program will begin with a rapping contest, followed by screenings of
early R. Kelly videos including Sex Me, Bump and Grind and Step in the
Name of Love; and the first 12 chapters of R. Kelly's astonishing epic
video Trapped in the Closet; an entertaining remake of Trapped made for
a high school class project; and The World's Greatest. Highlighting and
contextualizing the program will be a very special pre-recorded
"live-via-satellite" interview with R. Kelly describing the real
artistic meaning behind his oeuvre. Doors open at Mezzanine at 7:00 pm,
program starts at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $8.00 at the door and $5.00 if
reserved in advance by emailing email suppressed Must be 21+ to attend.
SF360 Film+Club is presented by the San Francisco Film Society,
Mezzanine and Rehab, and is sponsored by SF Weekly. For more information
visit www.sffs.org
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THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007
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3/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
SLINGSHOT CINEMA
Dir: John Porter. John Porter in person!. Anyone who's ever stepped foot
in a microcinema in Toronto, whether it was The Funnel (RIP), Cinecycle
or the roving venues of Pleasure Dome will probably have met John
Porter. A committed champion of Super-8 film and a chronicler of the
artistic activities of the local film scene, Porter is a ubiquitous
presence at any alternative film event in Toronto. And on special
nights, his filmmaking - he has made over 300 films since 1968, all but
a very few of them shot and finished on Super-8 - is in the spotlight. A
true master of his medium, Porter has used the limits of his chosen
technology to propel an unbridled imagination. Creating contraptions
like his Cinefuge, using time-lapse in his Condensed Rituals and
practically seeing through walls in his amazing Scanning performance
series, Porter has created a body of work that continues to play with
our expectations of vision. John Porter will be in attendance both
evenings to personally project selections of his intimate and engaging
Super-8 film oeuvre, showing all of them on their original format. The
screenings will encompass the full spectrum of his work, from DOWN ON
ME, FIREFLY, and PICTURE PITCHER to the aforementioned performance
works. Please check the Images Festival website in March for detailed
program information. "As magical for contemporary audiences as the
original, Georges Méliès trick-films must have seemed a century ago."
-Scott MacDonald, A CRITICAL CINEMA 3. "Unique in my experience of
movies." -J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE.
3/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8pm, 32 Second Avenue
SUPER 8 FILMS AND PERFORMANCE BY JOHN PORTER
Super 8 Films and Performance by John Porter (all films Super 8 unless
noted) Calendar Girl (1981-88, 3.5 minutes, sound on film) Pleading Art
(1989/92, 3.5 minutes, sound on film) Picture Pitcher (1989, 4 minutes,
sound on film) The Secret of the Lost Tunnel (1992, 3.5 minutes, sound
on film) Shovelling Snow (1992, 3.5 minutes, sound on film) Blade
Sharpener (1998, 3.5 minutes, sound on film) 3 Speed Gear (1993, 3.5
minutes, live sound) The List of Bicycle Messenger (1994, 4 minutes,
sound on film) Jewison, Superstar (1995, 4.5 minutes, sound on film)
Family Reunion (2003, 12 minutes, live narration) City Hall Fire (2005,
3.5 minutes, silent) Railroad under L.I.F.T. (2004, 8 minutes, 8mm, wild
sound) Phil's Film Farm (2002, 11 minutes, 16mm, silent) Scanning 3
(1982, 3.5 minutes, film performance)
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