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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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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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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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