Part 1 of 2: This week [April 1 - 8, 2007] in avant garde cinema

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Part 1 of 2: This week [April 1 - 8, 2007] in avant garde cinema

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San Diego Women Film Festival (San Diego, CA, USA; Deadline: June 01, 2007)
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Zeitgeist Int'l Film Festival (San Francisco, Ca USA; Deadline: April 15, 2007)
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Extremely Shorts 10 (Houston; Deadline: May 01, 2007)
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14th Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL 60647; Deadline: May 01, 2007)
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Yaitrei ß (England U.K.; Deadline: April 09, 2007)
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National Museum of Women in the Arts 20th Anniversary Festival of Film & Media Arts (Washington, DC, USA; Deadline: May 04, 2007)
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Emotion Pictures (Athens, Greece; Deadline: April 30, 2007)
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Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (Seoul, Korea; Deadline: May 05, 2007)
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3rd Annual Flatland Film Festival (Lubbock, TX USA; Deadline: April 21, 2007)
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25 FPS Festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: April 20, 2007)
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19th Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: April 13, 2007)
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Milwaukee International Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI USA; Deadline: April 23, 2007)
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Compass International Film Festival (Bristol, UK; Deadline: April 20, 2007)
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Aurora Picture Show's Extremely Shorts (Houston, TX USA; Deadline: May 01, 2007)
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ARTDISK, DVD Magazine (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: April 15, 2007)
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Strawberry Super 8 Film Festival (Cambridge; Deadline: April 01, 2007)
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Moves07 (Manchester, UK; Deadline: May 04, 2007)
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Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI, USA; Deadline: April 12, 2007)
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Zeitgeist Int'l Film Festival (San Francisco, Ca USA; Deadline: April 15, 2007)
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Extremely Shorts 10 (Houston; Deadline: May 01, 2007)
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14th Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL 60647; Deadline: May 01, 2007)
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Yaitrei ß (England U.K.; Deadline: April 09, 2007)
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National Museum of Women in the Arts 20th Anniversary Festival of Film & Media Arts (Washington, DC, USA; Deadline: May 04, 2007)
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Emotion Pictures (Athens, Greece; Deadline: April 30, 2007)
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Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (Seoul, Korea; Deadline: May 05, 2007)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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 * Mike Hoolboom: Fascination [April 1, London, England]
 * Colin Campbell Forever ! [April 1, London, England]
 * Filmforum Presents the Mythology Show With Filmmaker Ben Russell In
    Person! [April 1, Los Angeles, California]
 * Natural High (Shorts Program) Repeated Screening [April 1, New York, New York]
 * Paterson - Lodz [April 1, New York, New York]
 * East 3 [April 1, New York, New York]
 * The Sky Song [April 1, New York, New York]
 * Head Rush (Shorts Program) [April 1, New York, New York]
 * Lunchfilm Curated By Mike Plante [April 1, New York, New York]
 * Frank & Cindy [April 1, New York, New York]
 * Paul and the Badger + Ben (Shorts Program) [April 1, New York, New York]
 * Random Lunacy: videoes From the Road Less Traveled - Nyuff Closing Night [April 1, New York, New York]
 * Each Time I Kill (Repeated Screening) [April 2, New York, New York]
 * Life and Times (Shorts Program) Repeated Screening [April 2, New York, New York]
 * Nice Bombs (Repeated Screening) [April 2, New York, New York]
 * La Trinchera Luminosa Del Presidente Gonzalo (Repeated Screening) [April 2, New York, New York]
 * Welcome To Normal (Shorts Program) Repeated Screening [April 2, New York, New York]
 * Fierce Creatures (Shorts Program) -- Repeated Screening [April 2, New York, New York]
 * Wieners and Buns! the Films of Curt Mcdowell [April 2, San Francisco, California]
 * Anthology Film Archives: Recent Preservations [April 3, Berkeley, California]
 * Ken Jacobs: Two Wrenching Departures [April 3, London, England]
 * Secret Cinema Present Two Wrenching Departures By Ken Jacobs [April 3, London, England]
 * Celluloid #1 Repeated Screening [April 3, New York, New York]
 * Poems and Problems (Shorts Program) Repeated Screening [April 3, New York, New York]
 * Nubile Nuisance Repeated Screening [April 3, New York, New York]
 * Neither Created Nor Destroyed (Shorts Program) Repeated Screening [April 3, New York, New York]
 * Head Rush (Shorts Program) Repeated Screening [April 3, New York, New York]
 * Frank & Cindy (Repeated Screening) [April 3, New York, New York]
 * "The Last Refuge For the Senses, Or Noise Hippies Against All War" [April 3, Venice, California]
 * "The Mythology Show" - Films By Ben Russell [April 3, Venice, California]
 * Then, Not Nauman: Conceptualists of the Early 70s [April 4, Berkeley, California]
 * Newfilmmakers Celebrates the Tango [April 4, New York, New York]
 * Classic and Current video By Ira Schneider [April 4, New York, New York]
 * Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens Episode 8 [April 4, New York, New York]
 * "The Imminent Failure Show" [April 4, Providence, RI]
 * Sf360 Film+Club Presents Infamy [April 4, San Francisco, California]
 * Lttr: the Dead, the Absent and Fictitious [April 5, Chicago, Illinois]
 * Classic and Current video By Ira Schneider [April 5, New York, New York]
 * On the Collective For Living Cinema [April 6, New York, New York]
 * Collective For Living Cinema Program 2 [April 7, New York, New York]
 * Brecke On Darfur + Martinez On Iraq [April 7, San Francisco, California]
 * Program 3 [April 8, New York, New York]
 * Collective: Program 4 [April 8, New York, New York]

Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.

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SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 2007
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4/1
London, England: London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
http://www.llgff.org.uk
6.10pm, NFT 3, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8X

 MIKE HOOLBOOM: FASCINATION
  Prolific fringe filmmaker Mike Hoolboom (Panic Bodies, Tom) turns his
  lens to the fallen video 'art star' Colin Campbell (1942-2001) in this
  deeply affecting experimental portrait. Video artist and charming gender
  provocateur on the Toronto art scene, Campbell pioneered video art in
  the 1970s, creating drag personas that paralleled conceptual performance
  of the time. As Hoolboom notes in his voiceover, he does not merely tell
  Campbell's story but accompanies it. Contextualising Campbell's art
  practice within the TV generation and the Cold War, Hoolboom enters the
  video milieu by mixing a dreamlike cocktail of found footage with
  Campbell's hilarious, poignant videos. Interviews with friends, lovers
  and art world companions such as John Greyson and Tanya Mars add an
  intimate layer to this thought-provoking tribute to an important artist
  rarely screened in the UK. (Kyle Stephan) Fascination (Mike Hoolboom,
  Canada, 2006, 70 mins)

4/1
London, England: London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
http://www.llgff.org.uk
8.30pm, NFT 3, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8X

 COLIN CAMPBELL FOREVER !
  Three Colin Campbell video works preceded by a taped introduction by
  guest curator Mike Hoolboom. Sackville I'm Yours (Colin Campbell,
  Canada, 1972, 15 mins) In Campbell's first tape, he plays the first of
  his many personas 'Art Star', a legend in his own mind, in the midst of
  (sigh) yet another media interview. Conundrum Clinique (Colin Campbell,
  Canada, 1981, 14 mins) Playing a NASA scientist, Campbell involves
  militarists in a melodrama of sex and violence. He has two lovers in
  Clinique, his boss (played by Ann McFarland) and the gorgeous Alex
  Wilson. Disheveled Destiny (Colin Campbell, Canada, 2000, 29 mins) 'Art
  Star', Campbell's very first Frankenstein, returns to Sackville on his
  silver anniversary. He interweaves documentary moments with camped up
  recollections that embody new winds of change.

4/1
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas

 FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE MYTHOLOGY SHOW WITH FILMMAKER BEN RUSSELL IN
 PERSON!
  Steeped in American folklore, psychiatric techniques of the early 20th
  century, chaos theory, mask rituals, and techniques of synaesthesia,
  these five 16mm films by Russell propose an alternate mythos for the
  world in which we reside.

4/1
New York, New York: The New York Underground Film Festival
http://www.nyuff.com
1:30 PM, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue

 NATURAL HIGH (SHORTS PROGRAM) REPEATED SCREENING
  Light Work 1 by JENNIFER REEVES EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO 8:00 MIN "Symbols of
  20th century science, industry, medicine and madness are mixed in
  rhythmic molecular forms, morphing frequencies and colorful visual
  textures." – J. Reeves --Evergreen by ROBERT TODD EXPERIMENTAL 16MM
  15:00 MIN "A short film reflecting on the act of landscape as
  portraiture. This is the second in a series of representations of urban
  nature under siege." – R. Todd -- Fading Star by JOHN STANDIFORD
  ANIMATION 16MM 18:00 MIN This meditative film enchants the myths of
  westward expansion into a single rail car, a dreamer passenger, a clear
  sky, and a soundtrack that tracks the sounds that go with our history.
  -- Qualities of Stone by ROBERT TODD EXPERIMENTAL 16MM 11:00 MIN
  "Qualities of Stone presents life under glass. This is the third in a
  series on urban naturalism (following Thunder & Evergreen)" - R. Todd --
  July Fix by JASON LIVINGSTON EXPERIMENTAL 16MM 2:00 MIN Like a bee's-eye
  view of a field of flowers on a bright clear day. Makes pollination look
  fun. -- The General Returns from One Place to Another by MICHAEL
  ROBINSON EXPERIMENTAL 16MM ON VIDEO 11:00 MIN "Learning to love again,
  with fear at its side, the film draws balance between the romantic and
  the horrid, shaping a concurrently skeptical and indulgent experience of
  the beautiful. A Frank O'Hara monologue (from a play of the same title)
  attempts to undercut the sincerity of the landscape, but there are
  stronger forces surfacing." – M. Robinson -- Origin by HIROMI YOSHIDA
  EXPERIMENTAL 16MM ON VIDEO 2:20 MIN "This film signifies fertility,
  conception of nature. It was influenced by Japanese indigenous belief
  Shintoism." - H. Yoshida

4/1
New York, New York: The New York Underground Film Festival
http://www.nyuff.com
2:30 PM, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue

 PATERSON - LODZ
  Paterson - Lodz DIR REDMOND ENTWISTLE EXPERIMENTAL 16MM 00:00 MIN NEW
  YORK PREMIERE "Impressions of the ground from Paterson, New Jersey and
  Lodz in Poland cast into glass and then filmed against the sky as the
  light changes through their intricately detailed surface. Fragments of
  voice-overs recounting the history of the two towns at the start of the
  twentieth century, in particular two events: the 1905 revolution in Lodz
  and the 1913 Paterson Silk Strike. Soundscapes of the two towns that
  playback so that their streets seem to cut through the auditorium. These
  excavated pieces of our world are set alongside each other. They each
  speak in their own way, and through the friction that builds up around
  their edges; history, space and representation are invested with a
  quality both concrete and plastic. Each time the film is projected a
  computer selects new fragments of the histories and new sounds of the
  cities to play over the image. This is a history that goes backwards and
  forwards in time; that changes according to new sets of connections in
  the sound; in which beginning and end are unclear. Paterson - Lodz is a
  reflection on the possibilities and failure of two social movements that
  opened the twentieth century, and of a present moment still searching
  for a way to enter into

4/1
New York, New York: The New York Underground Film Festival
http://www.nyuff.com
3:30 PM, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue

 EAST 3
  East 3 DIR MR. YOUNG DOCUMENTARY VIDEO 80:00 MIN NEW YORK PREMIERE In
  Inuvik, Alaska, the harsh climate shapes the life of the town. Touching
  on both the traditional way of life and the modern ideas and
  advancements that are beginning to take hold there, East 3 focuses on
  how a variety of individuals negotiate their lives in the frozen north.
  If you view not littering and occasionally hitting up the historical
  society as being in touch with your environment, prepare to be
  surprised. "East 3 explores the Arctic town of Inuvik. This disturbing
  and surreal film investigates life in the sub-zero temperatures of the
  Canadian wilderness focusing on the hunting/trapping lifestyle, the
  community greenhouse, dog cruelty, traditional games and music." - Mr.
  Young

4/1
New York, New York: The New York Underground Film Festival
http://www.nyuff.com
4:00 PM, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue

 THE SKY SONG
  The Sky Song DIR JAMES FOTOPOULOS FEATURE VIDEO 79:52 MIN WORLD
  PREMIERE "When I started The Sky Song it had something to do with
  revenge (particularly in action films), American Indian tribes, goblin
  sharks and fragments of memories I had of the day the Chicago Cub lost
  the playoffs in 1984." – J. Fotopoulos

4/1
New York, New York: The New York Underground Film Festival
http://www.nyuff.com
5:15 PM, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue

 HEAD RUSH (SHORTS PROGRAM)
  Through These Trackless Waters DIR ELIZABETH HENRY EXPERIMENTAL 16MM ON
  VIDEO 12:30 MIN "The ecology of the planet connects with the ecology of
  our minds. In the waking dream, all is juxtaposed and, as Kuleshov
  discovered, all is related." - E. Henry Intervals and Transformations
  DIR HUCKLEBERRY LAIN ANIMATION VIDEO 3:30 MIN "Don't be fooled by the
  experience in front of you. Created from the interpretations of ideas
  explained by Joseph Albers in his book The Interaction of Color. Music
  by Kisses." - H. Lain Slow Jamz DIR KARTHIK PANDIAN EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO
  7:24 MIN "Screwed music and screwed video taken to its melancholic
  VHS-lossiest end in this elegy to an era of basketball past." - K.
  Pandian Notes DIR JENNY PERLIN ANIMATION 16MM ON VIDEO 3:24 MIN "Harry
  Gold, codename "GOOSE," was convicted in 1951 for passing secrets of the
  atom bomb from physicist and spy Klaus Fuchs to Soviet agents. The
  animations in this film are copies of Gold's absentminded drawings,
  scribbled over drafts of his resume and cover letter to the Atlantic
  Refining Company, Personnel Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in
  1948." - J. Perlin The Truth and the Pleasure DIR JENNET THOMAS
  EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO 4:30 MIN "'I'm solving equations in complex
  aesthetics, Connecting the structures that you cannot see, Enabling your
  kids to come top in athletics, Adjusting their hearts for the way things
  will be.' "Pink Lady delivers a lecture." – J. Thomas Ultimate Reality
  DIR JIMMY JOE ROCHE EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO 18:00 MIN "A mandala projected
  from the third eye of suburban back yards, cracked drive ways, and dusty
  VCR's. The wizards of Baltimore and Wham City deal powerful magic, we'll
  need it soon, the dawn of this post-postmodern age is upon us." - J.
  Roche

4/1
New York, New York: The New York Underground Film Festival
http://www.nyuff.com
6:00 PM, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue

 LUNCHFILM CURATED BY MIKE PLANTE
  JAMES FOTOPOULOS, KEVIN JEROME EVERSON, JEM COHEN, BEN COONLEY, MIKE
  PLANTE, CAM ARCHER, ROGER BEEBE, JAMES BENNING, JAMES CLAUER, BILL
  DANIEL, SHARON LOCKHART, EILEEN MAXSON, CARSON MELL, NINA MENKES, CHRIS
  PETERS, ELIZABETH SKADDEN, SEBASTIAN WOLF, ZELLNER BROTHERS Curated by
  Mike Plante By accident, I started a series of lunch shorts. Me and
  James Fotopoulos were eating lunch two years ago – appropriately at
  NYUFF '05. Homecoming! The place only took cash. Fotopoulos didn't have
  any, he's a filmmaker. So I made him a deal: I'll buy the lunch and he
  trade me a short film for the same cost. We made up rules on a napkin,
  as a challenge and referring to subjects we talked about over lunch.
  Since then 25 lunch shorts have been "commissioned," here are the ones
  finished. Only one copy of each film exists. While each film has its own
  rules and ideas, the overall metaphor is a basic one: it is very easy to
  help a filmmaker. Be a part of your community. Buy one lunch today. –
  Mike Plante Filmmakers include: Cam Archer, Roger Beebe, James Benning,
  James Clauer, Jem Cohen, Ben Coonley, Bill Daniel, Kevin Everson, James
  Fotopoulos, Sharon Lockhart, Eileen Maxson, Carson Mell, Nina Menkes,
  Chris Peters, Elizabeth Skadden, Sebastian Wolf and the Zellner
  Brothers.

4/1
New York, New York: The New York Underground Film Festival
http://www.nyuff.com
7:00 PM, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue

 FRANK & CINDY
  Frank & Cindy DIR GJ ECHTERNKAMP DOCUMENTARY VIDEO 73:00 MIN NEW YORK
  PREMIERE "My stepfather Frank, by some lucky coincidence, landed himself
  in a Menudo-like pop group at the age of 18... a band called OXO with
  the hit song 'Whirly Girl.' Enter my mother, Cindy, a beautiful blonde
  bombshell and all-around addict struggling to support her 5 year-old
  child. She ran into OXO at the local diner in Pasadena and, to make a
  long story short, gets married to Frank shortly thereafter. So, deluded
  Cindy thinks this is her chance to live the good life from now on. Frank
  is handsome, rich, famous, and naive as hell. But the band breaks up
  months later and my mom ends up supporting Frank for the next 25 years,
  as he struggles and fails to get back in to the music business. So, now
  Frank is a chubby alcoholic who drinks 4 bottles of White Zinfandel a
  day and lives in the basement. My mother is still beautiful, but
  completely trapped in a codependent relationship with an overgrown Peter
  Pan who's never worked a day in his life. She has big plans to find a
  new man. She also quit drinking five years ago and realized she has an
  adult son that wants nothing to do with her. Until, of course, I decide
  to make this documentary. I try to be a catalyst and make these people
  change their lives for the better... but can I? Maybe I'm just
  exploiting my stepfather for cheap laughs and a little revenge for
  ruining my life...." – GJ Echternkamp

4/1
New York, New York: The New York Underground Film Festival
http://www.nyuff.com
7:45 PM, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue

 PAUL AND THE BADGER + BEN (SHORTS PROGRAM)
  Paul and the Badger + Ben DIR PAUL TARRAGO, BEN COONLEY EXPERIMENTAL
  VIDEO MIN INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Paul and the Badger + Ben Paul Tarragó
  and Ben Coonley have a lot in common. They are friends, they are both
  beloved NYUFF alumni, and they are both able to create sensitive and
  playful short films and videos that delicately address life and death,
  memory and childhood, oh, and a few other things that fall in between.
  Paul and the Badger Episodes 1-4 of a television series for kids and
  grown-ups alike that brings experimental film, puppets, and play
  together with questions of morality and grown-upness that men, women,
  children and badgers struggle with. Additionally, these shorts pay
  tribute to the day-to-day friendship between Paul and his good friend,
  Badger. + Ben "My contributions will be in four separate movements that
  fall under the category of short distractions, interruptions, and
  interludes, a grab box of surprisses. Some short musically oriented
  videos I made, and some commercial-type projects. A "cornucopia of video
  delights"...or electronic snacks. Things with music, sidekicks,
  bandmates, other (non-badger) animals, reflections of the way life used
  be." – B. Coonley

4/1
New York, New York: The New York Underground Film Festival
http://www.nyuff.com
8:45 PM, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue

 RANDOM LUNACY: VIDEOES FROM THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED - NYUFF CLOSING NIGHT
  Random Lunacy: Videos from the Road Less Traveled DIR VICTOR ZIMET,
  STEPHANIE SILBER DOCUMENTARY VIDEO 59:55 MIN NEW YORK PREMIERE "This guy
  makes Jack Kerouac look like he lived at home with his mother and went
  out on the road on weekends." – Alec Wilkinson, The New Yorker Closing
  the 14th Annual New York Underground Film Festival is the New York
  Premiere of Victor Zimet and Stephanie Silber's Random Lunacy: Videos
  from the Road Less Traveled. All happy families are not alike, as proved
  by Poppa Neutrino, aka David Pearlman, and his Flying Neutrinos. A
  wandering soul, a particle spontaneously transforming, Poppa leads his
  family on a true quest for freedom and adventure. Rather than to drift
  through the obligations of an ordinary, "sequential" life, Poppa chooses
  to be what most people recognize as homeless—a lifestyle he elects for
  himself as well as his ever-expanding family. Unencumbered by any
  possessions (save, curiously, a video-camera that seems to have been
  rolling since the early 1980's) the Neutrinos roam the globe, Poppa
  philosophizing all the way. An astounding wealth of footage captures
  moments of the fledgling family learning ways of happiness, respect and
  adulthood from their captain, alongside confessions of mortal doubts and
  fears stirred by the intensity of Poppa's scarier lessons. While it may
  seem that what makes Poppa's life so remarkable is the
  where-the-wind-takes-him absence of any "plan," try again. This man has
  a master plan that is always evolving, always growing grander if not
  more grandiose—but never to outgrow the simple goal of living life
  randomly and lovingly. At times he makes it look easy and other times
  impossible. Why can't everyone live this way? Well… we can—but we
  don't—so Poppa's story is modern myth, and as inspiring as you can
  dream. "Movies like to pretend they're different, but Random Lunacy
  really, truly is.… Poppa doesn't work, pay rent, listen to doctors or
  kiss institutional butt. He prefers to invent his life as he goes along,
  whether he's building a raft out of scraps and sailing the Atlantic,
  inventing a new football play or touring the world from Mexico to Russia
  with his band, The Flying Neutrinos. But don't discount the intellect
  that Poppa uses to back up his wit and daring as leader of his tribe.
  That's right, tribe. Family is what you call the Waltons. The collection
  of wives, children, step-children and believers who make up the
  Neutrinos defies categorization. And so, using Poppa's own videos to
  augment their tale, Zimet and Silber throw us into a life that
  intoxicates, infuriates and leaves us panting for each unique and
  unforgettable adventure. Prepare to be wowed." - Peter Travers, Rolling
  Stone

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MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2007
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4/2
New York, New York: The New York Underground Film Festival
http://www.nyuff.com
10:30 PM, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue

 EACH TIME I KILL (REPEATED SCREENING)
  Each Time I Kill DIR DORIS WISHMAN FEATURE VIDEO 83:00 MIN INTERNATIONAL
  PREMIERE "A shocking story revealing the brutality of innocence!" -
  Original tagline, from Senses of Cinema NYUFF is proud to present the
  world premiere of the last film by long-time favorite Doris Wishman.
  Wishman completed 95% of EACH TIME I KILL before falling ill and dying
  in 2002 at the age of 90. During her illness she wrote extensive notes
  on how she wanted the project finished. David Wilson, the film's
  producer, writes, "Each Time I Kill is the final - and most shocking -
  film from exploitation legend Doris Wishman. The supernatural slashfest
  tells the story of shy high school senior Ellie Saunders, who finds a
  magic locket that will allow her to trade one physical feature with
  anyone she murders. But Ellie's transformation leads to several
  unintended consequences including a final twist that's classic Wishman."
  The film will be followed by a Q&A with Wishman friend and biographer
  Michael Bowen, so stick around to reminisce about the queen of
  sexploitation and the grindhouse era she so epitomized. Wishman was
  often quoted as saying when she died she'd continue making films in
  hell. All we can say is that we look forward to seeing her, and all of
  you, in hell.

4/2
New York, New York: The New York Underground Film Festival
http://www.nyuff.com
6:15 PM, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue

 LIFE AND TIMES (SHORTS PROGRAM) REPEATED SCREENING
  NYC Weights & Measures DIR JEM COHEN EXPERIMENTAL 16MM ON VIDEO 6:15 MIN
  "My film is a simple gathering of New York City street footage. It was
  shot with a spring-wound 16mm Bolex on, above, and below the streets of
  Manhattan and Brooklyn and includes footage of the ticker tape parade
  for astronaut John Glenn…" – J. Cohen -- According to... DIR KEVIN
  JEROME EVERSON EXPERIMENTAL 16MM ON VIDEO 8:45 MIN "According to…, with
  a rich source of found footage and shot film, is a short film about
  several versions of tragic events in southern rural Black America." – K.
  Everson -- Life and Times of Robert Kennedy Starring Gary Cooper DIR
  AARON VALDEZ EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO 8:00 MIN "Overlayed newsreel footage of
  Robert Kennedy and images from the classic Hollywood western High Noon
  blur the line between truth and fiction." – A. Valdez -- Review DIR
  JENNY PERLIN ANIMATION 16MM ON VIDEO 3:00 MIN "The film combines
  headlines about the war in Iraq with interjections from major classical
  operas, and receipts from movie tickets and film rentals from the fall
  of 2003." – J. Perlin -- Eviction DIR STEVE LOFF DOCUMENTARY VIDEO 5:00
  MIN A family is forcefully evicted from their NYC home on the grounds of
  a housing code technicality. -- Sway DIR RICHARD SANDLER DOCUMENTARY
  VIDEO 33:00 MIN The NYC subway is both the character and setting of this
  freeform documentary made from 14 years of NYC subway footage.

4/2
New York, New York: The New York Underground Film Festival
http://www.nyuff.com
7:00 PM, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue

 NICE BOMBS (REPEATED SCREENING)
  Nice Bombs DOCUMENTARY VIDEO 77:00 MIN NEW YORK PREMIERE In early 2004
  Iraq-born filmmaker Usama Alshaibi, his wife, and his father returned to
  Baghdad for the first time in 24 years. Less than a year after Saddam's
  oust, members of Alshaibi's family are uneasy about the new Iraq—guns
  are still everywhere, and explosions are heard with such eerie
  regularity that they barely interrupt. Nevertheless, the situation seems
  almost dormant, the country seems almost safe, compared to the terrible
  echoes of violence now reported daily. And still, Nice Bombs is a
  personal documentary focusing on the day-to-day of Alshaibi's
  middle-class relatives. They are a family that eats and jokes
  together—teasing their American visitors with stories about the war.
  Alshaibi's aunt giggles as she reenacts a tale of her husband's rude
  awakening from a nap to discover, at eye-level, a just-fired shell on
  the living room floor. The filmmaker is resigned about Iraq's wars—he
  has scarcely known a time when Iraq wasn't involved in one. Since the
  filming of this documentary, things have gotten worse, obviously—that a
  personal film such as this could have been made in 2004 Iraq is
  surprising; that it could be now made in 2007 Iraq is inconceivable, and
  evidence of the growing disconnect between the portrayal of occupied
  Iraq and the Iraq of its citizens and families, now scattered all over
  the world. Usama Alshaibi is a Chicago based filmmaker and the director
  of Muhammad and Jane, a narrative feature, as well as more than thirty
  shorts.

4/2
New York, New York: The New York Underground Film Festival
http://www.nyuff.com
8:00 PM, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue

 LA TRINCHERA LUMINOSA DEL PRESIDENTE GONZALO (REPEATED SCREENING)
  La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo DIR JIM FINN FEATURE VIDEO
  60:00 MIN WORLD PREMIERE (The Shining Trench of Chairman Gonzalo)
  "Marching with ardor in the victorious People's War" La Trinchera
  Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo is Jim Finn's vision of one day in a
  Shining Path women's prison cellblock/training camp in 1989 Peru. The
  ideology (and the eyes) of Chairman Gonzalo presides over the prison
  camp in a large mural displayed on one of the exterior walls. His
  presence is constantly felt and repeatedly referenced by the women who
  are drilled to say certain things, and trained to commit violent acts to
  aid the revolution. "If you hear a baby crying and see a rat chewing on
  its fingers, is it bad to kill the rats?" The anger and resolve of these
  women is admirable: they seem to believe that ideas and vision must
  unite with courage (and in this case violence) to incite true change.
  But Finn subtly reveals the flaws in the system through hilarious
  personal interactions between the women ("She called us lazy-asses
  because we weren't cleaning the bathroom") and their focused reverence
  to their Chairman. Like his debut feature Interkosmos (NYUFF Opening
  Night 2006), Finn has again collaborated with musicians Jim Becker and
  Colleen Burke to create a score that becomes the film's Greek chorus,
  featured under the choreographed sequences of the women chanting and
  marching in formation. "Jim Finn has made a name for himself...thanks to
  his feeling for irony and his capacity to shape something new from
  propaganda, news and other historic images. Not to forget his very dry
  sense of humour" - Rotterdam International Film Festival

4/2
New York, New York: The New York Underground Film Festival
http://www.nyuff.com
8:45 PM, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue

 WELCOME TO NORMAL (SHORTS PROGRAM) REPEATED SCREENING
  For a Blonde... For a Brunette... For Someone... For Her... For You...
  by MIKE OLENICK EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO 5:57 MIN "For a Blonde... For a
  Brunette... For Someone... For Her... For You... is an interactive
  (karaoke-style) reenactment of a key scene from Vertigo as performed by
  the filmmaker and the audience. – M. Olenick -- First Firing by KELLY
  OLIVER, KEARY ROSEN EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO 2:38 MIN "Puppy dog tails to
  liver spots. After all that work I wasn't invited to the first firing"-
  K. Rosen -- Cervesa Atlas by JANICZA BRAVO EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO 0:25 MIN
  Two women holiday on a small motorboat that seems to be going nowhere.
  -- The Boy in the Air by LYN ELLIOT EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO 2:00 MIN "An
  enigmatic advertisement inspires a letter. The corporation writes back."
  – L. Elliot -- Untitled Film, No. 9 by DAVID BUTLER EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO
  5:23 MIN "Just a lyrical trip with one seriously serious guy." – D.
  Butler -- Welcome to Normal by MARIANNA ELLENBERG ANIMATION VIDEO 7:00
  MIN "An Exquisite Corpse compendium of hypnotic sounds, symptoms and
  neurological disorders. Instructional video meets psychedelic
  Haiku—treatment is just around the corner! " - M. Ellenberg -- Lake
  Affect by JASON LIVINGSTON EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO 1:46 MIN "A late season
  thunderstorm and its aftermath open a portal to the animal world." – J.
  Livingston -- Battleship Potemkin Dance Edit (120 BPM) by MICHAEL
  BELL-SMITH EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO 12:30 MIN Eisenstein's seminal sequence:
  REMIX! -- i am dancin where you can see me by IAIN BONNER EXPERIMENTAL
  VIDEO 4:12 MIN "dancin to what we want, dancin when no one watches,
  dancing and hurting, dancin and taking chances" – I. Bonner --
  (Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me) by RYAN TRECARTIN EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO 7:15
  MIN Relationships develop and disintegrate in Trecartin's study of life
  inside and outside an email. No babies were harmed in the making of this
  video. Cast: Lizzie, Taya, Megan, Rhett, Junior (cat), Barkev and Ryan.
  -- Ask the Insects by STEVE REINKE ANIMATION VIDEO 8:00 MIN "When many
  people think of insects, they think of things that bite, sting, eat
  their flowers, or get in their food and they would just as soon kill
  every one that they see. Many insects though, do a lot of good for
  people and this includes some insects that you may not expect to be good
  for anything." – The Centre for Distance Learning & Innovation, "Why
  Insects are Important"

4/2
New York, New York: The New York Underground Film Festival
http://www.nyuff.com
9:45 PM, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue

 FIERCE CREATURES (SHORTS PROGRAM) -- REPEATED SCREENING
  North of the Rug Fibers by CHRISTOPHER MINER -- The artist shoots the
  breeze with galpal Amy Grant. -- The Night Before Christmas by SAM
  BASSETT -- "Hilarious and touching performance by the 91-year-old
  Constance Colt Bassett of the classic story The Night Before Christmas"
  - S. Bassett -- ANTM Cycle 7.5 - Episode 2 by MAXAM -- Dead on spoof of
  America's Next Top Model from a 15yr-old Californian. Fun Fact: One girl
  receives the hairstyle of Hades from the movie Hercules, but Tyra
  incorrectly labels it as a Zeus hairstyle." - M. Rubin -- Wing Bowl 13
  by JENNY DRUMGOOLE -- "Follows Jenny Drumgoole's fascination with Sonya
  Thomas as she returns to defend her chicken wing eating title in
  Philadelphia's Wing Bowl, an annual spectacle of competitive eating,
  half-naked Wingettes, and more than 20,000 drunken Philadelphia Eagles
  fans."- J. Drumgoole -- Jerry Ruis, Shall We Do This by JOSH SAFDIE,
  ARIEL SCHULMAN -- Do I have to go through this? A short about Jerry
  Ruis. -- Oh Boy! by JESSICA JAGTIANI -- 'Oh Boy!' deals with gender
  issues and the confusion which arises from the need to categorize gender
  and sexual identities in our culture. - J. Jagtiani -- Desert Pumps by
  CATHEE WILKINS, STEVE HALL -- "Two tweaky twats search through a shack
  for pumps in the hot hi-desert of California." C. Wilkins -- I'm Keith
  Hernandez by ROB PERRI -- "Part baseball documentary, part anti-drug
  film, part socio political satire. I'm Keith Hernandez utilizes a
  version of Hernandez life to discuss how male identity is shaped by
  media, celebrity, and consumerism." R. Perri -- I'm Serious, She is a
  Bitch by REBECCA CONROY -- A telenovela-style horror short about how far
  some bitches will go to make it in New York.

4/2
San Francisco, California: SFAI Film Salon
8pm, San Francisco Art Institute, 800 Chestnut Street, Lecture Hall

 WIENERS AND BUNS! THE FILMS OF CURT MCDOWELL
  SFAI Film Salon The Films of Curt McDowell, introduced by George Kuchar
  Monday, April 2, 8pm Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut Street Erotic and
  Raunchy, outrageous and humorous - the films of Curt McDowell are
  irreverent, and beautiful. As a student at SFAI, McDowell studied with
  George Kuchar, who served as mentor as well as collaborator on many of
  McDowell's films. Kuchar, featured in tonight's films, will introduce
  the program, which includes "Boggy Depot" - a hilarious parody of the
  musical genre, "Nudes (A Sketchbook)" - a series of sexualized vignettes
  that offer uncompromising portraits of his closest friends, and "A Visit
  to Indiana", an unrepentant return home after a couple of years of West
  Coast debauchery. ---------- The SFAI Film Salon is a weekly film
  screening program, organized by film students for the entire SFAI
  community. Supported by the SFAI Student Union and Legion Of Graduate
  Students. For more information email: email suppressed or
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