From: Weekly Listing (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Mar 17 2007 - 11:27:39 PDT
Part 2 of 2: This week [March 17 - 25, 2007] in avant garde cinema
----------------------
FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007
----------------------
3/23
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
3RD I: SELECTIONS FROM THE TRAVELING FILM SOUTH ASIA FESTIVAL
Two programs of new South Asian documentaries will be screened, selected
from the Traveling Film South Asia Festival. The 2005 edition of Film
South Asia was held in Kathmandu and featured some of the best
non-fiction films being produced in the region. This weekend's selection
will include City of Photos (2005, 60 mins., India) by Nistha Jain,
which explores the little known ethos of old neighborhood photo studios
in a variety of Indian cities, discovering entire imaginary worlds in
the smallest of spaces. These programs are made possible thanks to the
University of Chicago South Asia Center, which will be organizing
additional programs from the festival around the city.
3/23
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8pm, 800 Aurora Street
THIRD COAST FESTIVAL LISTENING ROOM
Attention radioheads! Come feast your ears on a variety of unforgettable
documentary films for your ears. That's right - enjoy an evening that's
all about AUDIO, featuring everything from short artistic works to
sound-rich narratives from around the world, from award-winning public
radio programs to highlights from the TCF's "99 Ways to Tell a Radio
Story" experiment. Besides listening you'll also have the chance to
share your thoughts and ask questions about the stories you hear. The
evening is curated by TCF managing director Julie Shapiro.
3/23
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
30 FILMS BY GREGORY ZUCKER
Dir: GREGORY ZUCKER. . . This program is a mix of mostly new work along
with a few older films. The films all deal with the foundation of
cinema, the play between light and dark on the camera lens and screen -
sometimes portrayed as a tension and other times as a harmony. In the
midst of this play, there is always an effort on my part to seek out an
elusive luminous clarity that appears fleetingly in the flux of life.
-G.Z. "Zucker's early films were about the darkness fighting the coming
of the light. Now, in his most recent film, he has done the opposite:
the light has won, but it's constantly being attacked by the darkness…I
think that this is the state of our existence [and] Zucker has produced
a kind of a poem of that state. We came from light and we are light, but
there is the darkness that is always threatening us and we are under
constant attack. Maybe it is just what they call yin and yang? Good and
evil? Heaven and earth? A very beautiful film, very Blakean." -Jonas
Mekas.
3/23
Vancouver, British Columbia: Hungry Ghost Cinema
9:00, TBA
LAST REFUGE FOR THE SENSES OR NOISE HIPPIES AGAINST ALL WAR
A new breed of noise/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 still beating out a
space for you to occupy and own. Think Global but Act Local and Better
Yet, Act Analog. Like the American psychedelic cinema of the 60s and
70s, this crop of contemporary 16mm films enunciates an emotional
response to an overwhelming historical moment (now). Their use of analog
technologies, of live soundtracks and cameraless processes is indicative
of a DIY approach that has its political roots in resistance and its
aesthetic roots in a gentler past; geography has conspired to create a
micro-movement, for these are all works from the same community
(Providence, RI), emo-activist films by silkscreen artists and noise
musicians and puppeteers and sculptors whose political ideologies form
the basis for their artistic practice(s). Featuring music by Lightning
Bolt, Mystery Brinkman, Carly Ptak (Nautical Almanac), the Shirelles vs
Suicidal Tendencies, Jodi Buonanno, and more, we've got Noise Band
Concert Footage, Direct Dumpster-Dive Animation, History Through the
Eyes of Bats, Live Soundtracks, Cut-Up Eyeballs, Single Frame
Collectives, Puppet Chaos, Analog Transcendence, and So Much More. This
is the cinema of deliverance, the theater of psychic hearts and radical
love - bleeding your eyes and ears clean of the sorrow of the everyday,
swelling your body full with hope for the possibilities of today.
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
------------------------
SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007
------------------------
3/24
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
CHICAGO'S OWN: MORE OF THE BEST OF DOC - DOCUMENTARIES BY COLUMBIA
COLLEGE STUDENTS
Select Filmmakers in Person! We are pleased to present another round of
compelling documentaries produced at Columbia College Chicago,
showcasing the diversity of work being made there. Tonight's selection,
while not finalized at our print deadline, will be made by Jeff Spitz,
the Documentary Coordinator at Columbia, who will also moderate a
question and answer session with the filmmakers. Look for the complete
lineup on our website.
3/24
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8pm, 800 Aurora Street
THIRD COAST FESTIVAL LISTENING ROOM
Attention radioheads! Come feast your ears on a variety of unforgettable
documentary films for your ears. That's right - enjoy an evening that's
all about AUDIO, featuring everything from short artistic works to
sound-rich narratives from around the world, from award-winning public
radio programs to highlights from the TCF's "99 Ways to Tell a Radio
Story" experiment. Besides listening you'll also have the chance to
share your thoughts and ask questions about the stories you hear. The
evening is curated by TCF managing director Julie Shapiro.
3/24
NFT 3, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT: London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
http://www.llgff.org.uk
8.30pm, Bankside, SE1
WILLIAM E. JONES: V.O. & ALL MALE MASH UP
William E. Jones's new body of work was inspired by his parallel career
in the gay adult video industry. In the course of viewing hundreds of
hours of porn, he has developed a fascination with its marginalia:
establishing shots revealing urban landscapes of the recent past,
charmingly inept dialogue scenes, and close-ups of performers, many now
dead. This material, while of no particular commercial use, can be seen
as an invaluable document of a lost world of eroticism and sociability.
(LA Film Forum) v.o. (William E. Jones, USA, 2006, 59 mins) Using his
encyclopaedic knowledge of 60s and 70s gay porn and arthouse cinema,
William E Jones has skilfully edited a compilation of non-sexual scenes
which offer a unique perspective on gay life. Come-hither stares,
knowing looks, the prowling walk of a man on heat, there is a teasing,
gentle build-up to these extracts which is almost hypnotic. The title
refers to the French practice of releasing a film in "Version
Originale", but this film is in fact dubbed with an extraordinary range
of mostly European arthouse classic soundtracks. This makes for a
surprising juxtaposition of images, voices and English subtitles which
is often spookily resonant in its effect. All Male Mash Up (William E.
Jones, USA, 2006, 29 mins) More sex-free ancient porn but this time it
has its own soundtrack. That pizza delivery truck is carrying more than
just pizza. A wild hippy party gets out of control with reefers, sequins
and moustaches. A retro-erotic delight. www.williamejones.com
3/24
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
ROCKY MOUNTAIN TWILIGHT: FIRST-PERSON CINEMA FROM BOULDER, COLORADO
Dir: Various. One of the most respected American cities for experimental
film and video is Boulder, Colorado. Fueled by the vision and dedication
of Stan Brakhage, the giant of avant-garde cinema who taught generations
of film students at the University of Colorado, the Boulder scene has
thrived for several decades. Weekend salons and the legendary program
"First Person Cinema" (founded by Brakhage and Bruce Conner and run
since the late 1960s by Don Yannacito) are regular forums for the
exhibition and discussion of experimental film, not only for students
but also for Boulder residents and visitors to the city. Widely
respected educators and visiting artists at CU-Boulder have trained and
influenced many talented students over the years. . This program
celebrates a cross-section of recent film and video work produced within
the Boulder community. Brakhage is represented by important short films
from his late career. Among current faculty at CU-Boulder, the series
includes: Phil Solomon, one of the most innovative experimental
filmmakers working today; Dan Boord and Luis Valdovino,
critically-revered and influential video artists investigating cultural
narratives; and Stacey Steers, one of today's most respected hand
animators. Also included are some of the best of recent CU students:
Andrew Busti, Victor Jendras, Thomas Helman, Casey Koehler, Mary Beth
Reed, and Robert Schaller. Amidst the disparate styles of these media
artists, ROCKY MOUNTAIN TWILIGHT reveals an intense faith in
first-person cinema as a medium for metaphoric and poetic expression.
-Paul Roth, Curator of Photography and Media Arts, Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Washington. This program originally screened as part of the
Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran Experimental Media Series.
Thanks to the Film Studies Program at the University of Colorado in
Boulder for coordinating this program. Stan Brakhage RAGE NET (1988, 1
minute, 16mm, silent). Stan Brakhage BLACK ICE (1994, 2 minutes, 16mm,
silent). Stan Brakhage COMMINGLED CONTAINERS (1997, 3 minutes, 16mm,
silent). Robert Schaller MY LIFE AS A BEE (2002, 6 minutes, 16mm,
silent). Andrew Busti CLOUDS (2003, 1.5 minutes, 16mm, silent). Victor
Jendras HAIL AND FIRE (2003, 7.5 minutes, 16mm). Mary Beth Reed SAND
CASTLE 2 (2001, 7 minutes, 16mm, silent). Stacey Steers PHANTOM CANYON
(2006, 10 minutes, 35mm transferred to mini-DV). Dan Boord & Luis
Valdovino COCTEAU CENTO (2003, 6 minutes, mini-DV). Thomas Helman SONG
OF KALI (2004, 10 minutes, 16mm & video on mini-DV). Casey Koehler
BAUTISMO (2000, 6 minutes, 16mm). Phil Solomon TWILIGHT PSALM II: NIGHT
OF THE MEEK (2002, 24 minutes, 16mm). Total running time: ca. 90
minutes. .
3/24
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
XX-PLICIT: EMPOWERING WOMEN THROUGH FILM
Dir: Various. "Pornography is an anti-emotional medium, in content and
intent, and its lack of emotion renders it wholly ineffective for women.
This absence of sensuality is so contrary to female eroticism that
pornography becomes, in fact, anti-sexual." -B. Ruby Rich writing on
Carolee Schneemann's FUSES. Carolee Schneeman FUSES (1964/67, 23
minutes, 16mm, color, silent). "The first explicit feminist erotic film
confronting traditional sexual taboos." -C.S. Anne Hanavan LIAR (2006, 3
minutes, mini-DV, color, sound) Filmed by Michel Auder. "Fourth in a
series of sexually explicit self-portraits where the artist works
through issues surrounding rape, sex work and Catholicism." -A.H.
Richard Kern SEWING CIRCLE (1992, 7 minutes, Super-8mm on DVD) Starring
Kembra Pfahler, Lisa Resurrection, Carrie. In SEWING CIRCLE, performance
artist Kembra Pfahler lies down and has an assistant sew (in closeup)
her vagina shut. M.M. Serra & Jennifer Reeves DARLING INTERNATIONAL
(1999, 22 minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound). "An evocative work whose sexual
sadomasochistic scenario, grainy visual texture and layered soundtrack
render it highly tactile, fairly begging to be touched." -Shannon Kelly,
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL, 2000. Damian Vincent & Polly Sweet THIS MIGHT
HURT (2004, 8 minutes, mini-DV, color, sound). THIS MIGHT HURT is a
story of two junkie girls who get their revenge while trying to get
straight. Alice O'Malley LAST CALL AT THE CHELSEA (1998, 6 minutes, DVD,
color, sound). Dr. Julia, a world-renowned mathematician and an
international transsexual movie star,. schedules an appointment for an
assisted suicide. Filmed on location at the Chelsea Hotel. Usama
Alshaibi CONVULSION EXPULSION (2004, 6 minutes, 35mm transferred to DV,
color, sound) Performed by Kristie Alshaibi. "Forcibly torn from the
mythos, Echo struggles with her reemergence as a physical being. A
malfunction in the mind leads to the trauma of a body turning inside
out." -K.A. . .
3/24
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, Saturday evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between 2nd Ave & the Bowery)
TAKAHIKO IIMURA PROGRAM
Takahiko Iimura is a pioneer, experimental film/video artist who has
produced innovative work since 1960. Residing in both Tokyo and New
York, he has had numerous exhibitions in many countries throughout the
world. One of his early films, ONAN,was awarded a special prize at the
legendary Brussels International Experimental Film Festival. Recently he
has been working with computers, publishing multimedia CD-ROMS of his
films, videos, graphics, texts as well as photographic works. Perhaps
the most enigmatic figure in avant-garde cinema/video,Takahiko Iimura
mediates Zen spirituality and technology with playful irony. This
program features a selection of some of Iimura's very earliest work
including, EXPERIMENTS IN NEW YORK- NEW YORK SCENES (10 min.-1967),
FILMMAKERS (28 min.-1966-68), TALKING IN NEW YORK (8 min.-1981), NEW
YORK HOT SRINGS (11min.-1984).
3/24
New York, New York: The Tank
http://www.thetanknyc.org
6:00 PM, 279 Church Street
NEW YORK EXPERIMENTAL PRESENTS: VOLATILE WORKS COLLECTIVE - POLITICS &
POETICS
Volatile Works Collective: Politics & Poetics: An Evening of Films
Videos and Animations: New York Experimental, The Tank's monthly
experimental film and video screening series, is pleased to present an
evening of works by Montreal based media arts collective, Volatile
Works. Volatile Works is a five member autonomous film and media arts
collective that has been active in Montréal, Québec since 2003. Their
works embrace a range of mediums, genres, and spaces of intervention,
with a marked affinity for lo-fi/DIY tactical forms of production and
engagement. They have appeared in over one hundred film and new media
festivals in over twenty-eight countries around the world. They organize
regular screenings and events, and have collaborated with other
collectives and bands on community-based screenings, workshops in
activist video, and music videos. Their practices include digital video,
super-8, 16mm, animation, web art, sound, installation, and DIY of all
kinds. The members of Volatile Works are Allan Brown (Witkacy), Brad
Colbourne, Tamara Vukov (pomgrenade), Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare and Glenn
Gear. For more information about the Volatile Works Collective please
visit: www.volatileworks.org. For questions about New York Experimental,
including programming and the submission process, please contact Susan
Agliata at email suppressed and visit www.thetanknyc.org. This event
has been made possible with the financial support of the Conseil des
artes et des lettres du Québec.
3/24
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
JIM FETTERLEY IS CHARGED IN THE NAME OF TERROR
Well-loved as half of the video cut-ups Animal Charm, Jim Fetterley
returns to our gallery after a 4-year absence on an urgent mission:
Rockefeller Fellow Paul Chan initiated an enlightened project connecting
artists with activists, and Fetterley took the commission to convey the
particularly troubling trials of Steve Kurtz, seminal member of the
Critical Art Ensemble, who's been charged with bio-terrorism under the
Patriot Act. Jim's (and collaborator Angie Waller's) segment is nested
within the larger omnibus of 4 other interviews, Charged in the Name of
Terror, which consists of similar visits with those who have been
targeted by the government as security threats: Lynne Stewart, Mohammed
Yousry, Kathy Kelly, and Frida Berrigan. Offering one small solution to
our geopolitical ills, Fetterley greets tonight's attendees with a
dynamic demonstration of his amazing electric bike, riding around the
gallery walls velodrome-style. A portion of the proceeds go to the CAE
Defense Fund. $7.
3/24
Syracuse NY: Syracuse Experimental Film & Media Workshop
7pm Doors, 8pm Films, Funk'n Waffles, 727 S. Crouse Ave (in Campus Plaza)
THE SYRACUSE ONE TAKE SUPER 8 EVENT
After 7 successful years of playing to packed audiences in Regina, Ft.
Lauderdale, Montreal and Winnipeg, the One Take Event arrives in The
Salt City! Festival organizer Alex Rogalski, in collaboration with the
newly formed Syracuse Experimental Film + Media Workshop, invite you to
attend this unique evening. The ONE TAKE SUPER 8 EVENT is a distinct
film screening, in that none of the films will be viewed before they are
screened on the evening of March 24th. The filmmakers are not allowed to
edit or view their films prior to the screening. What they shoot in the
camera is what is shown. No Cuts. No Splices. No Changes. One Take, One
Night. PREMIERE FILMS BY: Stacy Barton, Kyle Corea, Brett Kashmere, Ken
Keech & Vanessa Rose Keech, Jason Kohlbrenner & Briana Fischer, Jessica
Lance, Chiyoung Lee, Ty Marshal, Kevin Meegan, Frank Olive, Sebastien
Park, Sejal Patel, Nick Ramsdell, Ryan Silveira, A. Suparak, and Ryan
Tebo. + BONUS FILMS from last year's One Take Event, with work by Sarah
Abbott, Dennis Evans, Shawn Fulton, Kyle Ketchemonia, Terry Mialkowsky &
Shannon Jardine, Beatrix Moersch, Alex Rogalski, Katherine Skelton, and
Ken Wilson. ++ Following the screening, organic trip-hop / indie-rock
band THING-ONE will be performing. 5$ suggested donation (+ 5$ for
Thing-one). Info: email suppressed
3/24
Vancouver, British Columbia: Cineworks and Hungry Ghost Cinema
http://cineworks.ca
7:00, Cineworks Studio, 1131 Howe Street; back lane entrance
THE MYTHOLOGY SHOW
The Mythology Show - a Cinematic Salon. 7:00PM Saturday, March 24, 2007.
Ben Russel is an itinerant photographer, curator, and experimental
film/videomaker whose works have screened in spaces ranging from 14th
Century Belgian monasteries to 17th Century East India Trading Co.
buildings, police station basements to outdoor punk squats, Japanese
cinematheques to Parisian storefronts, and the Sundance Film Festival to
the Museum of Modern Art. Ben began the Magic Lantern screening series
in Providence, Rhode Island, and he has made films about the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the exploration of Easter Island, and
the end of the world. He is currently teaching at the University of
Illinois in Chicago. Steeped in American folklore, psychiatric
techniques of the early 20th century, chaos theory, mask rituals, and
techniques of synaesthesia, these five 16mm films propose an alternate
mythos for the world in which we reside. Ben Russel has brought with him
Creation Myths and First Contact Myths, Giant Stone Head Myths and
Eternally Bloody Cowboy Myths, as well as what may very well be the only
16mm structural Western ever made... FEATURING: Black and White Trypps
Number One (6:30, 16mm, silent, 2005) Daume (7:00, 16mm, 2000) Terra
Incognita (10:00, 16mm, 2002) Black and White Trypps Number Two (8:30,
16mm, silent, 2006) The Twenty-One Lives of Billy the Kid (55:00, 16mm,
2005) TRT 87:00. Ben Donoghue moderates the question ad answer period
following the screening. Time: 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Saturday, March
24th, 2007. Cost: Free. Location: Cineworks Studio, 1131 Howe Street;
back lane entrance
----------------------
SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 2007
----------------------
3/25
Anacortes, Washington: Department of Safety
http://www.departmentofsafety.com
8:00, 1011 12th St.
"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
3/25
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
3RD I: SELECTIONS FROM THE TRAVELING FILM SOUTH ASIA FESTIVAL
See March 23.
3/25
Eugene, Oregon: DIVA Center
http://www.proscenia.net/diva/calendar.htm
4:00 PM, 110 W. Broadway
VIDEO SLAM AT DIVA
DIVA's March 25th Video Slam provides an opportunity for area video
artists to share their work in an open screening and receive audience
feedback. This monthly event follows in the tradition of the poetry
slam. The audience selects a winning entry that is submitted to the
annual "Best Of The Slam" competition in December. The Video Slam takes
place from 4-6pm at the DIVA Center 110 W. Broadway. Admission: $2-5.00/
Entering videographers: Free. More information online:
divamedia.proscenia.net/slam/
3/25
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
THE DOCUMENTARIES OF KAZUO HARA: EXTREME PRIVATE EROS: LOVE SONG 1974
Filmforum presents EXTREME PRIVATE EROS: LOVE SONG 1974 (1974, 98 min.,
16mm, B&W). Hara's scandal-raising documentary about his ex-wife Takeda
Miyuki and her relationships after she left him.
3/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
ROCKY MOUNTAIN TWILIGHT: FIRST-PERSON CINEMA FROM BOULDER, COLORADO
Dir: Various. One of the most respected American cities for experimental
film and video is Boulder, Colorado. Fueled by the vision and dedication
of Stan Brakhage, the giant of avant-garde cinema who taught generations
of film students at the University of Colorado, the Boulder scene has
thrived for several decades. Weekend salons and the legendary program
"First Person Cinema" (founded by Brakhage and Bruce Conner and run
since the late 1960s by Don Yannacito) are regular forums for the
exhibition and discussion of experimental film, not only for students
but also for Boulder residents and visitors to the city. Widely
respected educators and visiting artists at CU-Boulder have trained and
influenced many talented students over the years. . This program
celebrates a cross-section of recent film and video work produced within
the Boulder community. Brakhage is represented by important short films
from his late career. Among current faculty at CU-Boulder, the series
includes: Phil Solomon, one of the most innovative experimental
filmmakers working today; Dan Boord and Luis Valdovino,
critically-revered and influential video artists investigating cultural
narratives; and Stacey Steers, one of today's most respected hand
animators. Also included are some of the best of recent CU students:
Andrew Busti, Victor Jendras, Thomas Helman, Casey Koehler, Mary Beth
Reed, and Robert Schaller. Amidst the disparate styles of these media
artists, ROCKY MOUNTAIN TWILIGHT reveals an intense faith in
first-person cinema as a medium for metaphoric and poetic expression.
-Paul Roth, Curator of Photography and Media Arts, Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Washington. This program originally screened as part of the
Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran Experimental Media Series.
Thanks to the Film Studies Program at the University of Colorado in
Boulder for coordinating this program. Stan Brakhage RAGE NET (1988, 1
minute, 16mm, silent). Stan Brakhage BLACK ICE (1994, 2 minutes, 16mm,
silent). Stan Brakhage COMMINGLED CONTAINERS (1997, 3 minutes, 16mm,
silent). Robert Schaller MY LIFE AS A BEE (2002, 6 minutes, 16mm,
silent). Andrew Busti CLOUDS (2003, 1.5 minutes, 16mm, silent). Victor
Jendras HAIL AND FIRE (2003, 7.5 minutes, 16mm). Mary Beth Reed SAND
CASTLE 2 (2001, 7 minutes, 16mm, silent). Stacey Steers PHANTOM CANYON
(2006, 10 minutes, 35mm transferred to mini-DV). Dan Boord & Luis
Valdovino COCTEAU CENTO (2003, 6 minutes, mini-DV). Thomas Helman SONG
OF KALI (2004, 10 minutes, 16mm & video on mini-DV). Casey Koehler
BAUTISMO (2000, 6 minutes, 16mm). Phil Solomon TWILIGHT PSALM II: NIGHT
OF THE MEEK (2002, 24 minutes, 16mm). Total running time: ca. 90
minutes. .
3/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
THE SECRET LIFE OF…ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
. A once-in-a-calendar opportunity to lift up the rug that is Anthology
Film Archives and take a peek at the teeming hive of creativity lying
just below the surface, thanks to the film- and video-making efforts of
AFA's staff, friends, fellow-travelers, and devotees. .
3/25
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.
BAY AREA ROOTS- GREG SHARITS/DEAN SNIDER
In the history of San Francisco filmmaking, two filmmakers stand out as
iconoclasts, creators of unique and innovative works reflective of
passionate approaches to life and to film. Founding member of San
Francisco's No Nothing Cinema, Snider was a highly charismatic cinematic
instigator, an extremely productive and influential filmmaker. His
films, notable for their irreverent humor and no-nonsense approach to
cinematic form, content and duration, include Stink, Ish and Vinnie,
Rock Falls/ Mudslide, and Yes Ta Day (many others will also screen).
Greg Sharits, brother of filmmaker Paul, lived a life of relative
obscurity, haunting the streets of SOMA throughout the '70s, a skid row
filmmaker flaneur. Using single-frame shooting, Sharits' films are
pixilated city symphonies of neon sign and sidewalk life. We will screen
new prints of Transit, Transfer, and Cipher (all recently preserved and
restored by Anthology Film Archives) as well as Untitled #6.
Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form
at http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl
The weekly listing is also available online at Flicker:
http://www.hi-beam.net
__________________________________________________________________
For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.